Colson Whitehead - Zone One, An Apocalyptic Zombie Thriller Novel

Colson Whitehead is an American fantasy thriller author. His thriller novel, Zone One is an awesome zombie tale.



Somewhere in the future, an eerie epidemic swept over the planet, leaving several people infected (and infectous). The few ones who remained healthy want to save the remnants of humankind. Their plan is getting back Manhattan - at least a part of it. However, zombies are in their way...

David Dalglish: A Dance of Death, A Shadowdance Trilogy Fantasy Novel

David Dalglish is an American fantasy author. His novel A Dance of Death is the third instalment of the Shadowdance Trilogy.



Haern is a Watcher: his task is fight wrong-doers. Somewhere in the country, however, a serial killer strikes again and again: his victims are noblemen (once friends of Haern), and Haern's symbol is there near their corpses. Haern travels to the scene - and is not happy with the city where the killer runs havoc...

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World, A Grim Fiction of Future of Humankind

Aldous Huxley is one of the most intriguing English authors. He - having an interest in mysticism and in certain drugs - has written exquisite, gloomy fictions.



Brave New World is perhaps Huxley's most known novel, already a classic story. It is often compared to George Orwell's 1984, which is another anti utopia about a mind controlled, brainwashed society.
Huxley has written the original novel, Brave New World, in 1931 (its setting is a distant future which is dark and bleak). Also interesting that in 1958 he has written a non-fiction book, Brave New World Revisited, about the novel - and revealed that the world has moved toward his grim imagination faster than he ever expected. (Certainly he was right in many senses.)

Karen Traviss, Halo: Glasslands, A Great Science Fiction Novel

Karen Traviss is a great science fiction author. Her novel Halo: Glasslands is a riveting apocaliptyc war story.



Halo: Glasslands has the most intriguing, action-filled plot and graphic background.
After a long and desperate war, with countless people dead on Earth and on colonies, fight seems to stop – however, there are many threats that endanger the supposed peace. Amongst others, the Kilo-Five, a special team of Naval Intelligence Service; and Dr Catherine Halsey, creator of the Spartans, thought to be dead – she is hidden in a destroyed planet in a spaceslip bubble…

Melissa Foster - Chasing Amanda, An Awesome Crime Thriller Novel

Melissa Foster, founder of Women's Nest (a community that supports women), is an awesome thriller author as well, an award-winning, best-selling writer at that. Her books like Chasing Amanda or Come Back To Me are both best-selling crime novels.



Molly Tanner has a strange ability: she is a clairvoyant. However, her unwanted skill is not a blessing or a gift. Nine years earlier, in Philadelphia, she witnessed the kidnapping of a small girl - and, in disbelief, did not do a thing. Two days later the girl was found dead. The event has taken its toll on Molly's mood and family life, despite of the fact that she moved away from the city where the tragedy happened.
Now, at last, she lives in a small and tranquil town, her child goes to college, she and her husband get along again - when another little girl vanishes. This time Molly will not hesitate to help...

Ted Dekker - BoneMan's Daughters, An Awesome Gloomy Crime Thriller

After dark crime fictions like Skin and Obsessed, Ted Dekker come up with another awesome, chilling thriller, BoneMan’s Daughters. Despite of the lack of the detailed description of gruesome parts (I love gore), the story is riveting. Ted Dekker reminds me of Mo Hayder, a writer of shocking, grim crime thrillers.



Military officer Ryan Evans has just returned from Iraq where he was held captive, he is troubled and haunted. Worst of all, somebody kidnapped his estranged teenage daughter Bethany. The supposed abductor is BoneMan, a known serial killer who has already struck two years ago: he killed young girls by breaking their bones. Investigators suspect that perhaps the disturbed father and BoneMan are the same person…

Stephen Coonts - The Minotaur, An Awesome Jake Grafton Novel

Stephen Coonts is an awesome American thriller author, mostly known for his Jake Grafton novels. The Minotaur is one of them; it is a Cold War story of a traitorous spy, and his opponent, a great tough main character (Jake Grafton himself).



