Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 22, 202
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
- Molly Odintz shares her favourite crime novels in translation coming out this fall.
- discusses the rise of the autistic detective.
- Carmela Dutra talks about the enduring appeal of culinary cozies
- Tilia Klebenov Jacobs and Norman Birnbach share a field guide to heist plot types
- Jonathan Payne shares six espionage novels with charmingly clueless protagonists
- Amy K. Green shares five crime novels about serial killers living in our midst.
- Heather Parry shares five novel featuring monstrous men.
- Holly Seddon recommends five crime novels set in the wild British moors
- Gilly Macmillan shares nine novels featuring secret societies.
- Olivia Rutigliano counts how many times Sherlock Holmes has appeared in disguise in the original stories.
- Fu Ting reports that the Chinese government is cracking down on the popular Danmei gay romances, leaving the genre's many fans, usually young women, depressed.
- Mystery writer Triss Stein has died.
Best of 2025:
- The Chicago Public Library share their favourite mysteries and thrillers of 2025.
- Karen MacPherson shares her favourite mystery novels of 2025.
- The Washington Post shares their favourite thrillers of 2025.
- Barry Forshaw shares his favourite crime novels and thrillers of 2025.
- Audible share their favourite mysteries and thrillers of 2025.
- She Reads share their favourite mysteries, thrillers and suspense novels of 2025.
- Book Page share their ten favourite mystery and suspense novels of 2025.
- Book Riot share their favourite mysteries and thriller of 2025.
Film and TV:
- Paul Hirons calls The Ridge a thriller that just about keeps pulling you back to the edge.
- Natalie Zutter declares that Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is all flash and little substance
- Hunter Ingram declares that the Murdaugh: Death In The Family finale brings something new to an exhaustively covered case
- Lucy Mangan calls Wild Cherry a fun, trashy thriller that seems to have spent most of its budget on clothes
- Hannah J. Davies calls the true crime documentary The Black Swan a heart-stopping Danish investigation about a mob lawyer turned whistleblower that more dramatic than any Scandinavian noir drama as it drops one huge revelation after another.
- Jacob Oller declares that the documentary Thoughts & Prayers finds the limits of laughing at the school-shooter industrial complex
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the third episode of season 10 of Shetland.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the first episode of Cooper & Fry
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the French mystery series Mademoiselle Holmes.
- Stephen King shares his ten favourite movies.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1973 thriller The Day of the Jackal.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1983 true crime movie Eureka.
- Paul Hirons revisits the 2012 Sherlock Holmes adaptation Elementary.
- Scott Roxborough interviews Ronald VÃctor GarcÃa, director of photography for Twin Peaks, about the show's unique look.
- BBC Front Row interviews Vince Gilligan, creator of Pluribus, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
- Michael Hogan interviews several actors who committed memorable on screen killings.
- Molly Templeton takes a look at what season 4 of Hannibal would have looked like.
- Catherine Shoard reports that actor Dick Van Dyke was tapped to play James Bond in the 1960s, but turned down the part.
- Olivia Rutigliano counts how many actors played multiple different killers in Columbo.
- James Whitbrook reports that director Rian Johnson has ruled out a Muppets/Knives Out crossover.
- Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai, best known for his roles in Ran, High and Low, Sanjuro, The Sword of Doom, Kagemusha and many others, has died aged 92.
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Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Javier Grillo–Marxuach talks about writing memorable characters.
- Mike Maden talks about writing memorable villains.
- Scott Edelman explains why he pulled a story he sold to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for inacceptable contract terms of the new owners Must Read Magazines.
- Victoria Strauss reports about a new impersonation scam targeting authors.
- Kelly Burke also reports about a new scam targeting authors.
- Brendan O'Connor reports that the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, New York, where writers can rent a desk for a fee, is running out of space.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five reasons to leave the house and go explore a used bookstore
- Alex Call reports that sales of science fiction and fantasy have reached an all-time high in 2025, but that this is mainly due to the runaway success of romantasy.
- Tim Ford reports that the Canadian speculative fiction magazine On Spec is shutting down after 35 years.
