Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 24, 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 season 6 of Slow Horses, Lanterns, Clayface, You Can See Everything, The Devils at fifty-five, the search for the next James Bond, tributes to Tom Skerritt and Ryu Murakami and much more.
 

Crime fiction in general: 

• CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Molly Odintz shares her favourite psychological thrillers coming out in October 2026. 
• Olivia Blacke shares her favourite mysteries by authors from Virginia.
• Harry Hunsicker talks about transforming grief into conflict in crime fiction 
• Peter Swanson talks about seven great stories of suspense set in a house by the sea 
• Paige Shelton talks about what bones can and can't reveal in mysteries 
• Matthew Gavin Frank talks about the ethics of sensationalistic true crime 
• Anna Maloney talks about writing badass, believable older women in thrillers
• Zelly Ruskin talks about gaslighting, relationships and psychological suspense 
• Lindsey Fitzharris talks about Scottish doctor Joe Bell, the real life inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.  
• Japanese horror and cult author Ryu Murakami has died aged 74. 
• Isaiah Colbert remembers Ryu Murakami. 

 

Film and TV:  

• Micha Frazer-Carroll calls the latest season of Lupin a blockbuster return. 
• Monica Castillo calls A Talent For Murder the kind of clever drama that plays with its audience’s expectations almost as much as the story keeps its characters guessing 
• Phil Hoad declares that the Indonesian movie Ghost in the Cell uses horror for social commentary as it skewers corruption and hypocrisy with likable silliness and raucous energy   
• Josh Spiegel shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Lowdown. 
• Phil Harrison calls The Narco Hack an epic documentary about how detectives’ tech wizardry smashed a billion-euro drugs ring
• Sian Cain interviews Anthony LaPaglia, star of Without a Trace.  
• Kali Wallace revisits the 1971 dystopian crime movie A Clockwork Orange  
• Leah Schnelbach revisits the 1971 horror movie The Devils. 
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Tributes to Tom Skerritt:

• Actor Tom Skerritt, best known for his roles in Alien, Picket Fences, Contact, Top Gun, MASH and many others, has died aged 93.
• Benjamin Lee remembers Tom Skerritt. 
• Jen Lennon remembers Tom Skerritt. 

 

Comments on season 6 of Slow Horses:

• William Hughes shares his thoughts on the season 6 finale of Slow Horses.  
• K.J. Yossman interviews Adam Randall, director of the season 6 finale of Slow Horses. 

 

Comments on Clayface, Lanterns and the DC Cinematic Universe in general:

• Jesse Hassenger declares that Clayface brings a Universal Monster sensibility back to the DC Universe 
• Jen Lennon declares that Clayface takes the revenge body to a whole new level 
• Leah Schnelbach declares that Clayface writes checks its body horror can’t quite cash 
• Benjamin Lee calls Clayface very gory but not very good  
• Jarrod Jones declares that Clayface's Gotham City reflects DC's focus on telling good stories in spaces created solely for them.
• Alex Brown shares their favourite scenes from Lanterns. 
• Ben Child muses whether a Zack Snyder DC Universe might not have been such a bad thing, after all

 

Comments on the search for the next James Bond: 

• Adrian Horton reports that the screentests for the next James Bond are expected to take place this week. 
• Stuart Heritage explains what the James Bond auditions might look like. 
• Alasdair Stuart talks about the search for the next James Bond as well as Slow Horses.  
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Comments on You Can See Everything:  

• Adrian Horton calls the true crime documentary You Can See Everything a modern masterpiece of deceit
• Corey Atad declares that You Can See Everything secretly contains one of the year's best performances 
• Jesse Hassenger finds 2026’s timeliest villain in You Can See Everything. 
• David Smith attempts to explain the continuing fascination with con artist Elizabeth Holmes. 
• Henry Roberts wonders why con artist Elizabeth Holmes even allowed documentary filmmakers into her home and her life. 
• The Guardian reports that the true crime documentary You Can See Everything is the best reviewed film in history for unfathomable reasons.  
• Nadia Khomani reports that tickets for You Can See Everything are selling out in the UK for some equally unfathomable reason.  

 

Comments on The Devils at 55: 

• Isaiah Colbert calls the 1971 horror film The Devils a towering monument of pure filmmaking 
• Leah Schnelbach revisits the 1971 horror movie The Devils. 

 

Writing, publishing and promotion: 

• Lindsay Merbaum discusses the parallels between writing and practicing witchcraft.  
• Rebekah Faubion discusses how romance influences her horror and crime writing.
• The Guardian reports that the Canadian publisher Boréal have ended their relationship with novelist Thélyson Orélien over his alleged use of AI  
• Haroon Siddique and George Francis Lee report that all books by Irish writer Sally Rooney will be withdrawn from sale in the UK due to Rooney's support for Palestine Action, which is classified as a terror group in the UK 
• Emma Loffhagen reports that Sally Rooney's novels are selling out in UK bookstores prior to being withdrawn from sale in the UK over Rooney's support for Palestine Action, which is classified as a terror group in the UK 

 

Awards: 

• The winners of the 2026 Macavity Awards have been announced 
• The finalists for the 2026 Bookseller/Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year have been announced

 

Interviews: 

• Criminal Element interviews Jason Rekulak.
• Garrick Webster interviews Chris Dolley. 
• Riley Sager and Tom Ryan interview each other. 

 

Reviews:

• Gayle Surrette reviews Fury in Death by J.D. Robb 
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Bone Woman by Paige Shelton  
• Chris Connor reviews Watch the Quiet Snow by Mick Herron 
• Erin Britton reviews Count to Ten by Raúl Quintana Selleras 
• Jen Lucas reviews Dead In Three Two One by Peter James 
• Paul Burke reviews Chain Reaction by Lee and Andrew Child 
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Chain House by J.H. Markert  
• Sandra Mangan reviews The Building by Kevin G Chapman 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Man With The Golden Compass by Vaseem Khan 
• Mandie Griffiths reviews The Death Of Remembrance by Denzil Meyrick  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews You Can Tell Me by Melinda Leigh 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Through Many Dangers by Thomas Goodman
• Janet Webb reviews The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies by Kate Westbury 
• Jeff Ayers reviews Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley 
• Lesa Holstine reivews Miss Wolcott’s Ghost by Louise Penny 
• John Valeri reviews The Ghost and the Dead Librarian by Cleo Coyle 
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die Quietly by Katarina Bivald 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett 
• Jeff Ayers reviews Return to Breakneck Island by Tom Ryan 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder At The Toy Soldier by Maddie Day and tries a recipe from the book 

 

Classics reviews: 

• Sarah Weinman and Polly Stewart revisit the 1958 domestic thriller The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin. 
• Jen Lucas revisits the 2017 crime novel A Lesson In Violence by Jordan Harper 

 

Con and event reports:

• Mary Picken reports about the 2026 Bloody Scotland crime fiction festival in Stirling, Scotland.

 

Research: 

• Adria R. Walker reports that the Mississippi attorney general has ruled the fatal police shooting of a one-year-old boy as "justified".
• Cora Buhlert talks about the shooting of police officer Norbert Schmid by the Red Army Fraction terrorist group in Hamburg, Germany, in 1971. 
• J.H. Markert talks about malicious cult leaders. 
• Olivia Rutigliano reports that the mystery of who was buried in a Roman sarcophagus found on the premises of Westminster Abbey in 1820 has finally been solved.  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Skin in the Game" by David Anson Lee in The Five-Two. 

 

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Bad Apples.
• Watch a trailer for Bunker.