Best Mystery Books of 2025

The Impossible Fortune

by Richard Osman

**Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan?** It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with fa...

The Hallmarked Man

by Robert Galbraith

Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott are drawn into a new, difficult case in the eighth novel of the series by Robert Galbraith.

Marble Hall Murders

by Anthony Horowitz

“Diabolically clever.”—New York Times "Horowitz dazzles with the brilliant third entry in his Susan Ryeland series . . . . [He is] is at the top of his game here, linking past and present in a virtuoso finale worthy of A...

Presumed Guilty

by Scott Turow

The Dream Hotel

by Laila Lalami

Sara Hussein is detained at Los Angeles airport when an algorithm reading her dream data decides she might harm her husband. She is held for observation in a converted school, and each rule broken extends her stay. This...

Fog and Fury

by Rachel Howzell Hall

King of Ashes

by S. A. Cosby

When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the fam...

Glory Daze

by Danielle Arceneaux

Never Flinch

by King, Stephen

From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines—one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker—...

The Secret of Secrets

by Dan Brown

Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon—a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the...