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 ...

The long-awaited return of The Night Manager is almost upon us, with the second series promising another deep dive into the world of international crime and high-stakes espionage. Tom Hiddleston ...

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 ...

This April marks the 400 th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. Shakespeare is universally loved and heralded as a master storyteller, telling some of the most poignant and moving tales that ...

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 ...

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 ...

What makes a good thriller? We’d say a unique premise, flawed but fascinating characters, and a fast-paced plot that never lets up. But such books can be difficult to find, which is why we’ve asked ...

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 ...

There are novels that leave me saying quietly to myself, as I turn the final page, ‘One day, if I work very hard, I might be able to write like that’. Then there are the great many more novels that ...

When his colleagues broke down the door to his office, they found George Little lying dead in a pool of his own blood. The chief cashier of Dublin’s Broadstone railway terminus had been savagely ...