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These 10 new books will be released in 2025, and I’m excited to read them. The new year begins a new chapter in our lives, and these authors are starting a new year with a newly published novel.
These authors wear more than one hat. They are also physicians, podcasters, lawyers, ad agency directors, neuroscientists, and journalists.
I have chosen 10 exciting books that will be released in 2025.
1. What Happened To The McCrays
Release date January 15, 2025: Kyle McCray gets word that his father has suffered a debilitating stroke, so he returns to his hometown of Potsdam, New York. He doesn’t expect a warm welcome. Kyle left suddenly two and a half years ago, abandoning people who depended on him.
The longer he’s home, the more Kyle understands the impact of his departure on the people he left behind. When he becomes the coach of the floundering middle school hockey team, he begins to find compassion in unexpected places.
About Tracey Lange:
Tracey Lange was born and raised in New York City. She graduated from the University of New Mexico with a degree in psychology before owning and operating a behavioral healthcare company with her husband for fifteen years. While writing her debut novel, We Are the Brennans, she completed the Stanford University online novel-writing program. She lives in Bend, Oregon, with her husband, two sons, and beloved German Shepherd.
She also wrote The Connolleys Of County Down and We Are The Brennans.
2. Penitence
Release date January 28, 2025: When a shocking murder occurs in the home of Angie and David Sheehan, their lives are shattered. Desperate to defend their family, they turn to small-town lawyer Martine Dumont for help.
Martine isn’t just legal counsel―she’s also the mother of Angie’s first love, Julian, a now-successful New York City criminal defense attorney.
As Julian and Angie confront their shared past and long-buried guilt from a tragic accident years ago, they must navigate their culpability and the unresolved feelings between them.
About Kristin Koval:
Kristin Koval is a former lawyer who always wanted to be a writer but initially wandered down other paths. While writing Penitence, she completed a twelve-month novel generator class at Catapult Publishing. She’s an alumna of Sewanee Writers Conference and Aspen Summer Words, and her short story Inheritance was named a finalist in the Salamander 2022 Fiction Contest. She attended Philips Exeter Academy, Georgetown University, and Columbia Law School. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, and Park City, Utah, with her husband, two sons, and two great Danes. This is her first book.
3. The Crash
Release Date January 28, 2025: Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. She hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she’s heading straight into a blizzard.
She never arrives at her destination. She becomes stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and a broken ankle. Then, a couple rescues her and offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.
But something isn’t right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time passed, she realized she was in grave danger. Staying there may have been her most deadly mistake yet.
About Freida McFadden:
Freida McFadden is a physician who specializes in brain injury. She has penned multiple bestselling psychological thrillers, such as The Boyfriend, The Housemaid, and The Coworker, as well as medical humor novels, which have been translated into 40 languages.
Freida lives outside Boston with her family and black cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean. The staircases creak and moan with each step, and nobody can hear you if you scream. Unless you scream loudly, maybe.
Click here for her other books.
4. Beautiful Ugly
Release date: January 14, 2025: Author Grady Green calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge, the headlights are on, the driver door is open, and her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.
A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible – a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.
About Alice Feeney:
Alice Feeney is a New York Times million-copy, bestselling author of novels including His & Hers, Sometimes I Lie, Rock Paper Scissors, and Daisy Darker. Her books have been translated into over thirty-five languages and have been optioned for major screen adaptations. His & Hers is currently in production for Netflix, produced by Jessica Chastain and starring Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal.
Click here for her other books.
5. Head Cases
Release date: January 28, 2025: FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles. He and his brilliant squad in the Patterns and Recognition (PAR) unit are brought in to solve cases that no one else can solve.
DNA links a murder victim to a serial killer long presumed dead. Then, a second victim establishes a pattern, and the murderer begins leaving a trail of clues and riddles. While the PAR team usually works cold cases, the investigation puts them on the road. But with the perpetrator learning more and more about the team at PAR, can they protect themselves and their families…before it’s too late?
About John McMahon:
John McMahon studied Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. As an ad agency creative director, his work has won a Gold Clio for Fiat, and he’s written a Super Bowl spot for Alfa Romeo. He currently lives in Southern California with his family and two rescue animals. He’s hard at work on another P.T. Marsh book and dreams of splitting his time between Cabo San Lucas and Lake Lanier, Georgia.
