Top new thriller books in April 2025
Last updated:
February 9, 2025
April 2025 featuring new releases by Layne Fargo, Vanessa Lillie, Katie Kitamura, Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau, Julia Bartz, Bailey Seybolt, Elizabeth Kaufman and many more.
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Desperate Deadly Widows by Layne Fargo, Vanessa Lillie, Kimberly Belle, Cate Holahan
10 hours, 12 minutesThe widows are back! Big hair and bigger lies collide in the highly anticipated follow-up to Audible’s best-selling Young Rich Widows, where nothing’s more dangerous than a widow with nothing left to lose... -
Audition by Katie Kitamura
One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. A mesmerizing Mobius strip of a novel that asks who we are to the people we love.Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an elegant and accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, and young—young enough to be her son...fiction · contemporary · literary-fiction · poc-author · friendship · psychological · thriller · female-mc · book · adult -
The French Honeymoon by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
The Paris Apartment meets A Simple Favor in an unputdownable thriller about a honeymoon gone horribly wrong.Sometimes, Paris is a terrible idea.This is not how she imagined it, any of it. Taylor Quinn arrives at her honeymoon suite in the City of Love alone, sans suitcase, but with wads of stolen cash... -
The Last Session by Julia Bartz
From the instant New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat, a white-knuckled locked-room thriller about a social worker who, after coming face-to-face with her dark past, must infiltrate a mysterious wellness center in the deserts of New Mexico.When a catatonic woman shows up at the psychiatric unit, social worker Thea swears she knows her from somewhere...fiction · suspense · thriller · psychological · murder · friendship · kidnapping · female-mc · crime · book -
Coram House by Bailey Seybolt
A haunting novel—inspired by a true story—about a crime writer who risks everything as she investigates the mystery of two deaths, decades apart, at a crumbling Vermont orphanage.On a blistering summer day in 1968, nine-year-old Tommy vanishes without a trace from Coram House, an orphanage on the shores of Lake Champlain. Some say a nun drowned him, others say he ran away...mystery · fiction · suspense · true-crime · contemporary · historical-fiction · psychological · thriller · female-mc · young-adult -
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Ruth Run by Elizabeth Kaufman
Cybercrime leads to a cross-country pursuit as an ambitious, misfit young thief exploits a hacked microchip to rob banks, and learns too late that the wrong people have been watching herTwenty-six-year-old Ruth excels at microchip design but decides to get rich the old-fashioned way: robbing banks...fiction · suspense · journey · thriller · crime · contemporary · female-mc · literary-fiction · technothriller · book