Sometime during the Cold War Captain Jake Grafton is a naval pilot. He just got a great new job as a high ranked officer of the Pentagon, he leads a group that works on a secret bomber program. However, something seems to go wrong: some of Captain Grafton’s colleagues die. Someone is working in the background, a traitor whose code name is the Minotaur…

Kathy Bennett - A Dozen Deadly Roses, An Awesome Thriller Novel

Kathy Bennett is a new mystery crime fiction author; her debut novel, A Dozen Deadly Roses, is an awesome crime thriller book – a truly good one for a first novel, witty, riveting, and the characters are just fine.



The protagonist of A Dozen Deadly Roses, Jade Donovan, a cop from Los Angeles, receives dead roses, one after another. Somebody is stalking her, and he seems dangerous. Mac Stryker, the fellow cop who is supposed to defend her is just a pain in the neck: he is an alcoholic since the violent deaths of his wife and daughter. On the other hand, Jade and Stryker have a history together: Jade once saved Mac’s life, and the two were lovers. They also have a small child – Mac does not have a clue that he is the father. He only knows that the stalker will attack soon, and he wants to save both Jade and her son…

Infinity Blade Awakening by Brandon Sanderson, A Classic Fantasy Novel

Brandon Sanderson, an American fantasy author has written a novel based on a known video game, the result is a classic fantasy book, Infinity Blade: Awakening.



The setting is a fictitious world, the protagonist is Siris, a knight. From a very early age, Siris was trained to become a warrior, to go to the Dark Citadel and defeat God King; this was what all his ancestors tried - and failed. However, Siris succeeds, and this is where his life gets even more complicated...
Infinity Blade: Awakening is recommended to those who love epic fantasy like The Lord of the Rings.

The Phoenix Apostles by Lynn Sholes and Joe Moore, A Seneca Hunt Novel

The Phoenix Apostles, written by American suspense thriller authors Lynn Sholes and Joe Moore, follows the tradition of supernatural thrillers based on ancient cults – how I love those! The Phoenix Apostles – a Seneca Hunt novel – is a well-written, riveting story at that, with an admirable main character.



The protagonist of The Phoenix Apostles is Seneca Hunt, a young journalist who reports on the opening of the tomb of Montezuma in Mexico City; her fiancé Daniel Bernal leads the excavations. They found the tomb robbed, the remains of Montezuma vanished. Then a terrorist strikes, murdering everybody present; Seneca hardly escapes with her life. She, grieving for Daniel, intends to find the culprit. This is where the story starts being truly awesome: the terrorist, a follower of a grim, ancient cult, steals the dead bodies of the most infamous mass murderers and aims murdering millions of people…

Duane Swierczynski - Fun and Games, A Charlie Hardy Mystery Novel

Duane Swierczynski was once a Marvel comic book writer, now he is a crime and suspense fiction author. His new hard boiled crime fiction trilogy (featuring Charlie Hardie) is full of action, tension, and wits, from the very first instalment, Fun and Games.



The protagonist of Fun and Games (Charlie Hardie, of course) was once a cop in Philadelphia, and was almost killed when on duty. Now he is a house sitter – however, he comes across a young actress who asks for his help: she believes that a group of persons are after her. According to her, they are a mafia, they kill people and make it seem an accident. Charlie Hardie soon notices that the actress is right: there is a secret group, connected to film industry, the Accident People…

G. M. Malliet - Death and the Lit Chick, a St. Just Novel and Awesome Crime Fiction

G. M. Malliet has already proven that she is a great suspense writer. Her 2009 crime thriller novel Death and the Lit Chick - full of cynical humour and suspense - was an Anthony Award nominee.



Death and the Lit Chick is set in an Edinburgh castle (an amazing choice). A crime authors’ meeting is held there (again, an awesome idea). Kimberlee Kalder, a promising but bad-tempered new crime author, just won an award for her first novel Dying for a Latte; next thing, she is found murdered in the cellar of the castle. Arthur St. Just investigates her death; it is not an easy task since there are quite a few suspects…

Jim Bernheimer - Dead Eyes, The Skinwalker Conspiracies Fantasy Novel

Jim Bernheimer is an American dark fantasy suspense writer. His latest supernatural fantasy novels are The Skinwalker series. The newest instalment is Dead Eyes.



