A Slowly Dying Cause
Elizabeth George
Published 2025
656 pages
The most popular detective fiction books of 2025
Detective fiction gives you a crime, a set of clues and someone clever enough to solve it. The detective may be a professional, a private eye or an amateur with a sharp eye, and the fun is in trying to get there first. Classic whodunits and modern series both belong to it. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.
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The Last Death of the Year
Sophie Hannah
Published 2025
288 pages
Murder in Pitigliano
Camilla Trinchieri
Published 2025
368 pages
This is the Day They Dream Of (2)
Robert Goddard
Published 2025
448 pages
The Ten Worst People in New York A Novel
Matthew Plass
Published 2025
320 pages
The Return of Moriarty
Jack Anderson
Published 2025
352 pages
A Senior Citizen's Guide to Life on the Run
Gwen Florio
Published 2025
256 pages
What He Left Behind
Benjamin Bradley
2025 · 2027 edition
368 pages
Golden Age Christmas Mysteries
Otto Penzler
Published 2025
288 pages
Blood on the Cat
Nancy Rutledge
Published 2025
288 pages
Secrets in the Snow & Other Christmas Crime Stories
Matthew Booth
Published 2025
320 pages
Silence After Dinner
Clifford Witting
Published 2025
276 pages
Double for Death
Gordon Ashe
Published 2025
220 pages
Dead Cold (The Detective Flynn Mysteries)
Lisa Fantino
Published 2025
275 pages
Message in the Murder
A. M. Holloway
Published 2025
322 pages
A Death in Time
Peter Morfoot
Published 2025
320 pages
Headless in London
John G. Bluck
Published 2025
292 pages
The Substance of Fear
Richard F. McGonegal
Published 2025
240 pages
A Drop of Corruption
Robert Jackson Bennett
2025 · 2026 edition
480 pages
The Black Wolf A Novel
Louise Penny
Published 2025
384 pages
Murder in Minnesota City of Minnetonka
John Filcher
Published 2025
188 pages
WHAT FOLLOWS a gripping crime mystery full of twists
Dylan H. Jones
Published 2025
404 pages
FOOD COURT
Linguini Gorgonzola
Published 2025
107 pages
The Bridge
Shanna Hatfield
Published 2025
366 pages