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Lori Rader-Day – Wreck Your Heart

6 november 2025 Redactie

Lori Rader-Day Wreck Your Heart review and information of the content of the new crime novel by the American author. Minotaur Books will publish the new Lori Rader-Day novel, on January 6, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Lori Rader-Day Wreck Your Heart reviews

“Lori Rader Day is one of the most creative–and boldest–voices in contemporary crime fiction. She constantly explores new narratives and new viewpoints. Wreck Your Heart is one of her best novels yet.” (Sara Paretsky)
“Wise-cracking and wonderful, Philip Marlowe meets VI Warshawski. A love letter to country music and to Chicago, but very much more than that. Nobody does strong women better than Rader-Day.” (Ann Cleeves)
“Lori Rader-Day’s writing is phenomenal. Dahlia Devine has a voice so unique, clear, and strong, she’ll break your heart. This book absolutely sings.” (Elle Cosimano)

Wreck Your Heart

Author: Lori Rader-Day (United States)
Book type: American crime novel
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Released: January, 2026
Length: 352 pages
Format: paperback / ebook / audiobook
Prize: $ 29.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 26.99
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From award-winning author Lori Rader-Day, Wreck Your Heart is an engaging, “wisecracking and wonderful” crime novel with a big heart, about a country and midwestern singer out to catch her big break before family—or murder—wrecks everything.

Dahlia “Doll” Devine had the kind of hardscrabble beginning that could launch a thousand broken-hearted country songs, but now she’s the star of her own stage at McPhee’s Tavern. As part of Chicago’s—yes, Chicago’s—country music scene, Dahlia is an up-and-coming singer in spangles and boots of classic country tunes. Up and coming, that is, until her boyfriend Joey up and went, taking the rent money with him.

So Dahlia is back to square one, relying on Alex McPhee—again. Alex helped her out of a bad situation when she was a kid living rough with her mother. Now he’s part landlord, part band booster, all-around rescuer. It’s just that Dahlia wishes she didn’t keep giving him reasons to have to do it.

Just as Dahlia suspects she’s scraped rock bottom, the mother she hasn’t spoken to in twenty years shows up with something to say. The next morning, a distraught young woman arrives at the bar, asking after her missing mother—Dahlia’s mother, too, even if the missing suburban PTA mom the girl describes sounds pretty different from the one who let Dahlia down all those years ago.

Though no one is using the word sister any time soon, Dahlia lets herself be drawn into reuniting the family that might have been hers. But when a body is discovered outside McPhee’s Tavern, the crime threatens not just the place Dahlia has made into a home, but everything she’s believed about her past, her dreams for the future, and the people she was just, maybe, beginning to let into her heart.

Lori Rader-Day was born March 21, 1973 in Lebanon, Indiana. She is the Edgar Award−nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark Award−winning author of Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died and others. Lori cochairs the crime fiction readers’ event Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Greg, and their dog.

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New American crime novels

24 oktober 2025 Redactie

New American crime novels. What new crime novels, detectives and thrillers from the United States are coming out? Who is the author of the American thriller? When will the book be released and by which publisher?

What new American crime novels are coming out?

This page provides an overview of new American crime novels that are being released or will soon be available in bookstores. Besides information about the books’ content, you’ll also find information about the authors, the publication, and ordering options. Published reviews of the thrillers are also included.

New American crime novels in 2025

The list of new crime novels in 2025 from the United States is organized by publication date, with the newest books at the top. Links lead to detailed information about the book, ordering options, and often to reviews.

Rita Mae Brown – Time Will Tell
Cozy crime novel
Publisher: Bantam
Released: 14 October 2025
Between organizing a joint session with her friends at Bull Run Hunt, leading her own Jefferson Hunt Club’s fox hunting season, and looking after her beloved hounds and horses, “Sister” Jane Arnold is as busy as can be. She and her friend Tootie Harris are helping to lure home hunt club member Cindy Chandler’s two escaped cows, Clytemnestra and Orestes, when they discover an expensive watch carelessly abandoned on an overgrown path. The last thing Sister needs is another mystery to solve, but when one falls into her lap, she can’t help but get involved…read on >

