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Serendipity!

Serendipity = to find that which you were not looking for

Is every book here to be boxed into a category of "cosy", "police procedural" or "historical mystery"? 

Here, there are different classifications to discover. Browse these pages for inspiration, as you would walk along the display tables in your bookshop.

See how many of these books you have read, and discover new authors, countries, tropes, puzzles to whisk you away from the every-day into unexplored lands. Follow the trail where it may lead, and may you find the next book or two to add to your future journey.

CWA 2025 Daggers shortlists

Travel by book

Gumshoe Books' collection of country pages now includes France (both translated, and used as setting), Iceland, Australia (Outback noir!) and Japan (classic detective fiction as an art form)

Anthologies

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Book reviews and Podcasts

The Gumshoe catalogue is enriched and informed by professional book reviewers - instead of drowning in endless vacuous social media feeds, we spend quality time reading real reviews and listening to the best crime podcasts.

Here are some of our favourites:

Give them a try! If you like them, let them know you found them on Gumshoe Books.

Book of the Month - June 2025

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Puzzle Books

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Crime Fiction Imprints

Specialist imprints range from the re-issuing of classic titles (British Library Publishing, Galileo Publishing, Collins Crime Club and Penguin Modern Classics - Crime and Espionage) to publishing international titles in translation or original (Bitter Lemon Press, Pushkin Vertigo), and to historical mysteries (Allison & Busby).