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While it’s as misleading to lump all Scottish crime authors under one umbrella as it is to refer generally to “American crime writers,” there are certain common threads that run throughout the ...

As Seattle settles into cloudy-all-day season, it’s time to curl up with some rewarding crime fiction. “The Cutting Season” (Harper, 384 pp., $25.99), by Attica Locke, is as powerful as her debut, ...

"No good novel is a mess," writes John Irving in his messy new novel, Avenue of Mysteries, "many so-called real lives are messy. In a good novel, everything important to the story comes from something ...

Even very cold places can be hotbeds of crime fiction — witness the explosion of Nordic writers inspired by “The Girl Who …” phenomenon. Here are a few recent books from the Far North: They’re ...

UB faculty member David Schmid will host an online chat on Nov. 9 about a new course he’s presenting on mystery and suspense fiction for The Great Courses, a recorded library of non-credit, ...

The Tripping trio is determined to dig up the truth. Packed with paranormal humor, a bevy of eccentric suspects and an amusing plot that includes a coffin race, "Chihuahua of the Baskervilles" is a ...

Scandinavian crime fiction has been an international phenomenon for more than a decade. Now, genre novels from other countries are coming out of the shadows, with the Guardian recently asking whether ...

(Beware of spoilers for Doctor Who, Fringe, Stranger Things, Agents of Shield. Just go catch up already and then read this.) At cursory glance, science fiction ideas seem absurd, wild and crazy ...