10 New Mystery and Thriller Books to Read This November

President Jack Ryan has a problem. To ensure Russians weren’t able to catch the US unawares, the Navy has relied on a large network of undersea listening devices.

There was no place in any ocean they couldn’t monitor. Until the Russians created a new ocean passage that only they have access to beneath the frozen Arctic Circle. 

This new passage suddenly shifts the power dynamic of Naval forces around the world. If President Ryan attacks the Russian icebreakers melting the passage, it would be an act of war.

If he doesn’t, the US would be vulnerable to Russian attack. 

Oh, and the icebreakers are using nuclear technology, which means any attack could result in an environmental disaster that the world may never recover from.

Arnie Tenderton wants to be a published author. It’s all he’s ever wanted.

Which is why, after decades of rejection, he straps his six-year-old into his Prius and heads into the remote Catskill Mountains in the middle of a snowstorm. 

That’s where Claudia Conley will be staying for the holidays. Alone. And crashing his car outside of her isolated cabin is the perfect way to get to her.

Claudia is the best agent in the business. She’s the only one who will understand Arnie’s vision.

Because this book is about her. 

It doesn’t matter that she’s rejected him before. This time, Arnie is leaving with an offer of representation.

No matter what.

One man is the focus on a Reddit true crime thread. They call him Mr. Disappear because that’s what he does.

He woos you. He gets you to let down all your guards. He drains you of everything you’re worth.

And then he vanishes. 

His victims never see him coming. He can change how he looks, how he sounds, who he is.

But one woman will never forget the man who ruined her life. And when she figures out who his latest victim is, she recruits a journalist trying to find her way back into the industry she loves after becoming a mom. 

Can they swindle the conman before he escalates? Or will revenge trap them all in a web of lies that none of them can escape?

After war correspondent Theresa Lee is shot on a Manhattan street and the man she was meeting disappears, former Army Ranger turned federal investigator Travis Devine is called to the scene. 

Walker was a legendary analyst for an organization that gathers highly sensitive information, the kind that can topple governments.

Was Lee about to break a story? The kind that requires a professional hit team to permanently silence them?

Or were the two romantically involved, and this is all a terrible misunderstanding? 

As Devine follows the case, he’s drawn into an international web of conspiracies filled with a dizzying array of weaponized truths and outright lies.

If he wants to make it out of this one alive, he has to separate allies from enemies. The only problem is, they both look the same.

With a population of a whopping 313 people, Expanse, Colorado, is so small and remote that it barely makes it on the map. That’s exactly why Annie Wolfe lives there with her daughter, Coral.

Living off the grid may not be easy, but it’s the only way Annie knows to keep them safe. 

Riven and her family have lived off the land for years, moving through the landscape like shadows. When her father leads them to Expanse, he swears it’s for revenge against the man who ruined their lives.

But when she knocks on Annie’s door, it’s not who Riven expected to find. 

And when they end up stuck together during a snowstorm, the only thing both women know is that they’re both more dangerous than either of them ever imagined.

When Cal Truitt dies, everyone is a suspect.

There’s his fiancé, Faye McCann. She’s a ranching heiress, but after a mid-life crisis sent her into spiraling debt, she could use the money.

Her three children hated Cal. And after learning some long-buried family secrets, they may have decided enough was enough.

After all, they’re a family who loves and hates each other in equal measure.

Detective Kate Graham only cares about finding the truth. But to find that, she has to untangle the toxic lies and twisted manipulations of this prominent Texas family. 

And the closer she gets, the more danger she’s in. Because whoever killed Cal doesn’t want anyone knowing the truth.

Longview knows scandal. It’s still reeling from an unexpected death and watching the queen of their community fall from her throne.

But the crown won’t stay unworn for long. 

Between an ambitious daughter who will stop at nothing to get what she wants and a certain traditional housewife who is determined to do the same, it doesn’t matter who built the empire. It only matters who takes it.

They say everything is bigger in Texas. Big hair, big mischief, bigger murder. 

These women know you don’t get what you want without a little collateral damage. The only thing they care about is that the damage doesn’t land on them—and that they stay out of jail.

While preparing a nun’s body for burial in Golgotha House, her fellow sisters discover that this particular nun has been living a lie. They call in the firm of Arthur W. Dogger & Associates, known for their discreet investigations, to uncover the dark truth about her past and why she went to such extreme lengths to hide it. 

Flavia de Luce and her partner Dogger stumble on a decades old crime. The secret this nun was working so hard to hide may be an ocean away, but the reason she had to hide it in the first place might be so much closer than de Luce and Dogger ever imagined.

In July of 1979, the residents of Bonnet Shores are all on edge after 12-year-old Christina Grove doesn't come home.

No one takes it harder than her older sister Maddie. She’s the one who sent Christina home through the woods alone on her bike, a decision that haunts her and drives her to follow her own suspicions to find her sister.

Another local has her own theories, entrenched largely in her own childhood trauma. As everyone in the town pitches in to help with the search, 21-year-old criminal justice student Diana González suspects the truth no one else dares acknowledge.

Someone volunteering to help is guilty of the crime.

With views of Hyde Park, The Heights is the most coveted luxury high-rise in London. With a gym, infinity pool, cinema, and more, it has every amenity the wealthy residents could ever want.

But when the nighttime concierge, Dwayne Hogarth, is found dead in the lobby, the freedom and convenience the residents are accustomed to vanishes. 

Detective Sergeant Gillian Gish wants to know everything that went on that night, starting with the party on the 4^th floor, the fight that ended the night, why one of the apartments has a missing key, and most importantly, what the missing footage on the security camera is hiding.

Everyone who lives in the building is used to hiding behind their power and money to keep their dark secrets buried beneath the façade of privacy. But to solve a murder, Gish is going to expose all the unsavory truths lurking inside The Heights, whether the residents like it or not.