Whether you’re spending the summer stretched out on the beach, posted up on a cabin porch or simply soaking up the sunshine from your own backyard, there’s nothing quite like a good book to keep you ...

Compiling the annual favorite mysteries of the year is a labor of love, and a true labor that begins with the first novel of the year. Annually, it becomes harder to narrow down the list from the 120 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a researcher focusing on how the media we consume shapes us. People have been captivated by mystery novels for almost two ...

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 ...

This year’s most exciting and twisty-looking thriller and mystery books delve into the darkest corners of our collective psyche, from obsessive true-crime subreddits to deadly advice columns to the ...

Murder mysteries by the men who brought you Winnie-the-Pooh and Daniel Day-Lewis. By Molly Young Dear readers, Mystery novels are like Thanksgiving dinner: formulaic but allowing for huge variations ...

A dead body is found at the bottom of the stairs. A child is kidnapped. A wife vanishes without a trace. What happened? Who did it? And, perhaps most importantly, why? These are the questions that ...

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 ...

We meet once again, sleuths. While the following reads fall under the mystery/crime fiction genre, there’s enough variety to light up any summer reading bingo card or challenge. These titles can help ...

“Marble Hall Murders” marks the return of detective Atticus Pünd and editor Susan Ryeland in their third murder mystery by Anthony Horowitz, author of the bestselling “Magpie Murders” and “Moonflower ...