In Case You Require More Options

Somehow we have now made it to November. Although there have been several favorable turns along the way (my visit to Bouchercon in New Orleans, for instance), 2025 has, in many other respects, been an annus horribilis. At least we have had many satisfying new works of crime and thriller fiction to distract us and provide comfort.

Since mid-September, when I posted my diverse list of books debuting this season—on both sides of the Atlantic—I have added dozens of titles to the more than 425 I recommended originally. Over just the last month, I have extended that inventory to cover such releases as You-Jeong Jeong’s Perfect Happiness (Creature), Jane Thynne’s Appointment in Paris (Quercus), Chuck Storla’s Murder Two Doors Down (Crooked Lane), Jennifer Graeser Dornbush’s What Darkness Does (Blackstone), C.M. Ewan’s Strangers in the Car (Grand Central), Andreina Cordani’s A Scrooge Mystery (Zaffre), Cate Holahan’s The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold (Thomas & Mercer), Johana Gustawsson’s Scars of Silence (Orenda), Cara Black’s Huguette (Soho Crime), Robin Cook’s Spasm (Putnam), and Best of The Strand Magazine, an anthology edited by Andrew F. Gulli and Lamia J. Gulli (Blackstone).

Click here to find my updated list of reading diversions.