Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to ...

Barrett's short stories have been "gathering acclaim for the past decade", and now he has written his first novel ... fiction writer who often writes about criminals", and crime fiction fans ...

these are the best 10 cosy crime novels to add to your bookshelf right now. But, what exactly is cosy crime? Well, this sub-genre of the crime fiction world is less focused on the dark and gritty ...

I’ve been an Ernest Hemingway aficionado since my teens, so I was pleased to read the Library of America’s collection of the ...

This year’s best crime fiction runs a global gamut in settings ... Joël Dicker brings back the two leads from an earlier book—the writer Marcus Goldman and the New Hampshire police detective ...

A century ago, Edogawa Ranpo invented the Japanese detective novel. This pioneer of ero-guro-nansensu, a delicious blend of ...

In his new novel, 'This Storm', crime-fiction provocateur James Ellroy burros deep into the second World War. No surprise: It is very dark there. Ellroy’s main turf is Los Angeles, specifically ...

(Women also read more crime fiction than men.) In crime-romance novels, female empowerment is heightened ... Also popular in the crime-romance genre is Janet Evanovich, best known for her ...