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

“Each book captures another nuanced corner of the city,” says Crime Fiction Lover. “Maigret’s soaking up of the Paris that ...

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

Can stories about detectives from days gone by help students learn to think more critically? An English lecturer provides ...

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 ...

Christie’s first novel introducing Hercule Poirot, set in a country house mystery full of deception ...

Please contact Liverpool University Press for availability about this product This brief study surveys British and American crime fiction from the first detective stories of Edgar Allan Poe to the ...

Thanks to a German crime fiction series adapted for television and now proving a hit in Italy, she is back in the headlines — this time as a fictional small-town amateur sleuth. As the title suggests, ...

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 ...

Yasmin Angoe’s Not What She Seems (Thomas & Mercer, £8.99) is a mystery driven by regret and revenge. It opens with ...

All profits from the sale of The Last Dram will support Maggie's - a cancer care charity that provides free support and care in centers across the UK and online. Read the full article at Glencairn Gla ...

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 ...