Daniel G. Miller delivers an energetic private detective novel with a solid police procedural, bits of Korean culture and visits to New York neighborhoods in “The Red Letter.” It also works well as a ...

The books in this month’s column have something in common: unforgettable main characters. Credit...Pablo Amargo Supported by By Sarah Weinman You’d think that one of crime fiction’s prevailing ideas — ...

An upright young samurai, a cross-dressing sword-wielding maiden, a retired warrior, honour killings, killings ...

Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of ...

A kidnapped girl, a missing dog, exotic fishes that get stolen, a feared Mexican mafia don and a couple of smaller dons, a ...