Nic Stone – Boom Town
Atlanta crime novel about
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Released: 14 October 2025
When Damaris “Charm” Wilburn, a new daytime dancer, is missing for her shift at Boom Town, former headliner Michah “Lyriq” Johanssen suspects something more than a “no call, no show.” As Lyriq’s former headline partner and lover—Felice “Lucky” Carothers—also vanished under similar circumstances, Lyriq decides she’s going to find them. Delving deeper into Charm and Lucky’s disappearances, Lyriq uncovers a tangled web of deceit, privilege, and power…read on >

Chris Kraus – The Four Spent the Day Together
American crime novel
Publisher: Scribner
Released: 7 October 2025
On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. In a cold, depressed town, on the fringes of the so-called “meth community,” the three young people were quickly arrested and imprisoned. At the time of the murder, Catt Greene and her husband, Paul Garcia, are living nearby in a house they’d bought years earlier as a summer escape from Los Angeles,,,read on >

Thomas Pynchon – Shadow Ticket
Milwaukee crime novel
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Released: 7 October 2025
Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labour-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering…read on >

Audrey Niffenegger – Her Fearfull Symmetry
American horror novel from 2009
Publisher: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
Released: 4 September 2025
When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their mother is never allowed to cross the threshold. But until the solicitor’s letter falls through the door of their suburban American home, either Julia nor Valentina knew their aunt existed…read on >

Taylor Moore – Cold Trail
crime novel, Garrett Kohl 4
Publisher: William Morrow
Released: 29 July 2025
In the fourth pulse-pounding thriller in the series, DEA Special Agent Garrett Kohl must find out what’s truly tainted in the energy industry and uncover a deep-rooted plot in order to protect his new business, beloved ranch, and family…read on >

Jessa Maxwell – Dead of Summer
New England thriller
Publisher: Atria Books
Released: 22 july 2025
Orla O’Connor hasn’t been to the isolated New England enclave of Hadley Island since she graduated from high school a decade ago. As a teenager, her best friend Alice disappeared from its shores without a trace—but with plenty of rumors.,,read on >

Christina Li – The Manor of Dreams
American gothic novel
Publisher: Avid Reader Press
Released: 6 Mai 2025
Vivian Yin is dead. The first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, the trailblazing ingénue rose to fame in the eighties, only to disappear from the spotlight at the height of her career to live out the rest of her life as a recluse. Now her remaining family members are gathered for the reading of her will, and her daughters expect to inherit their childhood home…read on >

Stephen Graham Jones – The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Historical horror
Publisher: S&S/Saga Press
Released: 18 March 2025
A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story…read on >

New American crime novels in 2026

The list of new crime novels in 2026 from the United States is organized by publication date, with the newest books at the top. Links lead to detailed information about the book, ordering options, and often to reviews.

Dennis E. Staples – Passing – Through a Prairie Country

Native American crime novel
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Released: March 17, 2026
A darkly humorous thriller about the ghosts that haunt the temples of excess we call casinos, and the people caught in their high-stakes, low-odds web…read on >

C. William Langsfeld – Salvation

Western noir novel
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Released: February 3, 2026
This emotionally charged Western noir explores a small rural Colorado town in a state of crisis at the height of winter. Tom Horak has just murdered his best friend, Rust Hawkins. Morris Green, the town’s Lutheran pastor, is experiencing a profound crisis of faith, questioning the very existence of God. And Marshal Thomlison, the local peace officer looking forward to retirement, is now thrown into the middle of a murder investigation…read on >

Sarah Crouch – The Briars

American crime novel
Publisher: Atria Books
Released: January 13, 2026
Desperate to escape a relationship gone bad, Annie Heston flees north to accept a job as a game warden in Lake Lumin, a picturesque town in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. A cougar has been spotted in the area, and as Annie warns the community of the threat, she quickly discovers that not everyone in the tight-knit town is welcoming of outsiders, except for Daniel Barela, a reclusive carpenter who lives in the shadow of the mountain. They form an instant bond, though Annie soon comes to realize there is more to his past than meets the eye…read on >

Laura Dave – The First Time I Saw Him

American crime novel
Publisher: Scribner
Released: January 6, 2026
Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have settled into a new life in Southern California. Together, they’ve forged a relationship with Bailey’s grandfather Nicholas and are putting the past behind them. But when Owen shows up at Hannah’s new exhibition, she knows that she and Bailey are in danger again…read on >

