The mystery surrounding the death of the girl is a powerful source of suspense. “It’s right that you understand how I came to ...

Part mystery, part science fiction, this novel rests upon the alarming premise that time is more than a concept.

The Great Hippopotamus Hotel,” the 25th installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s mystery series, follows a tried and tested ...

Richard Chizmar, who co-wrote a couple of books with a certain Maine resident, has written his longest novel yet, and as ...

In “Rumbles,” historian Elsa Richardson offers a cultural account of the workings and symbolism of the “body’s most fascinating organ.” ...

Stuff Your Kindle Day is here, bringing a stash of free e-books that’ll have you playing ... The first in the Doro Banyon series, this mystery is set in a small college town where librarian ...

Sleek, confident and peppered with delicious portraits in pursuit, deceit and evasion, the carnival of papal intrigue known ...

Women in an idyllic English town undertake their own investigation of a murder, pestering the police all the while, in Robert ...

By Sarah Weinman Our crime columnist on books by Kate Atkinson ... “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged killing before its repercussions destroy his city’s social ...

Yet even as characters and events and ideas proliferate, Atkinson never loses sight of any of them. Her books always start out looking shaggy, but wind up being anything but. By the time we reach the ...

Huntington Beach residents have started a petition to remove the city's library review board that recently deemed potty ...