Top new thriller books in January 2025
Last updated:
January 31, 2025
January 2025 featuring new releases by Kate Fagan, Teresa Driscoll, Freida McFadden, Alafair Burke, Alice Feeney, Damien Boyd, Samantha Crewson, Joseph Finder, Robert Thorogood, Mark Edwards and many more.
-
The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets First Lie Wins in this electric, voice-driven debut novel about an elusive bestselling author who decides to finally confess her true identity after years of hiding from her past. Cate Kay knows how to craft a story...north-america · usa · california · fiction · mystery · contemporary · lgbtq · audiobook · literary-fiction · romantic-love -
![Close Your Eyes by Teresa Driscoll]()
Close Your Eyes by Teresa Driscoll
Finding missing children is Matthew’s job—but this time it’s his own daughter who’s disappeared.When private investigator Matthew Hill picks up the call from his wife, Sally, his world comes crashing down. Their eight-year-old daughter, Amelie, is missing. One second, she was there, the next, she was gone.It’s the very nightmare they’ve been dreading... -
![The Crash by Freida McFadden]()
The Crash by Freida McFadden
The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed.Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn’t realize she’s heading straight into a blizzard.She never arrives at her destination...mystery · fiction · crime · thriller · season-winter · suspense · kidnapping · psychological · book · adult -
![The Note by Alafair Burke]()
The Note by Alafair Burke
A vacation in the Hamptons goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history. It was meant to be a harmless prank.Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of her class, a compulsive rule-follower. Raised by a first-generation Chinese single mother with high expectations, May didn’t have room to slip up, let alone fail...new-york-state · fiction · suspense · audiobook · contemporary · psychological · thriller · friendship · crime · book -
![Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney]()
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
“Her best book yet.” —Harlan CobenThe million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists Alice Feeney returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage. . . and revenge.Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing... -
-
![Deceived by the Light by Damien Boyd]()
Deceived by the Light by Damien Boyd
An innocent man framed. A case closed. A serial killer free to kill again.It is 1985. Detective Inspector Mungo ‘Bob’ Willis is being forced out of Avon and Somerset Police on medical grounds. His career is in tatters, his body broken, his mind shattered, and his partner—DS Lizzie Harper—dead in a sting operation gone wrong...mystery · historical-fiction · thriller · law-enforcement · fiction · police-procedural · crime · audiobook · serial-killers · murder -
![Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter by Samantha Crewson]()
Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter by Samantha Crewson
A woman with a violent past gets a chance at redemption in this upmarket suspense debut, perfect for fans of Lisa Taddeo and Tiffany McDaniel.Thirteen years ago, Providence Byrd threw the family car in reverse and ran over her mother. Even though she survived, that single instant of teenage madness made Providence a felon and irrevocably altered her life...mystery · fiction · audiobook · lgbtq · suspense · crime · contemporary · thriller · family · literary-fiction -
![The Oligarch's Daughter by Joseph Finder]()
The Oligarch's Daughter by Joseph Finder
"Joseph Finder has written some of the finest spy novels of our time, and he just keeps getting better...fiction · espionage · suspense · audiobook · contemporary · politics · thriller · crime · romantic-love · family -
![Murder on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood]()
Murder on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood
Verity Beresford is worried about her husband. Oliver didn’t come home last night so of course Verity goes straight to Judith Potts, Marlow’s resident amateur sleuth, for help. Oliver, founder of the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society, had hired The Marlow Belle, a private pleasure cruiser, for an exclusive party with the MADS committee but no one remembers seeing him disembark...mystery · audiobook · fiction · cozy · crime · murder · killer · contemporary · law-enforcement · thriller -
![The Psychopath Next Door by Mark Edwards]()
The Psychopath Next Door by Mark Edwards
In this mesmerising thriller from the bestselling author of Keep Her Secret, a family’s fresh start is just the beginning of their nightmare…Ethan Dove’s family has moved to a new home in a safe community, and it’s exactly the fresh start they need. Not only is his marriage to Emma hanging by a thread, but his son, Dylan, and twelve-year-old daughter, Rose, deserve to have a happy childhood...audiobook · mystery · fiction · suspense · psychological · crime · thriller · serial-killers · murder · book -
![The Drowning Game by Barbara Nickless]()
