Thriller Book Reviews

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 […]

A bookish physicist taps into her sleuthing skills in Alpha Beta Gamma by Malabika Ray, the engaging first book in The Diary of a Sloppy Sleuth series.

When Sri’s respected colleague mysteriously dies in his university lab, this curious and independent scientist lends her impressive brain and true-crime obsession to the hunt for justice. Half a world away but tangled in the mess of this case, the murder of a young Iranian protester has sparked an unlikely plot for revenge that could plunge the country into chaos. As Sri digs into the professor’s death, and butts heads with an arrogant […]