New Mystery and Thriller Books Coming in January 2026 

It takes 79 days for the picture-perfect life Tavish Advani has built to completely fall apart. After a whirlwind romance and a Vegas wedding, his wife’s family home explodes leaving her family dead and his wife in a coma. 

Unfortunately, Tavish has secrets of his own. Secrets like a string of women in Los Angeles who all loved him and ended up dead. But he knows he’s innocent. 

As he desperately tries to clear his name, he uncovers a truth about his wife and her family that is darker and far more deadly than he ever imagined.

Geneva Corliss owns the Rosalie Inn, a century-old hotel in St. Medard’s Bay Alabama that has survived every hurricane that regularly hits the area. When a writer comes to stay at the hotel to research a grisly murder that happened decades prior, Geneva sees an opportunity that is less about resolution and more about her bottom line. 

She never expects the woman accused of the murder to come with him. But the more time Geneva spends with the duo, the more she thinks their visit is less about closure and more about revenge. 

As another hurricane moves towards the small town, Geneva might learn that people can be just as deadly as the storm.

When her eighteen-year-old daughter disappears from school, Cynthia Burrow’s carefully constructed life falls apart. The school said the man she left with was authorized by the family. 

But it’s the name of the boy her daughter was supposed to date that almost destroys her. Alexander Beaufort. An impossibility because that name belongs to a serial killer who murdered Cynthia’s best friend and sent her into witness protection years earlier. 

With only three days to find her daughter, someone is leaving a trail of clues forcing Cynthia to relive her devastating past. And if she can’t face the dark secrets of her past, she may never uncover the secrets her daughter is hiding.

After a recent adaptation of one of her novels gets significant backlash, author Petra Rose has lost her inspiration. As deadlines loom and her savings account drains, Petra goes to a secluded cabin where she attempts to save her career. 

When detective Nathanial Saint shows up on her doorstep he brings a case he needs help with, but suddenly, Petra’s creativity is back. 

As the line between fiction and reality starts to blur, Nathanial starts to take his role as her muse a little too seriously forcing Petra to finally face the chaos she’s created—even if it costs her more than she ever thought she’d have to pay.

Reeling from a divorce and suffering from a lackluster book tour, when Simone “Sam” Vetiver receives a glowing letter from the wildly successful author William Corwyn, she’s over the moon. And when they meet in person, their chemistry if off the charts. But like their characters, both authors harbor secrets. 

After a writer in William’s group winds up dead, Sam is forced to ask whether William is everything he claims to be or if there’s something much darker lurker between the lines.

Your life flashing before your eyes in a near-death experience isn’t abnormal. Seeing the face of a dead boy in a moment you don’t remember living is. But that’s exactly what happens to Damon when he nearly drowns. If everything else he saw was real, could this dead boy be real too? 

The image quickly turns to obsession as Damon realizes the only way to get answers is to die again. And again. 

But if death is the only way to uncover the truth, perhaps it’s best that Damon leaves some memories alone.

When Eden Fox goes for a run, the last thing she expects is for her key to not fit when she gets back. Or for a woman to answer the door claiming to live there. Or that her husband would claim the woman was his wife—not her. 

Perhaps the truth sits with a woman who inherited the property they live in months earlier. Where she stumbles into a clinic claiming they can predict the exact moment a person will die. 

The line between truth and lies blurs for both women but the only thing they know for certain is that nothing in that house is what it seems.

Fell, New York has always been plagued by strange events. When their younger brother disappears, it’s the last straw for Violet, Vail, and Dodie. 

What started as a game of hide-and-seek ended with each of the girls leaving town after they become haunted by visions of dead people and frightening creatures. 

But then twenty years later, Ben suddenly returns. And he’s ready to tell them everything.

Georgie and Agatha Krishna happily welcome their aunt and uncle from India to live with them in their Wyoming home in the summer of 1986. It’s all fine until Georgie decides that their uncle has to die. 

And it’s all because of the British. It might sound ludicrous, but if you let her explain it will all make sense. You just have to be brave enough to listen.

The Viscount of Tithe Hall believes that the end of the world will arrive with Halley’s Comet. To prepare, every door, window, chimney, and keyhole must be closed. Unfortunately for the Viscount, in the morning, he’ll be found dead, locked in his study and killed by his own crossbow. 

It’s up to the butler who was just released from prison along with the family matriarch who loves chaos and puzzles to solve the crime. Because there’s a killer in the house. And they’re all sealed in together.