Crime Fiction Links of the Week for September 13, 2025
It's
time again for Crime Fiction Links of the Week, our weekly round-up of
interesting links about crime fiction from around the web, this week
with season 5 of Only Murders in the Building, The Rainmaker, Task, The Girlfriend, the Anthropic AI settlement and much
more.
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week,
- Paul French lists crime novels set in Bath, UK.
- Laura Shepherd-Robinson shares six historical crime novels (and one contemporary work) that perfectly capture the eighteenth century
- Carmela Dutra talks about culinary mysteries.
- Archer Sullivan talks about legends, tall tales and the art of storytelling
- Molly Templeton notes that criticism is apparently dying once again.
- Meg Gardiner looks back on writing her first crime novel
- Jack de Brul talks about continuing Clive Cussler's work.
Film and TV:
- Trace Sauveur declares that Rian Johnson takes his Knives Out murder-mystery series to exhausting ends in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
- Tara Bennett declares that Kaitlin Olson continues to charm in season 2 of High Potential
- Brian Tallerico declares that Dexter: Resurrection repairs a once-great franchise's legacy
- Benjamin Lee calls Roofman an intermittently effective comedy crime drama about a deceitful prison escapee
- Natalia Keogan calls The Secret Agent a fantastic thriller about politics, espionage and Jaws
- Cath Clarke calls Sovereign a rage-fuelled anti-government crime drama
- Catherine Bray calls Brave the Dark a delinquent teen drama that comes off as if James Dean met Mr Chips
- Natalia Keogan calls Adulthood a dragging crime comedy.
- Benjamin Lee calls the wildfire docudrama The Lost Bus as stressful as you’d expect
- Rachel Aroesti calls Death of a Showjumper a bleak true-crime drama
- Lois Beckett shares Steven Spielberg's reminiscences about the making of Jaws.
- Paul Hirons revisits the 1955 police procedural Dixon of Dock Green.
- Diana Keng pays a visit to Twede's Café in North Bend, Washington, which was the real life filming location for the Double R Diner in Twin Peaks.
Comments in The Rainmaker:
Comments on Only Murders in the Building:
- Lucy Mangan still finds many things to love about season 5 of Only Murders in the Building, but the cracks are well and truly appearing.
- Whitney Friedlander finds season 5 of Only Murders in the Building overstuffed with celebrity guest stars.
- Saloni Gajjar shares her thoughts on the season 5 premiere of Only Murders in the Building.
- Melody McCune shares her thoughts on episode 1 of season 5 of Only Murders in the Building.
- Melody McCune shares her thoughts on episode 2 of season 5 of Only Murders in the Building.
- Melody McCune shares her thoughts on episode 3 of season 5 of Only Murders in the Building.
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Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Lauren Oliver talks about collective narrators.
- Hannah Mary McKinnon explains how her corporate job made her a better writer of mysteries
- Elizabeth Bear points out that networking is just making friends
- Hank Phillippi Ryan talks about book tours.
- P.A. Cornell reports how she walked away from a story sale to Analog, after Analog's new owners refused to budge on inacceptable contract terms,
- Ted Johnson reports that Anthropic AI has agreed to pay 1.5 billion US dollar to settle the AI class action lawsuit brought forward to several authors.
- Jason Sanford dissects the Anthropic AI settlement and finds it not nearly as favourable as initially presented, especially since many authors are shut out altogether due to not having a US copyright registration.
- Jason Sanford shares an update about the Anthropic AI settlement.
- Ashley Belanger reports that US District Judge William Alsup has refused to approve the Anthropic AI settlement.
- Ed Nawotka reports that Apple is also being sued by authors for copyright infringement over the training of its AI system.
Awards:
- The winners of the 2025 Anthony Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2025 Shamus Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2025 Davitt Awards have been announced.
- The finalists for the 2025 Mcllvanney Prize have been announced.
- The shortlist for the 2025 Glass Bell Award has been announced.
Interviews:
Reviews:
- Jen Lucas reviews Clown Town by Mick Herron
- Lesa Holstine reviews Crooks by Lou Berney
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Silent Ones by Anna McPartlin
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Witch’s Orchard by Archer Sullivan
- Kevin Tipple reviews A Lonesome Place for Murder by Nolan Chase
- Lesa Holstine reviews Dark and Deadly Be the Whispers by Heather Graham
- Jen Lucas reviews To Love A Liar by L.V. Matthews
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Patient by Tim Sullivan
- Erin Britton reviews The Vanishing Act by Jo Jakeman
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Blue Horse by Bruce Borgos
- Jen Lucas reviews Runaway Horses by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, translated by Gregory Dowling
- Sam Leith reviews The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
- Garrick Webster reviews Moscow Underground by Catherine Merridale
- Cathy Akers-Jordan reviews The Return of Moriarty by Jack Anderson.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews The Crooked Medium's Guide To Murder by Stephen Cox
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Death In The Aviary by Victoria Dowd
- Joseph B. Boyos reviews Dog Day Afternoon by David Rosenfelt
- BOLO Books reviews Whiskey Business by Adrian Andover.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Tea With Jam And Dread by Vicki Delany and tries a recipe from the book.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Miss Winter In The Library With A Knife by Martin Edwards
- Mary Picken reviews The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer by Ragnar Jonasson.
- Kate Jackson reviews Writing the Murder: Essays on Crafting Crime Fiction, edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst
Classics reviews:
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1905 Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen mystery The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle.
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1929 Arthur G. Crook mystery Death at Four Corners by Anthony Gilbert
- Lesa Holstine revisits the 1930 mystery collection The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie
- Erin Britton revisits the 1947 Kosuke Kindaichi mystery Murder at the Black Cat Cafe by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Bryan Karetnyk
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1964 crime novel The Safe Secret by Harry Carmichael.
Con and event reports:
Research:
- Rebecca Ratcliffe reports about scam centers along the border between Thailand and Myamar, where human trafficking victims are forced to participate in online scams.
- Meg Anderson reports that a whole industry dedicated to preventing school shootings has developed in the US rather than just doing the obvious thing.
- Maria Malone points out that people go missing all the time for all sorts of reasons.
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