Crime Fiction Links of the Week for August 2, 2025
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week,
- Kelsey Cox talks about using locked-room mysteries to explore psychological entrapment
- V.M. Burns shares seven cozy mysteries that revolve around weddings
- Daniel Kalla explains how deepfakes and AI function in crime fiction?
- Irenosen Okojie shares five unreliable narrators that upend expectations on voice
- Lara Feigel talks about the rise of explicit sex in literary fiction.
- Isabella Maldonado explains how she went from police officer to crime fiction writer.
- Mary Watson explains how a murder in her South African neighbourhood when she was a kid inspired her crime novel The Cleaner.
- Megan Miranda explains how her daughter going away to college inspired her crime novel You Belong Here.
- German crime fiction author Doris Gercke has died aged 88.
Film and TV:
- Tim Lowery calls The Yoghurt Shop Murders a sensitive true crime docu-drama about a multiple murder in Austin, Texas, in 1991.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the two-part finale of Bookish.
- Chris Jenkins shares his thoughts on the second episode of season 2 of Karen Pirie.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Smoke.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Dexter: Resurrection.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on Unforgivable.
- Garrick Webster shares his thoughts on the Italian crime drama Inspector Gerri
- Olivia Rutigliano ranks all the Mission Impossible movies.
- Veronica Fitzpatrick revisits the 1991 serial killer film The Silence of the Lambs.
- Hollie Richardson notes that historical and period dramas contain a lot more sex scenes these days than they did thirty years ago.
- Benjamin Lee reports that Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, will write the next James Bond movie.
Comments on the new The Naked Gun:
- Peter Bradshaw calls the new The Naked Gun an outrageously amusing spoof reboot
- Jacob Oller declares that the new The Naked Gun unloads a full clip of gags into unsuspecting audiences
- Robbie Collin calls the new The Naked Gun so hilarious it made him physically crumple in his seat
- Jesse Hassenger praises Liam Neeson's impeccable deadpan performance in the new The Naked Gun
- Jesse Hassenger wonders whether spoof comedies can make a comeback with The Naked Gun.
- Inspired by the new The Naked Gun, Andrew Pulver takes a look at the strange turns of Liam Neeson's career.
Comments on The Bad Guys 2:
Comments on Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text:
- Rhik Samadder calls Operation Dark Phone: Murder By Text a jaw-dropping true crime docu-drama.
- Hannah J. Davies calls Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text a gripping account of how police caught hundreds of gang members by infiltrating a shady encrypted mobile network, but wonders whether we really need to see these criminals on the toilet.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Hazell Ward talks about the rules for writing a mystery.
- Juliet Blackwell talks about incorporating supernatural elements into mystery stories
- Ellen Byron shares her experiences as a screenwriter for sitcoms.
- Victoria Strauss talks about the ongoing contract issues with Must Read Magazines, the new publishers of Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
- Ken Schneyer shares tips for negotiating contracts.
- Anna Aslanyan talks about the ever increasing censorship in Russia.
Awards:
Interviews:
- John B. Valeri interviews Liza Tully.
- Nick Kolakowski interviews Jordan Harper.
- Craig Sisterson interviews Chris Hammer.
- Paul Burke interviews Simon McCleave.
- Garrick Webster interviews Daniel Yager.
- Sarah Weinman interviews Chuck Hogan
- Lizzy Steiner interviews Joe Pan.
- E.B. Davis interviews Valerie Burns.
Reviews:
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews What The Dark Whispers by M.J. Lee
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware
- Jen Lucas reviews Body Breaker by M.W. Craven
- Marlene Harris reviews Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Two Kinds Of Stranger by Steve Cavanagh
- Jen Lucas reviews Two Kinds Of Stranger by Steve Cavanagh
- Sharon Richardson reviews The Good Liar by Denise Mina
- Doreen Sheridan reviews This Stays Between Us by Sara Ochs
- Mandie Griffiths reviews The Rest Is Death by James Oswald
- Paul Burke reviews Murder Tide by Stella Blómkvist, translated by Quentin Burke.
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Dentist by Tim Sullivan
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Ten Worst People in New York by Matt Plass
- Carla Schantz reviews There Will be Bodies by Lindsey Davis.
- Erin Britton reviews The King’s Agent by Rosemary Hayes
- Marlene Harris reviews Copper Script by K.J. Charles
- Robin Agnew reviews Lavender Lies Bleeding by Leslie Budewitz.
- Carla Schantz reviews Tea with Jam and Dread by Vicki Delany.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes by Sandra Jackson-Opoku and tries a recipe from the book.
- Carla Schantz reviews Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes by Sandra Jackson-Opoku.
- Janet Webb reviews The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
- Marlene Harris reviews Something Whiskered by Miranda James
Classics reviews:
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1928 locked room mystery Into Thin Air by Horatio Winslow and Leslie Quirk
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1928 mystery The Draycott Murder Mystery by Molly Thynne
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1933 comedy mystery Bring the Monkey by Miles Franklin
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1957 mystery Untimely Death a.k.a. He Should Die Hereafter by Cyril Hare
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1963 bibliomystery Blue Octavo by John Blackburn.
- Matin Edwards revisits the 1989 thriller The Shadow Run by Desmond Lowden.
Con and event reports:
Research:
- David Howard talks about his conversations with convicted hitman and bankrobber Luke Thompson.
- Hannah Al-Othman reports that a man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester, UK.
- A.J. Dellinger reports that a man in Aregentina was awarded 12500 US-dollars after Google Street View accidentally photographed his naked backside.
- Peter Alson reports about the 1998 murder of casino manage Lonnie “Ted” Binion by his lover, stripper Sandra Murphy, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Kathleen Kaufman talks about the attempted murder of the mother in 2018 and the history of domestic violence that preceded it.
- Jessica Dickinson Goodman reports about early pride protests in 1970.
Free online fiction:
- "Heir to the Throne" by Eric Richer in Punk Noir Magazine
- "Covet" by Charles Carter in Punk Noir Magazine
- "Rest for the Wicked" by Meghan Leigh Paulk in Punk Noir Magazine
- "The Virtue Of Sloth" by Steven Sheil in Punk Noir Magazine
- "Three’s Company" by Steven Lemprière in Punk Noir Magazine
- "Ventilation Haywire" by James Hohmann in Punk Noir Magazine
- "Lust" by Zvi A. Sesling in Punk Noir Magazine
- "Market Price" by Jessica Slee in Punk Noir Magazine
- "Gourmand" by Lemoine Drake in Punk Noir Magazine
- "Orange Lies Matter" by Charles Rammelkamp in The Five-Two.
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