Now We Hear from Amazon

Book editors at American retail giant Amazon have revealed their “Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2026” list, comprising a dozen titles.

• Fruit Fly, by Josh Silver (Crooked Lane)
• Big Little Truths, by Liane Moriarty (Crown)
• A Violent Masterpiece, by Jordan Harper (Mulholland)
• Night Objects, by Eli Raphael (Grand Central)
• The Amateur, by Chris Bohjalian (Doubleday)
• The French Illusion, by John Grisham (Doubleday)
• Cool Machine, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
• Whidbey, by T Kira Madden (Mariner)
• The Intrigue, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
• Freyja, by Margrét Ann Thors (Spiegel & Grau)
• The Tailor, by Tim Sullivan (Atlantic Crime)
• The Secrets We Hide, by Karin Slaughter (Morrow)

Four of these works have also found places among Amazon’s picks of what it says are the 20 “Best Books of 2026.”