While the pacing, suspense, and twists of a well-crafted modern-day thriller can bring their own rewards, I find that when the thriller is enriched by the cultures of the past, the story can become one of powerful depth. Exploring modern-day morals, laws, or customs can be the start of a canvas painted with far more vivid contrasts. Reading some of these mixed-genre marvels inspired me to write The Book of Judges.
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The Book of Judges
By
Gary Fields,
What is my book about?
A beloved judge is murdered. His virus-infected laptop holds an ancient secret.
As young lawyer Joshua Sutton, doctoral candidate Samantha…
The rich history of the Knights Templar, their fall from incredible wealth and power in the fourteenth century, and the mystery behind the undiscovered treasure they supposedly left behind, lay a wondrous landscape upon which Steve Berry sets his first Cotton Malone thriller.
From its opening violent robbery attempt to the twists Malone encounters as he figures out just what the Templars left, and the potentially world-changing impact it could have, the tension perfectly intersects with the history. And it has the three key plot components to a great story in this mixed-genre: intriguing puzzles, huge secrets, and huge stakes.
The first explosive thriller in the Cotton Malone series from a New York Times megaselling author.
The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power, until the Inquisition destroyed them and their riches were lost forever.
But some people don't believe in 'forever'.
Ex-agent Cotton Malone used to work for Stephanie Nelle in the US Justice Department. Now Nelle wants his help to crack a series of puzzles that have confounded experts for centuries - and could lead to the legendary lost treasure of the Knights Templar.
It delivers incredible heart to this mixed-genre by adding time travel to the mix, and bringing the ancient world into this modern-day thriller in a love story across millennia.
The puzzles and tension come hard and fast when a man who claims to be Mannu-ki-Ashur, Chief Physician to King Ashurbanipal, in 7th Century BCE, comes into the life of Dr. Kate Mayne, a heartbroken Assyriologist.
The Physician of Nineveh
By
Glenn Cooper,
What is this book about?
A love lost in time. A cure buried in history. A mystery that spans millennia.For fans of historical fantasy, archaeological thrillers, and sweeping time travel fiction, Glenn Cooper’s newest novel brings the ancient world vividly to life. The Physician of Nineveh blends the intrigue of an ancient Mesopotamian empire with the heart of a love story across centuries.London, present day. Dr. Kate Mayne, a brilliant Assyriologist still recovering from heartbreak, devotes her life to uncovering the secrets of the ancient world. She never expects one of those secrets to walk into her life—claiming to be a royal physician from the…
Adventure/Thriller in the spirit of Indiana Jones.
The disappearance of an old man, fanatical neo-Nazis, and the hunt by Interpol, thrust Nikolaos Zosimos, a high school teacher, into a world of intrigue and suspicion. He gets embroiled in an ancient cover up, a dangerous legacy, and the search for the…
This story plays on actual US history, with protagonist, Beecher White, an archivist, finding a hidden artifact leading him to discover that the Culper Ring, a spy network established to provide intel for George Washington, is still operating.
Besides the usual thriller elements, the search for the truth behind the Culper Ring is fascinating.
The darkest secret of the U.S. Presidency is about to be revealed.
Beecher White, a young archivist for the US government, has always been the keeper of other people's stories, never a part of the story himself . . . Until now.
While Beecher is showing Clementine Kaye, his first childhood crush, around the National Archives, they accidentally uncover a priceless artefact - a two-hundred-year-old dictionary once belonging to George Washington. Suddenly Beecher and Clementine are entangled in a web of conspiracy and murder.
Beecher's race to learn the truth behind this mysterious treasure will lead to a code that…
This story is cleverly constructed around a mythical chess set once owned by Charlemagne that is capable, upon complete assembly, of providing its owner with untold power.
Its parallel timelines start in the French Revolution, where an order of nuns is charged with dispersing the pieces to keep them from the wrong hands. In the modern-day story, Catherine Vellis, a computer expert sent to Algeria on an assignment, gets caught up in a chase to reunite them.
The prose is as magical as the story, particularly in its richly detailed look at revolutionary France.
A fantasy novel from the author of A CALCULATED RISK. The secret of the Eight is a puzzle whose solution has challenged the most brilliant minds known to humanity. Catherine Velis is manipulated into using her unrivalled problem-solving skills to find and reassemble to legendary chess set.
Two small-time journalists take on an international cartel who try a hostile takeover of a Canadian mining company.
Lucas, a veteran journalist, sees a big story brewing within a strike at a local mining company when explosions rip through the plant, but he gets bumped by Jamie, a junior reporter.…
The clues are fascinating. The premise and ultimate twists are incredibly powerful. The settings are wonderful. The chases and particularly the escapes are perfectly tense and brilliantly conceived.
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is faced with a series of puzzles, laid before him in part by Da Vinci’s work, that may lead to the Holy Grail. Up against multiple, powerful counterforces, he uncovers a secret that could stagger the world.
Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes.
As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci - and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history.
Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the…
A beloved judge is murdered. His virus-infected laptop holds an ancient secret.
As young lawyer Joshua Sutton, doctoral candidate Samantha Bollinger, and tech wizard Mark Roth are chased around Florida by the hulking murderer and others who desperately want the laptop, Josh and Sammi realize they’re both being haunted by dreams about historical figures—judges in Mongol-ruled China, Imperial Rome, Byzantium, post-Renaissance Venice, and elsewhere, who uncover a startling secret as they heroically seek justice in life-and-death human rights trials. Upon solving the mystery, Josh, Sammi, and Mark end up in a pulse-pounding race to New York City to stop the murder of another judge—one who could potentially save humanity.
Former special forces officer Grant Casey disobeyed orders to save a museum... and found a new career. Now he travels the globe, saving cultural treasures before they fall into the wrong hands. But artifact hunting is a dirty—and dangerous—business. Legends tell of Genghis Khan’s hidden tomb, packed with the wealth…
Spark a lifelong love of classical music using the Muzart-Connection. Start with fun, age-appropriate pieces, incorporate movement and art and diverse styles. The Teacher's Edition gives you what you need to create a positive and engaging musical environment.
The book creatively includes 125 QR codes which hold classical music…
