Four Minutes Omega Team Book 1 April 2nd, 2024 Blackstone Pub Tom Clancy’s Act of Defiance Jack Ryan Novel Book 24 G. P. Putnam’s Sons May 21st, 2024 Four Minutes by Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson is a new techno-thriller series.  It is different than most futuristic novels in that it does not alter the timeline completely as in the first Superman movie when Lois Lane lived instead of died. The premise allows for intelligence gathering in the future to be used in the present to prevent an event from happening. Pat Moody leads a new elite squad, Task Force Omega to jump into the future ..read more

CLICK HERE TO ENTER She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple. Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below.  But ..read more

At the start of my latest Swiss mystery, A Fondness for Truth, Andi Eberhart is riding her bicycle home from curling practice when she is killed in a hit-and-run. Since her death turns out to be murder, readers hoping to solve the crime will want to learn more about Andi. They may find themselves wondering, “Why curling? Does Andi play this sport for a reason, or could it just as easily have been volleyball?” Yes, there are reasons I decided to make Andi not just a curler but the captain of her team, but before I explain why, I’d like to introduce the sport of curling. It began in Scotland, p ..read more

CLICK HERE TO ENTER The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six. Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark histo ..read more

There wasn’t supposed to be a third book. I mean, a second Sherlock Holmes book made sense, because I had already written it, lo these many years ago, as a screenplay. So my second book actually inspired my first one. that was alright. That was cool. And no, my third book didn’t follow from my second, but from my first book. But not as that book was originally written. Have I confused you enough? Let me explain. Skirting spoilers, one of the elements that went into my first book, The Strange Case of Eliza Doolittle–besides Sherlock Holmes and Shaw’s Pygmalion—was another book, The Strange Cas ..read more

She’s Not Sorry Mary Kubica April 2nd, 2024 Harper Collins Pub She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica is a suspenseful thriller with a compelling twist.  The characters are gripping although unreliable. The main character is Meghan Michaels who is like any single mom, trying to find balance between working full time as an ICU nurse and being a doting mother.  Now one of her patients, Caitlin Beckett, is in a coma with traumatic brain injury.  As the story goes on authorities begin to question if she suicidally jumped from a bridge or was pushed. Then there is Natalie (Nat) Cohen who Me ..read more

CLICK HERE TO ENTER Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international fugitive love story—set against the ’90s Satanic Panic and spanning 20 years in the life of a young woman pulled into its undertow. Lacey Bond is a 13-year-old girl in New Hampshire growing up in the tranquility of her hippie parents’ rural daycare center.   Then the Satanic Panic hits. It’s the summer of 1990 when Lacey ’s parents are handcuffed, flung into the county jail, and faced with a torrent of jaw-dropping accusations as part of a mass hysteria sweepin ..read more

If you want to be a writer, you need to read first. Read a lot. That advice coms from none other than Stephen King who says in his book On Writing: “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have time (or the tools) to write.” King has also said that he reads – mostly fiction – for at least three hours a night and goes through 75 to 100 books a year. I can’t match those numbers, but I know I could have never become an author myself of mystery/suspense/thriller novels without reading books by some of the great ones. Here are five of the most important writers who have inspired me: RAYMOND CHAN ..read more

The Handler Enemies Among Us Jeffrey Stephens Post Hill Press The Handler and its sequel, Enemies Among Us by Jeffrey Stephens will remind readers of a Nelson DeMille novel that deals with terrorists and conspiracies within the government. The Handler has CIA operatives Nick Reagan and Carol Gellos, with the help of the CIA analyst Erin David, play a cat and mouse game with the horrific terrorist, known as the Handler. They travel throughout the world trying to track him down after the CIA uncovers details of violent assaults. Enemies Among Us has Reagan and company continuing to search for ..read more

CLICK HERE TO ENTER The Stars Turned Inside Out by Nova Jacobs The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy, and the high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our universe Deep beneath the ground outside of Geneva, where CERN’s Large Hadron Collider smashes subatomic particles at breathtaking speeds, a startling discovery is made when the tunnel is down for maintenance: the body of Howard Anderby, a brilliant and recently arrived young physicist, who appears to have been irradiated by the collider ..read more