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 ...

Historically, translated works have been particularly successful in the mystery and thriller genres. (Looking at you, Lisbeth ...

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 - ...

Like all great crime writers, Lou Berney knows that a ripping story is only as good as the characters that make it rip. With his new novel “Crooks,” Berney has created a family saga about a small-time ...

This holiday season, one might want to buy the crime aficionado on your shopping list one or more of this year’s fine true crime or crime fiction books. Here’s a roundup of some of the best crime ...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 threats and racial reckoning that have marked 2021, reading crime (fiction and nonfiction) has provided both some much-needed escapism and, in the proliferation of diverse ...