The market front
New Crime & mystery books
30 books released in the last eighteen months, best first.
What is new and already good
17 of these have cleared the ordinary bar of 50 ratings; 13 carry an early score from 20 to 49 ratings. The newest arrival is “It Could Have Been Her” by Lisa Jewell.
An early score uses the same formula as everything else, pulled harder toward the category mean until more readers vote. The chip on a row says how much of the number is the readers’ own. Method →
- God’s Junk Drawer28 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Green City Wars24 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - The Impossible Fortune169 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It181 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth79 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)94 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Exiles48 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Clown Town45 ratingsClown Town7.87.8 / 10
- Halcyon Years25 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - The Ghostwriter76 ratingsThe Ghostwriter7.87.8 / 10
- The Hallmarked Man71 ratingsThe Hallmarked Man7.87.8 / 10
- King of Ashes104 ratingsKing of Ashes7.87.8 / 10
- What Kind of Paradise40 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - This Story Might Save Your Life74 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Marble Hall Murders51 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief40 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - All of Us Murderers27 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Bad Bishop42 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Perfect Divorce79 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - It Could Have Been Her20 ratingsIt Could Have Been Her7.67.6 / 10
- My Husband's Wife163 ratingsMy Husband's Wife7.67.6 / 10
- It's Not Her61 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Reese Witherspoon Harlan Coben Novel34 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Missing Half54 ratingsThe Missing Half7.67.6 / 10
- This Book Will Bury Me34 ratingsThis Book Will Bury Me7.67.6 / 10
- Não pisque142 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - With a Vengeance65 ratingsWith a Vengeance7.47.4 / 10
- Julie Chan Is Dead103 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - The Ending Writes Itself48 ratingsThe Ending Writes Itself7.47.4 / 10
- Death Row78 ratings
7.47.4 / 10
What is the best new Crime & mystery book?
“God’s Junk Drawer” by Peter Clines scores 8.0/10 from 28 reader ratings, the highest of the releases we have enough readers for.
What does “early score” mean?
The book has between 20 and 49 reader ratings. It gets a page and a place on this list, but it does not enter category rankings until it reaches 50, like every other book.
How is this list built?
From reader ratings only: the same Bayesian score as everywhere on the site, with releases of the last eighteen months and at least 20 ratings. Sales, marketing and prizes do not enter it. Refreshed daily.