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 ...

If you're the type to cope with daily anxieties and stress by burying your head in a pile of riveting true crime stories—the devil you know, as they say—then do we have just the reading list for you.

Idov’s debut spy novel, “The Collaborators,” a sleek and stylish affair, introduced the disillusioned C.I.A. officer Ari Falk to the espionage canon. Now Idov’s follow-up, THE CORMORANT HUNT (Scribner ...

Mark Gatiss discusses the classic films and stories that influenced his post-war British detective series Bookish, including ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Think you could out-Sherlock Holmes or hang with Hercule Poirot? Author Maureen Johnson and illustrator Jay Cooper are giving readers a chance to solve a murder mystery for themselves with their new ...