Heart of Glass
Jennifer Hillier
Published 2026
368 pages
The most popular murder books of 2026
A murder sits at the center of these books. Someone is dead, and everything that follows turns on who did it, why, and what it does to those left behind. You will find classic whodunits, dark psychological novels and true cases reconstructed in detail. This list shows the ones first published in 2026.
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26 Beauties
James Patterson
Published 2026
352 pages
How to Cheat Your Own Death
Kristen Perrin
Published 2026
336 pages
Pomona Afton Can Totally Catch a Killer
Bellamy Rose
Published 2026
272 pages
Murder at the Hotel Orient
Alessandra Ranelli
Published 2026
320 pages
Death by Chocolate Ladyfingers (A Death by Chocolate Mystery)
Sarah Graves
Published 2026
256 pages
The Bone Garden The brand-new Dr David Hunter thriller
Simon Beckett
Published 2026
304 pages
Rose City Vice Expanded Edition Dirty Cops and Dirty Robbers
Phil Stanford
Published 2026
136 pages
The Typewriter and the Guillotine An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
Mark Braude
Published 2026
432 pages
The Wicked Among Us Murder, Blackmail, and Book Collecting in the Ozarks
James Owen
Published 2026
288 pages
Deadly Serial Killers Chilling Tales of the World's Worst Criminals
Al Cimino
Published 2026
400 pages
Dead in the Water The Real Story of Nathan Carman
David J. Farrell
Published 2026
336 pages
HH Helenio Herrera
Richard Fitzpatrick
Published 2026
240 pages
I knew you were trouble
J. L. Simmonds
Published 2026
333 pages
The heirs
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Published 2026
349 pages
Paint me like your dead girls
Cynthia Murphy
Published 2026
333 pages
Influencers Who Kill
Madison Salters
Published 2026
384 pages
The Idaho Murders Uncovering the Tragedy That Shocked the World
James Patterson
Published 2026
400 pages
The Women Are Not Fine The True Story Behind the Greatest Female-Led Poisoning Scandal in Modern History
Hope Reese
Published 2026
288 pages
White Pines and Stone The Hunt for the Springfield Three
Christopher Whitcomb, Dylan Mcdermott
Published 2026
320 pages
No Memory for Murder The Incredible Story of a Sadistic Murder in Halifax's Point Pleasant Park
Blain Henshaw
Published 2026
200 pages
House on Otley Rd Exaiie PB
Rosa Silverman
Published 2026
Zenith Man
Zenith Man
McCracken Poston Jr.
Published 2026
320 pages
Queen Bee and the Murder of Bugsy Siegel Closing the Case on the Killing of an American Gangster
Stuart Sobel
Published 2026
192 pages