THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Brian Geraghty has joined the cast of Matt Ross’s crime thriller, Kockroach, as it starts filming in Australia. He joins an ensemble cast featuring previously announced Chris Hemsworth, Taron Egerton, Zazie Beetz, Alec Baldwin, and Rachel Sennott. The film is based on William Lashner’s 2007 novel and follows a mysterious outsider who rises through New York’s criminal underworld to become a powerful crime boss. Ross is directing from a screenplay by Jonathan Ames. Geraghty most recently was seen in Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ series 1923, opposite Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren.
Ravi V. Patel (Animal Control) has joined the cast of the action-thriller Best Pancakes In The County, starring alongside Nicholas Cage (Longlegs), Justin Long, (Barbarian), and Shelley Hennig (Unfriended). The film, written and directed by Ken Sanzel (Kill Chain), is set over the course of a single night in a small-town diner that becomes the stage of a deadly standoff involving rogue federal agents, a fast-talking con man with a dangerous past (Cage), known as “the Son of a Bitch,” and a waitress (Hennig) harboring secrets of her own. As loyalties blur and tensions erupt, survival depends on who can out-think and outgun everyone else. Patel will portray Ryder, the quietly authoritative leader of the Son of a Bitch’s hired security detail.
Mark O’Brien (Ready or Not) is set to topline Good in the Room, an indie crime thriller that he co-wrote with Canadian filmmaker Pat Kiely, who will direct. Laysla De Oliveira (Lioness), Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor (The Babysitter), and Eric Bruneau (Fanny) are also set for key roles, with Maia Jae (Ready or Not 2: Here I Come), and Juliette Gariepy (Mile End Kicks) rounding out the cast. Currently in production in Montreal, Good in the Room follows former hockey player Charlie (O’Brien), who partners with ex-teammate Julius (Bachelor) to rob the sport’s biggest star and Charlie’s best friend, JP (Bruneau). Shooting entirely on 16mm, the film channels ’70s crime thrillers such as The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Straight Time, and Thief.
Netflix released a trailer for Enola Holmes 3,
which will finally land on Netflix July 1, after a four-year wait. The
new adventure sees Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) head to Malta where
her personal and professional dreams collide in her most treacherous
case to date. Amid her crime-solving antics, she has to deal with the
next stages of her relationship with Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge), where
wedding bells are on the horizon. In the first trailer, we see Enola's
world rocked by both a surprise proposal from Tewkesbury, and the news
that her brother Sherlock, (Henry Cavill), has been kidnapped. The
latest installment brings back Helena Bonham Carter as Enola and
Sherlock's mother Eudoria, while Himesh Patel reprises his role as Dr
John Watson. Though we don't see her in the trailer, Sharon
Duncan-Brewster is also back as the villainous Moriarty, who may have something to do with Sherlock's kidnapping.
A trailer was released for Uwe Boll’s upcoming action thriller, Citizen Vigilante, starring Armie Hammer as Sanders, a 21st century vigilante who decides to take matters of public justice into his own hands and start hunting down criminals and corrupt officials that he believes the government is failing to hold accountable. The more acts of vigilantism he commits, the more his profile grows—earning him both public support as a hero for the underdog and the attention of an Interpol chief (Costas Mandylor) who views him as a menace to society. Boll wrote and directed the new thriller, which is set to hit theaters, digital, and on demand on June 19.
TELEVISION/STREAMING
David E. Kelley is set to adapt another Michael Connelly crime novel for television, the 2024 bestseller Nightshade. The project, titled Welcome To Catalina, is in development at HBO Max. Written by Kelley, Welcome To Catalina centers on Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell who has been “exiled” to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor.
The Sherlock Holmes franchise continues its expansion with a series focusing on his arch nemesis James Moriarty. The project is said to be a "modern reinvention of the crime procedural, based on the most famous villain in all of detective fiction." Moriarty is a Professor of Criminal Psychology at Durham University but leads a secret double life as the mastermind behind every crime of sophistication in the North of England. When a rival criminal begins an assault on his underground empire, Moriarty will have only one choice: to join the police as a consultant, using the law as a weapon to dismantle his foe while keeping his true identity hidden from the police. Paired with Detective Imogen Burrows, a stoic Yorkshire detective, they’ll form a fearsome team, but Moriarty will soon realize that the real threat isn’t the rival criminal faction he’s dismantling. No casting has been announced yet, but Andrew Scott famously played him in Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s hit BBC drama, Sherlock.
