From intimate betrayals to institutional rot, our pick of the year’s best thrillers examines power, complicity and moral ...

Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. On June 8, 2020, the nominees for the Anthony Awards, one ...

The integrity of crime fiction begins at the police station. The station house tells the reader everything he or she needs to know about the crime novel as art, and about law enforcement as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. Looking for a new read to tide you over until your next vacation ...

Sarah Weinman, who writes a monthly crime and mystery column for the Book Review, discussed her niche. By Katherine J. Igoe A murder in a Northern California coastal town. The unsolved case of a girl ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. “I get very tired of violence in crime fiction,” the great murder-mystery novelist Ruth Rendell once said. “Maybe it is what life is ...

Stephen Knight received from the ARC funding to work on Australian Crime fiction in 1989-90, which led to an earlier book (1997). Most countries produce crime fiction, but the versions vary according ...

With his pipe, deerstalker hat and formidable "methods," Sherlock Holmes may be the most recognizable face of the Victorian mystery story. But how does he stack up against Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste ...

Dive into the twisted world of true crime with these stranger-than-fiction series that will leave you shocked, from ...

In his introduction to Chicago Noir: The Classics, Joe Meno speculates on why Chicago crime has captured the popular imagination—on the news and in various forms of entertainment—since the days of ...

Over the past few years, crime fiction has become the biggest-selling fiction genre, boosted by the glut of television detective dramas and an ever-increasing range of high-quality novels. Best books ...