XXth Monthname 2025
Jess Armstrong The Devil in Oxford Allison & Busby, 21st, £9.99, 9780749032142
After the body of disgraced scholar Julius Harker is discovered in his exhibition of Egyptian antiquities looted by Napoleon, panic spreads through Oxford and Ruby Vaughn investigates. Third in the series.
Javier Cercas, Anne McLean (trans) Fortress of Evil
MacLehose, 21st, £10.99, 9781529436228
When Melchor Marín’s teenage daughter disappears, he is drawn into the odd world of Swedish- American billionaire Rafael Third. The third Terra Alta Investigation.
Catherine Chidgey The Book of Guilt John Murray, 21st, £10.99, 9781399823647
In an alternate 1979, Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining participants in a government scheme, residents of a secluded New Forest home, who begin to question all they have been told.
Polly Clark Ocean Lightning, 7th, £9.99, 9781785634529
When their marriage falters, Frank convinces Helen to sail the Atlantic with their son Nicholas and troubled foster daughter.
President Bill Clinton, James Patterson The First Gentleman
Penguin, 7th, £9.99, 9781804947920
While the president is up for re-election, her husband is on trial for murder.
Janet Evanovich The King’s Ransom Headline Review, 7th, £10.99, 9781035413201
When insured museum artefacts stars going missing, Gabriela Rose must help a bank president threatened with jail. Sequel to The Recovery Agent.
Frederick Forsyth, Tony Kent Revenge of Odessa
Penguin (Transworld), 21st, £9.99, 9781804996096
Three apparently unconnected events in Germany and the US set the countdown to apocalypse. Second book in the series.
Felix Francis Dark Horse Zaffre, 21st, £10.99, 9781785125904
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A young Irish jockey leaves for England, pursued by her controlling ex-boyfriend who threatens her reputation.
Amity Gaige Heartwood Fleet, 7th, £10.99, 9780349127583
In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing.
Janice Hallett The Killer Question Viper, 7th, £9.99, 9781800817210 Missing landlords, murder and battling pub quiz teams take centre stage in Hallett’s fifth mystery, told in her signature blend of WhatsApp messages, police reports, news articles and emails.
Carl Hiaasen Fever Beach Sphere, 14th, £10.99, 9781408724538
Larger-than-life characters populate a Florida-set mystery as dark money, corrupt politicians and white power are invoked in a state-of-the-nation satire and a comic thriller.
Holly Jackson Not Quite Dead Yet Penguin, 7th, £9.99, 9781405977029
After an attack by an unseen intruder leaves 27-year-old Jet with a week to
live, she sets about trying to solve her murder aided by childhood friend Billy.
Yigit Karaahmet, Nicholas Glastonbury (trans)
Summerhouse Soho Crime, 5th, £9.99, 9781641297943
A sultry Turkish summer takes a dark turn when a gay couple’s
relationship is tested by a handsome, troubled teenager next door.
Christina Koning Murder in Paris Allison & Busby, 21st, £9.99, 9780749032562
In newly liberated post- war Paris, Frederick Rowlands is helping MI5 agent Iris Barnes, who is on the hunt for traitors. Tenth book in the Blind Detective series.
Miye Lee, Sandy Joosun Lee (trans) Break Room
Wildfire, 28th, £10.99, 9781035430598
Eight people, unpopular among their colleagues, receive an invitation to participate in a new reality show where they must identify a saboteur among their ranks.
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Laura Marshall Kiss Marry Kill Hodder Paperbacks, 14th, £10.99, 9781399729710
When Brian has a shocking accident, three women who would like him dead happen to be present.
Graham Masterton House of Flies Aries, 7th, £10.99, 9781837931132 DI Patel and DS Pardoe hunt for the mastermind behind a series of atrocious crimes. Fifth supernatural procedural in the series.
Bob Mortimer The Long Shoe Gallery, 21st, £9.99, 9781398548084
Bathroom salesman Matt loses his job and is soon to be made homeless when he is offered a new job with a free luxury apartment, but it comes with a catch.
Abir Mukherjee ( 4) The Burning Grounds Vintage, 14th, £9.99, 9781529967586
A murdered patron of the arts and a vanished woman thrust Wyndham and Banerjee into the glamorous world of Indian cinema. Sixth book in the series.
Orlando Murrin Murder Below Deck Penguin (Transworld), 21st, £9.99, 9781804992456
A theft and a death disrupt a trip on a magnificent superyacht. Second chef Paul Delamare mystery.
Lauren Oliver What Happened to Lucy Vale
Hodder Paperbacks, 28th, £10.99, 9781473672765
True-crime writer Rachel and her daughter Lucy move into an abandoned
house with a tragic history but when the locals close ranks Rachel fears they have been delving into the wrong story.
Richard Osman The Impossible Fortune Penguin, 7th, £9.99, 9781405975735
A villain wants access to an uncrackable code in the fifth book in The Thursday Murder Club series. A Netflix film adaptation of the first in the series featuring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie was released in August 2025.
Louise Penny The Black Wolf Hodder Paperbacks, 28th, £10.99, 9781399730617
When the Black Wolf is arrested for a domestic terrorist attack in Montréal, Chief Inspector Gamache worries it was deliberate misdirection. The 20th outing for Gamache.
Maha Khan Phillips The Museum Detective Soho Crime, 5th, £9.99, 9781641297912
A curator at Karachi’s Museum of Heritage and History searches
for her niece but when she unearths a dangerous conspiracy, she becomes embroiled in the city’s corruption.
Krysten Ritter, Lindsay Jamieson Retreat
Sphere, 7th, £9.99, 9781408722824
A talented con artist who has gone straight is lured back into the game in a glamorous seafront community.
Jeneva Rose The Perfect Divorce
Orion, 7th, £10.99, 9781398723634
Eleven years since attorney Sarah Morgan defended her first husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress, new evidence comes to light. Meanwhile Sarah’s new husband is embroiled in an affair and a disappearance. Sequel to The Perfect Marriage.
Riley Sager With a Vengeance Hodder Paperbacks, 21st, £10.99, 9781399742115
When Anna Matheson lures people who have wronged her onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, to get them to confess their crimes, the plan is derailed by murder.
Lisa St Aubin de Terán The Hobby Amaurea, 1st, £12.99, 9781914278280
Detective John Custer investigates historic child abuse conspiracies in this psychological crime thriller based on true stories. St Aubin de Terán was named in the inaugural Granta Best of Young British Novelists list in 1983.
RO Thorp Marked for Death Faber, 7th, £9.99, 9780571387038
A dead body and a missing Shakespeare play lead to a faculty of suspects in this modern murder mystery. Second book in the series.
Paul Warner A Spy in the Blood Zaffre, 21st, £9.99, 9781785129957
The greatest spy of his generation has long been stuck behind a desk,
until MI6 wash their hands of his daughter’s
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