Book Reader Magazine

You are here: Home / Archives for Thriller

The Lady of the Lighthouse by Terri Greening

The Lady of the Lighthouse by Terri Greening

Looking for a great book to take to the beach this summer? Grab a copy of “The Lady of the Lighthouse” A WWII Great Lakes Thriller by Michigan writer Terri Greening.
Loralei Lancaster, a lonely lighthouse keeper on the Great Lakes struggles to save her crumbling marriage and survive in the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan during World War II. When a dashing, Italian spy posing as a down and out art dealer and handyman enters her life and seduces her, Loralei turns to him in her grief and loneliness and finds solace in his arms. When Loralei chooses to help her spy lover cover up a murder, she confronts a seemingly endless string of tragedies and fears of discovery until she must ultimately choose between her passionate love for him and her love for her husband, her family and her country.

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get This Thriller Book.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

[Read more…]

Betrayed by Joseph Lewis

Betrayed by Joseph Lewis

$0.99 07/02 through 07/05
Readers’ Favorite Honorable Mention – Mystery
#1 Best Seller (Amazon) in Traditional Detective Mysteries
Barnes and Noble Bestseller
2021 Maxy Award Runner-Up – Mystery/Suspense
2021 PenCraft Book Awards 1st Place – Thriller
Top 50 Indie Books – Readers’ Choice
As Seen in Strand Magazine

“To call Betrayed a thriller alone would be to do a disservice.” –Midwest Book Review
“A stirring and unusual tale of teenage love, adventure and murder.” –Best Thrillers
“Action and adventure are the words of the day in this thrilling, well-written, page-turner from Joseph Lewis.” –Sublime Book Review

Integrity is protecting someone who betrayed you. Courage is keeping a promise even though it might mean death.

A late-night phone call turns what was to be a fun hunting trip into a deadly showdown. Fifteen-year-old brothers George Tokay, Brian Evans and Brett McGovern face death on top of a mesa on the Navajo Nation Reservation in Arizona. They have no idea why men are intent on killing them.

Betrayed is a contemporary psychological thriller and an exploration of the heart and of a blended family of adopted kids, their relationships to each other and their parents woven into a tight mystery-thriller.

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get This Thriller Book.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

Visit the Author’s Facebook Fan Page.

[Read more…]

The Ericksen Connection by Barry L. Becker

About The Ericksen Connection by Barry L. Becker:

The Ericksen Connection is a spy thriller about betrayal, PTSD, corruption, conspiracy, terrorism, and murder. Mark Ericksen, the former Navy SEAL Team Six operator and executive vice president of EyeD4 Systems, a biometrics defense contractor based in Wilsonville, Oregon, was all about duty, honor, and country. He resigned from his commission in 2002, and over the next several years, worked for three defense contractors, maintaining his top-secret security clearance while hiding his PTSD.
In 2009, the CIA received actionable intelligence about a Saudi terrorist mastermind aided by Russian arms dealers who needed a classified biometrics encryption communications system from EyeD4 Systems, to direct his sleeper cell operatives in launching a horrific nuclear attack on American cities.
When America urgently needs his services again, the CIA tasks him with Operation Avenging Eagles to sabotage the plot. Can Ericksen avoid discovery and thwart the nuclear attack before a network of terrorists achieves their plans?

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get the Book Here.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

Visit the Twitter page.

[Read more…]

Blaze In, Blaze Out by Joseph Lewis

Blaze In, Blaze Out by Joseph Lewis

$0.99 from 6/18 through 6/21
Best Action Thriller of 2022 by BestThrillers!

Working with a joint multi-law enforcement task force, Detective Pat O’Connor infiltrated a Ukrainian crime family headed by Dmitry Andruko. O’Connor and his control, Detective Paul Eiselmann were the linchpins in the guilty verdict.

The two detectives thought it was over.

Eiselmann planned for a quiet weekend with his family at home. O’Connor planned on attending a high school soccer game and then head to Northern Wisconsin for a fishing trip with another cop, Detective Jamie Graff and four teenage, adopted brothers: George Tokay, Brian Evans, Brett McGovern, and Michael Two Feathers.

But Andruko is ruthless and vindictive. From his prison cell, he hires two contract killers to kill both O’Connor and Eiselmann and anyone else in the way. The killers can be anyone. The killers could be anywhere, and the killers could strike at any time.

The quiet weekend and the short vacation turn into a deadly nightmare as O’Connor’s and Eiselmann’s lives and the lives of the four boys are in peril.

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get This Thriller Book.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

Visit the Author’s Facebook Fan Page.

