In his captivating new novel Here and Gone, Haylen Beck who also writes as Stuart Neville, invites readers to imagine a truly terrifying scenario and the lengths parents will go to protect their children. We were certainly excited by this work (see our review here) and wanted to learn more about the book from its…
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Sarah E. Glenn, co-author of Murder on the Mullet Express, reflects on her latest historical crime fiction. Many fiction writers base their characters on people they know in real life—relatives, friends, or perhaps a personal hero. Sometimes it’s done unconsciously during the process of writing, blessing the heroes with a history, desires, and personal quirks.…
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A Twisted Vengeance is the latest novel of London Sunday Times bestselling author Candace Robb featuring indomitable Kate Clifford. The novel is a medieval mystery which will satisfy “lovers of Shakespeare’s Richard II” as one critic puts it. The book is the second in series with The Service of the Dead being the book that kicked the…
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Allan Topol Washington Power Play his 13th novel of international intrigue. Two of Topol’s novels, Spy Dance and Enemy My Enemy, were national best sellers. Characterized by critics as fast-paced thrillers, one of his novels was recently optioned and three are in development for movies. A graduate of Yale University Law School, he is a…
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The new thriller by Lee Irby titled “Unreliable“, which Doubleday is publishing on April 18th, is the story of a charming college professor who most definitely did not—but maybe did—kill his ex-wife. Or someone else. Or no one. Edwin Stith, a failed novelist and college writing instructor in upstate New York, is returning home for…
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The Seventh Sun is a science-based thriller about Black Swans: not the bird, but the event. Black swan events are those sudden and unpredictable disasters that tend to turn our world upside down. The idiom originated in the sixteenth century among scientists to represent an idea or theory that didn’t exist, because at the time,…
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Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love marks the debut of an exciting new thriller voice. The author combines the genius and ferocity of Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander with the ruthless ambition of Walter White in Breaking Bad. When reviewing this title, it was impressive to see how Melissa’s thriller grips the reader till the very last page (Read…
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If cozy mystery is your cup of tea, Double Up from The Davis Way series by Gretchen Archer is a great pick. Double Up, the new installment by this triple USA Today-bestselling author is a tale about a casino under fire from a rival, mob connections and Davis Way being nosy (Read our review here). What…
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As a child, Amy Engel spent summers visiting her grandparents in the small Kansas town where her mother was raised. Many years later, the small town memories became an inspiration for writing her first suspense thriller The Roanoke Girls after publishing various YA novels. What comes below, is a conversation with the author on the new…
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Reed Farrel Coleman is one of the few people out there who all the critics seem to like. NPR has referred to him as “a hard-boiled poet”, The Huffington Post says, “Coleman is the resident noir poet laureate of the United States” and The New York Times has commented, “If you dragged one (of his books)…
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As a Washington insider, Burt Solomon covered the White House and many other aspects of Washington life during the first Bush presidency and President Bill Clinton’s first term. He has written articles for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, and has won the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished…
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