The Big Thrill Discusses THE GOD IN THE SEA with Paul Kemprecos The winter job as mate aboard a charter boat in the Florida Keys was going to be a financial boon for fisherman-diver and private detective Aristotle “Soc” Socarides. But The Fates who spin the threads of destiny had woven Soc’s life into a tapestry of their own design. Soc may have to sell his own boat, the Thalassa II, to avoid a family break-up that could jeopardize the Socarides frozen Greek food business. The last thing he needs is to find himself in the sights of an international crime syndicate after he plays Good S ..read more

  The Big Thrill Discusses FOR WORSE with L. K. Bowen Ellie is leaving her husband…again. After twenty-two years of marriage and an unsuccessful separation, she can’t take it anymore. On the surface, she has a picture-perfect relationship. Jeff has been a steadfast spouse. But what seems like loyalty is in reality an obsessive desire for control. Ellie is slowly losing her sight, which means she needs more and more assistance, and Jeff will stop at nothing to ensure she feels helpless and reliant on him alone. Desperate to escape her psychologically abusive marriage, Ellie turns to an on ..read more

  The Big Thrill Discusses HIT AND RUN with Vincent Zandri ALL IT TAKES IS ONE BAD DECISION TO DESTROY YOUR LIFE AND AN EVEN WORSE DECISION TO RESTORE IT! When a down on his luck former businessman arrested by the FBI for illegal commerce activity manages to flee prison due to Covid, he pays a Russian mobster to change his identity. But now that he owes the mobster tens of thousands of dollars, he needs to get at the $500,000 in cash he buried in the backyard of his former home. Problem is, he can’t locate the exact burial plot of cash. Plus, he’s now wanted for a hit and run and worse…a ..read more

  The Big Thrill Discusses DERANGED FAN with Vincent Zandri NOW YOU SEE HER. NOW YOU DON’T. NOW YOU’RE DEAD! A writer who’s suffering from a prolonged bout of writer’s block is hunted down by a fan…a deranged fan who now only wants him to write a new novel and dedicate it to her. She stalks him and makes his life a living hell. At the same time, no one believes he’s being harassed, convinced he is simply cracking up under the constant pressure to produce words and make money. From Thriller Award winner Vincent Zandri comes a tale of suspense, fear, and dread.   Vincent Zandri New ..read more

  The Big Thrill Discusses ONCE UPON A VILLA with Andrew Kaplan In this wise, warm-hearted, witty, and LOL hilariously funny true account, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Kaplan tells what it’s like when he, his wife, and two-year-old son decided to chuck it all and live the fantasy in a villa by the sea in that extraordinary corner of the world – part international café society, part billionaires’ playground, part provincial France – that is the French Riviera. Whether it’s matching wits with French bureaucracy, searching for the perfect bouillabaisse, encounters wit ..read more

From the Shelf to Screen The Big Thrill Interviews Author Alyssa Maxwell By Susan Santangelo The Big Thrill was delighted to sit down with author Alyssa Maxwell to discuss her acclaimed Gilded Newport series and the first book’s adaptation into a Hallmark movie with MURDER AT THE BREAKERS. The book-to-Hallmark movie is golden. What inspired you to write the Gilded Newport mystery series? Several things. For one, I had been writing historical romance, but since I’d always had a strong element of mystery or suspense in my stories, I realized mysteries were a better fit for me. I set my books in ..read more

  THE INTERSECTION OF SUSPENSE AND THE SUPERNATURAL The Big Thrill Interviews Bestselling Author Simone St. James By John B. Valeri Death by Spreadsheet. It’s the title that never was but could have been. Luckily for readers (and for her!), New York Times bestselling author Simone St. James left a 20-year career in television budgeting to pursue writing full-time before she met an Excel-erated demise. This was no overnight decision but a calculated risk. After having spent countless evenings over many years moonlighting as an aspiring novelist, St. James began to submit her work. Her eve ..read more

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  The Big Thrill Recommends: RAINBOW BLACK by Maggie Thrash Recommendation by Jody Gerbig “People make other people suffer. And they don’t stop until you make them suffer.” Maggie Thrash, most known for her award-nominated graphic novel Honor Girl, now graces us with her first adult novel, genre-defying RAINBOW BLACK. Parts mystery, suspense, queer love story, historical fiction, and dark comedy, this novel suggests that nothing is as simple as its label. It is the 1990s and the beginning of the Satanic-panic in New Hampshire, but 13-year-old Lacey Bond’s biggest problems involve a clingy ..read more

  The Big Thrill Recommends: KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE by Leah Konen Recommended by Millie Naylor Hast If you loved Strangers on a Train and Gone Girl, you’ll find KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE mesmerizing, from the terrifying prologue to the twisting, nail-biting last chapters. Leah Konen’s fourth venture into the complicated world of female friendships among the milieu of wealthy Brooklynites will keep you up at night! In KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE, Mary is terrified her soon-to-be ex-husband George will take their son Alex away from her unless she rejoins the marriage. But Mary has reasons not to ..read more