13 of August’s New Mysteries and Thrillers

Whether you’re counting down the days of summer because you don’t want it to end or you can’t wait for fall to smother the heat, publishing is ready to stack your mystery and thriller TBR list! You can put on your sleuthing cap for cozy mystery solving — delicious food and even some vampires included — or pack in all the tension with thrillers. There’s something for middle grade readers, YA readers, and adult readers. August’s mystery and thriller releases will keep you wildly entertained—seriously, there’s a delicious hook in a thriller that will have you saying “what?!” There’s also a cold case unit at the DA’s office, a tween after a ghost photo who stumbles onto a murder mystery, a murder mystery set two months before the world ends, an accident-or-murder trope involving a sizable will, and so much more! How do we order more time for reading? All We Hide by Robyn Gigl For fans of cold case units and murder mysteries Lauren Kelly has been sent to the DA’s Cold Case Unit, which she knows is to avoid her claiming discrimination as the county’s only trans detective. Now she’s looking into a former classmate’s murder, and the case is pointing at a cover-up that will entangle a lot o...