Crime Fiction Author Guides
Discover the crime authors and novels that define a city, a setting, or a subgenre — from Las Vegas noir to small-town stalker thrillers. Curated recommendations from Phillip Strang, author of 150+ crime novels.
The Best Selling Regency Romance Novels in 2026 prove that the genre is far from exhausted — these books are sharper, stranger, and more emotionally ambitious than anything the drawing room has seen in years.
Regency romance has never really gone out of fashion, but 2026 feels like a genuine inflection...
The Best Selling Historical Romance Novels in 2026 prove that love stories set against the sweep of history are not merely escapism — they are the genre’s most emotionally honest form of fiction.
There has never been a better time to be a reader of historical romance. The Best Selling Historical...
The Best Selling Contemporary Romance Novels in 2026 are not merely love stories — they are emotional arguments about who we are when we let someone else in, and this year’s field is fiercer and more surprising than any in recent memory.
Romance fiction has never been a genre to apologise for its...
The Best Selling Romantic Suspense Novels in 2026 confirm what savvy readers already knew: when publishers bundle their sharpest authors into a single volume, the result is not a compromise but a concentrated argument for the genre’s enduring power.
There is a temptation to dismiss box sets as...
The Best Selling Dark Academia Novels in 2026 prove the genre has grown sharper teeth — these are not campus romances with moody aesthetics, but genuinely unsettling works of literary menace, obsession, and institutional rot.
Dark academia has never been tidier or more dangerous. The Best Selling Dark...
The Best Selling Haunted House Novels in 2026 prove that no subgenre in horror fiction holds quite the same psychological grip — because the house is never just a house.
There is something irreducibly unsettling about the haunted house as a literary device, and the Best Selling Haunted House Novels in...
The Best Selling Ghost Story Novels in 2026 prove that readers are hungrier than ever for fiction that confronts mortality, memory, and the terrifying possibility that the dead refuse to stay silent.
Ghost fiction is having more than a moment — it is cementing itself as one of the most creatively ambitious...
The Best Selling Vampire Fiction Novels in 2026 prove that the genre is not coasting on nostalgia — it is reinventing itself with genuine literary ambition, darker stakes, and characters who refuse to be mere creatures of the night.
Vampire fiction has never been a monolith, and the Best Selling Vampire...
The Best Selling Gothic Horror Novels in 2026 prove that readers have never had a stronger appetite for atmospheric dread, psychological terror, and the dark architecture of the human soul.
Gothic horror is having a moment — or rather, it never stopped having one. The Best Selling Gothic Horror Novels...
The Best Selling Folk Horror Novels in 2026 prove that the genre’s most unsettling power lies not in monsters, but in the communities who welcome them — and the landscapes that made those communities what they are.
Folk horror has never been more vital, more varied, or more willing to disturb....
The Best Selling Cosmic Horror Novels in 2026 prove that the genre’s most terrifying proposition — that the universe is vast, indifferent, and fundamentally incomprehensible — has never felt more urgently, uncomfortably relevant.
There is a particular kind of dread that only cosmic horror delivers:...
The Best Selling Climate Fiction Novels in 2026 prove that the genre has matured from polemic into something far more unsettling — fiction that makes the end of the world feel intimate, inevitable, and deeply human.
Climate fiction — cli-fi, for those who prefer their genre tags economical — has never...