Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Stephen G. Eoannou’s The Falling Woman is a stylish, sharply voiced historical noir mystery about guilt, addiction, greed, family ghosts, and the stories people tell when the truth becomes inconvenient. Set in Buffalo in 1942, the novel follows private investigator Nicholas Bishop, a recovering alcoholic attempting to rebuild both his career and…

Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5) Jessica Housand’s Blood Gilt is a sprawling, psychologically intense crime epic about family, inherited violence, political power, displacement, identity, and the terrible price of trying to escape the people who made you. Set primarily in the early 2000s, the novel follows Alejandro Santiago, a Salvadoran-American college student whose outwardly privileged life in…

Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5) Douglas Morris’s The New Dark Ages is a gripping, intelligent post-apocalyptic thriller about community, leadership, adaptation, sacrifice, and the question of what civilization actually means once the modern world disappears. The novel follows the McTavish family—James, Claire, Katherine, and Patrick—American expats living in the ancient Italian hill town of Urbino. During the…

We are very excited to sit down and talk with Saint Yvon, author of Blue Moon. We had the chance to review this exceptional thriller, and we had the opportunity to talk to Saint about his work and writing! Thriller Magazine: The original spark for Blue Moons came from a news story about fifteen kilograms…

Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5) Blue Moons by Saint Yvon is an ambitious, emotionally charged crime thriller that takes a seemingly ordinary man and steadily pushes him across lines he once believed he would never cross. At its center is Jason Bell, a talented but overlooked IT professional, a devoted father, and a man already carrying the…

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Chris Young’s The Debt is a dark, sprawling crime drama about guilt, punishment, friendship, institutional power, loyalty, and the dangerous difference between surviving trauma and actually recovering from it. The novel follows Michael Kramer, an eighteen-year-old whose life appears to be opening in front of him. He has just graduated high school,…

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Josh Jensen’s Deadfall is a lean, hard-edged neo-Western thriller about loyalty, wounded masculinity, moral debt, reinvention, and the dangerous relief of discovering that the part of yourself you thought was gone is still alive. Set in 1994, the novella follows Jack Hillman, a former Green Beret whose military career, marriage, and sense…

We are thrilled to sit down with Hilary Amanda, author of psychological thrillers that explore the darkness hiding beneath ordinary lives. Her stories delve into fear, trauma, buried secrets, moral ambiguity, and the unsettling question of what ordinary people are capable of when pushed beyond their limits. We had the opportunity to talk with Hilary…

We are thrilled to sit down with Natalie Morrow, author of gripping psychological thrillers that explore secrets, manipulation, obsession, and the darker side of human relationships. We had the opportunity to talk with Natalie about her books, her approach to crafting suspense, and the writing process behind her twist-filled stories. Thriller Magazine:  Your thrillers often…

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Jeffrey J. Mariotte’s Flesh of All Sorrows is a dark, psychologically charged crime thriller about inherited violence, family mythology, police loyalty, obsession, and the danger of building your identity around someone you never truly understood. The novel follows Daniel Mansfield, newly appointed police chief of Sossaman, Arizona, a position once held by…