21 Mystery & Thriller Books to Get Excited About This Year

Bill Clinton and reigning master of suspense James Patterson have teamed up to pen another unforgettable political thriller. The President's Daughter finds former Navy SEAL and US president trying to live a quiet life in rural New Hampshire with his family. But when he learns about a threat to his daughter, Keating has to draw on every ounce of his SEAL training—because without it, all the presidential power in the world might not be enough to save his daughter.

In Bloodless, the latest installment in Preston & Child's long-running and much-beloved mystery series, FBI Agent Pendergast faces one of the strangest cases of his career. When a gruesome string of murders occurs in Savannah, GA—bodies found drained of all blood—Pendergast heads south to see what he can do. He uncovers some disturbing connections between the present day murders and an unsolved plane hijacking from fifty years before, a discovery that puts his life in danger.

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From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a woman finally gets her happily-ever-after ending with the man she loves—until a woman on the run shows up on her doorstep with enough secrets to get them all killed.

The Noise explores the aftermath of a devastating explosion and the lives of the only two people to survive it. Sisters Sophie and Tennant Riggin are the lone survivors of a major explosion that destroyed their small Oregon town, perched in the shadow of Mt. Hood. A team of government agents is sent in to determine why these two girls alone survived, but each member of the team has a different motive. As the disaster reverberates across the Pacific Northwest, the sisters, and those sent to study them, are caught in a dangerous web of malice and mystery.

In 21st Birthday, Tara Burke, a young wife and mother, goes missing with her baby. At first, all signs point to her husband Lucas lying to the police to cover up a crime. But then he offers law enforcement one startling piece of evidence that changes the whole case. And if he's not lying, it means that every woman in California is in grave danger.

New York Times bestselling astronaut Chris Hadfield is back with an exceptional Cold War thriller from the dark heart of the Space Race. 1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny module, a quarter of a million miles from home. A quarter of a million miles from help.

Bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with another gripping historical thriller. Blind Tiger is set in Prohibition-era Texas and features her signature blend of page-turning action and heartfelt emotion that makes her books so hard to stop reading.

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Has a killer lain dormant for years only to strike again on New Year’s Eve? LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to find justice for an innocent victim in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.

In An Ambush of Widows, two women form an unlikely and uneasy bond in the wake of their husbands' deaths. When two businessmen, strangers to each other, are found murdered in a warehouse in Austin, their widows are left reeling. The widows, both with secrets of their own, wade together into their husbands' pasts, desperate to determine what led to this sudden and horrific act of violence. What they find will change not only their futures—but what they thought they knew about their pasts.

From the "inventive…entertaining and thought-provoking" (Charles Yu) New York Times-bestselling author of Underground Airlines and Golden State, this sweeping legal thriller follows a sixteen-year-old who suffers from a neurological condition that has frozen him in time—and the team of lawyers, doctors, and detectives who are desperate to wake him up. 

It was supposed to be the perfect week away . . . 
Imogen and Beck, two sisters who couldn't be more different, have been friends with Tilda since high school. Once inseparable, over two decades the women have grown apart. But after Imogen survives a traumatic attack, Beck suggests they all reunite to hike deep into the Grand Canyon’s backcountry. A week away, secluded in nature . . . surely it’s just what they need.
But as the terrain grows tougher, tensions from their shared past bubble up. And when supplies begin to disappear, it becomes clear secrets aren’t the only thing they’re being stalked by. 

Only two people know that 1930s society man Lamont Cranston has a secret identity as the Shadow, a crusader for justice. One is his greatest love, Margo Lane, and the other is fiercest enemy, Shiwan Khan. When Khan ambushes the couple, they must risk everything for the slimmest chance of survival . . . in the future.

A century and a half later, Lamont awakens in a world both unknown and disturbingly familiar. The first person he meets is Maddy Gomes, a teenager with her own mysterious secrets, including a knowledge of the legend of the Shadow.

Most disturbing, Khan's power continues to be felt over the city and its people. No one in this new world understands the dangers of stopping him better than Lamont Cranston. And only the Shadow knows that he’s the one person who might succeed before more innocent lives are lost.