Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 8, 2025
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
- Molly Odintz shares her favourite psychological thrillers coming out in November 2025
- Paul French shares crime novels set in the Falkland Islands.
- Adreina Cordani explains why we love flawed detectives.
- Maria Malone talks about our fascination with people who vanish.
- Lauen Oliver recommends eleven mystery novels that explore the power of rumors and gossip
- Robin Merle shares four crime novels about obsession and dangerous friendships.
- Heather Gudenkauf shares seven thrillers and mysteries where parties and celebrations turns deadly
- Jenna Satterthwaite recommends five crime novels about failing friendships.
- Rachel Corbett talks about Arthur Conan Doyle's attempts to identify Jack the Ripper.
- Actress and podcaster Jaime Parker Stickle explains how she came to write a thriller
- Ayo Onatade interviews Welsh crime fiction writer Cledwyn Hughes.
- Molly Templeton talks about reading everything by a given author.
Film and TV:
- Saloni Gajjar declares that season 3 of The Diplomat doubles down on its goofiness
- Leslie Felperin calls Odyssey a messy, blackly comic thriller.
- Jenna Scherer calls Death By Lightning an overpacked show about James Garfield and his assassin.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the season 10 premiere of Shetland.
- Paul Hirons shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Blue Lights.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the first two episodes of Down Cemetery Road.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 7 of The Hack.
- Julie Sirmons shares her nine favourite French movies about jewel heists.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1990 thriller Bad Influence.
- Paul Hirons revisits the 2013 crime drama Broadchurch.
- Zoe Williams interviews Famke Janssen who played Jean Gray in the X-Men movies, Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye and Kamala in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- Amy Fleming interviews Fiona Shaw, best known for her roles in Andor, True Blood, the Harry Potter movies, Killing Eve, Baptiste and many others.
- Will Harris interviews Diane Lane, best known for her roles in Streets of Fire, Knight Moves, The Cotton Club, The Outsiders and many others.
- Andrew Pulver reports that October 2025 has been the weakest month at the US box office since 1997.
Tributes to Peter Watkins, Adam Greenberg, Tchéky Karyo, Ralph Senensky, Pauline Collins and Diane Ladd:
- Adam Greenberg, cinematographer of Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Ghost, Lemon Popsicle, Near Dark, Snakes on a Plane, Rush Hour and many others, has died aged 88.
- James Cameron remembers Adam Greenberg.
- Actress Diane Ladd, best known for her performances in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart, Rambling Rose, Chinatown, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Black Window and many others, had died aged 89.
- Peter Bradshaw remembers Diane Ladd.
- British actress Pauline Collins, best known for her roles in The Liver Birds, Upstairs Downstairs, Doctor Who and Shirley Valentine, has died aged 85.
- Peter Bradshaw remembers Pauline Collins.
- Anthony Hayward shares an obituary for Pauline Collins.
- Joanna Ruck shares photos from Pauline Collins' lengthy career.
- French Turkish actor Tchéky Karyo, best known for his roles in Nikita, The Missing, GoldenEye, Bad Boys and many others, has died aged 70.
- Ralph Senensky, who directed several episodes of the original Star Trek as well as The Twilight Zone, The Waltons and the pilot of Dynasty, has died aged 102.
- Peter Watkins, director of The War Game, Privilege, Punishment Park and many others, has died aged 90.
- Peter Bradshaw remembers Peter Watkins.
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Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Gareth L. Powell shares some insight into compiling a short fiction collection.
- Robbie Bach explains how he went from creating video games to writing novels.
- Matt Binder reports that Google has blocked the book pirate site Anna's Archive.
- Victoria Strauss explains what you need to know about the Anthropic AI class action settlement.
- Kurt Schlosser reports about the Swoon City romance bookstore in Seattle, Washington, and how they use AI for categorising their inventory.
- Corey Kilgannon reports about the Argosy Bookstore in Midtown Manhattan, New York.
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Reviews:
- Mary Picken reviews Silent Bones by Val McDermid
- Gwen Moffat The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Black As Death by Lilja Sigurðardóttir, translated by Lorenza Garcia
- Mary Picken reviews Black As Death by Lilja Sigurðardóttir, translated by Lorenza Garcia
- Jen Lucas reviews The Winter Killer by Alex Pine
- Jen Lucas reviews The Book Club Killer by Ross Greenwood
- Jeff Ayers reviews The Bone Thief by Vanessa Lillie
- Jen Lucas reviews The Confessions by Paul Bradley Carr
- Paul Burke reviews Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan
- John Valeri reviews We Had a Hunch by Tom Ryan
- Jeff Ayers reviews The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold by Cate Holahan
- Jen Lucas reviews The Token by Sharon Bolton
- Mary Picken reviews The Widow by John Grisham
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Butcher's Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs Lovett by David Demchuk and Corrine Leigh Clark
- Lesa Holstine reviews A Christmas Witness by Charles Todd
- Martin Edwards reviews The House at Devil's Neck by Tom Mead
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Murder At World’s End by Ross Montgomery
- The Quick and the Dead reviews The Last Death of the Year by Sophie Hannah
- Carla Schantz reviews Death by Java by Alex Erickson.
- Carla Schantz reviews Murder by the Millions by Daryl Wood Gerber.
- Jen Lucas reviews Murder Takes A Vacation by Laura Lippman
- Carla Schantz reviews Death at the Door by Olivia Blacke.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews At Death’s Dough by Mindy Quigley and tries a recipe from the book.
- Kerry Hood reviews A Curtain Twitcher's Book of Murder by Gay Marris
- Carla Schantz reviews The Hearth Witch’s Guide to Magic and Murder by Kiri Callaghan.
Classics reviews:
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1936 mystery The Uncounted Hour by Warner Allen
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1941 James Whitney hardboiled crime novel Death and Taxes by David Dodge
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1943 Chief Inspector French mystery The Affair at Little Wokeham by Freeman Wills Crofts
- Erin Britton revisits the 1952 holiday mystery Death in Ambush by Susan Gilruth
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1952 Glenn Bowman hardboiled mystery The Last Vanity by Hartley Howard.
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1956 suspense novel Borrow the Night by Helen Nielsen
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1970 Dr. Patrick Grant mystery Dead in the Morning by Margaret Yorke
Con and event reports:
Research:
- Alie Dumas Heidt discusses the history of women in law enforcement.
- Harry N. MacLean explains how the US became obsessed with true crime.
- Emily Bain Murphy takes a look at the dark underbelly of the 1904 World Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.
- The Guardian reports that Lindsay Sandiford and Shahab Shahabadi, two British citizens sentenced to death or respectively life imprisonment for drug offences, have been returned to the UK.
Free online fiction:
- "Ballad of the Haint Hound Killer" by Ryan Michael Hines in Shotgun Honey.
- "A Job in New Orleans" by Nils Gilbertson in Punk Noir Magazine
- "Toe the Line" by Laura Bogner in Punk Noir Magazine
- "It All Comes Out in the Wash" by James Patrick Focarile in Gumshoe Review.
- "Hideout" by Robert Plath in The Five-Two.
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