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What Can Sherlock Holmes Teach a Young Black Sleuth?

What Can Sherlock Holmes Teach a Young Black Sleuth?

"His pinnacle lesson? Own your self-agency."

By Patricia Raybon | October 12, 2021

Of Mice-Detectives and Men: <br> In Praise of <br><em>The Great Mouse Detective</em>

Of Mice-Detectives and Men:
In Praise of
The Great Mouse Detective

Revisiting Disney's classic but oft-overlooked Sherlock Holmes pastiche, featuring mice and Vincent Price

By Olivia Rutigliano | October 7, 2021

Latinx Crime Fiction Anthologies

Latinx Crime Fiction Anthologies

Latinx writers are producing some of the world's most exciting short fiction. Time to get your hands on a few story collections.

By Richie Narvaez | October 6, 2021

Small Towns, Big Secrets: Crime Fiction Set In Claustrophobic Communities

Small Towns, Big Secrets: Crime Fiction Set In Claustrophobic Communities

8 novels in which a small town is the perfect incubator for some truly grisly secrets.

By L. Alison Heller | October 6, 2021

Lee Child on the Invention of Fiction

Lee Child on the Invention of Fiction

The first humans to make up stories may just have saved us all. Or not. It's hard to know for sure.

By Lee Child | October 5, 2021

12 Novels You Should Read This October

12 Novels You Should Read This October

New fiction from John le Carré, Val McDermid, Michael Connelly, James Han Mattson, and more.

By CrimeReads | October 1, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Lure of the Old Manor: Books in Which A House is Both Setting and Character

By Kate Moretti | September 30, 2021

From Pen Stroke to Key Stroke: On Slander in Suspense

By Laura Griffin | September 30, 2021

Do Bookless Libraries Signal The End of the Printed Word?

By Dorothy St. James | September 29, 2021

The Best New Crime Books Out in Paperback This Month

The Best New Crime Books Out in Paperback This Month

Featuring new releases from Sophie Hannah, Preston & Child, John Banville, Craig Johnson, and more.

By CrimeReads | September 28, 2021

Love in the Bookshop: A Mystery Writer's Ode to Bookstore Romances

Love in the Bookshop: A Mystery Writer's Ode to Bookstore Romances

Six novels in which romance blooms in the stacks.

By Mimi Granger | September 27, 2021

YA Mysteries: <br>The Prep School Edition

YA Mysteries:
The Prep School Edition

"In these books, authors paint a picture of a private and closed world to which only the select few are permitted access."

By Gabriella Lepore | September 24, 2021

Motive Is the Core of Mystery

Motive Is the Core of Mystery

7 mysteries in which motivation is the driving force of the narrative.

By Emilia Bernhard | September 24, 2021

Ten Criminal Characters Motivated by Good Intentions

Ten Criminal Characters Motivated by Good Intentions

These literary characters do the wrong things for the right (or at least understandable) reasons.

By Kerry Anne King | September 22, 2021

Craig Johnson on Spirituality, the West, and the Plight of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Craig Johnson on Spirituality, the West, and the Plight of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

A missing person poster at a library on the Crow Reservation was the inspiration for the newest Longmire novel.

By CrimeReads | September 21, 2021

The Discreet Charm of the Berkeley Crime Novel

The Discreet Charm of the Berkeley Crime Novel

Why Jesse and Jonathan Kellerman set their new novel in a California city rarely explored in crime fiction.

By Jesse Kellerman | September 21, 2021

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