A new female sleuth is in town. She is being compared to the great detectives: Hercule Poirot, Jessica Fletcher, Columbo, and Vera. Her name is Miss Hortense. In Mel Pennant’s impressive debut, “A ...

There’s something about the shadowy moral recesses of crime and suspense fiction that makes those genres especially appealing as temperatures soar. ‘Ash Dark as Night,’ by Gary Phillips. (Soho Crime) ...

Summer reading involves the kind of books you can knock off in a day or two, depending on how easily and frequently you drift into naps. In these modern times, I imagine that the Kindle, or Nook, or ...