Crime Fiction Lover Contributors’ Best 5 Crime Novels 2025

Erin Britton
THE KING’S AGENT, Rosemary Hayes
MURDER AT THE BLACK CAT CAFÉ’, Seishi Yokomizo
HELLE’S HOUND, Oskar Jensen
THE KILLER QUESTION, Janice Hallett
STRANGE PICTURES, Uketsu

Sonja van der Westhuizen
WHITE KING, Juan Gomez-Jurado
SUMMERHOUSE, Yigit Karaahmet
THE SHADOW OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS, Satu Ramo
RED TIDE, Irma Venter
SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET, William Boyle

DeathBecomesHer
A NOVEL MURDER, E. C. Nevin
THE SILENT ONES, Anna McPartlin
BLACK WATER RISING, Sean Watkin
CLOWN TOWN, Mick Herron
THE NANCYS AND THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING NECKLACE, R. W. R. McDonald

Paul Burke
HER SISTER’S KILLER, Mari Hannah
SON, Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger
QUANTUM OF MENACE, Vaseem Khan
GUNNER, Alan Parks – 2026 title in U.S.
THE HOUSE AT DEVIL’S NECK, Tom Mead

Vicki Weisfeld
KILLER POTENTIAL, Hannah Deitch
THE FINAL SCORE, Lori Roy
THE PROTOCOLS OF SPYING, Merle Nygate
SILENT BONES, Val McDermid
THE TIGER AND THE BEAR, Philip Lazar

Crime Fiction Lover
BROKEN, Jon Atli Jonasson
MARBLE HALL MURDERS, Anthony Horowitz
THE BURNING GROUNDS, Abir Mukherjee
SMALL FIRES, Ronnie Turner
THE IMPOSSIBLE THING, Belinda Bauer

Sharon Richardson
THE INHERITANCE, Trisha Sakhlecha
THE CURE, Eve Smith
THE GOOD LIAR, Denise Mina
THE NANCYS AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING NECKLACE, RWR McDonald
THE BLACK WOLF, Louise Penny