The marriage looks fine from the outside. That's always the starting condition. Two people share a house, a bed, a surname on the mortgage — and then a receipt …
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A body is discovered in the first chapter. This is the oldest promise in crime fiction, so reliable it is almost a law: someone will be dead by the time you hav…
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There is a reason the casino, the backroom card game and the racetrack recur so often in crime fiction that they have become almost a genre unto themselves. Fro…
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The twist is the crown jewel of crime fiction, the moment a reader lives for: the revelation that turns the whole story inside out, that makes you gasp and imme…
Walk into any bookshop and the crime section blurs the two words together as if they were interchangeable: thriller, mystery, suspense, all shelved side by side…