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 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...
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...