If you thought 2024 was a wild year for thrillers, 2025 is going to be even more intense! Whether you’re saving up your holiday gift cards, filling up your e-reader, or hitting up your local library, these are the mystery, suspense, and thriller books coming out in the new year that you do not want to miss out on!
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney (1/14)
Grady Green is an author who encounters both the best and worst day of his life when he calls his wife, Abby, to tell her good news he just received. On the phone, he hears Abby slam on her car brakes and get out of the car. When he finds her car, Abby has vanished. A year later, Grady travels to a small Scottish island to deal with his ever-present grief only to find a woman who looks exactly like Abby.
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Cross My Heart by Megan Collins (1/14)
Rosie Lachlan wants to find true love. It’s been a year since Rosie was left at the altar and after receiving a life-saving heart transplant, she’s been messaging local celebrity author Morgan Thorne anonymously through DonorConnect. Rosie believes that the heart transplant she received was from Morgan’s wife, Daphne. Now, Rosie feels that if she has Daphne’s heart, then she and Morgan belong together. As the two continue their communication, Rosie begins to wonder if Morgan had something to do with Daphne’s death.
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Trust Issues by Elizabeth McCullough Keenan and Greg Wands (1/28)
Hazel and Kagan Bailey are two siblings who have just been reunited when their mother dies under mysterious circumstances, and they are both on the list of suspects. Now, the two are joining together to hunt down a con man they once considered family on a road trip that is full of secrets and lies as they simultaneously confront their family’s past.
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Tell Me What You Did by Carter Wilson (1/28)
Poe Webb has had overnight success with her popular true crime podcast that allows people to anonymously confess to crimes. Although Poe cannot guarantee the police won’t come after those who confess, the show remains famous. When a mysterious man appears on her show, Poe is shocked when he confesses to her mother’s murder from years ago because Poe knows who killed her mother and her killer is dead and Poe is the one who killed him.
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The Crash by Freida McFadden (1/28)
Tegan is eight months pregnant and trying to leave her life in the past, so she gets on the road to go stay with her brother to plan her next move. When she unexpectedly finds herself in a blizzard, Tegan is left stranded with a broken ankle when her car dies. As a couple comes along and offers her somewhere warm to wait out the storm, Tegan realizes that they couple has a more sinister plan and she must do whatever she can to protect herself and her unborn baby.
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A Long Time Gone by Joshua Moehling (2/4)
Deputy Ben Packard is on leave following a shooting when new information regarding his brother’s decades old disappearance comes to light. When Ben was just a young boy, his brother walked out of their grandparents’ house and never returned. Now, Ben must take this investigation into his own hands with no department resources and soon finds a connection between his brother’s vanishing and a recent suspicious death.
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A Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall (2/4)
Theo has just fallen head over heels for Connor Dalton, the song of the powerful Dalton family. In an attempt to win over his family, Connor brings Theo to the family’s winter retreat right as Theo begins to receive threatening messages to leave Connor alone. When Theo finds a photo of herself as a child in a cabin, she realizes that someone may be closer than she realizes and no one is to be trusted.
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You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego (2/11)
Former aspiring writer Mila del Angel has just been invited to host a writing retreat at a private manor belonging to renowned author J.R. Alastor. Not only is this an amazing opportunity, but Mila has a grudge against one of the attendees. As Alastor and Mila plot a week of games for the six thriller authors invited, Mila plots a murder behind t he scene. Things take a turn when one of the authors does in fact end up dead, but it’s not who Mila planned on killing.
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Close Your Eyes and Count to 10 by Lisa Unger (2/25)
Single mother Adele is one of many contestants on Falcao Island who are competing for the ultimate game of hide-and-seek. Invited by extreme adventurer Maverick Dillan, the competition takes a deadly turn as a storm hits the island and proves this game could be far more dangerous than anyone expected.
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Vanishing Daughters by Cynthia Pelayo (3/11)
Journalist Briar Thorne’s mother died in an old mansion on Chicago’s South Side and since Bri has noticed things she is convinced are connected with grief. The nightmares of a woman pleading to come home, music coming from locked rooms, and the overwhelming dark are things her mother believed in, not her. When Bri begins to investigate a serial killer who has killed fifty-one women in Chicago, a stranger tells her that there’s more to her dreams than she originally thought and confronting them could help her track down a killer.
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This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead (3/25)
After her father’s unexpected death, Jane Sharp finds herself obsessed with true crime and befriends other armchair detectives to help escape her grief. When the news hits of the deaths of three female college students in Idaho, Jane and her friends find themselves determined to find out what really happened. But this case is strange, the details don’t add up, the police aren’t giving much information, and the media has taken over. As Jane and her friends find themselves enveloped in the case, they find they could be hunting a killer who is worse than any they’ve heard of before.
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The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose (4/15)
It’s been over a decade since Sarah defended her husband, Adam, who was accused of murdering his mistress. Now, she’s married to Bob Miller and has changed her career. When Sarah finds Bob engaging in a one-night stand, she files for divorce right as new DNA evidence is uncovered in the case against Adam and now everyone wants to know the truth about Adam’s case. When the woman Bob had a one-night stand with goes missing, Sarah and Bob find themselves in a dangerous cat and mouse game.
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The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers (5/6)
Nicole “Nic” Monroe is twenty-four-years-old and has felt stuck in life since her sister, Kasey, vanished seven years ago. She lives in the same small apartment, works the same job she’s had since high school, and just got a DWI. When Kasey disappeared, her car was found a hundred miles from home with the driver’s door open and no clues as to where she could be. The only connection was a woman named Jules Connor who disappeared the same way a few weeks earlier. Even though both cases went cold, Nic finally has some hope when Jules’ sister, Jenna, comes into her life and the two vow to team up to find out what really happened to their sisters.
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Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang (5/13)
Julie Chan and Chloe VanHuusen were identical twins separated at a young age who rarely spoke except for the viral video that Chloe initiated about finding her long-lost twin. When Julie finds Chloe’s lifeless body under mysterious circumstances, she leaves behind her job as a supermarket cashier to take over Chloe’s life as an influencer. As Julie finds herself struggling to keep up Chloe’s appearance during a weeklong island retreat, she finds that she may be closer than ever in discovering what led to Chloe’s death.
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