The Best New Thriller Books of 2025

Caution: The best new thriller books are so addicting you’ll find yourself glued to the page. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

A new year brings new books, and the list of new thrillers in 2025 is particularly long.

Of course, my 2025 reading list is full of all the best new thriller books I could find.

If you are a fan of page-turning mysteries, you’ll love this list of all the best new thrillers of 2025. In my search for the best thrillers books of the year, I’ve included all the best thriller books I could find.

Whether you are looking for the best new psychological thriller books or prefer a good domestic mystery, there’s something for everyone!

Author Grady Green calls his wife to share his exciting news. But while on the phone, he can hear her slam on the brakes. Her car is found parked on the edge of a cliff with her phone in the seat but she is gone. A year later, a grieving Grady wracked by insomnia visits a small Scottish island to try to start writing again and bring himself back to life. Except he thinks he sees a woman on the island who looks exactly like his missing wife.

Although I generally enjoy thrillers with unreliable narrators, Beautiful Ugly suffered from an overcomplicated plot without any likable characters. Despite its decent ending twist, the story was completely inconceivable and the characters didn’t draw you in. On the bright side, the audiobook production for Beautiful Ugly was top-notch. With A-list actors Richard Armitage and Tuppence Middleton narrating, the audiobook incorporated just the right amount of music and sound effects to enhance the story without overpowering it. 

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Macmillan Audio through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

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Publication Date: 14 January 2025
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A year after being dumped at the altar, Rosie Lachlan is desperate to find “the one.” Using an anonymous service, Rosie, a heart transplant recipient, begins messaging her donor’s husband. Soon Rosie becomes romantically obsessed with Morgan Thorne. But what if Morgan had something to do with his wife’s death?

Publication Date: 14 January 2025
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At eight months pregnant, Tegan is ready to start over and decides to stay with her brother until she can figure out her life. Hitting the road, Tegan unexpectedly finds herself caught in a blizzard. Stranded by the side of a Maine road with a broken ankle, she gratefully accepts an offer from a couple to stay with them at their cabin until the snow clears. But quickly Tegan realizes that this safe haven might actually be a nightmare.

Publication Date: 28 January 2025
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Charismatic daredevil influencer Maverick Dillan invites a group of players to the remote Falcao Island to play the ultimate game of hide-and-seek. When a storm hits the island, the social media stunt quickly goes awry. Suddenly caught in a deadly game of survival, single mother Adele must risk everything to return home to her children.

Publication Date: 18 February 2025
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Nicole Forbes’s life is upended when a reporter knocks on her door and asks about the breakup of a hit 1980s band. Just hours later, Nicole’s daughter disappears, checked out of school by a nonexistent aunt. In 1986, sixteen-year-old Cassie is obsessed with Secret Oktober. When the lead singer Ben Edwards stumbles across Cassie’s older sister Nicole, he kicks off a series of events that will tear the family apart.

Publication Date: 25 March 2025
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In 1930, the five great female crime writers of the time band together to solve a real murder case. Tired of being second-class to male authors, Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy dive into a locked room mystery. May Daniels, a young English nurse, seemingly vanished from a busy train station only to be found strangled in the nearby woods. Together, the Queens of Crime find clues leading to the highest levels of British society until the killer threatens to expose one of Dorothy Sayers’s darkest secrets.

Publication Date: 11 February 2025
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Three years after Crissy Mellin disappeared, Detective John Bowie is instructed to work with the producer of the crime show Crisis Point. After years of researching for Crisis Point, Beth Collins is convinced that Crissy’s disappearance wasn’t isolated. Every time there is a blood moon, a girl from the area vanishes. Now John and Beth must race to catch a killer before the next blood moon in four days.

Publication Date: 4 March 2025
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A year after the devastation of Fool Me Once, Private Investigator Sami Kierce is a new father teaching night classes to wanna investigators in New York City. When he makes eye contact with the woman in the back of the classroom, he gets the shock of his life. It’s his ex-girlfriend Anna. Except, twenty years ago while backpacking in Spain with friends, Sami woke up with a knife in his hand next to Anna’s bloody body. He bolted then and the mystery has haunted him ever since.

Publication Date: 25 March 2025
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Twenty years ago, Doris Grandfelt was stabbed to death and her body dumped in woods of a park near St. Paul Minnesota. Dying of breast cancer, Doris’s sister Lara lists the entire file on the internet and offers a $5 million reward. When a blogger finds the murder weapon, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers must catch the killer. But it’s hard to stay one step ahead when bloggers are livestreaming ever development.

Publication Date: 25 March 2025
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Head maid Molly Gray is excited for her forthcoming wedding to Juan Manuel. First she must organize the Regency Grand Hotel for the filming of the tv show Hidden Treasures. When Molly brings in some of her Gran’s trinkets, she finds they are worth million. Yet on the day of the auction, the treasure suddenly vanishes. Now Molly and her friends must solve the heist with a little help from her Gran’s long-forgotten diary.

Publication Date: 8 April 2025
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Theo fell in love with Connor in a whirlwind romance six months ago. Despite anonymous texts telling her to stay away from Connor, Theo knows it’s her chance to win over his wealthy family when she visits Idlewood, the family’s remote winter retreat. But at the family cabin, Theo finds a photo of herself as a child and begins to recall long-repressed memories that someone in Connor’s family will do anything to keep buried. I love Kate Alice Marshall’s domestic thrillers so I think this will be a great thriller book among the February 2025 book releases.

Publication Date: 4 February 2025
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After months on maternity leave, Camilla is excited and nervous to drop her new baby off at daycare and return to her job as a literary agent. When she awakes, she finds her husband, Luke, is gone with only a note left behind. The police arrive and tell her that Luke is the gunman in a hostage situation in downtown London. Now Camilla must decide how well she actually knows her husband, considering she is the only one who knows what’s on the note.

Publication Date: 25 February 2025
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Dominic Salt and his three children live together on Shearwater, a remote island near Antarctica. Shearwater used to be full of researchers but now the Salts are the sole caretakers of the world’s largest seed bank. During a fierce storm, a woman washes ashore. As the Salts nurse Rowan back to health, they feel revitalized. Except Rowan is hiding the truth about her journey to Shearwater but the Salts have their own secrets to hide. McConaghy has made a name for herself with her climate fiction books, so I’m curious to see what she has in store with her March release.

Publication Date: 4 March 2025
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In 1992, Sarah Lingate fell from the cliffs outside the family’s annual vacation home in Capri. Her entire lie, Helen Lingate has been plagued by rumors that her father killed her mother. When the family returns to Capri on the thirtieth anniversary, Helen decides to blackmail her controlling paranoid family with the help of Lorna, her uncle’s assistant. But when Lorna disappears with the ransom money, Helen doesn’t know who she can trust.

Publication Date: 25 March 2025
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Eleven years after defending her husband Adam of murdering his mistress in The Perfect Marriage, Sarah Morgan has rebuilt her life with a new career and a new husband, Bob. When she discovers Bob had a one-night stand, Sarah immediately files for divorce. Amid their contentious divorce hearings, new DNA evidence arises in the case against Adam and the former Deputy Hudson is hell-bent on finding the truth.

Publication Date: 15 April 2025
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The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers

May 6, 2025
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Two women combine forces to uncover the truth behind the disappearances of their sisters.

Which of the Best New Thriller Books are You Most Excited to Read?

What do you think? What best new thriller books did I forget to add to my list? Did I include any overhyped authors? As always, let me know in the comments!

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