Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 1, 2025
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
- Lisa Kusel explains why October is the perfect month for thrillers and crime novels.
- Daryl Wood Gerber recommends five culinary cozies.
- Merle Nygate explains why she write spy fiction.
- Cindy Fazzi talks about bounty hunters in fiction and life.
- Ellery Adams talks about the allure of psychics and mediums in crime writing
- Zack Handlen discusses Stephen King's fascination with his character Holly Gibney.
Film and TV:
- David Masciotra calls Honey Don't the subversive queer private eye movie for today's America
- Paul Hirons calls Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue an enjoyable, diverting mystery
- Jim Vorel calls Violent Ends a gruesome and engrossing Southern crime thriller.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Relay a smart and twisty surveillance thriller
- Martin Edwards calls The Wasp a consistently watchable thriller.
- Paul Hirons declares that The Monster of Florence is less about solving a crime than exposing a culture.
- Paul Hirons shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Blue Lights.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the season finale of Task.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on season 1 of To Cook a Bear.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 6 of The Hack.
- Patrick J. Sauer delves into the background of Highest 2 Lowest
- Paul Hirons revisits the 1979 crime series Minder.
- French Turkish actor Tchéky Karyo, best known for his roles in Nikita, The Missing, GoldenEye, Bad Boys and many others, has died aged 70.
- Peter Watkins, director of The War Game, Privilege, Punishment Park and many others, has died aged 90.
Tributes to June Lockhart:
Comments on season 5 of Only Murders in the Building:
- Melody McCune shares her thoughts on the season 5 finale of Only Murders in the Building.
- Melody McCune shares questions she hopes will be answered in season 6 of Only Murders in the Building.
- Olivia Rutigliano reports that Only Murders in the Buildings has been renewed for season 6, which will be set in London, UK.
Comments on season 5 of Slow Horses:
Comments on Down Cemetery Road:
Comments on A House of Dynamite:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Laurence Raphael Brothers shares some tips for submitting short stories.
- J.B. Abbott explains how assembling jigsaw puzzles can help writers craft mysteries
- Stephen Kelman talks about how the British conservative politician James Farquharson tried to have his book Pigeon English banned from British schools.
- R. Nassor explains that the US and UK are in a book affordability crisis due to the demise of the mass market paperback.
- Martin Edwards talks about the AI scam e-mails he has recently found in his inbox.
- Jim Milliot shares an update from the class action lawsuit against Open AI.
- Winston Cho also shares an update from the class action lawsuit against Open AI.
- DNYUZ reports that Simon & Schuster is sueing the estate of crime fiction writer Nelson DeMille for 1.275 million US-dollar.
Awards:
Interviews:
Reviews:
- Jen Lucas reviews The Hungry Dark by Jen Williams
- Gayle Surrette reviews Framed in Death by J.D. Robb
- Sharon Richardson reviews The Broken Detective by Joel Nedecky
- Mary Picken reviews Legacy by Chris Hammer
- Thanhmai Bui-Va reviews Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan
- Mary Picken reviews Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan
- BOLO Books reviews A Night at the Shore by Tony Knighton.
- Sandra Mangan reviews We Create Monsters by Martin Sterling
- BOLO Books reviews The Black Wolf by Louise Penny.
- Margaret Agnew reviews The Black Wolf by Louise Penny.
- John Valeri reviews Sharp Force by Patricia Cornwell
- Adam Colclough reviews Fatal Shot by Brian Price
- Mandie Griffiths reviews End Game by Jeffrey Archer
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Spider to the Fly by J.H. Markert
- Mary Picken reviews One of Us by Elizabeth Day
- Kevin Tipple reviews The Dentist by George Sullivan
- Marlene Harris reviews The Dentist by George Sullivan
- Mandie Griffiths reviews The People Watcher by Sam Lloyd
- Robin Agnew reviews The Bone Thief by Vanessa Lillie.
- Tony R. Cox reviews The Death Lesson by Sarah Ward
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Death Lesson by Sarah Ward
- Jen Lucas reviews The Island by Paul Finch
- Jeff Ayers reviews The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly
- Mary Picken reviews The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Other People’s Houses by Clare Mackintosh
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Protocols of Spying by Merle Nygate
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent
- Dave Bradley reviews The Blockchain Syndicate by Robbie Bach
- Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Under Vixens Mere by Kit Fielding
- Blue Book Balloon reviews The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston
- Raven Crime Reads reviews The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston
- Jen Lucas reviews White Christmas by Mark L. Fowler
- BOLO Books reviews The Last Death of the Year by Sophie Hannah.
- Vikki Kondelik reviews In Deadly Fashion by Rosemary Simpson:
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder On The Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Halloween Night Murder by Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis and Liz Ireland and tries a recipe from the book.
- Kate Jackson reviews Death Came at Hallowe’en by Gertrude Lynley
- Lesa Holstine reviews An Evil on All Hallows Eve by Heather Graham
Classics reviews:
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1945 Arthur Crook mystery The Black Stage by Anthony Gilbert
- Alan Brown revisits the 1952 science fiction crime novel The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1960 mystery Of Unsound Mind by Harry Carmichael.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1991 science fiction crime novel Days of Atonement by Walter Jon Williams
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1992 anthology Victorian Tales of Mystery & Detection, edited by Michael Cox
Con and event reports:
- Janet Rudolph reports that the 2027 Left Coast Crime Convention will take place in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- Gary Lovisi shares a video of the 2025 Pulp AdventureCon in Langhorn, Pennsylvania.
- Judy Newton reports about the 2025 National Book Festival in Washington D.C.
- Alyson Krueger wonders if Halloween decorations have become too scary.
Research:
- Frank Ladd talks about killer and grave robber Ed Gein.
- Skip Hollandsworth talks about the murder of Bobby and Abbie Burns in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1974.
- Margaret Mizushima explains how to train her dogs to track missing persons.
- Joe Wilkins reports that a robotic vaccuum cleaner has been found to create and transmit a map of its owner's home.
- Jamie Ballard reports that most Americans say they have experienced at least one paranormal event
Free online fiction:
- "Circus Trick" by Morgan Hobbs in Mystery Tribune.
- "Pennies for Poe and El Cuervo!" by Pamela Ebel in Kings River Life.
- "A Dead Man in the Mortuary" by Albert N. Katz in Kings River Life.
- "Forever Yours" by James Patrick Focarile in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
- "The Vamp" by Allison Whittenberg in The Five-Two.
- "Among the Neanderthals" by Richie Narvaez in Shotgun Honey.
- “Empire” by Frank Vatel in Punk Noir Magazine
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