Crime Fiction Links of the Week for June 28 2025
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week,
- Molly McRae lists amateur sleuths with offbeat jobs
- Dwyer Murphy shares five great literary mysteries set in coastal Massachusetts
- Julia Seales shares her favourite historical mysteries set in London.
- Jenny Adams talks about the enduring appeal of crime fiction set in the 1920s.
- Dianne Freeman shares seven mysteries set in the theatre.
- Melanie Anagnos explains how Scandinavian crime fiction helped her to write a crime novel set in New Jersey.
- Ann Cleeves reports about a visit to the Orkney Islands, where her latest crime novel The Killing Stones is set.
- Simon Toyne wonders why people are so fascinated by headless corpses.
- Kate Jackson explains how she approaches writing reviews.
- Joseph Bernstein wonders why fewer men are reading fiction.
- Sam Leith explains how children’s books on male friendship could combat toxic masculinity
Film and TV:
- Alex Wallace reviews Ballerina and notes that if you change the accoutrements, this movie would be low fantasy
- Cath Clarke calls Chicken Town an endearingly daft crime caper
- Lucy Mangan declares that no TV show has ever been worth sticking with more than Smoke.
- Jason Gorber declares that F1 may be a commercial, but it sure is a pretty commercial
- Leslie Felperin calls Words of War a sentimental look at the life of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya
- Josh Pearce shares his thoughts on Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
- Caroline Siede shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Duster.
- Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on series 1 of The Gold.
- Molly Odintz shares the best swimming pools in crime movies
- Anne Billson shares her favourite films by Mel Brooks.
- Caroline Siede revisits the 2000 action movie Charlie's Angels.
- Paul Hirons revisits the 2011 historical crime drama The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher
- Rebecca Liu revisits the 2015 action comedy Spy.
- Jay Costello reports about the remarkable phenomenon of Starsky & Hutch fandom, which has long outlasted the TV show which inspired it.
- Ben Child wonders whether two different filmic versions of Batman can co-exist at DC.
- Terry Louise Fisher, writer and co-creator of L.A. Law and Cagney & Lacey, has died aged 79.
Tributes to Lalo Schifrin:
Comments on season 2 of Poker Face:
Comments on season 3 of Squid Game:
Comments on the future of James Bond:
Comments on Jaws at fifty:
- Natalia Keogan notes that shark movies existed before Jaws, but they were never the same after it arrived
- Brent Lang chronicles the production woes of Jaws.
- Don Kaye shares twelve things you didn’t know about Jaws
- David Smith interviews stars Richard Dreyfuss and Lorraine Gary and Wendy Benchley, widow of Peter Benchley on whose book Jaws was based for the fiftieth anniversary of the film.
- Cheryl Eddy interviews Laurent Bouzereau, director of Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story,
- Andrew Shea shares a tour of the locations of Jaws on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Carl Shuker explains how to write about the near future and recent past in a rapidly changing world.
- Bianca Marais explains how to improvise a locked room murder mystery
- Caitlin Rother notes that when writing nonfiction, the research always takes you in a new direction.
- Sara Hashemi wonders whether the semicolon is about to die out.
- Heloise Wood reports about the well-known problem that Goodreads users can rate books that haven't even been released yet.
- Decca Muldowney reports how fanfiction are fighting back against their work being scraped for AI purposes.
- Ed Nawotka reports that a US Federal judge has ruled that AI training is fair use in the Anthropic copyright infringement case
- Benj Edwards reports that Anthropic also destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models, though they at least legally bought them first.
Awards:
Interviews:
- Paul Burke interviews Mark Billingham.
- Matt Nixson interviews Mark Billingham.
- Matt Nixson interviews Karin Slaughter.
- Lizz Schumer interviews Laura Lippman and Megan Abbott
- Nick Kolakowski interviews Rob Hart.
- Frank Zafiro interviews Colleen Coble.
- E.B. Davis interviews Molly MacRae.
- Terry McDonnell interviews Thom Mount.
Reviews:
- Mary Picken reviews What The Night Brings by Mark Billingham
- Lesa Holstine reviews Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall
- C.T. Phipps reviews Closing Time at the Sunny-Side-Up by David Niall Wilson
- Paul Burke reviews Shatter Creek by Rod Reynolds
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Stranger in Room Six by Jane Corry
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Of Flesh and Blood by N.L. Lavin and Hunter Burke
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Trouble Up North by Travis Mulhauser
- Kevin Tipple reviews A Fondness for Truth by Kim Hays
- Mary Picken reviews Some of Us Are Liars by Fiona Cummins
- Joy Kluver reviews Some Of Us Are Liars by Fiona Cummins.
- Mandie Griffiths reviews Kane by Graham Hurley
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Final Episode by Lori Roy
- Raven Crime Reads reviews Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson, translated by Quentin Bates
- Alexis Ong reviews A Thousand Natural Shocks by Omar Hussein
- BOLO Books reviews The Pastor’s Wife by LynDee Walker.
- Jen Lucas reviews FDR Drive by James Comey
- Marcel Theroux reviews Endling by Maria Reva
- Marlene Harris reviews Death on the Caldera by Emily Paxman
- Gary K. Wolfe reviews The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy
- Cathy Akers-Jordan reviews A Beacon in the Night by David Lewis.
- Vicki Kondelik reviews A Daughter’s Guide to Mothers and Murder by Dianne Freeman.
- Carla Schantz reviews An Amateur Sleuth’s Guide to Murder by Lynn Cahoon.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Seven Lively Suspects by Katy Watson
- Kevin Tipple reviews Sex and Death on the Beach by Elaine Viets
- Garrick Webster reviews Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Last Wool And Testament by Peggy Ehrhart and tries a recipe from the book.
Classics reviews:
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1930 Jerry Scant mystery Deadman’s Bay by Leonard A. Knight
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1933 mystery Inspector Rusby's Finale by Virgil Markham
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1934 mystery Quick Curtain by Alan Melville
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1946 Gervase Fen mystery The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin.
- Lesa Holstine revisits the 1968 Inspector Sloan mystery Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird
- Peter Handel revisits the 1988 crime novella Running Wild by J.G. Ballard
- Alan Brown revisits the 1991 science fiction mystery Space Cops: Mindblast by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood
Con and event reports:
- Abir Mukherjee and Vaseem Khan report about the 2025 Capital Crime festival in London, UK.
- Kate Jackson shares ten thing she loved about the Bodies from the Library event at the British Library in London, UK.
- Martin Edwards reports about the 2025 Bodies from the Library event.
- Joy Kluver reports about a discussion about UK versus US Thrillers at the West Barnes Library in Merton, UK, featuring Sam Frances and Rod Reynolds
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