Best Mystery Books of 2026 (So Far)

A Deadly Episode

by Anthony Horowitz

From the global bestselling author of Moonflower Murders and Close to Death comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series. ‘Easily the greatest of our crime writers’ Sunday Times 'Nobody does t...

We Chase Shadows

by Richard Osman

**Back together. ** **Back on the case.** **And back to solving murders . . .** **At sunrise, high in the Italian hills, a body is found on the steps of a beautiful private villa. On the body is a threatening note, si...

My Husband's Wife

by Alice Feeney

Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into, Spyglass, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls, nothing is as it s...

It Could Have Been Her

by Lisa Jewell

Dissection of a Murder

by Jo Murray