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• 100 Must Reads, Edited by David Morrell & Hank Wagner
• Midnight Angels, by Lorenzo Carcaterra
• Blood Law, by Jeannie Holmes
• They're Watching, by Gregg Hurwitz
• The Long Quiche Goodbye, by Avery Aames
• The Whisper, by Carla Neggers
• The Prophecy, by Chris Kuzneski
• The Chill of Night, by James Hayman
• The Burning Wire, by Jeffery Deaver
• Colby Control, by Debra Webb
• Carnal Sin, by Allison Brennan
• The Ocean Dark, by Jack Rogan
• The Missing, by Shiloh Walker
• Rancher's Brand of Justice, by Ann Voss Peterson
• Bone Island, by Heather Graham
• The Oath, by Michael Jecks
• Goosebumps HorrorLand: WEIRDO HALLOWEEN, by R.L. Stine
• Snowbound, by Blake Crouch
• The Rule of Nine, by Steve Martini
• The Pharos Objective, by David Sakmyster
• Nightshade, by Ronie Kendig
• The Ghost and Miss Demure, by Melanie Jackson
• The Honest Assassin, by C. J. Carver
• The Cabal, by David Hagberg
• Hostage Zero, by John Gilstrap
• Primeval, by David L. Golemon
• Blood and Ice, by Robert Masello
• White Heat, by Brenda Novak
• Unspeakable, by Laura Griffin
• Foreign Influence, by Brad Thor
• Wolf's Bluff, by W.D. Gagliani
• The Panic Zone, by Rick Mofina
• Nightmare, by Robin Parrish
• Torn Apart, by Shane Gericke
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel, by Tom Monteleone
• Dangerous Desires, by Dee Davis
• Damage Control, by Amy J. Fetzer
• Layover in Dubai, by Dan Fesperman
• People of the Longhouse, by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
• Feline Fatale, by Linda O. Johnston
• The Secrets of Paradise Bay, by Devon Vaughn Archer
• Cold Sight, by Leslie Parrish
• The Measure of Madness: Inside the Disturbed and Disturbing Criminal Mind, by Cheryl Paradis
• A Between The Lines interview with Heather Graham
• Thrillers: 100 Must Reads - An Interview with Christine Kling
• International News from Mike Nicol

Coming next month: a Between The Lines interview with Peter James, and the latest thrillers from Peter Guttridge, Steven James, Brenda Novak, Juan Gómez-Jurado, Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner, Ridley Pearson, Cynthia Eden, Kevin Guilfoile, Brenda Novak, Richard Doetsch, Mark Haskell Smith, Raymond Benson, Timothy Hallinan, Annelise Ryan, L.J. Sellers, Justin Peacock, PD Martin, Dee Davis and more. It's gonna be a thriller!

ThrillerFest News

"ThrillerFest has lots of extras this year," adds Kathleen Antrim, ThrillerFest director, says. "For starters, there's a party every night:

Wednesday night: CraftFest Cocktail Party.
Thursday night: Opening Reception Cocktail Party.
Friday night: ITW Publications Reception. By the time ThrillerFest arrives, ITW will have launched four major new publications. To celebrate these works, we're having a grand signing/cocktail party.
Saturday night: ITW Awards Banquet. One ticket, one night, three parties: the pre-event cocktail party, the banquet, and the post-event after-party.

Snap Critiques (Friday, July 9th, 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.) - Bring the first 400-500 words of your novel for an on-the-spot review!

If you haven't yet registered, log onto www.ThrillerFest.org for event details, registration link, and hotel reservations.  Be there!

Meanwhile, check out the interviews with ThrillerFest Headiners Brad Meltzer, Linda Fairstein and Gayle Lynds, the next three profiles in our ongoing ThrillerFest Headliners series, posted now in ThrillerFest "Latest News."

New Website: The Big Thrillers

The list of ITW publications is growing! Now there's a brand-new website where you can find information about all of ITW's terrific anthologies, audio books, and serial novels in one place - Thriller, Thriller2, Watchlist, The Chopin Manuscript, The Copper Bracelet, First Thrills, and Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads.  Check it out! www.thebigthrillers.com

Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads - Just released!

A new ITW publication is now available from Oceanview, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads, edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner, features 100 works--from Beowulf to The Bourne Identity, Dracula to Deliverance, Heart of Darkness to The Hunt for Red October--deemed must-reads by the International Thriller Writers organization.

Much more than an anthology, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads goes deep inside the most notable thrillers published over the centuries. Through lively, spirited, and thoughtful essays that examine each work's significance, impact, and influence, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads provides both historical and personal perspective on those spellbinding works that have kept readers on the edge of their seats for centuries.  100MustReads.com

Read the interview this month with Christine Kling, as well as previous interviews with Gayle Lynds, Tess Gerritsen and Douglas Preston, then watch this space for more details! 

First Thrills: High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors - Now available!

First Thrills includes never-before-published stories by New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child, Stephen Coonts, Jeffrey Deaver, Heather Graham, Gregg Hurwitz, John Lescroart, John Lutz (with Lise E. Baker), Alex Kava (with Deb Carlin), Michael Palmer (with Daniel James Palmer), Karin Slaughter, and Wendi Corsi Staub.

The collection also serves as an introduction to a new generation of thriller authors, including Sean Michael Bailey, Ken Bruen, Ryan Brown, Bill Cameron, Rebecca Cantrell, Karen Dionne, JT Ellison, Theo Gangi, Rip Gerber, CJ Lyons, Grant McKenzie, Marc Paoletti, Cynthia Robinson, and Kelli Stanley.

"Hands down one of the best short story collections you're ever likely to read."--Booklist, starred review

More at www.first-thrills.com

  New! Watchlist iPhone and iPad App

Vanguard Press is extremely proud to support the ITW and to announce that Watchlist, the killer collaboration between 22 bestselling authors from the ITW, is now available as an interactive App for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Jefffery Deaver, who conceived of the idea for Watchlist, created the main characters and set the plots in motion. Each author wrote a chapter and then Deaver brought both novellas to their startling conclusions.  Watchlist for the iPad presents both The Chopin Manuscript and The Copper Bracelet novellas in one suspenseful thriller and features insightful video interviews with select authors. It also includes excerpts narrated by Alfred Molina and more. Download the App from iTunes now!