Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 4, 2025
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week,
- Paul French shares crime novels set on the island of Capri in Italy.
- Sherry Thomas discusses the differences of writing historical and contemporary mysteries.
- Fran Wilde asks various writers whether they prefer heist or caper stories.
- Charlene Wang talks about the healing power of feminist revenge stories
- Curtis Ippolito hists a roundtable on crime fiction and climate change.
- Stephen King shares his appreciation for the works of Daphne du Maurier
- Jonathan Cowie celebrates the 35th birthday of the Judge Dredd Megazine,
- Steve Urszenyi shares how his career as paramedic influenced his thrillers.
- British mystery writer Ann Granger has died aged 86
- British crime writer Shaun Usher has died aged 88.
Film and TV:
- Lucy Mangan calls Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue a ludicrous crime drama and a most perfect piece of televisual trash.
- Jim Vorel calls Bone Lake a hot and heavy throwback thriller
- Catherine Bray calls The Drowned an atmospheric horror film about three art thieves holed up on the sea shore
- Melody McCune shares her thoughts on the latest episode of season 5 of Only Murders in the Building.
- Lacy Baugher Milas shares her thoughts on Murder Before Evensong.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the second episode of The Hack.
- Diana Keng shares her thoughts on the latest episode of The Rainmaker.
- Saloni Gajjar declares that the postponement of The Savant only highlights the crime show's importance
- Stuart Heritage shares his love for the action film Fast X.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1966 crime serial Death is a Good Living
- Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1995 James Bond movie GoldenEye
- Kenneth Lowe revisits the 2015 superhero spy show Agent Carter.
- Olivia Rutigliano shares her fifteen favourite mafia comedies.
- Keith Roysdon explains why he prefer contemporary crime movies to retain period settings.
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Comments on One Battle After Another:
- Matt Schimkowitz declares that One Battle After Another moves through the closed loop of racist terror and the fight against it.
- Jesse Hassenger wonders what the politics of One Battle After Another are.
- Alex Lei declares that One Battle After Another turns Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland into a big-budget Hollywood movie.
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Comments on the AI actress Tilly Norwood:
- Stuart Heritage reports about the controversial AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood.
- Andrew Pulver reports about a backlash against Tilly Norwood from flesh and blood actors.
- Cheryl Eddy shares actor Ralph Ineson's response to AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood.
- Peter Bradshaw declares that AI ‘actress’ Tilly Norwood is a symptom of blandified film culture.
- Catherine Shoard declares that actors criticise AI actress Tilly Norwood, but resort to plastic surgery and insane exercise regimes themselves.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Barbara DeMarco-Barrett talks about the strange perambulations of writing inspiration
- Michael Swanwick writes about an unusual piece of writing inspiration.
- Ella Creamer reports that the independent bookstore platform Bookshop.org has launched in the UK.
- Ayo Onatade also reports about the launch of Bookshop.org in the UK.
- Jason Sanford reports about AI powered writing scams.
- Victoria Strauss shares an update about the Anthropic AI settlement.
- Andrea Bartz talks about the class action lawsuit against Anthropic AI, which she initiated.
- PEN America reports about the normalisation of book banning.
- Hillel Italie reports that Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools.
- Elizabeth A. Harris reports that a court in Florida has rejected the free speech argument in a book banning case involving the children's book And Tango Makes Three.
Awards:
Interviews:
- Ali Karim interviews Lee Child.
- Stephen Armstrong interviews Lee Child.
- Erik Pedersen interviews Lou Berney.
- Kalyn Oyer Koyer interviews Craig Johnson
- Alan Petersen interviews J.A. Jance.
- Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee interview Beth Lewis.
- Ali Karim interviews C.B. Bernard
- Garick Webster interviews Martin Sterling.
- Authors on the Air interviews Martha Waters.
- Lisa Haselton interviews Paul G. Vecchiet.
Reviews:
- Sandra Mangan reviews Clown Town by Mick Herron
- Xan Brooks reviews Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
- BOLO Books reviews Crooks by Lou Berney.
- Ali Karim reviews 13 Hillcrest Drive by Gerald Petievich
- Sandra Mangan reviews Legacy by Chris Hammer
- Janet Webb reviews The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves
- Jen Lucas reviews Deadman’s Pool by Kate Rhodes
- Mandie Griffiths reviews The Bodies by Sam Lloyd
- Kevin Tipple reviews Splintered Justice by Kim Hays
- Jen Lucas reviews Worse Than Murder by Michael Wood
- Marlene Harris reviews Spider to the Fly by J.H. Markert
- Margaret Agnew reviews Miss Morton and the Missing Heir by Catherine Lloyd.
- Jen Lucas reviews The Murder Game by Tom Hindle
- Vicki Kondelik reviews Murder at Somerset House by Andrea Penrose.
- Marlene Harris reviews Murder at Somerset House by Andrea Penrose.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Mrs Pargeter’s Past by Simon Brett
- Robin Agnew reviews Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent.
- Kate Jackson reviews Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards
- Carla Schantz reviews Murder in an Italian Piazza by Michael Falco.
- Carla Schantz reviews Death of a Tom Turkey by Lee Hollis.
- Colleen Mondor reviews Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala
- Doreen Sheridan reviews A Perilous Plot by Lorna Barrett and tries a recipe from the book.
- Carla Schantz reviews A Matter of Pedigree by Leslie Meier.
- Sharon Richardson reviews The Corpse with the Amber Neck by Cathy Ace
- Marion Deeds reviews Winter’s Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch
- Doreen Sheridan reviews A Spell to Wake the Dead by Nicole Lesperance
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Skin and Bones by Paul Doiron
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Research:
Free online fiction:
- "The Man on Five" by Gavin Kent in Shotgun Honey.
- "Numbers of a Life" by Kristen Gareau in Shotgun Honey.
- "Mom’s B & B" by Robb White in Punk Noir Magazine
- "Persistent Vegetative State" by Paul Radcliffe in Punk Noir Magazine
- "The Devil's Herd, Part 1" by Bruce Arthurs in Cliffhanger Magazine.
- "Federal Communications Censure" by G. Emil Reutter in The Five-Two.
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