The best mystery novels don’t simply dazzle readers with byzantine plots or throw them off track with unreliable narrators or Macguffins. Here, works from John Le Carré, Michael Connelly, and more.

The author of the Housemaid series, who writes under a pen name, talks about the surprising success of her thrillers.

A Virginia woman, Andrews had written seven best-selling novels when she died in 1986. Her publisher, Simon and Schuster’s Pocket Books, apparently didn’t see why death should halt such a ...

Magic, madness and supernatural horror have driven many book plots over the centuries. This short quiz scares up several ...

2023 was marked by a slowdown in sales of graphic novels in bookstores, which have been the primary revenue driver for the ...

Mr. Rachman is the author of “The Imperfectionists” and other novels. He wrote from London. By the last page of my last novel, the doubts had become a certainty: I couldn’t keep writing fiction.

Rachel Kanter is taking her relationship with romance to the next level – opening Lovestruck Books, a bookstore in Harvard ...

Leo Suter and Sofia Barclay star as the unconventional detective duo DI Tommy Lynley and DS Barbara Havers in the series ...

WHEN it comes to a good bonkbuster, Jilly Cooper has always been at the top of her game. The raunchy writer’s novels have won over a huge army of fans and now her smash hit novel Rivals has ...

Richard Powers’s recent novels have traded complexity for preachiness, but his latest is an effective twist on AI panic.

Thankfully, if you or the fellow bookworm in your life are in need of a new mug to proclaim your love of all things literary, ...