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 ...

You can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of truly innovative works of crime fiction since Edgar Allan Poe: and one of them is The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, whose death was ...

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 ...

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 ...

The class was talking about Betty, who they originally thought was such a nice girl. “She just seemed so innocent …” said one student. “She’s not the one you’d expect to be a straight-up liar.” ...

Our columnist on the year’s most outstanding crime novels. Credit...Karan Singh Supported by By Sarah Weinman I’ve long believed that crime fiction runs along a spectrum between order and chaos, where ...

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 collection offers a panorama of voices that form a portrait of contemporary India, mirroring anxieties and attitudes of ...

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 ...

It’s 1917 and policewoman Fanny Kate Boadicea Cocks is patrolling the parks of Adelaide, armed with a five-foot cane. She’s ...