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.

He wrote more than 30 novels, including an acclaimed series about Russian detective Arkady Renko. The first volume, "Gorky Park," was made into a 1983 film.

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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.

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Texas / Syndication Cloud / July 07, 2025 / Wordsmith World Key Takeaways Christian crime novels mirror God’s redemptive story through patterns of creation, ruin, redemption, and restoration. Reading ...

El Dorado Drive, by Megan Abbott; The House on Buzzards Bay, by Dwyer Murphy; King of Ashes, by S.A. Cosby; and Murder Takes ...

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A novel depicting yakuza gangster life by a Japanese author has won a prestigious British award for crime fiction.

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"The Night of Baba Yaga," a novel about Japan's yakuza underworld, has won the UK's 2025 Dagger prize for crime fiction in ...

The book is set in fictional Magnolia Beach, South Carolina. Elderly Samuel Fulton, on his way to visit his aging wife in a ...