In 1995 she won the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year for The Mermaids Singing, which first introduced her readership to Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, and went on to become an international bestseller. Fever of the Bone is the sixth novel of this series which inspired the po...
Mindhunter has also been adapted into a popular Netflix series, which has introduced a new generation to Douglas’s groundbreaking work. The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich This book is a unique combination of true crime and memoir, as the author recounts her experience working...
It’s a tough year so far, and perhaps a clear-eyed vision of our struggles and strengths is something crime fiction can best provide. I’ve always hated feeling lied to, and crime novels have all the honesty you can take about this world (plus a little more). The char...
With 40 million books sold across 120 countries,Karin Slaughterdeserves a spot on this list. Slaughter writes across crime fiction, mystery, and thriller genres and has two book series and several standalone novels to her name. Her popular standalone novels includeFalse Witness,The Good Daughter,...
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The best true crime books give you all of the details about crimes that really happened, so you can play detective along the way. Here are some of our favorites.
December 7, 2023ByCrimeReads The CrimeReads editors make their picks for the year’s best fiction. Article continues after advertisement * Jessica Knoll,Bright Young Women (Simon & Schuster) Jessica Knoll’s brilliant, blistering third novel is a tart new addition to the growing oeuvre of novels...
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So far, despite the fact that they are so dominant in terms of the crime fiction that’s published, I haven’t chosen any series for my best of 2020 list, where a detective or other character makes a regular outing in every new book. It’s partly that the novelty of a standalone bo...
–G. Robert Frazier (Bookpage) Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Minotaur) Timely and thrilling, this 17th entry is one of the series’ most rewarding … satisfying both as an intricate crime-solving procedural and as an opportunity to revisit Three Pines, the community Pen...