2020 New Releases

This is the archive page of all crime and mystery novels that were released in the previous months of 2020.

To see the titles that are yet to be released, please visit the New Crime Releases page.


January 2020

Adams, Ellery – The Book of Candlelight | Kensington | (Secret, Book and Scone Society #3) | Cozy

Alexander, Tasha – In the Shadow of Vesuvius | Minotaur | (Lady Emily #14) | Historical Mystery

Alfon, Dov – A Long Night In Paris | MacLehose | stand-alone | Espionage Thriller

Bollen, Christopher – A Beautiful Crime | Harper | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Brandon, Jay – From the Grave | Severn House | (Edward Hall #2) | Legal Thriller

Brown, Larry – Suddenly Single | Austin Macauley |

Bryndza, Robert – Nine Elms | Sphere | (Kate Marshall #1) | Police Procedural

Clements, Rory – Hitler’s Secret | Zaffre | (stand-alone) |

Connolly, Sheila – Fatal Roots | Crooked Lane | (County Cork #8) | Cozy

Cross, A.J. – Dark Truths | Severn House | (Will Traynor #1) | Police Procedural

D’Andrea, Luca – Sanctuary | Harper | stand-alone | Thriller

Delany, Vicki – There’s A Murder Afoot | Crooked Lane | (Sherlock Holmes Bookshop #5) | Cozy

Dornbush, Jennifer Graeser – Secret Remains | Crooked Lane | (Coroner’s Daughter #2) | Cozy

Dorsey, Tim – Naked Came the Florida Man | William Morrow | (Serge Storms #23 | Private Investigator

Dudley, Lawrence – The Hungry Blade | Blackstone | (Roy Hawkins #2) | WWII Thriller

Dundas, Chad – The Blaze | G.P. Putnam | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Dunnett, Kaitlyn – A View To A Kilt | Kensington | (Liss MacCrimmon #13) | Cozy

Eldridge, Jim – Murder At the Manchester Museum | Allison & Busby | (Museum Mysteries #4) | Historical

Elliot, Kendra – The Last Sister | Montlake | (Columbia River #1) | Psychological Thriller

Engberg, Katrine – The Tenant | Gallery/Scout | debut | Suspense

Fellowes, Jessica – The Mitford Scandal | Minotaur | (Mitford Murders #3) | Historical

Finder, Joseph – House On Fire | Dutton | (Nick Heller #4) | Private Investigator

Fleischmann, Raymond – How Quickly She Disappears | Berkely | debut | Thriller

Gardner, Lisa – When You See Me | Dutton | (Kimberley Quincy & D.D. Warren #1) | Thriller

Garvin, Tim – A Dredging In Swann | Blackstone | (Seb Creek Mysteries #1) | Hardboiled

Gentill, Sulari – Give the Devil His Due | Poisoned Pen | (Roland Sinclair #7) | Historical Mystery

Gibson, William - Agency | Berkley | stand-alone | Technothriller

Gilbert, Victoria – Bound For Murder | Crooked Lane | (Blue Ridge Library #4) | Cozy

Gleason, C.M. – Murder At the Capitol | Kensington | (Lincoln’s White House #3) | Historical

Goldberg, Lee - Lost Hills | Thomas & Mercer | (Eve Ronin #1) | Police Procedural

Grace, Jolene – Going Dark | BHC Press | (Gabriel Jets #1) | Espionage Thriller

Grant, Andrew – Too Close To Home | Ballantine | (Paul McGrath #2) | Thriller

Green, Amy K. – The Prized Girl | Dutton | debut | Psychological Thriller

Gruley, Bryan – Purgatory Bay | Thomas & Mercer | (Bleak Harbor #2) | Thriller

Hambly, Barbara – Lady of Perdition | Severn House | (Benjamin January #17) | Historical Mystery

Hamdy, Adam – Black 13 | Macmillan | (Scott Pearce) | Espionage Thriller

Harris, Charlaine – A Longer Fall | Gallary / Saga | (Gunney Rose #2) | Historical Thriller

Harrison, Cora – Winter of Despair | Severn House | (Gaslight #2) | Historical Mystery

