It's a new year and with it comes a long list of great new books to add to your to-be-read list. Ready to solve a new crime or figure out a mystery before the last page? We've compiled a list of some wonderful mystery/thriller/suspense authors who have new books coming out in 2025. Some of these are already on order in our catalog, which means you can get in line today. If you haven't already, read these authors' other titles while you wait.
A Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall (February 4, 2025)
A whirlwind romance.
When Theodora Scott met Connor—wealthy, charming, and a member of the powerful Dalton family—she fell in love in an instant. Six months later, he’s brought her to Idlewood, his family’s isolated winter retreat, to win over his skeptical relatives.
Stay away from Connor Dalton.
Theo has tried to ignore the threatening messages on her phone, but she can’t ignore the footprints in the snow outside the cabin window or the strange sense of familiarity she has about this place. Then, in a disused cabin, Theo finds something impossible: a photo of herself as a child. A photo taken at Idlewood.
I’ve been here before.
Theo has almost no recollection of her earliest years, but now she begins to piece together the fragments of her memories. Someone here has a shocking secret that they will do anything to keep hidden, and Theo is in terrible danger. Because the Daltons do not lose, and discovering what happened at Idlewood may cost Theo everything.
- More Titles by Kate Alice Marshall
No One Can Know (2024)
What Lies in the Woods (2023)
Young Adult & Children's Titles by Kate Alice Marshall
Extra Normal (2023)
The Narrow (2023)
These Fleeting Shadows (2022)
Our Last Echoes (2021)
Rules for Vanishing (2019)
I am Still Alive (2018)
With a Vengeance by Riley Sager (Expected Date: July 3, 2025)
In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution.
Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of fourteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who’ve wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. Justice will at last be served.
But Anna’s plan is quickly derailed by the murder of one of the passengers. As the train barrels through the night, it becomes clear that someone else on board is enacting their own form of revenge—and that they won’t stop until everyone else is dead.
With time running out before the train reaches its destination, Anna is forced to hunt the killer in their midst while protecting the people she hates the most. In order to destroy her enemies, she must first save them—even though it means putting her own life at risk.
- More Titles by Riley Sager
Middle of the Night (2024)
The Only One Left (2023)
The House Across the Lake (2022)
Survive the Night (2021)
Home Before Dark (2020)
Lock Every Door (2019)
The Last Time I Lied (2018)
Final Girls (2017)
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney (January 14, 2025)
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.
Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.
A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible – a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.
Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t.
Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.
- More Titles by Alice Feeney
Good Bad Girl (2023)
Daisy Darker (2022)
Rock Paper Scissors (2021)
His & Hers (2020)
I Know Who You Are (2019)
Sometimes I Lie (2017)
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix (January 14, 2025)
There’s power in a book…
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who knows she’s going to go home and marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid…and it’s usually paid in blood.
- More Titles by Grady Hendrix
How to Sell a Haunted House (2023)
The Final Girl Support Group (2021)
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (2020)
We Sold Our Souls (2018)
My Best Friend's Exorcism (2016)
Horrorstör (2014)
The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose (Expected Date: April 15, 2025)
Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine.
It’s been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah has long since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers. Her life is back to being exactly how she always wanted … or is it?
After discovering Bob engaged in a one-night stand, Sarah wastes no time filing for divorce. However, amid their ugly separation, new DNA evidence is uncovered in the case against Adam, forcing the police to reopen the investigation and putting Sarah right back in the spotlight. Everyone wants to know what really happened, most of all former deputy Marcus Hudson, who is hell-bent on finding the truth.
But when the woman Bob slept with is reported missing, he and Sarah start to fight dirty, and a high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues. Filled with page-turning suspense and Jeneva Rose’s signature twists and turns, this book will have readers wondering: Can Bob and Sarah achieve the perfect divorce? Or will it be “’til death do us part”?
- More Titles by Jeneva Rose
Home is Where the Bodies Are (2024)
It's a Date [Again] (2023)
You Shouldn't Have Come Here (2023)
One of Us is Dead (2022)
The Girl I Was (2021)
The Perfect Marriage (2020)