Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 19, 2025
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week,
- Laura Wilson shares a round-up of her favourite recent crime novels or thrillers.
- Gabino Iglesias recommends some new crime novels coming out in June 2025.
- Lesa Holstine shares her favourite books from the first half of 2025.
- Sara Ochs shares dark thrillers for long summer days.
- Tom Mead shares his ten favourite closed circle mysteries.
- K.W. Colyard shares ten Japanese mystery and thriller series to enjoy.
- Jo Piazza celebrates unlikeable women in crime fiction.
- Tasha Coryell's shares her five favorite fictional psychopaths
- Daphne Woolsoncroft shares four novels that twist the slasher model into something darker and more personal
- A.R. Torre talks about the rise of domestic suspense.
- Alex Pavesi shares six metaphysical detective stories.
- B.V. Lawson takes a look at some female detectives of the late nineteenth century.
- Nicci Cloke explains how a conspiracy theorist handyman inspired her latest thriller.
- Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante declare that genre is a container, not a cage, a tool, not a limitation
- Molly Templeton notes that the thing you want to read is probably out there somewhere.
- P.H. Low talks about the struggles facing diaspora writers.
- Sam Leith shares his fifteen favourite literary Substacks.
- Kim Kahan reports about Japan's buzzing zine scene.
- Alec Nevala-Lee profiles Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
- Ayo Onatade reports that the Conan Doyle Estate will collaborate with Simon and Schuster to publish new official Sherlock Holmes stories.
Tributes to Martin Cruz Smith:
Film and TV:
- Lucy Mangan calls Bookish a cosy crime drama that is a tasty nugget of absolute delight
- Rhik Samadder calls The Assassin an action thriller like nothing else.
- Cath Clarke calls Moon a gripping thriller about an ex-cage fighter standing up to injustice
- Jarrod Jones declares that Cloud drifts between two tones: disturbing grifter thriller and boilerplate action yarn
- Leslie Felperin calls Tin Soldier a confusing thriller about a soldier infiltrating a cult
- Lacy Baugher Milas calls The Hunting Wives a frothy thriller about rich people being awful
- Sandra Mangan shares her thoughts on season 1 of Ballard.
- Alan Sepinwall interviews Rian Johnson, director of Knives Out, Poker Face and The Last Jedi.
- Paul Hirons shares his ten favourite crime TV shows of the 1970s.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 2010 true crime movie All Good Things
- Paul Hirons revisits the 2015 crime drama River.
- Saloni Gajjar shares her ten favourite episodes of the 2013 prison drama Orange is the New Black.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 2018 thriller Calibre.
- Andrew McGowan shares the highest grossing box office stars, most of whom appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Mark Tracy reports that DVDs are making a comeback in the streaming era.
- Stuart Heritage discusses how TikTok clips have conquered movie publicity.
Comments on Untamed:
- Rebecca Nicholson calls Untamed a national park thriller that is as beautiful as it is totally predictable
- Saloni Gajjar calls Untamed a generic crime drama that is beautiful to look at but tiresome to sit through
- Lacy Baugher Milas calls Untamed a dark tale in a strikingly beautiful setting
- Lara Rosales interviews Lily Santiago, one of the stars of Untamed.
Comments on the new I Know What You Did Last Summer:
- Sabina Graves calls the new I Know What You Did Last Summer a smart legacy sequel that doesn't lean too heavily on its past laurels.
- Natalia Keogan calls the new I Know What You Did Last Summer a violent follow-up that doesn't ever cut as deeply as its kills.
- Kimberly Pierce shares her thoughts on the new I Know What You Did Last Summer
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Aaron Jones talks about originality and the importance of passion in storytelling
- Charlie Jane Anders explains that the choice who gets a POV in a story is a political decision
- Issa Quincy talks about writing a novel without knowing or planning anything
- Victoria Strauss reports about an author interview scam.
- The SFWA alerts authors to a clause requiring them to waive moral rights in contract of Must Read Publishing, the new owner of Analog, Asimov’s, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
- Sam Spratford reports that Rhode Island has passed the Freedom to Read act.
