You may not even have noticed, but for the first time in a very long while, I didn’t post a quarterly list of crime, mystery, and thriller books due out this last summer. Normally, such a rundown would have appeared in The Rap Sheet sometime in June. And I fully intended to put one up, really I did. However, with everything else that was taking place in my life, I never made it beyond compiling most of what would have been my choices of U.S. releases. I kept plugging away at the project, yet never found the free hours or energy necessary to complete it. As mid-July rolled around, I finally conceded defeat and turned my focus, instead, to fall/winter titles.
The sad result was that noteworthy crime novels entering the marketplace between June and August—such as Megan Abbott’s El Dorado Drive, S.A. Cosby’s King of Ashes, Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s The Art of a Lie, Nicholas Meyer’s Sherlock Holmes and the Real Thing, Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Suite 11, Martin Cruz Smith’s Hotel Ukraine (his last Arkady Renko yarn), Denise Mina’s The Good Liar, William Shaw’s The Red Shore, and Stark House Press’ unexpectedly resurrected Make With the Brains, Pierre, by Dana Wilson—never won the attention from this page that they deserved.
No comparable fate awaits the books enumerated below: more than 425 works of particular interest to crime-fiction fans, all of them scheduled to debut—on at least one side of the Atlantic Ocean or the other—between now and New Year’s Day, 2026.
Included among these riches are tales by Mick Herron, Ann Cleeves, Chris Hammer, Lilja Sigurdardóttir, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Lee Goldberg, Barbara Allan, Jørn Lier Horst, Chevy Stevens, Peter James, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Walter Mosley, and Lou Berney. Richard Osman has a fifth entry in his Thursday Murder Club series, The Impossible Fortune, coming out at the end of September. Oriana Ramunno’s Smoke in Berlin—the sequel to her outstanding World War II-era thriller, Ashes in the Snow—and a
“lost novella” from Elmore Leonard, Picket Line, should turn up on shelves around the same time. Keep watch, too, for the sixth of Abir Mukherjee’s Sam Wyndham/Surendranath Banerjee mysteries, The Burning Grounds; the eighth Cormoran Strike investigation from “Robert Galbraith” (aka J.K. Rowling), The Hallmarked Man; Edward Marston’s Murder on the Great Northern Railway, his 24th outing for Victorian Inspector Robert Colbeck; the 30th Jack Reacher adventure from brothers Lee Child and Andrew Child, Exit Strategy; Georgia Clarke’s A Kiss from the Devil, her fourth story built around mid-18th-century “society harlot” and irregular sleuth Lizzie Hardwicke; The Proving Ground, Michael Connelly’s eighth Lincoln Lawyer novel; Silent Bones, also the eighth case for Val McDermid’s Scottish police detective, Karen Pirie; Christopher Huang’s second Eric Peterkin whodunit, A Pretender’s Murder, his sequel to A Gentleman’s Murder; and—postponed from last February—John Farrow’s Bright Shining as the Sun, his 11th psychological thriller featuring now ostensibly retired Canadian sergeant-detective Émile Cinq-Mars.“Celebrity sleuths”—real-life figures recruited into fiction as crime solvers—continue to demonstrate their popularity. In Mariah Fredericks’ sparkling The Girl in the Green Dress, uninhibited “flapper” Zelda Fitzgerald joins with Manhattan journalist Morris Markey to solve the 1920 murder of bridge-playing playboy Joseph Elwell. Paul Levine imagines theoretical physicist Albert Einstein teaming up in Los Angeles with comic actor Charlie Chaplin to foil a Nazi-plotted insurrection, in Midnight Burning. And in November’s The Austen Christmas Murders, by Jessica Bull, English novelist Jane Austen untangles the circumstances behind a skeleton left in the cellar of Deane Rectory.
I cannot fail to draw your attention, as well, to several additional works expected over the next four months: Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife, a neatly executed, classic crime-style novel by Martin Edwards; Vaseem Khan’s Quantum of Menace, introducing a brand-new series built around Q, head of the British Secret Service’s research and development division in the James Bond films; The Dentist, which finally (after seven book-length appearances)
introduces Tim Sullivan’s single-minded Detective Sergeant George Cross to American readers; Beth Lewis’ propulsive The Rush, about three resourceful women searching for a killer during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s; The Red Scare Murders, which finds Con Lehane briefly abandoning the world of libraries (the setting for his Raymond Ambler mysteries) to give us a sharp-elbowed tale about a 1950s New York private eye (and blacklisted former cartoonist) seeking to save a Black cab driver from execution for the slaying of his invariably loathed boss; Elizabeth George’s A Slowly Dying Cause, her first Inspector Thomas Lynley/Barbara Havers yarn since 2022’s Something to Hide; and Lit, a wild “cozy mystery” from Tim Sandlin, best known for penning Sex & Sunsets and Western Swing.Oh, there’s also this exciting historical find: Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, which collects all 15 of Jonas Kreppel’s short “sensational novels” about Spitzkopf and his early 1900s Vienna detective agency, translated by Mikhl Yashinsky.
All of this on top of the usual seasonal complement of vintage-crime resurrections, true-crime explorations, and short-story collections.
