It Should Have Been You
Andrea Mara
Published 2026
384 pages
The most popular crime & mystery books of 2026
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 2026.
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Operation Bounce House
Matt Dinniman
Published 2026
437 pages
Hope Rises
David Baldacci
Published 2026
417 pages
Japanese Gothic
Kylie Lee Baker
Published 2026
344 pages
Five
Ilona Bannister
Published 2026
304 pages
Heart of Glass
Jennifer Hillier
Published 2026
368 pages
When I Kill You
B. A. Paris
Published 2026
384 pages
Beneath
Ariel Sullivan
Published 2026
464 pages
No One Knew
Kendra Elliot
Published 2026
307 pages
Her First Lie (Hannah Bauer, #.5)
Lucinda Berry
Published 2026
283 pages
26 Beauties
James Patterson
Published 2026
352 pages
In Her Defence
Philippa Malicka
Published 2026
352 pages
Stolen in Death
J. D. Robb
Published 2026
368 pages
The Children
Melissa Albert
Published 2026
398 pages
Read Between the Lies A Novel
Jesse Q. Sutanto
Published 2026
284 pages
You Can Tell Me
Melinda Leigh
Published 2026
291 pages
You Did Nothing Wrong A Novel
C. G. Drews
Published 2026
304 pages
The Patient
Tim Sullivan
Published 2026
432 pages
Hide and Seek
Soren Sveistrup
Published 2026
548 pages
Until She Dies
Kendra Elliot
Published 2026
331 pages
The Other Couple
Claire McGowan
Published 2026
349 pages
Paper Cut
Rachel Taff
Published 2026
304 pages
Inside Man
John McMahon
Published 2026
390 pages
No One Is Safe
Ellie Marney
Published 2026
301 pages