Tag Archives: Thrillers/Suspense
Shooting Elvis
by Robert Eversz“Whip smart . . . Best described as punk noir, it takes the sardonic bite of Raymond Chandler and sets it to the mosh-pit…
Second Violin
by John Lawton“Smart and gracefully written . . . It has been Lawton’s achievement to capture, in first-rate popular fiction, the courage and drama—and the widespread tomorrow-we-may-die exuberance—of that terrible and thrilling moment in twentieth-century history.” —Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post…
Red 1-2-3
by John Katzenbach“No one portrays the mind of a sociopathic killer better than John Katzenbach, in superb form with this psychological thriller, a vivid cat-and-mice game…
Old Flames
by John Lawton“A rich mixture of political intrigue and old-fashioned mayhem. . . . Tangled webs of deceit are standard in mysteries, but British author John…
The Old Man
by Thomas PerryThe toppling of a Middle Eastern government suddenly makes a decades-old case a priority for American military intelligence in this new high-wire act from…
A Little White Death
by John Lawton“John Lawton is so captivating a storyteller that I’d happily hear him out on any subject. . . . Meticulous artistry . . ….
A Lily of the Field
by John LawtonSet in Vienna, London, and the United States, and spanning 1934 to 1948, John Lawton’s brilliant novel A Lily of the Field follows the…
Jack of Spades
by Joyce Carol OatesIn this new literary thriller from Joyce Carol Oates, when a venerated mystery writer is accused of plagiarism by a strange woman from his…
The Hot Country
by Robert Olen ButlerFrom the Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award–winning Robert Olen Butler comes his first crime novel, a sweeping saga of espionage, suspense, action, and…
Forty Thieves
by Thomas PerryA devilishly plotted chase-and-pursuit novel by “a master of nail-biting suspense” (Los Angeles Times), featuring a husband-and-wife detective team hired to look into the…