Despite its intimidating length, the list below of coming crime, mystery, and thriller attractions (with a smattering of suspense and horror fiction thrown in) is a curated catalogue, not a comprehensive one. It’s designed to appeal to a broad range of readers, both “cozy” lovers and those who turn their noses up at anything that isn’t definitively hard-boiled. There are many more works in this genre due out over the next four colder months—some of which I probably do not even know about yet. I’ll try to keep track and add to this inventory as I learn more. Check back every now and then to see what’s new. In the meantime, if you are already aware of other books you think belong on this roster, please drop me a comment at the post’s end.
We all need occasional literary escapes during these troubled times.
Non-fiction releases are marked below with asterisks (*); the remainder are novels or anthologies of short fiction.
SEPTEMBER (U.S.):
• All This Could Be Yours, by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Minotaur)
• Apostle’s Cove, by William Kent Krueger (Atria)
• Beneath Your Lies, by Nicole J. Owens (Moonlit Graves)
• Beyond Her Reach, by Melinda Leigh (Montlake)
• The Billion-Dollar Ransom, by James Patterson and Duane Swierczynski (Little, Brown)
• The Birddog Tape, by Barry Norman (Brash)
• Birds, Strangers and Psychos: New Stories Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Titan)
• A Bitter Wind, by James R. Benn (Soho Crime)
• The Board, by Katy Farber (Blackstone)
• Bodies of Proof, by James Chandler and Laura Snider (Severn River)
• Breathe In, Bleed Out, by Brian McAuley (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Buried Above Ground, by Mike Ripley (Severn House)
• Call the Witness, by Edna Sherry (Stark House Press)
• Canary, by Nic Bettauer (Atmosphere Press)
• The Captive, by Kit Burgoyne (Hell’s Hundred)
• The Cliffhanger, by Emily Freud (Quercus)
• Clown Town, by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
• Cold Island, by Peter Colt (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Corpse with the Amber Neck, by Cathy Ace (Four Tails)
• Crime Ink: Iconic: An Anthology of Crime Fiction Inspired by Queer Icons, edited by John Copenhaver and Salem West (Bywater)
• Crooks, by Lou Berney (Morrow)
• The Cut, by Richard Armitage (Pegasus Crime)
• Cut Off from Sky and Earth, by Melissa F. Miller (Brown Street)
• A Dangerous Business, by A.R. Goldsmith (Flare)
• A Dark and Deadly Journey, by Julia Kelly (Minotaur)
• Dark Horse, by Felix Francis (Crooked Lane)
• The Deadly Combo / One for My Dame, by Jack Webb
(Stark House Press)
• A Deadly Night at the Theatre, by Katy Watson (Hachette Mobius)
• Dead Man Blues, by S.D. House (Crooked Lane)
• Death in the Aviary, by Victoria Dowd (Datura)
• Death of an Officer, by Mark Ellis (Headline Accent)
• The Deepest Cut, by P.J. Tracy (Crooked Lane)
• The Elements, by John Boyne (Henry Holt)
• Enemy of My Enemy, by Alex Segura (Hyperion Avenue)• Everyone a Stranger, by Kevin
O’Brien (Kensington)
• Expert Witness: The Weight of Our Testimony When Justice Hangs in the Balance, by Ann Wolbert Burgess and Steven Matthew Constantine (Grand Central)*
• Famous, by Blake Crouch (Ballantine)
• The Girl from Devil’s Lake, by J.A.
Jance (Morrow)
• The Girl in the Green Dress, by Mariah Fredericks (Minotaur)
• The Girl with Ice in Her Veins, by Karin Smirnoff (Knopf)
• The Glass Eel, by J.J. Viertel (Mysterious Press)
• The Grave Artist, by Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado
(Thomas & Mercer)
• Gray Dawn, by Walter Mosley (Mulholland)
• The Green Feathers, by David Jarvis (Hobeck)
• Guilty by Definition, by Susie Dent (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• The Hallmarked Man, by Robert Galbraith (Mulholland)
• He Sees You When You’re Sleeping, by Alta Hensley (Avon)
• Hollywood Kills, edited by Adam Meyer and Alan Orloff (Level Short)
• Hotel Melikov, by Jonathan Payne (CamCat)
• Hot Wax, by M.L. Rio (Simon & Schuster)
• The Impossible Fortune, by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman)
• In Deadly Company, by L.S. Stratton (Union Square)
• In the Time of Five Pumpkins, by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon)
• The Island, by Paul Finch (Thomas & Mercer)
• It Will Last Longer, by Tara Sanders Brooks (Tara Sanders Brooks)
• Kane, by Graham Hurley (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• The Khorasan Retribution, by Jeffrey James Higgins (Severn River)
• The Killer Question, by Janice Hallett (Atria)
• A Killer Wedding, by Joan O’Leary (Morrow)
• The Killing Stones, by Ann Cleeves (Minotaur)