[Read more…]

Caesar vs Zombies

About Caesar vs Zombies:

Millions of zombies are invading Europe and only one man can stop them. An asteroid in Central Asia triggered the outbreak and now it’s sweeping Eurasia. Caesar must move people off the mainland, battle zombie hordes, and deal with a Senate that wants to ruin him. Meet Caesar, Cato, Cicero, Crassus, Calpurnia, Cleopatra, Caesarion, and Pompey the Great.

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get the Book Here.

[Read more…]

Spiral Into Darkness by Joseph Lewis

Spiral Into Darkness by Joseph Lewis

Readers’ Choice Top 50 Best Indie Books

“A thoroughly compulsive police procedural by one of America’s most promising new writers.” –Best Thrillers

He blends in. He is successful, intelligent and methodical. There are no clues. There are no leads. The only thing the FBI and local police have to go on is the method of death: two bullets to the face—gruesome and meant to send a message. But it’s difficult to understand any message coming from a dark and damaged mind. Two adopted boys, struggling in their own world, have no idea they are the next targets. Neither does their family. And neither does local law enforcement.

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get This Thriller Book.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

Visit the Author’s Facebook Fan Page.

[Read more…]

Death in the City of Bridges by J.C. Ceron


About Featured Book: Death in the City of Bridges by J.C. Ceron

A deadly plot. An informant gunned down. An officer’s hunt for justice placing him at the wrong end of a killer’s barrel…

NYPD Detective Miles Jordan puts work above everything, even his health. Joining an international task force entrusted with catching a renowned terrorist, the driven investigator flies to Venice to foil an assassination attempt on the visiting Israeli Prime Minister. But their plan to trap the cunning radical shatters when a key sleeper agent is shot dead in broad daylight.

Determined to track down the sniper disguised as a monk, Miles clashes with the local commander when he’s accused of aiding the shooter. But with less than a week until the suspected hitjob and tensions rising in the team, the dedicated policeman is left with no other option than to put his own life on the line.

Can one of New York’s finest outsmart the plans of a cutthroat gunman?

Death in the City of Bridges is the first book in a gripping thriller series. If you like smart protagonists, suspenseful action, and spectacular European backdrops, then you’ll love J. C. Ceron’s high-octane mission.

This Thriller book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print

This book is in Kindle Unlimited!

Buy Book Here.

Saving Mozart by Victor Boda


About Featured Book: Saving Mozart by Victor Boda

A doctor obsessed with his patient. A soldier on a dangerous mission. A girl on a quest to save the boy of her dreams. When their worlds collide, will each of them survive?

Michael Finch, an army psychiatrist, must determine whether Alex, a Delta Force commando who went missing in the caves of Tora Bora, is telling the truth. Seventy-two hours after the mission’s start, Alex was found unconscious at a gravesite nearby, the rest of his team having vanished without a trace. He was airlifted to the Bagram Air Base and subsequently transported to Fort Drum in upstate New York, where he spent twenty-nine days in a coma. On awakening, he claimed to have travelled back in time to save Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from early death. As Michael delves deeper into his patient’s twisted psyche, he inches ever closer to discovering the shocking truth.

“Each succeeding chord is a dagger stuck in the nest of happiness inside me. Each note pierces deeper, until I hit the ultimate one. My hands drop. Tears are streaming down my cheeks. My body is vibrating with unknown joy. I feel God inside me. Not the angry one, the other. The god of love.”

A fast-paced historical thriller that will keep you at the edge of your seat until the very last page!

This Thriller book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print

Yes this book is in Kindle Unlimited!

Buy Book Here.

The Ryzhkov Vendetta

About The Ryzhkov Vendetta:

The Russian billionaire Alexander Leonidovich Ryzhkov ran a covert operation with a Saudi terrorist who planned to attack two American cities with Russian nuclear suitcase bombs. Ryzhkov was formerly the head general of the Russian Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) six years earlier. A CIA operation thwarts the planned attack and kills many Russian intelligence operatives, including his brother Sergei Ryzhkov. The oligarch is out for revenge.
Ryzhkov approaches a former CIA station chief and offers him money in exchange for the CIA operatives’ names. Armed with this intelligence, he launched his vendetta, targeting the former CIA operative Mark Ericksen, now CEO of EyeD4 Systems, his fiancé Kate McDonald, a banking consultant, and Lars Wahlberg, COO of EyeD4 Systems.
Can Ericksen and his former operatives avoid the assassins’ poisoning efforts and turn around the deadly game of hunter and prey?

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get the Book Here.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

[Read more…]

Saving Mozart by Victor Boda

Saving Mozart by Victor Boda

A doctor obsessed with his patient. A soldier on a dangerous mission. A girl on a quest to save the boy of her dreams. When their worlds collide, will each of them survive?

