Dean Koontz’s 1981 thriller about a deadly virus from Wuhan is now a bestseller

A Dean Koontz thriller novel about a killer virus that started in Wuhan has become a bestseller amid rising fears over the spread of the deadly coronavirus.   Fans of the author insisted that his 1981 work The Eyes of Darkness, which describes a virus named ‘Wuhan-400’ after the Chinese city it originated in, predicted the outbreak of COVID-19, … Read more

DEBORAH ROSS: A new domestic thriller… that’s just like five we’ve seen already

Flesh And Blood Monday-Thursday, ITV Rating: Murder 24/7 Monday-Wednesday, BBC2 Rating: The latest domestic thriller is Flesh And Blood, and already it’s getting mixed up in my head with Liar, Cheat, Trust Me, Trauma, Gold Digger, etc. Their formats are so similar – whom should we trust? – that I’m beginning to wonder if they … Read more

Did 1981 Dean Koontz thriller The Eyes Of Darkness predict the coronavirus outbreak?

Did a 1981 Dean Koontz thriller predict the coronavirus outbreak? Readers share extracts from novel which chillingly refers to deadly viral infection named after Wuhan Koontz novel The Eyes Of Darkness describes a killer virus named ‘Wuhan-400’ The fictional virus was developed as a bioweapon in Wuhan research lab Coronavirus first emerged from the same … Read more

 A delightful Royal thriller. But would we really have hidden the wartime Princesses in Tipperary?

The Secret Guests B W Black Viking £8.99 Rating: Over the past few years, an increasing number of novels have included real-life members of the Royal Family as characters. Sue Townsend’s comic novel The Queen And I is set in a republican Britain, reducing Queen Elizabeth to living in a two-bedroom semi-detached, under the supervision … Read more

WHAT BOOK would thriller writer Clare Mackintosh take to a desert island? 

WHAT BOOK would thriller writer Clare Mackintosh take to a desert island? Clare Mackintosh is currently reading The Giver Of Stars by JoJo Moyes She would take Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson to a desert island British thriller writer revealed Patricia Highsmith has left her cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 13 February 2020 … Read more

Megan Fox and Bruce Willis will star in FBI thriller Midnight In The Switchgrass

Megan Fox and Bruce Willis will star in FBI thriller Midnight In The Switchgrass … which is the directorial debut from LaLa Kent’s boyfriend Randall Emmett By Adam S. Levy For Dailymail.com Published: 06:23 BST, 17 February 2020 | Updated: 22:32 BST, 17 February 2020 Megan Fox and Bruce Willis will headline Midnight In The … Read more

His latest book’s banned in Russia… but Jeffrey Archer still says St Petersburg’s a real thriller

There’s only one downside to visiting St Petersburg. You quickly realise you’ll have to return again and again if you want to see everything. I’ve visited the Russian city six times over the past 30 years and still feel I’ve only scraped the surface. The Winter Palace is second only to Versailles in architecture and … Read more

WHAT BOOK would thriller writer Harlan Coben take to a desert island? 

WHAT BOOK would thriller writer Harlan Coben take to a desert island? By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:29 GMT, 4 April 2019 | Updated: 22:29 GMT, 4 April 2019 …are you reading now? The Witch Elm by the Irish crime writer Tana French — lyrical, suspenseful, unpredictable. … would you take to a desert island? … Read more