Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. By Sarah Weinman When the hard-boiled ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Detective fiction is a creative sub-genre of crime and ...

First of the Detective Matthew Venn books, by Ann Cleeves. Minotaur Books, 2019. “The book is nicely rounded, balancing intellectual and emotional qualities in an engaging story. This along with the ...

The first book I ever read by myself as child was a mystery, and since then, I have read a mountain of them. Despite my passion for mysteries, however, I’m still terrible at guessing “whodunit.” It’s ...

Ralph McInerny and an advertisement for the television show based on his detective novels (Composite photo: Wikimedia Commons and IMDB). This Thursday marks the 166th birthday of Sir Arthur Conan ...