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Thrillers & Suspense November 5, 2025 |
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The Widow
by John Grisham
In rural Virginia, struggling lawyer Simon Latch thinks his luck has changed when wealthy widow Eleanor Barnett hires him to draft her will. But after she’s hospitalized following a suspicious accident, her story unravels—and Simon is soon accused of her murder. With damning evidence piling up, he must race to uncover the truth and expose the real killer before he loses everything. The Widow is a tense, fast-paced legal thriller showcasing John Grisham at his most gripping and masterful.
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The Proving Ground: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel
by Michael Connelly
In The Lincoln Lawyer’s latest case, Mickey Haller takes on a groundbreaking lawsuit against a powerful AI company whose chatbot allegedly encouraged a teenage boy to murder his ex-girlfriend. Seeking justice for the victim’s family, Haller dives into the murky, unregulated world of artificial intelligence and corporate greed. Partnering with journalist Jack McEvoy, whose investigation uncovers a crucial whistleblower, Haller faces immense danger and staggering odds as billions hang in the balance. To win, he must risk everything with a daring legal gambit—his own “knight’s sacrifice”—against the tech giants determined to silence the truth.
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Gone Before Goodbye
by Harlan Coben
Brilliant but broken Army combat surgeon Maggie McCabe has lost everything—her career, her purpose, and her medical license—after a series of personal and professional tragedies. When a former colleague offers her a secretive, high-paying job treating an anonymous, powerful client abroad, she reluctantly accepts. Working in a world of immense wealth and secrecy, Maggie performs a risky procedure on her mysterious patient—only for him to vanish mid-recovery. Suddenly implicated and on the run, Maggie must use all her skills and courage to uncover the truth and survive in a world where power, money, and deception rule.
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The Picasso Heist: A Thriller
by James Patterson
The art world ignites with the discovery of a previously unknown Picasso painting. After being hidden away for fifty years in the attic of a French villa, it's valued at $100 million and put up for auction. Echelon, the Upper East Side auction house brokering the sale, is flooded with interest. ... None of the interested parties has a chance at winning the Picasso without the help of Halston Graham. The young auction-house employee graduated second in her class at Columbia, but she's a first-rate art thief--and an expert gambler who knows how to calculate the odds and play her considerable leverage against all sides. To complete the Picasso heist, she must stay one step ahead of the truth before the gavel falls--
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The Hitchhikers
by Chevy Stevens
On the remote Canadian highways in 1976, Tom and Alice set out to heal their fractured marriage. An RV, a new beginning, and the hope of recovery after a devastating tragedy. Then they meet two young hitchhikers, Ocean and Blue-a seemingly innocent couple who aren't who they seem. They are Jenny and Simon. And they have left a trail of blood, destruction, and madness behind them. Now Tom and Alice are trapped-prisoners in a deadly game, with nowhere to turn. But as the tension builds and the lines blur, the question becomes: in whose heart does evil truly lie?
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The Persian
by David McCloskey
From former CIA analyst and best-selling author David McCloskey, a novel that takes readers deep into the shadow war between Iran and Israel. Kamran Esfahani, a weary dentist in Stockholm, is drawn into espionage when recruited by Arik Glitzman of Mossad to operate inside Iran. Under the guise of running a dental clinic in Tehran, Kam becomes an effective spy, aiding in smuggling, surveillance, and covert missions. But when he attempts to recruit a grieving widow whose husband was killed by Mossad, the mission collapses, and Kam is captured by a brutal interrogator known only as the General. After three years of torture, Kam faces his final confession—knowing he cannot save himself but determined to protect one last secret that could outlive him.
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Sharp Force
by Patricia Cornwell
On Christmas morning, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called to a gruesome new crime scene—the work of the elusive “Phantom Slasher,” a serial killer who uses advanced technology to infiltrate his victims’ homes and murder them after terrorizing them with holographic visions. The trail leads Scarpetta to Mercy Island, home to a notorious psychiatric hospital and a fresh double homicide—one victim linked to her own past. As the case unfolds, Scarpetta realizes the killer’s sights may now be set on her.
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Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller
by Jack Carr
Just before the Tet Offensive, before President Johnson announces he will not run for reelection, before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, as riots and protests rage across the nation, a spy ship is captured by communist forces off the coast of North Korea. The crew thought they had destroyed everything of intelligence value. They were wrong. As a KGB 'illegal' elicits information from a high-ranking NSA official, and teams of special operators infiltrating into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam disappear without a trace, an ambitious Soviet advisor launches an ingenious plan that could forever alter the world balance of power. Tom Reece, a SEAL operator attached to the highly classified and shadowy MACV-SOG is about to be thrust into a bloody battle to discover the truth.
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