Crime Fiction Links of the Week for August 16, 2025
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week,
- Laura Wilson shares her favourite recent crime novels and thrillers.
- CrimeReads shares new LGBTQ crime fiction to enjoy this summer.
- Lucy Burdette explains why small towns make irresistible mystery settings
- Jo Morey shares eight thrillers with beach and jungle settings.
- Tom Mead talks about the similarities between locked room mysteries and ghost stories.
- Roz Noonan shares her favourite mysteries featuring puzzles.
- Samantha Downing explains why elderly women make the perfect fictional serial killers.
- Katie Collum shares books about women banding together for revenge.
- Tim Chawaga lists four science fiction and mystery sleuths who would get along with Travis McGee
- Alissa Burger shares her favourite fictional amusement parks.
- Auralee Wallace talks about the joy of unexpected genre mash-ups
- Peter Carey looks back on writing The True History of the Kelly Gang.
- Ray Tabler takes a look at author pen names.
- Molly Templeton notes that we all miss mass market paperbacks.
Film and TV:
- Paul Hirons calls The Assassin a stylish, Bond-inspired thriller and praises the performance of Keeley Hawes.
- Alex Wallace wonders whether The Naked Gun will work in the era of "Defund the police".
- Diana Keng calls Butterfly an intense action-thriller with complex family dynamics played out against a Korean landscape.
- Rory Doherty calls The Rainmaker a bland, derivative adaptation that forgets to have any fun
- Marisa Mercurio calls Elementary a masterclass in Sherlock Holmes adaptation
- Peter Bradshaw calls The Dead of Winter an icy Fargo country thriller
- Lucy Mangan calls In Flight a thriller so claustrophobic it's suffocating.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Unmoored an atmospheric Scandinavian thriller about a toxic marriage.
- Jesse Hassenger calls Highest 2 Lowest intended more as an urban fable about perseverance and a few accompanying moral choices, rather than an outright morality treatise.
- Jim Vorel declares that the serial killer mockumentary Strange Harvest slashes with flair, but loses potency in the end
- Saloni Gajjar calls the true crime documentary The Twisted Tale Of Amanda Knox all too familiar.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Dexter: Resurrection.
- Hannah J. Davies calls the true crime documentary Lucy Letby: Who to Believe? muddled and stuffed with conflicting theories.
- Adrian Horton calls Songs from the Hole a deeply moving and unconventional prison documentary
- Tim Jonze interviews James Norton, star of Happy Valley.
- Mark Lawson interviews Sheridan Smith, star of I Fought the Law
- Paul Hirons revisits the 2004 teen crime drama Veronica Mars.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 2014 spy movie A Most Wanted Man.
- Stuart Heritage reports that Jason Bourne is coming back, whether audiences want him to or not.
- Gabriel V. Rindborg reports that piracy is on the rise again after streaming services became steadily more expensive and worse.
- Olivia Rutigliano shares a quiz about which actors almost appeared in famous movies.
- Lorna Raver, best known for her appearances in Drag Me To Hell, Freeway, Armored, The Caller and many others, has died aged 81.
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Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Lincoln Michel implores people to continue making art even in the face of AI slop flooding the internet.
- Tanya Scott finds surprising affinities between writing and medicine
- Arjun Panickssery wonders why sentence lengths have decreased.
- Jason Sanford explains why he does not use generative AI.
- Nathalie op de Beek reports that public schools in Florida have removed hundreds of books with allegedly sexual content from their libraries, fearing the state's reprisal
- Nathalie op de Beek reports that a Florida court has upheld the freedom to read in the decision PRH versus Gibson.
- Jim Milliot shares an update on the class action lawsuit of several authors against Anthropic AI.
- Writer Dave Barry reports how Google AI declared him dead and refused to correct its mistake, even though Barry is very much still alive.
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Reviews:
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Final Vow by M.W. Craven
- Jen Lucas reviews The Final Vow by M.W. Craven
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Quiet Bones by Sarah Ward
- Ali Karim reviews Never Flinch by Stephen King
- P.D. Viner reviews The Cut by Richard Armitage
- Mary Picken reviews The Sleepwalker by Lars Kepler
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Cyclist by Tim Sullivan
- Jen Lucas reviews Little Children by Angela Marsons
- Jen Lucas reviews Home Before Dark by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, translated by Victoria Cribb
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Divinity Games by Lou Gilmond
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Everyone Is Lying To You by Jo Piazza
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Diary of Lies by Philip Miller
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Survivors by Jane Harper
- Marlene Harris reviews Head Cases by John McMahon
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Love You To Death by Christina Dotson
- Ali Karim reviews The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie
- Robin Agnew reviews A Silence in Belgrave Square by Jennifer Ashley.
- Jen Lucas reviews The House At Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead
- Cathy Akers-Jordan reviews Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure by Rhys Bowen.
- Kate Jackson reviews Bookish by Matthew Sweet
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews A Death In the Parish by Richard Coles
- Lesa Holstine reviews Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill
- Cathy Akers-Jordan reviews Deeds Left Undone by Ellen Crosby.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Mango Murders by Lucy Burdette and tries a recipe from the book.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine and tries a recipe from the book.
- Kate Jackson reviews How to Seal Your Own Fate by Kristen Perrin
- Mandie Griffiths reviews The Burning Stones by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston
- Kevin Tipple reviews Three Strikes-You’re Dead!, edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman and Marcia Talley
- Ali Karim reviews Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories by Lee Child
Classics reviews:
- Only Detect revisits the 1933 mystery The Mad Hatter Mystery by John Dickson Carr.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1937 Hercule Poirot mystery Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1938 mystery The Judas Window by Carter Dickson
- Only Detect revisits the 1943 mystery Blind Man’s Bluff by Banyard Kendrick.
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1952 mystery Death in the Fifth Position by Edgar Box a.k.a. Gore Vidal.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1967 Flaxborough mystery Lonelyheart 4122 by Colin Watson.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1973 mystery Tea On Sunday by Lettice Cooper
- Lesa Holstine revisits the 1973 Inspector Sloan mystery His Burial Too by Catherine Aird
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1977 Thackeray Phin mystery Invisible Green by John Sladek.
- Jen Lennon revisits the 2005 thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.
Con and event reports:
Research:
- Tom Levitt chronicles how British-Chinese teenager Chloe Cheung came to have a Chinese bounty on her head for daring to speak out against the suppression of protests in Hong Kong.
- Robert Hilland shares an incident at an accident scene involving a night very bright police officer.
- Gregg Olsen talks about the 2005 murder of a family in Idaho and the kidnapping of their two children, only one of whom survived.
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