50 Best Blogs for Crime & Mystery Book Lovers

If you love your books to have a sinister plot, shady butler or classic whodunit twists and turns, then you won’t want to miss this list of novel blogs to round out your crime and mystery education. You’ll find posts from well-known authors, real-life crime reporters, fans like yourself and a plethora of suggestions on what you should read next, so get a clue and start reading.

Crime Books

Learn more about books that fall into the crime and detective genre from these blogs.

It’s a Crime! (Or a Mystery…): This blog focuses on crime and thriller fiction from the UK with posts about new authors, literary events and more.
Crime Fiction Dossier: Visit this site to get some interesting reviews about crime books from David J. Montgomery, the thriller/mystery critic for The Daily Beast and the Chicago Sun-Times.
The Thrilling Detective Blog: Here you’ll find a site that is a great read for fans of thrillers and detective novels, written by the webmaster of one of the web’s biggest crime fiction sites.
Crime Down Under: Find out about the biggest and newest crime books coming out of Australia from this blog.
Detectives Beyond Borders: This site is a great place to find out about international crime fiction, both published by authors around the world and that takes place in far-flung regions.
Euro Crime: Learn more about British and European crime novels, TV, and movies from this blog.
Shots: The Crime and Thriller eZine: Give this blog a try to learn more about this great online magazine dedicated to British crime novels.
Nasty. Brutish. Short: This site is full of reviews of short stories for those who have a seriously short attention span.
Scandinavian Crime Fiction: Through this site you can learn more about the growing number of authors putting out crime novels in this region of the world.
Crime Watch: On this blog you’ll find news and reviews of New Zealand’s premier crime novels.
The Rap Sheet: Bookmark this site so you can check back to learn more about crime novel releases and what’s hot now.
The Restless Kind: Check out this blog for all kinds of resources for fans of crime fiction.

Mystery Books

If classic mysteries are more your thing, then these blogs provide ample reading material on the subject.

Mystery Reader Discussion: This blog provides a format to talk about the latest mystery books, even if you can’t meet the group in person.
Mystery Books News: Check back with this blog regularly to get updates on new releases in the mystery and suspense genre.
Mystery*File: Here you’ll find a blog dedicated to fans of mystery and detective novels, with reviews, updates and information about titles both new and old.
Mysteries in Paradise: This blog is a great source of mystery novel news and book reviews.
I Love a Good Mystery: With book reviews, news, events, links and information about movies, this site is a great one-stop place to find information about everything mystery related.
Murder By the Book Mystery Book Blog: The bookstore by the same name maintains this blog and updates it regularly with what the bloggers have been reading.
The Little Blog of Murder: Get a perspective on the murder-mystery genre from an Ohio native on this regularly-updated blog.
Confessions of a Mystery Novelist: Go straight to the source for information and insights into mystery books with this blog from a mystery novelist and professor.
Lesa’s Book Critiques: This librarian and blogger focuses her reviews of books on mystery novels.
Book Dilettante: This blog is a great place to visit if you love reading mystery novels and are curious about novelists working outside of the U.S.
Shadow of the Raven: Keep up with mystery book news from the bookstore Mystery on Main through this blog.
The Scene of the Crime: Here you can get a look at the relationship between mystery stories and where they take place from author J. Sydney Jones.

By the Author

Go straight to the source for your information with these blogs written by mystery and crime authors.

True Stories of Law & Order: Authors of the book series True Stories of Law & Order, Kevin Dwyer and Juré Fiorillo, maintain this great blog.
Gregg Olsen’s CrimeRant: Here you’ll find the blog of best-selling author Gregg Olsen talking not only about his work but about crime news in general.
Crime Always Pays: Irish novelist Declan Burke shares information about the Irish crime novel scene and his own work on this blog.
Secret Dead Blog: Author Duane Swierczynski talks about his work as a novelist and comic book writer, as well as crime fiction in general on this site.
Craig McDonald: Here you’ll find author and journalist Craig McDonald as he blogs about all things crime literature.
Do You Write Under Your Own Name?: This blog is home to Martin Edwards, a British mystery and crime author. On it, he shares his thoughts about crime-related TV, movies and books.
Writing in the Dark: Writer Kelli Stanley explores some of the dark places of the world in her blog and her writing.
Dot Dead Diary: Here, Keith Raffel discusses his life, interests and the mystery genre.
Small Crimes: On this blog, you’ll hear from author Dave Zeltserman as he promotes his books and talks about his work.

Group Blogs

These blogs are written by groups of authors or fans of mystery and crime novels, giving you a chance to access multiple perspectives at once.

The Outfit: This site is home to a collective of Chicago crime writers who share their stories and their thoughts on the genre.
Jungle Red: Pick the brains of six female mystery writers on this blog.
Do Some Damage: This blog documents the perspectives of seven different crime and mystery writers through a blog, interviews and the occasional podcast.
International Crime Authors: Hear from mystery and crime authors that hail from the UK, Canada, the Middle East and more on this blog.
The Kill Zone: On this blog you’ll find posts from seven mystery and crime writers where you can learn what inspires them to keep writing.
Poe’s Deadly Daughters: Visit this site to get some writing and reading advice from seven female mystery authors.

True Crime Blogs

Get a slice of the real world of crime with these blogs that share true-to-life crime tales.

The Malefactor’s Register: Here, journalist Mark Gribben documents some of the most incredible and interesting crime tales in history.
True Crime: In Cold Blog: Contributed to by numerous professional writers and journalists and everyday victims of crime alike, this blog is full of true crime stories.
Crime Scene: Take a look at the real life world of crime on this blog from the reporters at The Miami Herald.
Crime Scraps: On this blog, you’ll not only hear about European crime novels but the real crimes that inspire them as well.

Crime and More

These blogs discuss crime and mystery books but don’t stick to the topic exclusively.

Nordic Bookblog: This Scandinavian site talks about big authors and the growing popularity of crime fiction novels in the region.
Five Minutes for Books: On this blog, you’ll find reviews and information on books from a wide range of genres.
Pattinase: While it does talk a fair amount about crime fiction, this blog also discusses news, politics, and just plain fun stuff on the web.
Cats & Crime & Rock & Roll: Find everything discussed on this blog from animal rights issues to crime fiction.
Used Books Blog: This blogger knows quite a bit about books, and on this blog, you can see his reviews of crime, thriller and many other kinds of books.
Kate’s Book Blog: Here, you’ll find discussions of books from classic literature to pulp crime novels.
Rough Edges: On this blog, James Reasoner shares his thoughts on a variety of books, movies and comics–many of which are horror, thriller and crime-related.