Beautiful Ugly
Alice Feeney
Published 2025
320 pages
The most popular crime & mystery books of 2025
Crime and mystery books start with a crime or a puzzle and follow the effort to solve it. You read alongside detectives, amateurs and sometimes the culprits themselves, weighing clues and suspects until the truth comes out. The genre runs from gentle village mysteries to hard-edged police procedurals and noir. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.
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Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson
Published 2025
430 pages
The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb
Published 2025
480 pages
The Impossible Fortune
Richard Osman
Published 2025
467 pages
The Missing Half
Ashley Flowers, Alex Kiester
Published 2025
400 pages
The Gingerbread Bakery
Laurie Gilmore
Published 2025
384 pages
The Business Trip
Jessie Garcia
2025 · 2026 edition
368 pages
Forget Me Not
Stacy Willingham
2025 · 2026 edition
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Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man]
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Published 2025
326 pages
Julie Chan Is Dead
Liann Zhang
2025 · 2026 edition
320 pages
The Amalfi Curse
Sarah Penner
Published 2025
304 pages
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Kylie Lee Baker
2025 · 2026 edition
292 pages
Tilt
Emma Pattee
Published 2025
229 pages
Glorious Rivals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Published 2025
432 pages
The Secret Book Society
Madeline Martin
Published 2025
336 pages
To Cage a Wild Bird
Brooke Fast
Published 2025
416 pages
Watch Your Back
Tate James
Published 2025
368 pages
The Ruling Class
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Published 2025
384 pages
Hazelthorn
C. G. Drews
Published 2025
355 pages
Bonded in Death (In Death, 60)
J. D. Robb
Published 2025
384 pages
The Dead Husband Cookbook
Danielle Valentine
2025 · 2026 edition
416 pages
First Wife's Shadow A Must-Read Gripping Domestic Psychological Suspense Crime Thriller from the Bestselling Author of I Invited Her In
Adele Parks
Published 2025
352 pages
The Big Empty (An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel)
Robert Crais
Published 2025
384 pages
A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage
Asia Mackay
Published 2025
416 pages