As someone who mostly reads novels by female authors (a group Nathaniel Hawthorne once dismissed as “that damned mob of ...

Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Elizabeth Hand, Unspeakable Things (Little ...

I have an Edgar Allan Poe-themed backpack that I bought at a bookstore and whenever I am wearing it, folks stop me to talk ...

I’ve got sad news for you. Turns out, Ben Jonson, the renowned Elizabethan playwright and the first poet laureate of England, was a murderer. On September 22nd, 1598, when he was an (angry) young man ...

When I wrote The Crossing Places in 2009, I didn’t think that it would be the start of a long-running series. I was only grateful that it was published at all. My first four books, written under my ...

For eight seasons and almost 200 episodes, “Mannix” was the epitome of the TV private investigator. But as far as a play-it-straight-down-the-middle investigator who could take a blow to the head and ...

Ernest Hemingway is the most famous writer in American history. He is also one of the most misunderstood. According to many of his critics, and even some of his admirers, he was a conservative, or ...

It’s summer! Time for a brief vacation away from the gritty back streets and seedy underbelly of the world’s crime cities. A chance to breathe fresh air under the big sky of the Highlands and Islands ...

The Brooklyn Children’s Museum is a two-mile walk from my apartment. It’s an inviting edifice, filled with magic and wonder for children and adults alike. The surrounding grounds are peaceful, ...

Here are 10 of the best novels to come out in paperback this month, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. * Tom Ryan, We Had a Hunch (Atlantic Crime) “Ryan’s novel is as immersive as ...

“El-Hai digs into a case involving an Apache shaman and the author of Perry Mason in this fascinating true crime account. He ...

Look, let’s get right down to it: horror movies scare me. They always have, since my initial viewing of Poltergeist in 1982 ...