Harrogate 2026: The crime of the century
Before The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival made the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate its home, the place was famous for another reason: It was where Agatha Christie retrea...
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Before The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival made the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate its home, the place was famous for another reason: It was where Agatha Christie retrea...
I only found out I was living down the road from a notorious “murder mansion” six months after we’d moved into our cottage in rural Shropshire in 2015. I can’t remember exactly how...
I’m researching historical murder cases for an interrogation/deduction game. I’m looking for an older case — ideally from the late 19th or early 20th century, where the surviving r...
In June 1898, Ernest William “Willie” Hornung began publishing the short stories that would comprise the collection The Amateur Cracksman. Hornung was at that point a relatively mi...
In August's best historical fiction books, characters plot murder, survive behind enemy lines, practice in 1816 Boston, and more.
The Briar Club is uniquely structured and compelling historical fiction from the popular author, Kate Quinn. The post The Briar Club [Book Review] #ThrowbackThursday #BookX #BookSk...
Classic mysteries are popular for their predictable structure shepherded to a tidy conclusion by a sympathetic detective, and I am particularly fond of those set inside academia. T...
Reading as much crime fiction as I do, I have noticed an interesting preference: I find murder far more intriguing when it happens in a conservatory. We need only look at the wild...
Agatha was a surprise addition to the Miller family, an “afterthought,” as she would describe herself. Born on September 15, 1890, she was a child of the Victorian fin de siecle (o...
Christmas and crime go together like port and stilton. Turkey and stuffing. Sprouts and a cracked window. Indeed, snowbound country houses, mysterious deaths beneath the mistletoe...
Here are 14 of the best books to be reissued this summer, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. * Yukito Ayatsuji, The Clock House Murders Translated by Ho-Ling Wong (Pushkin Vert...
My Fair Frauds My Fair Frauds by Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne is $2.99! This is a historical mystery set in...
Whodunnit. It’s a word we use to describe mystery novels. It’s also a question. However, the Hungarian author Daniel Laz approaches things slightly differently. In his Frankie Voss...
In this work, the author follows up The Canvas (2023) with the third installment in the Big Picture trilogy. Protagonist Emma Kelly is an art recovery agent. Her current mission is...
The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths has just been announced as the winner of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2026. The Frozen People is the first book in a new s...
The day my editor asked me to write a Women’s Fiction series I immediately said, Yes! Followed by, what’s Women’s Fiction? Isn’t all fiction Women’s Fiction? I mean, I read everyth...
In Sleeping Murder, Miss Marple visits the fictional British seaside town of Dillmouth. She warns the novels young protagonists, Gwenda and Giles, not to investigate past events at...
The detective protagonist stands tall in our crime and thriller landscape, from Poirot to Bosch they are the cornerstone to this side of the genre. But more and more we’re seeing w...
One of the most delicious parts of crime fiction is that it’s loaded with tension. Our desire to know what will happen next in a story keeps us racing through the pages. We gather...
September brings a host of quiet suspense, complex mysteries, and shocking thrillers, as we finish up summer and enter the long lead-up to the season of horror. Below, you’ll find...
Between the two of us, (Mary Wine and Cindy Dees) we’ve published over 200 novels in the historical, romantic, suspense, and thriller genres. So when we sat down to write Where the...
Three immigrants. Two disappearances. One murder. And a love story that defines them all.
Nothing delights me more than reading a humorous mystery that combines a page-turning whodunit with laugh-out-loud shenanigans, and I’m lucky to now write them as well in my Hu Don...
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