Caution: The best new thriller books are so addicting you’ll find yourself glued to the page. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Summer is coming, which means it’s time to curl up poolside with a good book.
Of course, my summer reading list is full of all the best new thriller books I could find.
If you are a fan of page-turning mysteries, you’ll love this list of all the best summer thrillers of 2023. In my search for the best thrillers books of the year, I’ve included all the best thriller books I could find.
Whether you are looking for the best new psychological thriller books or prefer a good domestic mystery, there’s something for everyone!
New Psychological Thriller Books
Zero Days
Ruth Ware
Jack and her husband Gabe are security experts, hired to break into buildings and hack security systems. When a routine assignment goes awry, Jack returns to find her husband dead. Now Jack is the prime suspect and, on the run, she must decide who she can trust while hunting the real killer.
None of This is True
Lisa Jewell
On her forty-fifth birthday, Alix Summers runs into Josie Fair, who happens to also be celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. Soon Alix runs into Josie again, and the two become friends. Josie thinks her interesting life would be a great subject for Alix’s true crime podcast. Josie manipulates her way into Alix’s life and home before vanishing. Suddenly, Alix unexpectedly finds herself the subject of her own podcast and she must uncover Josie’s dark secrets to protect her family.
Good Bad Girl
Alice Feeney
Eighty-year-old Edith is busy hatching her escape plan from the nursing home. As Edith becomes friends with Patience, a nursing home employee, they try to solve a twenty-year child abduction and a recent murder. Yet, Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything and they are about to find they are connected in ways they never imagined.
The Only One Left
Riley Sager
Since 1929, Lenora Hope has never left her family’s Maine estate, ever since she was accused, but not convicted, of killing her sister. Now in 1983, Kit McDeere becomes Lenora’s home health aide to care for the wheelchair-bound woman who cannot speak. As Lenora begins to type out her story to Kit, Kit suspects that the old lady might not be as harmless as she appears.
Dark Corners
Megan Goldin
In a sequel to The Night Swim, podcaster Rachel Krall returns to assist the FBI in investigating a case. Popular true crime podcaster Maddison Logan interviewed soon-to-be released serial killer Terence Bailey in prison and then disappeared. But Maddison Logan seems to only exist online. Going undercover at a popular influencer convention, Rachel discovers a fierce world of competitors and suspects that Bailey might have an accomplice on the outside.
Gone Tonight
Sarah Pekkanen
Ruth Sterling and her daughter Catherine have always been a pair, just the two of them against the world. But Catherine is ready to move out and begin a life of her own and Ruth is desperate for her to stay. There’s a reason that Ruth has kept them on the move for years. As mother and daughter begin a chess match for power, danger lurks for both of them from without, and possibly from within, as well.
ICYMI: Psychological Thrillers From Winter 2023
New Mystery Thriller Novels
Just Another Missing Person
Gillian McAllister
One day, twenty-two-year-old Olivia is spotted on CCTV camera entering a dead-end alley and never coming out again. When Julia is assigned the case, she dreads spending so much time away from her daughter while dealing with a frantic family. Yet Julia soon realizes that her family’s safety depends on framing someone for Olivia’s murder.
All the Sinners Bleed
S. A. Cosby
After a career as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to become the first Black sheriff of his county. A year later, a young Black man is shot by one of Titus’s deputies. Determined to find the truth wherever it leads, Titus must weave a fine line investigating a shocking crime in the American South.
The Beach at Summerly
Beatriz Williams
In 1946, Emilia Winthrop, the daughter of the caretaker, becomes enchanted with Summerly’s new hostess, Olive Rainsford, and the surviving Peabody heirs. When an FBI agent turns up hunting a spy, Emilia’s decisions blow everything apart. Eight years later, the CIA is set to do a prisoner exchange, and Emilia finds herself once again caught up in the events.
The Collector
Daniel Silva
Legendary art restorer Gabriel Allon returns in search of the world’s most valuable missing painting. With the help of a beautiful master thief, Allon hopes to track down the missing piece. However, Allon soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent a conflict between Russia and the West.
