A bit all over the place. If you include bond, which is not detective fiction but exclude rebus which is ... I mean sure, it's a nice read, but crime fiction is alive and well.
Robert Harris comes to mind too.
If the point is that whodunit has moved on, so has almost every other genre.
101008 1 hours ago [-]
Crime fiction is not just alive and well, it's at the top of bestseller. Robert Galbraith's new book (The Hallmarked Man) was #1 in the bset seller list, with almost 50k copies sold (one of the most sold books of the year). And it's #8 in the Cormoran Strike series.
KnuthIsGod 1 hours ago [-]
"The Hallmarked Man is a crime fiction novel written by the British author J. K. Rowling, and published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Released on 2 September 2025, it is the eighth book in the Cormoran Strike series of detective fiction novels, following The Running Grave."
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Robert Harris comes to mind too.
If the point is that whodunit has moved on, so has almost every other genre.
Released on 2 September 2025, it is the eighth book in the Cormoran Strike series of detective fiction novels, following The Running Grave."