Distractions for Disorderly Times

Over the last several months, I spent a goodly number of hours researching crime, mystery, and thriller novels scheduled for publication during this new year. Two thousand twenty-five may be a turbulent period, filled with political rancor, economic disruptions, and unjust deportations—at least here in the United States. If those predictions become reality, the need for escapes of the literary sort will be considerable. Fortunately, 2025 will ultimately give us new fiction from the likes of Anthony Horowitz, Ruth Ware, Carl Hiaasen, Val McDermid, S.A. Cosby, Samantha Downing, John Connolly, Denise Mina, Stephen King, and other notable contributors to this genre.

But, you ask, what can we look forward to in the near term?

Well, among the fresh offerings due to arrive in bookshops between now and March 30—on one side of the Atlantic or the other—are Walter Mosley’s third escapade for New York City private eye King Oliver (Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right) and Elly Griffith’s first entry in a new series about time-traveling “cold case” investigators (The Frozen People); John Farrow’s Bright Shining as the Sun, his 11th case for Quebec police detective Émile Cinq-Mars; Kristen Perrin’s How to Seal Your Fate, a sequel to last year’s How to Solve Your Own Murder; Max Allan Collins’ 14th posthumous collaboration with Mickey Spillane, Baby, It’s Murder, marking an end to the famous Mike Hammer series; Scott Turow’s third outing for conflicted prosecutor Rusty Sabich, Presumed Guilty; Victorian Psycho, Virginia Feito’s account of “a bloodthirsty governess who learns the true meaning of vengeance”; A Serpent in the Garden, the opening mystery in what promises to at least be a trilogy from Howard Linskey, set in late 16th-century England and testing the espionage skills of one William Shakespeare; Simon Mason’s A Voice in the Night, his fourth pairing of mismatched Oxford Detective Inspectors Ray and Ryan Wilkins; Barbara Nadel’s East Ham Golem, introducing a couple of London gumshoes in a story that involves a most-peculiar corpse gone missing from a Jewish cemetery; Hang On St. Christopher, Adrian McKinty’s eighth case for Northern Irish Detective Inspector Sean Duffy; and When Sally Killed Harry, by Lucy Roth, described as “a rom com gone rogue.”

In addition, these first three months of 2025 will give us reprints of classic crime yarns. Last year was abundant with such welcome reissues, and we can look forward to still more coming soon, including books by Cornell Woolrich, Ethel Lina White, and Anthony Berkeley. Oh, and we cannot forget about all the crime-related non-fiction on its way. British writer Hallie Rubenhold, who penned a wonderful book about Jack the Ripper, 2019’s The Five, is back with a study of early 20th-century wife-murderer Hawley Harvey Crippen; and Nell Darby captivates us this month with her recollections of “the man who was once Britain's best-known private detective.”

The following list contains more than 425 books to watch for this season, covering a wide range of subgenres and storytelling styles. As usual, titles marked below with an asterisk (*) are non-fiction; the remainder are novels or collections of short stories.