Lori Rader-Day – Wreck Your Heart

American crime novel
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Released: January 6, 2026
Dahlia “Doll” Devine had the kind of hardscrabble beginning that could launch a thousand broken-hearted country songs, but now she’s the star of her own stage at McPhee’s Tavern. As part of Chicago’s—yes, Chicago’s—country music scene, Dahlia is an up-and-coming singer in spangles and boots of classic country tunes. Up and coming, that is, until her boyfriend Joey up and went, taking the rent money with him…read on >

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Nic Stone – Boom Town

14 oktober 2025 Redactie

Nic Stone Boom Town review and information of the content of the new Atlanta Crime novel by the American author. Simon & Shuster will publish the new Nic Stone novel, on October 14, 2025.

Nic Stone Boom Town review

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Boom Town

Author: Nic Stone (United States)
Book type: American novel, crime novel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
To be released: 14 October 2025
Length: 282 pages
Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
Prize: $ 28.00 / $ 14,99 / $ 23.99
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Blurb of the new novel by Chris Nic Stone

Nic Stone’s adult thriller debut about two missing erotic dancers from Atlanta’s most notorious gentlemen’s club and the woman committed to finding them.

When Damaris “Charm” Wilburn, a new daytime dancer, is missing for her shift at Boom Town, former headliner Michah “Lyriq” Johanssen suspects something more than a “no call, no show.” As Lyriq’s former headline partner and lover—Felice “Lucky” Carothers—also vanished under similar circumstances, Lyriq decides she’s going to find them.

Delving deeper into Charm and Lucky’s disappearances, Lyriq uncovers a tangled web of deceit, privilege, and power. The line between friend and foe blurs, forcing Lyriq to confront the question: Is finding for these women worth the threat to her own life?

This tantalizing thriller will take you on a heart-pounding and page turning journey through the peaks and valleys of Atlanta’s underworld.

Nic Stone born July 10, 1985 in Atlanta, Georgia, is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin. A Spelman College graduate, Nic lives in Atlanta with her family. Boom Town is her first adult novel.

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Sarah Crouch – The Briars

13 oktober 2025 Redactie

Sarah Crouch The Briars review and information of novel and literary thriller. Atria Books will publish the novel by Sarah Crouch, on January 13, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Sarah Crouch The Briars reviews

“One of my favourite reads of the year, The Briars is a show stopping, accomplished mystery that both captivated and intrigued me in equal measure – I couldn’t put it down. From the very first page, Sarah Crouch draws you into the beautifully realised setting of Lake Lumin in the Pacific Northwest with lush, lyrical descriptions that left me both longing to visit and deeply chilled. With nuanced, likeable characters, Crouch weaves a complex plot and tightens the tension until breaking point as murder haunts the lake and the past returns to shadow the present. A complex, thrilling page turner that will stay with you long after you finish reading.” (Sarah Pearse, Author of The Sanatorium)
“Sarah Crouch’s delicate and tantalizing prose in The Briars builds the scaffolding for an emotionally charged mystery as a troubled game warden probes for answers in the wilds of the lush Pacific Northwest — and in the vagaries of the treacherous landscape within. With complicated twists that build to a satisfying surprise, The Briars delivers a powerful emotional experience readers won’t be able to shake long after they put the book down. One of the best books I’ve read this year.” (Julie Carrick Dalton, author of The Last Beekeeper)

The Briars

Author: Sarah Crouch (United States)
Book type: literary thriller
Publisher: Atria Books
To be released: January 13, 2026
Length: 320 pages
Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
Prize: $ 29.00 / $ 14.99 / $25.99
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Blurb of the crime novel of Sarah Crouch

A lush and atmospheric novel of suspense following a young woman whose job as a game warden puts her in the path of a murderer in a small town eager to protect its own.

Desperate to escape a relationship gone bad, Annie Heston flees north to accept a job as a game warden in Lake Lumin, a picturesque town in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

A cougar has been spotted in the area, and as Annie warns the community of the threat, she quickly discovers that not everyone in the tight-knit town is welcoming of outsiders, except for Daniel Barela, a reclusive carpenter who lives in the shadow of the mountain. They form an instant bond, though Annie soon comes to realize there is more to his past than meets the eye.

