Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 18, 2025
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week,
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out the previous week,
- John Valeri lists fifteen spooky crime and horror novels to enjoy this October.
- Paz Pardo shares five new speculative thrillers and mysteries coming out this fall
- Martha Waters explains why small villages make such great settings for cozy mysteries.
- Lucy Connelly shares sixteen cozy mysteries that feature travel and international intrigue
- Jennifer Fawcett explains what fictional violence teaches us about the real thing (and vice versa)
- Tom Ryan shares six novels featuring teen detectives.
- Hank Philippi Ryan talks about mothers in crime fiction.
- Hannah Beer talks about the costs and consequences of celebrity culture.
- Anbara Salam talks about the enduring appeal of shipwreck mysteries
- Naomi Kaye shares her favourite mysteries featuring coffee.
- Nicholas Binge talks about doubles and doppelgangers in fiction.
- Jane Alexander talks about Edgar Wallace's unusual marketing scheme for his 1905 thriller The Four Just Men, which almost drove him to ruin.
- Kiri Callaghan shares some musings on Arthur Conan Doyle's interest in spiritualism
Tributes to Ann Granger:
Tributes to Jilly Cooper:
- Dame Jilly Cooper, British author of romance novels, family sagas and so-called "bonkbusters", has died aged 88.
- Veronica Horwell shares an obituary for Dame Jilly Cooper.
- Jenny Colgan, Olivia Laing and Jess Cartner-Morley share their tributes to Jilly Cooper.
- Readers of The Guardian share their tributes to Jilly Cooper.
- The Guardian shares photos from Jilly Cooper's long life.
Film and TV:
- Lucy Mangan calls Frauds an absolute triumph of a heist drama
- Haley Zapal calls One Battle After Another an absolute masterpiece about rebellion, standing up to power and hope.
- Lucy Mangan calls To Cook a Bear a daft historical crime drama that is like Law & Order: Special Ursine Unit
- Hannah J. Davies calls season 3 of The Diplomat a nail-biting political thriller and ludicrous treat
- Catherine Bray calls Operation Pope a hard-bitten thriller about a true-life papal assassination plot
- Sarah Dempster calls The Intruder the daftest thriller of the entire year
- Brian Tallerico calls The Last Frontier a thriller that is far more silly than chilly
- Luke Buckmaster calls Watching You a surveillance thriller that is barely worth watching
- Jack Seale calls Murdaugh: Death in the Family an obscene true-crime drama and praises their performance of Patricia Arquette.
- Tobias Jones compares the true crime drama The Monster of Florence to the actual murder series committed in Florence and elsewhere in Italy between 1968 and 1985.
- Diana Keng shares her thoughts on season 2 of Karen Pirie.
- Paul Hirons talks about the enduring appeal of clergy as detectives in cosy crime dramas
- Danny Leigh interviews Kathryn Bigelow, director of Strange Days, Point Break, Blue Steel, Near Dark, House of Dynamite and many others.
- Judith Tarr revisits the 1975 shark movie Jaws.
- Paul Hirons revisits the 1996 British crime drama Dalziel and Pascoe.
- Paul Hirons revisits the 2017 thriller TV series Fearless.
- Alex Rollins Berg shares five classic noir B-movies
- Olivia Rutigliano shares her favourite thrillers that feel almost like horror movies.
- Judith Tarr takes a look at the boom of shark movies that come out in the wake of Jaws.
- Melody McCune ranks the Halloween heist episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- Heather Hill, who directed the soap opera The Young and the Restless for fifteen years, has died aged 85.
Tributes to Diane Keaton:
- Diane Keaton, star of The Godfather, Annie Hall, Baby Boom, Sleeper, Manhattan Murder Mystery, The First Wives Club, The Little Drummer Girl and many others, has died aged 79.
- Director and actor Woody Allen remembers his co-star and former partner Diane Keaton.
- Kirsten Chuba shares Keanu Reeves' tribute to Diane Keaton.
- Elliott Gould remembers his former co-star Diana Keaton.
- Castille Landon, director of what would be Diane Keaton's final film, shares a tribute to her.
- Peter Bradshaw shares a tribute to Diane Keaton.
- Jesse Hassenger shares a tribute to Diane Keaton.
- William Hughes remembers Diane Keaton.
- Writers of The Guardian remember Diane Keaton
- Jess Cartner-Morley celebrates Diane Keaton's unique sense of style.
- Pejman Faratin shares photos from Diane Keaton's long life.
Comments on season 5 of Slow Horses:
Comments on season 5 of Only Murders in the Building:
- Melody McCune shares her thoughts on the previous episode of Only Murders in the Building.
- Melody McCune shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Only Murders in the Building.
- Saloni Gajjar declares that Only Murders In The Building got its mojo back by focusing on the building again in season 5.
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Comments on Monster: The Ed Gein Story:
- Richard Lawson calls Monster: The Ed Gein Story lurid exploitation dressed up as a serious drama
- Lucy Mangan calls Monster: The Ed Gein Story unforgivable and utterly devoid of morality.
- Manuel Betancourt declares that Monster: The Ed Gein Story is guilty of the very sensationalism it critiques
- Paul Hirons calls Monster: The Ed Gein Story a muddled, lurid, strangely fascinating mess, and proof that sometimes, the real monster isn’t in the story, but in how it’s told.
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Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Molly Templeton talks about the challenges of moving with lots of books.
- Emma Loffhagen reports about the British Organic Books initiative which plans to certify AU-free, human written books.
