The Best-Selling Vigilante Justice Crime Thrillers of 2025
These best-selling vigilante justice crime thrillers represent the best the genre has to offer—books that will keep you awake long past midnight, questioning your assumptions and desperately turning pages. Whether you’re a dedicated thriller aficionado or simply seeking your next unputdownable read, these stories deliver unforgettable characters, ingenious plots, and satisfying conclusions.
In a cold smugglers’ village near the Afghan border, Malika waits for someone to pay her price—a few scraps of heroin. A Russian gangster on the run from the KGB finds unlikely refuge, while a drug lord, an Afghan warlord, and the Russian Mafia become entangled in a scheme to increase heroin shipments.
As the drug lord fights to protect his business from Russian encroachment, the treacherous Afghans play both sides against each other, concerned only with profit for their causes. In this dangerous borderland, human life holds little value against the backdrop of power, addiction, and greed.
Nothing matters more to Jesse King than his motorcycle club and his daughter. The club is in his blood—he’s as gorgeous as he is dangerous, the very definition of trouble. And I’ve just stepped into his world as his daughter’s new nanny.
But when our heated arguments evolve into something far more primal, with him claiming me against the back of his truck, we ignite a scorching game of emotional roulette that neither of us is prepared to play.
After my mother’s mysterious death, I vow to find answers at Dracadia University—an isolated island school with haunted shores and darker secrets. There, I meet Professor Devryck Bramwell, “Doctor Death,” whose forbidden allure proves irresistible despite the danger. As our toxic attraction deepens, eyes on campus watch, waiting for our pasts to surface.
The dead have much to teach. Dracadia’s most depraved secret awaits.
In a town where nothing is as it seems, survival is more than a mirage. Rachel Hatch arrives in Riverton, Texas to fulfill a promise, only to find the town mysteriously cut off from the outside world. As isolation breeds chaos, she uncovers a terrifying truth—the town is an unwitting test site for a military weapon system disguised as a natural disaster.
Racing against time, Hatch must expose the conspiracy and save the residents, but in this deadly game of deception, survival may require the ultimate sacrifice. A high-octane thriller of loyalty, betrayal, and survival.
Moving mountains to bury the truth leaves Hatch with only one choice—dig until she sees the light of day. Trapped in a collapsed Appalachian tunnel, Rachel Hatch realizes the disaster was no accident but a deliberate act to conceal something deadly.
As Hatch fights to protect fellow survivors and uncover evidence, powerful forces work to keep their secret permanently buried. With time running out and rubble shifting, she must expose the truth before those responsible silence everyone forever.
Notorious Mafia enforcer Maximo DiMarco has always been my protector—my brothers’ best friend with a god’s body and a devil’s mind. While others see just a spoiled Mafia princess, Max sees the real me, making me feel alive despite the dangerous world we inhabit.
When he finally loses control, our forbidden passion exceeds my wildest dreams, but his dark past threatens our only chance at happiness. Now I’d sacrifice everything for a life with him—and when my brothers discover us, I just might have to.
Two faces. One obsession. Zero mercy. My little lamb was stolen from me, awakening a monster without restraint. Death itself bows to my rage as I paint the streets red, eliminating anyone standing between us. Each kill brings me closer to reclaiming what’s mine.
“Back in the Shadows” plunges readers deeper into Death’s twisted realm where love and violence intertwine.
Grief is the price we pay for love… As Lorenzo Moretti, I chose love over my Cosa Nostra birthright, only for my father’s curse to steal my wife away. Two years later, I live with half a soul and a promise to never love again.
Until she arrives in a sunshine-yellow dress with her old Mustang, seeking refuge behind my family’s walls. Bruised yet unbroken, annoying yet captivating, with no filter and an eternal smile—she’s everything I don’t want but might desperately need. There’s only so long you can stand in the sun before giving in to its heat.
When you finally meet the monster hiding under your bed. I’m Death, The Portland Serial Killer, counting down your nightmares. Ella McCloud is my obsession—the flicker of light in my darkness, the color in my grayscale existence. Little does she know I’m always watching, waiting to make her my Queen.
“In the Shadows” is not merely a dark romance; it’s an addiction that refuses to release its hold. This standalone features multiple POVs, intertwining storylines, an unhinged hero, and an unexpected HEA. Once you enter these shadows, there’s no turning back.
I’m addicted to my stalker. Each night he sneaks through my window, growing bolder as he moves from my living room to my bedroom. I feel his presence everywhere, pretending to sleep when he approaches, yet my body betrays me when he touches me—coming alive despite my fear.
I’ve never seen his face or learned his name, but I can’t bring myself to lock the window or tell him no. He’s sick, obsessed with his mind games and infatuation, but perhaps I’m equally disturbed because, whether I like it or not, I’m addicted to my stalker.
They captured me, broke me, molded me into their perfect weapon—forcing me to murder and seduce strangers until a hitman killed my captors and set me free. Now Leroi, my dark and deadly rescuer, must tame my murderous instincts before I make him my next victim, even as his dangerous allure strips away my control.
When shadows from my past emerge to reclaim me, I must trust a man who might betray me at any moment. He harbors secrets that could add him to my kill list, yet neither of us can resist this deadly attraction as we dance between salvation and destruction.