10 Exhilarating New Mystery and Thriller Books for July 2025 to Make Your Heart Race

When police are called to a closed campsite outside of Stockholm in the middle of the night, a single lit caravan leads them to a horrifying discovery.

Inside, every surface is covered in blood. And in one of the rooms, a young man is asleep with a severed arm as a pillow.

He is identified as the seventeen-year-old son of a famous author, and he suffers from a rare sleepwalking disorder. He’s either the killer or a witness, and it’s up to Joona Linna to find out which.

Harper never expected her sister Pam to bounce back from her messy divorce so fast. Especially not after Pam’s ex emptied their accounts and stole from the kids.

But Pam has a secret: the Wheel.

It’s a group of women who meet twice a month and help one lucky member. New members bring cash, and when one of their members needs aid, they give it.

When Harper is invited, she thinks it might finally be the end of her financial problems.

But there’s a darkness lurking in the group. And if the sisters aren’t careful, it just might get them killed.

It’s been fifteen years since Frida and Gabriel escaped a cult. Looking for a way to reconnect, they go to the Ara Hotel in Utah. It’s luxurious and relaxing—until a dead body is discovered in the pool.

The police immediately suspect Gabriel. Frida has only ever believed in her brother, especially after he helped them escape all those years ago.

But even she can’t deny how much evidence is against him. As the past and the present crash together, Frida is forced to look at her memories and see if she actually knows who her brother is.

The invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel is the exact escape journalist Lo Blacklock needs. An interview with the hotel’s billionaire owner would do wonders to get her back in the game.

After all, it’s been ten years since she last worked a story.

But getting time with the man is more elusive than she ever dreamed. And when she finally does get the call, she finds his mistress in his hotel room claiming she’s in a life-or-death situation.

Suddenly, she’s racing across Europe, wondering how much she might have to sacrifice to save this stranger. Or if she can even trust her at all.

Bryden and Sam are the perfect couple. They both have thriving careers, a satisfying social life, and a daughter they adore.

But when Sam gets a call from his daughter’s daycare saying Bryden never arrived, their world falls apart. Back at their luxury condo, her car is in the garage, her laptop and cell phone are on the table, and her keys are hanging in the hall.

With little to go on, police try to figure out if she simply walked out on her life or if something terrible happened.

The last thing Savvy Summer expected was for her customer-favorite sweet potato pie to be at the center of a murder investigation. But when a 75-year-old regular dies at table two, that’s exactly what happens.

The police are leaning towards his death being an accident, but that doesn’t stop the press from pouring in.

Determined to clear her name and regain her café’s reputation, Savvy sets out to find the killer.

Jet Mason is from one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, New York. At twenty-seven, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. 

Until a violent attack leaves her with a terrible head injury and a doctor gives her seven days to live.

Jet never thought she had any enemies, but this attack proves she was wrong. She has seven days left to live, and she’s going to solve her own murder.

It’s been a year since wild events threw Katie True’s life into disarray. All that’s over now.

She has her own tarot reading room, for one. Even if reading cards to answer trivial questions isn’t as much fun as investigating a murder, at least it pays the bills.

But when a police officer is killed, Katie can’t stand on the sidelines.

It may take more than one reading to solve the crime, but Katie is determined to do things right this time.

You’re invited to solve a murder. Not just any murder, a never-before-solved crime from 1970s England.

The witnesses are waiting to be heard. The evidence ready to examine.

But things are not all that they appear. Are you ready to solve a mystery and catch a killer?

Be warned: failure is not allowed.

Ten years ago, teenage Kayla ruined her life when a dumb prank led to her arrest. Her life may be disappointing, but at least she has Zorie, her best friend, through it all.

Their favorite weekend pastime is crashing weddings to steal money and pawn gifts. It started small. Just grocery money.

But when they crash the wrong wedding and accidentally kill a guest, Kayla and Zorie end up on the run.

As their escape leaves a growing trail of bodies in their wake, old grudges surface, and Kayla realizes that her best friend might actually be a stranger.