JANUARY (U.S.):
• Abduction of a Slave, by Dana Stabenow (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• Ace, Marvel, Spy, by Jenni L. Walsh (Harper Muse)
• Agates Are Forever, by Logan Terret (SparkPress)
• Aurora Fragment, by Brian Shea and Raquel Byrnes (Severn River)
• Beast of the North Woods, by Annelise Ryan (Berkley)
• Beautiful Ugly, by Alice Feeney (Flatiron)
• Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right, by Walter Mosley (Mulholland)
• Best House on the Block, by T.R. Ragan (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Betrayal of Thomas True, by A.J. West (Orenda)
• The Big Empty, by Robert Crais (Putnam)
• Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation, by Michael Cannell (Minotaur)*
• Bronshtein in the Bronx, by Robert Littell (Soho Press)
• The Business Trip, by Jessie Garcia (St. Martin’s Press)
• Chain Reaction, by James Byrne (Minotaur)
• Clever Little Thing, by Helena Echlin (Pamela Dorman)
• Close Your Eyes, by Teresa Driscoll (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Crash, by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Cross My Heart, by Megan Collins (Atria)
• The Dark Hours, by Amy Jordan (Mira)
• Darkness Rising, by Chris Mullen (Wolfpack)
• Dead Money, by Jakob Kerr (Bantam)
• A Death in Diamonds, by S.J. Bennett (Crooked Lane)
• Deceived by the Light, by Damien Boyd (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Drowning Game, by Barbara Nickless (Thomas & Mercer)
• Eleanor and the Cold War, by Ellen Yardley (Kensington)
• Elita, by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum (TriQuarterly)
• Enigma Girl, by Henry Porter (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Family Inside, by Katie Garner (Mira)
• February Fever, by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer)
• Fools Walk In / So Wicked My Love, by Bruno Fischer
(Stark House Press)
• The Forger’s Requiem, by Bradford Morrow (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Forget Me Not, by M.J. Arlidge (Orion)
• The Forest of Lost Souls, by Dean Koontz (Thomas & Mercer)
• Grave Danger, by James Grippando (Harper)
• Head Cases, by John McMahon (Minotaur)
• Her Prodigal Husband, by Becky Masterman (Severn House)
• Holmes Is Missing, by James Patterson and Brian Sitts (Little, Brown)
• In at the Death, by Judith Cutler
(Severn House)
• The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime, by Vicki Delany (Crooked Lane)
• The Inheritance, by Trisha Sakhlecha (Pamela Dorman)
• In the Ghost Shadows: The Untold Story of Chinatown’s Most Powerful Crime Boss, by Peter Chin and Everett De Morier (Citadel)*
• January Thaw, by Jess Lourey
(Thomas & Mercer)
• Johnny Careless, by Kevin Wade (Celadon)
• Karma Doll, by Jonathan Ames (Mulholland)
• The Katharina Code, by Jørn Lier Horst (Simon & Schuster)
• The Killer in the Cold, by Alex Pine (Avon)
• A Killer’s Code, by Isabella Maldonado (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Last Room on the Left, by Leah Konen (Putnam)
• Leave No Trace, by Jo Callaghan (Random House)
• A Lethal Walk in Lakeland, by Nicholas George (Kensington Cozies)
• Loose Lips, by Kemper Donovan (John Scognamiglio)
• The Lost House, by Melissa Larsen (Minotaur)
• The Mailman, by Andrew Welsh-Huggins (Mysterious Press)
• Malma Station, by Alex Schulman (Pegasus Crime)
• Mask of the Deer Woman, by Laurie L. Dove (Berkley)
• Murder by the Clock, by Rufus King (Penzler/American
Mystery Classics)
• Murder in the Dressing Room, by Holly Stars (Berkley)
