While most people wouldn't commit the crimes they read about, crime fiction allows readers to get familiar with the private, darker sides of human nature.

Stephen King called this book "the best crime fiction I've read in 20 years," and now it's being adapted into a movie with an A-list star.

“Crime fiction is my first and best love,” she said in a recent conversation. Though she covers crime fiction in her column, she’s a bit of a true crime pundit in real life, she said.

Crime-fiction writers Rachel Howzell Hall, Attica Locke and Ivy Pochoda chat about their latest releases with Times crime reporter James Queally.

And so crime fiction is ultimately a metaphor for the kind of life most of us live." There is an intellectual rigor to Cameron's Portland, where his novels take place.

Indeed, studies of crime fiction have been multiplying as rapidly as dead bodies in the drawing room. Some tackle the crime fiction of specific countries, like The Detektiv and the Russian Way of ...

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Texas / Syndication Cloud / July 07, 2025 / Wordsmith World Key Takeaways Christian crime novels mirror God’s redemptive story through patterns of creation, ruin, redemption, and restoration. Reading ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Kate Flora is the author of 28 books across crime fiction, true crime, memoir and nonfiction. She has two new stand-alone books: a domestic suspense in “Teach Her a Lesson ...

“Some crime-fiction writers resort to a stereotype,” said Smith. Author Danny Gardner, who’s novel “Ace Boon Coon” is set to be released this September.