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New In Thrillers and Suspense Books

What's new in thrillers and suspense? Here are our top picks in recent releases.

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  • Chloe attends an opening at the gallery where she works. The next morning she has no memory of the previous night and has a mysterious note in her pocket. Inga, the represented artist, was murdered and Chloe is the prime suspect.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2025. — FIC BELLI
  • Olivia, a memory specialist, is called to pick up her mother, who won't leave a hotel lobby. She insists that she committed a murder after Paris was liberated in WWII. Then her grandmother is murdered in a home invasion. Olivia might be next.
    Book, 2025New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025. — FIC BLAKE
  • Small town Swedish teens are accused of killing another troubled teen who is heir to a large farm. The dead teen's father interferes and then years later there's another very similar murder. Officer Jorgensson reopens the case.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Hogarth, 2025. — ON ORDER
  • Thirty years after her mother vanished, Fiona returns to the same town. She finds new secrets and another missing person's case. The two cases point to the creepy son of a man accused of a separate murder.
    Book, 2025New York : Atria Books, 2025. — FIC FAWCETT
  • Hunter enters a small Texas town's body shop and demands a job. Months later, he and the owner drive off, leaving a dead body and set fires. After driving a distance, they lunch in a diner and then choose a shortcut to horror.
    Book, 2025New York : Atria Books, 2025. — ON ORDER
  • Lucy told friends that she regretted having a baby. Not long after, Lucy disappears and the baby is left in a grocery store cart. Neighbors think she abandoned her infant, but a detective connects the disappearance to another case.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Soho Crime, 2025. — ON ORDER
  • Father and daughter take a bonding road trip through the Appalachians. A quick pitstop turns into a nightmare. They are abducted by a man who claims he is terrified about "deadly water".
    Book, 2025Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2025] — FIC GODFREY
  • No one is supposed to be aware that harmless office worker Gwen Tanner is the vanished daughter of seriial killer Abel Haggerty. But a low profile and a new name isn't enough when an obsessive new killer targets her.
    Book, 2025New York : Berkley, 2025. — ON ORDER
  • Madeleine and Wes invite 200 people to their gender reveal party. A celebratory explosive misfires, leaving one woman dead and a trail of secrets.
    Large Print, 2025Harlequin Books 2025 — LP ON ORDER
  • Agatha wrote a blockbuster suspense novel but now has writer's block. Her husband gifts her a train ride to Montreal. The train breaks down in the woods and her seatmate dies in the spot originally reserved for her. Is she the intended victim?
    Book, 2025Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, 2025. — ON ORDER
  • Addie's ex-boyfriend Josh disappears. Her friends think he was behaving strangely. Josh is a star journalist from a prominent family with enemies.
    Book, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025. — ON ORDER
  • Two teens disappear from a Las Vegas wedding. Detective Holloway works with a guardian ad litem to follow clues. A Mayan bracelet links the teens to the criminal underworld.
    Book, 2025Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2025] — M METHOS
  • A blood covered child named Anya enters a rural new Zealand grocery store. She starts eating food off the shelves. When Constable Weston arrives, he remembers a similar situation. It was an unsolved disappearance that happened twenty years ago.
    Book, 2025New York : Berkley, 2025. — FIC RANKIN
  • Susan is followed through dual timelines. First, is her traumatic childhood spent on tour with her father's band in the 1980's. The second, her adult life where she is forced to confront her past. As a child, she was the only witness to a murder.
    Book, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025. — FIC RIO
  • It's a Friday afternoon and a shocking alert is broadcast. A nuclear missile will strike London within the hour. Chaos erupts. A marauding militia is snatching young women. Three strong women living disparate lives act to to stop the mayhem.
    Book, 2025New York : Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2025. — ON ORDER
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