New Mysteries & Thrillers To Read in 2025

Vera Wong is back and as meddling as ever. When Xander Lin, an enigmatic influencer, is found dead, Vera is determined to solve his murder. The only problem? After his body is fished out of Mission Bay, the police can’t seem to actually identify him. Every contact is a dead end. Everybody claims not to know him, not even his parents. Who is Xander Lin?

A society matchmaker realizes she’s in danger when her clients’ weddings are sabotaged in increasingly disturbing ways — an utterly original mystery from bestselling author Aisha Saeed.

A cranky former actress teams up with her Gen Z sobriety sponsor to solve the murder that threatens to send her back to prison in this dazzling new mystery novel.

After the death of her daughter, ex-Chicago detective Carrie Starr returns to her roots on the reservation, where she becomes the new tribal marshal. Too many young women have disappeared from the rez, and now local college student Chenoa Cloud is missing. Starr’s investigation dredges up painful memories of her daughter, the girl she couldn’t save. Feeling lost and unwelcome, Starr encounters a figure from her father’s stories — a spirit with the body of a woman and the antlers of a deer. Starr is unsure if Deer Woman is there to guide her or seek vengeance for the lost daughters she can never bring home.

Nova Davies started a book club at the local community center, but so far it’s a disaster … a significant sum of money is stolen during one of the meetings, putting the community center at risk. Suspicion for the theft falls on book club member Michael, especially when he disappears and a dead body turns up at his house. But the book club has their own theories. They won’t rest until they’ve cracked the case and gotten everyone safe at home with a book, where they belong.

How did a young Parisian mother, celebrated for her beauty and glamour, come to lead the largest spy network in occupied France? Natasha Lester beautifully brings Marie-Madeleine Méric Fourcade’s story to life in this powerful, heartbreaking tale of resilience that reminds us what it means to cherish those we love and fight for them with every breath.

Bringing together the slow-burn simmer of psychological suspense and the propulsive drive of crime thrillers, The Death of Us is the story of a marriage turned inside out by a violent encounter that sets fire to the hairline faults that were there from the start.

A vacation in the Hamptons goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history. The Note is a page-turner of the highest order from one of our greatest contemporary suspense writers.

Tensions bubble to the surface in a family newly transplanted to L.A. when the oldest daughter wakes up bruised and battered from a night she can’t remember … and no one wants to talk about it.

Florence Grimes is a 31-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. She has only one reason to get out of bed each day: Her ten-year-old son Dylan. But when Alfie Risby, her son’s bully and the heir to a vast frozen food empire, mysteriously vanishes during a class trip, Dylan becomes the prime suspect. Florence, for once, is faced with a task she can’t quit: She’s got to find Alfie and clear her son’s name.

Four women assassins, senior in status — and in age — sharpen their knives for another bloody good adventure in this riotous follow-up to the New York Times bestselling sensation Killers of a Certain Age.

In 1992, Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are involved, Sarah’s death is ruled an accident. And every year, the family returns to prove it’s true. But on the 30th anniversary of Sarah’s death, the Lingates arrive at the villa to find a surprise waiting for them — the necklace Sarah was wearing the night she died. As long-hidden secrets about that night boil to surface, one thing becomes clear: Not everyone will leave the island alive.

A mesmerizing page-turner about a musical virtuoso who’s forced into hiding when his family runs afoul of a ruthless criminal organization — and how he uses music to bring his enemies to justice. A propulsive and moving story about sacrifice, loyalty, and the indomitable human spirit, The Dark Maestro is Slocumb at the height of his powers.

A twisty and prescient new thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Avery Keene series, by nationally renowned author and leader Stacey Abrams, Coded Justice follows Avery down a dark rabbit hole into the breathtaking — and dangerous — use of AI in the medical industry.

A mythic, propulsive novel about the tangled fates of a matriarchal crime family in Maine. The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne is a crime saga like no other, with a ferocious matriarch at its bruised, beating heart. With sharp wit and profound empathy, award-winning author Ron Currie, delivers an unforgettable novel exploring love, retribution, and the ancestral roots that both nurture and trap us.

A young woman must find her missing husband and prove her innocence in this twisty, unputdownable novel set in an ultra-wealthy Florida community where looks can kill. Combining breathless suspense, glittering and juicy social dynamics, and an unforgettable cast of characters, Happy Wife is a clever and subversive novel that explores marriage, wealth, and the secrets that lurk behind closed doors.

Lawrence Wright at the height of his powers. The Human Scale centers around the newfound — and forced — relationship between a Palestinian American FBI agent and a hard-line Israeli cop, working together uneasily to solve the murder of the Israeli police chief in Gaza. Moving, thrilling, with extraordinary scope, and in the vein of John le Carré and Graham Greene, this is the rare novel that manages to entertain, educate, and deeply move the reader.

From the modern master of Nordic suspense comes an explosive novel about a community in crisis and two brothers on the verge of losing everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve. Blood Ties is a tense, compulsively readable tour de force about loyalty, family ties, and love that is as destructive as it is powerful.

Outlaw falconer Nate Romanowski is off the grid and out for revenge in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box in the next installment in the Joe Pickett series.

Another instant classic from Carl Hiaasen — laugh-out-loud funny, tackling the current chaotic and polarized American culture (following in the path of Squeeze Me), with two wonderful Hiaasen heroes.

America’s most beloved literary characters. A page-turning mystery. The gilded opulence of the Roaring Twenties. And a clever young woman of unusual persistence. Get ready to re-think the world of Gatsby.

When a daring art heist takes place at the Regency Grand, Molly’s life is threatened. The question is who’s out to get her, and why? Long-buried secrets will be revealed in this intriguing and heart-warming novel.

Kristen Perrin is back with the second novel in her Castle Knoll series. Annie Adams is caught in a new web of murder that spans decades, returning us to the idyllic English village that holds layers of secrets.

A thrilling reimagining of the world of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eyes of the infamous Jacob Fagin, London’s most gifted pickpocket, liar, and rogue. Colorfully written and wickedly funny, Allison Epstein breathes fresh life into the teeming streets of Dickensian London — reclaiming one of Victorian literature’s most notorious villains in an unforgettable new adventure.

Claire is excited to drop off a surprise workday lunch for her fiancé, Noah. But when the receptionist tells her that no one with Noah’s name works there, it turns out Noah has a different life … one with a beautiful girlfriend, a beautiful house. Claire plunges into a nightmarish journey of obsession that submerges her deeper into the murky waters of her own past — a past dominated by a manipulative mother who shattered her sense of self. Will Claire break free from the ghosts that haunt her?

A social media influencer’s empire is burned to the ground — literally. The top suspects? The five daughters who made her famous … A campy and escapist exploration of race, gender, sexuality, and class, The Influencers is an evisceration of influencer culture and how alienating traditional expectations can be, ripe for the current moment when the first generation of children made famous by their parents are, now, all grown up — and looking for retribution.

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces to track down a ruthless killer who will do whatever it takes to keep the past buried, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.