• Lady Darling Inquires After a Killer, by Colleen Gleason
(Oliver Heber)
• Last One Seen, by Rebecca Kanner (Crooked Lane)
• The Librarians, by Sherry Thomas (Berkley)
• The Lost Hours, by Lynn Tavernier (Crooked Lane)
• Love, Mom, by Iliana Xander (Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Mad Wife, by Meagan Church (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Midnight Burning, by Paul Levine (Blank Slate Press)
• Miss Morton and the Missing Heir, by Catherine Lloyd (Kensington)
• The Mistake, by M.J. Arlidge and Lisa Hall (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Murder at Blackwood Inn, by Penny Warner (Crooked Lane)
• Murder at Somerset House, by Andrea Penrose (Kensington)
• Murder at the Black Cat Café, by Seishi Yokomizo (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Murder in an Italian Piazza, by Michael Falco (Kensington Cozies)
• Murder in Miniature, by Katie Tietjen (Crooked Lane)
• A Murder in Paris, by Matthew Blake (Harper)
• Murder in Tinseltown, by Max Nightingale (Pegasus Crime)
• Murder on the Marlow Belle, by Robert Thorogood
(Poisoned Pen Press)
• Murder on the Orient Express (Deluxe Collector’s Edition), by Agatha Christie (Morrow)
• A Murderous Business, by Cathy Pegau (Minotaur)
• The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2025, edited by John Grisham (Mysterious Press)
• The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer, by Ragnar
Jónasson (Minotaur)
• Nobody Knows You’re Here, by Bryn Greenwood (Podium)
• No Rest for the Wicked, by Rachel Louise Adams (Minotaur)
• Nothing Darker Than Night: Essyas on Hard-boiled & Noir Crime Fiction, by Curtis Evans (Stark House Press)*
• Old Money, by Kelsey Miller (Hanover Square Press)
• On the Run, by Kerry J. Donovan (Vinci)
• Other People’s Houses, by Clare Mackintosh (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Oxford Soju Club, by Jinwoo Park (Dundurn Press)
• A Particularly Nasty Case, by Adam Kay (Mulholland)
• Perfect Happiness, by You-Jeong Jeong (Creature)
• The Persian, by David McCloskey (Norton)
• Picket Line: The Lost Novella, by Elmore Leonard (Mariner)
• Please Don’t Lie, by Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Princess and the P.I., by Nikki
Payne (Berkley)
• The Raise, by Ali Kriegsman
(Cashmere Street Press)
• A Rather Peculiar Poisoning, by Chrystal Schleyer (Park Row)
• Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories, by Lee Child (Mysterious Press)*
• Roadside Night, by Erwin S. Nistler and Gerry P. Broderick
(Stark House Press)
• The Rose Apple Tree Mystery, by Ovidia Yu (Constable)
• Scar the Sky, by J. Todd Scott (Crooked Lane)
• The Scarlet Circle, by Jonathan Stagge (Penzler/American
Mystery Classics)
• A Schooling in Murder, by Andrew Taylor (Hemlock Press)
• Screwing Sinatra, by P. Moss (IDW)
• The Secret of Secrets, by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
• Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests, by K.J. Whittle (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Shadow Ticket, by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press)
• Shakedown / The Blonde and Johnny Malloy, by William Ard
(Stark House)
• The Sisterhood, by Tasha Alexander (Minotaur)
• The Skeleton in the Rose Bed, by Alys Clare (Severn House)
• A Slowly Dying Cause, by Elizabeth George (Viking)
• Someone Is After LuLu Dupree, by Josi S. Kilpack (Shadow Mountain)
• A Special Interest in Murder, by Mette Ivie Harrison (Severn House)
• Spider to the Fly, by J.H. Markert (Crooked Lane)
• This Is the Day They Dream Of, by Robert Goddard (Bantam Press)
• A Tour to Die For: A Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco Mystery, by Michelle Chouinard (Minotaur)
• The Vanishing Place, by Zoë Rankin (Berkley)
• A Walking Shadow, by Teel James Glenn (Macabre Ink)
• The Wasp Trap, by Mark Edwards (Atria)
• What About the Bodies, by Ken Jaworowski (Atlantic Crime)
• What Happened to Lucy Vale, by Lauren Oliver (Skyscape)
• The Whisper Place, by Mindy Mejia (Atlantic Crime)
• The White Mountain, by Robert Goldsborough (MysteriousPress.com/Open Road)
• The Wives of Hawthorne Lane, by Stephanie DeCarolis (Bantam)
• You Buy Bones: Sherlock Holmes and the Scotland Yarders, by Marcia Wilson (MX)
SEPTEMBER (UK):
• After the Party, by C.L. Swatman (Boldwood)
• Agatha Christie’s Styles: Hercule Poirot’s First and Last Cases (Boxed Set), by Agatha Christie (HarperCollins)
• Appointment in Paris, by Jane Thynne (Quercus)
• As If by Magic: Locked-Room Mysteries and Other Miraculous Crimes, edited by Martin Edwards (British Library Crime Classics)
• Black Notice, by Joy Ellis (Joffe)
