The Big Thrill Online Magazine

Between the Lines: Jake Tapper

The Art of Juggling By April Snellings If you think you don’t have time to…

On the Cover: David Yoon

To Internet, or Not to Internet? By Dawn Ius Do we actually need the internet?…

On the Cover: Anne Tibbets

Monsters in Space By Dawn Ius Back in early April, the Twitterverse lit up in…

Up Close: Linwood Barclay

Deception and Deadly DNA By K.L. Romo Who’s your daddy? For Miles Cookson, the protagonist…

On the Cover: Mia P. Manansala

Filipino Food with a Side of Murder Makes for an Appetizing Read By Karen Hugg…

Up Close: Geling Yan

Secrets Laid Bare Under a Cloak of Anonymity By Dawn Ius You probably don’t have…

Up Close: Chris Bohjalian

Truth Be Damned, and So Is the Woman By K.L. Romo “This may be the…

Up Close: R.G. Belsky

Ripped from the Headlines By José H. Bográn The fourth Clare Carlson book by R.…

Up Close: Bev Vincent and Brian Keene

Deep Cuts By April Snellings In music, “dissonant harmonies” are unstable combinations of pitches that…

Up Close: Mary Kubica

Deep Connections By Dawn Ius When a person goes “missing,” we’re left with anxiety-inducing uncertainty—why…

Up Close: Catherine McKenzie

A Devastating Diagnosis, Family Secrets, and Attempted Murder By Millie Naylor Hast Jennifer Barnes is…

Up Close: Kaira Rouda

Best Laid Plans Take Horrible Turn By E.M. Powell Tish Nelson has won both battle…

Up Close: Carole Johnstone

False Memories By Dawn Ius Carole Johnstone remembers vividly the stark and cold pantry in…

Up Close: Mary Keliikoa

Making Room in a Crowd By Dawn Ius In a genre saturated with private eyes,…

Up Close: Brian Silverman

Unprepared Hero By Charles Salzberg Full disclosure: Brian Silverman is a longtime friend. I’ve known…

Up Close: Dale Brown

Brown Delivers New Page-Turner, New Character By José H. Bográn Thriller novelist Dale Brown delivers…

Up Close: Stephen Hunter

Paying Homage to British Dialect By Todd Gerber In four decades of writing, Stephen Hunter…

Up Close: Carter Wilson

Accidental Success By Jaden Terrell Some successful authors knew they wanted to be writers from…

Up Close: Jaime Lynn Hendricks

Working with Contrasts By Angela Channell Most writers have, at one time or another, been…

BookTrib Spotlight: May Cobb

Sex, Death, and Obsession in Small-Town Texas By Neil Nyren I keep seeing her…

AudioFile Spotlight: Mystery & Suspense Audiobooks That Will Make You Laugh

By Ellen Quint It may seem strange to combine humor and crime, but there are…

How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America

By Austin S. Camacho If you want to learn an art, it’s best to get…

Africa Scene: Sifiso Mzobe

Deep Into the Illegal South African Car Trade By Joanne Hichens In Sifiso Mzobe’s new…

The May Edition of The Big Thrill

What do bestselling authors David Yoon, Mary Kubica, and Chris Bohjalian have in common? They each have thrilling new releases that will keep you turning pages long into the night. This month, Geling Yan talks about the dark side of the internet, Anne Tibbets shares insight into a monster that will make you lose sleep, Bev Vincent and Brian Keene dish on working together and their shared love of Stephen King, and we head to Africa for a riveting conversation with Sifiso Mzobe. And writers! If you’re having trouble carving out time to write your new book, check out April Snellings’s interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper—he penned his latest thriller in 15-minute increments. We have the scoop on almost 50 books you’ll want to add to your TBR, stat—read about them all in the May issue of The Big Thrill, live now!

Exposed by Belle Ami

By Terry DiDomenico In Belle Ami’s EXPOSED, book four of the Tip of the Spear series, an Iranian diplomat’s house in London explodes in a fiery inferno, killing him and his family…

Girl, 11 by Amy Suiter Clarke

By Tim O’Mara In GIRL, 11, debut author Amy Suiter Clarke introduces former social worker Elle Castillo, the host of a popular true crime podcast investigating cold cases of missing or murdered…

Endings by Linda L. Richards

ENDINGS is the story of a woman steeped in tragedy who becomes a contract killer, then finds herself on a journey of vengeance and, ultimately, redemption. It is dark, twisty, and uncomfortable.…

Stolen Thoughts by Tim Tigner

There’s been a breakthrough on the campus of Caltech. A discovery. An invention. One so startling and surprisingly sinister that the inventor can’t tell a soul. Precariously poised at the center of…

