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 ...

Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. By Sarah Weinman When the hard-boiled ...

“Romantasy” gets TikTokers talking; sci-fi sales are strong; literary fiction has many enthusiasts. But crime fiction remains the UK’s best-selling genre. The British appetite for blood and bafflement ...

This year’s best crime fiction runs a global gamut in settings from New York to Dublin, London to Los Angeles, Geneva to Edinburgh. There’s a metafictional murder mystery, a psychological puzzle that ...

Penguin Books, First Thus edition, 2014. Author Georges Simenon, 1969. MASTERPIECE on PBS aired an exciting new adaptation of author Georges Simenon’s iconic Maigret stories, bringing the legendary ...

A singular, cartoonish eye blinks under the lens of a magnifying glass inspecting a darkened, smoky room from floor to ceiling in the hopes of finding a clue. The tip of a deerstalker cap undulates ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Master craftsman: Paul Auster, who has died aged 77 - Timothy Fadek/Getty You can probably count on the fingers of one hand the ...

This Holiday season, one might want to buy the crime aficionado on your shopping list one or more of this year’s fine true crime or crime fiction books. Here’s a roundup of some of the best crime ...

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 ...

The author of “The Note” traces her “real obsession” to discovering “a slew of smart, gritty female sleuths who began to feel like friends.” Credit...Rebecca Clarke Supported by A prank threatens a ...

Ralph McInerny and an advertisement for the television show based on his detective novels (Composite photo: Wikimedia Commons and IMDB). This Thursday marks the 166th birthday of Sir Arthur Conan ...