The Big Empty (An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel)
Robert Crais
Published 2025
384 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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A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage
Asia Mackay
Published 2025
352 pages
No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding
Catherine MACK
Published 2025
341 pages
Exiles
Mason Coile
Published 2025
224 pages
Detective Aunty
Uzma Jalaluddin
Published 2025
329 pages
A Slowly Dying Cause
Elizabeth George
Published 2025
656 pages
End Game
Jeffrey Archer
Published 2025
371 pages
Bald-Faced Liar
Victoria Helen Stone
Published 2025
300 pages
Breathe In, Bleed Out
Brian McAuley
Published 2025
298 pages
This Monster of Mine
Shalini Abeysekara
Published 2025
416 pages
Cold Eternity
S.A. Barnes
2025 · 2026 edition
320 pages
Death of an Officer
Mark Ellis
Published 2025
336 pages
Ambush
Colleen Coble
Published 2025
352 pages
The White Octopus Hotel
Alexandra Bell
Published 2025
368 pages
Crazy Spooky Love
Josie Silver
Published 2025
320 pages
The Last Death of the Year
Sophie Hannah
Published 2025
288 pages
The God and the Gwisin
Sophie Kim
Published 2025
416 pages
Vantage Point
Sara Sligar
Published 2025
400 pages
Watching You
Helen Sarah Fields
2025 · 2026 edition
352 pages
Making a Killing
Cara Hunter, Brian Christensen
Published 2025
368 pages
A Botanist's Guide to Rituals and Revenge
Kate Khavari
Published 2025
328 pages
Best of All Worlds
Kenneth Oppel
Published 2025
256 pages
Archive of Unknown Universes
Ruben Reyes Jr.
Published 2025
288 pages
A Proposal to Die For
Molly Harper
Published 2025
343 pages