Crime Fiction Links of the Week for March 8, 2025

It's time again for Crime Fiction Links of the Week, our weekly round-up of interesting links about crime fiction from around the web, this week with season 3 of Reacher, season 3 of Yellowjackets, Get Millie Black, Virdee, Black Bag, Daredevil Born Again, the winners of the 2025 Academy Awards and Golden Raspberries, the latest developments in the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman, tributes to Gene Hackman and much more.
 

Crime fiction in general: 

• CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week,  
• Criminal Element shatre their ten favourite humorous mysteries.
  
• Paul French takes a look at crime fiction set in Vatican City.
• John Freeman talks about Sacramento, California, as a crime fiction setting. 
• Colleen Cable shares ten recent romantic suspense novels to enjoy.
  
• Susan Moore shares her seven favourite domestic psychological thrillers 
  
• Clea Simon talks about difficult childhood and psychological thrillers. 
• Jon Bassoff talks about amnesia in horror novels and thrillers. 
• Cynthia Pelayo shares five novels about supernatural serial killers.
  
• Leonard Goldberg explains why doctors make good mystery writers. 
• Radha Vatsal talks about the early twentieth century New York City settings of her historical crime novels.
• Guy Morpuss explains why courtrooms and theaters are remarkably similar.
  
• Amandine Enard-Hauger shares her favourite crime novels by Icelandic crime fiction writer Arnaldur Indridason
• Courtney Rogers recounts how the 1960s paperback reissues of Doc Savage came to be. 
• Olivia Rutigliano reports that two previously unpublished children's mysteries by Ellen Raskin, who died in 1984, have been found.
  
• Lucy Mangan reports how reading, including romances, helped her through the grief after losing her father. 
• Alexander Poots discusses how hobbies, hobby clubs and magazines can form connections and help people. 
• Crime fiction writer, screenwriter and former police officer Joseph Wambaugh has died aged 88.
  

 

Comments on the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman: 

• Jacob Bryant reports that Neil Gaiman claims that his accuser is lying and the relationship was consensual.
  
• Ella Creamer reports that Neil Gaiman has filed a motion requesting that the US court dismisses the lawsuit against him alleging rape and sexual assault 
• Dominic Patten also reports about Neil Gaiman's attempts to get the lawsuit against himself dismissed.

 

Film and TV: 

• Lucy Mangan calls Towards Zero a fiendish Agatha Christie adaptation 
• Rebecca Nicholson praises the performance of Lucy Boynton in A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
  
• Lucy Mangan calls Fear a horribly realistic thriller about a family stalked by their neighbour 
• Tim Lowery praises the performances of Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura in Dope Thief
  
• Chris Jenkins shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Astrid: Murder In Paris
  
• Lara Rosales shares her thoughts about the latest episode of The Equalizer. 
• Melody McCune shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Harley Quinn. 
  
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on Dope Girls. 
• Jack Seale calls The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed a powerful and engrossing documentary.
  
• Paul Hirons takes a look at some of the most iconic outfits of TV detectives. 
• Rebecca Nicholson interviews Siobhan Finneran, star of Happy Valley and Protection.
  
• David Smith interviews Errol Morris, director of the true crime documentary Chaos: The Manson Murders
  
• Saloni Gajjar interviews Julianne Nicholson, one of the stars of Paradise.
  
• Simon Bland interviews Walter Hill and Deborah van Valkenburgh, director and one of the stars of the 1979 dystopian action film The Warriors.   
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1984 historical crime drama Rainy Day Women.
• Paul Hirons revisits the 1986 noir musical The Singing Detective.
  
• Paul F. Verhoeven revisits the 1992 cyberthriller Sneakers.
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 2000 legal drama Erin Brokovich. 
• Singer and actor David Johansen, front man of the New York Dolls who also appeared in Scrooged and several other movies, has died aged 75. 
• Actress Pamela Bach, who appeared in The Young and the Restless, Knight Rider and Baywatch and was married to David Hasselhoff, has died aged 62.
  
• Actor George Lowe, best known for voicing Space Ghost, has died aged 67. 
  