Awards:
Interviews:
Reviews:
- Mandie Griffiths reviews The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham
- Janet Webb reviews Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall
- Lesa Holstine reviews Death Under a Little Sky by Stig Abell
- Kerry Hood reviews Death of an Officer by Mark Ellis
- Kevin Tipple reviews River of Lies by James L’Etoile
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Murder Tide by Stella Blómkvist, translated by Quentin Bates.
- Jen Lucas reviews Murder Tide by Stella Blómkvist, translated by Quentin Bates.
- Jen Lucas reviews Beach Hut 512 by Dorothy Koomson
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Myth Maker by Alie Dumas-Heidt
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Happy Wife by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores
- Judith Sullivan reviews Home Before Dark by Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir
- Garrick Webster reviews Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson, translated by Quentin Bates,
- BOLO Books reviews The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths
- Mary Picken reviews The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
- Mary Picken reviews The Betrayal of Thomas True by A.J. West
- Sara Townsend reviews Tiny Daggers by Caroline Corcoran
- Judith Sullivan reviews The Serial Killer's Party by Amy Cunningham
- Janet Webb reviews How to Have a Killer Time in D.C. by Sam Lumley
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Behind Frenemy Lines by Zen Cho
- Mandie Griffiths reviews Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective by Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar
- Marlene Harris reviews The World’s Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant by Liza Tully
- BOLO Books reviews Can You Solve the Murder? by Anthony Johnston.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Murder on the Books by T.C. LoTempio
- Sandra Mangan reviews A Novel Murder by E.C. Nevin
- Jen Lucas reviews A Deadly Inheritance by Charlotte Vassell
- Doreen Sheridan reviews A Catered Bake-Off by Isis Crawford and tries a recipe from the book.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews No Comfort for the Dead by R.P. O'Donnell
Classics reviews:
- Curtis Evans revisits the 1929 hardboiled crime novel Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1939 Inspector French mystery Fatal Venture by Freeman Wills Crofts
- Vintage Pop Fictions revisits the 1941 crime novel The Doll’s Bad News by James Hadley Chase.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1941 thriller Charteris Royal by Hubert Phillips.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1949 mystery Cat Of Many Tails by Ellery Queen
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1960 Perry Mason legal mystery The Case of the Duplicate Daughter by Erle Stanley Gardner
- Lesa Holstine revisits the 1970 Inspector Sloan mystery A Late Phoenix by Catherine Aird
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1995 Luke Pagan mystery Ring of Terror by Michael Gilbert.
- Kate Jackson revisits the 2014 Mr. Monk mystery Mr Monk is Open for Business by Hy Conrad
Con and event reports:
Research:
- P.D. Lennon talks about 18th century serial killer Doctor Lewis Hutchinson who operated in Jamaica.
- Terrence McCauley talks about the enduring fascination with the John F. Kennedy assasionation.
- Kate Russo talks about the murder of the college student in Colby, Maine, in 2003 and how it affected her.
- Lina Chern talks about the 2015 death of police officer Joe Gliniewicz in Fox Lake, Illinois, and how the case was quite different than it initially seemed.
- Sarah Hornsley talks about assault and the trauma of silence
- Polly Stewart talks about modern day moonshiners in Appalachia.
- Daniel O'Malley shares a not entirely serious guide to not getting murdered in Buckingham Palace.
Free online fiction:
- "The Ten-Dollar Preacher" by Chris DiLeo in Shotgun Honey.
- "In a Cage with the Sharks" by Hubble Stark in Shotgun Honey.
- "The Madam's Gold Coins" by Roy Dorman in Punk Noir Magazine
- "The Redhead Wasn’t Enough" by Keith Roysdon in Punk Noir Magazine
- "Extra-Extra" by Cindy Rosmus in Punk Noir Magazine
- "The Only Remaining Sin" by Carlotta Dale in Punk Noir Magazine
- "Mens Revelans" by John A. Tures in Punk Noir Magazine
- "Asylum" by Peter M. Gordon in The Five-Two.
Trailers and videos:
Comments
Post a Comment