Wednesday, December 31, 2025

"CrimeReads" -- best speculative mysteries & thrillers of 2025

At CrimeReads Molly Odintz tagged fifteen of the best speculative mysteries and thrillers of 2025, including:
The Book of Guilt, Catherine Chidgey

Imagine if Never Let Me Go was written by Stanley Milgram. The Book of Guilt explores a fascinating alternative history conundrum: if Hitler’s Germany had been overthrown by its own bureaucrats, leading to a draw rather than clear winners and losers, how exactly would all that Nazi science have made its way into allied research? While Chidgey is clearly inspired by the real-life stories of rocket scientists taking their torture-based aeronatics lessons to the US, the scientists in The Book of Guilt go a step further, with German scientists given British government funding to continue their studies, with inevitably devastating results.
Read about another entry on the list.

Q&A with Catherine Chidgey.

The Page 69 Test: The Book of Guilt.

--Marshal Zeringue