Click here for his other books.
6. Mask Of The Deer Woman
Release date January 21, 2025: Following her daughter’s death, ex–Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go but back to her roots.
Too many young women have disappeared from the rez in the past decade. Some have ended up dead, others just…gone. Now, local college student Chenoa Cloud is missing, and Starr falls into an investigation that leaves her drowning in memories of her daughter, the girl she failed to save.
Starr feels lost in this place she thought would welcome her. She doesn’t know whether Deer Woman is here to guide her or seek vengeance for the lost daughters that Starr can never bring home.
About Laurie Dove:
Laurie L. Dove graduated from Harvard University with a master’s in Creative Writing and Literature in May 2022.
She is the founder and past president of Dove Media Group Inc., a creative agency that operated for two decades and served various national and international clients.
She is currently writing the second book in the series.
7. The Note
Release date January 7, 2025: It was a harmless prank.
Growing up, May Hanover, often called Little Sheriff, was a good girl and a rule-follower. Raised by a first-generation Chinese single mother with high expectations, May didn’t have room to slip up, let alone fail.
But even good girls have secrets. Lauren and Kelsey’s bond was forged when May was 12 years old. They have reunited for the first time in years for a few days in the Hamptons. But an encounter with a pair of strangers leads to a drunken prank that goes awry. And she finds herself being investigated by the police.
About Alafair Burke:
Alafair Burke is a New York Times bestselling author of twenty crime novels. Her books have been published in more than twenty languages. Her novels include If You Were Here, The Better Sister, The Girl She Was, and The Wife.
Alafair traces a lifelong fascination with crime to the fact that she grew up in Wichita, Kansas, where a serial killer was active during her formative years.
In a world where the killer could be anyone, Alafair found comfort in crime fiction. Her school librarian mother helped her navigate from Encyclopedia Brown to Nancy Drew to Agatha Christie and Sue Grafton.
Click here for her other books.
8. More Or Less Maddy
Release date January 14, 2025: Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams, navigating life in the city, and a recent breakup, it’s normal to be feeling overwhelmed. It doesn’t help that she’s always felt like the odd one out in her picture-perfect Connecticut family. But Maddy’s latest low is devastatingly low, and she goes on an antidepressant. She begins to feel good, dazzling in fact, and she soon spirals high into a wild and terrifying mania that culminates in a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
As she struggles to find her way in this new reality, navigating the complex effects bipolar has on her identity, her relationships, and her life dreams, Maddy will have to figure out how to manage to be both too much and not enough.
About Lisa Genova:
Lisa graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University.
Lisa Genova is an American neuroscientist and author. She self-published her debut novel, Still Alice, about a Harvard University professor who suffers from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Genova has written fiction about characters dealing with neurological disorders.
Click here for her other books.
9. The Missing Half
Release date May 6, 2025: On the night Kasey went missing, her car was found over a hundred miles from home. The driver’s door was open, and her purse was untouched in the seat next to it. Another young woman, Jules Connor, disappeared in the same way two weeks earlier. But with so little for the police to go on, both cases eventually went cold.
Nic wants to move on from her sister’s disappearance. But then, Jules’s sister, Jenna Connor, walks into Nic’s life and offers her something she hasn’t felt in a long time: hope.
Ashley Flowers is the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie.
About Ashley Flowers:
Ashley Flowers is the #1 female podcaster in the United States and the host of Crime Junkie, the #1 podcast among women. She also wrote All Good People Here.
Her partnership with SiriusXM led to the launch of Crime Junkie Radio. Ashley founded Season of Justice, a nonprofit that has raised over 1.5 million dollars to support the resolution of more than 200 cold cases.
Born and raised in Indiana, Ashley resides there with her husband, daughter, and their beloved dog, Chuck, the namesake of her media company.
10. We All Live Here
Release date February 11, 2025: Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in.
Her career is in freefall, and her love life is… complicated. So when her real dad—a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago—suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love and what it actually means to be family.
About Jojo Moyes:
I’m looking forward to the release of these 10 books. They’re at the top of my TBR (to-be-read list), and I can see myself spending many nights in bed savoring their content.
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