Crime Fiction Links of the Week for August 15, 2026
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
- Laura Wilson shares her favourite recent crime novels, mysteries and thrillers.
- CrimeReads shares their favourite crime novels coming out in ppaerback in August 2026.
- Molly Odintz shares her favourite debut crime novels of August 2026.
- Lucy Connelly shares cozy mysteries to enjoy this summer.
- Archer Sullivan shares her favourite gritty female protagonists from crime fiction.
- David Lagercrantz shares a Scandinavian noir reading list.
- Tiphanie Yanique and Richard Georges explain why the Virgin Islands make good settings for crime fiction.
- E.C. Nevin shares six great mysteries set in the publishing industry
- Jeff Abbott shares books the characters from his new thriller January and July would read.
- S.C. Godfrey shares eight thrillers that feature puzzles
- Ethan Barron discusses how technology impacts crime fiction.
- Nicole Brooks recommends five climate fiction novels and ecological thrillers.
- Isabelle Spotts shares five mysteries that reimagine death and the afterlife
Film and TV:
- Brian Tallerico declares that season 4 of Reacher is going through the motions.
- Paul Hirons calls the crime drama Hit Point a hugely entertaining and compelling watch
- Sarah Dempster calls He Had It Coming a messy crime-comedy with all the subtlety of a mallet to the crotch
- Luke Buckmaster calls Mad Rush an intricate phone scam thriller.
- Andy Crump calls Union County a gritty addiction drama.
- Leslie Felperin calls Chum a deeply silly shark attack movie.
- Kayleigh Donaldson shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Furious.
- Cheryl Eddy shares her thoughts on the season 2 finale of Sugar.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on Spider-Noir.
- Ben Rosenstock shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Shards.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the final episode of The Rapture.
- Lucy Mangan calls The Schoolgirl Terrorist? a nightmarish documentary.
- Hannah J. Davies complains that there are too many men talking in The Spy Next Door, a documentary about a female spy.
- Paul Hirons shares his favourite French crime dramas of all time.
- Radha Vatsal interviews Kiyoshi Kurosawa, director of The Samurai and The Prisoner
- Paul Hirons revisits the 1998 police drama The Cops.
- Simon Abrams revisits the 2004 slasher comedy Club Dread.
- Matt Schimkowitz revisits the 2006 action thriller Snakes on a Plane and the curious internet campaign connected to it.
- Paul Hirons revisits the 2014 historical cosy crime drama Grantchester.
Tributes to Jon Cypher:
Comments on Lanterns:
- Ben Travers calls Lanterns a superhero series as indebted to odd-couple police procedurals as it is determined to see them through the eyes of its systemically slighted protagonist, rather than the long-established perspective of the powerful.
- Daniel Fienberg calls Lanterns a clever action comedy and praises the chemistry between the stars Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre.
- Dennis Perkins calls Lanterns a compelling earthbound superhero drama.
- Germain Lussier declares that Lanterns is really, really good—for the most part
- Matt Stevens interviews Chris Mundy, showrunner of Lanterns.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Mike Glyer reports that the Horror Writers Association has removed Sèphera Girón from her position as a trustee, following a pro-AI article written by Girón in the HWA member newsletter.
- Ben Sigurdson interviews Didi Chanoch, owner of the science fiction bookstore Other Places Books in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- Teah Dowling reports about the Dragon Press bookstore in Westport, New York, whose stock consists of the extensive SFF book collection of the late David Hartwell.
- Lana Lam reports that a library book borrowed 150 years ago in Kiama, Australia, has been found hidden in a fireplace and was returned to the library.
- Olena Harmash reports that a warehouse of the Ukrainian children's book publisher Ranok in Kharkiv was struck by a Russian drone, causing the warehouse to burn down with millions of books inside.
Awards:
Interviews:
- Stephen Dubner interviews Harlan Coben.
- Kathleen Antrim and D.P. Lyle interview George Pelecanos
- Garrick Webster interviews Garry Disher.
- Deborah Kalb interviews Jennifer Ashley.