When the body of a young woman is found in the briars that border Daniel’s property, the peace Annie has found in Lake Lumin shatters. As she assists the local sheriff with the investigation, Annie must rely on her wilderness training and intuition to find a murderer hiding in plain sight.

Urgent and emotionally complex, The Briars is a captivating literary thriller that marries an exploration of human nature with a plot as thorny and twisted as the brambles for which it is named.

Sarah Crouch is born August 22, 1989 in Hockinson, Washington. She is the author of Middletide and The Briars, literary thrillers set in the Pacific Northwest, where she was raised. She is also known for her accolades in the world of athletics as a professional marathon runner.

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Chris Kraus – The Four Spent the Day Together

7 oktober 2025 Redactie

Chris Kraus The Four Spent the Day Together review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author. Scribner will publish the new Chris Kraus novel, on October 7, 2025.

Chris Kraus The Four Spent the Day Together review

“The novelist Chris Kraus doesn’t demand your attention but earns it. There’s a steady quality to her observations and her truth-dealing, one that makes you want to see more clearly and live more deliberately. Some writers make life seem like a game. Kraus, who is also a filmmaker and art critic, makes it seem like a project.” (The New York Times)
“This is a novel of the American moment by a writer whose antennae are attuned to subtle connections and strange cross-currents. Chris Kraus has a gift for making intimate things part of a pattern and for making that pattern a fresh and engaged way of dramatizing the way we live now.” (Colm Tóibín)
“The Four Spent the Day Together is searing politics by storytelling, a novel constructed through counterpoint as it moves among the drowned, the drowning, and the survivors of the brutal American landscape we live in now.” (Siri Hustvedt)
“Unlike so many books one reads, this book is a real book. Chris Kraus is one of America’s best—purest, least corporate, most bracingly weird—writers. She’s an artist of the margins: of crime and addiction and fallenness, of the indignity of poverty and the injustices of class. She’s serious but never, ever a drag: funny and ironic, a gentle spirit who knows, when need be, how to wield a knife. American literature would be healthier—more vital, more fun—if more people read Chris Kraus.” (Benjamin Moser)
“The intelligence and honesty and total originality of Chris Kraus make her work not just great but indispensable…I read everything Chris Kraus writes; she softens despair with her brightness, and with incredible humor, too.” (Rachel Kushner)

The Four Spent the Day Together

Author: Chris Kraus (United States)
Book type: American novel, crime novel
Publisher: Scribner
To be released: 7 October 2025
Length: 320 pages
Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
Prize: $ 29.00 / $ 14,99 / $ 24.99
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Blurb of the new book by Chris Kraus

On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, at the end of the last decade, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. In a cold, depressed town, on the fringes of the so-called “meth community,” the three young people were quickly arrested and imprisoned.

At the time of the murder, Catt Greene and her husband, Paul Garcia, are living nearby in a house they’d bought years earlier as a summer escape from Los Angeles. Locked into a period of personal turmoil, moving between LA and Minnesota—between the art world and the urban poverty of Paul’s addiction therapist jobs, the rural poverty of the icy, depressed Iron Range—Catt turns away from her own life and towards the murder case, which soon becomes an obsession. In her attempt to pierce through the brutality and despair surrounding the murder and to understand the teenagers’ lives, Catt is led back to the idiosyncratic, aspirational lives of her parents in the working-class Bronx and small-town, blue-collar Milford, Connecticut.

Written in three linked parts, The Four Spent the Day Together explores the tensions of unclaimed futures and unchosen circumstances in the age of social media, paralyzing interconnectedness, and the ever-widening gulf between the rich and poor.

