A Particularly Nasty Case by Adam Kay; Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman; The Final Vow by MW Craven; The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine

Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson; Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson; The Good Liar by Denise Mina; The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun; Gunner by Alan Parks

Fox by Joyce Carol Oates; A Schooling in Murder by Andrew Taylor; Death of a Diplomat by Eliza Reid; Actually, I’m a Murderer by Terry Deary; Can You Solve the Murder? by Antony Johnston

Fair Play by Louise Hegarty; All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman; This Is Not a Game by Kelly Mullen; The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie; Death and Other Occupations by...

The Bureau by Eoin McNamee; The Mouthless Dead by Anthony Quinn; Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch; The Grapevine by Kate Kemp; Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall

The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer; The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths; Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito; The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha; The Weekenders by David F Ross

Havoc by Christopher Bollen; Strange Pictures by Uketsu; Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor; Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse; The Day of the Roaring by Nina Bhadreshwar

A choice of whodunnits, a return for le Carré’s Smiley, and dark, disturbing encounters in the woods

The Outsider by Jane Casey; White City by Dominic Nolan; The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz; The Fate of Mary Rose by Caroline Blackwood; Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi

The Drowned by John Banville; The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins; Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin; A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet; The Burning Stones by Antti Tuomainen

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman; Guide Me Home by Attica Locke; Five By Five by Claire Wilson; The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani; I Died at Fallow Hall by Bonnie Burke-Patel

From Victorian adventures to modern mysteries, these time-bending books are portals into other worlds — and can tell us something about our own era

Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson; Guilty By Definition by Susie Dent; Sanctuary by Garry Disher; The Examiner by Janice Hallett; Sounds Like a Plan by Pamela Samuels Young and Dwayne...

All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker; The God of the Woods by Liz Moore; Imposter Syndrome by Joseph Knox; How Can I Help You by Laura Sims; The Exile by Patrick Worrall

The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley; Death in the Air by Ram Murali; The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal; French Windows by Antoine Laurain; The Man in Black & Other Stories by Elly Griffiths

Hunted by Abir Mukherjee; Bonehead by Mo Hayder; When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips; The Mystery of the Crooked Man by Tom Spencer

The Spy by Ajay Chowdhury; A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray; The Kitchen by Simone Buchholz; The Innocents by Bridget Walsh; The Grand Illusion by Syd Moore

Louder Than Hunger by John Schu, Jenny Ireland’s second book, The Boy Next Door, The Midnight Clock by Jamie Costello, Looking for Lucie by Amanda Addison; and Royal Scandal by Aimee Carter