2025 Reading List

Books are final, order is draft as of Nov. 25

January

Fingersmith >>
By Sarah Waters

The Other Side of Midnight >>
By Simone St. James

February

The Marlow Murder Club >>
By Robert Thorogood
1st book in the Marlow Murder Club series

The Last Devil to Die >>
By Richard Osman
4th book in the Thursday Murder Club series

March

Mother Daughter Murder Night >>
By Nina Simon

Suburban Dicks >>
By Fabian Nicieza
1st book in the Suburban Dicks series

April

Everyone on This Train is a Suspect >>
By Benjamin Stevenson
2nd book in the Ernest Cunningham series

West Heart Kill >>
By Dann McDorman

May

The Long and Faraway Gone >>
By Lou Berney

Postmortem >>
By Patricia Cornwell
1st book in the Kay Scarpetta series

June

The Dinner Lady Detectives >>
By Hannah Hendy
1st book in the Dinner Lady Detectives series

Murder in an Irish Pub >>
By Carlene O’Connor
4th book in the Irish Village series

July

A Man With One of Those Faces >>
By Caimh McDonnell
1st book in the Dublin Trilogy series

No Rest for the Dead >>
Multiple Authors

August

The Moving Finger >>
By Agatha Christie
3rd book in the Miss Marple series

The Word is Murder >>
By Anthony Horowitz
1st book in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series

September

Devil in a Blue Dress >>
By Walter Mosley
1st book in the Easy Rawlins series

Over My Dead Body >>
By Maz Evans

October

The Hunter >>
By Tana French
2nd book in the Cal Hooper series

Louisiana Longshot >>
By Jana DeLeon
1st book in the Miss Fortune series

November

Elementary, She Reads >>
By Vicki Delany
1st book in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series

Murder Your Employer >>
By Rupert Holmes
1st book in the McMasters Guide to Homicide

December

Aunt Poldi and the Handsome Antonio >>
By Mario Giordana
3rd book in the Aunt Poldi series

The Christmas Murder Game >>
By Alexandra Benedict