Mysteries & Thrillers We’re Reading This Spring

Emily Hoang

Spring 2025 mystery and thriller book covers: Blood Moon, Nobody’s Fool, Dying to Meet You, With Vengeance

With the warm weather coming back, make sure to grab one of these books before heading to the park. This spring has some thrilling new releases that’ll keep you out way past sunset. From mysterious disappearances to reopened cold cases, these suspenseful novels will keep you on your toes with thrilling plot lines and determined characters who are willing to risk everything for the truth.

Blood Moon

by Sandra Brown

Detective John Bowie is close to being fired from his job at the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and a little heavy handed with the alcohol, he’s doing all he can to cope with the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared three years ago. Crisis Point, a longtime true crime series, has an upcoming episode about the case. Beth Collins, a senior producer of the show, is convinced Crissy’s disappearance isn’t an isolated incident. A string of teenage girls has disappeared, all during the blood moon. With the upcoming one in four days, Beth and John band together to find the killer.

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Nobody’s Fool

by Harlan Coben

In college, Sami Kierce went backpacking with friends in Spain. One morning, he wakes up covered in blood, with a knife in his hand. Next to him, his girlfriend, Anna. Dead. Not knowing what to do, he runs. Twenty-two years later, Kierce is a private investigator teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school in New York. In the back of the classroom, he sees a women who is unmistakably Anna. She runs off and he knows he must find her if he wants to face the trauma of the past and move on.

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The Shadow Girls

by Nina Laurin

Georgina Prescott’s world shatters after learning her daughter, Anna, the star dancer at a prestigious ballet academy is grounded by the same injury that ended Georgina’s own career two decades ago. The only person who knows what happens is Anna’s best friend Naomi Thompson, who takes over the role. Ugly rumors start circulating. Dawn, Naomi’s mother, doesn’t believe in them at first but starts to wonder just how far mothers will go to protect their daughters after Anna disappears without a trace.

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25 Alive

by James Patterson

by Maxine Paetro

SFPD homicide detective Lindsay Boxer usually knows her way around a crime scene. But one day, she’s shocked to see a familiar face: Warren Jacobi, Lindsay’s onetime partner who rose to chief of police. Luckily, the victim left her a clue and it’ll be a race against the clock to find the killer before another one of her own gets killed.

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The Waiting

by Michael Connelly

Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit find a DNA connection between a newly arrested man and a serial rapist. The arrested man’s father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the City of Angels. As the team moves in on their suspect, they get caught up in a web of secrets and legal hurdles. Ballard’s badge, gun, and ID are also stolen, giving her no choice but to seek Harry Bosch’s help. His daughter, Maddie, volunteers but has her own motives for taking on the case.

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Dying to Meet You

Sarina Bowen

Rowan Gallagher seems to have the perfect life as a talented architect working on a high-profile commission of restoring a historic mansion for the most powerful family in Maine. But inside, she’s reeling over her breakup and stalking his avatar going all over Portland. When he goes to one of their favorite spots on the waterfront, she grabs a leash for her dog and heads out. Instead of finding him with a new girl, she witnesses his murder and becomes a leading suspect. As she digs for the truth, she finds out that her ex kept tabs on her too, and she’ll need to hurry to find the murderer if she doesn’t want to be next.

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With a Vengeance

Riley Sager

Six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family in 1942. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution and lures all of them on a luxury train ride going from Philadelphia to Chicago. Her plan to get each of their confessions gets derailed when one of the passengers gets murdered. She’s forced to protect her enemies and put her own life at risk if she wants to save everyone.

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Parents Weekend

Alex Finlay

It’s the children’s first year of college at a private university in Northern California. Five families plan a dinner and cocktails to celebrate the opening festivities of Parent Weekend. When their kids don’t show up, their parents brush it off. But more time passes and it becomes clear their kids are nowhere to be found. Search parties are formed. Libby, Blane, Mark, Felix, and Stella—or The Five as what bloggers, podcasters, and TikTok sleuths call them—all come from different families. What could have led to their disappearance and how is it tied to their parents?

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The Staircase in the Woods

Chuck Wendig

Five high school friends take an oath to protect each other no matter what. During a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find a mysterious staircase. One of them walks up and never comes back down and with him, the staircase also disappears. The staircase returns twenty years later and now the group is determined to find the lost boy.

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The Doorman

Chris Pavone

Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world. It’s home to celebrities, financiers, and New York’s cultural elite. Gathered in the Bohemia’s bowels is the working-class staff, almost entirely Black and Hispanic. They’re taking in the news that a Black man has been killed by the police, just a few miles uptown. Chicky knows there’s more going on in his patch of sidewalk and finds himself breaking a cardinal rule of the job by carrying a gun.

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Mysteries & Thrillers We’re Reading This Spring

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Dying to Meet You

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