  

 Tributes to Gene Hackman:

• Steve Vertlieb remembers Gene Hackman.
• David Thomson remembers Gene Hackman. 
• Walter Murch remembers Gene Hackman. 
• Danette Chavez remembers Gene Hackman.
  
• Dani Anguiano and Ed Pilkington report that the police have ruled out carbon monoxide poisoning as a cause of death for Gene Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog. 

 

 Comments on season 3 of Reacher: 

• Diana Keng shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Reacher.
• Brian Tallerico shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Reacher. 

 

Comments on Get Millie Black:

•  Leila Latif calls Get Millie Black a grisly yet witty thriller and praises the performance of Tamara Lawrence.
• Hannah J. Davies calls Get Millie Black  a clever, unsettling crime drama that’s packed with excellent performances
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 1 of Get Millie Black. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 2 of Get Millie Black.
  

 

 Comments on Virdee: 

• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 2 of Virdee.
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 3 of Virdee.
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 4 of Virdee.
  

 

 Comments on Black Bag:  

• Jesse Hassenger shares his thoughts on the spy thriller Black Bag. 
• Naman Ramachandran interviews Tom Burke, who appears in Black Bag and Blade Runner 2099.

 

 Comments on Daredevil: Born Again:

• Leah Schnelbach shares her thoughts on Daredevil: Born Again.
• Jarrod Jones calls Daredevil: Born Again a return to form 
• Justin Carter declares that Daredevil: Born Again's scattered pieces come together for a brutal, satisfying whole. 
  
• Garrett Martin declares that Daredevil: Born Again takes too long to get going.
  
• Lucy Mangan wonders whether Daredevil: Born Again could be better than The Penguin.

 

Comments on season 3 of Yellowjackets:

• Jen Lennon shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Yellowjackets.
• Melody McCune shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Yellowjackets.
• Natalie Zutter shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Yellowjackets. 
• Jazz Tangcay interviews Simone Kessell who plays Lottie Matthews in Yellowjackets

 

Writing, publishing and promotion: 

• Charlie Jane Anders explains how to fix a character who's starting to bore you.
  
• Amanda Flower explains how to craft a mystery in both a historical and contemporary setting
• Kelly Burke reports that Australian writers are furious after the publisher Black Inc has requested to use the work of authors they sign for AI training. 
• Ella Creamer reports that according to a new poll, forty percent of Britons have not read a book in the past year.
  
• Charles Hewitt discusses how bad author behaviour influences which books bookstores stock.

 

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2025 ITW Thriller Awards have been announced.
• The finalists for the 2025 Barry Awards have been announced.
  
• The longlist for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction has been announced. 
  
• The winners of the 2025 Audie Awards have been announced. 
  
• The winners of the 2025 Academy Awards have been announced.   
• The winners of the 2025 International Film Music Critics Association Awards have been announced.
• The winners of the 2025 Golden Raspberry Awards have been announced.
  
• Catherine Shoard reports that Francis Ford Coppola is actually thrilled that his science fiction movie Megalopolis won two Golden Rasperries. 
• Cheryl Eddy notes that Madame Web winning the 2025 Golden Raspberry for Worst Picture is unfair, considering that Joker: Folie a Deux was even worse.

 

Interviews: 

• Aaron Philip Clark interviews Walter Mosley.
  
• Robin Agnew interviews Connie Berry.
• Marshal Zeringue interviews Clea Simon. 
• Jill Amadio interviews Tessa Wegert
  
• Vassem Khan and Abir Mukherjee interviews Nina Bhadreshwar 
  
• Paul Burke interviews Tania Malik. 
• Scott Adlerberg interviews Radha Vatsal.
  