- Dead Girl Reads talks about the problem that reviewers may no longer share their honest opinion, lest the supply of free books and ARCs dries up.
- Emma Loffhagen reports that more than half of British novelists fear that their work will be replaced by AI according to a recent study.
- Deborah Cole and Philip Oltermann report that GEMA, the German music licencing agency, won a lawsuit against ChatGPT for using song lyrics for training their Large Language Model without authorisation.
Awards:
Interviews:
- John B. Valeri interviews Lee and Andrew Child.
- Ayo Onatade interviews Abir Mukherjee.
- L. Wayne Hicks interviews Michael Connelly.
- The Guardian interviews Sophie Hannah.
- Debbi Mack interviews Victoria Selman.
- Frank Zafiro interviews Michael A. Black.
- Rick Pullen interviews K.T. Nguyen.
- Garrick Webster interviews Barbara Havelocke
- Deborah Kalb interviews Suzanne Trauth.
- Alan Petersen interviews Daniel Pelfrey.
- Lisa Haselton interviews Mark A. Hill.
- Lisa Haselton interviews Forest McMullin
Reviews:
- Margaret Agnew reviews At Midnight Comes the Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming.
- Jeff Ayers reviews Exit Strategy by Lee Child and Andrew Child
- Kevin Tipple reviews Fallen Star by Lee Goldberg
- Mandie Griffiths reviews Sharp Force by Patricia Cornwell
- Jen Lucas reviews Scars of Silence by Johana Gustawsson, translated by David Warriner
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Grave Artist by Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Tiger and the Bear by Philip Lazar
- Jen Lucas reviews Borderline by Graeme Cumming
- Jen Lucas reviews Deadly Games by Tom Bale
- Thanhmai Bui-Va reviews The Revenge of Odessa by Frederick Forsyth and Tony Kent
- Ali Karim reviews Unlucky for Some by Tom Wood
- Thanhmai Bui-Va reviews The Burning Grounds by Abir Mukherjee
- Mandie Griffiths reviews The Waterfall by Gareth Rubin
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Dead Of Winter by S.J. Parris
- Cathy Akers-Jordan reviews From Cradle to Grave by Rhys Bowen.
- Robin Agnew reviews The Queen Who Came in from the Cold by S.J. Bennett.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Mad Wife by Meagan Church
- Robin Agnew reviews The Botanist’s Assistant by Peggy Townsend.
- Mary Picken reviews The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Murder At Mistletoe Manor by F L Everett
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Murder Under The Mistletoe by Richard Coles
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Perp Wore Pumpkin, edited by J. Alan Hartman
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The In Death Cookbook by Theresa Carle-Sanders
Classics reviews:
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1939 Perry Mason legal mystery The Case of the Rolling Bones by Erle Stanley Gardner
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1946 Doug Selby legal mystery The D. A. Breaks a Seal by Erle Stanley Gardner
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1954 psychological thriller The Odd Flamingo by Nina Bawden
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1960 Carolus Deene mystery Jack on the Gallows Tree by Leo Bruce
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1965 mystery His Own Appointed Day by D.M. Devine.
- Kate Jackson revisits thr 1965 mystery The Borough Council Murders by John Austwick
- Ali Karim revisits the 1967 psychological thriller The Cat by Georges Simenon
- Lesa Holstine revisits the 1975 Calleshire Chronicles mystery Slight Mourning by Catherine Aird
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1986 Sheriff Dan Rhodes crime novel Too Late to Die by Bill Crider
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1992 Chief Inspector Webb mystery I'll Sing you Two-O by Anthea Fraser.
Con and event reports:
Research:
- Jenny Kleeman discusses romantic and sexual relationships between female prison officers and male inmates.
- Dean Jobb talks about the theft of the jewels of Anna Held, star of the Ziegfeld Follies, in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1906.
- H. Lee Justine talks about the toxicity of social media, particularly when young children are involved by their influencer parents without their consent.
- The Guardian reports that Chinese national Alice Guo, who operated a scam center and human trafficking operation in the Philippines and had herself elected mayor there has been sentenced to life in prison.
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