Next year is set to kick off with a bang because Jason Bourne, one of the biggest names the thriller genre has ever produced, will return to bookstores in Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Vendetta on January 14, 2025. Vendetta will be the sixth novel from New York Times bestselling author Brian Freeman, who first took over Ludlum’s iconic series in 2020 with The Bourne Evolution. Prior to that, it had been Eric Van Lustbader penning Bourne books, beginning with The Bourne Legacy and ending with The Bourne Initiative, and run that started in 2004 and ended in 2017. Of course, it was long before that ..read more

  Count #1 New York Times bestselling author Nita Prose among the authors slated to help kick off the Christmas season later this year, with one of the genre’s biggest stars is set to release The Mistletoe Mystery, a brand new novella, on October 1, 2024. Prose, for those who need a quick recap, took the genre by storm in 2o22 with the release of her massively successful bestseller, The Maid, which introduced readers to Molly Gray, a 25-year-old maid at the Regency Grand Hotel who has a knack for solving murders. That book landed Prose at the very top of the New York Times bestsellers li ..read more

ORDER NOW With dual storylines that follow Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear on the cusp of adulthood, grappling with the looming specter of the Vietnam War, and—in the present day—on trial for past actions, Craig Johnson wastes little time plunging his readers into another adventure that showcases the timeless struggle between good and evil. “You’re too big to surf,” Walt Longmire is told, kicking off the 20th book in Craig Johnson’s New York Times bestselling series. It’s the summer of 1964 and Walt, along with his best and longest friend, Henry Standing Bear, are set to embark on one la ..read more

The Sympathizer, an HBO original and one of the year’s most anticipated new shows starring Robert Downey Jr. and Joa Xuande, is finally here. Based on the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese-American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen, who received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Sympathizer is being billed as a seven-part mini-series. The first episode, Death Wish, premiered on Sunday, April 14, 2024. New episodes are slated to be released every week. “Near the end of the Vietnam War, a spy who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee ..read more

ORDER NOW Caspian Anderson is a translator for the United Nations. His girlfriend, Liesel Bergmann, is an accountant. Together, they share a quiet, uneventful life. What could possibly go wrong? Well, for starters, Caspian, code name “Elias,” has spent the last decade working for Onyx, a black program deep within the Department of Homeland Security. You wouldn’t know it looking at him, give his relatively average stature—he’s a hair below six feet and weighs under 180 pounds—but Caspian is actually one of the United State government’s most feared assassins with more than thirty-three kills und ..read more

  Back in 2012, Michael Connely—best known for his #1 New York Times bestselling Harry Bosch series—penned a short story called The Safe Man. Now completely reimagined, The Safe Man is headed to Audible as an audio drama starring Jack Quaid and Titus Welliver. Though Connelly is still set to release The Waiting, his next Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch novel, this November, news of the forthcoming audio drama, which will be exclusive to Audible, will no doubt be a nice surprise for his legion of fans. Be careful when you go looking for links, though. The original short story was released a ..read more

Things in the Middle East are heating up. Fast. Whether you’re watching the news on television or following on-the-ground reporters via social media, there is no shortage of coverage of what’s going on between Israel and Iran. Even so, I’ve fielded a ton of requests from readers about spy thrillers set in the Middle East and even saw some debates on Facebook and X among book fans about which titles feature the most accurate representation of what’s actually going down. Brad Meltzer once said that a “thriller writer’s job is to beat the headlines,” and these ten books certainly have done that ..read more

  The Note, a brand new suspense thriller from New York Times bestselling author Alafair Burke, will be available in bookstores everywhere on January 14, 2025. Burke, a law professor and respected legal commentator, is also the author of more than twenty novels. The daughter of #1 New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke, Alafair first took the mystery & thriller genre by storm back in 2003 with her acclaimed debut novel, Judgement Calls. A decade later and ten books later, Burke’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, announced that she would collaborate with famed author Mary Higgins C ..read more

ORDER NOW Packed with relentless action, historical intrigue, and globe-trotting mayhem, James Rollins’ latest Sigma Force adventure takes readers on a thrilling journey across the icy expanse of the Arctic and into the shadowy corridors of power-hungry individuals who will stop at nothing to find a legendary lost continent that’s existence if confirmed, would forever change the world as we know it today. Set after the events of Tides of Fire (2023), Rollins’ 18th Sigma Force thriller opens with a prologue set in 1764. A Russian fleet of ships combs the icy waters in search of a land mass know ..read more

ORDER NOW Lucas Davenport and his daughter Letty are once again thrust into a dangerous game of cat and mouse as they race to stop a brilliant and deranged scientist from unleashing a deadly virus upon the world in Toxic Prey, the latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. Dr. Lionel Scott can’t just sit by and do nothing. That sort of attitude led to Earth’s problem in the first place. Now, something has to be done, and drastic results require drastic actions. A renowned expert in tropical and infectious diseases, Scott understands that humanity is killing the earth ..read more