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.
From the bestselling author of The Rush comes a spine-chilling thriller about what happens when people are pushed to the edge and forced to make unthinkable choices.
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...
Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There's a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He begins to scream - and then he runs.
Twenty two years later, Kierce, now a private investigator, is a new father who's working off his debts by teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school in New York City. One evening, he recognizes a familiar face at the back of the classroom. Anna. It's unmistakably her. But as soon as he makes eye contact with her, she bolts.
For Kierce there is no choice. He knows he must find this woman and solve the impossible mystery that has haunted his every waking moment since that terrible day.
His investigation will bring him face-to-face with his past. Soon he discovers that some secrets should stay buried
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HARLAN COBEN never ever lets you down - LEE CHILD
HARLAN COBEN- simply one of the all-time greats - GILLIAN FLYNN
HARLAN COBEN never disappoints - STEPHEN KING
HARLAN COBEN is the modern master of the hook and twist - DAN BROWN
HARLAN COBEN is unbelievably brilliant - RICHARD OSMAN
HARLAN COBEN is a GREAT writer - JOHN GRISHAM
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....
In the twilight of his career, Logan learns he has been a vessel for furthering government interests, not a rogue hitman for a band of vigilantes. The revelation destroys him. But when Jorge Romero – an investigative reporter and Logan's oldest friend – is brutally and inexplicably murdered, Logan allows his fury to deliver him from despair.
A deathly funny mix of mystery, murder and medicine, A Particularly Nasty Case is the brilliantly original debut novel from Adam Kay, BAFTA-winning author of multi-million global bestseller This Is Going To Hurt
