5 Fresh New Books We’re Reading This Week
June 3, 2025. If you’re craving suspense, sharp twists, and unforgettable characters, this week’s mystery and thriller picks are sure to deliver. From high-stakes investigations to chilling psychological puzzles, these five fresh reads are keeping us hooked.
Ally Condie’s The Unwedding unravels secrets at a luxury resort when a wedding ceremony goes wrong, Deborah O’Connor’s Dear Future Me explores secrets from the past coming back with a sinister twist, and James Patterson’s The First Gentleman adds political intrigue and suspense to the mix. Whether you’re into slow-burn suspense or fast-paced thrillers, these books belong on your radar right now.
Ellery remembers how it felt to be on the cusp of everything new and wonderful, with a glimmering future just ahead. Now, she isn’t certain of anything except for her love for her kids and her growing realization that this place, though beautiful, is unsettling.
When Ellery discovers the dead groom, she realizes that she is not the only one whose future is no longer guaranteed. Before the police can reach Broken Point, a mudslide takes out the road to the resort, leaving the guests trapped. When another guest dies, it’s clear something horrible is brewing. Everyone at Broken Point has a secret. And everyone has a shadow. Including Ellery.
The President of the United States is up for reelection.
Her husband is on trial for murder.
Is the First Gentleman a killer?
A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the NFL star-turned-political spouse.
Is it suicide or… sacrifice?
Agent Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate. When a second body is found—exactly like the other—the two realize the case runs deeper than they imagined. As Corrie and Nora pursue their investigation into remote canyons, haunted ruins, and long-lost rituals, they find themselves confronting a dark power that, disturbed from its long slumber, threatens to exact an unspeakable price.
In 2003, Mr. Danler’s high school class got an assignment to write letters to their future selves. Twenty years later, they receive them in the mail.
Upon opening them, the students are shocked to find that their envelopes contain old secrets that threaten to expose the truth about the tragic death of one of their classmates. And when one letter makes the beautiful and successful Miranda jump off a cliff to her death, the small community is rocked to its core.
Stunned by what has happened and armed with a clue of her own, Miranda’s best-friend Audrey decides to track down her old classmates to get to the bottom of Miranda’s death. And in doing so, she sets off a chain of events that could expose the truth not just about one untimely death, but two.
The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, Vincent, never shakes the whispers and accusations that he was the one who killed them. Decades later, the legend only grows as his career as a horror writer skyrockets.
Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of Vincent Taylor. Now on the brink of financial ruin, she’s offered a job to ghostwrite her father’s last book. What she doesn’t know, though, is that this project is another one of his lies. Because it’s not another horror novel he wants her to write.
After fifty years of silence, Vincent Taylor is finally ready to talk about what really happened that night in 1975.
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