The prolific espionage author John le Carré died December 12, 2020, from pneumonia, following a short bout of illness unrelated to COVID-19. John le Carré, real name David Cornwell, is considered a classic spy fiction author with bestselling novels such as The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, several…
Clive Cussler, the author of the bestselling adventure series Dirk Pitt, passed away on Monday, February 24, at the age of 88. While the cause of death has not been confirmed yet, the author’s wife, Janet Horvath, shared on Twitter, It is with a heavy heart that I share the sad news that my husband Clive…
Mary Higgins Clark, one of our favorite suspense book author known for bestselling novels like Daddy’s Little Girl, and Where Are The Children, passed away on Friday, January 31, at the age of 92, surrounded by friends and family. Known as the “queen of suspense,” she wrote over 50 books during her long-time career as a…
The Mark Dawson John Milton series, featuring the popular British ex-assassin, comes for the first time in hardcover. And the cover is shiny, clever, and really, really beautiful. John Milton has been often described as the British Jack Reacher, which is quite curious because Lee Child is also a British author, albeit his Jack Reacher…
For the longest time, crime and thrillers were trailing behind genres like romance and general fiction. Yet, for some reason, things have drastically changed as of very recently. At least in the UK, 2017 has seen a sharp rise in the sale of books by crime and thriller authors based on the latest findings by…
The bestselling thriller author James Patterson has teamed up with Investigation Discovery to start a new true-crime series titled Murder is Forever, to start which will air on ID in January 2018. While James Patterson has teamed up with Albert Einstein activists to create a new book series recently, the joint venture with ID is a…
James Patterson, the author of the popular Alex Cross books and numerous other thriller series and standalone novels, has been quite busy recently. Not only is he writing a new thriller novel with the ex-president Bill Clinton, titled The President is Missing, a book which will be turned into a TV series by Showtime and is…
I’m so excited! I love the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan series. I have been reading the books from the very first one, Patriot Games, many years ago, and still love it even after several other authors like Marc Cameron, Grant Blackwood, and Mark Greaney took over the series when Tom Clancy passed away. So I’ve been…
While Amazon has revealed their best mysteries and thrillers of 2017 quite early, other sites, magazines, and newspapers have published their 2017 favorites in the genre as well. Here are the top lists of the mysteries and thriller genres. New York Times Best Crime Novels of 2017 The Thirst, by Jo Nesbø (published by Knopf)…
Well, after writing book reviews on my site for over four years now, the time has come to no longer show the star rating at the end of each review. It was a tough decision, one that I should have taken a long time ago. So what caused the change of heart? Well, it is the…
