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(Editor’s note: This is the 188th installment in The Rap Sheet’s continuing series about great but forgotten books. Its author is Stephen E...

Renowned American artist and illustrator Robert McGinnis, about whom I have written both on this page and in my Killer Covers blog, has died...

Organizers of London’s mid-June Capital Crime Festival have announced the shortlists of contenders for this year’s Fingerprint Awards. Belo...

Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider . The Hoods Take Over , by Ovid Demaris (Gold Medal, 1957). Cover ill...

The Short Mystery Fiction Society has announced its finalists for the 2025 Derringer Awards. That group’s members will vote for their favor...

By Peter Handel I never met Ken Bruen in person, but to a small extent, I feel like I knew him. Our paths crossed initially in the early a...

April Fools’ Day —April 1—has been around for hundreds of years, but none of the crime and mystery fiction listed in Mystery Fanfare , and r...

Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more. ...

This is terrible news for a Sunday morning: “The hugely popular Galway crime writer Ken Bruen has died at the age of 74.” Best known as the...

When I asked Rap Sheet readers, at the end of my recently posted list of spring book releases, to let me know if I’d missed mentioning anyt...

(Editor’s note: This is the 187th installment in The Rap Sheet’s continuing series about great but forgotten books.) By Steven Nester Wh...

Amid worrisome reports that corporate giant Amazon has taken over the James Bond film franchise comes this cheerier news: Ian Fleming Publi...

By Peter Handel When reading a Jack Taylor novel by Ken Bruen, one has two options: A) devour it in its entirely—scarf that story in one f...

Britain’s time-honored crime-fiction convention, CrimeFest, may be ending its run this May , but it isn’t going out quietly. In addition to ...

Following swiftly on news that multinational technology company Amazon has acquired creative control of fictional superspy James Bond comes...

That woman shown above, reading in a sunny lavender field, looks so relaxed—I wish I felt the same way. But the political horror show un...