Hauty, Chris – Deep State | Simon & Schuster | stand-alone | Political Thriller

Herrgott, Wayne – Dealing With the Devil | Austin Macauley |

Huie, M.L. – Spitfire | Crooked Lane | (Livy Nash #1) | Historical

Hurwitz, Gregg – Into the Fire | Minotaur | (Orphan X #5) | Thriller

Ide, Joe – Hi Five | Mulholland Books | (IQ #4) | Private Investigator

Ison, Graham – Deadlock | Severn House | (Brock & Poole #16) | Police Procedural

James, Miranda – Careless Whiskers | Berkley | (Cat In the Stacks #12) | Cozy

Jenkins, Tony – Too Slow To Die | Austin Macauley |      

Johansen, Iris & Roy Johansen – Hindsight | Grand Central | (Kendra Michaels #7) | Thriller

Jones, Tanen – The Better Liar | Ballantine | debut | Thriller

Kepler, Lars – The Rabbit Hunter | Knopf | (Joona Linna #6) | Police Procedural

Koris, Jim – Human Trafficking, The Retribution | Austin Macauley |

Kray, Roberta – Stolen | Sphere | stand-alone | Thriller

Krentz, Jayne Ann – The Vanishing | Berkley | (Fogg Lake #1) | Suspense

Lloyd, Catherine – Death Comes To the Nursery | Kensington | (Kurland St. Mary #7) | Historical Cozy

Luna, Louisa – The Janes | Doubleday | (Alice Vega #2) | Private Investigator

Lupton, Rosamund – Three Hours | Viking | stand-alone | Political Thriller

MacRae, Molly – Thistles and Thieves | Pegasus | (Highland Bookshop #3) | Cozy

Mark, David – A Rush of Blood | Severn House | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

May, James L. – The Body Outside the Kremlin | Delphinium | debut | Thriller

Melinek, Judy & T.J. Mitchell – First Cut | Hanover Square | (Jessie Teska #1) | Medical Thriller

Montgomery, Jess – The Hollows | Minotaur | (Kinship #2) | Historical Mystery

Montgomery, Mark James – The Boneman | Stonehouse | stand-alone | Supernatural Thriller

Moore, Liz – Long Bright River | Riverhead | stand-alone | Police Procedural

Nickson, Chris – Hocus Girl | Severn House | (Simon Westow #2) | Historical

Parker, Ann – Mortal Music | Poisoned Pen | (Silver Rush #7) | Private Investigator

Parry, Ambrose – The Art of Dying | Canongate | (Will Raven #2) | Historical

Patrick, Renee – Script For Scandal | Severn House | (Lillian Frost & Edith Head #3) | Historical

Patterson, James & James O. Born – Blindside | Century | (Michael Bennet #12) | Serial Killer Thriller

Patterson, James & James O. Born – The River Murders | Grand Central | (Mitchum #3) | Private Investigator

Patterson, James & James O. Born – Lost | Little, Brown | (Tom Moon #1) | Police Procedural

Petrie, Nick – The Wild One | G.P. Putnam | (Peter Ash #5) | Private Investigator

Phillips, Ann W – A Dude Ranch Mystery | Austin Macauley |

Post, Steph – Holding Smoke | Polis | (Judah Cannon #3 | Hardboiled

Quartey, Kwei – The Missing American | Soho | (Emma Djan #1) | Private Investigator

Rankin, Ian – Westwind | Little, Brown | stand-alone | Espionage Thriller

Riva, Peter – Kidnapped On Safari | Skyhorse | (Mbuno & Pero #3) | Thriller

Robinson, Peter – Many Rivers To Cross | William Morrow | (Inspector Banks #26 | Police Procedural

Richel, Justin – Every Dying Hour | Rowdy Dog Press | (Martin Aubrey #1) | Technothriller

Rowland, Laura Joh – The Woman In the Veil | Crooked Lane | (Victorian Mystery #4) | Historical

Saavedra, Carola – Blue Flowers | Riverhead Books | debut | Psychological Thriller

Sadowsky, Nina – The Empty Bed | Ballantine | (Burial Society #2) | Psychological Thriller

Sala, Sharon – Second Sight | MIRA | (The Jigsaw Files #2) | Psychological Thriller

Savage, Vanessa – The Woods | Sphere | (stand-alone) | Suspense

Scragg, Robert – All That Is Buried | Allison & Busby | (Porter & Styles #3 | Police Procedural

Shapiro, Ellen – Looking For Laura | Indies United | (Tracey Marks #1) | Private Investigator

Simon, Clea – An Incantation of Cats | Polis | (Witch Cats of Cambridge #2) | Psychic Mystery

Spain, Jo – Six Wicked Reasons | Quercus | (stand-alone) | Psychological Thriller

