October 2025 list by S. Ward |
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The Black Wolf
by Louise Penny
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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Cry Havoc
by Jack Carr
Amidst the turbulent backdrop of 1968, Navy SEAL Tom Reece navigates a clandestine mission across Vietnam and beyond, uncovering a Soviet plot that threatens to reshape global power in a high-stakes tale of espionage, betrayal and brutal realism.
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Final Orbit
by Chris Hadfield
Houston, 1975. A new Apollo mission launches into orbit on course to dock with a Russian Soyuz craft but as NASA Flight Controller Kaz Zemeckis listens in from Earth, a deadly accident onboard the orbiting spacecraft changes everything. Kaz races against an enemy on the ground as the safety of the remaining crew hangs in the balance.
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Gone Before Goodbye
by Reese Witherspoon
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 Gun Man Jackson Swagger
by Stephen Hunter
In 1890s Southwest, an old man shows up at the region’s only prosperous spread, the Callahan ranch, seeking work. Jack is flinty, shrewd, tough, and a natural with a gun. He shows the foreman an uncanny skill with one of Mr. Winchester’s latest models. Aware that a young cowboy on the ranch has died mysteriously, Jack begins to investigate.
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The Haunting Of Paynes Hollow
by Kelley Armstrong
When Samantha inherits her family's lakefront cottage under the condition she stay there a month, she returns to Paynes Hollow to confront buried memories, her father's alleged crime, and a chilling force beneath the lake that threatens her grip on reality.
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The Hitchhikers
by Chevy Stevens
On the remote Canadian highways in 1976, Tom and Alice are on an RV road trip to repair their marriage and heal the wounds of recent tragic events, but when they join up with a seemingly friendly young couple, things take an even darker turn.
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The Intruder
by Freida Mcfadden
In the middle of a storm, a girl appears on Casey's doorstep, obviously in need of help, but soon things take a violent turn.
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Keep This For Me
by Jennifer Fawcett
Thirty years after her mother vanished, Fiona returns to the town where it happened, only to uncover new secrets, a fresh disappearance and a chilling connection to the son of the man once suspected of her mother's murder.
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Photograph
by Brian Freeman
Shannon Wells must investigate the death of an amnesiac former client, and the only clue to why she was murdered is an old photograph of a little girl in the rain outside a Midwestern motel.
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The Picasso Heist
by James Patterson
A glamorous 22-year-old art thief tries to best a bunch of other criminals in the heist of a previously unknown Picasso discovered in the attic of a French villa.
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The Proving Ground
by Michael Connelly
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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Shadow Ticket
by Thomas Pynchon
Milwaukee 1932, private eye Hicks McTaggart searches for a Wisconsin cheese fortune heiress, but he's shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner to Hungary; before he finds her he will be entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, practitioners of the paranormal, and outlaw motorcyclists.
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Sharp Force
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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 Tin Men
by Nelson DeMille
Army CID Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor are sent to the isolated Camp Hayden to investigate a major's death amid secret war games pitting Rangers against autonomous weapons, where the truth is obscured amidst desert isolation, internal rivalries and hidden agendas.
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The Tourists
by Christopher Reich
Retired special agent Mac Dekker races through Paris's brightest and darkest places to find his vanished lover, former Mossad assassin Ava Attal, uncovering a deadly plot involving a ruthless prince, enigmatic assassins, and a terrifying act of violence that could kill thousands.
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The Widow
by John Grisham
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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Too Old For This
by Samantha Downing
Retired and hidden under a new identity, Lottie Jones faces exposure when a persistent journalist starts digging into her murderous past, forcing her to confront old crimes and attempt one more cover-up before age—and curiosity—catch up with her.
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We Had A Hunch
by Tom Ryan
Twenty-five years after their father's murder by serial killer “The Janitor,” teen sleuths Alice and Samantha VanDyne and Joey O'Day reunite to solve a new murder mimicking the old crimes, confronting past trauma and dark secrets as the town's safety hangs in the balance.
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