The Best New Crime & Thrillers Books to Read in 2025
Ready to kick off 2025 with your next unputdownable read? We’ve rounded up the top crime and thrillers books you won’t want to miss this winter. From a small-town crime caper perfect for Yellowstone fans, to a vacation in the Hamptons that takes a terrifying turn, to brand-new releases from Katy Hays, Freida McFadden, Jo Nesbø, and Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright—these thrilling books will add a delightfully sinister twist to your 2025 reading list.
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A seemingly perfect morning shatters in this unputdownable thriller from the author of Wrong Place Wrong Time
Megan Collins
Famous Last Words
Gillian McAllisterA 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 CollinsHardcover, 2025
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This provocative thriller about marriage and revenge is a Tertulia staff pick!
Beautiful Ugly
Alice FeeneyA remote Scottish island, a missing wife, a tormented marriage and a tortured writer all converge in the latest from the acclaimed author of Rock Paper Scissors. “This may be Feeney's most delightfully chilling thriller yet,” raves Booklist. “Feeney mixes gothic atmosphere on a remote Scottish island; not one, but two possibly unreliable narrators; a woman who may or may not be dead; and a plot that delivers suspense like an IV drip”
Hardcover, 2025
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Fans of The Sopranos won’t be able to put down this south Brooklyn-set tragic opera
Megan Abbott
Saint of the Narrows Street
William BoyleAs 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 AbbottHardcover, 2025
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Wealth and secrets collide on the isle of Capri in this electrifying thriller
Lizz Schumer 🏳️🌈 & Read with Jenna
Saltwater
Katy HaysIn 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.”
Lizz Schumer 🏳️🌈 & Read with JennaHardcover, 2025
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One of TIME's Most Anticipated Books of 2025
All the Other Mothers Hate Me
Sarah HarmanA single mom’s chaotic life spirals when her son becomes the prime suspect in his bully’s disappearance. Faced with hostile school moms, her own doubts, and no skills to solve the mystery, she’ll do whatever it takes to protect her child. This “funny, fast-paced blend of domestic thriller and social satire” is sure to leave readers “clamoring for a sequel,” according to Publishers Weekly.
Hardcover, 2025
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A beloved actress is cast in a feminist adaptation of a Fitzgerald classic in this debut literary thriller
Sweet Fury
Sash BischoffWhen America’s sweetheart lands the lead role in a daring reimagining of Tender Is the Night, her picture-perfect life begins to unravel as therapy sessions unlock long-buried secrets, plunging her into a deadly game of revenge where no one is who they seem. Publishers Weekly praised this page-turner for revealing “one surprising secret after another, all the way until the bombshell final twist. It's an inspired first outing.”
Hardcover, 2025
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A vacation in the Hamptons goes terribly wrong in this twisty novel by a NY Times bestselling author and law professor
Maureen Corrigan & D.J. Palmer
The Note
Alafair BurkeThree friends with a tangled past reunite in the Hamptons, where a chance encounter spirals into a deadly prank gone wrong. “Burke builds an intricate structure of secrets layered within secrets, revealed for maximum suspense,” raves Kirkus. “The complex friendship among three flawed but engaging characters anchors this satisfying psychological thriller."
Maureen Corrigan & D.J. PalmerHardcover, 2025
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A master of Nordic suspense delivers a darkly humorous thriller about two brothers and a community on the brink
Blood Ties
Jo NesboIn the latest from the bestselling Norwegian author of the Harry Hole series, two brothers fight to save their small town from isolation as a new highway threatens their livelihood. Booklist says this “beautifully written literary suspense” will have readers thinking about it long after the final words.
Hardcover, 2025
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Fans of The Housemaid series rejoice: a new thriller is here to chill you to the bone!
The Crash
Freida McFaddenA pregnant woman on the run from her crumbling life crashes during a blizzard in rural Maine. Rescued by a friendly couple, she thinks she’s found safety—but as the days drag on, she realizes her new "sanctuary" might be a deadly trap.
Hardcover, 2025
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A Reese’s Book Club Pick
Reese Witherspoon
The Three Lives of Cate Kay: Reese's Book Club: A Novel
Kate FaganIn this suspenseful page-turner from an award-winning sports journalist, a secretive bestselling author decides to finally confess her true identity after years of hiding from her past. This debut thriller, praised by Booklist as “exquisitely plotted with [an] inventive story structure,” showcases “Fagan’s journalism-honed observational skills [that] make her fiction debut shine.”
Reese WitherspoonHardcover, 2025
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