In addition to killing bad guys, leading readers on chases around the world and simply scaring the crap out of us, thriller and mystery novelists are real people. And as members of the human race, that means some keep physically active and some don’t. David Raterman, editor of South Florida Adventures, an outdoor sports media [...]

Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads (Oceanview Publishing; $28) hit bookstores and e-tailers on July 5. The volume was co-edited by critic Hank Wagner and David Morrell, the author of First Blood (“Rambo”) as well as a co-founder of the International Thriller Writers organization. Essays cover the “top” 100 thrillers dating from Beowulf to The Da Vinci Code. [...]

  At South Florida Adventures we love thrillers and mysteries that get our hearts pumping fast. Here are the November best sellers at Murder on the Beach, a Delray Beach-based bookstore. Hardcovers 1. 9 Dragons by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $28) 2. Stuff To Spy For by Don Bruns (Oceanview, $26) 3. In Their Blood [...]