I've been rereading G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries lately. Reading them, for the first time or the fifth, is something I recommend. They are fiction and should be read as stories.

Written between 1910 and 1936, the Father Brown stories show us the murder mystery in its most explicitly theological form. Brown has virtually no backstory. Even his first name is, well, a mystery.

It started with dinner and ended with crime writers swearing an oath on a skull. It started with dinner and ended with a group of crime writers swearing an oath on a skull. This archive episode of ...

The Father Brown stories achieve remarkable depth and richness in their intellectual themes. Chesterton, of course, was a man of ideas, and he was convinced that ideas influence behavior—bad ...

After the wait of almost a year, the coziest of cozy crime shows returns. Here's how to watch "Father Brown" season 12 online, on TV and from anywhere in the world.

Set in the idyllic 1950s Cotswold village of Kembleford, the new season promises to deliver a fresh set of intriguing mysteries for Father Brown to unravel. In the season's opening episode, The ...

Father Brown must discover the culprit when a novelist is attacked at a crime-writing festival. Father Brown must discover the culprit when a novelist is attacked at a crime-writing festival. WOSU ...