This year was a boon for whodunit readers, with great books by Donna Leon, Richard Osman, Louise Penny and more.

Sixty-six novels, 15 short-story collections and ... We’ve curated a selection of the best serial detective stories to sink your teeth into – from the old school to the contemporary.

Yukawa try to untangle the neighbor’s seemingly perfect alibi for the crime. The Devotion of Suspect X won Japan’s top literary award, the Naoki Prize for Best Novel. Three novels in the ...

and influential mystery and thriller books, in chronological order beginning in the 1800s This project is led by Lucy Feldman, Annabel Gutterman, Megan McCluskey, and Meg Zukin, with writing ...

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Raven Black is the first book of eight in Ann Cleeves’ Shetland ... which was awarded the Duncan Lawrie Dagger (CWA Gold Dagger) for the best crime novel in 2006, “Chilling…enough to freeze ...

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By Sarah Weinman Looking for some murder and mayhem (fictional, of course)? Here are the best crime novels of 2024 so far. By Sarah Weinman In Francis Spufford’s new novel, “Cahokia Jazz ...

From Richard Osman to a cat who solves a murder, these are the best 10 cosy crime novels to add to your bookshelf right now. But, what exactly is cosy crime? Well, this sub-genre of the crime ...

The impact of war, violence, crime and struggle unite these ten novels. From Bapsi Sidhwa's exploration of partition in Ice Candy Man, to the second civil war of Omar El Akkad's American War ...

More soothing were those novels in which orthodox detectives ... Richard Osman gave us the best of the many celebrity-penned crime offerings this year, despite taking a rest from the Thursday ...