June 2026 is the UK’s National Crime Reading month
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Nine murders. One seemingly impossible disappearance. Nineteen burglaries. An adrenalin-fuelled car chase and an impressively grand theft. Plenty of domestic drama. A taste of pie-...
It’s a warm Saturday afternoon, and the festival is in full swing. String lights sway overhead in the summer breeze. Music drifts between booths selling kettle corn and cotton cand...
These days everyone is an expert. With all the television dramas built around police procedurals, the plethora of crime fiction novels, and the explosion of interest in true crime,...
by Debbie Burke Here’s a familiar trope in crime fiction: an author protagonist details a fictional murder that the author is later accused of. The book they wrote is used as evide...
Crime and the City has ventured to Canada a few times previously—we checked out the crime writing of Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto so it would be churlish of us not to pay the ca...
Ireland is the cadaver on the dissection table in these murder mysteries by five women writers. Their books are forensic examinations of the country’s social dysfunction; the pasts...
“LIKE a hug in a book” was how the the Dublin writer Kitty Graham described it to The Irish Times. It is an odd way to describe a literary genre concerned with murder and the worst...
By PJ Parrish As many of you regulars know, I have retired from fulltime novel writing. Still keeping my toes in the short fiction waters but the demands of turning out a novel per...
There’s a universe of possibility in the crime mystery. While certain settings have become a staple of fiction—the Agatha Christie murder, the hard-boiled detective, the modern pol...
One of my greatest joys as a reader of crime fiction is diving into a new adventure featuring a favorite detective, amateur sleuth, or gang of lovable rule-benders. Crime fiction h...
Learn about stolen children in Georgia and Argentina, femicide in Mexico, the harsh injustice of American prisons, and moral panics.
Ahead of the 80th Annual Edgar Award Ceremony, I asked the nominees for the Edgars (along with the special award winners) to contribute to a roundtable discussion on the state of t...
Rural noir – crime stories set in small American towns, nestled among cornfields and along winding riverbanks – has long been a hugely popular and influential subset of crime movie...
Some crime authors are just too darned sneaky! I mean, getting us to read their books by tempting us with delectable delights – that really is criminal. But if you put the coffee o...
Below, you’ll find part two of our roundtable discussion on the state of the crime genre. 40 Edgar nominees and special award winners contributed to the following conversation, for...
The language of the police robs crime and punishment of morality. The post Making Murder Respectable appeared first on The American Conservative.
By Jennifer Graeser Dornbush When I was growing up, evidence meant fingerprints, fibers, and blood spatter. Today, we also find enormous amounts of evidence in our digital prints:...
I have spent the majority of my career as a screenwriter and only lately come to crime fiction. It’s actually something I wish I’d done so much earlier in my life. As a novelist yo...
Shannon Stettner As a child, on Friday nights just before 9:00 pm, I’d tuck myself under a living room end table. If I was quiet and hidden, I could usually get away with watching...
Crime is constantly “modernizing” and evolving. It is organized and operates in ways that exceed the state’s adaptation speed.
Barry Turner reviews the best Classic Crime novels out now.
Criminal Record has brought together a round-up of today's biggest crime stories.
Here are 5 of the best novels to be reissued this spring, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. Len Deighton, Close-Up (Atlantic Crime) “Few authors writing in the rigorous and fi...
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