Michael Finch, an army psychiatrist, must determine whether Alex, a Delta Force commando who went missing in the caves of Tora Bora, is telling the truth. Seventy-two hours after the mission’s start, Alex was found unconscious at a gravesite nearby, the rest of his team having vanished without a trace. He was airlifted to the Bagram Air Base and subsequently transported to Fort Drum in upstate New York, where he spent twenty-nine days in a coma. On awakening, he claimed to have travelled back in time to save Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from early death. As Michael delves deeper into his patient’s twisted psyche, he inches ever closer to discovering the shocking truth.

“Each succeeding chord is a dagger stuck in the nest of happiness inside me. Each note pierces deeper, until I hit the ultimate one. My hands drop. Tears are streaming down my cheeks. My body is vibrating with unknown joy. I feel God inside me. Not the angry one, the other. The god of love.”

A fast-paced historical thriller that will keep you at the edge of your seat until the very last page!

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get This Thriller Book.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

Visit the Author’s Facebook Fan Page.

[Read more…]

Reparation by Lee Maguire

Reparation by Lee Maguire

Renowned psychologist Dr. Bryce Davison is still reeling from his own recent trauma, plagued by doubt about his professional and personal capabilities. Despite his trepidation, he plunges in to help the cops when he finds out that a local surgeon has been murdered and castrated. But it doesn’t take long for him to make the connection between this homicide and another victim found horribly disfigured…

Now the body count has risen to three as a second consultant joins the investigation, and Bryce begins to study the victims closely in order to uncover any clues which may lead them closer to apprehending this brutal murderer. His evidence seems to indicate diabolical motives, so he must hurry against time if he is to save an already terrified population from succumbing to similar fates.

Can he decipher this perplexing psychosis before the killer administers any more fatal incisions?

Reparation is the third book of Lee Maguire’s Broken Minds psychological thriller series and will leave readers breathless with its unforgettable characters, spine-tingling plot twists and shocking revelations. If you are looking for a taut crime drama then you won’t be disappointed!

Grab your copy of Reparation now and explore a homicidal mind before it’s too late!

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get This Thriller Book.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

[Read more…]

The Ericksen Connection

About The Ericksen Connection:

The Ericksen Connection is a spy thriller about betrayal, PTSD, corruption, conspiracy, terrorism, and murder. Mark Ericksen, a former Navy SEAL Team-Six officer, resigns his commission the week after he left Afghanistan. Over the next several years, he worked for three defense contractors, maintaining his top-secret security clearance while hiding his PTSD. Ericksen has been executive vice president of EyeD4 Systems in Wilsonville, Oregon, for the past three years.
In 2009, the CIA received actionable intelligence about a Saudi terrorist aided by Russian arms dealers who desperately needs a classified biometrics encryption communications system from EyeD4 Systems, to direct his sleeper cell operatives in launching a horrific nuclear attack on cities in Nevada and Texas.
When America urgently needs his services again, the CIA tasks him with Operation Avenging Eagles to sabotage the plot. Can Ericksen avoid discovery and thwart the nuclear attack before a network of terrorists achieves their plans?

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get the Book Here.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

[Read more…]

The Rebirth: A Dark Noir Thriller by V.P. Evans


About Featured Book: The Rebirth: A Dark Noir Thriller by V.P. Evans

Regular Price: 3.99
Discount Price: 0.99
The discount price will be from May 24 to May 29, 2023.

It’s been ten years since Jason and Mark last saw each other when a murder brings them together one night. Trapped in Chicago now, they must follow a secret path in the city by analyzing the works of some of the greatest minds in history to reveal the darkest scandal of all time. But each minute, their chasers are closing in, and haunting memories are coming to the surface, reminding them of the shadiest aspects of the human soul. And . . . soon, their last hope to alter the fate of the world seems to fade away . . .

This Thriller book is available in these Formats: eBook

This book is in Kindle Unlimited!

Buy Book Here.

Caught in a Web by Joseph Lewis

Caught in a Web by Joseph Lewis

“This important, nail-biting crime thriller about MS-13 sets the bar very high. One of the year’s best thrillers.” –Best Thrillers

The bodies of high school and middle school kids are found dead from an overdose of heroin and fentanyl. The drug trade along the I-94 and I-43 corridors and the Milwaukee Metro area is controlled by MS-13, a violent gang originating from El Salvador. Ricardo Fuentes is sent from Chicago to Waukesha to find out who is cutting in on their business, shut it down and teach them a lesson. But he has an ulterior motive: find and kill a fifteen-year-old boy, George Tokay, who had killed his cousin the previous summer.

