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 Steampunk Novels in 2026 prove that Victorian ingenuity, clockwork intrigue, and gaslit adventure are far from spent forces in contemporary fiction.
Steampunk has always been a genre that rewards ambition — it demands world-building precision, character wit, and a willingness to play...
The Best Selling Solarpunk Novels in 2026 are not escapism — they are blueprints, written by authors who believe fiction can light a path through the wreckage of the present and into something worth building.
Solarpunk is the genre the twenty-first century deserves, and the Best Selling Solarpunk Novels...
The Best Selling Cosy Fantasy Novels in 2026 prove that readers are hungry for magic that soothes rather than terrifies — and the genre is delivering with remarkable depth and wit.
Something quietly significant is happening in popular fiction. The Best Selling Cosy Fantasy Novels in 2026 are not merely...
The Best Selling Romantasy Novels in 2026 prove that readers don’t want romance or fantasy — they want both, and they want it bold, sweeping, and emotionally devastating.
Something shifted in popular fiction somewhere around 2023, and by 2026 it has fully crystallised: the Best Selling Romantasy...
The Best Selling Women Sleuth Mystery Novels in 2026 prove, once again, that the sharpest investigators in crime fiction are increasingly women — and that readers cannot get enough of them.
There is something undeniably energising about the current state of women-led crime fiction. The Best Selling Women...
The Best Selling Traditional Detective Mystery Novels in 2026 prove something the publishing industry keeps trying to disprove: readers never stopped wanting a clever puzzle, a morally coherent detective, and the quiet satisfaction of justice served before the last page.
It is a curious paradox that...
The Best Selling Time Travel Science Fiction Novels in 2026 prove that the genre is not retreating into nostalgia — it is charging headlong into questions about consequence, identity, and the terrifying malleability of history.
Time travel fiction has never been more alive, more varied, or more willing...
The Best Selling Terrorism Thriller Novels in 2026 prove that the genre has never been more urgent, more technically accomplished, or more willing to stare into the darkest corners of human ideology and ask what we would actually do.
There is a reason readers return obsessively to terrorism thrillers...
The Best Selling Technothriller Novels in 2026 prove that when technology collides with human ambition and institutional failure, fiction becomes genuinely dangerous — and compulsively readable.
Something has shifted in the technothriller genre this year, and the Best Selling Technothriller Novels in...
The Best Selling Space Opera Novels in 2026 prove that the genre has never been more ambitious — or more willing to break its own rules in the pursuit of genuine literary weight.
Space opera is having a moment, and not the nostalgic, retro kind. The Best Selling Space Opera Novels in 2026 represent a...
The Best Selling Space Exploration Science Fiction Novels in 2026 prove that humanity’s hunger to imagine the cosmos remains as urgent and commercially powerful as ever — and the best of these books do far more than describe the stars.
The Best Selling Space Exploration Science Fiction Novels in...
The Best Selling Science Fiction Novels in 2026 reveal a genre caught between the safety of familiar formulas and the desperate need for genuine innovation—and most authors are choosing the wrong path.
Science fiction has always been the literature of tomorrow, yet examining the Best Selling Science...