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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...