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5 Great New Mysteries and Thrillers
By Richard Lipez — The Washington Post
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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
By Dan Sheehan — Literary Hub
Our vault of virtuoso reviews this week includes James Wolcott on Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner’s Heat 2, Leah Greenblatt on Tess Gunty’s The Rabbit Hutch, Rebecca Onion on Rick Emerson’s Unmask Alice, Rob Doyle on Emmanuel Carrère’s Yoga, and Namwali Serpell on Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man.
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12 Classic Books That Got Horrible Reviews
By Maddie Crum — HUFFPOST
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18 Book Review Pet Peeves
Common things readers are sick of seeing
By Kelly Martinez — BuzzFeed
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Stacy Abrams Wrote A Thriller in Her Spare Time
By Karen Heller — The Washington Post
Stacy Abrams’s first political thriller, is set in Washington, D.C., a city where, according to her ever-evolving spreadsheet of life goals, she aspires to reside someday as president of the United States. “While Justice Sleeps,” to be published Tuesday, is Abrams’s second book to come out in less than a year.
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Adam’s Witness — Book Review
By Cheryl Burman
My monthly newsletter book reviews can be found on my Reviews of what I’m Reading page.
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The Beachbum Bookworm
The Cozy Mystery Wrap Up
Book Reviews on YouTube
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Best Books of 2020
By emmie
Welcome to a somewhat emotional ride through so many of my most beloved books, enjoy!!
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The Best Reviewed Crime Books of June 2022
By CrimeReads
Featuring new novels from Kristin Chen, Katie Gutierrez, Riley Sager, and more.
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BITTER ALMONDS & JASMINE
a daniel beckett thriller
By Dominic Piper
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2022
- First Good News: I get to start reading the four – book series all over again.
- Second Good News: I get to, once again, look forward to reading Book Five! HINT THERE, DOMINIC!
Cheers and Happy Reading!
Lawrence Block and P.G. Wodehouse
How two prolific writers found their voices
By Michael Dirda — The Washington Post
Sometimes a reviewer just can’t wait to write about a book. Even though Lawrence Block’s memoir, “A Writer Prepares,” isn’t available till June, I was recently sent an advance proof. Quite innocently, I started reading it — and couldn’t tear myself away. So consider what follows more a preview than a review of the pleasures awaiting in its pages.
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BookPage Magazine
Discover your next great book!
BookPage is a recommendation guide for readers, highlighting the best new books across all genres as chosen by our editors. BookPage is editorially independent; any publisher-sponsored content is clearly labeled as such.
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Book Reviews by Heller McAlpin
Book Critic
Heller McAlpin is a New York-based critic who reviews books regularly for NPR.org, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Chronicle and other publications.
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Book Reviewers Wanted
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To join us, just fill out the form with your name, email address, and preferred genre/s!
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Bookshelf Tour
By jessethereader
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The Crew Reviews
Go behind the scenes with the world’s best storytellers
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David Ellis
LOOK CLOSER — Twists and Turns
Edgar winner David Ellis has long been a go-to author for involving legal thrillers that land on best-sellers lists. But novels written solely by Ellis have been missing since 2013 (“The Last Alibi”) with good reason. He has had a string of best sellers as one of James Patterson’s co-authors. And Ellis became the youngest-serving Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District in 2014.
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David Ellis
LOOK CLOSER — The Perfect Mix
I have long enjoyed the work of David Ellis, both as a collaborator and individual author. His work evokes a sense of thinking and complete ‘buy in’ that I have found in few authors whose stories I read of late. Ellis combines a powerful writing style with great plot development to create the perfect mix for the reader who loves crime thrillers.
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EmmabBooks
BOOK REVIEWS BY EMMA B BOOKS
By Emma B. Books
Check ’em out. There must be thousands!
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FEMME FATALE
a daniel beckett thriller
By Dominic Piper
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2022
This reading was even better than my first reading. Some great and weird and funny characters in this one — just like in all of Dominic’s other ones. I’m still hoping for Book Number Five. Maybe a film series. Wouldn’t that be fun binge-watching about 30 or 40 episodes?