The Drowning Game by Barbara Nickless
A woman’s investigation into her sister’s death exposes the dark side of a secret life in a gripping novel of power, money, and murder by a Wall Street Journal bestselling author.Sisters Nadia and Cass Brenner are heirs to Ocean House, a decades-old empire that builds superyachts for the rich and emirs, oligarchs, and titans of industry throughout America and Europe...asia · southeast-asia · singapore · urban · washington · austria · fiction · audiobook · suspense · espionage -
![Downstate by Jeffery Deaver]()
Downstate by Jeffery Deaver
Special Agent Constant Marlowe pursues a lead to rural Illinois and finds a hornet’s nest of conspiracy in a pulse-pounding novella by New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, where nothing is what it seems.Special Agent Constant Marlowe is in pursuit of “Mr. X,” a key player in organized crime. Her mission is to collar him and flip him into a cooperating witness...mystery · fiction · crime · audiobook · law-enforcement · suspense · kidnapping · thriller · female-mc · police-procedural -
![Death in the Arctic by Tom Hindle]()
Death in the Arctic by Tom Hindle
A frozen wilderness.A killer in the skies.When aspiring travel writer Chloé Campbell is invited aboard a luxury airship flying to the North Pole, she thinks she’s bagged the opportunity of a lifetime.But she hasn’t had long to admire the dazzling icy views before a fellow passenger is found dead in their cabin.Trapped at the top of the world, the group agrees a tragic accident has occurred... -
![Cross My Heart by Megan Collins]()
Cross My Heart by Megan Collins
She has his dead wife’s heart; the one she wants is his. The author of The Family Plot brings her signature prose to a twisty novel about a heart transplant patient who becomes romantically obsessed with her donor’s husband.Rosie Lachlan wants nothing more than to find The One...fiction · suspense · psychological · thriller · stalking · murder · female-mc · crime · serial-killers · book -
![Bitter Passage by Colin Mills]()
Bitter Passage by Colin Mills
A nineteenth-century Arctic expedition descends into a chilling nightmare in a gripping and epic historical novel of discovery, rescue, deliverance, and survival by any means.In May 1845, Sir John Franklin, commander of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, departed England to seek a navigable route across the top of the Americas. He and his 128 men never returned...historical-fiction · fiction · historical · horror · suspense · action-adventure · survival · audiobook · cannibalism · exploration -
![When She's Gone by Rea Frey]()
When She's Gone by Rea Frey
In this haunting story that spans three decades, a young gymnast escapes a kidnapping. Years later, she’s forced to face the past when her own daughter disappears.Cora Valentine has her whole life—and a shot at the Olympics—ahead of her. But when she’s kidnapped on Halloween, her name is splashed across headlines not as an athlete but as a victim...audiobook · suspense · family · fiction · thriller · psychological · law-enforcement · kidnapping · crime · book -
![I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin by Katy Brent]()
I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin by Katy Brent
Your favourite anti-heroine, Kitty Collins, is back! Expect more wit, sass, and, of course, murder…My name is Kitty Collins and I’m a serial killer.I don’t want to kill. It’s just so hard to resist. Some men really, really deserve it.Men like Blaze Bundy, an anonymous influencer spreading misogyny online. He’s making it very hard for me to control my murderous urges...mystery · audiobook · crime · humor · comedy · fiction · contemporary · thriller · suspense · serial-killers -
![Jill Is Not Happy by Kaira Rouda]()
Jill Is Not Happy by Kaira Rouda
An ill-fated road trip resurrects a married couple’s darkest secrets in this new thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of Best Day Ever and The Next Wife. Some secrets keep a couple together.If you ask Jill Tingley, she’ll tell you she and her husband Jack are college sweethearts living the dream in Southern California...north-america · usa · utah · california · audiobook · fiction · psychological · suspense · family · thriller -
![The Last Room on the Left by Leah Konen]()
The Last Room on the Left by Leah Konen
The caretaker at an isolated mountain hotel finds herself fighting for her life—and sanity—in this twisty, addictive thriller.Kerry’s life is in shambles: Her husband has left her, her drinking habit has officially become a problem, and though the deadline for her big book deal—the one that was supposed to change everything—is looming, she can’t write a word...new-york-state · mystery · horror · fiction · audiobook · suspense · psychological · thriller · season-winter · crime -
-
![A Gorgeous Excitement by Cynthia Weiner]()
A Gorgeous Excitement by Cynthia Weiner
A dazzling debut novel set in 1980s New York, when cocaine is as easy to get as ice cream, about one young woman’s summer of infinite possibility—and looming danger.It was the summer of 1986, when the girl was found dead in Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum—half-naked, legs splayed, arms flung over her head. Larynx crushed... -
