Century-Del-Rey-Web-1 - Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles Spring Summer 2025

Aug 27, 2026

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Spring Summer 2025 catalog content featuring selected Century and Del Rey fiction titles across crime, thriller, and suspense categories. Entries include detailed back-cover summaries such as Max Wolfe returning for a revenge-driven investigation, Nora and Sam uncovering whether a death on the Arctic clifftop was accident or murder, and a locked-room North Pole voyage where fear shifts as suspects turn on one another. The text also includes author bios and publication metadata for each featured novel.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages43

Reading Time1 h 6 min

AccessFree to download

Fiction

January

Murder for Busy People

The Night We Lost Him

Death in the Arctic

Open Season

February

From London With Love

SPRING SUMMER 2025 CONTENTS Century Fiction Century Non-Fiction Del Rey Inklore Penguin James Patterson 3–14 15–20 21–32 33–40 41–68 69–79 FICTION JANUARY Murder for Busy People TONY PARSONS Max Wolfe is back! This is the long-awaited seventh instalment in the popular crime series from the No. 1 bestselling author of Man and Boy. Emma Moon is out. She served sixteen years for a notorious armed robbery that left two men dead – and enriched many more. But Emma Moon never talked. She kept the code. She never revealed who was with her on the day of the robbery. She never told who killed those two men. And now she is free – and everything has gone. Her family. Her share of the money. And her faithless husband. So Emma Moon is in a hurry. Because it is payback time. And after all those years inside, she has friends who will do anything for her. As the bodies of the innocent and the guilty pile up, only one detective stands between a career criminal and her quest for revenge. The same man who, as a fresh-faced policeman, arrested her all those years ago. Max Wolfe is back. 02/01/2025 9781529197334 £18.99 Royal Hardback CRIME & MYSTERY Tony Parsons is a bestselling novelist and an awardwinning journalist. His books have been published in over forty languages and his multimillion-selling novel Man and Boy won the Book of the Year prize in 2000. Most recently, he created the Max Wolfe crime series. The Murder Bag, the first Max Wolfe book, went to No. 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list and in 2023 was voted one of the 100 best crime books of all time by the readers of Dead Good Books. Tony lives in London with his family. The Night We Lost Him LAURA DAVE Sometimes those we love hide the darkest secrets. From the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club Pick The Last Thing He Told Me. One beautiful Californian evening, a wealthy businessman falls to his death from his secluded clifftop house onto the rocks below. A tragic accident? Or murder? Nora and her half-brother Sam suspect it may be the latter and team up to uncover the truth of what really happened that night. But their relationship has never been easy and it is about to be tested to the limit as they start to question how well either of them really knew their elusive father. Unravelling his mysterious past takes them back to a world they knew nothing about, to a tangled love affair and a web of relationships that other people would far rather stay buried Filled with passion, intrigue, lies and dark, dark family secrets, The Night We Lost Him is a page-turning mystery you won’t ever want to put down. 02/01/2025 9781529912043 £16.99 Royal Hardback THRILLER/SUSPENSE Laura Dave is the global No. 1 bestselling author of several novels, including The Last Thing He Told Me and Eight Hundred Grapes. Her novels have been translated into thirty-eight languages, and six of them, including The Night We Lost Him , have been optioned for film and television. She resides in Santa Monica, California. JANUARY JANUARY Death in the Arctic TOM HINDLE A killer strikes on a luxury voyage to the North Pole. Tom Hindle’s latest gripping locked-room mystery is perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Knives Out. A frozen wilderness. A killer in the skies. When aspiring travel writer Chloé Campbell is invited aboard a luxury airship flying to the North Pole, she thinks she’s bagged the opportunity of a lifetime. But she hasn’t had long to admire the dazzling icy views before a fellow passenger is found dead in their cabin. Trapped at the top of the world, the group agrees a tragic accident has occurred. But as the hours tick by, fear turns to doubt. It seems everyone’s a suspect. And it isn’t long before the passengers begin to turn on each other 16/01/2025 9781529927221 £16.99 Royal Hardback CRIME & MYSTERY Tom Hindle hails from Leeds and lives in Oxfordshire with h

FAQs

What is the main theme of the listed January titles?

They center on crime, mystery, and suspense, mixing investigations with personal secrets and escalating suspicion among characters.

How do the featured stories drive their central conflicts?

Each summary uses a triggering event—such as a suspected murder, a death under unclear circumstances, or a series of killings—to propel detectives and protagonists toward uncovering hidden truths.

What additional information accompanies each novel entry?

Entries include brief author backgrounds, along with publication details such as date and format (e.g., Royal Hardback) and category labels like Crime & Mystery or Thriller/Suspense.

Aug 27, 2026

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