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New/Upcoming Mysteries & Thrillers October 2025
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The Black Wolf by Louise Penny (release date 10/28)Weeks after foiling an attack in Montréal and arresting the so-called Black Wolf, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, confined by his injuries to Three Pines, quietly leads a covert investigation with agents Beauvoir and Lacoste, fearing the conspiracy he uncovered is only a deliberate misdirection.
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The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly (release date 10/21)The Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl.
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The Last Death of the Year by Sophie Hannah (release date 10/28)In Sophie Hannah's latest novel resurrecting Agatha Christie's famous detective Hercule Poirot, the brilliant Belgian detective rings in the New Year with a chilling murder investigation.
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Coyote Hills by Jonathan Kellerman (release date 10/28)Now a private investigator, former Alameda County coroner Clay Edison takes a perplexing case of a wealthy couple's son found dead in San Francisco Bay, in the sixth book of the series following The Lost Coast.
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Sharp Force by Patricia Cornwell (release date 10/7)A serial killer wreaks havoc on Northern Virginia, appearing as a ghostly apparition before striking—and Kay Scarpetta must avoid becoming their next victim.
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The Widow by John Grisham (release date 10/21)Already struggling at work and at home, rural Virginia attorney Simon Latch finds himself accused of her murder after he secures wealthy widow Eleanor Barnett's secret inheritance only to see her fortunes unravel in the wake of a car crash.
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Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon & Harlan Coben (release date 10/14)When disgraced combat surgeon Maggie McCabe takes a secretive job treating a powerful man overseas, his sudden disappearance pulls her into a deadly conspiracy forcing her on the run to uncover the truth and clear her name.
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The Intruder by Freida McFadden (release date 10/7)Casey's cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways ominously in the wind. But she's a lot more worried about the girl she discovers lurking outside her kitchen window. She's young. She's alone. And she's covered in blood. The girl won't explain where she came from, or loosen her grip on the knife in her right hand...
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Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards (release date 10/7)During an all-expenses-paid Christmas holiday at Midwinter—a remote hamlet in the North Pennines in Yorkshire, England—a group of strangers play a murder-mystery game that soon becomes deadly.
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King Sorrow by Joe Hill (release date 10/21)Blackmailed into stealing rare books, Arthur's friends summon a dragon to save him, only to strike a deadly bargain that binds them to a terrifying choice: offer a yearly sacrifice or face King Sorrow's wrath themselves.
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