Red Herring and Madcap Mysteries feature gaudy costumes and whimsical scenarios, usually with an exotic or historical basis. Red Herring’s most popular shows are “Murder Speaks Easy,” set in 1920s ...

Tana French is an author of murder mysteries who is less concerned with whodunit than with the inner lives of her detectives. In her first book, In the Woods, which came out in 2007, she let what ...

It’s the predictable comparison: Ruth Ware is British and a writer of mysteries that characteristically feature groups of people threatened by mortal danger in closed settings — manor houses or cruise ...