Thriller

The Colonel’s Revenge by Jeffrey K. Schmoll is a fast, muscular thriller filled with war scars, old betrayals, buried treasure, family loyalty, and one very satisfying revenge plot. This is the kind of book that does not sit still for long. It moves from the battlefields of Angola to an illegal South African mine, then into a modern casino-heist storyline with a team of brilliant misfits trying to pull off the impossible.

Spy fiction tends to live and die by atmosphere, tension, and competence. Readers want to feel the machinery of intelligence at work, but they also want the danger to feel intimate rather than abstract. Terminus understands that balance well. Ian Lewis builds this novel on the bones of a classic Cold War thriller, but gives it an intriguing twist through Soviet parapsychology and the sinister mystery of the numbers station known as Terminus.

Some crime thrillers hook readers with the mystery alone, but the strongest ones know how to make the case feel personal. In Criminal Profiler, Michael Wegman does exactly that, weaving psychological tension with a character-driven narrative that gives the investigation more emotional weight. Through the perspective of Dr. Emma Walters, the novel explores not only the pursuit of a killer, but also the vulnerabilities, desires, and inner fractures that shape the people caught in the story’s orbit. The result is a thriller that aims for more than suspense, grounding its tension in character as much as in crime.