• Murder on the Spanish Seas, by Wendy Church (Severn House)
• My Bonney Lies Under, by Susan Cummins Miller (Artemesia)
• Mystery at the Station Hotel, by Edward Marston (Allison & Busby)
• The Naming of the Birds, by Paraic O’Donnell (Tin House)
• Never Blow a Kiss, by Lindsay Lovise (Forever)
• The Note, by Alafair Burke (Knopf)
• The Oligarch’s Daughter, by Joseph Finder (Harper)
• The Perfect Home, by Daniel Kenitz (Scribner)
• The Pot Thief Who Studied Calvin, by J. Michael Orenduff
(Open Road)
• Presumed Guilty, by Scott Turow (Grand Central)
• Pro Bono, by Thomas Perry (Mysterious Press)
• The Psychopath Next Door, by Mark Edwards (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Queen of Fives, by Alex Hay (Graydon House)
• The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey, by Astrid Dahl
(Simon & Schuster)
• Rebellious Grace, by Jeri Westerson (Severn House)
• The Reunion, by M.J. Arlidge and Steph Broadribb
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• River of Lies, by James L’Etoile (Oceanview)
• Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder, by Matthew Pearl (Harper)*
• Schooled in Murder, by Victoria Gilbert (Crooked Lane)
• A Sea of Unspoken Things, by Adrienne Young (Delacorte Press)
• The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story,
by Pagan Kennedy (Vintage)*
• See How They Hide, by Allison Brennan (Mira)
• A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage, by Asia Mackay (Bantam)
• The Serpent Under, by Bonnie MacBird (Collins Crime Club)
• The Seven, by Robyn Delvey (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie (Vintage)
• The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne, by Kate Winkler Dawson (Putnam)*
• The Stolen Queen, by Fiona Davis (Dutton)
• Strange Pictures, by Uketsu (HarperVia)
• The Suicides, by Antonio di Benedetto (NYRB Classics)
• Sweet Fury, by Sash Bischoff (Simon & Schuster)
• Tell Me What You Did, by Carter Wilson (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Texas Murders, by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle (Little, Brown)
• They All Fall the Same, by Wes Browne (Crooked Lane)
• Track Her Down, by Melinda Leigh (Montlake)
• Trust Issues, by Elizabeth McCullough Keenan and Greg Wands (Dutton)
• Turnpike Confidential, by Neal Savage (Brandylane)
• Vantage Point, by Sara Sligar (MCD)
• A Voice in the Night, by Simon Mason (Mobius)
• We Are Watching, by Alison Gaylin (Morrow)
• Wicked Jenny, by Matt Hilton (Severn House)
• The Winter Visitor, by James Henry (Quercus)
• Wiseguys and the White House: Gangsters, Presidents, and the Deals They Made, by Eric Dezenhall (Harper)*

JANUARY (UK):
• At the Bottom of the Garden, by Camilla Bruce (Magpie)
• The Antique Store Detective and the May Day Murder, by Clare
Chase (Bookouture)
• Being Dead Is Easy, by Louise Sharland (Bloodhound)
• Black Tag, by Simon Mayo (Bantam)
• The Bone Fire, by Martina Murphy (Constable)
• The Bone Garden, by Simon Beckett (Orion)
• The Bookseller, by Tim Sullivan (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• The Bridesmaid, by Cate Quinn (Orion)
• Britain’s Greatest Private Detective: The Rise and Fall of Henry Slater, by Nell Darby (Pen & Sword)*
• The Broken River, by Chris Hammer (Wildfire)
• The Case of the Christie Conspiracy, by Kelly Oliver (Boldwood)
• The Cleaner, by Mary Watson (Bantam)
• Clever Little Thing, by Helena Echlin (Headline)
• A Cold Wind from Moscow, by Rory Clements (Zaffre)
• The Dark Hours, by Amy Jordan (HQ)
