We catalogue the best (and, of course, the most popular) thrillers and crime novels, crime movies and TV crime shows available for purchase online. Read about the authors, their best works, their best sellers, and the writers who influenced them. In addition to hardcover and paperback novels, we note the availability of versions for Kindle, video on demand, e-reader, e-book, audiobook, DVD, online download, and TV.
Spy story resources:
From NPR, a spy-obsessed librarian picks her favorites
In "Operation Spy Novel", Fred Kaplan reconsiders le Carre's Absolute Friends. [Slate 2/13/04]
The first modern spy novelist: "Eric Ambler and the invention of the spy novel." By Stephen Metcalf [Slate 5/25/06]
Official CIA website,
which offers a virtual tour of Langley headquarters.
England's MI5 website includes a history of its
Thames House headquarters.