A Purity of Vengeance – Jussi Adler-Olsen
Copenhagen-born author Jussi Adler-Olsen may be a relatively new name (to me at least), but he has sold over 14 million books around the world. And for a writer who began his career compiling a comic encyclopedia and writing books about Groucho Marx, the Department Q cold case series is very serious stuff indeed. A ...
Saints of the Shadow Bible – Ian Rankin
John Rebus never really set out to be Edinburgh’s finest. He’s definitely a man who has secrets and as a Detective Inspector in the Lothian and Borders Police, he ruffled a lot of feathers and broke even more rules. Despite his retirement in 2007 (in the novel Exit Music), Saints of the Shadow Bible sees ...
The Invisible Code – Christopher Fowler
Enjoy your mysteries with a liberal pinch of dark English eccentricity? Christopher Fowler’s latest, The Invisible Code, is a joyous cross between police procedural and Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy). Off-beat investigation, inspired deduction and some very British quirkiness can be found throughout this twisted tale. Like ...
The Barkeep – William Lashner
Some things are just too awful to contemplate and Justin Chase lives his life in a state of Zen serenity: it’s what gives him peace and helps him to cope with things he’d rather not think about. He tends bar and life is more or less OK. That’s until the arrival of Birdie Grackle, a ...
Interview with Chris Carter (author of the Robert Hunter series)
Author of the Robert Hunter series, we’re interviewing today Chris Carter. He’s the first writer we’re guesting at ThrillerBooksJournal.com and we do think he’s a cool one to start with. Enjoy our talk… Q. Hi Chris, welcome. Our first question is very easy: who is Chris Carter as a person and as a writer? A. ...
A Measure of Blood – Kathleen George
Great crime writers come from all walks of life – bankers, judges, advertising professionals, even police – it’s what makes our favourite genre so rich and exciting. Kathleen George is a professor of theatre and writing at the University of Pittsburgh, which means that not only does she has a great sense of drama, but ...
Fear Nothing – Lisa Gardner
In a past, more soft-focus life, Lisa Gardner was the romantic novelist Alicia Scott. Now she’s on the dark side and she’s right where she belongs: spinning taught, fast-paced thrillers, where the suspense can sometimes be almost unbearable. Reading Gardner’s novels makes you greedy, and you gobble up the pages, hungry for answers. She’s one ...
Command Authority – Tom Clancy, with Mark Greaney
Tom Clancy was quite simply the king of the political thriller. He was the creator of the best-selling Jack Ryan novels, which include The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger and the Sum of All Fears. A string of Hollywood blockbuster action movies followed, with big-hitters like Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin ...
