Toxic sisterhood leads to Viking-inspired ritual murder in Johana Gustawsson’s gothic-infused Scandinavian novel "Yule Island". Karl, a police inspector, arrives at a crime scene where a girl has been found dead with her body covered... Read More

A patient poses a question to his psychologist: “Ya wanna know who clipped Boris Levenko?” It’s a query that a bevy of Russian and Albanian mobsters want answered, setting off a chain of mortal consequences in Mark Rubenstein’s... Read More

A mother meant to be in mourning chases her daughter’s shadow to Guatemala, determined to uncover the truth, in Andromeda Romano-Lax’s electrifying thriller "The Deepest Lake". Jules, just out of college and unsure of her perfect... Read More

Diverse characters representing opposing viewpoints face each other down in the action-packed thriller "The Perennial War of Paramours". In Rock Kitaro’s provocative thriller "The Perennial War of Paramours", a secret society of women... Read More

"The Spanish Sacrifice" is a complicated political thriller that twists around flawed individuals; despite its mounting body count, it is punctuated by moments of endearing normalcy. In Jay Perin’s political thriller "The Spanish... Read More

A multigenerational story about an ongoing fight between good and evil forces, "The Third Man" is an exciting thriller. Investigators open up a Nazi eugenics cold case in Geoffrey M. Cooper’s series installment "The Third Man"—a book... Read More

"The Fallen Within" is a nuanced and complex thriller in which there are no pure heroes or villains. A teenage spy is caught between his twin brother and the organization that raised him in "The Fallen Within", R. S. Twells’s witty and... Read More

The minutiae of engineering and safety protocols is on display in the knowledgeable thriller "Hazardous Lies". Corporate shadiness and bureaucratic red tape are spotlighted in Stephen J. Wallace’s thriller "Hazardous Lies". It delivers... Read More