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New/Upcoming Mysteries & Thrillers August 2025 |
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We Are All Guilty Hereby Karin Slaughter (release date 8/12)The first thrilling in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, bestselling author of the Will Trent Series. Welcome to North Falls - a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it's personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help-and now she must bring her home. But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them.
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Mississippi Blue 42 by Eli Cranor (release date 8/5)Special Agent Rae Johnson grew up on football fields alongside her father, a national-championship-winning coach. Which is exactly why, fresh out of Quantico, she's sent down to Compson, Mississippi, to investigate the illicit money flowing into a bustling football program in the heart of the Delta. But two days into the assignment things take a dire turn when UCM's star quarterback is flung from the roof of a college bar, lands on a bag of money, and dies.
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Hatchet Girls by Joe R. Lansdale (release date 8/19)The latest in the long-running, Texas-set series about amateur detectives Hap and Leonard. When Hap and Leonard are called in on a strange request (subduing a meth-hopped hog) by a desperate young lady, they quickly learn this woman is part of a fringe group: The Hatchet Girls, who have pledged their allegiance to a crazed and grudge-bearing leader bent on bloody societal revenge.
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The Marigold Cottages Murder Collectiveby Jo Nichols (release date 8/19)Mrs. B, the landlady of The Marigold Cottages, is a stubborn idealist who only rents to people she cares about. The tenants live contentedly in their doll-house bungalows in Santa Barbara, just minutes from the beach, until their peace is shattered when Anthony, a quiet, hulking, but potentially violent ex-con moves in. Three weeks later, a dead body is discovered on the streets of the peaceful neighborhood.
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Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill (release date 8/19)After a brutal year battling what should have been a terminal cancer diagnosis, mystery author Joe Penvale and his twin sister Meredith decide to celebrate this new beginning with a holiday on the famed Orient Express. As you might guess, a body turns up...
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Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library by Amanda Chapman (release date 8/26)Book conservator Tory Van Dyne and a woman claiming to be Agatha Christie on holiday from the Great Beyond join forces to catch a killer in this spirited mystery from Amanda Chapman.
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Jenny Cooper Has a Secret by Joy Fielding (release date 8/5)76-year-old Linda goes to visit her friend at Legacy Place, a memory care facility for the elderly, where she meets Jenny Cooper, a ninety-two-year-old dementia patient who makes a shocking confession: she kills people. Linda dismisses the so-called secret as the confusion of an ailing mind, but Jenny seems strangely lucid during their visits as she recounts stories of her many victims--mostly men who hurt her. Then a fellow patient at Legacy Place dies. Everyone else sees it as the natural death of an sick old man, but Linda can't help but wonder: is there any chance Jenny's telling the truth?
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The Break-In by Katherine Faulkner (release date 8/26)After killing an intruder in self-defense, a wealthy London mother must unravel a terrifying mystery filled with twists and turns​.
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The Burial Place by Stig Abell (release date 8/26)Former London detective Jake Jackson finds his new life in the country threatened when an old case from the past buried deep within an archeological dig site resurfaces.
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Kiss Her Goodbye by Lisa Gardner (release date 8/12)A bestselling author returns with the latest installment in the Frankie Elkin series, in which Frankie is called to Tucson, Arizona, to find a missing Afghan refugee, whose friend suspects she is in grave danger—before it is too late.
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