Our favourite authors must have heard us begging and pleading for new titles! Richard Osman, Lisa Jewell and Harlan Coban are starting off our year with new books. And Laurent Binet's Perspectives is already one of our top books of 2025. Here is our list of the best crime books this year has to offer!
Bursting with characters and colour, Perspectivesis a mystery like no other that shows us Renaissance Florence as we've never seen it before - a dazzling, hugely entertaining novel of court machinations, murder and art.
From bestselling author, Anthony Horowitz, a new novel in the bestselling Magpie Murders series in which editor, Susan Ryeland, uncovers the clues in an Atticus Pund mystery to solve a murder.
The past comes back with a bite in the gripping new thriller from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of Fool Me Once.
A year after the devastating events that took place in Fool Me Once, a secret from former Detective Sami Kierce's college days comes back to haunt him. Present day is hard enough for Kierce, but his past isn't through with him yet...
MALAGA, 2000
Sami Kierce, a young man backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning. He is covered in blood. There's a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of a woman. Anna. Dead. He begins to scream.
NEW YORK CITY, 2025
Kierce, now a disgraced detective, is teaching night classes when he recognizes a familiar face in the crowd. Anna. It's unmistakably her. But as soon as he makes eye contact with her, she runs. For Kierce there is no choice. He knows he must find this woman and solve the mystery that still haunts his every waking moment.
His investigation will bring him face-to-face with his past.
Soon he discovers that some secrets should stay buried . . .
Two unlikely detectives. A killer cocktail of suspects. In a house that contains as many secrets as the people within it, it's going to take more than a Gibson to survive the night...
While following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found wrapped in plastic and weighed down at the bottom of the harbour. Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, he starts doggedly working the case...
He's the perfect man.
He says he loves you.
You think he might even be made for you....
Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron return in the brilliant new book by #1 bestseller Richard Osman in his record-breaking series The Thursday Murder Club. Available for pre-order now!
