Connor Ford is trouble. Handsome and privileged, he can wrap women around his little finger. Even as a teenager, he’s hard to look away from. So when he sets his sights on beautiful blonde Tabitha, a waitress working at his grandmother Nell’s country club, she has little interest in saying no, even though her own…
Heist novels are a staple of the genre but often they are few and far between. Robin Hood thieves have taken hold, and often when I read fictional criminals, they are less like Richard Stark’s Parker and Wallace Stroby’s Crissa Stone and more like a shadowy justice department where the important thing is to steal…
The Poison Flood by Jordan Farmer is the gritty story of a reclusive musician and the environmental disaster that threatens his small town and changes his life forever. I’ve been fortunate in recent weeks to read and review several outstanding novels that place a spotlight on underrepresented communities in American fiction. To the examination of…
Chapter 1 The Terror The industrial sliding doors heaved open to a burst of bitter alpine air, a dizzying flurry of snow, and a barrage of hoarse cries. “Hello—goddamn it—somebody help! He’s bad. He’s really—Oh, Jesus, wake up, Grant. Please, just—Someone help!” From the blurry white, Terzian emerged, lugging his injured companion into the waiting…
In this gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo, a devastating murder exposes an Amish family’s tortured past.
From Louise Candlish, author of the international bestseller Our House, Those People is a story of domestic suspense that asks, “Could you hate your neighbor enough to plot to kill him?” There are bad neighbors—people who, say, let their dogs use your front yard as a toilet or start their yard work a little too…
The Plotters by Un-su Kim is a fantastical crime novel set in an alternate Seoul where assassination guilds compete for market dominance. In Un-su Kim’s The Plotters, the assassins who stalk the shadowy streets of Seoul’s underworld are working stiffs. Killing others for fun and profit is a living—better than starving on the streets or…
In Fade to Black, the thrilling sequel to Blackout from David Rosenfelt, Policeman Doug Brock helps a fellow victim of amnesia untangle a murder case and discovers he may not be as distant as he thinks (available March 13, 2018). After getting shot in the line of duty, New Jersey state police officer Doug Brock…
Crime fiction is a pretty broad genre. But even narrowed further to thriller, there are still loads of subgenres to choose from. Perhaps you like a your thrillers with a strong detective that’s always their to save the day. Perhaps you prefer your thrillers on the other side of the law, with an antihero that…
In her first Gardiner and Renner novel, That Darkness, bestselling author Lisa Black draws from her experience as a forensic investigator to create two fascinating characters in crime fiction: a killer with a unique sense of justice and a woman in a lifelong relationship with death. As a forensic investigator for the Cleveland Police Department,…