Chris Kraus was born in 1955 in New Yrol City. She is a writer and critic. She studied acting and spent almost two decades making performances and experimental films in New York before moving to Los Angeles where she began writing. Her novels include Aliens & Anorexia, I Love Dick, Torpor, and Summer of Hate. She has published three books of cultural criticism—Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness, Where Art Belongs, and Social Practices. I Love Dick was adapted for television and her literary biography After Kathy Acker was published by Semiotext(e) and Penguin Press. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Kraus held the Mary Routt Chair of Writing at Scripps College in 2019 and was Writer-in-Residence at ArtCenter College between 2020–2024. She has written for various magazines and has been a coeditor of the independent press Semiotext(e) since 1990. Her work has been praised for its damning intelligence, vulnerability, and dazzling speed and has been translated into seventeen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

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Laura Dave – The First Time I Saw Him

6 oktober 2025 Redactie

Laura Dave The First Time I Saw Him review and information of the content of the new crime novel by the American author. Scribner will publish the new Laura Dave novel, on january 6, 2026. It’s the sequel of the novel The Last Thing He Told Me.

Laura Dave The First Time I Saw Him review

“Equally action-packed and deeply felt, this sequel is every bit as incredible as The Last Thing He Told Me. Clear your schedule because once you pick this book up, you won’t be able to put it down. I loved everything about it.” (Mary Kubica)
“An essential sequel that ties up loose threads while providing a thrilling ride across continents.” (Kirkus)

The First Time I Saw Him

Author: Laura Dave (United States)
Book type: American crime novel
Publisher: Scribner
Released: 6 January 2026
Length: 288 pages
Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
Prize: $ 29.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 25.99
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Blurb of the crime novel by Laura Dave

Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall’s pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Apple TV+ show, The Last Thing He Told Me.

How far would you go for a second chance?

Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have settled into a new life in Southern California. Together, they’ve forged a relationship with Bailey’s grandfather Nicholas and are putting the past behind them.

But when Owen shows up at Hannah’s new exhibition, she knows that she and Bailey are in danger again.

Hannah and Bailey are forced to go on the run in a relentless race to keep their past from catching up with them. As a thrilling drama unfolds, Hannah risks everything to get Bailey to safety—and finds there just might be a way back to Owen and their long-awaited second chance. A gripping, rich, and deeply moving novel about the power of forgiveness.

Laura Dave was born 18 July 1977 in New York City. She is the author of several novels, including The Last Thing He Told Me and The Night We Lost him. Her novels have sold more than five million copies and have been translated into thirty-eight languages. The Last Thing He Told Me was the Goodreads Mystery & Thriller of the Year for 2021 and is now a series on Apple TV+, cocreated by Laura. She resides in Santa Monica, California.

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Rita Mae Brown – Time Will Tell

14 september 2025 Redactie

Rita Mae Brown Time Will Tell review and information of the content of the new cozy crime novel by the American author. Bantam will publish the new Rita Mae Brown novel, on october 14, 2025.

Rita Mae Brown Time Will Tell review

“Cunning foxes, sensible hounds, and sweet-tempered horses are among the sparkling conversationalists in this charming series.” (The New York Times Book Review)

Time Will Tell

Author: Rita Mae Brouw (United States)
Book type: American cozy crime novel
Publisher: Bantam
Released: 14 October 2025
Length: 304 pages
Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
Prize: $ 18.00
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Blurb of the crime novel by Rita Mae Brown

Between organizing a joint session with her friends at Bull Run Hunt, leading her own Jefferson Hunt Club’s fox hunting season, and looking after her beloved hounds and horses, “Sister” Jane Arnold is as busy as can be. She and her friend Tootie Harris are helping to lure home hunt club member Cindy Chandler’s two escaped cows, Clytemnestra and Orestes, when they discover an expensive watch carelessly abandoned on an overgrown path. The last thing Sister needs is another mystery to solve, but when one falls into her lap, she can’t help but get involved.

Days later, a young man is murdered, one with seemingly no connection to the pricey jewelry or a life of crime. His mother is distraught, and Sister vows to find the murderer. But when hounds on the hunt discover a truck covered in blood – with no body in sight – she quickly realizes she’s in over her head with a cunning and clever adversary. Can she find the link and stop the murderer before they strike again? Only time will tell.

Rita Mae Brown was born 8 November 1944 in Hanover, Pennsylvania. She is the bestselling author of the Sneaky Pie Brown series; the Sister Jane series; the Runnymede novels, including Six of One and Cakewalk; A Nose for Justice and Murder Unleashed; Rubyfruit Jungle; In Her Day;and many other books. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia, and is a Master of Foxhounds and the huntsman.

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