Brand New Cozy Crime Mysteries Coming In 2025 – From All Your Favourite Authors
Last Updated on April 22, 2026
2024 has come and gone and I genuinely hoped you all had a good one!
We may not know exactly what 2025 has in store for each of us but we do know which new cozy crime mystery delights will be making their way to us in the coming months.
Some of our favourite authors have been busily penning their next big hit and we don’t want you to miss any of them.
So without further ado, here are the books we think you’re going to love in 2025.
Murder on the Marlow Belle – Robert Thorogood
Publication: January 16th 2025
Our trio of amateur sleuths are back as we join Judith, Suzie and Becks as they investigate what exactly happened to Oliver Beresford when he failed to return home.
Oliver had hired The Marlow Belle, a private boat, for an exclusive party but no one remembers seeing him disembark.
When his body washes up on the Thames it’s time for the Marlow Murder Club to leap into action.
The problem is that nobody liked Oliver so the list of suspects is going to be tough to whittle down…
Death in the Arctic – Tom Hindle
Publication: January 16th 2025
From the author of The Murder Game comes another slice of cozy crime but this time our mystery takes place in the North Pole!
Travel writer Chloé Campbell is invited on a luxury airship flying to the North Pole and all is going well until a fellow passenger is found dead in their cabin.
When you’re trapped at the top of the world and everybody is a suspect, things can get tense very, very quickly.
This murder needs to be solved before things really get out of control…
The Queen of Fives – Alex Hay
Publication: January 30th 2025
If you loved The Housekeepers then don’t miss out on Alex Hay’s next novel, The Queen of Fives, his upcoming historical mystery.
It is 1898 and the most talented con-woman in Victorian London, Quinn Le Blanc, has set her sights on a wealthy duke.
The goal is to trick the Duke into marriage in just five days and lift a fortune from the richest family in England.
Masquerading as a wealthy debutante, Quinn graces the grand drawing rooms and lavish balls of high society but along the way becomes tangled in a dangerous web of love, lies and loyalty.
With plenty of people wanting their own secrets to stay buried, Quinn may not be the only one playing a game of high deception.
Murder in the Tuscan Hills – T A Williams
Publication: February 2nd
Personally, this is one of my favourite cozy crime mystery series and I could read about Dan Armstrong and his faithful lab Oscar all day long.
So I’m delighted that a brand new story is on the way though, as of yet, the plot remains tightly under wraps.
Though, to be fair, there’s a hint in the title so we can expect to see Dan and Virgilio back in the Tuscan sunshine as they solve yet another crime.
Murder at the Monastery – Richard Coles
Publication: February 13th
Canon Daniel Clement is back and taking a break at the monastery where he was a novice.
But, seemingly never far from a murder, the monastery isn’t the bastion of tranquility that he had hoped and he soon finds himself a killer.
Meanwhile back at Champton, things are as chaotic as usual so can Daniel solve the mystery at the monastery without the help of Detective Seargeant Neil Vanloo and return his normal life?
Marble Hall Murders – Anthony Horowitz
Publication: March 13th
This is 100% for fans of Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders as Anthony Horowitz delights us all with the third instalment of the series – Marble Hall Murders.
Susan Ryeland is back and embarking on a new project only to find herself in the middle of a another mystery – and suspected of murder.
She’s back in England and editing a third Atticus Pünd novel though this time the ‘continuation’ novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of the biggest children’s author in the world, the late Miriam Crace.
Eliot believes that Miriam was poisoned and he has hidden the identity of her killer inside his book.
As Susan works on Pünd’s Last Case she suddenly she finds that she has become a target herself and that Eliot’s family will do anything to prevent the book from seeing the light of day.
A Brush With Death – J.M. Hall
Publication: March 13th (Paperback)
Retired schoolteachers and amateur sleuths Liz, Pat and Thelma have a brand-new mystery to solve in the fourth book of JM Hall’s series.
The death of Neville Hilton is not a crime. Just your standard, if tragic, heart attack. At least that’s what the autopsy shows.
But his ex-wife isn’t convinced. She’s sure the current Mrs Hilton is involved so the three friends step away from their slices of cake to investigate.
Can these unlikely sleuths untangle the web of lies and uncover the truth before anybody else dies?
