Brown, Sandra. Blood Moon. Grand Central. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781538742983. 448p. $30. THRILLER

Detective John Bowie is stymied in the case of a missing girl. Beth Collins, a senior producer on the true-crime show Crisis Point, might have a lead that lands her on the trail of the killer and requires her to team up with John to stop another murder. Award-winning Brown, who has written 76 bestsellers, gets a 250K-copy first printing.

Currie, Ron. The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne. Putnam. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593851661. 368p. $29. THRILLER

Currie (winner of the NYPL Young Lions, Metcalf, Alex, and Pushcart awards), who is also a screenwriter for Apple TV+’s Extrapolations, turns to literary crime fiction with this funny series opener based on the lives of French Canadians in New England and starring an all-women criminal gang in their 60s.

Deitch, Hannah. Killer Potential. Morrow. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780063356481. 320p. $28.99. THRILLER

Deitch debuts with this genre-blend of thriller, gritty comedy, and queer romance. The cross-country, fugitives-on-the-run story stars an SAT tutor who finds her employers murdered and a bound woman whom she frees from their mansion. TV rights have already been sold. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Dodd, Christina. Girl Anonymous. Canary Street. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781335463524. 336p. $30. THRILLER

Maarja is hired to move the possessions of the Bouchard crime family, a group slowly turning legit. She knows them well; her own mother died alongside Mr. Bouchard decades ago. Dante Bouchard is watching Maarja closely, and when yet another tragic death occurs, the two realize they are bound together—and are in great peril. Bestselling Dodd’s romantic thriller gets a 75K-copy first printing.

French, Nikki. The Last Days of Kira Mullan. Morrow. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780063298378. 336p. $18.99. THRILLER

Bestselling French brings back Detective Inspector Maud O’Connor, who was first featured in Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? In this case, Maud, knowing what it’s like not to be believed, is willing to listen to Nancy, who thinks the death in the apartment below hers was not self-inflicted—and hears voices telling her so.

Gerritsen, Tess. The Summer Guests. (The Martini Club, bk. 2). Thomas & Mercer. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781662515163. pbk. 336p. $16.99. THRILLER

The second in bestselling and award-winning Gerritsen’s “The Martini Club” series (following The Spy Coast) sees retired spy Maggie Bird and her cocktail-loving book club made up of former CIA agents once again pulled into a case when a teenager disappears and a long-dead corpse is found in a local pond.

Harman, Sarah. All the Other Mothers Hate Me. Putnam. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593851463. 384p. $29. THRILLER

Harman, who won the won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for this buzzy debut (already optioned for TV), writes about Florence, mother of 10-year-old Dylan. She has no real skills and is unpopular with the other school moms. But when a boy who bullied Dylan disappears, and all signs point to her son’s involvement, Florence dives into the case.

Hays, Katy. Saltwater. Ballantine. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593875551. 336p. $30. THRILLER

Bestselling Hays (The Cloisters) sets her newest on the Italian island of Capri. Thirty years ago, Helen’s mother, Sarah Lingate, was found dead there, but the insular and wealthy family still annually holidays at their villa. This year, they arrive to find the necklace that Sarah was wearing the night she died—and it becomes increasingly clear that her death won’t be the last.

Jones, Sandie. I Would Die for You. Minotaur. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781250910035. 304p. $29. THRILLER

Jones (The Other Woman, a Reese’s Book Club pick) gets a 100K-copy first printing for this thriller set in part in the 1980s London music scene. In 1986, singer Ben Edwards is drawn to teenaged Nicole, even though her sister Cassie is obsessed with him. In the present day, Nicole’s daughter has gone missing, having allegedly been picked up by her aunt—but she doesn’t have an aunt.

Patterson, James & J. D. Barker. The Writer. Little, Brown. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780316570008. 400p. $30. THRILLER

Bestselling authors Patterson and Barker team up for a biblio-tinged thriller. Details are scant, save for a bit about the plot: a famous true-crime writer is accused of killing her husband, and NYPD Detective Declan Shaw is on the case. The question is, is the writer controlling the plot or caught within it? With a 300K-copy first printing.

Raybourn, Deanna. Kills Well with Others. Berkley. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593638514. 368p. $29. THRILLER

Bestselling Raybourn, known for the “Veronica Speedwell” and “Lady Julia Grey” series, offers a follow-up to Killers of a Certain Age. After an extended period of laying low, retired assassins Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie are back in action—and are also on the hit list.

Ritter, Krysten. Retreat. Harper. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780063334601. 240p. $28.99. THRILLER

Ritter, who acted in Jessica Jones, Don’t Trust the B—In Apartment 23, and Breaking Bad and wrote the bestselling thriller Bonfire, returns with the story of a con artist who slips into the life of a wealthy socialite only to discover that she has also slipped into a world of danger. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Scrivenor, Hayley. Girl Falling. Flatiron. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781250362179. 272p. $28.99. THRILLER

Lambda Award winner Scrivenor (Dirt Creek) gets a 75K-copy first printing with this story set in the world of rock climbing. Finn is torn between her girlfriend, Magdu, and her best friend, Daphne. As the three women spend a day bouldering, Magdu falls to her death, sending Finn into a spiral—what went wrong and how far back does the tragedy (or was it murder) actually go?

Winstead, Ashley. This Book Will Bury Me. Sourcebooks Landmark. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781728270005. 480p. $27.99. THRILLER

Winstead (Fool Me Once; In My Dreams I Hold a Knife) writes about an armchair detective named Jane who, along with fellow internet sleuths, becomes famous for her amateur investigative skills. When a grisly murder occurs and becomes a sensation, Jane and her informal colleagues go to work, but what they find is far more than they expect.

Wright, Lawrence. The Human Scale. Knopf. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593537831. 384p. $30. THRILLER

Pulitzer Prize winner Wright (The End of October) offers a thriller featuring FBI agent Tony Malik, born of Irish and Arab parents. When he travels to Palestine for a family wedding, he is caught in the fraught investigation around the murder of an Israeli police chief; soon, events spin toward Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.

Forthcoming Series Titles

Cavanagh, Steve. Witness 8. (Eddie Flynn, bk. 8). Atria. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781668049372. 416p. $29.99. THRILLER

Henderson, Alice. The Vanishing Kind. (Alex Carter, bk. 4). Morrow. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780063223059. 320p. $30. THRILLER

Steck, Ryan. Ted Bell’s Monarch. (Alex Hawke, bk. 13). Berkley. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780593817230. 384p. $30. THRILLER