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Far from being a good ol’ boy’s club, the world of crime fiction owes a large part of its success to the women authors who ...

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By Sarah Weinman Our columnist on the year’s most outstanding crime novels. By Sarah Weinman Our columnist on a handful of recently reissued crime novels, all of which are worth your time.

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Strange but true stories Whether you’re an avid amateur investigator or just squeamishly curious, your ears prick up at the ...

Boyle’s novel “Saint of the Narrows Street” captures the feel of a Brooklyn neighborhood and the characters whose lives are shaped by violence. Lucy Rose’s beautiful, terrifying novel ...

Only a portion of Ms. Han’s fiction is available in English, but what we have falls along a spectrum between allegory and extreme realism. On one pole is “The Vegetarian” (2007), about a ...

Here are 10 books that feel ice-cold from the first page. When the true crime writer Wylie Lark discovers an unconscious child outside her remote cabin in rural Iowa, she becomes embroiled in a ...

Looking for the best books of 2024? We have you covered here ... Erika Swyler’s (The Book of Speculation) fourth book is a timely science fiction novel set in Bulwark, a walled city that ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Although Yarros is perhaps best known for her trio of romantasy novels, she has ...