13 new mystery and thrillers for May 2025
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Welcome to a new circle of the new in the mystery and thrillers! Whether you choose your right reading or throw things on your TBR for summer reading plans, there are many options for different genres, sub -genres, tropes and moods, all under the Publishing’s Crime umbrella.
The entertainment park has a junction of YA for murder, wives who think about the policies for the life insurance of their husband, a cellist, forced to defend with witnesses, cozy mysteries, a teenager Tarot with Family Agency for Pi, Wellness Cult and Service, History! So stay in your favorite spot to read Sleuth and enjoy your next criminal reading!

The Dark Maestro of Brandon Slocumb
As a musician, Brandon Slocum combines music into his mysterious novels for a winning combination!
The Circonnormal fornication Curtis Wilson has reached great heights as a musician and plays solo with the New York Philharmonic, but he is about to pay the price for his father’s past crimes. Zippy, who was a drug dealer when Curtis was a child, now reversed the state’s evidence, which means that the whole family should go to defense of witnesses. But if the agency cannot protect them, the family will have to protect themselves.
Fog and rage (Haven’s thriller # 1) by Rachel Hosel Hall
For fans of PI cities and seaside cities!
Sony Rush is a former police officer who moves with his mother to California to join his godfather’s PI business. The city looks so idyllic that Sony is on dogs for a lost dog. But the appearances are always misled in the novels of tension and soon has a dead body and Sonny is threatened to leave the city …
Summerhouse by Yigit Karaahmet
For the fans of White lotus And Patricia Haismith!
On the island near Istanbul, Fami and şener celebrate 40 years together as a couple. But things are slow to crack when a new family moves in the neighborhood after the teenager’s son’s attack on a classmate. Suddenly, what starts as a “harmless crush” is anything but harmless and will lead to a choice with pursuing effects.
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Above in smoke by Nick Brooks
For the fans of YA Thrillers, Dual Pov and Will-the-Wont’s-The Romance!
After a robbery night during protests, an activist brother was arrested for murder. Jason Monique’s sister is sure he did not kill anyone and unites Cooper – who was with Jason on the night of robbery and fell in love with Monique – to clear his brother’s name. But can they solve this mystery without directing directly in danger?
Detective Aunt (Kausar Khan investigates # 1) by Uzma Jalaluddin
For fans of cozy mysteries, amateur fusion and family relationships!
Causar Khan is a recent widow when her daughter calls to say she has been arrested, accused of killing the landlord by her boutique. What should a mother do? Travel to Toronto and use its wisdom and excellent observation skills to clear your daughter’s name!
The Maze House Murders (Home Murders # 3) by Yukito Ayatsuji, Wong, Ho-Ling (Translator)
For fans of twisted Japanese mysteries, the mysterious tropes of the Golden Age, the characters of the writer of crime and remote settings.
Miyagaki Jotaro is a writer who lives in a labyrinth house. He invites four authors to crimes to his party house, only things turn around and instead there is a murder and a deadly game …
This is a super fun series that can be read out of order, but if you want to get started at the beginning, get the Decagon House killings!
The Women’s Road Manual for Complete Demolition (Unscounded Ladies # 2) by Alison Goodman
For fans of amateur detectives, the mystery of solving with some actions, the settings of Regents England and the women who gather according to the rules of society!
This is a continuation of the first book, the benevolent society of unscrupulous ladies. If you haven’t read it yet, you absolutely go to pick up the twin sisters starter who are their 40s and are not married, so of course, they are useless to society … They just joke, they secretly help women and children and decide mysteries!
Now, if you have read it, you are for a handwriting with the sequel that continues with Gemini Gus and Julia, protecting a woman whose brother is looking for her to bring her back to shelter. They also need to clear the desired name of the person before being dead, all resulting from a past duel. In addition to dealing with a depressing society and their personal problems, the twins do not always see face to face on the paths to take in their cases.
Death in Mia Manandal Cards
For YA Mysteries Fans, Tarot Reading, Cases of Missing Persons and Family Detective Agency.
High school student Danika Dizon has the father of the mysterious author and mom of PI, but her parents still do not allow her to officially join their detective agency as an investigator. What to do a girl? She secretly blames the classmates of reading Tarot. Here’s how she finds herself on a case that she believes will prove to her parents that she belongs to the family agency: after dealing with the sister of the classmate’s sister, she disappears.
If you are a fan of the Mysteries of Cozy Food Mystery, Definitely Get the Tita Rosie Mystery Series!
A thousand natural shocks of Omar Hussein
For fans of wellness, cults, fictional serial killers and a reporter.
Newspaper reporter Dash Hassan joined a cult of wellness in search of a deletion of last trauma. And in the hope of not being fired, he began writing about a serial killer from the early auto. When the serial killer comes out of hiding to start killing again, Hassan must choose between deleting his memories or use them to stop the killer.
The Retirement Plan by Sue Hinnbergs
For fans of dark humor, the crowd POV and women come together to kill their husbands!
Four married couples lost their money in the same investment and since the Friend’s marriages have been resentment. The spouses steal from a local casino until one of them dies and his wife receives money for life insurance, leaving the other three wives to see signs in dollars in their eyes …
Silversmith’s puzzle (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries # 4) from Evil March
For fans of historical mysteries for murder.
As he recovered in a hospital, Captain Jim became a slot that led to his meeting and eventually married Lady Diana, something that sheds her from her family in Parsi. Now Jim and Diana are again in Bombay to help Diana’s family: not only have they lost family wealth, but her brother is accused of murder!
If you want to see Captain Jim become a chute and meet with Lady Diana, get the first in the TV series “Murder in Old Bombay”!
Land for murder by Carlin Greenwald
For YA settings fans and the entertainment park!
He was seventeen and excited for the summer as he started working in an amusement park, managing a new riding. But things turn bad when a colleague dies on the trip and she thinks something suspicious has happened as she ran to get help. What to do a girl? Return when the park is closed with friends and investigate!
The death of the calder by Emily Paxman
For fans of Fantasy + Mystery!
Who said the witches are only for reading in the fall?! Three brothers and sisters are on a luxury train to return to their kingdom, where their father dies, and one of them is to accept the throne. But they collapse and while they are stuck, witches come out and someone starts killing people one by one …
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