The Best Thriller Books of 2025

Beware: these best thriller books of 2025 will keep you up all night with edge-of-your-seat action and gripping mysteries. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

It’s 1 am, and you know it’s way past your bedtime and you’ll pay for this tomorrow, but you cannot seem to put your book down. You have to know whodunit and if your favorite character will survive until the end of the book.

The best thriller books keep you glued to your seat. What a delicious feeling it is to be full of suspense at the turn of a page.

All year, I’ve been scouting out the best thriller books of 2025, hoping to find great domestic thrillers, gritty mystery books, and edge-of-your-seat thriller books that you’ll be dying to read.

Since you likely don’t have time to read a zillion books a year as I do, let me narrow it down for you. Here are my picks for the best thriller books of 2025. 

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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Sloane Carraway has a tendency to lie; usually just harmless little lies that make her seem a little more interesting. When she sees a hurt little girl at the park, she can’t resist telling the girl’s father she’s a nurse as she pulls out the bee stinger. Soon Sloane finds herself hired as the nanny for the picture perfect New York City power couple. But the deeper Sloane goes into Jay and Violet’s world the more she realizes that she is not the only one lying.

Publication Date: 4 March 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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After her husband’s tragic death, Nina Swann was not looking for love again when she met his old friend Nick Radcliffe. Suddenly she is swept away by the perfect man but her adult daughter Ash feels like there is something dodgy about Nick. Meanwhile, Martha is a florist whose charming husband Alistair has started disappearing for days. As Martha, Nina, and Ash are set on a collision course, they learn the truth that a perfect man can be a perfect liar in this dark twisted thriller.

Publication Date: 24 June 2025
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Bex was Lizzie’s best friend in college until Bex ghosted her after graduation. Now, Bex has remade herself into Rebecca Somers, a tradwife influencer chronicling her life on a ranch with her husband Grey and their six children. Out of the blue, Bex offers Lizzie an exclusive interview and a trip to a large influencer conference. When Bex disappears and Grey is murdered, Lizzie must dive into the sordid side of the real lives of mom influencers.

Publication Date:15 July 2025
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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
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In a moment of teenage madness, Providence Byrd put her car in reverse and ran over her mother, almost killing her and becoming a convicted felon in the aftermath. When her mother disappears, Providence finally returns to her estranged family, sure her abusive father is responsible. As Providence draws closer to her younger sisters, she is caught between the desire for revenge and the desire to end the cycle of violence that has plagued her family for generations.

Publication Date: 22 April 2025
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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
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At 42, Valerie Gillis is an experience Appalachian Trail hiker so it is shocking when she disappears 200 miles from her destination in Maine. Leading the ground search, Maine State Game Warden Beverly is determine to find her. Meanwhile from her retirement home, Lena has decided to set birdwatching aside and become an amateur detective. Veering between the three women, Heartwood shows a gripping race against time and a look at the many ways we can be lost.

Publication Date: 1 April 2025
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With nineteen other contestants, Lily competes in a reality tv show where all she has to do is outlast her competitors by staying in The Compound the longest. During challenges, the contestants compete for luxuries like lipstick and necessities for the house like appliances. As Lily becomes closer to the others, the line between needs and wants starts to blur. As the producers push the contestants into riskier and riskier challenges, Lily begins to wonder how far she is willing to go to win.

Publication Date: 24 June 2025
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What Would You Say Are The Best Thriller Books of 2025?

What thrillers did you enjoy most this year? Did I miss any of the Best Thriller Books of 2025 that you loved? As always, let me know in the comments!

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