• The Day of the Roaring, by Nina Bhadreshwar (Hemlock Press)
• Dead Man’s Shoes, by Marion Todd (Canelo Crime)
• Death Comes in Threes, by Michael Jecks (Severn House)
• Death in the Arctic, by Tom Hindle (Century)
• The Dog Sitter Detective Plays Dead, by Antony Johnston
(Allison & Busby)
• The Doll’s House, by Natasha Boydell (Boldwood)
• An Ethical Guide to Murder, by Jenny Morris (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Famous, by Blake Crouch (Macmillan)
• Final Victim, by Gregg Olsen (Bookouture)
• Gone to Earth, by Jane Jesmond (Verve)
• Helle’s Hound, by Oskar Jensen (Viper)
• The House with Nine Locks, by Philip Gray (Harvill Secker)
• The Husband, by Daniel Hurst (Bookouture)
• I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin, by Katy Brent (HQ Digital)
• Into Thin Air, by Ørjan Karlsson (Orenda)
• The Killing Sense, by Sam Blake (Corvus)
• The King’s Court Murders, by Ellis Blackwood (Vintage Mystery Press)
• The Lake, by Rachel McLean (Ackroyd)
• The Last Truths We Told, by Holly
Watt (Raven)
• Lie of the Land, by Kerry Hadley-Pryce (Salt)
• The Lighthouse Murders, by Rachel
McLean (Canelo Hera)
• The Little Girl in the Wardrobe, by C.J. Grayson (Joffe)
• Love You to Death, by Rowen Chambers (Inkubator)
• The Man She Married, by Alison Stockham (Boldwood)
• The Mother’s Phone Call, by Victoria Jenkins (Bookouture)
• The Mother’s Secret, by Karen Clarke (HQ Digital)
• Murder as a Fine Art, by Carol Carnac (British Library Crime Classics)
• Murder for Busy People, by Tony Parsons (Century)
• Murder Mindfully, by Karsten Dusse (Faber & Faber)
• Murder on the Marlow Belle, by Robert Thorogood (HQ)
• Nightingale & Co., by Charlotte Printz (Corylus)
• Notes on a Drowning, by Anna Sharpe (Orion)
• The Perfect Boyfriend, by S.E. Lynes (Bookouture)
• The Perfect Guest, by Casey Kelleher (Bookouture)
• The Real Death in Paradise: Mystery, Murder and Mayhem—A True Story of a British Detective Fighting Crime in the Caribbean, by Richard Preston (John Blake)*
• The Resurrectionist, by A. Rae Dunlap (HarperNorth)
• Revenge of the Deadly Dozen, by Peter Berry (Bloodhound)
• A Serpent in the Garden, by Howard Linskey (Canelo)
• The Seventh Floor, by David McCloskey (Swift Press)
• The Sister-in-Law, by Joanne Ryan (Boldwood)
• The Storyteller’s Daughter, by Victoria Scott (Boldwood)
• The Stranger in the Room, by Luca Veste (Hodder Paperbacks)
• The Student, by H.M. Lynn (Boldwood)
• Sweat, by Emma Healey (>Hutchinson Heinemann)
• The Time of the Fire, by Emma Kavanagh (Orion)
• Tommy the Bruce, by James Yorkston (Oldcastle)
• The Troubled Deep, by Rob Parker (Raven)
• Vanished, by M.A. Comley (Independently published)
• The Violinist’s Secret, by M.J. Hollows (HQ Digital)
• What Kind of Mother, by Anna-Lou Weatherley (Bookouture)
• The Wrong Daughter, by Dandy Smith (Embla)
• Your Child Next, by M.J. Arlidge and Andy Maslen (Orion)
• Wild Swimming, by G.R. Jordan (Carpetless)

FEBRUARY (U.S.):
• Acts of Murder: Murder in a Small Town, by L.R. Wright
(Classic Mayhem)
• Afraid to Death, by Marc Behm (Arcadia)
• After the Storm, by G.D. Wright (Avon)
• The Antique Hunter’s Death on the Red Sea, by C.L. Miller (Atria)
• The Ballad of the Great Value Boys, by Ken Harris (Black Rose)
• Baptiste: The Blade Must Fall, by David Hewson (Orion)
• Battle Mountain, by C.J. Box (Putnam)
• Beartooth, by Callan Wink (Spiegel & Grau)
• Because She Looked Away, by Alison Bruce (Constable)
• Big Name Fan, by Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare (Kensington)
