The mystery and suspense novels coming out this month are some of the best this crew of mostly well-established writers has written. So let's get to them: El Dorado Drive is Megan Abbott's most ...

There’s something about the shadowy moral recesses of crime and suspense fiction that makes those genres especially appealing as temperatures soar. I’m beginning my recommendations with two ...

Bonnie Macbird takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on a new adventure in “Art in the Blood.” It’s 1888, and Holmes is troubled after a Ripper investigation and backsliding into drug use, which ...

El Dorado Drive is Megan Abbott's most doom-laden novel yet. It's set in the year 2008, in Detroit, which happens to be Abbott's hometown. The three middle-aged Bishop sisters — our main characters ...

Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of ...