Icons: Mary Higgins Clark (1927-2020) By April Snellings Few authors have impacted the publishing industry, let alone th…
On the Cover: Meg Gardiner by April Snellings
Exploring Dark Corners By April Snellings One of the great joys of working for The Big Thrill is having a ringside seat …
Up Close: Harlan Coben
Writing Like There’s a Knife Against Your Throat By April Snellings Harlan Coben has some disappointing news for writers…
On the Cover: Joe Ide
Brilliant Detective Tackles Multiple Personality Disorder in New IQ Book By April Snellings When Joe Ide finally got aro…
Up Close: C. J. Tudor
Stradling the Line Between Mystery and Horror By April Snellings In the realm of thrillers that raise gooseflesh while t…
Between the Lines: Jeff Lindsay
Dexter Creator Dreams up a New Antihero By April Snellings When faced with the dreaded question to which every novelist …
Between the Lines: Alan Furst
Accidental Spies (and Spy Novelists) By April Snellings If you want proof of the thriller genre’s remarkable elasticity,…
ICONS: Weighing in on the King’s Influence
The Impressive Influence of a King By April Snellings Welcome to The Big Thrill’s newest column, Icons, where we’ll invi…
On the Cover: Clay McLeod Chapman
Summoning Ghosts By April Snellings When Clay McLeod Chapman and Quirk Books Editorial Director Jhanteigh Kupihea were b…
Up Close: Tess Gerritsen
The Grim Specter of Guilt By April Snellings Since her first hardcover novel—1996’s Harvest—put her on the New York Time…
The Brink by James S. Murray and Darren Wearmouth
By April Snellings When James S. Murray first tried to sell his debut novel, his experience was one that’s painful…
Between the Lines: Karin Slaughter
Tackling a Story That’s a Little Too Timely By April Snellings [Note: The following piece contains spoilers for the Gran…
Tales From the Script: Rob Hart Hits Jackpot with Dystopian Thriller
Hart Hits Jackpot with Dystopian Thriller By April Snellings Dystopian fiction often asks us to accept a dramatic turn o…
On the Cover: Alex Segura
Becoming Pete Fernandez By April Snellings [Note: The following piece contains spoilers for the first Pete Fernandez mys…
Between the Lines: Riley Sager
The Fine Line Between Psychological Thriller and Horror By April Snellings In Riley Sager’s LOCK EVERY DOOR, a young wom…
Up Close: Denise Mina
Obliterating the Line Between Literary and Crime Fiction By April Snellings For longtime readers of Glasgow-based crime …
Between the Lines: Liv Constantine
An Overnight Success, 13 Years in the Making By April Snellings Considering that few readers had heard of Liv Constantin…
In Conversation With: Tom Ryan and April Snellings
By April Snellings When I rang up Tom Ryan at his Toronto home on a Wednesday afternoon in mid-April, he was having an e…
On the Cover: Wendy Walker
No More Female Victims By April Snellings “No damsels in distress, and no unreliable narrators.” Such were the rules tha…
Tales from the Script: Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden on Adapting His Ben Walker Series By April Snellings In the 25 years since the release of his first n…
End of the Lie by Diana Rodriguez Wallach
By April Snellings Writing a trilogy is a massive undertaking for any author, but few can claim the era-spanning commitm…
On the Cover: Christopher Rice
Rice Delivers Riveting Sequel in Burning Girl Series By April Snellings Even in a genre where powerful, proactive heroin…
Tales From the Script: Anatomy of an Option by April Snellings
Riley Sager on the Anatomy of an Option Deal By April Snellings When Riley Sager put the finishing touches on his 2017 t…
Up Close: Bryan Gruley by April Snellings
How the Lure of a Publisher Ignited a new Direction By April Snellings With his 2008 debut novel Starvation Lake, Bryan …