![The Seven by Robyn Delvey]()
The Seven by Robyn Delvey
2 bombs. 43 dead. Dozens injured. The trial of the decade has begun…New to the job and with everything to prove, Crown Prosecution Service lawyer Eve Wren is working on the biggest UK trial in decades.Notorious cult leader Patrick Nye and his followers, known as The Seven, are pleading not guilty to detonating a bomb in a London theatre...mystery · crime · fiction · suspense · legal · audiobook · law-enforcement · murder · female-mc · police-procedural -
![The Dark Hours by Amy Jordan]()
The Dark Hours by Amy Jordan
For fans of Tana French and Jane Harper, this debut crime thriller follows a retired police detective who must face down a vicious killer and the memories that haunt her—thirty years after bringing down one of Ireland’s most prolific serial killers.Julia Harte has found the perfect place to disappear: Cuan Beag, a secluded coastal village on the east coast of Ireland...europe · british-isles · ireland · mystery · fiction · crime · audiobook · suspense · serial-killers · thriller -
![We Are Watching by Alison Gaylin]()
We Are Watching by Alison Gaylin
From USA Today bestselling and Edgar and Shamus Award-winning author Alison Gaylin comes a slick, riveting, and all too frighteningly plausible tale of psychological suspense where a single mother is desperate to protect her family as they become targets of a group of violent conspiracy theorists.Meg Russo was behind the wheel when it happened...fiction · mystery · horror · suspense · thriller · contemporary · psychological · cults · fundamentalism · crime -
![The Last Trip by Kiersten Modglin]()
The Last Trip by Kiersten Modglin
One last trip before the baby gets here… That’s all the getaway is meant to be. Then the guests arrive. When Calvin and Sadie decide to spend their babymoon in a remote cabin in the snowy mountains before their first child is due, it’s supposed to be a chance for them to connect, relax, and celebrate their future. Before the vacation even gets started, shocking news leaves the couple reeling...audiobook · psychological · suspense · fiction · thriller · crime · season-winter · dark · book · adult -
![Head Cases by John McMahon]()
Head Cases by John McMahon
Head Cases follows an enigmatic group of FBI agents as they hunt down a murderer seeking his own justice in this electrifying—and commercial—series debut.FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles...mystery · fiction · audiobook · crime · suspense · contemporary · murder · thriller · law-enforcement · police-procedural -
![The Family Inside by Katie Garner]()
The Family Inside by Katie Garner
It takes a special family to turn a home into a nightmare. Since her husband’s unsolved murder three years ago, Iris Blodgett’s life has unraveled. Awash in grief and buried in debt, she can’t pay her mortgage—and now that she’s lost her job, she has no idea how she’ll provide for her unruly teenage daughter, Ellory... -
![I'll Tell You Everything by Rebecca Kelley]()
I'll Tell You Everything by Rebecca Kelley
When her estranged daughter asks to hear the one story she doesn’t want to tell, a woman spins lie after lie to protect her perfect life in this gripping novel.Amy Linden has a loving husband, an adorable son, and a glamorous career as the hotelier of a grand mountain lodge. Then Ramona Crawford, the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years earlier, pays her a surprise visit...contemporary · audiobook · psychological · thriller · suspense · family · womens-fiction · fiction · female-mc · book -
![Grave Danger by James Grippando]()
Grave Danger by James Grippando
Bestselling author James Grippando’s legendary criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck is back to defend a single mother accused of kidnapping her own child in a perilous case involving politics and international diplomacy that will test his legal expertise and his marriage.Jack Swyteck’s new client fled Iran to Miami with her daughter, and has been accused of kidnapping by her husband... -
![Wife, Mother, Liar by Sue Watson]()
Wife, Mother, Liar by Sue Watson
Someone is lying. Someone knows the truth. Someone is going to pay...Wife: I couldn’t be prouder of my charming husband and quiet and kind son. I’ve poured everything into my little family, so I choose to ignore my husband’s late-night phone calls and wandering eye...fiction · psychological · mystery · suspense · crime · 21st-century · thriller · noir · murder · book -
![So I Lied by Chelsea Ichaso]()
So I Lied by Chelsea Ichaso
In this foreboding journey into the depths of friendship, three women spend a trip together covering up the secrets between them—but when one lie unravels, there’s no going back.Jocelyn is ready to get married—and more ready to have fun. She plans a bachelorette trip to North Wales, where she can forget about her strained relationship and focus on the tension among friends instead... -
![The Soulmate by Rona Halsall]()
The Soulmate by Rona Halsall