- Ayo Onatade interviews Hallie Rubenhold.
- Paul Burke interviews Michael Amos Cody
- Ayo Onatade interviews Simon Mason..
- Garrick Webster interviews Tina Henry.
- Ali Karim interviews Jack Jewers.
- Ayo Onatade interviews Martyn Waites,
- Deborah Kalb interviews Judy Foreman.
- Elaine's Literary Salon interviews Richard H. Smith
Reviews:
- Mary Picken reviews The Mermaid’s Cry by Kate Rhodes
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Chapel of Bones by Kate Ellis
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths
- Mary Picken reviews The Killer’s Mark by M.W. Craven
- Jen Lucas reviews The Killer’s Mark by M.W. Craven
- Sharon Richardson reviews The High Island by Lin Anderson
- Mary Picken reviews The High Island by Lin Anderson
- Kevin Tipple reviews Waves of Burden by Curtis Ippolito
- Mandie Griffiths reviews Dying Truth by Angela Marsons
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews You’ll Be Sorry by Lisa Gardner
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Midnight Show by Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne
- John Valeri reviews The Beginning of Everything by Charles Salzberg
- Mary Picken reviews Freyja by Margrét Ann Thors
- Ali Karim reviews The Tailor by Tim Sullivan
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Tailor by Tim Sullivan
- Doreen Sheridan reviews A Killer in the Family by Amin Ahmad
- Chris Connor reviews A Stranger in Corfu by Alex Preston
- Ali Karim reviews Faculty of Liars by R.L. Heber
- Paul Burke reviews Ballistic by Frank Gardner
- Marlene Harris reviews Heart of the Nile by Will Thomas
- Margaret Agnew reviews Of Devotion and Death by Anastasia Hastings.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews A Rather Dastardly Death by Anthony Slayton
- Marlene Harris reviews An Artful Dodge by Karen Odden
- Adrian Magson reviews The Art of Occupation by Chris Lloyd
- Robin Agnew reviews Murder in Blackfriars by Jennifer Ashley.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Death at a Scottish Halloween by Lucy Connelly.
- Cathy Akers-Jordan reviews Death at a Scottish Halloween by Lucy Connelly.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews All Aboard For Murder by Ellen Byron and tries a recipe from the book
- Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews A Taste for Murder by Matt Baker
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Last Book Club by Joanne Rock
- Lesa Holstine reviews Death on the Books by Victoria Gilbert
- Mandie Griffiths reviews Death Writ Large by Susie Dent
- Jen Lucas reviews Death and Déjà Vu by Ian Moore
- Cathy Akers-Jordan reviews Probable Caws by Donna Andrews.
- Kerry Hood reviews Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Good Girls Die Bored by Elizabeth Little
- Marlene Harris reviews Miss Gentle and the Case of the Very Flat Monk by Travis Baldree
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Puzzles Of The Parish, edited by Martin Edwards
Classics reviews:
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1931 holiday mystery The Crime At The “Noah’s Ark” by Molly Thynne
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1953 The Saint collection The Saint in Europe by Leslie Charteris.
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1967 Judge Dee mystery collection Judge Dee at Work by Robert Van Gulik
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1972 crime novel The Case of Robert Quarry by Andrew Garve
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1976 mystery Blood Flies Upwards by Elizabeth Ferrars
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1983 Bernie Rhodenbarr heist novel The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian by Lawrence Block
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1989 non-fiction book A Catalogue of Crime by Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 2011 Holmes on the Range historical mystery World’s Greatest Sleuth! by Steve Hockensmith
- Jen Lucas revisits the 2014 David Raker mystery Fall From Grace by Tim Weaver
Con and event reports:
Research:
- Olivia Rutigliano recounts how Charlie Chaplin's body was stolen from his grave in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland, in 1978.
- John McWhorter shares three myths people like to believe about the English language.
- Rob Schmitz reports about Switzerland's extensive network of nuclear bunkers.
- Olesya Lyuzua talks about various positive thinking cults and scams that flourished in the 1920s.
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