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Choose now from 3910+ short crime stories and start reading online! Read the best crime short stories for free on Reedsy Prompts. Nail-biting suspense, intriguing mysteries, and shocking plot twists; our collection of crime stories has it all.
Apr 25, 2024 · Few books are as satisfying as a crime fiction novel you can really sink your teeth into. Including gripping detective novels and cosy crime series, here’s our edit of the most exciting crime fiction of 2023, what's to come in 2024, and the best crime fiction of all time.
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Mar 25, 2021 · 25 of the Best Opening Lines in Crime Fiction. March 25, 2021. Few things enthrall me more than cracking (or clicking) open a novel and reading a first line that catapults me into Chapter 1. A line that reminds me why I read, why I write, what it means to be alive. A line that gives me whiplash.
- Garnethill by Denise Mina. The award-winning debut crime novel by Denise Mina sees psychiatric patient Maureen O’Donnell thrown into a difficult situation when she finds her boyfriend dead in her living room.
- Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith. Two desperate men with their minds on murder meet on a train and make a dreadful pact – they will swap victims.
- The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena. When Anne is invited to dinner next door, she’s told not to bring her baby, Cora.
- The Dry by Jane Harper. Three members of the same family are brutally murdered. Everyone thinks the husband is guilty and committed suicide after killing his wife and six-year-old son.
- No Middle Name by Lee Child. Jack Reacher aficionados will love this selection of eleven stories and one thrilling novella about the ex-military cop who has captured the imaginations of millions.
- The Pyramid by Henning Mankell. Swedish detective Inspector Kurt Wallander is one of the most fabulously grumpy detectives in crime fiction and Mankell’s series of novels has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. The most famous super-sleuthing duo of crime fiction, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson have inspired generations of crime readers and writers.
- The Jealousy Man by Jo Nesbo. The Jealousy Man and Other Stories by Jo Nesbo. In his first ever collection of twelve short stories, Nesbo skilfully draws in the reader as we watch the potentially fatal outcomes of humanity’s most powerful emotions play out on the page.
Sep 5, 2017 · 1. A woman asks a writer to write the story of her life. Then she goes missing. 2. Murder victims are found buried with some of their wordly goods, Viking style. 3. Three people close to the murder victim have confessed. Each of them swears they acted alone. 4. Notes and gifts from her “Secret Santa” at work take a strange turn. 5.