Do you believe in love at first sight? Holly does, in spite of everything that’s happened in her life. Sometimes the thought that her soulmate is out there is the only thing that keeps her going.Then she hears her favourite song being played. She’s drawn to where the sound is coming from, as if by a magnetic force...thriller · suspense · psychological · drama · crime · action-adventure · fiction · noir · female-mc · book -
![The Mirror House Girls by Faith Gardner]()
The Mirror House Girls by Faith Gardner
An isolated compound. A so-called family. A collision course with unthinkable violence.When Winona rents a room at the eccentric Mirror House, she hopes to make new friends. What she gets instead is a “family” led by the charismatic psychologist Simon Spellmeyer.But if she wants to stay at Mirror House, Winona must join in following Simon’s strange protocols for self-improvement...psychological · fiction · cults · fundamentalism · suspense · thriller · audiobook · horror · crime · vigilante -
![Horrible Husbands by Jessica Huntley]()
Horrible Husbands by Jessica Huntley
Is your husband so horrible that you’d ask your best friend to kill him?Penny: I know my husband has cheated on me. But I can’t believe what I just found in the bedside drawer. Are my children safe . . . ?Lisa: The first time he did it was on our wedding anniversary. He broke down in tears afterwards. That’s the thing about Simon. He’s always sorry . . . until the next time...fiction · humor · thriller · psychological · marriage · murder · serial-killers · crime · satire · dark-humor -
-
![Tell Me What You Did by Carter Wilson]()
Tell Me What You Did by Carter Wilson
“Better set aside several uninterrupted hours for this toxic rocket. You’ll be glad you did.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS, STARRED REVIEWShe gets people to confess their crimes for a living. He knows she's hiding a terrible secret. It's time for the truth to come out…Poe Webb, host of a popular true crime podcast, invites people to anonymously confess crimes they've committed to her audience... -
![Mask of the Deer Woman by Laurie L. Dove]()
Mask of the Deer Woman by Laurie L. Dove
To find a missing young woman, the new tribal marshal must also find herself. At rock bottom following her daughter’s murder, ex-Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go but back to her roots. Starr’s father never talked much about the reservation that raised him, but they need a new tribal marshal as much as Starr needs a place to call home...mystery · fiction · horror · indigenous-mc · suspense · audiobook · magical-realism · thriller · poc-mc · crime -
![Penitence by Kristin Koval]()
Penitence by Kristin Koval
For readers of Ann Patchett and Celeste Ng, Penitence is a poignant exploration of love and forgiveness. It’s a suspenseful, addictive page-turner filled with literary insight that compels readers to consider whether each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.When a shocking murder occurs in the home of Angie and David Sheehan, their lives are shattered...north-america · usa · colorado · urban · new-york-state · fiction · mystery · literary-fiction · contemporary · crime -
![The Dark Maestro by Brendan Slocumb]()
The Dark Maestro by Brendan Slocumb
From the author of The Violin Conspiracy and Symphony of Secrets comes a mesmerizing page-turner about a young Black musical virtuoso at the peak of his career who’s forced into hiding when his family runs afoul of a ruthless international cartel—and uses his music to fight back.Curtis Wilson is a classical music prodigy...fiction · suspense · family · contemporary · thriller · poc-author · poc-mc · black-mc · crime · coming-of-age -
![The Enigma Girl by Henry Porter]()
The Enigma Girl by Henry Porter
A masterclass in espionage thriller fiction from the heir to John le Carre for fans of Mick Herron, Charles Cumming and David McCloskey. Meet disgraced MI5 agent Slim Parsons, a character who - like Lisbeth Salander - will sear your soulSlim Parsons is all but burned...espionage · fiction · mystery · audiobook · crime · thriller · suspense · missing-people · female-mc · law-enforcement -
![The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey by Astrid Dahl]()
The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey by Astrid Dahl
A propulsive page-turning thriller following the hit reality TV show Garden State Goddesses where secrets are uncovered, intense rivalries surface, and a startling murder propels a producer on a riveting quest for the truth.One of Huzzah’s most popular shows, Garden State Goddesses, was in need of a refresh... -
![Tricks of Fortune by Lina Chern]()
Tricks of Fortune by Lina Chern
Tarot card reader extraordinaire Katie True flexes her investigative muscles when her family becomes the prime suspect in a local murder in this exciting mystery from the author of Play the Fool“A delicious blend of suspense and madcap humor” – Library Journal, starred review of Play the FoolKatie True has finally gotten her crap together...cozy · fiction · audiobook · spooky · murder · thriller · supernatural · crime · female-mc · amateur-sleuth
