New Fun and Thrilling Mystery and Thriller Books for June 2025

When his father is hurt in a car accident, Roman Carruthers comes home. But what he finds is a disaster. His brother is in debt to a group of dangerous criminals, and his sister is exhausted from trying to hold the family business together.

Even worse, his brother’s reckless behavior may be the reason their father is in a coma at all. Roman quickly realizes that the only way out of the mess they’re in is to work for the criminals responsible.

Only, he isn’t the pushover they think he is. And Roman will do anything to save his family. 

Olivia Dumont doesn’t want anyone to know that she’s the only child of horror author Vincent Taylor. In fact, she’s spent her entire professional life hiding it. It’s not that he’s an author.

After all, Oliva is a ghostwriter. It’s more that he was the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his siblings.

But when financial ruin knocks on her door, she agrees to ghostwrite her father’s story. It should be an easy gig.

She just didn’t realize it would force her to confront the secrets haunting her family.

Mrs. Blossom would never play the lottery. She’s far too practical for that, a trait that served her well as the assistant to private investigator Tess Monaghan.

But when she finds a winning lottery ticket in a parking lot, it changes everything. Determined to see the world, she books a cruise, where on her flight, she meets Alan, the first man to spark her interest since her husband passed.

So, when he ends up dead less than twenty-four hours later, Mrs. Blossom suspects everyone aboard the ship.

Was Alan keeping secrets that got him killed? And can Mrs. Blossom discover the truth before time runs out?

Twelve years ago, in 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s life. Now, she’s ready to take her revenge. She lures all six individuals onto a luxury train to Chicago.

Her plan is to get them to confess their crimes so she can deliver them to the authorities waiting at the station.

But before she can enact her plan, someone aboard is murdered. Anna quickly realizes someone else has their own plans of revenge.

And they won’t stop until everyone is dead. Anna refuses to let someone else take justice away from her, forcing her to hunt the murderer and protect the people she hates.

To destroy them, she has to save them, even if that means putting herself in danger to do it.

Cath has deliberately avoided the thrill-seeking lifestyle of her absentee mother. So when she has to go through her things after her death, she’s surprised to find tickets to “murder week” in England’s Peak.

The quaint hamlet seems so at odds with her mother’s personality that Cath can’t help but be intrigued.

She convinces her cottage-mates to join her, and as the three work to solve the fictional mystery, they discover some surprising truths about themselves, Cath’s mother, and life along the way.

In the spring of 1990 in quiet Champton, the village is aflutter. A movie set takes over, and suddenly, the glitz and glamour are all anyone can talk about.

But before the actors can even fully get into character, there’s a murder on the set. And it’s a devious one. Daniel is called to the scene with his sidekick, Detective Sergeant Neil Vanloo.

The only question is if they can work together despite a disagreemen,t so that no one gets away with murder.

When Kathryn Hu finds out that her boyfriend Tucker Jones is cheating on her, she agrees to meet the other women. Olivia and Elle are looking for revenge, and Kathryn is willing to hear them out.

The last thing they expect to find instead is his body. To make matter worse, they look very guilty of the crime. But despite the crime scene being covered in their DNA and the fact that all three have a motive, they’re innocent.

Now, they just have to prove it.

Destiny Whip is a former child prodigy who has become a recluse. So when she receives an invitation to interview to become the Scruffmore family historian, she’s perplexed.

She never applied and the internet has nothing on the name. But when she decodes the message and it promises to reveal her family secrets, she can’t help but accept.

Only, Eerie Island and the Scruffmore are inhospitable. And Destiny is as much a mystery to them as they are to her. As she works to decipher the hidden mysteries throughout the castle, two things become very apparent.

One of the Scruffmore’s is going to die. And she’s running out of time to stop it.

Cleo was supposed to spend the weekend with her family at Lord and Lady Kershaw’s neo-Gothic manor.

But when the gamekeeper is murdered, Cleo becomes frustrated with the local police’s incompetence when they blame a man who conveniently disappears.

She realizes that their investigation is being influenced by Lord Kershaw himself, which raises more questions than answers. The gamekeeper, it turns out was quite the seducer of young women, leaving a trail of heartbreak in his path.

Was it a wronged lover who did him in? Or is there another reason someone wanted him dead?

Elysium is a wellness retreat in the English countryside. You get the call that there’s been a murder. When you arrive, the body of a local businessman is on the lawn.

Someone, presumably the killer, placed a rose in his mouth. He appears to have been stabbed with his own gardening fork, where he fell from a balcony and died.

But the balcony can only be reached through a locked door. And no one knows where the key is.

Everyone is a suspect. Can you solve the murder?