Dick Wolf, a producer whose credits include the "Law & Order" TV franchise, is also a terrific novelist. His latest book, "The Ultimatum," is the third thriller to feature New York police...

After surviving the Holocaust and a year in a notorious Nazi concentration camp, Tibor Rubin fought as a U.S. Army infantryman in Korea, displaying the kind of raw courage associated with Hollywood...

The challenge of belonging to a high-profile and dysfunctional family, yet establishing your own identity, continues to be the theme of Ingrid Thoft's exciting series about Boston private investigator...

The desire for a child - an occasion that should be joyful - turns into a deadly obsession in the highly stylized "A Necessary End." In the "Gone Girl" mode, author Holly Brown fashions her second...

Jake Cassar's adventures created a new phenomenon in Maltese children's literature: the excitement of awaiting the next instalment, the serialisation of a story. An entire generation of children has...

Ambrogio and Selene appear to be a stable, well-adjusted couple. Out of the goodness of their heart they adopt a boy.  Eliodoro - a transsexual. Beneath the well-to-do, comfortable veneer of...

The power of books over readers is a frequent theme in the work of Stephen King. Who can forget Annie Wilkes in "Misery," chopping off novelist Paul Sheldon's foot with an ax? "Finders...

It reads like a story drawn from contemporary headlines: U.S. Navy warships deployed to the Middle East; ISIS-like beheadings and other atrocities targeted at Christians; fears in Washington about...

A theater up the street asks its employees to include the title of a favorite movie on their nametags. The choices of these teenagers and twentysomethings can be anything from "Fast and Furious 5" or...

Three American writers who were in Malta for a week at the invitation of the Malta Tourism Authority say they see Malta as an ideal location in which they could base their thriller books. Chris...