Elly Griffiths blends crime fiction with time-travel fantasy in her new novel, "The Frozen People," featuring Detective Ali Dawson. Ali, a 50-year-old single mom, works for the Department of Logistics ...

About to give a key speech, Claudia agonises over revealing a grim truth that will destroy her reputation. And as a native Glaswegian struggling with the mores of the English upper crust, she is out ...

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 - ...

Cosby is riding the crest of a current wave of truly great rural crime books, and the authors whose work is more than worth reading include the aforementioned Kelly J. Ford — Cosby called her “the ...

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.

A means of escape One of crime fiction’s biggest appeals is its escape factor. For most readers, the events in each story are intriguing and far away from their everyday reality.

WATCHING THE DETECTIVES: Academics have long snooped into the foggy world of detective stories and crime fiction. In 1976, for example, the popular-culture studies pioneer John G. Cawelti made the ...

Today, the New York Times best-selling author is considered one of the finest crime fiction writers. "This great career in the law gave me books," she said. Best-selling crime writer Linda Fairstein.

“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.

In Hall’s crime fiction series, the down-to-earth Norton is a Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective who uncovers mysteries in Los Angeles while battling her own struggles.

“The way that [2020] becomes an era of crime fiction, it’s not coronavirus fiction, it’s post-coronavirus fiction. And I hope it doesn’t come to that.” It is, of course, too soon to tell.

And so crime fiction is ultimately a metaphor for the kind of life most of us live." There is an intellectual rigor to Cameron's Portland, where his novels take place.