30 must-read new thriller books

Sarah Harman (G.P.Putnam’s Sons)When wealthy 10-year-old brat Alfie Risby goes missing, the prime suspect is the kid he bullies: Dylan Grimes.

Dylan’s mom, Florence, is a single party girl with no tangible skills or mom friends, but she’s got to pull it together to clear her kid’s name.March 11C.J.

Box (G.P.Putnam’s Sons)The 25th installment in the Joe Pickett series finds Wyoming game warden Pickett trying to locate the governor’s missing son-in-law in the Sierra Madres.

Pickett’s falconer buddy Nate Romanowski has been living in isolation and looking for revenge, but the two men’s paths collide on the titular landform.Feb.

25Alice Feeney (Flatiron Books)A man’s wife disappears suddenly on her drive home one day.A year later, the grieving man journeys to a Scottish island, where he encounters a woman who looks just like his wife.

Out nowCamilla Sten (Minotaur Books)Four childhood girlfriends meet up every year on a remote Swedish island for a night of fun, but, one year, they mysteriously disappear, never to be seen or heard from again.A decade later, a struggling true crime podcaster is intent on finding out what happened to the women, and she plans a bachelorette party for her best friend with eerie similarities to the missing women’s getaway.

June 10Sandra Brown (Grand Central Publishing)A divorced Louisiana police detective and the producer of a true-crime TV series come together to work on an unsolved case — a teen girl who disappeared — and realized it’s not an isolated incident.They must find the perpetrator before he strikes again, all the while dealing with a spark between themselves.

March 4Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)McFadden, the bestselling author of “The Housemaid” and “Do Not Disturb,” has a gripping new thriller.At eight months pregnant, Tegan is stranded in a blizzard in rural Maine after her car dies.

She’s rescued and taken in by a seemingly helpful couple, but soon realizes she’s actually in...