Crime Fiction Links of the Week for January 24, 2026
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
- Molly Odintz shares her favourite crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out in January
- Molly Odintz shares 24 historical mysteries and crime novels coming out in 2026.
- Molly Odintz shares ten speculative mysteries and thrillers to check out in 2026
- Linda Wilgus shares eight historical mysteries featuring pirates and smugglers
- Jessie Garcia shares six thrillers that reveal the dark sides of fame
- Kristine Delano explains why the corporate world is perfect for thrillers
- Darby Kane shares seven great thrillers that focus on family drama
- Lauren Schott discusses how ssychological thrillers critique the American Dream
- James Davis Nicoll talks about updating public domain books and explains why it's a bad idea.
- Molly Templeton declares that your to-be-read pile might be lying to you
- Sian Cain reports that 85-year-old thriller author Jeffrey Archer has announced that his next novel will be his last.
- Nadeem Badshah reports that Scottish crime writer Val McDermid was assigned a sensitivity reader before the re-release of some of her earliest novels.
- Cozy mystery writer Maya Corrigan has died.
Film and TV:
- Olivia Rutigliano lists new crime and mystery series.
- Jack Seale calls series 2 of After the Flood a cut above the norm – even if it increasingly feels like it’s retreading old ground
- Martin Edwards calls Drop a potentially excellent, if pulpy, crime film turned into something like the same-old, same-old.
- Paul Hirons shares his toughts on the Australian crime drama Mystery Road: Origins.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 4 of season 2 of The Night Manager.
- Brian Tallerico shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Hijack.
- Paul Hirons discusses five ways in which Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials novel differs from the Netflix series
- Lucy Mangan calls Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart a powerful true crime documentary.
- Lanre Bakare interviews Wunmi Musaku, best known for her roles in Sinners, Loki, Waking the Dead, Passengers, We Own This City and many others.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1998 neo noir film Masquerade.
- Lanre Bakare revisits the 1995 crime movie Heat.
- Caroline Siede revisits the 1997 war movie G.I. Jane.
- Paul Hirons revisits the 2021 Silence of the Lambs spin-off Clarice.
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Writing, publishing and promotion:
- David Guterson talks about maintaining an authorial persona... or not
- Kelly Scarborough talks about taking dramatic license in historical fiction
- Esther Addley asks if listening to an audiobook is as good as reading.
- Steven D. Brewer explains how to hand-sell books for fun and profit
- Jason Sanford talks about the evolution of AI book club scams.
- Ted Gioia talks about the death of the midlist in the 1990s.
- Sophia Stewart reports that the Tor Publishing Group has announced the creation of a commercial fiction imprint named Wildthorn
- Tanya Roth discusses the many reason for book bans and pulling books from library shelves.
- Tamilore Oshikaniu reports that the Fairhope public library in Alabama has lost state funding after refusing to move several books, including The Handmaid’s Tale, out of its teen section
- Claire Kirch reports how bookstores in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, are affected by the increased activity of ICE in the cities, following the murder of Renee Good.
Awards:
- The finalists for the 2026 Edgar Awards have been announced.
- The finalists for the 2026 Oscars have been announced.
- The finalists for 2026 Golden Reel Awards have been announced.
- The finalists for the 2026 Cinema Audio Society Awards have been announced
- The finalists for the 2026 Golden Raspberries have been announced
Interviews:
- Barbara Peters interviews Douglas Preston
- Danielle Parker interviews S.J. Rozan.
- Dave Davies interviews Liz Moore.
- Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee interview Laura Dave.
- Michael Koryta and Malcolm Kempt interview each other.
- Paul Burke interviews Brian Price.
- Frank Zafiro interviews Thomas McKinnon.
- Shane Whaley interviews David Goodman.
Reviews:
- Jen Lucas reviews The Edge of Darkness by Vaseem Khan
- Kevin Tipple reviews Bitter Fall by Bruce Robert Coffin
- Mary Picken reviews Into The Dark by Orjan Karlsson, translated by Ian Giles
- Gwen Moffat reviews The End of the Sahara by Saïd Khatibi
- Vicki Wesifeld reviews What Boys Learn by Andromeda Romano-Lax
- Ali Karim reviews The Friend of the Family by Dean Koontz
- Mary Picken reviews A Death in Glasgow by Eva Macrae
- Margaret Agnew reviews Death at Villa De Lacey by Aviva Orr.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews The Angsana Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Murder Made Her Wicked by Elizabeth Hobbs
- Robin Agnew reviews A Field Guide to Murder by Michelle L. Cullen.
- Janet Webb reviews Definitely Maybe Not a Detective by Sarah Fox
- Kate Jackson reviews Mockingbird Court by Juneau Black
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Cold Case And The Corpse by Debra Sennefelder and tries a recipe from the book.
Classics reviews:
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1942 MacDougall Duff mystery Lay On, Mac Duff by Charlotte Armstrong
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1951 humorous mystery The Wooden Overcoat by Pamela Branch
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1961 mystery Bird in a Cage by Frédéric Dard, translated by David Bellos.
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1963 DCI James Flecker mystery Murder Strikes Pink by Josephine Pullein-Thompson
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1965 near-future political thriller.Night of Camp David by Fletcher Knebel
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1971 mystery Dead Trouble by Dominic Devine
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1981 Robert Amiss mystery Corridors of Death by Ruth Dudley Edwards
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1997 crime fiction anthology The Best American Mystery Stories 1997, edited by Robert B. Parker
- Mandie Griffiths revisits the 2001 Thorne thriller Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham
- Lesa Holstine revisits the 2010 Bruno mystery Black Diamond by Martin Walker
- Mandie Griffiths revisits the 2012 DCI Daley thriller Whisky From Small Glasses by Denzil Meyrick
Con and event reports:
Research:
- Elizabeth Vartkessian talks about the arbitrary nature of capital punishment in the US
- Defence lawyer Malcolm Kempt discusses how his client was accused of a crime he didn’t commit – and it led him to confront my past
- Ben Feuerherd reports about an armed robbery at the Pokémon shop Poké Court shop in Chelsea, New York.
- L.A. Chandlar talks about the historical implications and fictional possibilities of the Hindenburg disaster
- Jason Burke talks about the rise of Carlos the Jackal, the most feared terrorist of the 1970s
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