Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 25, 2025
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week,
- Publishers Weekly share their favourite mysteries and thrillers of 2025.
- Crime Reads shares queer mysteries for every mood.
- Rivka Galchen shares her appreciation for cat cozies.
- Allison Brook recommends cozy mysteries featuring animals other than cats
- Chuck Starla talks about murder among neighbours.
- Felix Francis explains how controlling and coercive behavior can lead to murder
- Anna Snoekstra wonders whether we are in the golden age of the audio thriller.
- Adrian Collins shares buddy cop pairings for dark fantasy fans
- Michael Callahan recounts the history of The Hardy Boys YA mysteries.
- Olivia Rutigliano talks about the turn of the century female detective character Dora Myrl.
- Ella Creamer reports that picture books based on Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple will come out in the Mr. Men and Little Miss children's book series.
- Mystery writer Lesley Cookman has died aged 80.
Film and TV:
- Lacy Baugher Milas calls season 3 of The Diplomat frustrating.
- Diana Keng shares her thoughts on episode 5 of season 5 of Slow Horses.
- Paul Hirons shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Blue Lights.
- Caroline Siede shares her thoughts on the season finale of Task.
- Diana Keng shares her thoughts on the season 1 finale of The Rainmaker.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 5 of The Hack.
- Lucy Mangan calls The Ridge a masterfully layered thriller
- Natalie Keogan calls the The Hand That Rocks The Cradle a much-needed update to the 1992 original
- Phil Hoad calls Diablo a humdrum revenger thriller with some good fight scenes.
- Catherine Bray calls Strange Harvest a lurid horror film expertly disguised as true crime
- Jim Vorel declares that The Perfect Neighbor presents a mundane murder in infuriating slow motion
- Hannah J. Davies calls TikTok: Murder Gone Viral an icky show that dramatically cheapens these victims’ stories
- Ben Travis interviews Rian Johnson, director of The Last Jedi, Knives Out, Glass Onion and Wake Up Dead Man
- Danny Leigh interviews Kathryn Bigelow, director of Strange Days, Point Break, Blue Steel, Near Dark, House of Dynamite and many others.
- Ryan Gilbey interviews Kelly Reichardt and Josh O'Connor, director and star of The Mastermind.
- Marc Malkin interviews Morena Baccarin, star of Sheriff County.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1978 crime movie Fedora.
- Caroline Siede revisits the 2003 action film Kill Bill.
- Brooks Barnes reports that cancellations of Disney Plus have jumped since the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel
- Al Pacino remembers his former partner and co-star Diane Keaton.
- Actress Samantha Eggar, star of The Brood, The Collector, Doctor Doolittle, The Seven Percent Solution, The Uncanny and many others, has died aged 86.
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Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Elizabeth Spiers looks back on the heyday of blogging and what made it different,
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia discusses the currents state of the book market and trends.
- Brian Keene worries that the indie horror market is contracting.
- Claire Kirch reports that booksellers are riding the horror wave.
- Victoria Strauss takes a deeper look at Nigerian marketing scams aimed at writers.
- Nathalie op de Beek reports that a US Federal Judge has ruled a Texas book ratings law unconstitutional.
Awards:
Interviews:
- Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee interview Peter James.
- Jamie Lee Curtis interviews Patrica Cornwell.
- Craig Sisterson interviews Lilja Sigurdardóttir
- Mary Louise Kelly interviews Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon.
- Debbi Mack interviews Amanda DuBois.
- Frank Zafiro interviews Phillip Thompson.
- Garrick Webster interviews Shane Peacock.
- John Valeri interviews Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper
Reviews:
- Jen Lucas reviews Silent Bodies by Val McDermid
- Kevin Tipple reviews Framed in Death by J.D. Robb
- Ayo Onatade reviews Quantum Of Menace by Vaseem Khan
- Jen Lucas reviews Quantum Of Menace by Vaseem Khan
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Quantum Of Menace by Vaseem Khan
- Jen Lucas reviews Little Secrets by Victoria Goldman
- Lesa Holstine reviews Fallen Star by Lee Goldberg
- Kevin Tipple reviews Hidden in Smoke by Lee Goldberg
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley
- Mary Picken reviews A Slowly Dying Cause by Elizabeth George
- Jen Lucas reviews The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly
- Mary Picken reviews The Cut Throat Trial by S.J. Fleet
- Janet Webb reviews The Widow by John Grisham
- Marlene Harris reviews Saving Mr. Norcross by Anna Hackett
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Guest Children by Patrick Tarr
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Like a Bullet by Andrew Cartmel
- Robin Agnew reviews The Rush by Beth Lewis.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Bloomsbury Murder by Mike Hollow
- Janet Webb reviews A Dark and Deadly Journey by Julia Kelly
- Janet Webb reviews A Deadly Fashion by Rosemary Simpson
- Erin Britton reviews Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests by K.J. Whittle
- Erin Britton reviews The Killer Question by Janice Hallett
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Murder at Blackwood Inn by Penny Warner
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder At The Cape Costumers by Maddie Day and tries a recipe from the book.
- Cathy Akers-Jordan reviews A Wonderful Christmas Crime by Jacqueline Frost.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Merry Christmas Murders by Alexandra Benedict
- Cathy Akers-Jordan reviews A Christmas Witness by Charles Todd.
- The Quick and the Read reviews The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson
- Kevin Tipple reviews Hollywood Kills: A Crime Fiction Anthology, edited by Adam Meyer and Alan Orloff
- Kevin Tipple reviews The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2025, edited by Don Winslow.
Classics reviews:
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1930 Peter Piper mystery The Case of the Missing Sandals by Nancy Barr Mavity
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1931 mystery The Cape Cod Mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor.
- Randal S. Brandt revisit the 1942 noir novel Phantom Lady by William Irish a.k.a. Cornell Woolrich and its 1944 film adaptation.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1945 mystery This Is the House by Shelley Smith.
- C.M. Kushins revisits the 1970 crime fiction novella "Picket Line" by Elmore Leonard.
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1983 mystery The Corpse Now Arriving by Margaret Hinxman
- Polly Stewart and I.S. Berry revisit the 1983 spy novel The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré.
Con and event reports:
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel shares his adventures at the 2025 Death In The Dales crime fiction festival in Sedbergh, UK.
- Martin Edwards shares his adventures at the 2025 Death In The Dales crime fiction festival in Sedbergh, UK.
- Emma Loffhagen reports about the Black British Book Festival in London, UK.
Research:
- Olivia Rutigliano takes a look at the many times the Louvre was robbed.
- The Guardian reports that 68-year-old Lindsay Sandiford who was sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug smuggling is being returned to the UK.
- Jin Yu Young reports that the California police have broken up a ring of LEGO thieves and recovered ten thousands of stolen LEGO pieces.
Free online fiction:
- "Lubbock to El Paso" by Gabriela Stiteler in Shotgun Honey.
- "What I Wanted" by Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Mystery Tribune.
- "Money For A Mountebank" by John Weagly in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "You Never Forget Your First" by Tammy Blakley in Punk Noir Magazine
- "The Deuce - 1978" by Peter M. Gordon. in The Five-Two.
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