Far from being a good ol’ boy’s club, the world of crime fiction owes a large part of its success to the women authors who ...

Marie Benedict follows up "The Mysteries of Mrs. Christie" with "The Queens of Crime," in which Agatha Christie, Dorothy L.

One of the first Black female authors in the crime and mystery genre, Eleanor Taylor Bland was a groundbreaking writer. Her series featuring the detective Marti MacAlister, starting with “Dead ...

From the doyennes of classic detective fiction to the forgotten writers of female noir and contemporary best-selling authors, women have long brought a certain flair and originality to the genre ...

First we read Nancy Drew, girl detective. Then what? Women of Mystery explores the writing lives of three authors (Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton & Marcia Muller) who started a literary revolution and ...

“Laura Lippman’s contributions to the mystery genre as a writer, a teacher and a role model for aspiring writers — especially women writers — make her a wonderful choice for Mystery ...

Sayers. In the novel, the two join forces with three other female mystery writers to investigate the murder of a woman who disappeared while on vacation in France and whose body later turned up in ...