A nuanced, gritty mystery… LeValley’s enthralling second Tony Harrington mystery featuring the Pulitzer Prize journalist takes Tony throughout the Midwest, from Iowa to Chicago, to Kansas City as he gets entangled in a human trafficking investigation. Still trying to come… Read More ›
thrillers and suspense
Dick Hartmann Series by Richard V Rupp
A sophisticated and strikingly fresh crime thriller series… The excellent first two installments in Rupp’s crime series featuring the seasoned FBI agent Dick Hartmann, who heads up San Francisco’s Violent Crime Squad, finds him dealing with cunning killers who… Read More ›
Sinai Unhinged by Joanna Evans
A clever, intelligent nail-bitter that crackles with tension… A particle physics experiment goes awry, driving the researchers insane and plunging a young therapist into the frightening search for the truth in Evans’s seamlessly plotted debut thriller. After her physicist father’s… Read More ›
Heirs Apparent by Thomas J Thorson
Clever, suspenseful, and full of intrigue… A tense cat and mouse game. Set in Chicago, Thorson’s ingeniously plotted latest featuring Malcom Winters finds the latter on the trail of a notorious killer after a cryptic message written in blood… Read More ›
The Detective Next Door by W C Gordon
Darkly fascinating and original… An accidental murder, a dismembered corpse, and a web of lies haunts this gripping debut from Gordon. The protagonist is a regular cop who likes to do his duty with as much diligence as possible… Read More ›
Transfer: A Supernatural Horror Novel by Sean Oliver
An excellent supernatural thriller marked with shrewd plotting, realistic characters, and a gritty setting… Oliver’s masterful latest effectively combines the excellent elements of traditional mystery with the grit of supernatural horror, spinning a spellbinding tale of an ominous secret… Read More ›
The Happy Couple by Samantha Hayes
A quick read… In Hayes’s latest thriller, a woman comes across a dark, twisted truth while trying to look into her husband’s disappearance. Finding it hard to move on after her husband Will’s disappearance a year ago, Jo is contemplating… Read More ›
Her Eyes Under Water by Romona Simon
High on anticipation, compelling, and vastly entertaining… Simon delves deep into the mind of a psychopath as she delivers her clever, original debut thriller that takes the reader on a whirlwind journey of a young woman’s infatuation with a mysterious… Read More ›
The Burden of Darkness (The Marcie Kane Thriller Collection, #5) by Barry Finlay
Thoroughly captivating, ingenious, and full of heart-pounding suspense, this is action thriller done right… Nathan Harris returns in Finlay’s gripping latest, this time against a vile psychopath. Owen Strand has always kept old grudges close to his heart. With nothing… Read More ›
He Started It by Samantha Downing
Dark and tedious… Downing’s latest is an easily avoidable, disturbing tale that explores three siblings’ twisted relationship as they set on to secure their inheritance. After death of their wealthy grandfather, the siblings: Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan embark on… Read More ›