New/Upcoming Mysteries & Thrillers
July 2025
An Inside Job
by Daniel Silva (release date 7/15)

Sometimes the only way to recover a stolen masterpiece is to steal it back. Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon must solve the perfect crime in the new tale of murder, greed, and corruption from bestselling author Daniel Silva.
An enemy in the village
by Martin Walker (release date 7/1)

A real estate agent's death sends shockwaves through the idyllic town of St. Denis, leading Bruno, Chief of Police, to suspect that there's more to this tragedy than meets the eye. The latest in Martin Walker's long-running Bruno series.
The Woman in Suite 11
by Ruth Ware (release date 7/8)

A journalist accepts an invitation to the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel, getting mixed up in a cat-and-mouse pursuit across Europe involving the hotel's billionaire owner and a woman claiming to be his mistress.
The House at Devil's Neck
by Tom Mead (release date 7/15)

In this latest locked-room mystery from the author of Cabaret Macabre, amateur sleuth Joseph Spector pits his knowledge of stage magic against the seemingly supernatural when a seance at an isolated old hospital turns deadly.
The Unraveling of Julia
by Lisa Scottoline (release date 7/15)

A young widow inherits a Tuscan estate from a mysterious benefactor and finds herself thrust into the crosshairs of a dangerous conspiracy.
The Frozen People
by Elly Griffiths (release date 7/8)

Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old, they're frozen—or so their inside joke goes. Nobody knows that her team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence. In this launch of a new series, the team travels to 1850s London.
She didn't see it coming
by Shari Lapena (release date 7/29)

When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: can the detectives find her before it's too late?
Can you solve the murder? : an interactive crime novel
by Antony Johnston (release date 7/1)

The reader is the detective in this interactive, "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style murder mystery set at a wellness retreat at an English country manor.
Rage
by Linda Castillo (release date 7/8)

In this new installment of the Edgar Award-winning series, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a brutal double murder that takes her into the dark underbelly of society and exposes the dangers of Amish lives gone wrong.
Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes
by Sandra Jackson-Opoku (release date 7/29)

A debut mystery set on the south side of Chicago, in which the owner of a soul food cafe (known for its sweet potato pie) becomes an unlikely detective after a death takes place in her restaurant.
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