The Most Anticipated Mystery & Thriller Books of Fall 2025

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham is the acclaimed master of the legal thriller. Now, he’s back with his first-ever whodunit, even more suspenseful than his courtroom dramas, as a small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real killer to clear his name.

The unmissable new mystery in the Thursday Murder Club series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Osman. It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. But when Elizabeth meets Nick, a wedding guest asking for her help, she finds the thrill of the chase is ignited once again. And when Nick disappears without a trace, his cagey business partner becomes the gang’s next stop. It seems the duo has something valuable — something worth killing for. Plunged back into action once more, can the four friends solve the puzzle and a murder in time?

Lisbeth Salander returns in this chilling new installment of the multi-million-copy bestselling Millennium series. Lured back to a lawless town full of predators disguised as saviors and foes disguised as friends, forced to face down their own troubling pasts and those of their loved ones, Salander and Blomkvist must untangle a history of violence before it’s too late. The Girl with Ice in Her Veins is a twisty, vertiginous, hard-hitting thriller that breathes new life into Stieg Larsson’s epic series and unforgettable characters.

Michael Lobb has just been found dead on the floor of his family’s tin and pewter workshop. It’s suspicious enough that his body was found by a representative of Cornwall EcoMining, a company keen on acquiring his family’s land, and it’s made even worse when he’s revealed to have been the majority owner of the business and the sole obstacle preventing a deal from being made … Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George.

Jack Reacher will make three stops today. Not all of them were planned for. The page-turning new Jack Reacher thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.

An amateur online sleuth must enlist the help of a jaded P.I. to clear her name while taking down a shady tech start-up in this exhilarating romantic suspense novel.

A young man is haunted by a mythological specter bent on stealing everything he loves in this unsettling horror from the author of Indian Burial Ground and Sisters of the Lost Nation.

Imagine if the Sackler family had a demon at their beck and call. Historical horror maven Alma Katsu turns her talents to the modern world for the first time, in this terrifying tale about an all-powerful family with an ancient evil under its thumb.

Love is in the air for the citizens of Shady Palms, but Cupid’s arrow isn’t the only thing striking the town — not with another killer on the loose.

From the New York Times bestselling author and creator of the hit MrBallen Podcast and YouTube channel, a vividly illustrated graphic novel featuring nine spine-chilling stories — based on real events — of the horror that lurks within the unknown.

A shocking murder in the New Zealand bush — and the witness who looks all too familiar — draws a woman back to the very place she swore she’d never return to in this breakneck debut thriller.

When a Native teenager vanishes from her small town — a place with dark ties to an elite historical society — archaeologist Syd Walker is called to investigate … from bestselling author Vanessa Lillie. This new Syd Walker novel proves that the sins of the past are destined to repeat itself until the truth is finally unearthed.

Murder disrupts four quirky librarians’ lives when they try to hide among books to keep their secrets. When two patrons turn up dead after the library’s inaugural murder mystery-themed game night, the librarians’ quiet routines come crashing down. Something sinister has stirred, something that threatens every single one of them. And the only way the librarians can save the library — and themselves — is to let go of their secrets, trust one another, and band together …

When six-year-old Laurel Taylor vanishes without a trace, her family is left shattered, struggling to navigate the darkness of grief and unanswered questions. As their search turns to despair, Laurel’s older sister, Nadine, begins experiencing nightmares that blur the line between dream and reality, and she becomes convinced that Laurel’s disappearance could be connected to other family tragedies. Guided by her elders, Nadine sets out to uncover whether laying the ghosts to rest is the key to finding her sister and healing her fractured family.

In this newest installment of Alexander McCall Smith’s beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe takes on a number of perplexing situations, and while she tries to maintain her usual impartiality, it’s difficult when one of the cases involves someone so close to her heart.

Jack Ryan Jr battles terrorists in the disputed mountains of Kashmir to save a comrade in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

Clay Edison has left behind the Alameda County coroner’s office to strike out on his own as a private investigator. He’s perfectly happy working low-stakes embezzlement cases — that is, until P.I. Regina Klein calls him with a mystery only he can solve. The son of a wealthy couple has washed up dead on the shores of San Francisco Bay with drugs in his system and a head injury. The police are calling it an accident. But the parents are adamant something’s not right — and as Clay digs deeper, he uncovers a horrifying tangle of betrayal and lies.