A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

In the West Indies, sugar cane fields are plenty. There’s a killer on the run; and he takes to the cane fields. Jay G leaves his job as an estate worker, and

This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fi

She has been called "the Julia Child of mystery writers." Now, Diane Mott Davidson, who masterfully served up The Last Suppers, Killer Pancake, and Dying for Ch