• Debbi Mack interviews Prsicilla Paton. 
• Garrick Webster interviews A.J. Devlin. 
• Kevin Canfield interviews Agustina Bazterrica 
• Lisa Haselton interviews Darlene Dziomba
  

 

Reviews:

• Lesa Holstine reviews Hang on St. Christopher by Adrian McKinty 
  
• Blue Book Ballon reviews Little Red Death by A.K. Benedict
• Sharon Richardson reviews Broken Fields by Marcie R. Rendon 
  
• Marlene Harris reviews Stone Certainty by Simon R. Green  
• Mandie Griffiths reviews Judas Horse by Lynda La Plante
  
• Mandie Griffiths reviews Buried by Lynda La Plante 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Note by Alafair Burke
• Blue Book Ballon reviews Small Fires by Ronnie Turner 
• Jen Lucas reviews To Pay The Ferryman by Pat Black
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Sufi Storyteller by Faiqa Mansab  
• Paul Burke reviews Her Sister’s Killer by Mari Hannah
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Leo by Deon Meyer
  
• Mary Picken reviews The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer  
• Lesa Holstine reviews If It Isn’t One Thing… by Steven F. Havill 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Ends Of Things by Sandra Chwialkowska 
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Fatal Intrusion by Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Lost House by Melissa Larsen 
  
• Mary Picken reviews Other People’s Houses by Clare Mackintosh
  
• Blue Book Ballon reviews The Weekenders by David F Ross
• The Quick and the Read reviews You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego  
• Jen Lucas reviews A Trial In Three Acts by Guy Morpuss
  
• BOLO Books reviews This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead
• Margaret Agnew reviews Winter’s Poison by E.L. Johnson.
• Robin Agnew reviews I Died for Beauty by Amanda Flower.
• Marlene Harris reviews The Girl from Greenwich Street by Lauren Willig 
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Girl from Greenwich Street by Lauren Willig
  
• Robin Agnew reviews Murder of a Recluse by Jeanne M. Dams.
• Marlene Harris reviews A Scandalous Affair by Leonard Goldberg
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews Mrs Spy by M.J. Robotham  
• Mandie Griffiths reviews Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood
• BOLO Books reviews Murder in the Dressing Room by Holly Stars. 
• Erin Britton reviews Death on Ice by R.O. Thorp
  
• Carla Schantz reviews A Cold Dose of Murder by Emily George.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Killing Me Souffle by Ellie Alexander and tries a recipe from the book.
• Paul Weimer reviews Cheddar Luck Next Time by Beth Cato 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn
• Carla Schantz reviews An Island of Suspects by Jean-Luc Bannalec.
   
  

 Classics reviews:

• Katherine Hall Page revisits the 1943 mystery Cat's Claw by Dolores Hitchens.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1945 mystery The Cambridge Murders by Dilwyn Rees a.k.a. Glyn Daniel. 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1953 Webster Flagg mystery Murder by the Day by Veronica Parker Johns 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1959 gothic novel Annalisa by Forbes Rydell  
  
• Victoria Silverwolf revisits the 1970 Sybil Sue Blue science fiction crime novel The Waters of Centaurus by Rosel George Brown,
• Brian Collins revisits the 1971 science fiction mystery “To Fit the Crime” by Joe Haldeman 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1977 mystery A Ring of Roses by Christianna Brand.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1988 non-fiction book The Spirit of Australia: The Crime Fiction of Arthur W. Upfield by Ray B. Browne
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Guy Henderson reports that a new statue of Agatha Christie will be unveiled in Torquay, Devon, where she was born.
  
• Rebecca Rubin and Ethan Shanfeld report about watching a marathon of all ten movies nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in New York City.     
  

 

Research: 

•  Gareth Watkins calls AI art the new aesthetics of fascism. 
• Kaja Seruga profiles Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, designer of the so-called Frankfurt kitchen, the first modern kitchen.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

•  "Face of the Devil" by Michael Siverling in Mystery Tribune.
• "Friends in Low Countries" by Scott MacLeod in Punk Noir Magazine 
• "Tilting at Pinwheels" by Michel Lee Garrett in Punk Noir Magazine 
  
• "Sumptuous Atrocities" by Eric Richer in Punk Noir Magazine
• "Blowtorch Blues" by John Patrick Nelson in Shotgun Honey.
  

 

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for the final season of Bosch: Legacy.
• Watch a trailer for Happy Face. 
• Watch a trailer for Chaos: The Manson Murders.