The Big Thrill Online Magazine

Between the Lines: John Connolly

Out of the Past By Adam Meyer When he sat down to start THE DIRTY…

Up Close: Allison Brennan

An Affinity for “Bad Guys” By Jaden Terrell With 19 awards and more than 50…

On the Cover: Wendy Webb

Minnesota in Her Bones By Karen Hugg Wendy Webb has Minnesota in her bones—she was…

Up Close: Nicci French

Purpose, Persistence, and “Pro Se” By K. L. Romo They say the truth will set…

Up Close: Joe Clifford

On the Job Training By Dawn Ius Ten years ago, you’d have been hard-pressed to…

On the Cover: E. M. Powell

Danger Lurking in Medieval Canterbury By Angela Channell It seems an age since any of…

Up Close: Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison

Morrison Carries the Cussler Torch One Final Time By J. H. Bográn In the latest…

On the Cover: Anthony Horowitz

By J. H. Bográn What if you suspected a man has been convicted of a…

Africa Scene: Max Annas

A Thriller Spanning Just Eight Hours By Michael Sears Max Annas used to live in…

Winter Thrills! Have YOU Registered?

Winter (Thrills) Are Coming—Are You Registered? By Dawn Ius Let’s face it—2020 hasn’t been the…

Debut Spotlight: Smith Henderson and Jon Marc Smith

Taking on the Mexican Drug Wars By Dawn Ius To call MAKE THEM CRY, the…

BookTrib Spotlight: Halley Sutton

A Stylish Noir, and a Woman You Do Not Want to Cross By Neil Nyren…

International Thrills: James Swallow

The Pros and Cons of Writing From Abroad By Dawn Ius There’s a bit of…

Anthology Review: Nothing Good Happens After Midnight

Sinister Suspense at the Witching Hour By K. L. Romo Everyone knows the most sinister…

Up Close: Daco Auffenorde

Love, Hate, and the Devastating Power of Nature By Robert Rotstein As part of the…

AudioFile Spotlight: 5 Questions with Narrator Johnny Heller

By Candace Levy As they say on TV, the next guest needs no introduction. Give…

Up Close: Lee Child and Andrew Child

Handing Over the Torch By Rick Pullen Before the end of chapter two of THE…

The November Edition of The Big Thrill

Winter is coming—and so are the thrills. And we don’t just mean ITW’s upcoming Winter Thrills virtual event in January. This issue of The Big Thrill takes you behind the scenes to some of the genre’s hottest new releases, guaranteed to keep you entertained as you cozy up in anticipation of the cooler holiday season. Adam Meyer goes Between the Lines with the brilliant John Connolly to talk about his latest Charlie Parker novel, K.L. Romo reviews a spine-tingling new anthology edited by Jeffery Deaver, and J.H. Bográn talks to Boyd Morrison about closing the book on his Clive Cussler thrillers. Plus we get up close and personal with Lee and Andrew Child, Anthony Horowitz, Joe Clifford, Nicci French, E.M. Powell and dozens more. The November issue is live—and you can read it now!

Blood of the Sun by Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray

By Azam Gill Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray’s latest thriller, BLOOD OF THE SUN—third in the Path of Ra series—reveals tantalizing secrets and resolves enigmas evoked in the first two books. In…

Red Death by Alan Jacobson

When Det. Adam Russell of the Honolulu PD encounters the body of a woman in her sixties—the second in recent days to inexplicably die of what seems like natural causes—he reaches out…

Neptune’s Reckoning by Robert J. Stava

At the easternmost end of Long Island lies a seaside town known as Montauk. Ground Zero on the Eastern Seaboard for all manner of conspiracy theories involving its hidden Cold War military…

Don’t Look In by Tom Saric

Psychiatrist Gus Young didn’t always see patients in the back of a hardware store. Before he came to rural Maine, he was a man with a past—past successes, past scandals… and past…

Trojan Horse by S. Lee Manning

By P. J. Bodnar Russian-born American intelligence operative Kolya Petrov is being set up…by his own organization. After several agents die who were investigating the criminal mastermind Mihai Cuza—a direct descendent of…

