Crime Fiction Links of the Week for August 9, 2025
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week,
- Jan Karsten talks about crime fiction set in Hamburg, Germany.
- Paul French talks about crime fiction set in East Timor.
- Jennifer Jabaley shares six crime novels where competitive parenting goes off the rails
- Victor Suthammanont talks about crafting a legal thriller with no easy resolution
- Remi Kone discusses how she went from TV drama producer to crime fiction writer.
- Alex Pavesi talks about the difficulties of setting a crime novel in the recent past.
- Virginia Trench explains how the start-up CEO and concited conwoman Elizabeth Holmes inspired her debut thriller.
- Cathy Akers-Jordan shares an overview of the Inspector Rutledge and Bess Crawford historical mysteries by Charles Todd.
- Sherman Cahill recounts how Dashiell Hammett invented noir fiction in Butte, Montana, of all places.
- Maureen Dowd attempts to debunk the claim that men don't read fiction and notes that quite a few of them do.
- Dame Stella Rimmington, crime fiction writer and the first female head of the MI5, has died aged 90.
- Richard Norton-Taylor shares an obituary for Dame Stella Rimmington.
Film and TV:
- Lucy Mangan calls the latest adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo full of howlers, wooden acting and terrible dialogue, but at points it’s so bad it’s fun
- Lucy Mangan calls Lucy Letby: Beyond Reasonable Doubt? one of the most meticulous documentaries in years
- Chris Jenkins shares his thoughts on the final 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.
- Aaron Jones shares his thoughts on season 3 of Squid Game.
- Zoe Williams interviews Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy, stars of Hostage.
- Paul Hirons revisits the 1984 crime series Miami Vice.
- Paul Hirons revisits the 2001 crime drama The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
- Emmeline Duncan shares crime films and TV shows set in Oregon.
- Liam Stack reports that actor Gary Busey has pled guilty to sexual misconduct at the Monster-Mania convention in Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania.
- Actress Loni Anderson, best known for her appearances in Stroker Ace, WKRP in Cincinnati, Partners in Crime, All Dogs Go to Heaven and many other,s has died aged 79.
Comments on the new The Naked Gun:
- Matt Schimkowitz declares that the new The Naked Gun aims at the cold, dead heart of masculinity.
- Chris Nashawaty declares that The Naked Gun is the film the world needs right now
- Jesse Hassenger declares that spoofs haven't defined Liam Neeson's career, which makes him perfect for the new The Naked Gun.
- Catherine Shoard reports that David Zucker, co-creator of the original The Naked Gun, has somewhat softened on the reboot.
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Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Vicky Delaney talks about the joy of real-world research when crafting a novel
- Joy Fielding recommends five essential thrillers perfect for aspiring writers
- Rhys Bowen talks about creating tension in historical crime fiction
- Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt talk about writing a thriller in the surveillance age
- Victoria Strauss talks about a new scam aimed at writers.
- Ed Nawotka reports that Canadian author J.B. MacKinnon is sueing four AI companies for copyright infringement.
Awards:
Interviews:
- Locus interviews Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
- Abir Mukherjee and Vaseem Khan interviews Nick Harkaway.
- Alan Petersen interviews Ty Hutchinson.
- Paul Burke interviews Dan Fesperman.
- Matthew Turbeville interviews Joyce Carol Oates.
- E.B. Davis interviews Ellen Byron.
- Garrick Webster interviews Catherine Merridale.
- Authors on the Air interviews Polly Stewart.
- Ali Karim interviews Quentin Bates.
- Ali Karim interviews Caroline Fraser.
Reviews:
- Kevin Tipple reviews Fog and Fury by Rachel Howzell Hall
- Janet Webb reviews Knife in the Back by Karen Rose
- Sandra Mangan reviews Two Kinds of Stranger by Steve Cavanagh
- Mary Picken reviews Two Kinds of Stranger by Steve Cavanagh
- Blue Book Balloon reviews The Good Liar by Denise Mina
- Janet Webb reviews We Don’t Talk About Carol by Kristen L. Berry
- Mike Parker reviews Welcome To Cottonmouth by Jay S. Bell
- Lesa Holstine reviews Hunter’s Heart Ridge by Sarah Stewart Taylor.
- Margaret Agnew reviews Hunter’s Heart Ridge by Sarah Stewart Taylor.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Throwing Shadows by Claire Booth
- Mandie Griffiths reviews Amnesia by L.J. Ross
- Mandie Griffiths reviews Poison Garden by L.J. Ross
- BOLO Books reviews The Grand Paloma Resort by Cleyvis Natera.
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Inside Man by Trevor Wood
- Mandie Griffiths reviews Victim by Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger, translated by Megan Turney
- Jen Lucas reviews Hunkeler’s Secret by Hansjörg Schneider
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Shining Skull by Kate Ellis
- Adam Colclough reviews Moscow Underground by Catherine Merridale
- Marlene Harris reviews The Shakespeare Secret by D.J. Nix
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Death at an Irish Village by Ellie Brannigan
- Jen Lucas reviews The Last Devil To Die by Richard Osman
- Carla Schantz reviews That Missing Piece is Killing Me by Roz Noonan.
- Margaret Agnew reviews Thus With a Kiss I Die by Christina Dodd.
- Serena Labrecque reviews The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris
- Julia Kitvaria Sarene reviews Blackcap by Benjamin Aeveryn
Classics reviews:
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1958 mystery Long Shadows by Carol Carnac
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1961 suspense novel Nightmare by Anne Blaisdell
- John Copenhaver and Polly Stewart revisit the 1962 crime novel The Zebra-Striped Hearse by Ross Macdonald.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1968 Detective Christie Opara police procedural The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak.
- Kate Jackson revisits the 2014 Mr. Monk mystery Mr Monk Gets on Board by Hy Conrad
- Kate Jackson revisits the 2015 Mr. Monk mystery Mr Monk and the New Lieutenant by Hy Conrad
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