When I put together our big fall preview list a couple of months ago, some readers thought there might be a bit too much ...

Picture this. It’s October. You’re wrapped in a cozy handmade blanket, feet swaddled in fuzzy socks and a pumpkin spice latte ...

Eleven years ago, within the span of a few months, my parents died suddenly, both from natural causes. I was their only child ...

The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes. Joe Bell was a man who liked to keep busy. In addition to his hospital and police work, ...

When I first started working on The Haunting of Lavender House, I didn’t set out to write a Croatian gothic novel. But that ...

The expression “so many books, so little time” doesn’t seem to apply to the writer and New York Times crime fiction columnist ...

The trope of a house being a character in and of itself, especially in gothic fiction, is well-known, and well earned. Old ...

I wasn’t scared easily as a child, but I watched two things early on in my life that certainly managed to do the trick. And ...

I love the work of documentarian John Wilson, the wildly observational filmmaker who specializes in discovering strange, ...

There are several “bone sciences,” but those of us who read a lot of crime fiction are probably most familiar with forensic anthropology. Remains of a skeleton are found, and ...

Here are five debut crime novels, thrillers, and mysteries, all worthy of your attention. Enjoy these first forays into the ...

In August 2017, the Swedish journalist, Kim Wall, was brutally assaulted and murdered by the amateur submersible builder, Peter Madsen, while onboard his sub, UC3 Nautilus, off the coast of ...