The Rap Sheet

Nominations for the 2025 Macavity Awards were announced this morning, in five categories. The winners will be chosen by members of Mystery ...

The Private Eye Writers of America has announced its finalists for the 2025 Shamus Awards, in four categories. Best P.I. Hardcover: • Ki...

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

Mystery Fanfare alerts us that Frederick Forsyth , English author of The Day of the Jackal , The Odessa File , and other popular works of e...

By Peter Handel Clay Risen is a reporter and editor with The New York Times , covering the obituary beat. He is also an accomplished histor...

I’m reporting this a bit tardily, but it took purchasing the May/June 2025 edition of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine for me to learn which a...

Seven weeks after releasing the longlist of contenders for Britain’s 2025 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, Harrogate I...

Are you planning to be in San Francisco on Saturday, June 21? If so, you might consider joining a crime fiction-themed walking tour of that ...

(Above) James McEachin starred as a private eye in Tenafly opposite David Huddleston (left), who played his chief police contact, Lieutena...

Sisters in Crime Australia has released its longlists of contenders for the 25th Davitt Awards. There are four categories of “best crime and...

That was quick! Just a month after releasing its shortlist of nominees for the 2025 Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing, the Crim...

After recently signing up several new sponsors for its prestigious annual Dagger Awards, Britain’s Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) toda...

• Today marks 19 years since The Rap Sheet was launched as a blog separate from January Magazine . I’m not really in the mood to make a b...

Following the success of Karla’s Choice , Nick Harkaway’s 2024 novel continuing the espionage adventures of George Smiley —the series protag...

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