Anthony Horowitz has written dozen of books and scores of television dramas in his lengthy career, but the task of transforming his meta mystery novel, Magpie Murders — a crime novel about writing and ...

María Elvira Bermúdez was a trailblazer. She was the first woman in Mexico City to obtain a law degree at Escuela Libre de Derecho and a prolific writer of ground breaking detective fiction that ...

Christian crime novels mirror God’s redemptive story through patterns of creation, ruin, redemption, and restoration. Reading mystery fiction can strengthen moral discernment and help believers ...

Picture this: you’re browsing the mystery section at your local bookstore, excited to find your next page-turner, when suddenly you realize that most options come packed with content that makes you ...

Tom Mead’s stellar debut, Death and the Conjuror, is an homage to golden age crime fiction. Set in 1930s London, magician Joseph Spector is consulted by his Scotland Yard friend, Insp. George Flint, ...

Mystery fiction has changed drastically since 1930, the time frame for Marie Benedict’s clever and engaging “The Queens of Crime” set in England. Back then — in England and America — most best-sellers ...

Compiling the annual favorite mysteries of the year is a labor of love, and a true labor that begins with the first novel of the year. Annually, it becomes harder to narrow down the list from the 120 ...

It heralded a shift to a more classical style, in sharp contrast to the social-commentary-on-crime approach that was more prevalent back then.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Detective fiction is a creative sub-genre of crime and ...

As mystery fiction expert Penzler notes in his concise overview of African-American crime writing at the start of this welcome anthology, despite the central element linking the 15 short stories, they ...

Daniela is a freelance writer with two years of experience covering entertainment. She is a senior writer on Collider’s freelance team and has also been published in other platforms, such as Elite ...

For lovers of suspense fiction, the nation’s best source of those novels is no mystery. He lives in Carmel. Like a good detective, Mike Bursaw keeps a low profile. No fancy storefront. No glitzy ...