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.

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The best crime fiction of 2025 . These page-turners will keep you on the edge of your seat . Newsletter sign up Newsletter; These are the most suspenseful reads of the year so far ...

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 ...

The book is set in fictional Magnolia Beach, South Carolina. Elderly Samuel Fulton, on his way to visit his aging wife in a ...

One of Waitt’s favorite crime fiction authors is Richard Russo, whom he met at a book signing fundraiser at Graves Memorial Library in Kennebunkport. “I told him I wanted to be him when I grew ...

A novel depicting yakuza gangster life by a Japanese author has won a prestigious British award for crime fiction.