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Readers' Most Anticipated Mysteries & Thrillers of 2024
As part of our ongoing series previewing the Most Anticipated books of 2024, we’ve put together this month-by-month guide to upcoming mystery and thriller titles. Murder mysteries! Urgent procedurals! Historical crime sprees! Good times.
To find the year’s most anticipated novels, we’ve crunched the data on which books are being added to Goodreads members’ Want to Read shelves. We also keep an eye on new releases from authors that have proved to be longtime favorites with Goodreads regulars. Habit formers, we call them.
For instance, Freida McFadden (The Housemaid) is back on shelves in February with The Teacher, concerning an unfortunate math instructor and her extremely troublesome student. In April, Robert Dugoni takes readers to the mean streets of 1933 Seattle with the historical thriller A Killing on the Hill. And the inimitable Tana French presents a strange mystery in a small Irish village with The Hunter, coming in March.
Some highlights from up-and-coming authors in the mystery/thriller business: Alex Michaelides (The Silent Patient) profiles a murder on a posh Greek Island in The Fury. A 20-year high school reunion gets bloody complicated in Vera Kurian’s A Step Past Darkness. And Benjamin Stevenson delivers a new kind of locked-room mystery with Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect.
Some buzzy debuts on the 2024 slate: Kate Brody’s Rabbit Hole (a Reddit true-crime obsession gets scary); Amy Pease’s Northwoods (a Wisconsin murder investigation goes haywire); and K.T. Nguyen’s You Know What You Did (an obsessive-compulsive disorder proves a little useful, actually).
Click through the book cover images for more information about each title, and feel free to add to your Want to Read shelf.
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What are your most anticipated mysteries and thrillers for 2024? Drop us a clue in the comments below!
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“Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice” (Elle Cosimano), “A Ruse of Shadows” (Sherry Thomas), and “A Grave Robbery” (Deanna Raybourn) to name a few upcoming 2024 mystery books not listed here. I am sad not to see them listed, as it seems that perhaps I am my own best advocate as far as finding relevant reading recommendations. But these are all very popular series, so I am sure other readers would like to know. I’m curious as to how Goodreads chooses which books to feature?
Also “What Time Doth the Sexton’s Blade Rust?” (Alan Bradley). So excited to read more Flavia de Luce!
Where's "The Last Word" by Elly Griffiths? Can't wait for April.
Added 8 from the list. ✅ I read everything by Alex Michaelides, Harlan Coben, Alyssa Cole and Simone St. James. The mystery/fantasy The Tainted Cup sounds intriguing.
I'm really looking forward to the new Sparks and Bainbridge Mystery by Allison Montclair. And...the latest Vera Stanhope by Ann Cleeves. And agree with the comments above about the latest Elle Cosimano book and a new Flavia de Luce!
Jean wrote: "Louise Penny’s new Gamache (no date yet)"Just announced today: The Grey Wolf is being released October 29, 2024! 🥳
Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand and The Rom Commers by Katherine Center, both out 6/11/24
Stephen King has another new book coming out in May
Sign me up for The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny! Have read all of hers and missed not having one in 2023!
I wish publishing would separate mystery and thrillers. I LOVE mysteries but I can’t stand thrillers and I’m tired of being told something is a good mystery but being catfished by a thriller (especially those thrillers that are actually just literary fiction with a thin thriller element..)
I miss the following new releases:April: Every Move You Make by C.L. Taylor
May: One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
June: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
July: Breaking the Dark by Lisa Jewell
August: Talking to Strangers by Fiona Barton
September: Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson
Lisa wrote: "Added 8 from the list. ✅ I read everything by Alex Michaelides, Harlan Coben, Alyssa Cole and Simone St. James. The mystery/fantasy The Tainted Cup sounds intriguing."What's your favorite Alyssa Cole title? I've only read When No One Is Watching.
So Many!! I can't wait!Let us all have a blessed Read Year 2024.
Amber wrote: "Stephen King has another new book coming out in May"You Like It Dark is the title and I have mine ordered through Bookshop.org. Can't wait to read it.
someone write a book called "all our covers look the same"
Barbara wrote: "Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand and The Rom Commers by Katherine Center, both out 6/11/24"Neither of those is a thriller or a mystery...
I read an ARC of Listen for the Lie and it's incredible! Amy Tintera is so underrated. I love her YA books, too
I just added so many books to my TBR it's appalling and exciting at the same time.
Lenny Marks gets away with Murder has been released in Australia and can confirm it deserves to be on this list! More mystery than thriller but such a fantastic read
Jean wrote: "Louise Penny’s new Gamache (no date yet)"October 19th!!!
Tiffany wrote: "Also “What Time Doth the Sexton’s Blade Rust?” (Alan Bradley). So excited to read more Flavia de Luce!"The correct title is - "What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust"
I'm looking forward to this too!
Tiffany wrote: "“Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice” (Elle Cosimano), “A Ruse of Shadows” (Sherry Thomas), and “A Grave Robbery” (Deanna Raybourn) to name a few upcoming 2024 mystery books not listed here. I am sad not..."I think they go by what book has been marked as Want to Read most.
I'm absolutely intrigued by Kellye Garrett's latest book (Missing White Woman). Fingers crossed it lives up to the promising description! Can't wait to dive into it.