Cheers and Happy Reading!
At First Light
Reviewed By Sandra Dallas — The Denver Post
Tough Chicago detective Adrianne “Addie” Bisset is called in when police discover a body on the grimy banks of the Calumet River. This isn’t your garden-variety killing. The victim is laid out in a ritualistic style. His legs are impaled with wooden stakes, and carved bones radiate from his head. Even more ominous, he was bashed in the head, his throat cut, and there is a noose around his neck. Any of the three could have caused his death.
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Get Reader Reviews Now to Drive Sales Later
By Mike O’Mary
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Getting Book Reviews
By Joanna Penn — The Creative Penn
Book reviews are important for social proof as well as getting marketing opportunities like BookBub placement, for mining quotes for ad copy, and understanding how your author brand is perceived. But how do you get reviews, especially if you’re just starting out?
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How to Get Those First Reviews
By Farrow Communications
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Killers of a Certain Age
Review by Maureen Corrigan — The WashingtonPost
The women in ‘Killers of a Certain Age’ are no coastal grandmothers.
In Deanna Raybourn’s thriller ‘Killers of a Certain Age,’ four assassins on the brink of retirement get a chance to show their stuff one more time
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Martin Edwards’s The LIfe of Crime
book review
By Michael Dirda — The Washington Post
Start reading this history of the detective story — from Poe to P.D. James — and you’ll soon find it hard to follow my heartfelt advice: Slow down and space out the book’s 724 pages so that you can enjoy it for more than a few days.
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Lisa’s Book Critiques
Sharing Books and Authors, with an Emphasis on Mysteries
Reviews by Lisa Holstine
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The Lincoln Highway Joyride
With four kids in an old Studebaker, Amor Towles takes readers on a real joyride
Reviews by Heller McAlpin — NPR
Four boys — three 18-year-olds who met in a juvenile reformatory, plus a brainy 8-year-old — set out from Nebraska in June, 1954, in an old Studebaker in pursuit of a better future.
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Los Angeles Review of Books — LARB
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The Naked Sun — Book Review
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The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov reviewed by Megan Darragh.
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NetGalley
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Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache Books
These dark detective novels are really about ethics and hope
By Aja Romano — VOX
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The Prairies Book Review
First-rate editorial book reviews for indie authors and small publishers
The Prairies Book Review — Submit your book at our website to get a review.
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The Real Book Spy
Book Reviews
Ryan Steck can be reached via email at Ryan@TheRealBookSpy.com
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
How the neoliberal order triumphed — and why it’s now crumbling
Reviewed by Mario Del — The Washington Post
A “political order,” U.S. historian Gary Gerstle writes, “is meant to connote a constellation of ideologies, policies and constituencies that shape American politics in ways that endure beyond the two-, four-, and six-year election cycles.” The New Deal met that definition from the 1930s to the 1970s, and neoliberalism, he asserts, did so from the 1970s to the 2010s, when it began to splinter after the war in Iraq and the economic crash of 2008.
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They Only Wear Black Hats
By Edward Izzi
Reviewed by THE PRAIRIESBOOKREVIEW
A taut, fast-paced thriller with wrenching twists and turns . . .
Edward Izzi’s latest thriller features the sharp, gutsy Detective Mike Palazzola of Detroit’s Third Precinct embroiled in a serial killing investigation.
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Union Square Review
Not all book reviews are created equal
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What to Read This Spring
Reviews by Harlan Coben — TODAY
Harlan Coben joins TODAY to recommend books to read this spring and to talk about his new book, “Win.” He discusses “Heaven’s A Lie,” by Wallace Stroby, “The Beauty of Living Twice,” by Sharon Stone, and more.
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The Woman in the Library
Reviewed by Doreen Sheridan — Criminal Element
Sulari Gentill’s The Woman in the Library is an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most treacherous weapons of all.
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