Sunday, March 9, 2025

Ten notable romantic thrillers

Best-selling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble’s novels have won or finaled in awards ranging from the Best Books of Indiana, the ACFW Carol Award, the Romance Writers of America RITA, the Holt Medallion, the Daphne du Maurier, National Readers’ Choice, and the Booksellers Best. She has over 5 million books in print and her books have been on the USA Today bestseller list, the ECPA, CBA, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon bestseller lists. She writes romantic mysteries because she loves to see justice prevail.

Coble's newest novel is Ambush.

At CrimeReads the author tagged "ten of the best romantic thrillers [she's] read in the past year." One title on the list:
Beautiful Storm by Barbara Freethy

When her father’s plane mysteriously disappeared in the middle of an electrical storm, Alicia Monroe became obsessed with lightning. Obsessed by storms, Alicia covers local stories by day and chases storms at night. One night during a violent thunderstorm she sees what appears to be a murder during a flash of lightning and her investigation puts her in extreme danger. The storm aspect of this novel was particularly compelling to me (my brother died from a lightning strike) and I read it all in one sitting.
Read about the other novels on the list at CrimeReads.

--Marshal Zeringue