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🍂 Would You Rather —Fall Prompt 🍂
Walk through the woods or walk through your city?
Happy (almost) Fall, everyone. I hope you are doing well and getting back into a routine. Please take care of yourselves, get plenty of rest, and enjoy the season.
I’m always reading Goodreads articles and lists for upcoming titles, so I figured I would share some anticipated mystery-thrillers today. Thrillers are my most-read genre so I’m always excited about adding new titles to my TBR list.
₊⁺🕯⋆ Anticipated Fall Mystery/Thrillers ₊⁺🕯⋆
The Witch’s Orchard, Archer Sullivan
Released: August 12
Former Air Force Special Investigator Annie Gore joined the military right after high school to escape the fraught homelife of her childhood. Now, she’s getting by as a private investigator and her latest case takes her to an Appalachian holler not unlike the one where she grew up.
Forget Me Not, Stacy Willingham
Released: August 24
The latest from Southern thriller specialist Stacy Willingham (A Flicker in the Dark) follows Claire Campbell, an investigative journalist who takes a summer job at a vineyard in coastal South Carolina. Claire’s subsequent discovery of an old diary leads to disturbing revelations about a very grim, very personal, 20-year-old cold case.
Hot Wax, M.L. Rio
Released: September 9
Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father’s forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. When her mother remarries, she jumps at the chance to tag along on the concert tour that just might be Gil and the Kills’ wild ride to glory. But fame has sharper fangs than anybody realized, and as the band blazes up the charts, internal power struggles set Gil and his group on a collision course destined for a bloody reckoning—one shrouded in mystery and lore for decades to come.
Exiles, Mason Coile
Release Date: September 16
The human crew sent to prepare the first-ever colony on Mars arrives to find their brand new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray—the machines have formed alliances, chosen their own names, and picked up some truly disturbing beliefs. Each must be interrogated. Their stories analyzed. But one of them is missing.
The Impossible Fortune (A Thursday Murder Club Mystery), Richard Orsman
Release Date: September 30
It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favorite criminal. But when Elizabeth meets Nick, a wedding guest asking for her help, she finds the thrill of the chase is ignited once again. And when Nick disappears without a trace, his cagey business partner becomes the gang’s next stop. It seems the duo has something valuable—something worth killing for.
The Intruder, Freida McFaddon
Release Date: October 7
Casey’s cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways ominously in the wind. But she’s a lot more worried about the girl she discovers lurking outside her kitchen window. She’s young. She’s alone. And she’s covered in blood.
Boom Town, Nic Stone
Release Date: October 14
When Damaris “Charm” Wilburn, a new daytime dancer, is missing for her shift at Boom Town, former headliner Michah “Lyriq” Johanssen suspects something more than a “no call, no show.” As Lyriq’s former headline partner and lover—Felice “Lucky” Carothers—also vanished under similar circumstances, Lyriq decides she’s going to find them.
The Widow, John Grisham
Release Date: October 21
Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then, into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no one knows about it. Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But soon her story begins to crack. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn’t commit: murder.
Best Offer Wins, Marisa Kashino
Release Date: November 25
Eighteen months and eleven lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip about the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, slated to come up for sale in one month. Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband Ian—and in turn, get their marriage, plan to have a baby, and whole life back on track—Margo becomes obsessed with buying the house before it’s publicly listed and the masses descend (with unbeatable, all-cash offers in hand).
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This is only a fraction of what’s coming in 2025. For a complete list of titles, check out Goodreads. I’m also excited because I haven’t read any of these, nor have I requested to read an early preview. Who doesn’t want to tuck into a good mystery this season?
☕🍂 Check out this fun “Would You Rather” Fall printable. ☕🍂
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