After That Night
Karin Slaughter
Fifteen years ago, a night out with friends ended in a violent attack that changed Sara Linton’s life forever. Sara has finally remade her life; she’s now a successful doctor engaged to be married. When a young woman arrives at the ER after a brutal attack, Sara struggles to keep her alive. As GBI Special Agent Will Trent investigates, it becomes clear that this current attack is eerily similar to Sara’s.
The Nigerwife
Vanessa Walters
Nicole Oruwari has a seemingly perfect life, exchanging the gloom of London for a glittering mansion in Nigeria. Until Nicole disappears. Nicole’s Auntie Claudine refuses to accept the police’s lack of progress. Flying to Nigeria, she is determined to find her niece, but instead finds shocking secrets that hint at her own dark past.
ICYMI: Mystery Thrillers From Winter 2023
New Domestic Thriller Books
Everyone Here is Lying
Shari Lapena
The safe community of Stanhope is shocked when nine-year-old Avery Wooler goes missing. Hours before her disappearance, Avery’s dad unexpectedly found her home early from school and blew up at her, already angry because he just ended his longstanding affair. Now Avery’s neighbors want to spill the beans, but it seems that everyone here is lying.
The Whispers
Ashley Audrain
In a well-off neighborhood, four families gather together for a pleasant summer barbecue but are thrown when the perfect hostess explodes at her young son’s mistake. Hours later, the boy falls out a bedroom window in the middle of the night. While he lies critically injured in the hospital, his mother refuses to speak and the friendships quickly being to unravel.
The Senator’s Wife
Liv Constantine
Two years after their spouses are tragically killed, DC philanthropist Sloane Chase is ready to settle down with Senator Whit Montgomery. When Sloane needs a routine hip replacement, they hire Athena as a home health aide. Instead of getting better, Sloane gets sicker and she begins to suspect Athena might be there to replace her.
The Block Party
Jamie Day
At an exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road, someone is murdered at the annual Summer Block Party. In this explosive debut novel, nothing is as it seems for the wealthy Meadowbrook Community. A web of secrets and lies has been spun between these perfect seeming neighbors, and soon they will realize that the threat comes from their own community.
Cutting Teeth
Chandler Baker
Darby, Rhea, and Mary Beth are determined to get back the parts of their lives they’ve lost to motherhood. But their plans are derailed when a strange medical condition at the Little Academy Preschool has their toddlers craving blood. When the preschool teacher is found dead, suddenly all the toddlers, and their mothers, are suspects in this thriller that explores the expectations we have for mothers.
ICYMI: Domestic Thrillers From Winter 2023
Bestselling Mystery & Thriller Series
Upcoming Thriller Books of Fall 2023
Holly by Stephen King
September 5, 2023
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Holly Gibney’s search for a missing daughter leads her to an octogenarian couple – two twisted professors with an unholy secret in their basement.
The Traitor by Ava Glass
September 19, 2023
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British spy Emma Makepeace goes undercover on a Russian oligarch’s superyacht to solve the murder of an MI6 agent.
Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
September 26, 2023
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Private Investigators Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott take on another case in the 7th book of the series.
My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon
October 3, 2023
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At Christmas, a woman takes in her estranged mother who is dying of cancer when otherworldly things begin to happen.
The Leftover Woman by Author
October 10, 2023
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A poor Chinese woman fleeing an abusive marriage goes to New York to find the daughter taken from her because of China’s one-child policy.
The Exchange by John Grisham
October 17, 2023
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In a sequel to The Firm, his debut thriller, Mitch and Abby McDeere are living in Manhattan when they are caught up in another sinister plot.
Which of the Best New Thriller Books are You Most Excited to Read?
What do you think? What best new thriller books did I forget to add to my list? Did I include any overhyped authors? As always, let me know in the comments!
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Eileen Richards says
I ALWAYS enjoy your lists. Thank you.