New Zealand Listener

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The five years that have passed since the hostage crisis at the Lindt Cafe in central Sydney are enough to clear this competent if not outstanding thriller of any charge of being exploitative. The author – a former family-law and criminal barrister i

SFX

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RELEASED 2 APRIL 384 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Claire McKenna Publisher Harper Voyager Not into romance in your fantasy novels? Fear not. Despite the title, this is very much a tale of Gothic passion, more akin to Rebecca or Jane Eyre i

Blue Mountains Life

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By Chandler Baker Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc. for years. The sudden death of Truviv’s CEO means their boss, Ames, will likely take over the entire company. Each of the women has a different relationship with Ames,

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Susan Choi PAGES 257 GENRE Fiction IT FEELS STRANGE TO SAY THAT SUSAN CHOI—FINALIST for the Pulitzer Prize, lauded novelist for decades—is at last having her moment. But then, she’s never produced a book like Trust Exercise before: a gonzo l

TIME

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LAURA LIPPMAN KNOWS HER WAY around Baltimore. Not only did the crime writer grow up in the city, but she also spent 12 years reporting for the Baltimore Sun. Her latest novel, a thriller set in 1960s Baltimore, is based on a real unsolved case in whi

NPR

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As the weather turns cooler and we start to emerge from summer's torpor, it's time for some faster-paced romances with plenty of exciting twists and turns on the way to the happily-ever-after.

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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This is a dark, emotionally charged thriller about a woman on the edge who uncovers sinister goings-on and doesn’t know who to trust. Investigative journalist Chrissie O’Brian has tragedy in her past and trouble in her future. She has fled from a bro

Woman & Home

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B.A. Paris is the author of four bestselling novels. Her debut, Behind Closed Doors , sold over a million copies, while her long-anticipated latest novel, The Dilemma , is set to be one of this year’s most chilling thrillers. I’m not a planner – I

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The new summer must-read from the master of suspense begins with the discovery of the corpse of an 11-year-old boy. Could the murderer be the beloved Flint City Little League coach? The answer—we’re not telling—is shocking. The beloved author (A Man

Woman & Home South Africa

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B.A. Paris is the author of four bestselling novels. Her debut, Behind Closed Doors, sold over a million copies, while her long-anticipated latest novel, The Dilemma (HarperCollins), is set to be one of this year’s most chilling thrillers. I don’t

NEXT

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If I had a page of text for every time I’ve heard something along the lines of, “I would totally write a romance novel, if only I had a spare weekend,” I’d have a workable draft by now. It’s not that easy, of course. But like the genre itself, the li

NPR

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In Mike Chen's debut novel, a time-traveling secret agent is stranded in the past and has to live out a normal life — including a family — that becomes a problem when he returns to his own time.

TIME

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PAULA HAWKINS RODE TO fame on her 2015 hit The Girl on the Train, a book that deftly deploys the “girl” thriller subgenre that includes Gone Girl, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Before, The Girl from Home, The Girl on the Bridge and The Gi

Writing Magazine

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Melissa Oliver has won the RNA’s Joan Hessayon Award. Melissa’s debut, The Rebel Heiress and the Knight, was awarded the RNA’s £1,000 prize for new writers, which is given to a writer whose first novel has been completed after passing through the Rom

TIME

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TWO MYSTERIES ARE AT THE HEART of Hideo Yokoyama’s Six Four: the 14-year-old cold case of a young girl’s murder and the recent disappearance of protagonist Yoshinobu Mikami’s teenage daughter. Yet most of the suspense in this thriller has to do with

Literary Hub

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Eileen Myles’ Afterglow is available now from Grove Atlantic. What was the first book you fell in love with? Little Women: because there was both a female writer, Jo, in it and there was a rich boy, Laurie, I longed to be. Name a classic you feel gui

Writing Magazine

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Have you ever watched a 1940s noir film and been drawn into a storyline involving a character whose malevolent intent has unleashed a trajectory towards an inevitably nightmarish conclusion? That sense of impending doom is the feeling you get reading

Writing Magazine

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Champagne Books is a Canadian indie publishing electronic and trade paperback books specialising chiefly in romance and its sub genres, as well as SF, fantasy, NA and YA. The editorial team want entertaining exciting stories ‘to transport readers to

The Writer

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We seldom think “beauty walk” when considering a writing conference, but just before the Chicago Spring Fling Conference – sponsored by Chicago-North’s chapter of the Romance Writers of America – novelist Elizabeth Kingston will escort interested att

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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The mum-of-two lives in Whangaparaoa, near Auckland. She’s a Weekly senior sub-editor who also writes romantic thrillers under the name Brynn Kelly. This novel was inspired by… “A hankering to set a story on a tropical island, to get that trouble-in-

TIME

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AS IN THE REGENCY-ERA ENGLAND OF JANE AUSTEN’S novels, women in the city of Kano in northern Nigeria are on the cusp of radical social changes, as globalized development pulls against conservative Islamic traditions. To help make sense of changing ti

Writing Magazine

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It will soon be St Valentine’s Day, so I decided to check out the Romantic Novelists’ Association and find out about the state of romantic fiction in 2020. Luckily the current chair, Alison May, was happy to chat to me. ‘The RNA is sixty years old th

Writing Magazine

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The team at The Writer’s Block are looking for short stories for an anthology for YA and NA readers but you’ll have to write fast: the deadline is 10 March. Aesthetic: A Dark Academia Anthology is to be published as an Amazon ebook and print version.

Literary Hub

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In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 16 announcement of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award winners, NBCC board members review the 30 finalists. Today, NBCC board member Jane Ciabattari offers an appreciation of fiction f

Writer's Digest

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According to Publishers Weekly, more people read crime fiction than any other fiction genre—by far. For those of us who write crime fiction, that’s great news. However, to capitalize on the opportunity, you need to know where your work fits within th

Writing Magazine

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Looking for a clever, clued-in thriller writer to take you on a white-knuckle rollercoaster ride into the psychological undercurrents of contemporary culture? Step up, SJ Watson. The multi-millionselling author of runaway debut Before I Go To Sleep –

SFX

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▶ RELEASED OUT NOW! 432 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook ▶ Author Anna Kashina ▶ Publisher Angry Robot As a romance, Shadowbladeisn’t particularly romantic, and as a fantasy it isn’t fantastic either. The setting, all deserts and schools of scholars

The Millions

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This month marks the entrée of two newcomers. The post The Millions Top Ten: September 2017 appeared first on The Millions.

Writing Magazine

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A big advantage for any writer is knowing the kind of story they want to tell. And Zoe Caldwell, debut crime thriller author of Predator (Bloodhound Books), certainly did that. ‘The story,’ says Zoe, a copywriter and former journalist, ’is based arou

Literary Hub

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On this episode of Sheltering, Maris Kreizman speaks with Janelle Brown, author of Pretty Things, the new thriller. Brown’s new book includes her protagonist being stuck in a Lake Tahoe house as a snowstorm rages around them, and she notes the parall