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Jon Land

Book Review: Margaret Truman’s Murder at the CDC by Jon Land

By John Valeri

February 16, 2022

USA Today bestseller Jon Land is one of the most prodigious and prolific authors working in the suspense genre today. With an impressive backlist of award-winning series and standalone titles (and non-fiction collaborations) to his credit, he has also written eleven thrillers featuring Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong (more to come!) and recently penned six entries…

The Ten Best Thrillers Set in Washington

By Jon Land

February 15, 2022

Ever since Margaret Truman conceived the brilliant Capital Crimes series in 1980. Washington, DC has been the dominant, if not exclusive, setting. And the latest entry, number thirty-two overall and my second since taking the reins, Murder at the CDC, is no exception. With that in mind, I thought it would be fun to list…

The Ten Best Political Thriller Films Ever

By Jon Land

February 25, 2021

From its very inception, Margaret Truman’s Capital Crimes series has excelled at stitching tales of murder and mystery with Washington, D.C. as a backdrop. Look no further than the title of each of the now 31 entries to find a particular setting in the Capital where a murder sets off a high stakes game or…

Book Review: Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season by Jessica Fletcher and Jon Land

By John Valeri

November 24, 2020

Christmas has come to Cabot Cove, but a peaceful holiday season is not in the cards after Jessica Fletcher is pulled into a centuries-old mystery in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series. Jon Land may have seemed a surprising choice to take over authorship duties of the venerable Murder, She Wrote book…

Featured Excerpt: Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season by Jessica Fletcher and Jon Land

By Crime HQ

November 17, 2020

“You look like you just saw a ghost, Doc,” Mort noted.  “Couple of them, it turns out,” Seth told us both. “Because there’s not one set of bones buried in that hole; there’s two. The second set looks to have belonged to a woman, and she didn’t die a couple hundred years ago either.” His…

The 10 Best Modern Western Characters

By Jon Land

July 31, 2020

When asked about my Caitlin Strong series, I always describe them as modern-day westerns. And, in fact, the thriller form itself owes a great deal of its heritage to that genre. Having grown up with the films of Audie Murphy and Roy Rogers—not to mention classics like Shane, The Magnificent Seven, and High Noon along…

Book Review: Murder, She Wrote: The Murder of Twelve by Jessica Fletcher & Jon Land

By John Valeri

May 22, 2020

Murder, She Wrote: The Murder of Twelve by Jessica Fletcher & Jon Land is the 51st entry in the USA Today bestselling series, where Jessica Fletcher finds herself stranded in a hotel during a blizzard with twelve strangers and a killer in their midst. Jon Land is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than 50…

Book Review: Murder, She Wrote: A Time for Murder by Jessica Fletcher & Jon Land

By John Valeri

November 25, 2019

Murder, She Wrote: A Time for Murder by Jessica Fletcher & Jon Land is the 50th entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series, where two timelines converge as Jessica Fletcher returns to high school to investigate the murder of an old colleague while we meet Jessica as a young teacher solving her…

Book Review: Murder, She Wrote: Murder In Red by Jessica Fletcher and Jon Land

By Doreen Sheridan

June 5, 2019

In Murder, She Wrote: Murder In Red, Jessica Fletcher loses a loved one to unnatural causes and sets her sights on the mysterious local hospital before more people wind up dead on arrival… Like millions of other mystery lovers worldwide, I grew up watching and enjoying the television classic Murder, She Wrote starring the delightful…

Book Review: Strong as Steel by Jon Land

By John Valeri

May 10, 2019

Strong as Steel is the 10th book in Jon Land’s award-winning Caitlin Strong series. USA Today bestselling author Jon Land is one of the most consistent, and consistently innovative, writers working in the thriller genre today. He’s amassed a backlist of more than forty titles and written across both fiction and non-fiction, his propulsive prose…

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