The Best Reviewed Crime Novels of 2025

The Best Reviewed Crime Novels of 2025

Rounding up the year's most acclaimed novels in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

By CrimeReads | December 20, 2025

Against All Odds, Here Are 10 More Crime Movies You Probably Forgot Take Place at Christmas

Against All Odds, Here Are 10 More Crime Movies You Probably Forgot Take Place at Christmas

Our seventh list in this series features Randle McMurphy, Robert Mitchum in his scariest role, and William Friedkin

By Olivia Rutigliano | December 19, 2025

Inside the World of Brubaker and Phillips' Criminal – on the Page and Screen

Inside the World of Brubaker and Phillips' Criminal – on the Page and Screen

Ed Brubaker and Alex Segura discuss all things 'Criminal'

By Alex Segura | December 19, 2025

‘The Killer’: A French Comic’s Deepest Dive into a Hitman’s Heart

‘The Killer’: A French Comic’s Deepest Dive into a Hitman’s Heart

Nick Kołakowski on an epic French crime comic.

By Nick Kolakowski | December 19, 2025

The Best Crime TV Series of 2025

The Best Crime TV Series of 2025

Disgruntled employees, flatulent spies, rumpled truthstorians and more!

By Olivia Rutigliano | December 18, 2025

The Best Books of 2025: Legal Thrillers

The Best Books of 2025: Legal Thrillers

It's undeniable - the legal thriller is having a moment.

By CrimeReads | December 18, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Exit Party
  • Fallow
  • Our Noble Selves
  • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
  • The Newer World
  • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
  • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
  • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
  • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
  • The Rouse

The Stylish Woman's Weapon: 7 Mysteries Featuring Death by Hatpin

By Elizabeth Hobbs | December 18, 2025

Tea, Tweed, and Treachery: Why British Mysteries Are Still So Popular

By Connie Berry | December 18, 2025

We Love You, Rob Reiner

By Olivia Rutigliano | December 17, 2025

The Best International Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers of 2025

The Best International Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers of 2025

Latin American metafiction, Japanese puzzles, Central European noir, and French psychologicals

By Molly Odintz | December 17, 2025

The Best Books of 2025: Traditional Mysteries

The Best Books of 2025: Traditional Mysteries

Featuring great new mysteries from some of the biggest authors in contemporary crime fiction.

By CrimeReads | December 17, 2025

The Strange History of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Las Vegas Private Eye

The Strange History of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Las Vegas Private Eye

How the lives of a famous author and a Vegas sleuth intersected in sensational fashion.

By James T. Bartlett | December 17, 2025

The Beguiling Magic of Floral Mysteries

The Beguiling Magic of Floral Mysteries

Roses, lilies, orchids and….murder? Organized crime? Embezzlement? 

By Naomi Kaye | December 17, 2025

The Best Horror Fiction of 2025

The Best Horror Fiction of 2025

splatterpunk, religious horror, hauntings, vampires, cannibals, oh my

By Molly Odintz | December 16, 2025

10 Thrillers with Characters You Love to Hate

10 Thrillers with Characters You Love to Hate

Tanya Grant recommends May Cobb, Emma Cline, Olivia Worley, and more

By Tanya Grant | December 16, 2025

How an Opponent of Capital Punishment Put a Serial Killer on Death Row

How an Opponent of Capital Punishment Put a Serial Killer on Death Row

An excerpt from Dick Harpootlian's "Dig Me a Grave: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Who Seduced the South"

By Dick Harpootlian | December 16, 2025

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