• The Black Curtain, by Cornell Woolrich (Penzler/American
Mystery Classics)
• Blood Ties, by Jo Nesbø (Knopf)
• Bonded in Death, by J.D. Robb (St. Martin’s Press)
• Boystown, by John Shannon (Unnamed Press)
• Bright Shining as the Sun, by John Farrow (Exile Editions)
• The Call, by Gavin Strawhan (A&U New Zealand)
• Close Your Eyes and Count to 10, by Lisa Unger (Park Row)
• Cold As Hell, by Kelley Armstrong (Minotaur)
• The Contest, by Jeff Macfee (Datura)
• The Crime Brûlûe Bake Off, by Rebecca Connolly (Shadow Mountain)
• Dead Fall, by A.K. Turner (Zaffre)
• Dead in the Frame, by Stephen Spotswood (Doubleday)
• Death of a Smuggler, by M.C. Beaton and R.W. Green (Grand Central)
• Death Takes Me, by Cristina Rivera Garza (Hogarth)
• Death Upon a Star, by Amy Patricia Meade (Severn House)
• The Dollhouse Academy, by Margarita Montimore (Flatiron)
• An Excellent Thing in a Woman, by Allison Montclair (Severn House)
• Fagin the Thief, by Allison Epstein (Doubleday)
• Faith of Their Fathers, by Samuel M. Sargeant (Neem Tree Press)
• Famous Last Words, by Gillian McAllister (Morrow)
• Fatal Crossing, by Lone Theils (Arcadia)
• The First Girl, by Claire McGowan (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Ghosts of Rome, by Joseph O’Connor (Europa Editions)
• A Girl Like Us, by Anna Sophia McLoughlin (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Grandma Ruth Doesn’t Go to Funerals, by Sharon J. Mondragón (Kregel)
• Ice Town, by Will Dean (Hodder & Stoughton)
• I Died for Beauty, by Amanda
Flower (Berkley)
• Into the Fall, by Tamara L. Miller
(Thomas & Mercer)
• An Island of Suspects, by Jean-Luc Bannalec (Minotaur)
• A Killing Cold, by Kate Alice Marshall (Flatiron)
• The Killing Plains, by Sherry Rankin (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Last Hamilton, by Jenn Bregman (Crooked Lane)
• Leo, by Deon Meyer (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Little Mysteries: Nine Miniature Puzzles to Confuse, Enthrall, and Delight, by Sara Gran (Dreamland)
• A Long Time Gone, by Joshua Moehling (Poisoned Pen Press)
• March of Crimes, by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Medici Return, by Steve Berry (Grand Central)
• Midnight Black, by Mark Greaney (Berkley)
• The Midwives, by Anna Schofield (HarperNorth)
• Murder in an Irish Garden, by Carlene O’Connor (Kensington Cozies)
• Nemesis, by Gregg Hurwitz (Minotaur)
• The Next Deadly Chapter, by V.M. Burns (Kensington Cozies)
• No Comfort for the Dead, by R.P. O’Donnell (Crooked Lane)
• Notes on Surviving the Fire, by Christine Murphy (Knopf)
• Not Our Daughter, by Chad Zunker (Thomas & Mercer)
• Not Who We Expected, by Lisa Black (Kensington)
• One Minute More, by Robert Rotenberg (Simon & Schuster)
• Open Season, by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine)
• Oromay, by Baalu Girma (Soho Press)
• Paranoia, by James Patterson and James O. Born (Little, Brown)
• Partners in Crime, by Agatha Christie (Vintage)
• Poor Girls, by Clare Whitfield (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• Prey, by Vanda Symon (Orenda)
• The Profiler, by Helen Fields (Avon)
• Pursued by Death, by Gunnar Staalesen (Orenda)
• The Queens of Crime, by Marie Benedict (St. Martin’s Press)
• The Quiet Librarian, by Allen Eskens (Mulholland)
• Robert B. Parker’s Buried Secrets, by Christopher
Farnsworth (Putnam)
• Runaway Horses, by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini
(Bitter Lemon Press)
• Saint of the Narrow Streets, by William Boyle (Soho Crime)
