The Best New Thriller Books of Fall 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 season brings new books, and the list of new thrillers in 2025 is particularly long.

Of course, my fall 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!

Known for her celebrity book club, Reese Witherspoon tries her hand at a thriller with acclaimed author Harlan Coben. A highly skilled combat surgeon, Maggie McCabe loses her license after a heartbreaking series of events. When a plastic surgeon with elite clientele who want to demand utmost privacy offers her a job, Maggie is excited to work again. But when her patient disappears, Maggie finds herself accused of murder.

Publication Date: 14 October 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

Decades ago, Claire’s older sister Natalie disappeared and a man was quickly arrested and convicted. Now a investigative journalist, Claire returns home and takes a job at the South Carolina vineyard where her sister used to work. When Claire stumbles on an old journal of one of the owner’s, she is engrossed but a tale of youthful rebellion and love. As the journal starts to reveal details of unsolved crimes, Claire finds herself obsessed and can’t stop thinking it all connects back to her missing sister.

Publication Date: 26 August 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

The daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont, Jet Mason has lived a normal, boring life. When she is attacked on Halloween, Jet receives a head injury that doctors say will kill her in the next week. That gives Jet seven days to solve her own murder and she can’t help but look at everyone – her parents, her best friend turned sister-in-law and her ex-boyfriend – in a new light.

Publication Date: 22 July 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

Karin Slaughter debuts a new series set in North Falls, a small town where everyone knows each other. On a night of fireworks, two teenage girls disappear. Officer Emmy Clifton feels guilty that when her best friend’s daughter asked for help, she turned her away and now she’s missing. As Emmy dives into the teenagers’ lives, she realizes there are more secrets in the town than she could ever have guessed.

Publication Date: 12 August 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

In a sequel to the bestseller The Woman in Cabin 10, Lo Blacklock receives an invitation to the opening of a luxury Swiss hotel owned by billionaire Marcus Leidmann. Ready to get her career going after the birth of her first child, Lo must navigate the changes in post-Covid travel journalism. While trying to get an interview with Marcus, Lo gets a middle of the night summons to his suite. But instead of Marcus, Lo is faced with his mistress caught in a life-or-death situation.

Publication Date: 8 July 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

Beckett Bowery never expected to return to Wyatt Valley, the beautiful mountain town where her parents are professors at a small college. Decades earlier, Beckett’s college best friend disappeared after setting a fire that killed two locals and everyone thought Beckett knew more than she let on. When Beckett’s daughter Delilah decides to go to the same college, Beckett is on edge, knowing the town’s memory lasts a very long time.

Publication Date: 29 July 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

In the eight book of the series, Private Investigators Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott take on a case of dismembered corpse found in the fault of a silver shop. While the police claim it belongs to a convicted armed robber, Decima Mullins swears it belongs to her boyfriend who disappeared. The more Cormoran and Robin investigate, the more complicated the case becomes. Meanwhile, Robin seems to be becoming serious with her police officer boyfriend forcing Cormoran to decide if he will share his feelings with her.

Publication Date: 2 September 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

Weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team at the Sûreté du Québec stopped a domestic terror attack by the Black Wolf. Recovering from his wounds, Gamache is trapped in the small village of Three Pines contemplating recent events. Now he is convinced that the horrific attack may have just been a distraction for a much deeper and darker plot in the 20th book of the series. 

Publication Date: 28 October 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

In rural Virginia, Simon Latch is making just enough as a local lawyer while his marriage slowly falls apart. When elderly widow Eleanor Barnett walks in, Simon is excited to secure his richest client ever. Eleanor needs a new will and her recently deceased husband left her fortune that no one knows about. After Eleanor is hospitalized in a car accident, Simon finds himself accused of murder in John Grisham’s first whodunit.

Publication Date: 21 October 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

Robert Langdon returns with a trip to Prague to attend a conference presentation by his new girlfriend Katherine Solomon. Katherine is on the verge of publishing a new book that calls into question everything we know about human consciousness. When a brutal murder occurs, Katherine disappears with her manuscript and Langdon must track her down as he uncovers a secret project that will change the way we think about the human mind.

Publication Date: 9 September 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

After his estranged father’s funeral, Nash, a high level worker at an investment firm, is recruited by the FBI to investigate his company. Federal agents believe his firm is laundering vast sums of money for Victoria Steers, a wanted international criminal mastermind. But when Steers discovers Nash is an FBI informant, she turns the tables on him, forcing Nash to forgo his normal mild personality to survive and take revenge.

