Megan Abbott, Harlan Coben, S.A. Cosby, Gillian Flynn, Tana French, Rachel Howzell Hall, and Sujata Massey—TIME presents the ...

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 ...

My ever-growing tower of crime novels is proof of the reader’s lament: “So many books, so little time.” This spring’s TBR list includes headline grabbers like former FBI Director James Comey’s “FDR ...

A street in Whitechapel: the last crime of Jack the Ripper, from "Le Petit Parisien," 1891. Jack the Ripper is the subject of one of the top true crime books of all time. True crime can run the gamut ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. I don't know about you, but I like to think of myself as an amateur detective of sorts. I mean, once ...

Over the years, I’ve read plenty of ingenious mystery novels twice, but John Dickson Carr’s “The Three Coffins” is among the very few I’ve enjoyed three times. This fall, Penzler Publishers has ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Murder mysteries are best read in colder temperatures. Maybe the fall ...

Mystery stories are the foundation of many brilliant comics, from the best Batman stories, to Alan Moore's Watchmen widely ...

When we last saw Icelandic police detective Helgi Reykdal, he was lying unconscious in a pool of blood after being bashed in the head by his violent alcoholic wife in last fall’s “Death at the ...