• The Second Grave, by Jeffrey B. Burton (Severn House)
• Secret Places, by Don Stuart (Epicenter Press)
• Shoot the Moon, by Ava Barry (Pegasus Crime)
• A Slant of Light, by Kathryn Lasky (Severn House)
• A Slash of Emerald, by Patrice McDonough (Kensington)
• Smoke on the Water, by Loren D. Estleman (Forge)
• Someone from the Past, by Margot Bennett (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Something in the Walls, by Daisy Pearce (Minotaur)
• Spoiler’s Prey, by Robin Blake (Severn House)
• Stone Certainty, by Simon R. Green (Severn House)
• Their Shadows Deep, by Peter Golden (Lake Union)
• This Violent Heart, by Heather Levy (Montlake)
• Treasure Coast, by James Foley (Black Rose)
• Two Weddings and a Murder, by Alyssa Maxwell (Kensington)
• Unshackled, by Amanda DuBois (Flashpoint)
• Untouchable, by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Victorian Psycho, by Virginia Feito (Liveright)
• We Don’t Talk About Emma, by J.D. Barker and E.J. Findorff (Hampton Creek Press)
• We Would Never, by Tova Mirvis (Avid Reader Press)
• Whiteout, by R.S. Burnett (Crooked Lane)
• Within the Circle, by Arne Dahl (Crooked Lane)
• The Wolf Tree, by Laura McCluskey (Putnam)
• You Are Fatally Invited, by Ande
Pliego (Bantam)

FEBRUARY (UK):
• Belsay, by L.J. Ross (Dark Skies)
• The Best Enemy, by Sergio Olguín (Bitter Lemon Press)
• Cold Truth, by Ashley Kalagian Blunt (Ultimo Press)
• The Daughter, by T.M. Logan (Zaffre)
• Death on Ice, by R.O. Thorp (Faber & Faber)
• Declared Dead, by James Craig (Constable)
• Dirty Money, by Charlotte Philby (Baskerville)
• The East Ham Golem, by Barbara Nadel (Allison & Busby)
• The Enemy Within, by Rob Sinclair (Boldwood)
• The Frozen People, by Elly Griffiths (Quercus)
• Gangland, by Jessie Keane (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Give Him to Me, by Dorothy Koomson (Headline Review)
• The Grave in the Ice, by Satu Rämö (Zaffre)
• Here Lie the Dead, by J.D. Kirk (Canelo Crime)
• The Hidden Dead, by Tracy Whitwell (Pan)
• How to Seal Your Fate, by Kristen Perrin (Quercus)
• How to Slay on Holiday, by Sarah Bonner (Boldwood)
• The Impossible Thing, by Belinda Bauer (Bantam)
• The Inheritance, by Trisha Sakhlecha (Century)
• In the Shadows, by Anna Smith (Quercus)
• Line of Sight, by Claire Askew (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Little Red Death, by A.K. Benedict (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Making a Killing, by Cara Hunter (Hemlock Press)
• Memorial Park, by Louisa Scarr (Canelo Crime)
• Mrs. Hudson and the Capricorn Incident, by Martin Davies (Allison & Busby)
• Murder in the Tuscan Hills, by T.A. Williams (Boldwood)
• Murder of an Oxford Scientist, by Fiona Veitch Smith (Embla)
• One Came Back, by Rose McDonagh (Trapeze)
• One True Word, by Snæbjörn Arngrímsson (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Only Murders in the Abbey, by Beth Cowan-Erskine (Hodder)
• Other People’s Houses, by Clare Mackintosh (Sphere)
• The Perfect Mother, by Claire Allan (Boldwood)
• The Quiet Wife, by Diane Saxon (Boldwood)
• Scythe & Sparrow, by Brynne Weaver (Piatkus)
• Seven Lively Suspects, by Katy Watson (Constable)
• The Spiral Staircase, by Ethel Lina White (Pushkin Vertigo)
• The Stolen Child, by Carmel Harrington (Headline Review)
• The Stolen Heart, by Andrey Kurkov (MacLehose Press)
• The Surf House, by Lucy Clarke (HarperCollins)
• The Ten Teacups, by Carter Dickson (British Library Crime Classics)
• That’ll Teach Her, by Maz Evans (Headline)