Spindler, Erica – The Look-Alike | St Martin’s Press | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Spring, Bonnar – Toward the Light | Oceanview | stand-alone | Political Thriller

Stabenow, Dana – No Fixed Line | Head of Zeus | (Kate Shugak #22) | Private Investigator

Steadman, Catherine – Mr Nobody | Ballantine | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Swinson, Kiki – Property of the State | Dafina | (Black Market #3) | Suspense Thriller

Taylor, Brad – Hunter Killer | William Morrow | (Pike Logan #14) | Thriller

Tobey, Danny – The God Game | St Martins | stand-alone | Technothriller

Toomey, Tom – Dark Secret In London | Austin Macauley | (debut)

Trow, M.J. – The Black Hills | Severn House | (Grand & Batchelor #6) | Historical

Tsao, Tiffany – The Majesties | Atria | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Tudor, C.J. – The Other People | Ballantine Books | stand-alone | Thriller

Watson, Sterling – The Committee | Akashic | stand-alone | Political Thriller

White, Christian – The Wife and the Widow | Minotaur | stand-alone | Thriller

Whitlow, Robert – Promised Land | Thomas Nelson | (Chosen People #2) | Legal Thriller

Wiley, Michael – Trouble In Mind | Severn House | (Sam Kelson #1) | Private Investigator

Wilson, Glenis – Dead Heat | Severn House | (Harry Radcliffe #4) | Amateur Investigator

Woods, Stuart – Treason | G.P. Putnum | (Stone Barrington #52) | Thriller

February 2020

Aaronovitch, Ben - False Values | DAW | (Rivers of London #8) | Paranormal

Armstrong, Kelley - Alone In the Wild | Minotaur | (Casey Duncan #5) | Police Procedural

Arnold, Carolyn - Past Deeds | Hibbert & Stiles | (Brandon Fisher #8) | Psychological Thriller

Avon, Joy - In Cold Chamomile | Crooked Lane | (Tea and A Read #3) | Cozy

Bannalec, Jean-Luc - The Killing Tide | Minotaur | (Brittany #5) | Police Procedural

Barber, Kathleen - Follow Me | Gallery | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Beams, Clare - The Illness Lesson | Doubleday | stand-alone | Historical Thriller

Berry, Steve - The Warsaw Protocol | Minotaur | (Cotton Malone #15) | Political Thriller

Block, Lawrence - The Burglar In Short Order | Subterranean | (Bernie Rhodenbarr - SS) | Mystery Short Stories

Bonner, Hilary - Dreams of Fear | Severn House | (David Vogel #3) | Psychological Thriller

Bourne, Sam – To Kill A Man | Quercus | stand-alone | Political Thriller

Bowen, Rhys - Above the Bay of Angels | Lake Union | stand-alone | Historical Mystery

Brecher, Christin - Murder Makes Scents | Kensington | (Nantucket Candle Maker #2) | Cozy

Brennan, Allison - The Third To Die | MIRA | (Kara Quinn #1) | Police Procedural

Buckley, Julia - Death With A Dark Red Rose | Berkley | (Writer's Apprentice #5) | Cozy

Callaghan, Carrie - Salt the Snow | Amberjack | stand-alone | Suspense

Carlin, Laura - Requiem For A Knave | Hodder & Stoughton | stand-alone | Historical Thriller

Carson, Scott - The Chill | Atria | stand-alone | Supernatural Thriller

Chavez, Heather - No Bad Deed | William Morrow | stand-alone | Thriller

Chien, Vivien - Egg Drop Dead | St Martin's | (Noodle Shop #5) | Cozy

Clark, Louise - Cat Among the Fishes | Epublishing Works | (9 Lives #5) | Cozy

Coffin, Bruce Robert - Within Plain Sight | Witness Impulse | (John Byron #4) | Private Investigator

Cole, Stephanie - Al Dente's Inferno | Berkley | (Tuscan Cooking School #1) | Cozy

Collins, Max Allan & Mickey Spillane - The Big Bang | Titan | (Mike Hammer ) | Hardboiled

Connolly, Paul - Tears Are For Angels | Stark House | (Black Gat #24) | Hardboiled

Cutler, Judith - The Wages of Sin | Severn House | (Matthew Rowsley #1) | Historical Mystery

Dams, Jeanne M. - Death In the Garden City | Severn House | (Dorothy Martin #22) | Cozy

