19 New Mystery & Thrillers for July 2025 To Keep You Sleuthing

For fans of mysteries and magical realism!

Malamar Veracruz has built a life for herself after her sister Elena disappeared. Now there’s a new missing person case in El Valle and Mal’s visions of a local legend, a horse-headed woman, start to mix with her need to find answers about the missing girls…

For fans of translated suspense, stolen identity stories, gothic mansions, and characters running from their past!

With the body of her dead boyfriend on her kitchen floor, you could say that Jae-Young is running away from her life. While on a train, she has zero desire to socialize, but a woman ends up tricking her into taking her infant child. Thinking all she has to do is drop the baby off with his paternal family, Jae-Young sees it as a temporary bump in the road. Until she arrives at the estate and is mistaken for the child’s mother. What harm could come of slipping into someone else’s life?..

For fans of funny murder mysteries and school settings!

Mavis has her hands full with chauffeuring her daughter to all her after-school activities and having been roped into being class mom. Plus, there’s this pesky new thing about having to solve murders: did someone murder the soccer coach? Investigating may not be the best thing idea when she’s having panic attacks, dealing with her ex-husband, and already stretched thin, but someone has to do it!

If you want to start at the beginning of the series, pick up It’s Elementary!

For fans of deadly games and reunited friends!

Motive Method Death is the game that a group of friends are playing on a weekend reunion: it involves picking two people and writing a story centering murder. But when you know the people you picked, you use the secrets you know. How many secrets can be revealed before people are out for revenge?

For fans of historical mysteries, amateur sleuths, and murder mysteries!

In 1920s Bangalore, Kaveri Murthy may be pregnant and under her mother-in-law’s protective eye, but Kaveri has a murder to solve: a woman died while holding a photo of Kaveri. With the help of a housemaid and milkboy, Kaveri sets off to solve her new case!

If you want to start at the beginning of the series, pick up The Bangalore Detectives Club!

For fans of forensic scientists, past and present storylines, and murder mysteries!

Claudia Atkins O’Sheil is about to be honored for her work as a forensic examiner— including her blood-spatter analysis method—but there’s a huge secret she’s holding that could destroy her career: she thinks the wrong man was convicted in his father’s murder and that two other cases, including Claudia’s husband’s death, may be connected. Does she give a speech accepting her praises, or use her time at the podium to reveal what she knows?

For fans of amateur professor sleuths, and murder mysteries set on campus!

Professor Daphne Ouverture is focused on her French colonialism lectures, her academic writing, and dating—though the latter isn’t going well. When a colleague is murdered, Daphne’s lack of love for the professor doesn’t stop her from having to investigate his murder—because whoever killed him thinks Daphne has whatever they are after. Maybe a bookseller who was a former detective can help her solve the case…

For fans of action-packed thrillers, wry humor, and murder mysteries

Sheriff Porter Beck, partnered with his girlfriend Detective Charlie Blue Horse, has a new complicated case: the pilot of a helicopter hired to round up wild horses was shot dead in flight, and the woman in charge of the roundup was murdered in a way to definitely send a message. There is no lack of suspects, and that’s before they get to a Canadian Lithium mining operation.

If you want to start at the beginning of the series, pick up The Bitter Past!

For fans of cozy, culinary mysteries!

Savvy Summers’s café is suddenly drowning in bad press after a local elderly womanizer dropped dead while eating at Essie’s soul food café. To solve the murder, and get people eating her sweet potato pie again, she’ll have to solve the murder! It’s a good thing that she has an assistant manager set to snooping mode. It’s a bad thing that her police sergeant ex-husband is in the way and that an investor is harassing her for her property!

For fans of PIs and murder mysteries!

Vandy Myrick has returned to her Jersey hometown and set up a PI agency after the death of her daughter. When her ex-husband comes back into her life and they sleep together, she ends up with her next case: his murder. Now Vandy has to sift through the past and who she knows him to be vs who others know him to be.

If you want to start at the beginning of the series, pick up Trouble in Queenstown!

For fans of suspense, and multiple pov including adults and teens!

A cliffside mansion in Texas has long been believed to be haunted by a mother whose child died long ago. The house has since been renovated and the owner has a second—and younger—wife and a baby. The house is the setting for a sixteenth-birthday party celebration. The problem is everyone attending the party has secrets, and one person will plunge to their death…

For fans of translated murder mysteries and time loops!

Imagine if without any rhyme or reason, a day in your life would suddenly repeat itself seven times before continuing on as normal. That’s what happens to Hisataro. So far he is certain that others can’t change anything in the repeating of the days, but he can. So when his grandfather is murdered during a family reunion—where members are fighting over the will!—and Hisataro finds himself in one of his time loops, he decides to solve the murder. But it won’t be easy with everyone in his family keeping secrets and scheming to be the one person listed in the will.

For fans of historical mysteries, psychic, missing person cases, murder mysteries, amateur sleuths, and books set during the Roaring 20s!

Nola Ann Jackson is widowed and living with her psychic aunt in her Illinois hometown. With Nola working on her own abilities, she’s asked by her childhood school’s headmistress to help locate a missing girl. What starts as a missing person case soon turns to arson and murder at a jazz club…

For fans of I Know What You Did Last Summer, And Then There Were None, YA thrillers, and remote island settings!

Two years ago, six teens out of eight survived a ski holiday. Now, as a celebration for graduating, the six teens head to a mansion on a private island for a weekend. But rather than celebrating, the past comes for them and they’re picked off one by one…

(Note: The audiobook format has a September release date)

For fans of cozy mysteries with a dog and set in a bakery!

Maddy Montgomery went from influencer to bakery and dog owner thanks to an inheritance. Now she should be focused on her upcoming nuptials, but first she has a case to solve: her nightmare wedding planner is killed by a cake skewer from her bakery! Good thing she has a team of friends and a giant English Mastiff to help.

If you want to start at the beginning, pick up Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder!

For fans of cat-and-mouse games and journalist leads!

Not only is Ruth Ware’s popular The Woman in Cabin 10 getting an adaptation this fall starring Keira Knightley, but now there’s a sequel to the book! After having a child, Lo Blacklock is ready to get back to her journalism career, so she jumps at the invitation to cover a luxury Swiss hotel’s opening. But instead of an interview with the reclusive billionaire owner, Lo finds herself being asked for help from his mistress who claims to be in danger.

For fans of lawyer-led thrillers and topical themes!

Avery Keene has moved from Supreme Court clerk to working as an investigator at a private law firm in DC. That’s where she gets a big, complicated case: a tech company is using AI to revolutionize the medical industry, but there have been a lot of problems, including an engineer’s mysterious death.

If you want to start at the beginning of the series, pick up While Justice Sleeps!