Detectives Jamie Graff, Pat O’Connor and Paul Eiselmann race to find the source of the drugs, shut down the ring, and find Fuentes before he kills anyone else, especially George or members of his family. The three detectives discover the ring has its roots in a high school among the students and staff.

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get This Thriller Book.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

Visit the Author’s Facebook Fan Page.

[Read more…]

ORION by Shane Cowden

ORION by Shane Cowden

After returning from war, Jason, also known as Orion, is tormented by severe symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. No longer able to deal with the stressors of society, he flees to a cabin in the isolated backwoods of Alaska, hoping to find peace in seclusion.

During this isolation, Jason’s symptoms worsen, and the manifestation of his darkest demons will surface to confront him about the past, striving to ultimately break what is left of his spirit and end his life. To continue living, Jason must overcome his guilt, woodland predators and terrifying creatures conjugated from his trauma and negative inner voice.

To do this, he must follow the lessons from a mystical Native American warrior named Charging Bear, who attempts to teach him the mental and spiritual tactics of fighting his inner demons.

In this modern spin on the Greek mythological tale of the same name, Orion will be confronted by the deadliest threat he has ever faced. Scorpio, his negative inner voice.

For Jason to have a future. He must confront the past… and himself.

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get This Thriller Book.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

Visit the Author’s Facebook Fan Page.

[Read more…]

Unleashed by Dirk Patton

Unleashed by Dirk Patton

John Chase is far from home when a nerve agent attack devastates America, sending most of the population into a homicidal rage. Saving Rachel and rescuing Dog, a German Shepherd, he begins an odyssey across a deadly hellscape of constant danger and despair to locate his wife. Break-neck-paced action and characters you can’t help but cheer for!

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get This Thriller Book.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

Visit the Author’s Facebook Fan Page.

Visit the Author’s Twitter page.

[Read more…]

Dead Reckoning: When Trouble Finds You Collection by Jinx James

Dead Reckoning: When Trouble Finds You Collection by Jinx James

The phone call that threatens to destroy his world. Four lives changed forever.
In this electrifying crime thriller involving a terrible moral dilemma and a shocking climax, who is really on the side of justice?
Gavin is proud to be a highly regarded law court judge, but in just one day his well-ordered life is demolished by a single phone call. A kidnapper is threatening to kill his daughter. He must act now. He must prevent a tragedy. Can he save his daughter in time?

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get This Thriller Book.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

[Read more…]

A Measure of Rhyme: Ages of Malice, Book II by Lloyd Jeffries

A Measure of Rhyme: Ages of Malice, Book II by Lloyd Jeffries

An Explosive Tale of Love and Survival

Rhyme Carter has a problem—she’s married to the Antichrist.
But her heart belongs to another man.
A man she deserted to the clutches of the Devil himself.

Emery Merrick wakes in a hospital to find the woman he loves betrayed him. Swept away on a drug-fueled tsunami of madness and mayhem, he plummets further into addiction, misery, and the machinations of immortal madmen.

But Rhyme has plans of her own. Plans to thwart her evil husband and reclaim her life.

From visionary award-winning author, Lloyd Jeffries, A Measure of Rhyme continues the epic saga of a secret society’s quest to dominate the world, fulfill prophecy, and offer the Earth as a sacrifice to a bloodthirsty God. The sequel to A Portion of Malice, it’s the second installment in the spellbinding Ages of Malice series.

As Mankind races toward the apocalypse, can a former librarian overcome staggering odds to
save the planet—and the man she loves—from certain destruction?

Don’t miss this sizzling thriller!
Buy your copy today.

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get This Thriller Book.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

Visit the Author’s Facebook Fan Page.

Visit the Author’s Twitter page.

[Read more…]

Fan Mail by Joseph Lewis

Fan Mail by Joseph Lewis

A barrage of threatening letters, a car bomb, and a heart attack rip apart what was once a close-knit family of adopted brothers.

Randy and Bobby, along with fellow band member and best friend, Danny, receive fan mail that turns menacing. They ignore it, but to their detriment. The sender turns up the heat. Violence upends their world. It rocks the relationship between the boys and ripples through their family, nearly killing their dad.

As these boys turn on each other, adopted brother Brian flashes back to that event in Arizona where he nearly lost his life saving his brothers. The scars on his face and arms healed, but not his heart. Would he once again have to put himself in harm’s way to save them? And, if faced with that choice, will he?

Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:

Get This Thriller Book.

Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.

Visit the Author’s Facebook Fan Page.

[Read more…]