Crime Fiction Links of the Week for June 7, 2025
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week,
- Criminal Elements shares mysteries and thrillers coming out in June.
- CrimeReads shares psychological thrillers coming out in June.
- Mark Stevens declares that the best crime fiction isn't about redemption but about endurance.
- Rory Powers defends murderous protagonists.
- Cara Hunter talks about psychopaths as narrators
- Olivia Worley shares six crime novels exploring romantic obsession
- Kimberly Belle explains why the expat experience is the perfect starting point for a thriller
- Larry Latham takes a look at European pulp fiction.
- Chris Winkle explains why literary fiction is a genre.
- The Guardian asks if we need more male novelists.
- Ella Creamer reports about Russian propaganda fiction aimed at persuading young men to join the Russian forces.
- Thomas E. Ricks shares his appreciation for the Harlem Detective stories by Chester Himes.
- Paperback Warrior profiles Lionel White.
- Ryan Adamczeski reports that J.K. Rowling has publicly admitted that she is planning to use the proceeds from the Harry Potter books, movies, TV-show and assorted mechandise to fund an anti-trans organisation.
- Crime fiction writer and critic Joe Hartlaub has died aged 73.
Film and TV:
- Luke Hicks calls Honey Don't! a lesbian murder mystery that's less funny and less interesting than Drive-Away Dolls.
- Lucy Mangan calls The Survivors a murder mystery so intense you’ll watch through your fingers
- Germain Lussier declares that the best scenes in Karate Kid: Legends are its first and last
- Lacy Baugher Milas calls Art Detectives a charming mystery series.
- Luke Hicks calls The Mastermind a film that's not a thriller, but that engrosses nonetheless.
- Jim Vorel declares that I Don’t Understand You overreaches its simple but charming thriller premise
- Brent Simon calls Echo Valley an uninspired thriller.
- Christina Izzo declares that Ginny & Georgia's biggest crime is its failure to titillate
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on Your Friends And Neighbors
- Diana Keng shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Leverage: Redemption.
- Caroline Siede shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Duster.
- Garrick Webster shares his thoughts on the Italian crime drama Pale Mountains.
- Sandra Mangan shares her thoughts on Dept. Q and the setting change from Copenhagen to Edinburgh.
- Jack Seale notes that the documentary The Jackal Speaks: Inside the Mind of a Mass Murderer reveals terrorist Carlos to be an icky loser
- Matthew Hays revisits the 1974 disaster movie The Towering Inferno.
- Rob LeDonne revisits the 1995 gangster movie Casino.
- Olivia Rutigliano revisits the 2002 crime movie Murder by Numbers.
- Olivia Rutigliano revisits the 2003 caper movie Matchstick Men.
- Paul Hirons revisits the 2021 heist series Lupin.
- Vanessa Armstrong interviews Nicole Northridge, production designer of Silo and Peaky Blinders.
- Diana Keng takes a look at the location of the 2016 spy series The Night Manager.
- Actress Valerie Mahaffey, best known for her roles in Northern Exposure, Dead to Me, Big Sky and many others, has died aged 71.
- Actor James McEachin, best known for his roles in Perry Mason, Tenafly, Play Misty For Me, Matlock and many others, has died aged 94.
- Actress Ena Hartman, best known for her roles in Dan August, Terminal Island, Our Man Flint, Columbo, Star Trek and Airport, has died aged 93.
Comments on season 2 of Poker Face:
Comments on The Black Forest Murders a.k.a. Spuren:
- Rebecca Nicholson declares that The Black Forest Murders feels like watching a hugely satisfying puzzle come together
- Bethan Rose Jenkins calls The Black Forest Murders scarily compelling and absolutely gripping.
- Morgan Cormack takes a look at the two real life murders that The Black Forest Murders is loosely based upon.
Comments on Ballerina:
- Peter Bradshaw really enjoyed Ballerina, but wishes Ana de Armas would get to do some dancing in addition to fighting and kiling.
- Jesse Hassenger calls Ballerina a winning John Wick spin-off.
- David Rooney calls Ballerina a hard-charging spin-off that makes for a mindless summer treat
- Rory Doherty declares that Ballerina painfully contorts itself to the John Wick mold
- Germain Lussier declares that the incredible action in Ballerina masks how dumb the rest of it is
- Germain Lussier interviews Len Wiseman, director of Ballerina.
- James Hibberd interviews Chad Stahelski, creator of John Wick and its various spin-offs.
