June’s New Mystery and Thrillers, From High-Stakes Competition to Psychological Suspense

For fans of fictional podcasts, criminals on the run, crime novels, and literary fiction!

Our narrator, Ophir, is finally telling her tale of multiple crimes, life regrets, secrets held, and most importantly, her ten years on the lam—all on a podcast! Follow her across continents as she avoids deep connections in order not to get caught…

For fans of YA high-stakes competitions, will readings, and literature!

Derin, and The Kenfield Set (a uni-prep group), should be going to their professor’s summer ball to have fun and celebrate, especially since Derin was accepted to Cambridge University. Problem? They’re now there for the reading of a will instead, and must compete in a high-stakes competition for an English estate.

For fans of missing persons cases, fictional true crime writers, and psychological suspense!

Rose Dearling’s family and town haven’t been the same since her brother was arrested for killing his high school girlfriend a decade ago. Especially since Rose wrote a true crime book claiming her brother was innocent and blaming the victim’s father. Now Rose is forced to return home when her younger sister disappears.

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For fans of twisty, queer YA!

Jaden’s seventeenth birthday does not go as planned. While at the courthouse with his dad to legally change his name, his father is arrested, accused of forging Jaden’s birth certificate. Wanting to know what is going on, he takes a DNA test, and his life totally changes: not only are his parents not his biological parents, but he was kidnapped seventeen years ago.

For fans of multiple POV, witnessing a crime, and New York City!

Brandon is a night-shift concierge who breaks hotel policy and sleeps with a guest, which is how he ends up in possession of a mysterious bag with a cell phone and ends up witnessing a murder with one of his best friends. Now Brandon and his group of friends are on the case!

For fans of police procedurals and missing women cases!

Giovanni Mason is a concierge at an exclusive hotel when she becomes suspect number one in Natalie Moore’s disappearance. Moore is a makeup influencer who happens to be Giovanni’s former best friend, and Giovanni is on camera slapping her the night before. However, the only person not jumping to accuse Giovanni is Detective Redding Stark because Redding feels like there might instead be a connection to all the Black women going missing in Chicago. 

For fans of Indigenous YA mysteries and multiple POV!

Ulá Dominguez travels with her brother Kabék to Costa Rica for their estranged father, Andres Dominguez’s, funeral. While navigating her complicated relationship with her father, Ulá finds a note that seems to question Andres’ death as a murder, and there’s a journalist from Limón looking into his activism around land rights and Bribri liberation. Clearly, there is plenty for Ulá and Kabék to look into.

For fans of did-he-or-didn’t-he murder mysteries and Hollywood and Bollywood!

The once Hollywood star James Abercrombie decides to marry the beloved Bollywood star Sweety Sahota to revive his career. But once he’s living his new married life in a luxury condo in Mumbai, he’s miserable. Especially since Sweety’s career continues to soar, and now the papers are claiming she’s having an affair. After a drunk night, he wakes up beside her murdered body. Certainly, he’s not responsible? Guess he’ll have to look into it!

For fans of twisty thrillers!

Jackie Swift works for a public relations firm that is not on the up-and-up. So she knows what to do when her young sister calls after an overdose and instead finds her sister gone and a dead body to cover up. And she knows this dead body…

For fans of tense mysteries set in a small town in the ‘80s!

In the early ‘80s, after almost two years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit, James and Ella White return to their community in upstate New York. There is no happy welcome back. There is instead a secret being held, harassment, a murder, and a whole lot of tension.

For fans of psychological mysteries!

This is a reissue following a married couple, Nicole and Truman, who aren’t in a honeymoon stage. After Truman goes missing during a scuba trip, Nicole is left reeling. Not only is she dealing with grief and guilt, but she’s also becoming increasingly paranoid over strange things happening as if Truman is still alive.