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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...