Dashofy, Annette – Under the Radar | Henery Press | (Zoe Chambers #9) | Cozy

Davidson, Hilary - Don't Look Down | Thomas & Mercer | (Shadows of New York #2) | Police Procedural

Desiderio, Robert – The Occurrence | Post Hill Press | stand-alone | Political Thriller

DiRico, Maria - Here Comes the Body | Kensington | (Catering Hall #1) | Cozy

Doherty, Paul - Dark Queen Waiting | Severn House | (Margaret Beaufort #2) | Historical Mystery

Dolan, Harry - The Good Killer | Mysterious | stand-alone | Suspense

Dugoni, Robert - A Cold Trail | Thomas & Mercer | (Tracy Crosswhite #7) | Police Procedural

Eaton J.C. - Dressed Up 4 Murder | Kensington | (Sophie Kimball #6) | Cozy

Ewart, Andrew – Forget Me | Orion | stand-alone | Medical Thriller

Ferrari, Kike - They Look Like Flies From Afar | Canongate | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Finch, Charles - The Last Passenger | Minotaur | (Charles Lenox #13) | Private Investigator

FitzSimmons, Matthew - Origami Man | Thomas & Mercer | (Gibson Vaughn #5) | Political Thriller

Fleet, Rebecca - The Second Wife | Doubleday | stand-alone | Thriller

Fluke, Joanne - Coconut Layer Cake Murder | Kensington | (Hannah Swenson #25) | Cozy

Fredrickson, Jack - The Black Cage | Severn House | (Milo Rigg #1) | Psychological Thriller

Freeland, Liz - An Orphan of Hell's Kitchen | Kensington | (Louise Faulk #3) | Historical Mystery

Freeman, Brian - Thief River Falls | Thomas & Mercer | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Gardiner, Meg - The Dark Corners of the Night | Blackstone | (UNSUB #3) | Psychological Thriller

Graves, Sarah - Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut | Kensington | (Death By Chocolate #3) | Cozy

Greaney, Mark - One Minute Out | Berkley | (Gray Man #9) | Political Thriller

Griffin, J.M. - Who's Dead, Doc? | Kensington | (Jules & Bun #2) | Cozy

Griffiths, Elly - The Lantern Men | Quercus | (Dr Ruth Calloway #12) | Thriller

Grippando, James - The Big Lie | Harper | (Jack Swytek #16) | Political Thriller

Hall, Tarquin - The Case of the Reincarnated Client | Severn House | (Vish Puri #5) | Private Investigator

Hannah, Sophie - Perfect Little Children | William Morrow | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Hearns, Michael - Trust No One | Beati Bellicosi | stand-alone | Police Procedural

Hodge, Rebecca - Wildland | Crooked Lane | stand-alone | Medical Thriller

Hood, Joshua - Robert Ludlum's The Treadstone Resurrection | G.P. Putnam | (Treadstone #1) | Espionage Thriller

Huss, Erin - Microphones and Murder | Henery Press | (Podcasting Sisters #1) | Cozy

Johnson, Beau - All of Them To Burn | Down & Out | stand-alone | Thriller

Jurjevics, Juris - Play the Red Queen | Soho | stand-alone | Police Procedural

Kashian, Tina - On the Lamb | Kensington | (Kebab Kitchen #4) | Cozy 

Kellerman, Jonathan - The Museum of Desire | Ballantine | (Alex Delaware #35) | Thriller

Kent, Kathleen - The Burn | Mulholland | (Detective Betty #2) | Police Procedural

Kidd, Jess - Things In Jars | Atria | stand-alone | Historical Mystery

Kubica, Mary - The Other Mrs | Park Row | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Kuhns, Eleanor - The Shaker Murders | Severn House | (Will Rees #6) | Amateur Sleuth

Little, Elizabeth - Pretty As A Picture | Viking | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Locke, G.S. - Neon | Orion | stand-alone | Hardboiled

Lodge, Gytha – Watching From the Dark | Random House | (Jonah Sheens #2) | Police Procedural

MacNeil, Susan Elia - The King's Justice | Bantam | (Maggie Hope #9) | Espionage Thriller

Magson, Adrian - Terminal Black | Severn House | (Harry Tate #6) | Espionage Thriller

Marcantonio, Patricia - Felicity and the Murderous Menace | Crooked Lane | (Felicity Carrol #2) | Amateur Sleuth