• To Pay the Ferryman, by Pat Black (Polygon)
• The Uninvited Guest, by Ruby Speechley (Boldwood)
• Wolf Six, by Alex Shaw (Boldwood)

MARCH (U.S.):
• Accidents Happen, by F.H. Batacan (Soho Crime)
• All the Other Mothers Hate Me, by Sarah Harman (Putnam)
• Ambush, by Colleen Coble (Thomas Nelson)
• The Angel Deception, by David Leadbeater (Avon)
• April Fools, by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer)
• Baby, It’s Murder, by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins (Titan)
• The Banker, by Peter Colt (Severn House)
• The Beijing Betrayal, by Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale)
• Blood Moon, by Sandra Brown
(Grand Central)
• The Boxcar Librarian, by Brianna Labuskes (Morrow)
• Broken Fields, by Marcie Rendon
(Soho Crime)
• The Cambridge Siren, by Jim Kelly
(Allison & Busby)
• The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck, by Tarquin Hall (Severn House)
• Cat’s Claw, by Dolores Hitchens (Penzler/American Mystery Classics)
• City of Destruction, by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Claire, Darling, by Callie Kazumi (Bantam)
• Command Performance, by Jean Echenoz (NYRB Classics)
• Count My Lies, by Sophie Stava (Gallery/Scout Press)
• Dead Man’s List, by Karen Rose (Berkley)
• Death at the Playhouses, by Stuart Douglas (Titan)
• Don’t Tell Me How to Die, by Marshall Karp (Blackstone)
• Fear Stalks the Village, by Ethel Lina White (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave, by Elle Cosimano (Minotaur)
• The Four Queens of Crime, by Rosanne Limoncelli (Crooked Lane)
• Galway’s Edge, by Ken Bruen (Mysterious Press)
• The Get-Off, by Christa Faust (Hard Case Crime)
• The Gift, by Sebastian Fitzek (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• Girl Anonymous, by Christina Dodd (Canary Street Press)
• Girl Falling, by Hayley Scrivenor (Flatiron)
• The Girl from Greenwich Street, by Lauren Willig (Morrow)
• Glory Daze, by Danielle Arceneaux (Pegasus Crime)
• Hang On St. Christopher, by Adrian McKinty (Blackstone)
• Homicide in the Indian Hills, by Erica Ruth Neubauer (Kensington)
• Human Scale, by Lawrence Wright (Knopf)
• If It Isn’t One Thing …, by Steven F. Havill (Severn House)
• I Would Die for You, by Sandie Jones (Minotaur)
• Killer Potential, by Hannah Deitch (Morrow)
• Kills Well With Others, by Deanna Raybourn (Berkley)
• The Last Days of Kira Mullen, by Nicci French (Morrow)
• The Last Visitor, by Martin Griffin (Pegasus Crime)
• Lethal Prey, by John Sandford (Putnam)
• The Library Game, by Gigi Pandian (Minotaur)
• Living Is a Problem, by Doug Johnstone (Orenda)
• The Man Who Swore He’d Never Go Home Again, by David Handler (Mysterious Press)
• Midnight Streets, by Phil Lecomber (Titan)
• A Mother’s Love, by Sara Blaedel (Dutton)
• Mr. Whisper, by Andrew Mayne (Thomas & Mercer)
• Murder of a Recluse, by Jeanne M. Dams (Severn House)
• A Murder in Zion, by Nicole Maggi (Oceanview)
• My Sister’s Shadow, by January Gilchrist (Crooked Lane)
• Nobody’s Fool, by Harlan Coben (Grand Central)
• One Bullet Away, by Dale M. Nelson (Severn River)
• The Other People, by C.B. Everett (Atria)
• Play with Fire, by T.M. Payne (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Reluctant Sheriff, by Chris Offutt (Grove Press)
• Retreat, by Krysten Ritter (Harper)
• Sacramento Noir, edited by John Freeman (Atria)
• Salt Water, by Katy Hays (Ballantine)
• The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne, by Ron Currie (Putnam)
• A Scandalous Affair, by Leonard Goldberg (Pegasus Crime)
