All James Patterson Mysteries and Thrillers Coming in 2025
James Patterson is delivering an action-packed lineup of mysteries and thrillers that’ll keep you guessing and wanting more. From the return of iconic characters like Alex Cross and Sergeant Lindsay Boxer to deep dives into true crime, readers can expect high stakes, heart-pounding suspense, and unforgettable characters.
But as a series of child abductions tests the PIs’ legendary skills, the cerebral Holmes’s absence leaves a gaping hole in the agency roster.
Only by closing ranks and solving the mystery within can they recover all that’s been lost.
When a native woman disappears on the summer solstice, clues point to a cold case.
Yates, a quick-draw champion, partners with expert archer Ava Cruz of the Tigua Tribal police.
The investigation leads to the edges of Texas’s most unforgiving landscape, where the officers take dead aim with every shot in their arsenals.
At every death scene, Bennett says a prayer over the victim.
But recently, too many of the departed have been fellow cops.
“I want you to look at these deaths on special assignment,” NYPD Inspector Celeste Cantor says. “Report only to me.”
Bennett excels as a solo investigator. But he’s chasing a killer who feeds on isolation… and paranoia.
In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She’s covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room.
Every book in the apartment’s floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow.
“This is you?” Shaw asks the woman. “You’re a writer?”
Only one person knows the ending to this story. Is it the victim or the killer?
Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach to solving crimes, while teenage Baby relies on her street smarts.
But when they take a controversial case of a loner whose popular wife has gone missing, they’re accused of being PIs who can’t tell a client from a killer.
The Bird sisters share a late father, but not much else…except their willingness to fight.
Fight the system. Fight for the underdog. Fight for the truth. If they can stop fighting each other long enough to work together.
SFPD homicide detective Lindsay Boxer knows her way around a crime scene.
But nothing can prepare her for the shock of recognition: the victim is Warren Jacobi, Lindsay’s onetime partner who rose to chief of police.
A top investigator until the end, Jacobi managed to leave Lindsay a clue.
Following a trail of evidence along the west coast, the Women’s Murder Club pledges to avenge Jacobi’s death before the killer can take another one of their own.
Her husband is on trial for murder.
Is the First Gentleman a killer?
A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the NFL star-turned-political spouse.
Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, has never been prouder of Maddy Cranston, who’s graduating college and starting an internship at a New York City public defender’s office.
But she still has a lot to learn. Especially about her undeveloped powers of shape-shifting and mind-control inherited from her mentor, Lamont.
The two crime-fighters might look like father and daughter (or rather, great-great- granddaughter), though it’s their mental powers that unites them.
With Lamont investigating multiple deadly assaults on the world—the geological super-weapon “Terrageddon” and the deadly virus “Newbola”—Maddy goes undercover to investigate a trafficking ring ensnaring people her age, until an errant attack exposes her vulnerability … and unlocks her confidence.
Only if Maddy and the Shadow can combine forces can they erase the threat of The President’s Shadow.
We know what the local police and FBI did right. And what they did wrong.
We’ve learned so much about the four heartbroken families—the Mogens, Goncalves, Kernodles, and Chapins.
And we have the backstory for Bryan Kohberger, brilliant grad student, loner, apparent incel.
Now you are the jury.
The evidence is in.
Attorney Jane Smith’s top client is a Hamptons real estate celebrity standing trial for triple homicide.
When her client’s many enemies put Jane at the top of their kill list, mounting a legal defense turns into self-defense.
Knowing every day in court could be her last, she’s armed and ready: with brilliant arguments, hard evidence—and two Glock 26s.
Until she hears the words “not guilty,” Jane Smith will Never Say Die.
What Emma Caroline Blake has planned at New Hampshire’s Ridgemont Academy is shocking.
Her school blames a heartbreaking tragedy in her family.Her best friends point to her most recent social media.
Her teachers, even her father, say it’s a drastic cry for help.
But Emma doesn’t want help. She wants to make a difference. Now. Today. Not tomorrow.
She’s going to walk through fire to change the world.
Which one of us is worth a billion dollars?
Five people with ties to a Los Angeles billionaire suddenly disappear from their daily lives. His two youngest children are taken from their school bus. His oldest son is taken with his movie-star girlfriend during a romantic getaway. His wife is taken while leaving a spa.
The kidnappers demand a one billion dollars, an astronomical price higher than that commanded for the Lindbergh baby, Patty Hearst, or John Paul Getty III. The gamble: is such a ransom even possible to pay?
FBI Special Agent Nicky Gordon leads the urgent search to locate the captors and victims—until a risky information exchange alters the calculations on both sides.
Greenson breaks into Monroe’s bedroom and finds a horrifying scene: the thirty-six-year-old movie star lying naked, lifeless, face down on her bed, still clutching the telephone receiver.
At 4:20 a.m., Greenson alerts the LAPD.
It is established protocol for the chief medical examiner to conduct celebrity autopsies, but inexplicably, junior medical examiner Dr. Thomas Noguchi performs the procedure on the five-four, 118-pound actress. When you are a coroner, Noguchi believes, you start from the assumption that every body you examine might be a murder victim.
In those final summer days, did Marilyn Monroe have more enemies than friends?
The Picasso Heist coming October 13, 2025
The Return of the Spider coming November 24, 2025
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