Here are five crime novels perfect for a deep dive this summer and which authors they look to for inspiration.

Hannigan turned that nugget of inspiration into a new historical-fiction book for middle-grade students, “The Detective’s Assistant” (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), which was ...

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 ...

Ballard is a new criminal drama series debuting on Amazon Prime Video on July 9, 2025. Maggie Q plays LAPD Detective Renée ...

Precious continent: Detective novels author McCall Smith draws inspiration from African women News. Apr 5, 2009 - 12:00am ...

The fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan was the subject of popular books and movies for many decades. In recent years, however, the character has been criticized as a stereotyped ...

In True Detective, Antigone’s (Rachel McAdams) father owns some sort of yoga/ spiritual center, the Panticapaeum Institute, creating a clear line between her character and the book’s themes.

Laura Lippman has taken the true-life disappearance in 1975 of two sisters in Maryland -- Sheila and Kate Lyon -- and used it as the basis for her 12th novel, "What the Dead Know," recently ...

Mark Gatiss returns to the box with a brand new period drama on U&Alibi. But he's admitted he's taken inspiration from ...

How Don Winslow found inspiration in Rhode Island mobsters for a new crime juggernaut Don Winslow’s “City on Fire” is the first entry in a new crime trilogy. (Mark Boster / For The Times) ...

If you’ve been searching for a good book to dive into, we recommend Mystery Commune. It’s an urban novel set in the 1970s in Philadelphia following a commune whose sole purpose is to incite a ...

Perry's books have gone on to sell more than 26 million books worldwide, per her website, and in 1998 she was named by The Times of London as one of its 100 Masters of Crime of the past century ...