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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

French actor Jean Gabin as Inspector Maigret (1958). Wikimedia commons. Crime fiction today is written, published, sold and read on all continents.

Our columnist on the month’s most notable releases. Credit...Pablo Amargo Supported by By Sarah Weinman NIGHTSWIMMING (High Frequency Press, 322 pp., paperback, $19.95) made quite the impression ...

Key points. In crime fiction, forensic psychology often gets shortchanged. Psychologists can consult in many areas besides profiling, but profiling is the predominant role they get.

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 ...