The best crime books from 2025 (previously)

Corewood
By Amity Gaige

Do not think that you will follow this gripping book that will follow the disappearance of an experienced hiker Middle Ages, Valerie Gillis, on which Appalachian Trail. Gaige is a master of maintaining tensions and creating completely human characters, while every sentence is singing. Read our review.

A duo that is criminal solving with prickly chemistry? Yes, please!

Dead in the frame
By Steven Spotswood

This is the fifth book in which the ACE private investor Lillian Pentecost and her assistant Will Parker, who have a light but spiky chemistry. The intelligent, Spiky series, which plays in New York City in the 1940s, is a pure joy to read, and this episode, in which Pentecost itself is exposed to a suspicion of murder – is the best so far. If you have not read the others, you can absolutely start and work back here. Read our review.

I want a cozy puzzle

Vera Wong's guidelines for snooping (on a dead man)
By Jesse Q. Sutanto

Vera Wong loves to be surrounded by the family – organic and selected – in her Tea shop in Bay Area, where you can eat, drink and give a lot of advice (mostly without being asked). There is only one problem: it is bored. “Sometimes everything an old lady wants wants a murder to solve. Is that too much to ask?” No, it's not! Read our review.

I would like to have a novel that freshly gives the serial killer narrative

Death takes me
by Cristina Rivera Garza; Translated by Sarah Booker and Robin Myers

This novel of a Pulitzer winner published for the first time almost two decades ago is a courageous metafictional view of female, the restrictions and restrictions of language and narrative and how we try to push the viscera of violence in decent boxes – to our eternal danger. Read our review.

Any good campus criminal novels?

Notes on the survival of the fire
By Christine Murphy

Murphy's novel about the amateur examination of a doctoral student about the obvious overdose of her best friend is a fair, angry and exciting tension that is precisely aimed at science, and their failure to expect sexual assault on campus. But the idiosyncratic narrative style is also damn funny and one of the best representations of the surviving trauma that I saw in recent fiction.

Give me the most appealing amateur detective nearby

Behave fame
By Danielle Arceneaux

Glory Broussard works in her weekly Sunday bookmaker -Stint when an unusual visitor arrives with a request for help: her husband is missing. It turns out that the husband in question is Glory's ex Sterling Broussard – but when she finds him, a knife is embedded in his chest. She knows that she is on the right track when she makes people angry. “The last thing I need is a curious church lady … on my premises,” says a casino owner. “Don't go a light on things that should stay in the dark.” Read our review.