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.

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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.

Over four books, Mead has perfected his take on the locked-room mystery, one that owes a debt to John Dickson Carr. THE HOUSE ...

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 ...

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

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BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Kate Flora is the author of 28 books across crime fiction, true crime, memoir and nonfiction. She has two new stand-alone books: a domestic suspense in “Teach Her a Lesson ...

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

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

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