Top 10 Political Crime Fiction Thrillers I required three things of a novel for inclusion as a “Top 10 Political Crime Fiction Thriller.” First, there must be a crime that the reader can attempt to solve. A known suspect and a thrilling chase, à la many espionage thrillers, don’t cut it. Second, the setting or […]
(Editor’s Note: Author Jenny Milchman, shares her top ten thrillers which revolve around families, from Harlan Coben to Greg Iles. Note only is Milchman an accomplished author, but her blog pieces about everything from thrillers to the craft of writing have entertained and informed legions of readers) You know how somebody will say something and […]
Top Ten Scottish Mysteries and Thrillers from Doyle to Ian Rankin… 1. The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Because of the London-centric nature of the Holmes stories, readers easily forget that Conan Doyle was a Scotsman, and that his violin-playing genius-detective, Sherlock, was originally inspired by an Edinburgh physician. But so it […]
Top 10 Legal Thrillers of All Time When I tell people that my third legal thriller, Losing Faith, comes out on April 14, some ask what it’s about, but others ask if it’s any good. When that question is asked, I think about whether it can stand up to the following: Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow. […]
I have my mother to thank for my love of heists. She’s not a thief (as far as I know!) but someone who’s deeply attached to her French heritage, despite emigrating from France more than 50 years ago. When Lupin premiered on Netflix in 2021, I instantly thought of my mother, who regularly borrowed Maurice […]
“For a quarter of a century, The Strand has not only been bringing fabulous contemporary mystery and thriller stories to readers—but it has also managed, on an astonishingly regular basis, to dig up unpublished and long-lost stories by the titans of the past, including James M. Cain, Shirley Jackson, Raymond Chandler…” —Douglas Preston (New York […]
TOP 10 UNSOLVED MYSTERIES IN OUR NATIONAL PARKS By: A. J. Landau (author of LEAVE NO TRACE) LEAVE NO TRACE is the first in a series of mystery-thrillers set within, and against the backdrop of, America’s iconic national parks. To commemorate the book’s February 27 publication, we thought it would be fun to […]
Bestselling author Tana French’s THE HUNTER is “an absorbing crime yarn” 1.Tell us about your upcoming novel, The Hunter. It’s a heat-wave summer in the little West of Ireland village of Ardnakelty. Cal Hooper, who took early retirement from the Chicago police force and moved there looking for peace, has found it: he’s built a […]
Homefront Spy By Jack Beaumont In the espionage thriller genre we’re used to fictional spies who operate as lone wolves with seemingly little integration into the societies they serve. Names that come to mind are James Bond, Ethan Hunt and Jason Bourne. Let me ruin the fantasy, which I’m the first one to […]
The Top Ten Films of the Master of Suspense by Debbie Babitt “There is no terror in the bang. Only in the anticipation of it.” —Alfred Hitchcock I owe a huge debt to Hitchcock. He taught me how to tell a story cinematically. If I could see it, I could write it. From him […]