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.
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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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