It’s fascinating to come away from a crime novel more disturbed by the psychological aspects of why the crime happened than by the crime itself. That’s what impressed me most about Housewife by Karen Crawford. Erica, a bored, wealthy housewife, is ready for an affair....

What would make anyone kill a helpless woman? This was one of the many questions that raced through the minds of retired Las Vegas Metropolitan PD detective Taryn Winter and her former partner detective Daniel Brady, as they stared at a pile of dead bodies...

The Mission by Karen Crawford is a crime thriller that follows a serial killer obsessed with proving a theory. She believes that people with odd, awful names have bad lives and interesting stories. After each killing, she collects information to use for her first nonfiction...