Maxwell, Alyssa – A Silent Stabbing | Kensington | (A Lady and Lady’s Maid #5) | Historical Mystery

McInnis, S.L. - Framed | Grand Central | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Meier, Leslie - British Murder | Kensington | (Lucy Stone #25) | Cozy

Miller, A.D. - Independence Square | Pegasus | stand-alone | Espionage Thriller

Monroe, J.S. - Who Are You | Head of Zeus | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Moore, Graham - The Holdout | Random House | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Mosley, Walter - Trouble Is What I Do | Mulholland | (Leonard McGill #6) | Private Investigator

Muir, T.F. - Dead Still | Constable | (DI Gilchrist #9) | Police Procedural

Murray, Andrew Hunter - The Last Day | Hutchinson | stand-alone | Suspense

Nickson, Chris - The Hanging Psalm | Severn House | (Simon Westow #1) | Historical Mystery

O'Connor, Carlene - Murder In An Irish Cottage | Kensington | (Irish Village #5) | Mystery

Offill, Jenny - Weather | Knopf | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Orloff, Alan - I Know Where You Sleep | Down & Out | stand-alone | Private Investigator

Oswald, James – Bury Them Deep | Wildfire | (Inspector McLean #10) | Police Procedural

Phillips, Arthur - The King At the End of the World | Random House | stand-alone | Historical Thriller

Pinborough, Sarah - Dead To Her | William Morrow | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Pitts, Delia C. - Pauper and Prince In Harlem | BookBaby | (Ross Agency #4) | Private Investigator

Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child - Crooked River | Grand Central | (Agent Pendergast #19) | Police Procedural

Putnam, David - The Heartless | Oceanview | (Bruno Johnson #7) | Hardboiled

Quinn, Holly - A Crafter Quilts a Crime | Crooked Lane | (Handcrafted #3) | Cozy

Rader-Day, Lori - The Lucky One | William Morrow | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Redmond, Heather - Journaled To Death | Severn House | (Journaling #1) | Cozy

Reed, Rick - The Fiercest Enemy | Kensington | (Jack Murphy #9) | Police Procedural

Robb, J.D. - Golden In Death | Piatkus | (Eve Dallas #50) | Psychological Thriller

Ryan, Annelise – Dead Ringer | Kensington | (Mattie Winston #11) | Cozy

Ryan, Chris – Circle of Death | Coronet | (Strike Back #5) | Political Thriller

Schaffhausen, Joanna - All the Best Lies | Minotaur | Ellery Hathaway #3) | Police Procedural

Schaitkin, Alexis - Saint X | Celadon Books | stand-alone | Thriller

Schneider, Joseph - One Day You'll Burn | Poisoned Pen | (Tully Jarsdel #1) | Police Procedural

Sedgwick, Helen - When the Dead Come Calling | Point Blank | (Burrowhead #1) | Suspense

Seo, Mi-Ae - The Only Child | Ecco | stand-alone | Psychological Thriller

Sigurdardottir, Yrsa - The Absolution | Minotaur | (Children's House #3) | Police Procedural / Thriller

Smith, Anna - End Game | Quercus | (Kerry Casey #3) | Thriller

St. James, Simone - The Sun Down Motel | Berkley | stand-alone | Suspense

Straley, John - What Is Time To A Pig | Soho | (Cold Storage #3) | Small-Town Mystery

Teller, T.S. - Hidden In Plain Sight | BHC Press | (Roberta Lake/Bobbi Waters #1) | Paranormal Thriller

Thomas, Russ – Firewatching | G.P. Putnam | (DS Adam Tyler #1) | Police Procedural

Threadgill, Tom - Collision of Lies | Fleming H. Revell | stand-alone | Suspense

Todd, Charles - A Divided Loyalty | William Morrow | (Ian Rutledge #22) | Police Procedural

Tyson, Wendy - A Dark Homage | Down & Out | (Delilah Percy Powers #1) | Private Investigator

Vidich, Paul - The Coldest Warrior | Pegasus | stand-alone | Espionage Thriller

Wegert, Tessa - Death In the Family | Berkley | (Shana Merchant #1) | Private Investigator

Weiss, Kirstin - Pies Before Guys | Kensington | (Pie Town #4) | Cozy

Westlake, Donald E. - Double Feature | Hard Case Crime | stand-alone | Hardboiled

White, Randy Wayne - Salt River | G.P. Putnam | (Doc Ford #26) | Suspense Thriller