• The Chesil Beach Murders, by Rachel McLean (Ackroyd)
• A Child in the Storm, by Emily Gunnis (Headline Review)
• The Christmas Clue, by Nicola Upson (Faber & Faber)
• Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel, by Glenda Young (Headline)
• Deadly Mistake, by Rob Sinclair (Boldwood)
• Deadman’s Pool, by Kate Rhodes (Orenda)
• End Game, by Jeffrey Archer (HarperCollins)
• Evil in High Places, by Rory Clements (Viking)
• The Ex Came Back, by Daniel Hurst (Bookouture)
• Feast for the Ravens, by Sarah Hawkswood (Allison & Busby)
• 59 Minutes, by Holly Seddon (Orion)
• The Four Deadly Seasons, by David Hewson (Bloodhound)
• He Calls by Night, by S.D.W. Hamilton (Wedge)
• A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders, by David
Wilson (Sphere)*
• How to Get Murdered in Devon, by Stephanie Austin (Allison & Busby)
• The Hunting Grounds, by Charly Cox (Canelo Hera)
• Keep Me Safe, by Allison Meldrum (Book Guild)
• Left in the Ashes, by Anna Britton (Canelo Crime)
• Legacy, by Chris Hammer (Wildfire)
• The Mistake, by M.J. Arlidge and Lisa Hall (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• The Mistletoe Murder Club, by Katie Marsh (Boldwood)
• The Moquette Mystery, by Andrew Martin (Safe Haven)
• Murder at the Royal Palace, by Verity Bright (Bookouture)
• The Murder Game: Play, Puzzles & the Golden Age, by John
Curran (Collins Crime Club)*
• Murder on the Great Northern Railway, by Edward Marston (Allison & Busby)• Nine Dolls, by Rupa Mahadevan (Joffe)
• The Nothing Month, by Cat Miller
(Canelo Crime)
• Old Money, by Kelsey Miller (Hanover Square Press)
• One of Us, by Elizabeth Day (Fourth Estate)
• Our Beautiful Mess, by Adele Parks (HQ)
• Play Dead, by Angela Marsons (Bookouture)
• The Port, by Rachel McLean and Joel Hames (Ackroyd)
• A Pretender’s Murder, by Christopher Huang (Inkshares)
• Remember Us, by Gavin Kai (Pegasus)
• Save Us, by Mona Kasten (Penguin)
• The Secret at Number 7, by Becca Day (Bookouture)
• Smoke in Berlin, by Oriana Ramunno (Hemlock Press)
• Then There Were More: Short Stories of Vintage Crime, edited by Martin Edwards (Flame Tree Collections)
• To Be Frank, by Kevan Christie (Book Guild)
• The Vanishing Act, by Jo Jakeman (Constable)
• A Very Bookish Murder, by Dee MacDonald (Bookouture)
• What the Wife Saw, by Lia Middleton (Penguin)
• The Woman He Married, by Willow Rose (Bookouture)
OCTOBER (U.S.):
• Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, by Jonas Kreppel (White Goat Press)
• After That, the Dark, by Andrew Klavan (Mysterious Press)
• All That We See or Seem, by Ken Liu (S&S/Saga Press)
• And to All a Good Bite, by David Rosenfelt (Minotaur)
• Antiques Round-Up, by Barbara Allan (Severn House)
• Ask for Andrea, by Noelle W. Ihli (Kensington)
• As Long as You’re Mine, by Nekesa Afia (Lake Union)
• The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2025, edited by Don Winslow (Mariner)
• The Best True Crime Stories of the Year 2025, edited by Douglas Preston (Crime Ink)*
• The Black Wolf, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
• Blood Rival, by Jake Arnott (Datura)
• The Bluest Night, by Aaron Philip Clark (Severn House)
• Bookish, by Matthew Sweet (Hachette Mobius)
• Build My Gallows High, by Geoffrey Homes (Stark House Press)
• Burn Ol’ Dixie Down, by Robert Peecher (Independently published)
• The Death of Shame, by Ambrose Parry (Canongate)
• The Bone Thief, by Vanessa Lillie (Berkley)
• Boom Town, by Nic Stone (Simon & Schuster)
• The Burning Woman, by Patricia Marques (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Chagos Archipelago, by Tom Lutz (Red Hen Press)
• A Christmas Witness, by Charles Todd (Mysterious Press)
• Cold Blooded Killer, by Alex Pine (Avon)
• Come Through Your Door, by Carlene O’Connor (Kensington)
• Dead Center, by Mary Collins (Stark House Press)
• The Deadly Book Club, by Lyn Liao Butler (Crooked Lane)
• The Deadly Stingaree, by Corey Lynn Fayman (Konstellation Press)
• Deadly Trade, by Sara Driscoll (Kensington)
• Death at the Door, by Olivia Blacke (Minotaur)
• Death on a Scottish Train, by Lucy Connelly (Crooked Lane)
• The Dentist, by Tim Sullivan (Atlantic Crime)
• Dying Cry, by Margaret Mizushima (Crooked Lane)
• The Executioner Box, by Matt Hilton (Severn House)
• Fallen Star, by Lee Goldberg (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Fantastic Detective Notebook: A Survey and Index to Cross-Genre Mystery & Detective Novels in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, by Gary Lovisi (Stark House Press)*
• Fatal Castle, by David Boito (Wise Media)
• Final Orbit, by Chris Hadfield (Mulholland)
• Five Golden Wings, by Donna Andrews (Minotaur)
