Here are entertaining new mysteries in three excellent continuing series: DYING TO LIVE by Michael Stanley In the sixth and “best” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) entry in the Detective Kubu mystery series, a Bushman is discovered dead near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the police suspect foul play, especially when the body goes missing […]
Tag: thriller
Murder, Medicine, and a Female Longmire
Happy #ThrillerThursday to: THE BUTCHERING ART: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris A Publishers Weekly Fall 2017 Top 10 Science Book with two starred reviews! “British science writer Fitzharris slices into medical history with this excellent biography of Joseph Lister… She infuses her thoughtful and finely crafted […]
Thriller Thursday (10/12/17 Edition)
Cozy up with a good mystery this #ThrillerThursday: CAT AMONG THE PUMPKINS by Mandy Morton As All Hallows’ Eve approaches, Hettie Bagshot of The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency has more than just a ghost and warlock tart on her plate. Along with her faithful sidekick, Tilly, the tabby duo set out to investigate an […]
GRIST MILL ROAD is Your New Thriller Obsession
Tana French just blurbed it. Ruth Ware is tweeting about it. Actress and debut author Krysten Ritter is Instagramming it. And it has THREE *starred* reviews. “It” is GRIST MILL ROAD, a new thriller from Christopher J. Yates, whose previous book, BLACK CHALK, was an NPR Best Book of the Year optioned for film by […]
Thriller Thursday (10/5/17 Edition)
Cosmic horror! Agatha Raisin! Murder in a brewery! Here’s what we’re reading this #ThrillerThursday: WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST READ by David Wong “Wong’s wildly mind-bending third installment (after THIS BOOK IS FULL OF SPIDERS) of the adventures of protagonist David Wong is filled with the humorous horror readers have come to expect. While […]
Maximum Shelf: SOMETIMES I LIE
My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. This is how Alice Feeney’s debut novel, SOMETIMES I LIE, starts. And fans of psychological thrillers won’t be able to stop reading after that, according […]
Thriller Thursday (9/28/17 Edition)
This #ThrillerThursday we’re reading two new series mysteries and a chilling true crime account involving the Coors brewery. SLEEP LIKE A BABY by Charlaine Harris In the next installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling and LibraryReads author Charlaine Harris’s Aurora Teagarden series, Roe has a newborn to care for, a vulnerable new marriage […]
Thriller Thursday (9/21/17 Edition)
What’s tingling your spine this #ThrillerThursday? We’re reading: MURDEROUS MISTRAL by Cay Rademacher Two starred reviews! “Rademacher, short-listed for the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger Award (for The Murderer in Ruins), has written a carefully plotted police procedural that vividly captures the landscape and scents of Provence while introducing Blanc and a small group of […]
#thrillerthursday (08/31)
Welcome to #thrillerthursday on this very last day of August! Kill the Heroes by David Thurlo “This fast-paced mystery makes an easygoing read, spiced with plenty of humor… A solid southwestern mystery.”–Booklist Dark River Rising by John Rogers “A local criminal is found tortured to death, a snake stitched into his belly, and Baton Rouge […]
#thrillerthursday (08/10/17)
It’s #thrillerthursday and we’re reading: City of Saviors by Rachel Howzell Hall “Lou . . . is a formidable fighter―someone you want on your side.”―New York Times Book Review “Hall has created a strong and likable African American detective who rivals Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch in grit, intelligence, and tenacity.”―Library Journal, starred review on Trail […]