Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine Reviewer and Contributor Ted Hertel has come up with his list of 2025 quality crime fiction and thrillers.

KING OF ASHES, S. A. Cosby (Flatiron, $28.99, June)
THE IMPOSSIBLE THING, Belinda Bauer, Atlantic Monthly, $27.00
APOSTLE’S COVE, William Kent Krueger (Atria, $29.00, September)
CROOKS, Lou Berney (Morrow, $30.00, September
STILLWATER, Tanya Scott (Atlantic Monthly, $27.00, August)
I BECOME HER, Joe Hart (Thomas & Mercer, $16.99, August)
KAPLAN’S PLOT, Jason Diamond (Flatiron, $29.99, September)
THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING CRIME WRITER, Ragnar Jonasson
(Minotaur, $29.00, September)
THE PROVING GROUND, Michael Connelly (Little,Brown, $30.00, October)
THE WHITE CROW, Michael Robotham (Scribner, $28.99, July)
THE MUSEUM DETECTIVE, Maha Khan Phillips (Soho Crime, $27.95, April)