10 Propulsive New Mystery and Thriller books coming in July 2026

When Margot Cooper discovers that her A-list Hollywood husband sent explicit sexts to multiple women on social media, she packs up her daughter and seeks refuge in her childhood home. 

But instead, she finds a cardboard box filled with evidence of the urban legend vigilante Lady X, along with a blurry photo that looks eerily like her mother. Flashing back to 1977, Ginger Daughtry and her two roommates try to protect each other from the chaos of that infamous summer. Until one of them is assaulted and the police won’t do anything. 

But who was Lady X? And where did she go?

Ruby Spencer is known as “the exonerator” thanks to her job freeing innocent men from death row. She’s so good at her job that most people don’t know that she spends most of her free time searching for missing women. 

When a new case takes her to Georgia to save a man set to be executed in two weeks, she stumbles on crimes that have a shocking connection to her own life. As she relentlessly pursues answers, the only question is if she can find them before time runs out.

Ellie is looking forward to a fresh start. A place where no one knows her name, her history, or her secrets. She never thought her new house would come with secrets of its own. Or people watching it. 

But as Ellie learns about the history her new home holds, the revelations threaten to uncover more than the house’s secrets. If Ellie keeps digging, the secrets she reveals just might be her own.

Nicola Fischer’s father was just convicted of murdering five women, including her best friend. That revelation is bad enough, but she’s also lost her job and the woman who claimed to care about her, Greer Woods, cracked the case for her hit show and disappeared. 

When Greer does finally reach out, it’s via email with a cryptic invitation to The Death Row Club, an annual weekend getaway for children of serial killers. Nicola desperately needs an escape. 

But when an uninvited guest shows up and one of them ends up dead, panic ripples through everyone at the retreat. After all, they’re all apples fallen from the same rotten tree. And one of them is a killer.

After a former professor dies, Faye Heron finds herself back on campus for the funeral where she stumbles into Henry Spalding, the boy she was once desperately in love with. She broke his heart in college, afraid he’d subsume her. 

And though both of their lives have gone well, there’s something dangerous between them still. When Henry drugs her and she wakes up in his remote mountain cabin, Faye can’t help but wonder if she’s finally about to pay for all her sins when it came to their relationship and what came after. 

But as the week unfolds, the truth about a dark mystery comes to light. And it will change everything Faye thought she remembered, everything she thought she knew. If she survives, it will change her forever.

When Judith Stanley receives unexpected praise for her photographs, she decides to venture outside of her neighborhood to capture even better images. 

It’s a shock when she realizes the dark shape of a man begins showing up in her pictures. Judith knows it’s the man who once attacked her. What she doesn’t know is why he’s back. The easiest solution would be to put her camera down and stay where it’s safe. 

But Judith refuses to give up her passion out of fear. Even if she knows that it’s only a matter of time before he steps out of the shadows and back into her life. And when he does, she can only pray she’s prepared.

Nora, Ruby, and Cham are all have the perfect boyfriend. He’s charming, dashing, and all theirs. Or so they think. 

Turns out, it’s the same man. What starts as outrage quickly narrows to revenge, and they decide to lure him to a secluded cabin for a romantic getaway. But when he’s found dead in the cabin and a storm snows them in, their game suddenly isn’t so funny. 

Could one of them be a killer? Or is someone lurking in the mountains with them? Someone that might be waiting to kill them, one by one.

Ten years ago, Scout Sage’s sister died under mysterious circumstances at a Hollywood party. Scout has since built not just a powerful career, but an army of hot women determined to change things in Tinsel Town for good. 

But when she’s accused of committing a slew of targeted murders, everything she’s worked so hard to build threatens to fall apart. With an enthusiastic detective on the case, details about her sister’s murder come to light. 

There’s been a pattern of murder in Hollywood for years. And someone is willing to do anything to keep them from coming to light.

Ulises knows exactly what words to write to get lonely women to part with their money. At least, he did. But money isn’t easy to come by in 1940s Mexico. 

Until he meets Perla, the owner of a boardinghouse in Veracruz. He didn’t anticipate that Perla’s observant niece Inés would catch on to his schemes. Or that she’d demand a cut.

But Perla isn’t the desperate woman both Ulises and Inés thought. She has secrets of her own that she’s guarding. 

As he struggles to make progress with Perla, feelings arise between him and Inés. Ulises realizes much too late that what he thought was a simple con is far more complicated than he ever thought possible.

New York City in the 1980s is a promising place to live. For Ray Carney, life has never been better. But when he gambles on one last heist for financial freedom, he finds himself caught in the net of a criminal mastermind. 

Years later, Carney has a chance to save his cousin’s son from the life that doomed his cousin. He’s spent decades building safety and security, and this will mean coming out of retirement. 

He’ll need help from his friend and partner-in-crime Pepper. They only have one chance to get it right. And if they get it wrong, they’ll both lose everything.