Impressive first-time novels about female rage and a relentless stalker — plus an inventive tale set in brutal modern Britain ...

This year’s best crime fiction runs a global gamut in settings from New York to Dublin, London to Los Angeles, Geneva to Edinburgh. There’s a metafictional murder mystery, a psychological ...

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Speaking of Richard Osman, the void left behind by the winsome foursome of Elizabeth, Joyce, Ismail and Ron of The Thursday Murder Club has been adequately compensated by Osman’s brand new series ...

It’s her best book yet. The next few waiting are ... Which books got you hooked on crime fiction? As a very young reader, I adored Encyclopedia Brown and “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs ...

Nordic noir, also known as Scandinavian noir, has been a popular genre since the 1990s, but it’s the streaming boom of the 2010s that really helped make it an international favorite. Gritty ...

Similarly, The Last Truths We Told (Raven £16.99) by Holly Watt is a reminder that we are in something of a new golden age for contemporary crime fiction with this impeccably plotted riff on ...

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 ...