While most people wouldn't commit the crimes they read about, crime fiction allows readers to get familiar with the private, darker sides of human nature.

Stephen King called this book "the best crime fiction I've read in 20 years," and now it's being adapted into a movie with an A-list star.

The creator of detective Erast Fandorin faces a 14-year sentence in absentia for his outspoken criticism of Russia's war and Putin’s leadership ...

Crime-fiction writers Rachel Howzell Hall, Attica Locke and Ivy Pochoda chat about their latest releases with Times crime reporter James Queally.

Indeed, studies of crime fiction have been multiplying as rapidly as dead bodies in the drawing room. Some tackle the crime fiction of specific countries, like The Detektiv and the Russian Way of ...

“Crime fiction is my first and best love,” she said in a recent conversation. Though she covers crime fiction in her column, she’s a bit of a true crime pundit in real life, she said.

And so crime fiction is ultimately a metaphor for the kind of life most of us live." There is an intellectual rigor to Cameron's Portland, where his novels take place.

Author Linda Fairstein on writing crime fiction, new book "Deadfall" 05:52 "My dad used to say, 'Get a grip. You need a career, get a job. You can't sit in a garret writing books all day,'" said ...

“Crime fiction stimulates parts of our brain that we often don’t fire off, and it creates a chemical cocktail that can be quite addictive (such as the releasing of adrenaline), ...

Plus Camilla Trinchieri’s “Murder in Pitigliano.” ...

“Some crime-fiction writers resort to a stereotype,” said Smith. Author Danny Gardner, who’s novel “Ace Boon Coon” is set to be released this September.