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13 New mystery and thrillers for May 2025

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Welcome to a new series of what is new in mystery and thrillers! Whether you choose your right or I throw things on your TBR for summer reading plans, there are many options for different genres, sub-genres, tropes and moods, all under the crime of publishing.

There is a mystery of murder in an amusement park, wives plotting for their husband’s life insurance policies, a forced cellist in the protection of witnesses, comfortable mysteries, a tarot reader for adolescents with a family piking agency, a cult of well-being and a serial killer (in the same book!), Historical mysteries, witches and more! So set up in your favorite detection reading place and take advantage of your next criminal reading!

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The black maestro by Brendan Slocumb

As a musician, Brendan Slocumb mixes music in his mysteries novels for a winning combination!

The prodigy of the cello Curtis Wilson reached great peaks as a musician and played a solo with the New York Philharmonic, but he is about to pay the price of his father’s past crimes. Zippy, who was a drug trafficker when Curtis was a child, has now transformed proof of the state, which means that the whole family must go to the protection of witnesses. But if the agency cannot protect them, the family will have to protect themselves.

Fog and fury (Haven Thriller # 1) by Rachel Howzell Hall

For fans of worse and seaside towns!

Sonny Rush is a former police officer who moves with his mother in a seaside city in California to join her Pi sponsor company. The city seems so idyllic that Sonny is on a lost dog affair. But appearances are always misleading in suspense novels, and soon there is a corpse and Sonny is threatened to leave the city …

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Summer house By Yigit Karaahmet

For fans of The white lotus And Patricia Highsmith!

On an island off Istanbul, Fehmi and şener celebrate 40 years together as a couple. But things are starting to crack slowly when a new family moves next after their teenage son’s attack on a classmate. Suddenly, what starts as a “harmless crush” is anything but harmless and will lead to choices with haunting effects.

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Smoked by Nick Brooks

For fans of Ya Thrillers, Dual Pov and a Romance of Will!

After a night of looting during the demonstrations, the brother of an activist was arrested for murder. Jason’s sister, Monique, is certain that he did not assassinate anyone and associates himself with Cooper – who was with Jason the night of pillage and has the crush for Monique – to erase the name of her brother. But can they solve this mystery without heading directly to the danger themselves?

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Aunt detective (Kausar Khan investigation # 1) by Uzma Jalaluddin

For fans of comfortable mysteries, amateur detectives and family relationships!

Kausar Khan is a recent widow when her daughter calls to say that she was arrested, accused of having murdered the owner of her shop. What is a mother to do? Travel to Toronto and use his wisdom and excellent observation skills to erase the name of his daughter!

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The murder of the labyrinth houseS (House Murders # 3) by Yukito Ayatsuji, Wong, Ho-Ling (translator)

For fans of winding Japanese mysteries, mysteries of the golden age, crime writer and distant parameters.

Miyagaki Yotaro is a writer who lives in a labyrinth house. He invites four authors of the crime at home for a party, only things take a tour and instead, there is a murder and a deadly game …

This is a super fun series that can be read of the command, but if you want to start at the start, pick up The Decagon House Murder!

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The Ladies Road Guide to Gut Ruin (Ladies poorly manipulated # 2) by Alison Goodman

For fans of amateur detectives, mysteries resolution with an action, regulating regulays engine and women who look at the rules of society!

This is a continuation of the first book, The benevolent society of poorly raised women. If you haven’t read this one yet, go and seek the starter of the series on twin sisters who are in his forties and single, so of course, they are useless for society … I am kidding, they secretly help women and children and resolve mysteries!

Now, if you have read it, you feast with the rest, which continues with the twins Gus and Julia protecting a woman whose brother is looking for her to put her back in an asylum. They must also erase the name of a man sought after before he died, all from a past duel. In addition to dealing with an oppressive company and their own personal problems, twins do not always see an eye on the paths to take their cases.

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Death in cards by Mia Manansala

For fans of Ya mysteries, reading the tarot, the cases of missing persons and a family detective agency.

The Danika Dizon high school has a mystery author and a Pi mother, but his parents have not yet left her officially joining their detective agency as a member. What is a girl to do? She secretly accuses classmates for tarot readings. This is how she finds herself in a case which, according to her, will prove to her parents that she belongs to the family agency: after having treated the sister of a classmate a death card, she disappears.

If you are a fan of the Mystery Food Cyy Food series, certainly take Tita Rosie’s cuisine mystery series!

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A thousand natural shocks by Omar Hussain

For fans of well-being cults, fictitious serial killers and journalist tracks.

The journalist of the Dash Hassan newspaper joined a cult of well-being in search of erasure of past trauma. And in the hope of not being dismissed at work, he begins to write on a serial killer of the first aughts. When the serial killer comes out to hide to start killing again, Hassan must choose between erase his memories or use them to stop a killer.

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The retirement plan By Sue Hincenbergs

For Dark Humor fans, several POVs and women who come together to kill their husbands!

Four married couples lost their money in the same investment, and since the wedding of the group of friends were filled with resentment. The husbands stole a local casino until one of them dies and his wife obtains money from life insurance, letting the other three wives see signs in dollars in their eyes …

The Onfourse puzzle (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries # 4) by Nev March

For fans of mysteries of historical murder.

While going back to the hospital, Captain Jim became a detective, which led to his meeting and finally married Lady Diana – something that ostraceted her from his Parsi family. Now Jim and Diana are back in Bombay to help Diana’s family: not only have they lost family fortune, but his brother is accused of murder!

If you want to see how Captain Jim became a detective and met Lady Diana, take the first in the series, Murder in Old Bombay!

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Land of murder By Carlyn Greenwald

For YA fans and attraction settings!

Billie is seventeen years old and delighted for the summer as she gets to work in an amusement park operating a new ride. But things take a bad turn when a colleague dies on the journey and she thinks that something suspect has happened while she was running to get help. What is a girl to do? Come back when the park is closed with friends and investigate!

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Death on the caldera By Emily Paxman

For fantasy + Mystery fans!

Who said the witches are only for the autumn reading?! Three brothers and sisters are on a luxury train to return to their kingdom where their father is dying, and one of them is to assume the throne. But they crash, and although they are stuck, the powers of witches come out and someone begins to kill people one by one …


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