Tag Archives: Thrillers/Suspense
A String of Beads
by Thomas PerryThe eighth breakneck thriller featuring Jane Whitefield, described by the Wall Street Journal as “the sort of protagonist most crime novelists would kill for,”…
The Star of Istanbul
by Robert Olen Butler“The Star of Istanbul has it all: history galore, exotic foreign settings, a world-weary yet engaging protagonist, villains in abundance and a romance worthy…
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…
