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 Friends to Lovers Romance Novels in 2026 prove that the most devastating love stories are built not on first glances, but on years of quiet knowing — and the terrifying moment you risk it all.
Few romantic tropes carry the emotional weight of friends to lovers, and the Best Selling Friends...
The Best Selling Enemies to Lovers Romance Novels in 2026 prove that friction, rivalry, and reluctant desire remain the most compelling engine in contemporary romance fiction.
There is a reason the enemies to lovers trope refuses to go away. The Best Selling Enemies to Lovers Romance Novels in 2026 demonstrate,...
The Best Selling Small Town Romance Novels in 2026 prove that readers are not retreating from the world so much as demanding that fiction give them a better one — warmer, slower, and honest about the cost of opening your heart.
There is a reason the genre refuses to shrink. The Best Selling Small Town...
The Best Selling Sports Romance Novels in 2026 prove that when passion collides with competition, the result is fiction that hits harder than any final whistle.
There is a reason sports romance has become one of the most reliably electrifying corners of contemporary fiction. The Best Selling Sports Romance...
The Best Selling Paranormal Romance Novels in 2026 are not merely love stories with fangs — they are emotionally ambitious narratives that use the supernatural to excavate the rawest human desires, and the genre has never been more artistically daring.
Paranormal romance has long been dismissed by literary...
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...