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This is the perfect time of year for a trip to the ancient heart of Wales and one of the UK’s most popular authors is the man to take us there as Simon McCleave sees out 2025 with his latest Snowdonia mystery – The Lake Bala Killings. That’s where our report begins, plus we’ve got

This isn’t just a book about sheep, of course—although, as anyone who’s ever spent time with sheep knows, they are incredible creatures, and Whybrow writes about them with curiosity and insight. It’s a book about shepherding as a way of life. It’s about pastoralism—a way of being in relationship with place that people all over

Blackwater marks the third appearance of intrepid news reporter Jonny Murphy, who first appeared in Dirt. He’s the creation of international news journalist Sarah Sultoon, who writes what she knows. Murphy’s latest investigation takes him 50 miles from London to Blackwater Island, on the fictional Blackwater River in Essex, where he looks into the mysterious

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Grace Lapointe’s fiction has been published in Kaleidoscope, Deaf Poets Society, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, and is forthcoming in Corporeal Lit Mag. Her essays and poetry have been published in Wordgathering. Her stories and essays—including ones

Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles — Fans of Nordic noir will be on the look out for The Living and the Dead by Swedish criminologist and author Christoffer Carlsson. Following on from Under the Storm and Blaze me a sun, it won Best Swedish Crime Novel in 2023 and the Glass Key Award for Scandinavian crime

For many years, Mr. and Mrs. Kuroki lovingly raised their two children and tended to cows on their verdant dairy farm in Japan. They had a happy, fulfilling existence, with days that “were sprinkled with laughter and worries, hard work and gentle rest,” and they dreamed of a future when they would travel the world

My colleagues will tell you that 2025 was a great year for the genre, and you can trust them on that. However, for me it wasn’t a great year for reading, partly due to illness. But I did discover some very fine crime novels that are worth talking about and I’m looking forward to 2026.

A culinary cozy set on a Caribbean cruise, Orlando Murrin’s May Contain Murder has a dash of everything, including a jewelry heist, secret identities and murder. For chef-turned-writer Paul Delamare, accompanying his dear friend Xéra aboard a luxury superyacht, the Maldemer, should be the trip of a lifetime. While they work together on Xéra’s memoir,

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There’s nothing like a good heist story and that’s where we’ll begin with this week’s news column – Michael Kardos’s Fun City Heist. Plus, you’ll find intriguing historical crime, futuristic scheming, the death of a fiddler and an alphabet killer. It spells mystery aplenty for crime fiction lovers like you. Fun City Heist by Michael

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Susie (she/her) is a queer writer originally from Little Rock, now living in Washington, DC. She is the author of three rom-coms: QUEERLY BELOVED, LOOKING FOR A SIGN, and BED AND BREAKUP, all from Dial Press/Random House. Susie

Amsterdam. The city of red lights, weed, canals and stroopwafels. The perfect setting for Ruth Kelly’s latest destination thriller and the new home of her main character, Becca. Becca and Nathan recently relocated from Devon to the Netherlands for Nathan to fulfill his dream of running a restaurant. However, Becca, who gave up her career

Songs for Other People’s Weddings by David Levithan, with songs by Jens Lekman What sets J apart from Jens Lekman, and perhaps all other wedding singers, is that he always writes an original song about the couple for each wedding. The book is structured to show the evolution of J’s personal life in 10 weddings—and

Translated by Kristian London — Finnish author Satu Rämö is new on our site, but this is a writer you need to know about, particularly if you love Nordic noir. Her series featuring Icelandic detective Hildur Rúnarsdóttir first arrived in English translation in October 2024 with The Clues in The Fjord, winner of the 2025

Culinary trailblazer Alice Waters (The Art of Simple Food)has long been at the forefront of the farm-to-table movement, sharing her passion for food advocacy through eating clean, local foods. This has trickled down into many different pathways, from opening Chez Panisse, her famous Provence-style restaurant in Berkeley, California, back in 1971 to writing numerous books,

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Eileen’s primary literary love is comic books, but she’s always on the lookout for her next literary adventure no matter what form it takes. She has a Bachelor’s in media studies, a Master’s in digital communication, a smattering

Not only are the works of Charles Dickens rich in atmosphere, they’re full of unusual characters that beg further exploration. PLEASE, SIR, CAN WE HAVE SOME MORE? Barbara Havelocke is an author who has heeded the call — and then some. Estella’s Fury follows on from Estella’s Revenge, with the author giving us a new

The Domestic Stage: When Fashion Image Comes Home by British writer and curator Adam Murray examines the ways that photography has used domestic interiors as a backdrop for a new kind of fashion image that is both personal and contemporary. The book’s cover perfectly captures its essence. At first glance, it’s a minimal black-and-white photograph

If Christmas is the season of goodwill, crime fiction authors clearly didn’t get the memo. Each year, mystery writers gift us something far more delicious than socks or scented candles: murders in mansions, bodies by bookstalls, deadly pantomimes and enough suspicious characters to fill Santa’s naughty list twice over. From locked-room mysteries and snowed-in sleuths

A book that begins with a David Bowie quote already has an advantage in winning me over. “Ageing is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been” is a fitting introduction to a collection celebrating stylish men of a certain age: those over 50. “This may seem like an arbitrary

We Are The Beasts by Gigi Griffis (16th) Set in the French countryside in a small town called Mende, this book is inspired by the true unsolved historical mystery of theBeastof Gévaudan. Mende has seen a series of brutal murders taking place, and many in the community whisper that abeastfrom the mountains has arrived—it’s a

Welcome to our first news column of December 2025, and it’s great to bring you six new books by authors you may not have come across before. We’ll start with something seasonal from Verity Bright, veer off to Thailand with Peter Nordgren, and then head who knows where – which is exactly how crime fiction

Readers may already know Guojing through her award-winning graphic novels and picture books such as Stormy and The Only Child. In The House That Floated, she uses the mellow tones of colored chalk to create an evocative, wordless story of a family who lives in aa small red house perched high on a cliff above

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Jessica Pryde is a member of that rare breed that grew up in Washington, DC, but is happily enjoying the warmer weather of the desert Southwest. While she is still working on what she wants to be when

When you’re in the mood for a full-throttle adventure, beginning to end, consider the debut suspense thriller Come and Get her by Bruce Conord. I raced through the pages to find out what deadly hazard hero Jesse Arroyo would face next and whether he’d finally take one risk too many. The first-person story starts with

Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey’s The Old Sleigh is a simple, gentle story. Season after season, snow after snow, a boy and his father use their horse and sleigh to deliver firewood to their small-town neighbors. But towns grow larger, wooden sleighs wear down and sometimes things have to change. The Old Sleigh, in typical Pumphrey

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kendra Winchester is a Contributing Editor for Book Riot where she writes about audiobooks and disability literature. She is also the Founder of Read Appalachia, which celebrates Appalachian literature and writing. Previously, Kendra co-founded and served as Executive

American author Sharon White is known for her poetry, short stories and non fiction books, which have a calm, philosophical feel to them. She’s written one other novel but enters the crime fiction fray with If the Owl Calls by Night. Set in Norway in 1979, it has a cryptic title and a literary vibe

Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) was best known as an influential literary critic and editor during the 1920s and 1930s. But for decades after that, he remained an important man of letters, including an accomplished poet and translator, memoirist, literary historian, writing teacher and arts administrator. A keen reader of fiction, he understood the unpredictability of the