Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators ... an Army veteran, started writing detective fiction in the mid-1970s, a time of maximum American disillusionment, and ...

if you’re searching for some gritty and gripping Scottish crime books that embody the moody mystery of the country, here are a few detective series to get you started. Hard-drinking philosopher ...

One way of enjoying mystery stories ... some authors will repeat any small development. For almost two pages in The Fingerprint, for instance, the murdered man's lawyer and Detective Inspector ...

Our critic on Deanna Raybourn’s “Kills Well With Others” and three more new books ... “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged killing before its repercussions ...

Local author new book in the my middle-grade series, The Relic Detectives. The Relic Detectives: A WASP mystery: Women ...

WNY's Anna Katharine Green broke the literary world's glass ceiling, and, in the process, created a new style of novel ...

There are a number of established book series in which a religious figure features as part-time detective. We asked mystery author and scholar Martin Edwards to explain the character archetype and ...

The queen of crime fiction, Agatha Christie (1890-1976), wrote 66 mystery novels featuring ... is credited with laying down story rules that modern writers of detective fiction still follow ...