Top new thriller books out this week: 16 Nov - 22 Nov 2025
Last updated:
November 22, 2025
This week featuring new releases by Gilly Macmillan, Kathy Reichs, Holly Seddon, Amy K. Green, Tanya Grant and many more.
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The Burning Library by Gilly Macmillan
A thrilling dark-academia tale of murder, obsession and ruthless ambition set in remote St Andrews, ScotlandOn a frigid, windswept day in Scotland’s Western Hebrides, Eleanor Bruton’s body is discovered on the shore. To her family Eleanor was an ordinary middle-aged woman. She made flower arrangements and plumped kneeler cushions at church...dark-academia · fiction · suspense · thriller · audiobook · young-adult · murder · psychological · heist · crime -
Evil Bones by Kathy Reichs
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a twisty, unputdownable thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who finds herself enmeshed in a series of grisly animal killings that turn into something far more sinister... -
59 Minutes by Holly Seddon
The internationally bestselling author of the “brilliant, gripping must-read” (Glamour) Try Not to Breathe brings suspenseful thrills in this unputdownable novel following three women as they face an incoming nuclear attack. Nuclear missile threat to South England. 59 minutes until impact. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a test. Carrie is a young mother desperate to reunite with her daughter...fiction · suspense · audiobook · survival · dystopia · thriller · psychological · action-adventure · book · adult -
Haven't Killed in Years by Amy K. Green
No one is supposed to know harmless office worker Gwen Tanner is the vanished daughter of serial killer Abel Haggerty. But a low profile and a new name aren’t going to cut it when an obsessive new killer starts targeting her, in this lively and propulsive thriller with a standout voice.Marin Haggerty, the daughter of a notorious serial killer, was only a child when they arrested her father... -
Made You Look by Tanya Grant
A Catskills retreat turns deadly for a group of influencers when a snowstorm cuts them off from their greatest resource—their followers—just as a killer strikes in this irresistible debut thriller.Sydney Kent is the ultimate It Girl. You want her effortless style, her charisma, her hair. You want to be her; you want to be with her...mystery · locked-room · psychological · serial-killers · crime · suspense · fiction · thriller · female-mc · murder -