The Best New Thriller Books of Fall 2024

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 season brings new books, and the list of new thrillers in 2024 is particularly long.

Of course, my 2024 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 2024. 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!

It’s no surprise that the best new thrillers comes from bestselling author Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers). When they board their short domestic flight, none of the passengers think that it will change their lives forever. They land safely at their destination and regale their family and friends with a tale of “The Death Lady” who oddly predicted the date of each of their deaths. When three passengers die exactly as she predicted, the rest of the passengers begin to wonder what they can do to live their lives in the time remaining and what they are willing to do to defy fate.

Publication Date: 10 September 2024
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Decades ago, the serial killer Father Silence terrorized a small town by disguising as a priest and murdering residents. The day after his execution, the primary detective of the case is found murdered by someone called The Outcast. Tess Claiborne, the murdered detective’s daughter, is a detective in her own right. When Tess’s daughter is kidnapped by The Outcast, Tess’s only hope might lie in the only witness to Father Silence’s murders who has spent the last few decades in a hospital for the criminally insane.

Publication Date: 10 September 2024
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Brooke has so many wants. She wants a purpose in life. She wants to please her mother. She wants family and friends and independence. Working as an assistant to an octogenarian billionaire, Brooke is in charge of helping him give away his vast fortune. But such close proximity to astonishing amounts of money changes a person, creating moral quandaries for Brooke.

Publication Date: 17 September 2024
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Hitchcock superfan Alfred Smettle runs the Hitchcock Hotel in the White Mountains. With props and memorabilia in every room, the hotel even offers round-the-clock screens of Hitchcock’s movies. To celebrate the first anniversary, Alfred invites his former best friends from his college film club. They haven’t seen each other for sixteen years, not after what happened, and Alfred has a reunion planned that none of them will forget.

Publication Date: 24 September 2024
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Off the Scottish coast, Eris is an island only accessible for twelve hours each day. Eris was famously the home of Vanessa Chapman, a renowned artist whose cheating husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now caring for Vanessa until her death, Grace now lives alone on Eris. When a shocking discovery about one of Vanessa’s works is made, an art curator comes to visit Grace, threatening Grace’s content lifestyle.

Publication Date: 29 October 2024
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For the elite of New Orleans, the Les Masque Ball is the event of the season. Although last year’s debutante queen, Margot, was found dead the morning after, no one is worried about this year’s ball. Margot was a wild child and the complete opposite of Lily, this year’s queen. After a masked jester crashes the Ball, Lily asks her court to meet the next morning but never shows. None three debutantes must discover the darker secrets the Mardi Gras mask in time to save Lily.

Publication Date: 29 October 2024
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For an epic Spring Break party, a set of twins invite a group of boarding school teens to an abandoned English castle their Dad has recently purchased. Lying to their families, Bessie and her closest friends drive out to the remote castle hoping to have fun. But when guests start dying and a storm rolls in, they suddenly find themselves trapped with a murderer.

Publication Date: 3 December 2024
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In the third Alias Emma book, British Agent Emma Makepeace must decide how far she is willing to go to catch a killer. When her team is dispatch to the G7 Summit in Edinburgh, Scotland, they must stop a Russian assassination attempt. Except they don’t know who is the target. Instead, Emma must use herself as bait to set a trap in the gridlocked city.

Publication Date: 3 September 2024
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In a small Hudson Valley town, Roman Grady normally covers store openings and DUIs as the sole reporter for the local paper. When Roman’s longtime girlfriend (and mother of his young son) is killed, he realizes there is much more going on in town than he thought. As Roman and his mother investigate Ashley’s death, they are shocked at how much they didn’t know about Ashley and at the secrets hidden in their small town.

Publication Date: 17 September 2024
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Alaina Urquhart returns to the best new thriller books list with a sequel to her bestselling thriller, The Butcher and the Wren. Having been foiled by forensic pathologist Dr. Wren Muller, the Bayou killer heads north to escape capture and plot his revenge. On forced medical leave, Wren can’t help but again pursue her nemesis as he leaves a trail of mutilated bodies through Massachusetts, entering a cat-and-mouse game that might force her to risk everything for justice.

Publication Date: 17 September 2024
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LAPD Detective Renée Ballard hits the jackpot when the DNA of a newly arrest man is linked to an unsolved serial rapist. When they go to arrest his father, they find a web of secrets, lies, and legal challenges. At the same time, Ballard asks Harry Bosch to help investigate the theft of her gun, badge, and ID without letting her enemies in the department find out. Meanwhile, Bosch’s daughter Maddie begins to help Ballard out with cold cases but with motives of her own.

