Propulsive New Mystery and Thriller Books in January 2025

Eight months pregnant with nothing but a crumbling life for a future, Tegan packs up her car to head to her brother’s house only to drive straight into a blizzard.

When an accident strands her in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan is grateful when a couple rescues her from the side of the road. They offer her a room in their cabin while she waits out the storm.

But the more time she spends with them, the more it becomes obvious that she’s in danger.

Terrified but determined to save her unborn baby, Tegan has to do whatever it takes to make it out of the storm alive.

When author Grady Green calls his wife to share good news, he never expects it to be their last call.

In the middle of their conversation, she slams on the brakes, gets out of the car, and never returns.

He finds her car by a cliff. Headlights on. Door open. Phone still inside. Only, his wife is nowhere to be found.

A year later, Grady is still mired in grief. Deciding he needs a change to get his life in order, he travels to a tiny Scottish island—where he sees a woman who looks exactly like his wife.

Is it a coincidence? Or did his wife leave him in the cruelest way possible?

In 1926, off the cliffs of Yorkshire, a small girl, penniless and neglected, is lowered from a rope to steal the eggs of the sea birds nested there.

The most beautiful finds can be worth a fortune. What she discovers will change her life forever.

A century later, Patrick Fort finds himself in the middle of the cruel world of egg trafficking after he finds his friend Nick and Nick’s mother tied in their remote cottage in Wales.

All that was taken from their home was a carved case with a rare scarlet egg. With treachery and betrayal at every turn, the two follow the trail leading them to a priceless collection of eggs lost to history—until now.

Movie star Lila Crayne has it all. She’s gorgeous, kind, magnetic, and generous.

When she and her visionary filmmaker husband move to the West End to shoot the feminist adaptation of Tender is the Night, Lila goes all in to prepare for the role.

She begins working with Jonah Gabriel, an accomplished and charming therapist, to examine the trauma of her past. But the deeper they go into her life, the more everything starts falling apart.

And Jonah just happens to be there to pick up the pieces. Only, when everyone has secrets and not everything is not as it seems, the lines between victim, perpetrator, and justice are too easily blurred.

The last thing Gemma Doyle expects to see in the hotel lobby when she arrives for her sister’s wedding is her ex-husband, Paul. But when she hears that he has a rare book he wants her to see, she agrees to meet him at their old shop.

Only, when she arrives the next day with a rare book dealer, Paul is dead and the book he wanted her to see is missing.

Feeling like she owes her ex a peaceful farewell, she sets off to try and find his killer. Only, as she looks into his last days through friends, clients, and lovers, Gemma realizes his life wasn’t anything like she expected.

And if she wants to find out who killed him, she needs to do it fast, before they write her final chapter and end her story for good.

When Verity Beresford’s husband Oliver doesn’t come home, she goes to the only person who might know where he is: Judith Potts. 

After all, if the town’s amateur sleuth can’t find him, who can?

Judith tracks his steps from the exclusive pleasure cruise he threw for the Dramatic Society. Everyone remembers his boarding, but no one can recall him disembarking.

And then his body washes up with two bullet holes. There’s no shortage of suspects; Oliver wasn’t exactly a nice man. But the deeper the Murder Club looks, the more complicated the case gets.

They need to solve the case soon, otherwise a killer might just get away with murder.

Everything is going perfectly for Jin Bakery. The wedding Felicity is catering promises to be stunning and her “cake” of tiered egg tarts is finished just as the guests begin arriving.

When one of the groomsmen doesn’t show up, Kelvin, her best friend and florist, saves the day. Then it’s time to cut the cake and the groomsmen’s body is found under the table.

The police immediately suspect Kelvin, so Felicity has no choice but to prove her friend’s innocence. Only, everyone at this wedding has a secret. And plenty had a reason for murder.

As Felicity struggles to prove Kelvin’s innocence, her feelings for him become more and more obvious. But when the groom is poisoned and lands in a coma, the stakes rise even higher.

If she can’t find the killer soon, her relationship with Kelvin might be over before it ever started and an innocent man will go to jail for murder.

When private investigator Joe King Oliver’s grandmother is diagnosed with a tumor, she only has one request: to reconnect with her estranged son.

King hasn’t seen his father since he was a child and the man was taken away in handcuffs. He swore he’d never speak to him again, but he can’t deny his beloved grandma her last wish.

But as he investigates, he sees a different side to the man he never knew. Meanwhile, King is also looking for a powerful billionaire’s wife and daughter. Except when he finds them, he realizes they may be safer hidden.

Stuck in a moral quandary, determined to prove his father’s innocence, King has to find a path forward in both cases or risk the future of his family.

When the FBI comes up against cases it can’t solve, it calls in its Patterns and Recognitions (PAR) unit for help. Agent Gardner Camden is one of these quirky agents.

He has a natural talent when it comes to puzzles. When a serial killer everyone thought was dead is tied with DNA evidence to not just one, but two murders, the PAR team is called in to follow the trail of clues and riddles left behind.

For a team used to staying behind the scenes, suddenly they’re on the road and in the center of the public’s eye.

But with a killer who seems to know more about them while remaining elusive, the question they all start asking is: can they protect themselves and their families before it’s too late?

Mackenzie Clyde works for one of the most ruthless venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.

Her job? She makes his problems go away.

But when the CEO of the Valley’s hottest tech startup is found murdered in his office, Mackenzie is tasked with a job that just might be over her head. Using his extensive influence, her boss inserts her into the investigation with an FBI agent who would rather she stay out of it.

Not that his opinion matters to Mackenzie. She’s used to being underestimated and overlooked. She built her career on it.

And this case has the one thing she recognizes as valuable in the Valley: opportunity. What will she do to seize it? Whatever she has to.