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Urban fiction. Urban fiction, also known as street lit or street fiction, is a literary genre set in a city landscape; however, the genre is as much defined by the socio-economic realities and culture of its characters as the urban setting. The tone for urban fiction is usually dark, focusing on the underside of city living.
Arsenic and Adobo (A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery) The first book in a culinary cozy mystery series, Arsenic and Adobo finds 0ur protagonist, Lila, moving back home from a horrible break-up. But ...
Kate Charles (born 1950) Marion Chesney (pseudonym: M. C. Beaton) (1936–2019) Agatha Christie (1890–1976) Jill Churchill (born 1943) Carol Higgins Clark (born 1956) Mary Higgins Clark (1927–2020) Anna Clarke (1919–2004) Ann Cleeves (born 1954) Jane Cleland.
Women's Murder Club (novel series) Women's Murder Club. (novel series) Women's Murder Club is a series of mystery novels by American author James Patterson. The books are set in San Francisco and feature an ensemble of lead characters. The books have been adapted into a made-for-TV movie, a television series and several games.
Cozy mystery. Cozy mysteries (also referred to as cozies), are a sub-genre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur offstage, the detective is an amateur sleuth, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. Cozies thus stand in contrast to hardboiled fiction, in which more violence and explicit ...
Megan Abbott. Megan Abbott (born August 21, 1971) [ 1 ] is an American author of crime fiction and of non-fiction analyses of hardboiled crime fiction. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing from a female perspective. [ 2 ][ 3 ] She is also an American writer and producer of television.
Website. www.kathryncasey.com. Kathryn Casey is an American writer of mystery novels and non-fiction books. She is best known for writing She Wanted It All, which recounts the case of Celeste Beard, who married an Austin multimillionaire only to convince her lesbian lover, Tracey Tarlton, to kill him.
Janet Evanovich (née Schneider; April 22, 1943) is an American writer.She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a former lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet after losing her job.