The best mystery novels don’t simply dazzle readers with byzantine plots or throw them off track with unreliable narrators or ...

People have been captivated by mystery novels for almost two hundred years. Edgar Allan Poe, widely considered to be the inventor of the modern detective story, enthralled Victorian audiences with ...

If so, Cozy Mysteries are perfect for you—lighthearted tales full of charm and intrigue. Here at Belleville Public Library, we have plenty to choose from. Cozy mysteries are known for their amateur ...

By Sarah Lyall Looking for some murder and mayhem (fictional ... By Sarah Lyall Our mystery columnist reviews books by Scott Phillips, Morgan Richter, Snowden Wright and Jamie Harrison.

The mysterious disappearance of a woman on a wild stretch of coast in the deepest reaches of rural 1950s Ireland is the ...

In historic Savannah, Georgia, John Berendt’s 1994 “nonfiction novel” Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is referred to as “The Book.” Usually called a murder mystery, it’s really an anecdotal ...

Since the first of the Thursday Murder Club books by Richard Osman came out in 2020, they've been a literary phenomenon. The ...

From "Black Echo" to his latest, "The Waiting," Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch books keep taking readers to the dance — partnered with a detective you can't help but root for, in an L.A. of risks and ...

The gory finale saw the death of a few main players (nope, we don’t do spoiler alerts), but safe to say, Vaughn’s character ...

Yet even as characters and events and ideas proliferate, Atkinson never loses sight of any of them. Her books always start out looking shaggy, but wind up being anything but. By the time we reach the ...

When I first arrived at the Front Street mansion on a gloomy Saturday morning (the rain was a paid actor) in Harrisburg, ...

Sam Westing is dead. And whichever one of his neighbors solves his murders will get his inheritance. So goes “The Westing ...