For his latest book, “Big Breath In,” Straley decided to introduce a new character — Delphine, a retired marine biologist ...

Sherlock Holmes set the bar for detective fiction when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first introduced the character in 1887, and he once again became the gold standard after the BBC adaptation.

Prolific journalist Mary Fortune, drawn to the seedy underbelly of Victorian-era Melbourne, published more than 500 detective ...

This week’s literary geography quiz highlights international detective characters cracking ... Mining Her Country’s Nightmares: In her fiction, Han Kang has probed at the seams of South ...

Mystery Writers of America announced its nominations for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, including awards for best novel, ...

From innocent to guilty, Los Angeles to Oxford, stories of guns, gangs, missing children — and the theft of rare eggs ...

Which books got you hooked on crime fiction? As a very young reader, I adored Encyclopedia Brown and “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler." After I begged my personal literary ...