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 ...

Amazon has secured the rights to adapt Collision, a short novel from Don Winslow’s upcoming collection called The Final Score ...

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“Crime fiction is my first and best love,” she said in a recent conversation. Though she covers crime fiction in her column, she’s a bit of a true crime pundit in real life, she said.

Hannah Michell blurs the lines between fact and fiction in her engrossing U.S. debut, “Excavations.”The slow-burning cigarette of a novel opens in 1992 South Korea with Sae, a former ...

People recognize themselves in rural crime fiction, Jaworowski said. “I think the stories are universal. And that’s also why you get city and suburban readers buying rural books, too. As a journalist ...

Crime fiction author and screenwriter George Pelecanos is known for his gritty realism. His latest short story collection takes that same unsparing look at his own past.

Key points. In crime fiction, forensic psychology often gets shortchanged. Psychologists can consult in many areas besides profiling, but profiling is the predominant role they get.

SA Cosby, one of the most dynamic contemporary American crime writers, has edited The Best American Mystery & Suspense 2024 (Mariner, £12.99), working with the series editor Steph Cha.

French actor Jean Gabin as Inspector Maigret (1958). Wikimedia commons. Crime fiction today is written, published, sold and read on all continents.

Crime fiction asks, “who is guilty?”, and in this way, the author forms a contract with the reader: the crime will be resolved, every red herring will be explained, ...

T he thrilling, morally dubious world of crime fiction and the emotionally charged realm of romance novels may at first glance seem incompatible. But the blending of these two popular genres makes ...