• Flat 401, by Kingsley Pearson (Orion)
• The Four Spent the Day Together, by Chris Kraus (Scribner)
• Fox and Furious, by Rita Mae Brown (Bantam)
• A Gargoyle’s Guide to Murder, by Gigi Pandian (Gargoyle Girl Productions)• Golden Age Christmas Mysteries, edited by Otto Penzler (Penzler/American
Mystery Classics)
• Gone Before Goodbye, by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben
(Grand Central)
• The Graceview Patient, by Caitlin Starling (St. Martin’s Press)
• The Gun Man Jackson Swagger, by Stephen Hunter (Atria/Emily Bestler)
• The Hidden River, by Mark Thielman (Severn River)
• The Hitchhikers, by Chevy Stevens (St. Martin’s Press)
• The Hong Kong Widow, by Kristen Loesch (Berkley)
• Illusions of Trust, by Jeffrey S. Stephens (Post Hill Press)
• Imposter Syndrome, by Andrew Mayne (Thomas & Mercer)
• In Deadly Fashion, by Rosemary Simpson (Kensington)
• The Inside Man, by Trevor Wood (Quercus)
• The Intruder, by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Jekyll & Hyde: Winter Retreat, by Tim Major (Titan)
• Keep This for Me, by Jennifer Fawcett (Atria)
• Killer Flock, by Shannon Baker (Severn River)
• The Last Death of the Year, by Sophie Hannah (Morrow)
• The Last Morning, by Camden Baird (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Lines, by Matt Brolly (Thomas & Mercer)
• Long Way Down, by Lisa Kusel (Crooked Lane)
• The Magus of Sicily, by Philip Gwynne Jones (Constable)
• The Midnight Knock, by John Fram (Atria)
• Mirage City, by Lev AC Rosen (Minotaur)
• Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife, by Martin Edwards
(Poisoned Pen Press)
• Mockingbird Court, by Juneau Black (Vintage)
• Mrs. Burke and Mrs. Hare, by Michelle Sloan (Polygon)
• The Murdaugh Murders Case, by Arthur Cerf (Crime Ink)*
• Murder in All Patience, by Ann Cleeland (Bowker)
• Murder in Constantinople, by A.E. Goldin (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Murder Most Haunted, by Emma Mason (Morrow Paperbacks)
• Murder Two Doors Down, by Chuck Storla (Crooked Lane)
• On Submission, by Michael J. Seidlinger (Clash)
• The Othello Club, by J.D. Pennington (Datura)
• Peace, Love and Haight, by Max Talley (Three Rooms Press)
• The Perfect You, by Ava Roberts (Severn River)
• Photograph, by Brian Freeman (Blackstone)
• The Picasso Heist, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
(Little, Brown)
• The Proving Ground, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
• The Purple Ribbon, by Kip Lyman (Palmetto)
• Rebel Son, by Andy Maslen (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Red Tassel, by David Dodge (Stark House Press)
• The Return of Moriarty, by Jack Anderson (Crooked Lane)
• Rumoured, by Kelly and Kristina Mancaruso (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• The Rush, by Beth Lewis (Pegasus)
• Shadow Ticket, by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press)
• Sharp Force, by Patricia Cornwell (Grand Central)
• She Kills: The Murderous Socialite, the Cross-Dressing Bank Robber, and Other True Crime Tales, by Skip Hollandsworth (Harper)*
• The Silver Revolver, by John Shirley (Rough Edges Press)
• Simultaneous, by Eric Heisserer (Flatiron)
• Sisters Before Misters, by Amelia Diane Coombs (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Sister’s Curse, by Nicola Solvinic (Berkley)
• 6:40 to Montreal, by Eva Jurczyk (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Slow Horses (Collector’s Edition), by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
• The Stranger in Room Six, by Jane Corry (Doubleday Canada)
• Sugar and Spite, by M.C. Beaton and R.W. Green (Minotaur)
• Tales of the Impossible, by Bill Pronzini (Stark House)
• The Tarot Reader, by Finley Turner (Crooked Lane)
• The Tattered Cover, by Ellery Adams (Kensington Cozies)
• Tequila, by Tim Reuben (Meridian Editions)
• The Tin Men, by Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille (Simon & Schuster)
• The Tourists, by Christopher Reich (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Trophy Wife, by Minka Kent (Thomas & Mercer)
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy, by Len Deighton (Atlantic Crime)
• Two Truths and a Murder, by Colleen Cambridge (Kensington)
• Unit 33, by Dennis R. Dalton (Flare)
• Venetian Vespers, by John Banville (Knopf)
• Vicious Cycle, by Jaime Parker Stickle (Thomas & Mercer)
• Victim #8, by Traci Hunter Abramson (Shadow Mountain)
• Wanting Daisy Dead, by Sue Watson (Thomas & Mercer)
• We Had a Hunch, by Tom Ryan (Atlantic Crime)
• What a Way to Go, by Bella Mackie (Harper Perennial)
• What Darkness Does, by Jennifer Graeser Dornbush (Blackstone)
• Wild Animal, by Joël Dicker (HarperVia)
