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New For You - Mystery & Thriller - April 2025

Fiction that keeps you guessing - you'll find danger, killers, and unexpected twists in this selection of the newest mystery and thriller titles.

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  • The seemingly idyllic world of the three close-knit friends implodes after a murder. With suspicions mounting the women must confront the chilling truth about their husbands, and the sinister undercurrents in their own friendship.
    BookNew York : Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — THRILLER
  • On stormy Mackinac Island, widower Mimi and her heartbroken granddaughter Addie attend a socialite’s charity auction, only to uncover blackmail, murder and a dangerous game that tests their wits as they race to outsmart a killer trapped…
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  • A gripping debut police procedural crime thriller novel set on an isolated Scottish island.
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  • A murder in Yellowstone reveals a historical conspiracy, drawing a park ranger into the heart of a centuries-old mystery.
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  • A beautiful con artist insinuates herself into a wealthy socialite's life... with deadly consequences
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  • Leah has a good life. She lives on The Drove, an inner-city cul-de-sac, with her husband Moses and their two children. She and her neighbours - the drovers - look out for each other. Theirs is a safe, community-oriented enclave and that's…
    eBookSydney : Allen & Unwin, 2025. — DIGITAL
  • At rock bottom following her daughter's murder, ex-Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go but back to her roots. Starr's father never talked much about the reservation that raised him, but they need a new tribal marshal as much…
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2025] — MYSTERY
  • It's the height of summer in Australia, 1979, and on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac in Canberra a housewife is scrubbing the yellow and white chequered tiles of the bathroom floor. But all is not as it seems. For one thing, it's 3 am. For…
    BookSydney : Hachette Australia, 2025. — MYSTERY
  • Scuttler's Cove is a working village, nestling in dramatic coastal scenery in Cornwall, where life has gone on uninterrupted for centuries until this seaside idyll was discovered by the rich.
    BookLondon : Canelo, 2025. — HORROR
  • For three years, criminal psychotherapist Tamsin Shaw has been lying unresponsive in hospital. But while she may not be able to open her eyes, she is awake. And while her visitors don't know it, she is listening. The husband. The best…
    BookManchester : HarperNorth, 2025. — THRILLER