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.

Stephen King called this book "the best crime fiction I've read in 20 years," and now it's being adapted into a movie with an A-list star.

Here are five crime novels perfect for a deep dive this summer and which authors they look to for inspiration.

Crime fiction is booming as never before - and with dozens of new titles translated into English for the first time, there’s a detective for every holiday destination.

Crime-fiction writers Rachel Howzell Hall, Attica Locke and Ivy Pochoda chat about their latest releases with Times crime reporter James Queally.

Plus Camilla Trinchieri’s “Murder in Pitigliano.” ...

“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.

Indeed, studies of crime fiction have been multiplying as rapidly as dead bodies in the drawing room. Some tackle the crime fiction of specific countries, like The Detektiv and the Russian Way of ...

People recognize themselves in rural crime fiction, Jaworowski said. “I think the stories are universal. And that’s also why you get city and suburban readers buying rural books, too. As a journalist ...

Texas / Syndication Cloud / July 07, 2025 / Wordsmith World Key Takeaways Christian crime novels mirror God’s redemptive story through patterns of creation, ruin, redemption, and restoration. Reading ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Kate Flora is the author of 28 books across crime fiction, true crime, memoir and nonfiction. She has two new stand-alone books: a domestic suspense in “Teach Her a Lesson ...

Crime fiction tends to favors “a return to order from chaos,” said Steph Cha, the author of the novel “Your House Will Pay.” “It requires an assumption that the justice system resolving ...