FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Top-notch effort in the first of a promising trilogy."
Ahmad debuts with a fast-paced literary thriller, shifting action from the desolate ice-clad Siachen glacier separating India and Pakistan to the posh environs of Martha's Vineyard.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"In Stevens' powerfully contained follow-up to The Innocent (2011), there is no release for the tormented heroine, only license to live another day."
In Stevens' third lean and mean thriller featuring Vanessa Michael Munroe, an "informationist" with a scary dark streak who specializes in recovering kidnapping victims, she is forced by an Eastern European sex trafficker to deliver an American teen to a European buyer.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Kernick is a first-rate storyteller. Readers will have no trouble hating this book's bad guys, who lack even a glimmer of humanity."
The latest from the best-selling British author (
The Business of Dying, 2003, etc.); this thriller was partially inspired by a 2008 terror attack in Mumbai.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Meticulous plotting, literate prose and mordant wit make this a thriller for connoisseurs of the genre. "
Nuanced, devilishly intricate thriller sends an enigmatic hero to China and far-flung ports to scope out agents, double agents and enticing women.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"If you read only one supernatural thriller with Albigensian overtones this year, this ought to be it."
FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A fine read for lovers of escapist fiction."
FICTION
Released: June 12, 2013
"For those who discovered the Belgian city depicted here in the 2008 film In Bruges, this book will be a welcome return--with plenty more to come via translations of more Van In books, one hopes."
Belgian crime-fiction veteran Aspe's English-language debut thriller, originally published in Europe in 1995, introduces readers to chain-smoking, perpetually out-of-sorts DI Pieter Van In.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Pearson plots resourcefully, and the complications are intelligently varied. The action is so nonstop, however, that long before the end, many readers will feel as exhausted, if nowhere near as battered, as Grace and Knox."
Now that they've established their credentials in Shanghai (
The Risk Agent, 2012, etc.), John Knox and Grace Chu, of Rutherford Risk, go up against a coldblooded sweatshop owner in Amsterdam.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"An up-all-night thriller for freaks and geeks who want to see their wizards all grown up in the real world and armed to the teeth in a bloody story."
Modern-day sorcerers fight a war of words in this intensely analytical yet bombastic thriller.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Contemporary crime noir at its best, mined from the dark pit of the human psyche."
Thriller author Cleave (
The Laughter House, 2012, etc.) opens the door on the haunted history of his disgraced detective Theo Tate.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"This first installment in a planned trilogy is great in the setup and not so great in the home stretch, which may not bode well for Books 2 and 3."
In Irish-born Patrick's tantalizing debut sci-fi thriller, criminal investigations feature a new breed of specialists with the ability to briefly resuscitate murder and accident victims and ask them whodunit (or what-dunit).
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FICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"In Freemantle's latest sophisticated spy thriller, the Muffin man remains a compelling figure, even in convalescent mode."
In the finale of Freemantle's Red Star trilogy, British agent Charlie Muffin must outwit both his Russian captors and MI6 schemers who want him dead.
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