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Messenger for the Dead is the Year’s Best Action Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Action Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Messenger for the Dead begins as an elite Norwegian special forces sniper, stationed atop Oslo’s famed Opera House, steadies his scope on a mysterious sailing yacht drifting in the icy waters of the Inner Oslofjord. The vessel is towing a black Zodiac—an ominous clue in an international manhunt for Aadan Mukhtaar, the […]

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The Picasso Job is the Book of the Year

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The Bottom Line: Voted Book of the Year in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Avanti Centrae, award-winning author of the VanOps series, returns with a standalone that fuses the moral grit of The Shawshank Redemption with the sophisticated intrigue of The Thomas Crown Affair. Like those classics, The Picasso Job is taut, visual and ready for the big screen. Dakota “No-flak Dak” Black once dreamed of joining the FBI. Instead, he’s serving time

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Vatican Daughter is the Year’s Best Conspiracy Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Conspiracy Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. The novel begins in Vatican City, where newly elected Pope Joseph Morris slips into the papal garments. Just before stepping out to greet the adoring throngs in St. Peter’s Square, he asks one of the assisting clergy, Cardinal Roselli, to hear his confession. And much to Roselli’s surprise, the Pope discloses

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Extraterrestrial Noir is the Year’s Best Sci-Fi Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Fantasy & Sci-Fi Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Extraterrestrial Noir opens on the night of a forecasted meteor shower in suburban New Jersey. The Devine family — husband Connie, wife Maggie, brother Danny and uber-intellectual 12-year-old daughter Mike – gather in the front yard in the hours before dawn to catch a glimpse of the predicted celestial fireworks. However,

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Justice for Emerson is the Year’s Best Mystery Novel

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Mystery Novel in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Karen E. Osborne’s chilling new novel opens at the headquarters of a local not-for-profit organization 45 minutes North of New York City. If you’re the kind of reader who warns characters about the dangers of dark basements, prepare to get started in the very first chapter. Aria, the organization’s 50-year-old CEO,

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GRQ is the Year’s Best Domestic Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Domestic Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. GRQ (Get Rich Quick) begins in Los Angeles, where a mysterious financial advisor (who swears he’s not an unreliable narrator) begins by telling us about his client, Marlon. It seems that Marlon is an ideas man who purchased a home he couldn’t afford. As foreclosure notices slip through the mail slot, we

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Midnight Burning is the Year’s Best Historical Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Historical Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Midnight Burning fuses authentic history with exhilarating storytelling. Its seamless mix of fact and fiction feels both inventive and uncannily real, creating a narrative that surprises even as it rings true. The result is a bold, original thriller about a slice of American history that has largely been forgotten. Levine plunges

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Double Threat by Patrick Weil

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The Bottom Line: Best Action Thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. How do you make a contemporary police procedural truly fresh? One way is to render your police detectives harbor police, so the jurisdiction, and all the ensuing action, spans both surf and turf. And for good measure, start your book with a gripping chapter told from the POV of a dog. The third book in Patrick Weill’s

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Come And Get Me by Marisa Rae Dondlinger

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Best Psychological Thriller, 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards Successfully telling a story from three or more points of view requires an exceptionally deep understanding of each character’s unique fears, desires and triggers. Marisa Rae Dondlinger’s winning novel does that and more, delivering a rare multi-dimensional narrative that feels intimate and unique at every turn. When Vanessa kidnaps her ex-lover’s newborn baby, some

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Historical Thriller of The Year: The Beauty Doctor by Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard

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The Bottom Line:  Voted Best Historical Thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards Aspiring doctor Abigail Platford has nearly given up on her dream to follow in her father’s footsteps to help New York City’s poor. After her father’s death and her mother’s remarriage, she fends off an attempted rape by her alcoholic stepfather – a situation that finds her agreeing to marry a man

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