10 Marchfield Square – Nicola Whyte
Publication: March 27th
A debut novel from Nicola Whyte, Marchfield Square was intended to be a place for those who need somewhere safe from their pasts.
That is until one of the tenants is murdered in his kitchen, and the police try to pin it on his long-suffering wife.
So wealthy heiress Celeste Van Duren does what anyone with a lot of money would do: she recruits two of her tenants to track down the real killer.
Now it is up to her cleaner, Audrey and failed crime writer, Lewis to track down the real killer.
Despite their differences the two soon discover a surprising range of suspects and motives connected to the victim’s dodgy art deals – but have they missed something closer to home?
How To Seal Your Own Fate – Kristen Perrin
Publication: March 27th
This is the sequel to hugely successful How To Solve Your Own Murder and the story picks up back in Castle Knoll where Annie Adams is busy settling into her new home.
Ever since she arrived in the village, Annie has had the creeping sense she’s being watched and desperate for some company, she starts talking to a stranger she meets in the grounds of the estate.
The old woman introduces herself as Peony Lane, the fortune-teller who predicted Great Aunt Frances’ murder all those years ago. And now she has a fortune to tell Annie.
The Cornish Castle Murder – Fiona Leitch
Publication: June 5th
Book number eight in the Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker cozy mystery series from Fiona Leitch, The Cornish Castle Murder sees Jodie and her fiancé DCI Nathan Withers arrive at a gorgeous castle ahead of their wedding.
The party is in full swing but the path to true love has never run smooth for Jodie and Nathan with those pesky murders always cropping up.
But even they didn’t expect one at their own wedding when Nathan’s friend shoots a straight bullseye on the archery field only to find it goes straight into a young woman on the other side of the target.
Or did it? When it transpires that the woman was already dead, suspicions turn to the guests and Jodie has another mystery to solve…
Death and Boules – Ian Moore
Publication: June 5th
Having finally decided to become a proper investigator, we return to Saint-Sauver, where Richard Ainsworth has set up an agency with partner-in-crime, Valérie d’Orçay.
The town is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its town twinning with Anglethorp Spa in Lincolnshire.
With street parties, and an exhibition boules tournament between the two towns underway, everything is going well until the mayor turns up dead in an antique dresser.
When it looks like has been killed twice, Richard and Valérie have very different views on what happened.
But, which of them will solve the crime first?
A Murder for Miss Hortense – Mel Pennant
Publication: June 12th
Miss Hortense lives in a quiet suburb of Birmingham, a place she has called home since moving from Jamaica in 1960.
Now a retired nurse, and an expert in deciphering other people’s secrets with just a glance, she is investigating the Pardner Network.
But when an unidentified man is found dead in one of the Pardner’s homes, a bible quote noted down beside his body, it’s time for Miss Hortense to solve a mystery that will see her tested to her limits.
The Protest – Rob Rinder
Publication: June 19th
In The Protest, the Royal Academy is celebrating the renowned artist Max Bruce, someone is hiding a dark secret.
As the night reaches its end, the occasion takes a shocking turn when a protester runs from the crowd and sprays the artist with blue paint.
Max collapses and it soon turns out that the paint was laced with cyanide. Someone has been plotting to kill him.
All evidence points to the protestor – and newly qualified barrister Adam Green is assigned the impossible task of their defence.
But could there be others who wanted Max dead?
Thursday Murder Club Book 5 – Richard Osman
Publication: September 25th
Richard Osman hasn’t released the title of his upcoming fifth instalment of the Thursday Murder Club series but we do know that it will be winging its way to your local book shop on September 25th, 2025.
All we know is that Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron are returning with a new mystery to solve but just exactly what it is remains to be revealed…
Not Another Bloody Christmas – Jo Middleton
Publication: October 2025
Following on from the 2024 hit Happy Bloody Christmas, Anna decides to take her family away for Christmas to avoid a repeat of the ‘dead man in the larder’ debacle.
However, she finds herself plunged into another festive fiasco when a body turns up in the library of their supposedly ‘idyllic’ rural retreat.
Conclusion
With these upcoming brand new cozy mystery releases, 2025 is shaping up to be a fantastic year for crime fans.
Whether you prefer small-town mysteries, supernatural sleuths, or amateur detectives, there’s something for everyone in this year’s lineup.
Make sure to add these books to your reading list, and get ready to spend some time in a world of charming settings, quirky characters, and captivating mysteries!
