Thriller Book Reviews

An urban crime thriller that pulls back the curtain on a perennial battlefield in Chicago, Lords of Sixty-Third Street by Edward Izzi is a riveting hunt for justice in a city where organized crime reaches every level of power.

Veteran reporter Larry McKay is ready for retirement, but the murder of his long-time friend and colleague at the Tribune drags him into a grisly world of the mob and blatant political corruption. As his investigation descends into the dark heart of the Windy City, he finds himself caught between the titular mobsters of the Chicago Outfit and a merciless street […]

Secrets of the past blur with tragedies of the present in Chain Reaction by Malabika Ray, the inventive second entry in The Diary of a Sloppy Sleuth series.

When an aspiring model plunges to her death under decidedly suspicious circumstances, Sri, Matt, and Neil are pulled into a new mystery that is anything but open and shut. The unfortunate victim is not only Sri’s upstairs neighbor and one of Matt’s ex-lovers, but she also bears a striking resemblance to a legendary spy and opportunistic thief from another age. What begins as a curious case of an unlikely suicide becomes a […]

A macabre and suspenseful thriller that uncovers the pain of permanent scars, The Magician Killer by Diane Merrill Wigginton is a sprawling police procedural tied together with a riveting personal drama.

Years after narrowly escaping the clutches of a murderous maniac, Special Agent Sam Stevens – a prodigious investigative profiler – finds herself begrudgingly hunting that same twisted killer through her home state of Alaska. Teaming up with the charming Agent Nicholas McElroy and his four-legged partner, the trio connect the dots of more than a dozen missing waitresses who have seemingly vanished without a trace. Haunted by the memory […]