- Vanessa Armstrong reports that PEN America's most banned books of the year list for 2025 includes numerous SFF titles and authors
- J. Kingston Pierce shares the most banned crime novels from the PEN American list.
Awards:
- The winners of the 2025 Macavity Awards have been announced.
- The winner of the 2025 Glass Bell Award has been announced.
- The winners of the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards have been announced.
- The shortlist for the 2025 Chicago Review of Books Awards has been announced.
- The winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature has been announced.
Interviews:
- Sarah DiVello interviews Walter Mosley.
- Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee interviews Patricia Cornwell.
- Michelle Cottle interviews Richard Osman.
- Rick Pullen interviews Megan Abbott.
- Scott Simon interviews Janice Hallett,
- Alex Dueben interviews Sophie Hannah.
- Barbara Peters interviews Martin Edwards.
- Deborah Kalb interviews J.A. Jance.
- Garrick Webster interviews Michael Bourne.
- Ali Karim interviews Gerald Petievich
- Elise Cooper interviews Julia Kelly.
- Olivia Rutigliano interviews Caroline Reitz.
- Lori Rader-Day interviews Jake Hinkson.
- Paul Burke interviews Jake Arnott.
- Paul Burke interviews David Jarvis.
- Scott Simon interviews Anna North.
- Kathleen Antrim and D.P. Lyle interview Carter Wilson
- Lisa Haselton interviews Ronald Chapman.
- Debbi Mack interviews Desmond O. Ryan.
- Alan Petersen interviews Nicole Trope.
- Alan Petersen interviews Traci Hunter Abramson
- Inkandescent TV interviews Reed Farrel Coleman.
- Terrence Layhew interviews Raymond Benson.
Reviews:
- Paul Burke reviews Deadman’s Pool by Kate Rhodes
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves
- Jen Lucas reviews The Hollow Man by Rachel Amphlett
- Janet Webb reviews The Black Wolf by Louise Penny
- Jen Lucas reviews The Hawk Is Dead by Peter James
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Gone to Ground by Morgan Hatch
- Jen Lucas reviews Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson, translated by Quentin Bates
- Jen Lucas reviews Black As Death by Lilja Sigurðardóttir, translated by Lorenza Garcia
- Mandie Griffiths reviews An Eye For An Eye by Jeffrey Archer
- Lesa Holstine reviews Dying Cry by Margaret Mizushima
- Kevin Tipple reviews Crime Writer by Vinnie Hansen
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Blood Like Ours by Stuart Neville
- Jen Lucas reviews Bad Date by Ellery Lloyd
- Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Perfect Happiness by You-jeong Jeong, translated by Sean Lin Halbert.
- Janet Webb reviews All This Could Be Yours by Hank Phillippi Ryan
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Board by Katy Farber
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Glass Eel by J. J. Viertel
- Ali Karim reviews Exiles by Mason Coile
- Jen Lucas reviews Revenge of Odessa by Frederick Forsyth with Tony Kent
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews A Scrooge Mystery by Andreina Cordani
- Mandie Griffiths reviews The Empire by Michael Ball
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
- Lesa Holstine reviews Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards
- Jen Lucas reviews 12 Ways To Kill Your Family At Christmas by Natasha Bache
- Mandie Griffiths reviews The Game Is Murder by Hazell Ward
- Lesa Holstine reviews Murder Most Haunted by Emma Mason
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Seven Secret Spellcasters by Lynn Cahoon and tries a recipe from the book.
- Janet Webb reviews Five Golden Wings by Donna Andrews
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Sour Crime Donuts by Ginger Bolton and tries a recipe from the book.
- Ali Karim reviews You Like It Darker by Stephen King
- Lesa Holstine reviews The In Death Cookbook: To-Die-For Recipes fro the World of J.D. Robb by Theresa Carle-Sanders
Classics reviews:
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1911 mystery The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet by Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1928 Inspector French mystery The Sea Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts
- Happiness Is a Book revisits the 1928 Miles Bredon mystery Footsteps at the Lock by Ronald Knox
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1930 crime novel The Dark Angel by James Ronald
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1943 Inspector French mystery The Affair At Little Wokeham by Freeman Wills Crofts
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1956 mystery Dewey Death by Charity Blackstock
- Steven Nester revisits the 1960 crime novel Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1961 crime novel Underhandover by Kenneth O'Hara.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1969 cozy mystery Picture Miss Seeton by Heron Carvic.
- Jen Lucas revisits the 1972 thriller The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1981 mystery Death of a Perfect Mother by Robert Barnard
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1986 Reid Bennett police procedural Fool's Gold by Ted Wood.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1992 historical mystery The Prince Of Darkness by Paul Doherty
Con and event reports:
- Ali Karim shares his adventures at the 2025 Bouchercon in New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Martin Edwards shares his experiences at the Isle of Wight Literary Festival in Cowes, Isle of Wright.
- Martin Edwards shares his experiences at the Henley Literary Festival in Henley-on-Thames, UK.
- Martin Edwards reports about Ken Ludwig's stage adaptation of Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, which is currently playing in Manchester, UK.
- Richard Norton-Taylor reports about the exhibition "Tradecraft" about John Le Carré's writing and research process at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK.
- Shane Whaley interviews Jessica Douthwaite and Federico Varese, curators of the "Tradecraft" exhibition.
Research:
- Carsten Andersen discusses the homophobic murder of John Walter Mooney in Kansas in 1949.
- Chris Kraus talks about the so-called Nagamo Trail Murder in Minnesota in 2019.
- Lev A.C. Rosen shares a brief appreciation of queer biker culture
- Jake Adelstein talks about a 2018 cryptocurrency heist in Japan.
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