Third Degree by Ross Klavan, Tim O’Mara, Charles Salzberg

By Austin S. Camacho Crime fiction comes in 57 flavors, from small family dramas to world-spanning conspiracies. If you enjoy that variety and like big stories you can swallow in one bite,…

Black Willows by Jill Hand

Buckle up—the squabbling Trapnell siblings are back. Last time they saved the world from destruction. This time the danger is closer to home. Their father has died, leaving them equal shares of…

Absence of Mercy by S. M. Goodwin

Lord Jasper Lightner has come back from the Crimean War with a chest full of medals and a head injury that has robbed him of much of his past. After the Home…

The Wrong Wicca by Ann Simas

Andi Comstock has grown accustomed to talking to the cremated dead, so it comes as a surprise when a woman named Cassie asks Andi to help find her murdered body. All the…

Murder in the Bayou Boneyard by Ellen Byron

By Charlie Cochrane USA Today bestselling author Ellen Byron brings us the sixth instalment of her Cajun Country mystery series with MURDER IN THE BAYOU BONEYARD. When Maggie Crozat—proprietor of a historic…

Carrie Sue’s Diary by Sandy Semerad

In 1987, Atlanta crime reporter Carrie Sue Justice is happily engaged to marry powerful publisher Marcus Handley until she discovers his late wife is not dead. Marcus, a former bomber pilot during…

By the Book by A.J. McCarthy

A clue is left at a murder scene: a page from a paperback novel. The title of the book is Murder by the Dozen, and local author T. L. McGinnis cannot provide…

Hot Off The Press!

SPECIAL FEATURES

Between the Lines: John Connolly by Adam Meyer
Winter Thrills! Have YOU Registered?
On the Cover: Anthony Horowitz by J.H. Bográn
Up Close: Nicci French by K.L. Romo
Up Close: Joe Clifford by Dawn Ius
Up Close: Daco Auffenorde by Robert Rotstein
Africa Scene: Max Annas by Michael Sears
Anthology Review: Nothing Good Happens After Midnight by K.L. Romo
BookTrib Spotlight: Halley Sutton by Neil Nyren
On the Cover: E.M. Powell by Angela Channel
Up Close: Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison by J.H. Bográn
Up Close: Allison Brennan by Jaden Terrell
Debut Spotlight: Smith Henderson and Jon Marc Smith by Dawn Ius
On the Cover: Wendy Webb by Karen Hugg
Up Close: Lee Child and Andrew Child by Rick Pullen
International Thrills: James Swallow by Dawn Ius
AudioFile Spotlight: 5 Questions with Narrator Johnny Heller

NEW RELEASES

Don’t Look In by Tom Saric
Saving Grace: A Psychological Thriller by D.M. Barr
Carrie Sue’s Dairy by Sandy Semerad
By the Book by A.J. McCarthy
Mistaken Identity by Michael W. Sherer
Where There’s A Will: A Glass Dolphin Mystery by Judy Penz Sheluk
The Escape by Lisa Harris
Death Mask by Eric J. Gates
Black Willows by Jill Hand
Mimi Lee Reads Between the Lines by Jennifer J. Chow
Absence of Mercy by S. M. Goodwin
The Wrong Wicca by Ann Simas
Red Death by Alan Jacobson
Neptune’s Reckoning by Robert J. Stava
Exploring Dark Short Fiction #5: A Primer to Han Song by Eric J. Guignard

Coming Next Month!

The latest thrillers from Andrew Shaffer, Marc Cameron, Caz Frear, Matt Coyle, Harriet Tyce, A.R. Torre, John Douglas, Sam J. Miller, Josie Brown, Colonel David Hunt & R.J. Pineiro, Sage Webb, Gareth Worthington, Tessa Wegert, Bharti Kirchner, Nick Kolakowski, Brian Thornton, Steven Jankowski, Colin Conway, and Frank Zafiro, Halley Sutton, Sidney Williams, Stephen Maitland-Lewis, David William Pearce, Jonathan Brown, Rhett C. Bruno, Cathi Stoler, Steven Paul Leiva, Laya V. Smith, Tom Crowley, and many more!