Dead Eyes is an original, well-written dark fantasy fiction. Its protagonist is Mike Ross, someone who not just sees ghosts but can help them get where they belong. However, some of them intend to stay in the physical world - naturally, not the well-meaning ones. Mike also recognises an apparition: The one who has stolen his father several years ago. He plans a revenge…

Richard Kadrey - Aloha From Hell, Newest Sandman Slim Series Novel

Richard Kadrey is an awesome horror dark fantasy writer; his most noted works are the instalments of Sandman Slim series. They are gloomy urban fantasy books, with lots of grotesque humour and violence (I love both).



Aloha from Hell is the newest Sandman Slim novel. It starts where Kill the Dead ended. Lucifer is back in Heaven, God is on vacation, and the inhabitants of Hell are planning a rebellion. Stark – Sandman Slim -, aftrer spending several years in Hell as a bodyguard of Lucifer, then getting revenge on the magician who sent him there, this time finds a boy who is possessed by a demon. He tries to help him, however, soon it turns out that the possessing demon does know him – perhaps even waits for him. Stark ends up back in Hell again…

David Baldacci - Zero Day, An Awesome Thriller Novel

David Baldacci, a best-selling American thriller author, has written another great crime suspense novel, Zero Day.



The setting of Zero Day is a town in West Virginia. John Puller, a veteran and military investigator and a local lady detective have a grim case: Someone has slain a whole family. It seems that not a solitary murderer committed the crime: It is a well organised plot, with complicated interests and powerful persons in the background...

Ernest Cline - Ready Player One, An Awesome Science Fiction Novel

Ernest Cline is an American science fiction author. His new novel is Ready Player One.



In Ready Player One, humankind has a hollow future. The world has become a barren place. However, people still have a safe haven: OASIS, a virtual reality where everything is glitzy and they do not have to feel lonely anymore. Wade Watts is a penniless man, he joins the game, and he searches for the three keys that James Halliway, the founder of OASIS has left behind. If he does find them, he would have all Halliway’s money, which is a fortune…

Richard Mabry - Diagnosis Death, Prescription for Trouble 3 Part, A Great Medical Thriller

Richard Mabry, the author of awesome medical crime thrillers, has come up with another riveting novel, Diagnosis Death. It is the third and last instalment of Prescription for Trouble series.



Dr Elena Gardner has just lost her beloved husband; he was taken of off life support. Her co-workers find the case suspicious; rumours has it that, as he was incurable anyway, she had a hand in his death. Soon another case occurs: someone pulls the plug, the patient dies. Elena receives threatening phone calls in the middle of the night. She at last leaves the hospital and moves into another city - where a third patient dies under similar circumstances. It seems somebody is after Elena...
The book is fast-paced, well-composed, the characters believable and colourful - I especially loved Elena Gardner herself. Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys a suspense thriller novel.

Mina Jade - Lonely Stalker, A Psychological Horror Dark Fantasy Novel

Mina Jade is an awesome European horror dark fantasy author. Her first writing, Lonely Stalker, is a collection of horror short stories - the disturbing short fictions (Cyber Stalkers Out Of Nowhere, Horror In The Bathroom, Bizarre Confessions) are sequels of her forthcoming novel, Story of Mina Jade.



Lonely Stalker is narrated in the first person. The protagonist is Mina, a young girl in her mid-twenties who lives in an Eastern European city. She has always been odd, but lately she notices truly strange things concerning her. People are unwilling to touch her. She sees insects that disappear in thin air. She sees odd apparitions that vanish when she looks directly at them. She believes she notices someone watching her through the window in the night. She finds odd little creatures in her bathroom that look like worms or leeches. Sometimes she falls in a trance and later she cannot remember what she did in the meanwhile. Perhaps it has to do something with the place she lives, according to certain legends, that place had seen dark rituals...

Rick Partlow - Duty, Honor, Planet, A Great Science Fiction Space Opera

Rick Partlow is a great new science fiction author. His space opera sci-fi book from 2011, Duty, Honor, Planet is packed with brilliant technical details, tension, and fast-paced action.
Characters are finely depicted as well; I especially love McKay, space marine officer and resident macho.



