Crime Fiction Links of the Week for April 4, 2026

It's time again for Crime Fiction Links of the Week, our weekly round-up of interesting links about crime fiction from around the web, this week with Dark Winds, Daredevil: Born Again,, tributes to James Tolkan and much more.
 

Crime fiction in general: 

• CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
• Molly Odintz shares mystery, crime novels and thrillers coming out in April. 
• Paul French lists crime novels set in Medellin, Columbia.
• Theodore Martin explains how addiction became a central motif in crime fiction
• Karen Rose Smith shares cozy mystery series featuring tea. 
• Rob Phillips talks about combining comedy and danger in his debut crime novel 
• Naomi Kaye explains how religion and the occult shaped Agatha Christie's fiction

 

Film and TV:  

• Dwyer Murphy shares new and returning crime shows and movies to watch. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Fuze a film centred around a massive, ticking bomb on a building site, which is equal parts violent and silly 
• Emmet Asher-Perrin calls They Will Kill You a gore fest running thin on substance 
• Leslie Felperin calls Ghost Killer a supernatural action-comedy with fantastic karate chopping and gunslinging. 
• Micha Frazer-Carroll calls Dear Killer Nannies a surprisingly gut-punching Pablo Escobar drama  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel shares his thoughts on series 15 of Death in Paradise. 
• Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on the suspense movie Speak No Evil
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Capture. 
• Brian Davids interviews BenDavid Grabinski, writer/director of Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice 
• Actress Mary Beth Hurt, best known for her roles in The World According to Garp, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Lady in the Water, D.A.R.Y.L. and many others has died aged 79.  
• Actor and comedian Alex Duong, best known for his roles in Blue Bloods and Dexter, has died aged 42. 

 

Tributes to James Tolkan: 

• Actor James Tolkan, best known for his roles in Back to the Future, Masters of the Universe, Top Gun, War Games, Remington Steele, The Amityville Horror, Serpico and many others, has died aged 94. 
• Payton Turkeltaub remembers James Tolkan. 
• William Hughes remembers James Tolkan. 
• Adam McComb remembers James Tolkan's role as Detective Lubic in Masters of the Universe. 
• He-Mania.com remembers James Tolkan's role as Detective Lubic in Masters of the Universe.  
• Back to the Future.com remembers James Tolkan's role as Principal Strickland in Back to the Future. 

 

Comments on Dark Winds: 

• Brian Tallerico shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Dark Winds. 
• Saloni Gajjar pays a visit to the set of Dark Winds. 

 

Comments on season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again:

• Leah Schnelbach shares her thoughts on “Shoot the Moon” and “The Scales & the Sword”, the latest episodes of Daredevil: Born Again.
• Jarrod Jones shares his thoughts on “Shoot the Moon” and “The Scales & the Sword”, the latest episodes of Daredevil: Born Again. 

 

 

Writing, publishing and promotion: 

• Georgia McVeigh explains how to capture modern fixations in fiction 
• Patrica McConnell talks about the challenge and joy of writing mysteries as a nonfiction author 
• Matthew Byrd shares everything to know about the US Stop the Sexualization of Children Act, which he calls National Book Ban Bill. 
• Camestros Felapton shares a scale for rating the use and non-use of AI.
• Emma Loffhagen reports that the New York Times has dropped a freelance journalist for using AI to write a book review. 

 

Awards: 

• The winners of the 2026 Pulp Factory Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2025 Australian Romance Readers Awards have been announced.  

 

Interviews: 

• Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee interviews M.J. Arlidge and Alex Khan
• Paul Burke interviews Heidi Perks. 

 

Reviews:

• Adam Colclough reviews The Death Row Club by V.A. Vazquez 
• Mary Picken reviews The Cursed Road by Laura McCluskey  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews A Granite Silence by Nina Allan 
• Jen Lucas reviews Creative Kills by Lisa Sell 
• Mandie Griffiths reviews How To Get Away With Murder by Rebecca Philipson 
• Hannah Morrissey and Polly Stewart review Look Closer by David Ellis. 
• Mary Picken reviews It’s Not What You Think by Clare Mackintosh  
• Gwen Moffat reviews The Summer We Lied by Rebecca Hardy  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Dark Time by Nick Petrie 
• Sandra Mangan reviews The Pledge by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett 
• Marlene Harris reviews Hunter Squad: Marc by Anna Hackett 
• Jen Lucas reviews Evil in the Family by Michael Wood 
• Mary Picken reviews Son by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger  
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Lucien by J.R. Thornton  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews All The Little Houses by May Cobb 
• Robin Agnew reviews Crown City by Naomi Hirahara.
• Lesa Holstine reviews A Day of Judgment by Charles Todd
• Vicki Kondelik reviews Vengeance in Venice by Erica Ruth Neubauer. 
• Carla Schantz reviews The Most Mysterious Bookshop in Paris by Mark Pryor. 
• Gayle Surrette reviews The Snowman Killer by Wendy Meadows
• Carla Schantz reviews Baking up a Murder by Hattie Fox.  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Barn Identity by Diane Kelly and tries a recipe from the book. 

 

Classics reviews: 

• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1934 historical mystery Devil Kinsmere by Roger Fairbarn a.k.a John Dickson Carr  
• Kate Jackson revisits the 1940 Inspector Christopher McKee mystery The Dead Can Tell by Helen Reilly 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1960 mystery Epitaph For A Dead Actor by Dulcie Gray  
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1962 Arthur G. Crook mystery No Dust in the Attic by Anthony Gilbert 

 

Con and event reports:

• Emma Martin shares her experiences at the 2026 London Book Fair in London, UK.  
• Lesa Holstine reports about a book tasting event at the Canal Winchester Branch Library in Columbus, Ohio.

 

Crowdfunding:

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Research: 

• Donna Jones Alward writes about forensics pioneer John Henry Barnstead and how he employed his methods to catalogue the personal effects of victims of the Titanic sinking.
• Sonja Anderson reports that a skeleton found buried in a church in Maastricht, the Netherlands, may belong to the Musketeer D'Artagnan.  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "The Pocket Box" by Gunnar Anderson in Future Tense Fiction.

 

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Cape Fear.