• Serial Killer Support Group, by Saratoga Schaefer (Crooked Lane)
• Silent as the Grave, by Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles (Minotaur)
• The Socialite’s Guide to Sleuthing and Secrets, by S.K. Golden (Crooked Lane)
• The Summer Guests, by Tess Gerritsen (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Ten Worst People in New York, by Matt Plass (Crooked Lane)
• This Book Will Bury Me, by Ashley Winstead (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Tunnel Vision, by Wendy Church (Severn House)
• Twice as Dead, by Harry Turtledove (CAEZIK SF & Fantasy)
• The Undoing of Violet Claybourne, by Emily Critchley
(Sourcebooks Landmark)
• The Unlucky Ones, by Hannah Morrissey (Minotaur)
• Vanishing Daughters, by Cynthia Pelayo (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Vanishing Kind, by Alice Henderson (Morrow)
• Victim, by Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger (Orenda)
• What She’s Hiding, by Art Bell (Ulysses Press)
• Where the Bones Lie, by Nick Kolakowski (Datura)
• White King, by Juan Gómez-Jurado (Minotaur)
• Witness 8, by Steve Cavanagh (Atria)
• The Writer, by James Patterson and J.D. Barker (Little, Brown)
• You Killed Me First, by John Marrs (Thomas & Mercer)

MARCH (UK):
• Acts of Malice, by Alex Gray (Sphere)
• A Brush with Death, by J.M. Hall (Avon)
• The Burial Place, by Stig Abell (Hemlock Press)
• The Collaborators, by Michael Idov (Simon & Schuster UK)
• The Corpse Played Dead, by Georgina Clarke (Verve)
• Date With Destiny, by Julia Chapman (Pan)
• Death and the Harlot, by Georgina Clarke (Verve)
• Death at the White Hart, by Chris Chibnall (Michael Joseph)
• A Death in Berlin, by Simon Scarrow (Headline)
• Death on the Adriatic, by Georgina Stewart (Constable)
• A Fortune Most Fatal, by Jessica Bull (Michael Joseph)
• The Grapevine, by Kate Kemp (Phoenix)
• Her Sister’s Killer, by Mari Hannah (Orion)
• His Truth, Her Truth, by Noelle Holten
(One More Chapter)
• Hollow Grave, by Kate Webb (Quercus)
• Hunkeler’s Secret, by Hansjoerg Schneider (Bitter Lemon Press)
• Lost Man’s Lane, by Scott Carson
(Free Press)
• The Mouthless Dead, by Anthony
Quinn (Abacus)
• Murder at the Palace, by N.R. Daws (Orion)
• No. 2 Whitehall Court, by Alan Judd (Simon & Schuster UK)
• Not to Be Taken, by Anthony Berkeley (British Library Crime Classics)
• Paperboy, by Callum McSorley (Pushkin Vertigo)
• The Rest Is Death, by James Oswald (Wildfire)
• The Shadow, by Ajay Chowdhury (Harvill Secker)
• Sick to Death, by Chris Bridges (Avon)
• Smoke and Silk, by Fiona Keating (Mountain Leopard Press)
• Someone Is Lying, by Heidi Perks (Penguin)
• Son, by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger (Orenda)
• A Spy at War, by Charles Beaumont (Canelo Action)
• Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Doctor Crippen, by Hallie Rubenhold (Doubleday)*
• There Came A-Tapping, by Andrea Carter (Constable)
• A Troubled Tide, by Lynne McEwan (Canelo Crime)
• Ward D, by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
• When Sally Killed Harry, by Lucy Roth (Avon)
• When Shadows Fall, by Neil Lancaster (HQ Digital)

Nobody’s perfect, and that includes me. There’s every chance I neglected some significant work of crime, mystery, or thriller fiction when putting together this extensive catalogue. If you’re aware of one that should definitely be considered, please don’t hesitate to let us all know about it in the post’s Comments section. I shall continue to update this list through February.