This was a great year for fans of mystery novels. Not only were there new books in popular series by Donna Leon and Louise Penny, veteran Marcia Muller made a welcome return in 2024. And let’s ...

Explore some of the best young adult books publishing in 2025, including mysteries, romances, thrillers and more.

The books on this list vary their drops ... Ahead, ELLE’s recommendations for the best mysteries and thrillers of 2024. A relentless cat-and-mouse thriller, Ashley Elston’s First Lie Wins ...

The holidays are a perfect time to cozy up with a good mystery novel, and this season offers ... on a mission to humiliate the retreat sponsor, best-selling author Brett Saffron Presley, as ...

Here are the best crime novels of 2024 so far. In Francis Spufford’s new novel, “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged killing before its repercussions destroy his ...

(How I Turned My Family History Into a Novel.) As a mystery author with four novels under my belt, my first impulse was to fictionalize my mother’s story. Though I’d done quite a bit of ...

This is yet another politically resonant, beautifully written detective mystery from the talented Locke. As featured in ELLE’s best books of summer 2024: “Teenager Barbara Van Laar has ...