A Senator’s daughter goes to a humanitarian mission to faraway colonies in the outer space. Republican Intelligence officer Jason McKay is her bodyguard during the journey. When aliens attack a colony, McKay and his team get trapped. Spectacular action and fights are on their way…

John Everson - Sacrifice, An Awesome Gory Scary Horror Novel

Award winning American horror author John Everson is a great contemporary writer of the genre. I fell in love with his composition and writing manners from the very first pages of his novel, Sacrifice; it is admirably atmospheric.



Sacrifice has also a great female protagonist, Ariana. She has everything a charismatic horror heroine needs: she is cunning, ambitious, hot – and she is going to summon demons, a particularly cruel kind, the Curburide. The way of summoning them is simple and horrific: it requires heaps of bloody human sacrifice. If they return to this world, unthinkable horrors will occur.

Jennifer Estep - Spider's Revenge, An Elemental Assassin Series Novel

Jennifer Estep is an American fantasy author. Her urban fantasy series Elemental Assassin is awesome, and has splendid characters; I love most of them, good and bad ones alike. The newest instalment of Elemental Assassin is Spider’s Revenge.



Spider, also known as Gin Blanco, an assassin with special skills in Ice and Storm magic, is after Mab Monroe, a Fire elemental, who has murdered her family when she was a teen. Spider has a younger sister left, and saving her is her main purpose. She also aims getting her revenge on Mab, her old nemesis…

Wayne Wightman - Selection Event, An Awesome Fantasy Science Fiction Novel

Wayne Wightman is an awesome American science fiction – fantasy writer. Selection Event, his latest apocalyptic fantasy novel is about a world where humankind does not exist any longer.



Selection Event is nicely protted, its prose is fine, and I love the characters (especially the dog). The story is intriguing.
Humankind is wiped off of the face of the Earth. There are a few survivors, though – good ones and bad ones. Naturally the rest of mankind is in war – nuclear weapons involved.
I do not care two hoots whether Wayne Wightman will be criticised for his political views; Ik like them, and I love the book. Christian people are not necessarily good people, that is the truth.

David Baldacci - The Sixth Man, A Great Crime Thriller Novel

David Baldacci, known for the Camel Club series, once an attorney, is a best-selling American thriller author. His latest psychological thriller crime novel, The Sixth Man, was published in September, 2011.



Edgar Roy, a supposed serial killer, waits for his trial in a prison. Most likely he will be convicted – his only hope is his attorney, Ted Bergin, who happens to be an old friend of Sean King. Both King and Michelle Maxwell are called in. However, by the time they find Bergin, he is murdered.
Plot and characterisation of The Sixth Man is all fine, the characters of the two ex Secret Service agents are credible, and Ted Bergin is just great (a shame that he was killed off). I also love the way tension grows as more and more secret is revealed from Roy’s past.
Thriller novel fans will be pleased to read this book.

Henning Mankell - One Step Behind, A Kurt Wallander Series Novel, A Nordic Crime Novel

Henning Mankell is a great Swedish crime author, one of the best writers of the new, up-and-coming Nordic crime authors. Instalments of his Kurt Wallander series are best-selling books in several countries, even in the United States. There exist more film adaptation of the Wallander series, amongst them, a BAFTA Award winning television adaptation; Wallander is played by Kenneth Branagh.



In a warm summer night – Midsummer Night, to be exact – three students are shot dead at a party held in a nature reserve in the southern part of Sweden. Wallander, a middle-aged investigator with a troubled private life, works on the case, actually overworking himself. When Svedberg, one of his colleagues is found killed, Wallander finds connection between the cases. However, more murders follow: a good friend of the three killed students (who was sick and was not present at the party) is also killed; the perpetrator seems to play games with the investigator…

Daniel Silva - Portrait of a Spy, A Great Crime Novel, A Gabriel Allon Book

Daniel Silva, once a journalist and a producer at CNN, today a best-selling American crime author, has written another great thriller novel, Portrait of a Spy.



Portrait of a Spy starts in London. Gabriel Allon and his young wife Chiara are on a trip, visiting a gallery in St. James. However, news about bombings in Paris and Copenhagen darken Gabriel’s mood. Near Covent Garden he happens to notice a suspicious man who is going to carry a bomb attack, he tries to stop him – and fails. He withdraws into his remote cottage in Cornwall, but soon he is called to Washington. An American born terrorist, a former CIA asset, plans new attacks. Gabriel and his team tries to infiltrate the dangerous organisation…