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.

The standout titles of 2025 so far span inter-war espionage, gritty violence in modern Glasgow and the return of a cult writer ...

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 ...

I’ve been immersing myself in this summer’s crime fiction, which has been a savory mix of stories by established writers like S.A. Cosby’s surefire “King of Ashes” and great newcomers like Zoe B.

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

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

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

"The Night of Baba Yaga," a novel about Japan's yakuza underworld, has won the UK's 2025 Dagger prize for crime fiction in ...