November 2025 list by S. Ward |
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The 11:59 Bomber
by Marshall Karp
A bomb explodes in a crowded New York subway station at exactly 11:59 a.m. The next day, a second blast rips through a busy department store--again at 11:59.
As the bombs go off with clockwork precision, the death toll climbs and businesses shut their doors as the city hunkers down in fear. Detectives Kylie MacDonald and Zach Jordan face their most twisted case ever as they race against the clock.
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Best Offer Wins
by Marisa Kashino
Publicist Margo Miyake is eighteen months and 11 lost bidding wars into house-hunting when she gets a tip about the perfect house. Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband, Margo becomes obsessed with buying the house before it’s publicly listed. A little stalking? Harmless. A bit of trespassing? Necessary. Margo will prove again and again that there’s no boundary she won’t cross to seize her dream life.
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Blood Oath
by Steve Urszenyi
In the heart of Africa, CIA Special Agent Alexandra Martel’s safari with her father spirals into a deadly game of betrayal when he is kidnapped by rebels. Suddenly, her peaceful Serengeti vacation transforms into a desperate race against time.
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The Bridesmaid
by Cate Quinn
When a celebrity bridesmaid is murdered weeks before an exclusive society wedding, forensic attorney Holly Stone is drafted as an unlikely undercover replacement. As she works to unpick the lives of the notoriously private Kensington family, glamour-averse Holly discovers a new worst enemy in bridezilla Adrianna. Heir to a multimillion dollar fortune, Adrianna is set on throwing the event of the decade, and she won't let anything get in her way.
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The Burning Library
by Gilly Macmillan
On a frigid, windswept day in Scotland’s Western Isles, Eleanor Bruton’s body is discovered on the shore. To her family Eleanor was an ordinary middle-aged woman. She did flower arrangements and plumped kneeler cushions at church. Little did they know she was harboring a dark and all-consuming secret. A scrap of fraying embroidery that seems worthless at first glance.
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Evil Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Small creatures—a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel—have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina. Tempe seeks input from a forensic psychologist. The doctor has no definitive answer but offers several possibilities, warning that the escalating pattern of aggression suggests even more macabre discoveries. And then it happens. A woman is found posed in a manner that mimics the animal killings.
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Exit Strategy
by Lee Child
First—a Baltimore coffee shop. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Reacher checks his pocket but nothing is missing. Second—a store to buy a coat. Large enough to fit a man the size of a bank vault. As he pulls out his cash, he finds something new in his pocket. A handwritten note. A desperate plea for help. Third—Reacher makes it his mission to find out more.
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False Witness
by Phillip Margolin
Defense Attorney Karen Wyatt exposed corruption in the police force and the DAs office but in doing so, she put a target on her back. She was set-up on fake drug charge, imprisoned and disbarred until the conspiracy unraveled and her innocence was proven. Now reinstated to the bar, Wyatt is still interested in finding out who ordered her to be set-up but in the meantime her client is either guilty of a murder or is a too-trusting patsy set-up for a crime he didn't commit.
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Her One Regret
by Donna Freitas
When successful real estate agent Lucy Mendoza vanishes, leaving her baby behind in a grocery store parking lot, the news quickly makes national headlines. Lucy’s best friend, Michelle, is terrified that Lucy’s life is at stake but she knows something that could complicate the investigation. Lucy once confessed that she regretted becoming a mother so much that she’d fantasized about faking her own kidnapping. Michelle is sure Lucy would never abandon her daughter. But what if she's wrong?
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The King's Ransom
by Janet Evanovich
Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can find just about anything. Too bad she can’t seem to lose her ex-husband Rafer Jones. Now he needs her help. His cousin, Harley, is in trouble. As the president of a too-big-to-fail bank, he invested an astronomical amount of money in insuring some of the world’s most priceless artifacts but these pieces are missing and unless the artwork recovered soon, Harley is heading to jail as the fall guy.
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Nash Falls
by David Baldacci
Walter Nash has a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried him to the top in his business career. Despite never going on grand adventures, and always working too many hours, he has a happy and upscale life with his family. Nash is approached by the FBI in the middle of the night. They request he become their inside man to expose an enterprise that is laundering large sums of money through Sybaritic. He must become the exact opposite of who he has always been.
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Party Of Liars
by Kelsey Cox
Today is Sophie Matthews’s sixteenth birthday party, an exclusive black-tie bash in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, where secrets are as deep-rooted as the sprawling live oaks. Sophie’s dad has spared no expense, and his renovated cliffside mansion―once thought haunted and shuttered for years from outsiders―is now hosting the event of the season. Then, just before the candles are blown out on the cake, a body falls from the balcony onto the dance floor below.
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The Perfect Hosts
by Heather Gudenkauf
Madeline and Wes Drake have invited two hundred of their closest friends and family to their sprawling horse ranch for a gender reveal party. But the party descends into chaos when the celebratory explosive misfires, leaving one woman dead and a trail of secrets. As the aftershocks of the bloody party ripple across the small town, Agent Jamie Saldano is brought on the scene to investigate.
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Quantum Tempest
by Mike Maden
There’s a tempest brewing in Central America. A government crackdown on cartels leaves most of the drug lords locked up in an impregnable prison. Tech-savvy crime boss, Amador Fierro, forges the seven largest cartels into an allegiance. They will need a powerful weapon., an Artificial General Intelligence computer that will grant Fierro overwhelming control of America. Chairman Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon are the only ones standing in his way.
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Return of the Spider
by James Patterson
Police discover that Soneji kept a murder book, Profiles in Homicidal Genius, detailing his transformation from substitute teacher to hardened serial killer—including clues that imply missteps that Alex Cross may have made a rookie homicide detective. Now, Alex must retrace the steps of that long-ago investigation and face…the Return of the Spider.
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Revenge of Odessa
by Frederick Forsyth
Fifty years after revealing the secrets of Odessa, Peter Miller is a retired legend in the journalism community. He's spent the last decade caring for his grandson Georg, after the death of his son and daughter in law in a tragic car accident. He always suspected that his enemies might have been behind his son’s death. Elsewhere, the children of Odessa play for the highest power of all--a seat in the West Wing.
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Robert B. Parker's Showdown
by Mike Lupica
Vic Hale isn’t anyone’s idea of a father figure. He is one of the biggest – and loudest -- podcasters in the nation. Vic’s riding high...until he gets a visit from Spenser, who specializes in bringing guys like Hale back down to Earth.
Spenser is there on behalf of Daniel Lopez, a young man who believes Hale may be his father. A revelation that might blow up his massive new deal. That could explain the bodies that start popping up.
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Tom Clancy Executive Power
by Brian Andrews
Even in a family of strong individualists like the Ryans, Kyle has stood out as a lone wolf. For years he's gone his own way, joining the DIA rather than the CIA, and disagreeing with his father's politics. Now he's missing in an African country on the brink of a coup. His last message to his handlers, "We're on the wrong side of history." His father, the President of the United States, is about to discover what is more important to him, the interests of his country or the life of his son?
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Wild Instinct
by T. Jefferson Parker
The hunt for the truth is the deadliest game. Lew Gale, a former Marine sniper, now a California Sheriff's detective, is assigned to track and shoot a mountain lion that has killed a man in Caspers Park east of Laguna Beach. The victim is Bennet Tarlow, a rich developer. The investigation takes a chilling turn when Lew and his new partner, Daniela Mendez, discover that Bennet was dead long before the lion got to him. And while Bennet might have been the first to die, he certainly will not be the last
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