The Taxman Cometh by John Wayne Falbey

A rogue IRS agent leads a raid on the wrong house and destroys Finn O’Casey’s world. A sympathetic neighbor, the leader of organized crime, is not what he seems to be. Both…

Status-6 by W. Craig Reed

Deep beneath the Arctic Ocean, a covert team of Chinese operatives uses stolen US technology to capture Russia’s newest attack submarine. Loaded with 100-megaton nuclear torpedoes, the sub is headed west. The…

The Day She Died by S.M. Freedman

By Dawn Ius As an adult, S. M. Freedman had forgotten most of the horrific nightmares she had as a child. But while writing THE DAY SHE DIED, one kept coming back…

Last Girls by Demetra Brodsky

By Dawn Ius It’s been almost a year since Demetra Brodsky’s second book hit shelves—but just like her buzz-worthy debut, 2018’s Dive Smack, LAST GIRLS continues to rack up the accolades. Brodsky’s…

K-9 Cold Case by Elizabeth Heiter

Two bombs in six days… And the culprit isn’t finished. With the help of his K-9 companion, Patches, FBI victim specialist Jax Diallo vows to help police chief Keara Hernandez solve the…

Valentino Will Die by Donis Casey

By George Ebey The Bianca Dangereuse Hollywood Mystery series continues to dish out the historical thrills in this latest installment from author Donis Casey, VALENTINO WILL DIE. Though Bianca LaBelle, star of…

Punning with Scissors by Becky Clark

By Charlie Cochrane When the latest commission for an author interview for The Big Thrill dropped into my inbox, my eyes lit up at the inclusion of “crossword” in the synopsis for…

The Unwanted Dead by Chris Lloyd

By Azam Gill THE UNWANTED DEAD, a French-Resistance historical thriller by Chris Lloyd, is “a thoughtful, haunting thriller,” in the words of Mick Herron, Crime Writers’ Association’s 2013 Gold Dagger winner. The…

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Between the Lines: Jake Tapper by April Snellings
On the Cover: David Yoon by Dawn Ius
Up Close: Kaira Rouda by E.M. Powell
Up Close: Carter Wilson by Jaden Terrell
Up Close: Mary Kubica by Dawn Ius
On the Cover: Mia P. Manansala by Karen Hugg
Anthology: How to Write a Mystery by Austin Camacho
Up Close: Geling Yan by Dawn Ius
Up Close: Bev Vincent and Brian Keene by April Snellings
Up Close: Stephen Hunter by Todd Gerber
On the Cover: Anne Tibbets by Dawn Ius
Africa Scene: Sifiso Mzobe by Joanne Hichens
Up Close: Linwood Barclay by K.L. Romo
Up Close: Mary Keliikoa by Dawn Ius
Up Close: Dale Brown by José H. Bográn
Up Close: Chris Bohjalian by K.L. Romo
Up Close: Brian Silverman by Charles Salzberg
Up Close: Carole Johnstone by Dawn Ius
BookTrib Spotlight: May Cobb by Neil Nyren
Up Close: R.G. Belsky by José H. Bográn
Up Close: Catherine McKenzie by Millie Naylor Hast
Up Close: Lara Bazelon by K.L. Romo
AudioFile Spotlight: Mystery & Suspense Audiobooks That Will Make You Laugh

NEW RELEASES

K-9 Cold Case by Elizabeth Heiter
Status-6 by W. Craig Reed
The Adventure of the Deceased Scholar by Liese Sherwood-Fabre
The Taxman Cometh by John Wayne Falbey
The Paris Betrayal by James R. Hannibal
Celestine by Kevin St. Jarre
Stolen Thoughts by Tim Tigner
Gumshoes, Fangs, Rockets, & Spies: How Literary Genres Evolve and Change Our World by Ken Pelham
A Deadly Twist by Jeffrey Siger
Zero Island by Chris Bauer
Endings by Linda L. Richards
Night Mayer: Legend of the Skinwalker by Paul W. Papa

Coming Next Month!

The latest thrillers from Hannah Mary McKinnon, Laura Lippman, Lisa Unger, Delores Redondo, Maureen Johnson, Taylor Adams, Clare Mackintosh, Kate White, Gary Grossman and Ed Fuller, Rebecca Starford, Don Bentley, Susan MacNeal, Cathy Perkins, David Housewright, Brian Pinkerton, Daryl Gregory, George Ebey, Eric Van Lustbader, P.J. Vernon, Nicci French, Dan Lawton, Jeffrey James Higgins, Carolyn Arnold, Traci Hall, M. W. Craven, Bentley Turner, A.J. McCarthy and many more!