The current mini-boom in socially committed Black American crime fiction continues with the ambitious Cosby’s excoriating ...

Nordic noir master Nesbø’s first book set entirely in the U.S. follows two plotlines: in one, a disgraced police detective ...

Belgian author Abel made her U.S. debut with 2023’s Mothers’ Instinct, adapted for a 2024 film starring Jessica Chastain and ...

Sherlock Holmes introduces many fans to the mystery & crime genre, and there are even more crime books worth exploring after ...

Kathy Reichs, the forensic anthropologist-turned-bestselling writer behind Bones, is back with a new novel, Evil Bones. She ...

You can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of truly innovative works of crime fiction since Edgar Allan Poe: and one of them is The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, whose death was ...

A street in Whitechapel: the last crime of Jack the Ripper, from "Le Petit Parisien," 1891. Jack the Ripper is the subject of one of the top true crime books of all time. True crime can run the gamut ...

Well, hello there. I’m new around here, as you sleuths probably noticed from the byline. I’ll be stepping in every other month to help with The Plot Thickens column, giving Seattle Times book critic ...

In January Eric Rickstad published “Remote - the Six” which was the first book in his new “Remote” series of crime novels. He just quickly followed it up with the second book in the series “Remote - ...