This year saw a bumper crop of flawed and villainous heroes, some more traditional cops and the thrilling advent of a new spy ...

“The Killer Inside Me,” published in 1952, is his best-known novel. Its narrator is Lou Ford, a 29-year-old Texas sheriff who pretends to be a bland and boring rube but ends up committing every murder ...

Often referred to as “the black Raymond Chandler”, Chester Himes’s celebrated cycle of novels have a wit and a philosophy of ...

Paperwork is Mitch’s biggest bane until he’s summoned, along with the mercurial lab technician Jub Freeman, to the scene of a hit-and-run; together they link that crime with a dead cat and a murdered ...

Far less common are Hanukkah stories, such as those collected by Tod Goldberg in Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of ...

With the clock ticking down to the An Post Irish Book Awards, we asked the six nominees for this year’s Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year to tell us about their favourite reads in the ...

For your crime fiction shelves, the latest from Kate Atkinson, a sci-fi/crime tale from Alexander Boldizar, and a fresh take ...

Writers are working to explore the issues the #MeToo movement raised. But, does the social narrative around sex-crime changed ...

I recall Otto Penzler, editor of numerous mystery, crime fiction and thriller anthologies and owner of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York, telling me that mystery, crime fiction and thrillers ...

Ever a student of history, I gravitate toward the past, in part because so much good vintage crime fiction is being reissued. Here are a few gems that stood out this year. The police procedural ...