CrimeBits 3: 100 Opening Gambits for Great Thrillers & Linked Mystery Puzzles

Mick Herron, Luca Veste

Eyewear Publishing, Nov 10, 2026 - Fiction - 420 pages

A puzzle book for crime fans, introduced by Mick Herron

CrimeBits is back with a new collection of 100 first pages of thrillers, selected by best-selling author Mick Herron. An exclusive introduction from Herron is included, alongside Murdle-esque linked mystery logic puzzles. Writing challenges, crime trivia, brain-teasers, and editor’s notes are also included. The original Crimebits, selected by Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series, was published in 2024.

About the author

Mick Herron is the #1 bestselling and award-winning novelist and short story writer, best known for his Slough House thrillers. The series has been adapted into an Apple TV series, Slow Horses, starring Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb.

Luca is the internationally bestselling author of eleven novels, the host of the hit podcast Two Crime Writers and a Microphone, and the co-founder of the Locked Up Festival, which has raised over £25,000 for the Trussell Trust charity. He is editor of the Spinetingler award nominated anthology Off The Record, and has over a decade of extensive experience within the crime fiction genre. He studied psychology and criminology at the University of Liverpool

Bibliographic information

• Title: CrimeBits 3: 100 Opening Gambits for Great Thrillers & Linked Mystery Puzzles
• Editors: Mick Herron, Luca Veste
• Publisher: Eyewear Publishing, 2026
• ISBN: 1917788010, 9781917788014
• Length: 420 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General; Fiction / Thrillers / Historical