While most people wouldn't commit the crimes they read about, crime fiction allows readers to get familiar with the private, darker sides of human nature.

The standout titles of 2025 so far span inter-war espionage, gritty violence in modern Glasgow and the return of a cult writer ...

Stephen King called this book "the best crime fiction I've read in 20 years," and now it's being adapted into a movie with an A-list star.

Texas / Syndication Cloud / July 07, 2025 / Wordsmith World Key Takeaways Christian crime novels mirror God’s redemptive story through patterns of creation, ruin, redemption, and restoration. Reading ...

Can crime fiction save lives? The clues are there if you know where to look As I wrote my latest novel, I wanted readers to think about something bigger than ‘whodunit’.

El Dorado Drive, by Megan Abbott; The House on Buzzards Bay, by Dwyer Murphy; King of Ashes, by S.A. Cosby; and Murder Takes ...

A novel depicting yakuza gangster life by a Japanese author has won a prestigious British award for crime fiction.

Kate Flora is the author of 28 books across crime fiction, true crime, memoir and nonfiction.

"The Night of Baba Yaga," a novel about Japan's yakuza underworld, has won the UK's 2025 Dagger prize for crime fiction in ...

HISTORICAL crime fiction can be uniquely satisfying, in the hands of a writer who knows what they’re doing. My favourite history-mystery this year, in a strong field, was The Scream Of Sins by Chris ...

We’re only halfway through 2025, but there have already been plenty of standout books published this year. There’s been ...

The book is set in fictional Magnolia Beach, South Carolina. Elderly Samuel Fulton, on his way to visit his aging wife in a ...