Every Thriller I Read and Reviewed in 2025 Plus My Favourites

I’ve read 82 books in 2025, the most I’ve ever read in a single year! This post is a recap of every crime and thriller book I reviewed during the year. I don’t leave negative reviews, so while I’ve highlighted a few personal favourites, every book featured here is one I genuinely enjoyed. Hopefully there’s something for everyone!

Standout Reads in 2025

🔍Standout Read. Awarded to books I highly recommend.

• Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
• Body of Lies by Jo Callaghan. Out 2026
• The Beauty Queen by Sally-Anne Martyn
• Eye Spy by C. M. Ewan. Out 2026
• Dissection of a Murder by Jo Murray. Out 2026
• The Family at No. 23 by Kathryn Sharman
• Girls to the Front by Lucy Nichol 
• Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke
• How to Get Away With Murder by Rebecca Philipson. Out 2026
• Human Remains by Jo Callaghan
• In the Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan
• The Killer Question by Janice Hallett 
• The Lamb by Lucy Rose
• The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkanani 
• My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney. Out 2026
• No Safe Place by Hannah Brennan
• Other People’s Houses by Clare Mackintosh
• Sick to Death by Chris Bridges
• Strange Pictures by Uketsu
• Two Kinds of a Stranger by Steve Cavanagh
• Watch Your Back by Emma Christie
• You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego
• You Killed Me First by John Marrs

Books I Reviewed in 2025

• A Bad, Bad Place by Frances Crawford. Out 2026
• Bitter Sweet by Hattie Williams
• Can You Solve the Murder? by Antony Johnston
• Caller Unknown by Gillian McAllister. Out 2026
• The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson
• The Cliffhanger by Emily Freud
• The Countdown Killer by Sam Holland
• Cuckoo by Callie Kazumi
• The Daughter by T.M. Logan
• Dead in the Water by John Marrs. Out 2026
• Dear Future Me by Deborah O’Connor
• Deception by Jack Jordan. Out 2026
• (Don’t) Call Mum by Matt Wesolowski
• Eight Years of Lies by Lisa Hall
• The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke. Out 2026
• An Ethical Guide to Murder by Jenny Morris 
• Everyone in the Group Chat Dies by L. M. Chilton
• The Ex I Buried by Natali Simmonds
• The First Girl by Claire McGown
• Flat 401 by Kingsley Pearson
• Gone by Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter 
• Greedy by Callie Kazumi. Out 2026
• Hello, Transcriber by Hannah Morrissey
• High Season by Katie Bishop
• His First Wife by Sue Watson
• I Make My Own Fun by Hannah Beer
• It Should Have Been You by Andrea Mara
• It’s Always The Husband by C. L. Taylor
• Julie Chan is Dead by Liann Zhang
• The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
• The Lucky Winners by K. L. Slater
• Making A Killing by Cara Hunter
• Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards
• Murder on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood
• The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts by Robert Thorogood
• No Hard Feelings by Genevieve Novak
• No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done by Sophie Hannah
• Not Another Bloody Christmas by Jo Middleton
• A Novel Murder by E. C. Nevin
• One by One by Sam Frances
• One of us is Dead by Peter James
• Open Your Eyes by Heather J. Fitt
• Our Last Wild Days by Anna Bailey
• People Pleaser by Catriona Stewart
• The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose
• Play With Fire by T. M. Payne
• The Revenge Plot by Jackie Kabler
• The Rush by Beth Lewis
• The Secret Room by Jane Casey
• A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage by Asia Mackay
• Shock Induction by Chuck Palahniuk
• Such Quiet Girls by Noelle W. Ihli
• The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker
• Strange Houses by Uketsu
• A Trial in Three Acts by Guy Morpuss 
• Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman
• We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown
• When Sally Killed Harry by Lucy Roth