Looking for your next book obsession? Here are the most addictive new thrillers and crime books hitting shelves in 2026.

It’s been an excellent year for crime fiction, with new thrillers from some of our favourite authors and exciting debuts from new talent to watch. But with so many bestselling titles and critically ...

TV crime drama has never been better. With so many top Hollywood writers and directors and A-list acting talent now only too happy to ply their trade on the small screen, it feels like we’re enjoying ...

Christmas is the perfect time to curl up with a cosy murder mystery – especially one with a festive theme. You can expect close-knit rural communities where everyone is a suspect, sharp-eyed ...

2021 has been a bumper year for crime fiction, filling our bookshelves with fantastic pulse-racing reads across the genre, from psychological thrillers to cosy mysteries, police procedurals to ...

There’s nothing better than a gripping thriller that keeps you turning the pages while you tell yourself you’ll just read one more chapter, before you find yourself reading one more after that! That’s ...

If you’re looking to take a break from the dark, snowy and ominous Nordic noir novels that have been in fashion over the last few years, we’ve got the perfect solution for you – thrillers set in Spain ...

Think you can solve the crime? Put your wits to the test with these interactive murder mysteries and puzzle books.

Looking through notes from 2014, I came across an email I wrote to my publisher and agent. I had just finished the fifth book in my Dark Iceland series about young policeman Ari Thor and was thinking ...

2020 has certainly been a year we’ll never forget and between the highs and the lows we’ve been treated to a raft of brand new crime fiction that has captured our imaginations and given us ...

All of these are books by British authors, with British settings. For the purpose of this list, I have slightly – but only very slightly – expanded on Otto Penzler’s description of noir fiction: ‘Most ...