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 ...

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 ...

It’s hard to imagine a murder-mystery novel as “cozy,” but that’s the label Plymouth author Gerry Schmitt, writing as Laura Childs, has secured for her books. “I ...