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The Best New Crime & Thrillers Books to Read in 2025

From a chilling psychological thriller by Spanish literary icon Antonio Muñoz Molina, to a new French novel by Maud Ventura that explores the dark side of fame, to a jaw-dropping domestic suspense from bestselling author Freida McFadden—these crime and thriller books will add a delightfully sinister twist to your reading list.

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Book Cover for: Make Me Famous, Maud Ventura
This French novel that explores the dark side of fame is a Tertulia staff pick!

Make Me Famous

Maud Ventura

Make Me Famous introduces us to a French-American pop icon with LA mansions, millions in the bank, and an army of fans. Her perfect facade begins to crack during what should be paradise in the South Pacific. "Maud Ventura has given us an exhilarating and fanciful study of celebrity while questioning the fundamental failings of our time," observed Vanity Fair.

Hardcover, 2025

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Your Steps on the Stairs, Antonio Muñoz Molina
A slow-burning psychological mystery from one of Spain’s most acclaimed novelists

Your Steps on the Stairs

Antonio Muñoz Molina

A man settles into a quiet Lisbon apartment to await his wife, only to be consumed by déjà vu, dread, and the sense that something—or someone—is watching. Elegant and spare, this psychological noir is “a harrowing drama of subtleties” (The New Yorker) and “feels like hearing a constant alarm ringing” (NYT Book Review).

Paperback, 2025

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Tenant, Freida McFadden
A jaw-dropping domestic suspense from bestselling author Freida McFadden

The Tenant

Freida McFadden

A recently unemployed homeowner takes on a tenant to make ends meet—only to find the walls closing in. Another tightly wound, twist-laden stunner from a modern master of psychological suspense.

Hardcover, 2025

$32.99$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Missing Half, Ashley Flowers
The Crime Junkie host follows her bestseller All Good People Here with a suspenseful tale of two haunted sisters

The Missing Half

Ashley Flowers

When a woman whose sister vanished years ago crosses paths with someone whose sister disappeared the same way, the mystery reignites. Together, they chase answers through small-town secrets and lingering trauma in a novel Booklist calls “impossible to put down” and Gillian Flynn praises for its “genuine beating heart.”

Hardcover, 2025

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Count My Lies: A GMA Book Club Pick!, Sophie Stava
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick

Count My Lies: A GMA Book Club Pick!

Sophie Stava

Kirkus called GMA’s March pick a "compelling, tautly plotted book" appealing to both Gone Girl enthusiasts and readers who appreciate "smart, well-crafted fiction." This read-in-one-night thriller follows a compulsive liar whose seemingly harmless deceptions entangle her with a wealthy couple harboring far more sinister secrets.

Good Morning AmericaGood Morning America

Hardcover, 2025

$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Fair Play, Louise Hegarty
A genre-defying literary mystery that blends emotional depth with Golden Age detective homage

Fair Play

Louise Hegarty

This Irish debut is part classic whodunit, part modern meditation on loss. With sharp twists and a metafictional edge, it’s both a tribute to and a reinvention of the crime novel. “Fair Play honors the golden age of crime novels, just as it turns the genre on its head,” praised NPR.

Hardcover, 2025

$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Famous Last Words, Gillian McAllister
A seemingly perfect morning shatters in this unputdownable thriller from the author of Wrong Place Wrong Time

Famous Last Words

Gillian McAllister

A new mother wakes to find her husband gone, leaving behind only a mysterious note. Hours later, he emerges as an armed gunman in central London, taking hostages while the world watches. "McCallister hits another one out of the park," raves Booklist in its starred review. "All the puzzle pieces click together for a satisfying ending."

Megan CollinsMegan Collins

Hardcover, 2025

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Heartwood (a Read with Jenna Pick), Amity Gaige
This literary thriller is a Read with Jenna Book Club selection

Heartwood (a Read with Jenna Pick)

Amity Gaige

"You will open this book and you will not stop reading," promised Jenna Bush Hager. When an experienced hiker disappears in the Maine wilderness, a determined game warden and an unlikely armchair detective uncover unsettling clues—was it an accident, or something more sinister?

Elin HilderbrandElin Hilderbrand

Hardcover, 2025

$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Saint of the Narrows Street, William Boyle
Fans of The Sopranos won’t be able to put down this south Brooklyn-set tragic opera

Saint of the Narrows Street

William Boyle

As a decades-old secret unravels in a tight-knit Italian American family, they must confront the consequences in the latest from the author of Shoot the Moonlight Out. In its starred review Kirkus praised “an established noir master [who] outdoes himself in crafting a novel of deep dimensions marked by intergenerational trauma, family strife, and failed religion.”

Megan AbbottMegan Abbott

Hardcover, 2025

$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Saltwater, Katy Hays
Wealth and secrets collide on the isle of Capri in this electrifying thriller

Saltwater

Katy Hays

In the sophomore novel from the art historian and bestselling author of The Cloisters, a wealthy family vacationing at a fabled Italian resort are confronted by a long-buried crime. "Hays uses the island setting to brilliantly exploit locked-room mystery tropes, and doles out jaw-dropping reveals at just the right moments," raved Publishers Weekly. "This masterful suspense story has all the momentum of a runaway train.”

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Hardcover, 2025

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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