• You Will Never See Me, by Jake Hinkson (Crooked Lane)
OCTOBER (UK):
• The Armchair Detectives, by Matt
Dunn (Bookouture)
• The Baby on My Doorstep, by Miranda Smith (Bookouture)
• Black as Death, by Lilja Sigurdardóttir (Orenda)
• The Bloomsbury Murder, by Mike Hollow (Allison & Busby)
• Broken House, by Louisa Scarr (Canelo Crime)
• A Case of the Claws: Classic Tales of Feline Crime (Profile)
• A Christmas Murder in Merrywell, by Jane Bettany (HQ Digital)
• The Clock House Murders, by Yukito Ayatsuji (Pushkin Vertigo)
• A Curiously Convenient Demise, by Hannah Hendy (Canelo Crime)
• Dark Room, by Alex North (Penguin)
• Dead of Winter, by Keri Beevis (Boldwood)
• Death in Ambush, by Susan Gilruth (British Library Crime Classics)
• The Death Lesson, by Sarah Ward (Canelo Crime)
• Dirty Secrets, by Evie Hunter (Boldwood)
• The Drift, by Susannah Wise (Bloodhound)
• Dying to Tell, by Keri Beevis (Boldwood)
• Fatal Love, by Simon McCleave (Independently published)
• Freebourne, by Salman Shaheen (Collective Ink)
• The Gates of Dark Death, by Alan Reynolds (Fisher King)
• The Hawk Is Dead, by Peter James (Macmillan)
• Her Cold Heart, by Pamela Fagan Hutchins (Bookouture)
• The Hollow Man, by Rachel Amphlett (Saxon)
• House of Flies, by Graham Masterton (Head of Zeus/Aries)
• The Hunters Club, by Alis Hawkins (Canelo Crime)
• King’s Bureau of Investigation: Homeland Security Force, by Geoffrey O’Farrell (Independently published)
• The Little Black Book Killer, by Fiona Walker (Boldwood)
• The Lobbyist, by Lionel Zetter (Nine Elms)
• Medlock, by S.G. Hartnell (Sphere)
• Mrs. Pargeter’s Past, by Simon Brett (Severn House)
• Murder at Mistletoe Manor, by F.L. Everett (Penguin)
• The Murder at World’s End, by Ross Montgomery (Viking)
• Murder in Moonlit Square, by Paul Waters (No Exit Press)
• Murder on the Prince Regent, by Irina Shapiro (Storm)
• Murder Under the Mistletoe, by The Reverend Richard Coles (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• No Regret, by Martina Cole and Jacqui Rose (Headline)
• The Official Poirot Puzzle Book (Laurence King)*
• The Peculiar Incident at Thistlewick House, by Jenni Kerr (Boldwood)
• The Protocols of Spying, by Merle Nygate (No Exit Press)
• The Psychiatrist, by Emma Curtis (Corvus)
• The Puzzle Club, by Adam J. Wright (Highfield Crime)
• Quantum of Menace, by Vaseem Khan (Zaffre)
• A Rage of Souls, by Chris Nickson (Severn House)
• A Scrooge Mystery, by Andreina Cordani (Zaffre)
• The Shadow of the Northern Lights, by Satu Rämö (Zaffre)
• Silent Bones, by Val McDermid (Sphere)
• Snowblind (10th Anniversary Edition), by Ragnar Jónasson (Orenda)
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John le Carré (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
• Travels with Agatha Christie, by David Suchet (Constable)*
• Two Truths One Lie, by Alex Sinclair (Joffe)
• The Vanishing Place, by Zoë Rankin (Viper)
• The Wake, by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Whipster, by Susan Grossey (Susan Grossey)
• Whispers in the Dark, by Allison Gunn (Embla)
• The Winter Job, by Antti Tuomainen (Orenda)
• The Woman Downstairs, by J.D. Kirk (Bookouture)
• The Women in the Shadows, by Harriett Fox (HQ Digital)
• Worse Than Murder, by Michael Wood (One More Chapter)
NOVEMBER (U.S.):
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Painted Editions), by Arthur Conan Doyle (Harper Muse)
• All Spooked Up, by E.J. Copperman (Severn House)
• At Midnight Comes the Cry, by Julia Spencer-Fleming (Minotaur)
• Benbecula, by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Biblioasis)
• Best Offer Wins, by Marisa Kashino (Celadon)
• Best of The Strand Magazine, edited by Andrew F. Gulli and Lamia J. Gulli (Blackstone)
• Beyond Murder, by John L. Swann (Nicholas K. Burns)
• Blood Oath, by Steve Urszenyi (Minotaur)
• Boss Brooks: A True Story of Fraud, Family, and Forgiveness from Tennessee to Texas, by Kathy Bingham Turner and Leon Alligood (University of Tennessee Press)*
• The Bridesmaid, by Cate Quinn (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Bright Shining as the Sun, by John Farrow (Exile Editions)
• The Burning Court, by John Dickson Carr (Penzler/American
Mystery Classics)
• The Burning Grounds, by Abir Mukherjee (Pegasus Crime)
• The Burning Library, by Gilly Macmillan (Morrow)
• A Case of Life and Limb, by Sally Smith (Bloomsbury)
• The Chandra Levy Case, by Hélène Coutard (Crime Ink)*
• A Conspicuous Woman, by Sarah F. Noel (Sarah F. Noel)
• Count the Dead, by T.M. Payne (Thomas & Mercer)
• Crimson Thaw, by Bruce Robert Coffin (Severn River)
• Death and Dinuguan, by Mia P. Manansala (Berkley)
