10 Gripping New Mystery and Thriller Books Coming in September 2025

It’s been almost eight years since we last saw Robert Langdon, and he’s finally back with another adventure.

This time the professor heads to Prague where Katherine Solomon is set to deliver a groundbreaking lecture before publishing a book on consciousness that will disrupt centuries of belief. But when Katherine and her manuscript disappear after a brutal murder, Langdon finds himself in the middle of a secret conspiracy that will forever change how the world thinks about the human mind.

As he searches for Katherine, he has to navigate both ancient lore and futuristic science before a powerful organization determined to bury the truth finds him first.

All it takes is a stroke of luck: One gallery agreeing to take your work, one collector with deep pockets who gives your art a name.

And Manhattan is filled with both.

But there’s one artist who believes he has been overlooked and shunned while others with less talent reap the rewards that he deserves. Only, he knows that in the morning, the entire city will be talking about his work.

Before dawn breaks, Lt. Eve Dallas finds herself heading to the home of two gallery owners where a young model has been posed to resemble a long-dead Dutch artist’s model in a gruesome murder.

The clock begins as Dallas hunts the killer.

Every week, Mal and Sue Eastwood run a trivia night at their rural pub. It’s finally boosting business.

But all that changes when a dead body is found in a nearby river and a mysterious team shows up to investigate. And when this team starts outscoring the locals on trivia night, everyone gets all riled up.

Even worse, Mal and Sue are hiding a secret of their own. Before they came to town, they were forced to leave their previous job after a police operation went bad.

Five years later, the pub is dead and Mal and Sue’s nephew Dominic is left with questions. This is his documentary to uncover the truth.

When notorious criminal Kingpin is killed along with a police officer, no one expects Frank Castle to turn himself in for the crime. Especially not attorney Matt Murdock.

Everyone knows the Punisher doesn’t kill cops. And he doesn’t go to prison.

Murdock agrees to defend the vigilante, but Castle doesn’t make it easy. There’s a game beneath the game, and by the time the case is complete, Murdock will have to decide if justice means upholding the exact letter of the law, or doing what’s best for the citizens of the city he defends.

After a busy year, the four members of the Thursday Murder Club are busier than ever.

Joyce is planning a wedding while Elizabeth grieves. Ron faces family problems, and Ibrahim still provides therapy to his favorite criminal.

But everything changes when Elizabeth meets a wedding guest in trouble. Suddenly, death is hot on their trail as they encounter a villain who will stop at nothing to crack an uncrackable code.

Can they find the killer before it’s too late?

For six struggling crime writers, the invitation is a lifeline. Come to the mysterious Midwinter Trust this Christmas to play a game.

The rules are simple. Solve the murder of a fictional crime writer and all your fortunes will change.

Members of the trust will ensure no one cheats, and the contestants have been vetted. But when a snowstorm cuts the village off from the rest of civilization, it becomes clear that, despite what the rules say, someone was never planning on following them.

When Eva agrees to meet Madison and her fiancé Theo to become their wedding planner, she never expected to come face-to-face with her dead husband.

The man she shakes hands with died five years ago. But she can’t say anything because he knows her darkest secret—the one that will unravel the life she’s worked so hard to build.

As the happy couple walks away, Madison is unsuspecting.

Eve knows Theo. She knows he thinks he knows her.

He has no idea what she’s going to do next.

One night, Tobias Lachlan and Cora Stevens went out for a romantic dinner and never came home.

Seven years later, their bodies are found in a submerged car outside of Denton. Their family is devastated when the autopsy reveals it wasn’t an accident that killed them, but murder.

Detective Josie Quinn has little evidence to go on, and their children have no idea who wanted their parents dead. As Quinn investigates, she finds that everyone has been keeping secrets.

And when another body is found, she knows for sure that someone is desperate to keep their secrets buried for good.

Five strangers win the trip of a lifetime, an all-expenses paid trip to an exclusive resort in the middle of the Costa Rican rainforest. But when they arrive, something is amiss and their host never appears.

Not wanting to miss a single second of this incredible adventure, they head into the rainforest to find a rejuvenating waterfall and begin their week of relaxation.

In the middle of nowhere, with no one around for miles, when things go wrong, they turn disastrous. What began as a vacation descends into a panic-fueled drive for survival.

And not everyone is going to make it.

David Cartwright used to tell his grandson that “old spies aren’t much better than clowns.” That doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous—a lesson River Cartwright seems to have forgotten.

When a book from his grandfather’s library goes missing, he uses his medical leave to investigate. Meanwhile, MI5 First Desk Diana Taverner finds herself in a bind that requires some creative problem solving.

It isn’t a job for Slough House, but Jackson Lamb knows his clowns don’t always listen. Which means someone better hope they all make it back in one piece, or there will be a reckoning.