Publication Date: 15 October 2024
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In the 19th novel of the series, a phone call shatters the pieces of Inspector Armand Gamache. A random series of events leads Gamache and his team to realize that more is going on than just one murder. Soon, friends seem like enemies and enemies act like friends in a case that will take the inspector throughout Québec.

Publication Date: 29 October 2024
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In 1998, female students start disappearing at a North Carolina college. Once a bright and responsible student, freshman Jessica Fadley’s life starts spirally out of control and then she mysteriously disappears. Twenty-four years later when bodies are found in a local lake, Jessica’s sister Lindsey uses her hit true crime podcast to investigate Jessica’s disappearance. Told in alternating timelines, The Lake of Lost Girls tells of two sisters: one trying to untangle the truth while the other spirals into darkness.

Publication Date: 5 November 2024
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In the third book of The 6:20 Man series, FBI agent Travis Devine needs to lay low from his nemesis, the girl on the train. That’s why he is now escorting twelve-year-old Betsey Odom on a flight to Seattle to meet with her uncle who’s under FBI investigation. Yet, as Devine gets to know Betsey, he discovers the story of her parents’ deaths are not adding up. The more Devine digs the more he realizes an even bigger conspiracy is at play.

Publication Date: 12 November 2024
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In the 31st book of the series, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has accidentally said yes to both Ranger and Morelli. Stalling for time to decide what to do about her two fiancés, Stephanie hunts down an online influencer who likes to help the homeless, a produce merchant who has been trafficking girls, and a laundromat manager who thinks he’s a vampire. But Stephanie is also hiding a big secret that could upend everything as she makes the biggest decision of her life.

Publication Date: 19 November 2024
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Clove has a perfectly settled life with her husband and two children in Portland, Oregon. But a call from a women’s prison shatters threatens to shatter the life she’s built for herself. Before she was named Clove, she was a young girl growing up in a violent household in Hawaii. Switching between Clove’s present and past, Madwoman tells the story of a woman finally facing the worst day of her life, which will set her free or undo her.

Publication Date: 3 September 2024
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Among the best new thriller books is a new release from Laura Dave, author of The Last Thing He Told Me, who is known for her slower but thought-provoking suspense. When Liam, a wealthy hotel magnate, falls to his death at his cliffside home, the police rule it an accident. But Nora and Sam have other ideas about their father’s death. Although they barely know each other since Liam kept his life with each ex-wife separate, they form an uneasy alliance. Digging into Liam’s life, they discover a secret that could impact their own future.

Publication Date: 17 September 2024
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Even though Jane Pyre wrote all the songs that catapulted her rock band, The Lightning Bottles, she was never as popular with the fans as her husband/bandmate, Elijah Hart. When Elijah mysteriously disappeared five years ago, Jane instantly became the most hated woman in the music industry. Living a quiet life in Germany, Jane is shocked when her superfan teenage neighbor claims Elijah is alive and dropping clues for Jane to find him.

Publication Date: 24 September 2024
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Sydney Shaw has hit the New York dating jackpot: a charming handsome doctor who is perfect in every way. But a serial killer is on the loose killing women he dates. Sydney knows there is almost no way her perfect boyfriend could be the serial killer but she just can’t shake the feeling she’s being watched in the latest thriller from the author of The Housemaid.

Publication Date: 1 October 2024
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From the author of Hidden Pictures comes another suspenseful fall thriller. For the first time in three years, Frank Szatowski receives a call from his estranged daughter Maggie inviting him to her wedding. Maggie fails to mention she is marrying Aidan Gardner, the son of a tech billionaire, at a swanky private estate. As Frank tries to reconnect with Maggie he becomes alarmed at the local hostility toward Aidan’s family. Can Frank discover the truth without driving Maggie away forever?

Publication Date: 8 October 2024
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Acclaimed pediatric surgeon Dr. Richmond Doughtery dies after falling down the stairs and the whole town blames his new young wife Addison. In the less than 4 months of their marriage, Richmond already had two suspicious accidents and Addison is now a very rich widow. Now Addison must figure out who killed Richmond because they interrupted Addison’s plan to marry him and then ruin him.

Publication Date: 10 December 2024
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Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney

January 14, 2025
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A grieving man visits a small Scottish island to discover a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.

Cross My Heart by Megan Collins

January 14, 2025
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A heart transplant patient becomes romantically obsessed with her donor’s husband.

A Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall

February 4, 2025
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A woman visits her wealthy fiancé’s family retreat only to discover she had visited their as a child.

Close Your Eyes and Count to 10 by Lisa Unger

February 18, 2025
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A social media stunt goes awry when a game of hide and seek on an island turns deadly.

Saltwater by Katy Hays

March 25, 2025
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At an annual family reunion in Capri, a woman investigates the death of her mother thirty years earlier.

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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