• Desperate Spies, by Mark de Castrique (Severn House)
• The Devil in Oxford, by Jess Armstrong (Minotaur)
• The Doctor’s Wife, by Daniel Hurst (Grand Central)
• Encyclopedia of Television Noir, 1949-2024, by Vincent
Terrace (McFarland)*
• Evil Bones, by Kathy Reichs (Scribner)
• Exit Strategy, by Lee Child and Andrew Child (Bantam)
• False Witness, by Phillip Margolin (Minotaur)
• The Fix, by Mia Sheridan (Montlake)
• From Cradle to Grave, by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)
• The Haunting of Emily Grace, by Elena Taylor (Severn House)
• Haven’t Killed in Years, by Amy K. Green (Berkley)
• He Knows When You’re Awake, by Alta Hensley (Avon)• Her One Regret, by Donna Freitas
(Soho Crime)
• The Hidden City, by Charles
Finch (Minotaur)
• Hidden in Memories, by Viveca Sten (Amazon Crossing)
• The High Tide Murder, by Emylia Hall (Thomas & Mercer)
• Hollywood Hit Men, by Michele Domínguez Greene (Thomas & Mercer)
• Home Before Dark, by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir (Orenda)
• Innocence Road, by Laura Griffin (Berkley)
• In the Bones, by Tessa Wegert (Severn House)
• Italian Crime Films, 1968-1980, by Roberto Curti (McFarland)*
• The Ivory City, by Emily Bain Murphy (Union Square)
• The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold, by Cate Holahan (Thomas & Mercer)
• The King’s Ransom, by Janet Evanovich (Atria)
• The Lie She Wears, by Elle Marr (Thomas & Mercer)
• Listen, by Sacha Bronwasser (Penguin)
• Made You Look, by Tanya Grant (Berkley)
• Midnight in Memphis, by Thomas Dann (Crooked Lane)
• Murder at Cottonwood Creek, by Clara McKenna (Kensington)
• Murder at the Christmas Emporium, by Andreina Cordani
(Pegasus Crime)
• Murder in York, by J.R. Ellis (Thomas & Mercer)
• My Sister’s Daughter and Silent Echo, by Liv Constantine (Podium)
• Nash Falls, by David Baldacci (Grand Central)
• The New Year’s Party, by Jenna Satterthwaite (Mira)
• North Country, by Matt Bondurant (Blackstone)
• Not Dead Yet, by Jeffrey Siger (Severn House)
• On the Lam: Great (and Not So Great) Escapes from Prison, by Lorna Poplak (Dundurn Press)*
• The Perfect Hosts, by Heather Gudenkauf (Park Row)
• Petty Lies, by Sulmi Bak (Mulholland)
• The Predicament, by William Boyd (Atlantic Crime)
• Return of the Spider, by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
• Revenge of Odessa, by Frederick Forsyth with Tony Kent (Putnam)
• Revenge, Served Royal, by Celeste Connally (Minotaur)
• A Season for Spies, by Iona Whishaw (Touchwood)
• Showdown, by Mike Lupica (Putnam)
• The Spies in Jimmy’s Place, by Michael Mayo (Camel Press)
• A Spy Alone, by Charles Beaumont (Canelo)
• Strangers in the Car, by C.M. Ewan (Grand Central)
• The Sunshine Man, by Emma Stonex (Viking)
• Supermax: The Max & Angela Trilogy, by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr (Hard Case Crime)
• Swallowtail, by Emily Ross (Galiot Press)
• To Kill a Queen, by Amie McNee (Crooked Lane)
• The Tutor, by Courtney Psak (Hodder)
• A Voice of Reason, by Joe Cargile (Severn River)
• What She Saw, by Mary Burton (Montlake)
• Where He Left Me, by Nicole Baart (Atria)
• The Whistler, by S.W. Kane (Thomas & Mercer)
• Wild Instinct, by T. Jefferson Parker (Minotaur)
• With Friends Like These, by Alissa Lee (Atria/Emily Bestler)
• Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime, by Sarah Weinman (Ecco)*
• Wolf Cop / Port Angelique, by Richard Jessup (Stark House Press)
• The Writing in the Water, by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Amazon Crossing)
• You Watched in Silence, by H. Lee Justine (Blackstone)
NOVEMBER (UK):
• The Austen Christmas Murders, by Jessica Bull (Michael Joseph)
• The Blitz Secret, by Stephen Ronson (Hodder Paperbacks)
• Bluff, by Francine Toon (Doubleday)
• A Body at the Christmas Book Fair, by Helen Cox (Quercus)
• The Book Club Killer, by Ross Greenwood (Boldwood)
• Broken Bones, by John Carson (Boldwood)
• Burwick, by L.J. Ross (Dark Skies)
• The Christmas Cracker Killer, by Alexandra Benedict (Simon & Schuster UK)
• The Christmas Magpie, by Mark Edwards (Michael Joseph)
• The Christmas Tree Killer, by Chris Frost (HarperNorth)
• The Confessions, by Paul Bradley Carr (Faber & Faber)
• Dead Man’s Tale, by Quintin Jardine (Headline)
• Death in High Heels, by Christianna Brand (British Library
Crime Classics)
• The Deep End, by Nick Louth (Canelo Crime)
• The Dog Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail, by Antony Johnston (Allison & Busby)• The Echo of Crows, by Phil
Rickman (Corvus)
• Estella’s Fury, by Barbara
Havelocke (Hera)
• Forget Me Not, by Mandasue
Heller (Orion)
• Forget You Saw Her, by Noelle W.