Comments on MobLand:
Comments on Dangerous Animals:
- Jim Vorel calls Dangerous Animals the fusion of two intensely familiar subgenres–serial killer thriller and shark-starring B-movie–which results in a work that is somehow brimming with life and verve.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Dangerous Animals a gonzo horror thriller
- Katie Rife calls Dangerous Animals a thrilling trip to the sea.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Katia Lief discusses how to make suspense work.
- Lindy Ryan talks about infusing history into fiction
- Jason Sizemore explains how the collapse of Diamond Comics also affects the Apex Publishing Company.
- Jason Sanford also weighs in on the troubles of Apex and how they affect his own books.
- Jason Wilson reports about a network of far right publishers that includes the SFF publisher Ark Press.
- Ella Creamer reports that the new online bookshop BookKind will donate 10% of the value of all purchases to charity.
- Steve Morris reports that Salman Rushdie claims that AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh
- Charis McGowan interviews writers, artists and voice actors who lost their jobs to AI.
Awards:
Interviews:
- David Masciotra interviews James Lee Burke.
- Dwyer Murphy interviews Megan Abbott.
- Terry Gross interviews James Patterson.
- Shane Whaley interviews Paul Vidich.
- Frank Zafiro interviews Derrick Jackson.
- Paul Burke interviews Thomas Trang
- Authors on the Air interviews Eliot Parker.
- Garrick Webster interviews A. Molotkov
- Garrick Webster interviews Jón Atli Jónasson
- Jenny Staff Johnson interviews Lucas Schaefer.
Reviews:
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Into The Fire by G.D. Wright
- Jen Lucas reviews Into The Fire by G.D. Wright
- BOLO Books reviews Kaua’i Storm by Tori Eldridge,
- Mike Parker reviews Red Water by Jurica Pavičic, translated by Matt Robinson
- Mary Picken reviews Last Orders by Denzil Meyrick
- Kevin Tipple reviews Nightshade by Michael Connelly
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Chemist by A.A. Dhand
- Jen Lucas reviews Chasing Shadows by Robert Bryndza
- Amy Myers reviews Believe by S.M. Govett
- Jon Morgan reviews This is the Day They Dream Of by Robert Goddard
- Judith Sullivan reviews It’s Always The Husband by C.L. Taylor
- Jen Lucas reviews It’s Always The Husband by C.L. Taylor
- Sharon Richardson reviews Kill Them with Kindness by Will Carver
- Paul Burke reviews FDR Drive by James Comey
- Robin Agnew reviews One Final Turn by Ashley Weaver.
- Sue Lord reviews Murder under the Rock by Ali Simpson
- Jen Lucas reviews The Death of Shame by Ambrose Parry
- Daniel Dern reviews The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Diva Poaches A Bad Egg by Krista Davis and tries a recipe from the book,
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The New Forest Murders by Matthew Sweet
- Robin Agnew reviews The Busybody Book Club by Freya Sampson.
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Spirit Moves by Carol J. Perry
- Jen Lucas reviews Whistle by Linwood Barclay
- Kevin Tipple reviews Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House, edited by Michael Bracken and Stacy Woodson.
- Kate Jackson reviews V is for Venom: Agatha Christie’s Chemicals of Death by Kathryn Harkup
Classics reviews:
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1916 spy novel An Amiable Charlatan by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Fiona Sturges revisits the 1938 crime novel Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- Brian Collins revisits the 1939 fantasy mystery story “The Bronze Door” by Raymond Chandler
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1941 Superintendent Mallett and Dr Fitzbown mystery Death and Mary Dazill by Mary Fitt.
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1941 Tommy Hambledon spy novel They Tell No Tales by Manning Coles
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1942 Arthur Crook mystery Something Nasty in the Woodshed by Anthony Gilbert
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1955 suspense novel Beast In View by Margaret Millar
- Lesa Holstine revisits the 1966 Inspector C.D. Sloan mystery The Religious Body by Catherine Aird
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1970 crime novel Before It's Too Late by Lou Cameron.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1973 The Revenger men's adventure novel Vendetta Contract by Jon Messman.
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1974 Tessa Crichton mystery Killing with Kindness by Anne Morice
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1983 Justin Perry: The Assassin men's adventure novel Vatican Kill by George Harold “Hal” Bennett a.k.a. John D. Revere
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1987 The Hard Corps men's adventure novel Beirut Contract by Chuck Bainbridge.
Con and event reports:
Research:
- Lisa Pratta talks about working undercover in the pharma industry and her life as a whistleblower.
- Mary Kay McBrayer talks about Stephanie St. Clair, who operated a gambling business in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s
- Katherine Reay shares seven non-fiction books about fascinating forgers.
- Ella Creamer reports that researchers at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, have identified a method to quickly identify arsenic containing pigments in nineteenth century books.
Free online fiction:
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