Publication Date: 11 November 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

Living in a cramped apartment with her husband in DC, Margo Miyake is desperate to move into a home in the suburbs where they can expand their family. After eighteen months and almost a dozen failed bidding wars, Margo feels like it will never happen. When Margo gets a tempt about the perfect house that will go on the market soon, she begins obsessively stalking the homeowners, willing to do anything to guarantee she gets this house.

Publication Date: 25 November 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

During a hurricane, Casey must weather the storm in her cabin that is not built for such an event. When she discovers a young man outside her kitchen window covered in blood clutching a knife, Casey would rather not take her in. The woman won’t tell Casey anything and may even be willing to kill to keep her secrets.

Publication Date: 7 October 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

Bex was Lizzie’s best friend in college until she disappeared after graduation. Now, Bex has remade herself into Rebecca Somers, a tradwife influencer chronicling her life on a ranch with her husband Grey. Out of the blue, Bex offers Lizzie an exclusive interview and a trip to the large influencer conference. When Bex disappears and Grey is murdered, Lizzie must dive into the sordid side of the real lives of the tradwife influencer scene.

Publication Date: 15 July 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

Nora Davies life is going nowhere fast as she waits tables at a country club in Winter Park, Florida. When she meets recently divorced Will Somerset who is twenty years her senior, they set the country club set astir with their courtship and marriage. But when Will disappears after his birthday bash, Nora must prove her innocence and figure out what happened to Will.

Publication Date: 24 June 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

Bryden and Sam have thriving careers and a picture-perfect family life with their young daughter in a luxury condo building. When Bryden fails to pick up their daughter from daycare, Sam comes home to find her car, phone and keys but no Bryden. As the police race to find Bryden, the family’s life and neighbors don’t seem as picture perfect as they appear.

Publication Date: 29 July 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

For her entire career, rumors have swirled around Maria Capello, a chef, restauranter and television personality. They say she murdered her husband to build her culinary empire. Now Maria is ready to publish her memoir and she chooses Thea Woods to help her write it. As Maria’s grandmotherly veneer slowly peels away, Thea finds herself desperately afraid. For Maria’s husband was never found and no one knows the secret ingredient in Maria’s recipes.

Publication Date: 5 August 2025
Learn More: Goodreads | StoryGraph
Buy Now: Amazon | Apple Books

The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave

January 6, 2026
Amazon | Goodreads

Sequel to The Last Thing He Told Me. Five years after disappearing, Owen reappears and Hannah and her stepdaughter must go on the run.

The Storm by Rachel Hawkins

January 6, 2026
Amazon | Goodreads

With a hurricane brewing, a writer investigates a coastal town’s most famous murder with the help of its prime suspect.

Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston

January 20, 2026
Amazon | Goodreads

Two women switch places to investigate one’s husband who ends up being murdered.

My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney

January 20, 2026
Amazon | Goodreads

After a run, a woman returns home to find her husband with a new woman whom he claims is his wife.

A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James

January 20, 2026
Amazon | Goodreads

Decades after their little brother disappeared in a game of hide-and-seek, his ghost calls his three siblings home to discover the truth.

All the Little Houses by May Cobb

January 20, 2026
Amazon | Goodreads

In a 1980s Texas town, a popular mean girl and her equally mean mother are threatened by the arrival of a new family.

Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden

January 27, 2026
Amazon | Goodreads

A women’s advice columnist loses her job and is out for revenge against those who wronged her.

Her Last Breath by Taylor Adams

February 17, 2026
Amazon | Goodreads

A woman and her high school best friend are attacked by a man while on a caving expedition.

The Girls Before by Kate Alice Marshall

February 24, 2026
Amazon | Goodreads

A search and rescue expert stumbles on evidence of kidnapped girls by a prominent local family.

Served Him Right by Lisa Unger

March 10, 2026
Amazon | Goodreads

A woman gathers her friends for brunch to celebrate her recent breakup when they find her ex is dead and she is the prime suspect.

Missing Sister by Joshilyn Jackson

March 3, 2026
Amazon | Goodreads

On her first murder scene as a cop, a woman discovers the victim is one of the men she blames for her twin sister’s death.

Last One Out by Jane Harper

April 14, 2026
Amazon | Goodreads

Five years after her college son’s death, a woman realizes their abandoned mining hometown is holding secrets.

Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth

April 21, 2026
Amazon | Goodreads

A young girl befriends an old woman who has a strange history of people in her life dying mysteriously.

Caller Unknown by Gillian McAllister

May 5, 2026
Amazon | Goodreads

On a visit to Texas, a British woman’s daughter is kidnapped and the ransom demand instructs her to commit an unthinkable task