Today D. A. Mishani continues with his series “The Mystery of the Hebrew Detective,” where he has been investigating why it’s so difficult to write a detective in Israel. Read installment one here and ...

Not long before her death in 1982, I commented to Anna Freud on the large collection of detective fiction in the house she shared with her father in his final years of exile in London. She informed me ...

The prolific and multi-talented Anthony Horowitz is back with a very readable third novel featuring the full-time professional editor and part-time amateur sleuth Susan Ryeland and the legendary ...

In the new novel Fair Play, Abigail is hosting a murder mystery party at an Irish country house on New Year's Eve. She's also in deep mourning for her brother. The story's opening reads as a typical ...

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 ...

“Not more than one secret room or passage is allowable.” So decrees one of the ten commandments of detective fiction distilled by Ronald Knox, a friend of Agatha Christie, during the genre’s inter-war ...

Christian crime novels mirror God’s redemptive story through patterns of creation, ruin, redemption, and restoration. Reading mystery fiction can strengthen moral discernment and help believers ...