Ihli (Pan)
• The Fracture, by Morgan Cry
(Severn House)
• The Good Nazi, by Samir Machado de Machado (Pushkin Vertigo)
• The Inn Closes for Christmas & Other Dark Tales, by Cledwyn
Hughes (Baskerville)
• In the Shadow of the Swastika: A Sherlock Holmes Noir, by J.G. Grimmer (MX)
• Killing Eve: Long Shot, by Luke Jennings (Boldwood)
• The Lake, by Jørn Lier Horst (Michael Joseph)
• The Last Grave, by T.F. Muir (Constable)
• Let Her Go, by Alison Stockham (Boldwood)
• Murder and the Maître D’, by Alex Coombs (No Exit Press)
• Murder in Venice, by T.A. Williams (Boldwood)
• Murder in Wintertime, edited by Cecily Gayford (Profile)
• Murder on Harley Street, by C.J. Archer (C.J. Archer)
• The Nancys and the Case of the Missing Necklace, by R.W.R. McDonald (Orenda)
• Never Look Back, by Susan Lewis (HarperCollins)
• Obsession, by L.J. Ross (Dark Skies)
• Payback, by Robert Kray (Sphere)
• The Queen Who Came in from the Cold, by S.J. Bennett (Zaffre)
• Scars of Silence, by Johana Gustawsson (Orenda)
• The Token, by Sharon Bolton (Orion)
• Unlucky for Some, by Tom Wood (Sphere)
• The Winter Dead, by Lynne McEwan (Canelo Crime)
• The Woman from Bookclub, by Carrie Hughes (Hera)
DECEMBER (U.S.):
• Agatha Christie Under the Magnifying Glass: Close Readings of 12 Novels, by Margaret Boe Birns and Nicholas Birns (McFarland)*
• All Eyes on Him, by Iliana Xander (Poisoned Pen Press)
• All My Bones, by P.J. Nelson (Minotaur)
• The Award, by Matthew Pearl (Harper)
• The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year 2025, edited by Matt
Coyle (Level Short)
• Cape Fever, by Nadia Davids (Simon & Schuster)
• Closing Time, by Michael Ledwidge (Hanover Square Press)
• Crime Rangoon, by Vivien Chien (Minotaur)
• The Curious Poisoning of Jewel Barnes, by Terry Shames
(Severn House)
• Dark Humor, by Matt Goldman (Severn House)
• The Day I Lost You, by Ruth Mancini (Harper Perennial)
• Dead Ringer, by Chris Hauty (Atria/Emily Bestler)
• Edge, by Tracy Clark (Thomas & Mercer)
• Eleven Liars, by Robert Gold (Grand Central)
• Everybody Wants to Rule the World, by Ace Atkins (Morrow)
• Everyone in the Group Chat Dies, by L.M. Chilton (Gallery/
Scout Press)
• French Thrillers of the 1970s: Volume 1—Crime Films, by Roberto Curti and Frank Lafond (McFarland)*
• Friends and Liars, by Kit Frick (Atria/Emily Bestler)
• Fun City Heist, by Michael Kardos (Severn House)
• The Gallagher Place, by Julie Doar (Zibby)
• A Grave Deception, by Connie Berry (Crooked Lane)
• A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Cheating Death, by Maxie Dara (Berkley)
• The House Guests, by Amber and Danielle Brown (Graydon House)
• Huguette, by Cara Black (Soho Crime)
• The Italian Secret, by Tara Moss (Dutton)
• The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe: A True Crime Thriller, by James Patterson and Imogen Edwards-Jones (Little, Brown)*
• The Last Hitman, by Robin Yocum (Crooked Lane)
• The List of Suspicious Things, by Jennie Godfrey
(Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Lit, by Tim Sandlin (Brash)
• The Living and the Dead, by Christoffer Carlsson (Hogarth)
• May Contain Murder, by Orlando Murrin (John Scognamiglio)
• The Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum, by Valerie Wilson Wesley (Kensington)
• The Night Watcher, by Tariq Ashkanani (Thomas & Mercer)
• Only Way Out, by Tod Goldberg (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Quiet Mother, by Arnaldur Indridason (Minotaur)
• The Red Scare Murders, by Con Lehane (Soho Crime)
• The Second Son, by Simon Gervais and Ryan Steck (Thomas & Mercer)
• Serial Killer Fiction: A Study of 42 Novels and 22 Movie Adaptations, by David Geherin (McFarland)*
• Silent Bones, by Val McDermid (Atlantic Crime)
• The Snow Lies Deep, by Paula Munier (Minotaur)
• Spasm, by Robin Cook (Putnam)
• A Spy at War, by Charles Beaumont (Canelo)
• The State versus Elinor Norton, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Penzler/American Mystery Classics)
• Terror on the Train, by Jeanne M. Dams (Severn House)
• Watch Us Fall, by Christina Kovac (Simon & Schuster)
• The Yellow Room, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Penzler/American Mystery Classics)
DECEMBER (UK):
• An Ambush of Tigers, by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett (Embla)
• The Austen Intrigue, by Julia Golding (One More Chapter)
• Blood Will Tell, by Christian Unge (MacLehose Press)
• Cover Story, by R.N. Morris (Independently published)
• Kiss from the Devil, by Georgina Clarke (Verve)
• Metropolitan Mysteries: A Casebook of London’s Detectives, edited by Martin Edwards (British Library Crime Classics)
• Still Waters, by E.C.R. Lorac (British Library Crime Classics)
• A Surfeit of Grief, by David Penny (Rivertree Print)