Popular YA novel writer Tom Ryan’s first adult murder mystery, The Treasure Hunters Club, has been optioned by indie producer Skywild Pictures for a TV adaptation. The Simon and Schuster book title features three strangers converging on the remote seaside town of Maple Bay to uncover lost pirate treasure, only for fresh bodies to pile up as they collide with one another and a local mysterious legend. The Toronto-based Skywild has also optioned two other novels for its TV series development slate: the thriller Our Little Secret by Edward Kay and Mikhael Klassen-Kay, and The Affinities by Hugo Award–winning author Robert Charles Wilson.
The CBC has greenlit a third season of the cop drama, Saint-Pierre, which stars Allan Hawco (Republic of Doyle) and Josphine Jobert (Death in Paradise). The twelve-part run will begin filming in Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon in July. Hawco and Jobert star as Arch and Fitz, with Benz Antoine (Four Brothers), Erika Prevost (The Boys) and Jean-Michel Le Gal (Paris Paris) rounding out the main cast. It follows Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Inspector Donald Fitzpatrick (Fitz), who has been exiled to the French territory Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon nestled in the North Atlantic ocean and is partnered with Deputy Chief Geneviève Archambault (Arch), a Parisian transplant there for her own reason. Though the islands seem like quaint tourist destinations, the idyllic façade conceals the worst kind of criminal activity.
Tony Shalhoub (Monk, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) has been set as a recurring guest star on the upcoming CBS series, Einstein. The role will reunite Shalhoub with the creator and executive producer of the hit USA Network series Monk, Andy Breckman, and executive producer Randy Zisk. Einstein follows Lewis Einstein (Matthew Gray Gubler), the brilliant but directionless great-grandson of Albert Einstein. He spends his days as a comfortably tenured professor until his bad-boy antics land him in trouble with the law, and he is pressed into service helping Teri (Melissa Fumero), a local police detective, solve her most puzzling cases. Shalhoub joins the series as Jack Einstein, Lewis Einstein’s father. The series regular cast also includes Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as Capt. Frost.
Sebastian De Souza (The Great) and Adam Godley (Down Cemetery Road) have inked deals for series regular roles in Conviction, Hulu's new legal drama series starring Elisabeth Moss, although his role hasn't been disclosed. Written by House and The Good Doctor creator David Shore, the show follows criminal defense attorney Neve Harper (Moss), a confident lawyer who finally has her shot at a career-making case: a high-profile murder where the husband is accused of killing his wife by setting their home on fire. But when a mysterious stranger begins blackmailing Neve, she is forced to compromise every legal, moral, and ethical obligation to gain an acquittal—or else risk her dark secrets being exposed. The series is based on the 2023 book of the same name by Jack Jordan, who also has series adaptations of his novels Redemption (2024) and Deception (2026) in the works, under a development deal with 20th TV.
Cooper Hoffman has been cast as the lead of the new Hulu drama pilot Durango from writer Eliza Clark (FX’s Y: The Last Man), 20th Television, and Media Res. The pilot follows Hoffman’s character Mikey, a ski bum townie chasing a buzz, who teams up with Bunny, a homeschooled runaway working as a greasy-spoon waitress. Together they’re riding an avalanche of bad decisions and falling in love while running from cops, criminals, and Mikey’s wife in pursuit of their own American dream.
BritBox announced a release date for Tommy & Tuppence, the Agatha Christie adaptation. Written by Phoebe Eclair-Powell, the series follows a married couple who appear in several of Christie’s novels and short stories, taking up detective work for both fun and profit. Imelda Staunton, Antonia Thomas, and Josh Dylan will headline the six-part contemporary adaptation of the Christie novels, bringing the duo into the 21st century. Also joining the cast are Saffron Burrows, Sean Pertwee, Alice Krige, and Alex Jennings. The six-part series will premiere on September 15 on BritBox.
PODCASTS/RADIO/AUDIO
The CBC spoke with forensic thriller writer Patricia Cornwell, discussing her memoir, True Crime, on Bookends with Mattea Roach
NPR's Fresh Air profiled two translated novels that have just come out from Bitter Lemon Press, a small London publisher that specializes in translated mysteries. The End of the Sahara is a kaleidoscopic murder mystery by the Algerian writer Saïd Khatibi, a rising star who just won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. An Enigma by the Sea is a new edition of the 1991 novel by the legendary Italian team of Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini.
Killer Women welcomed Danielle Postel-Vinay, the French alter ego of bestselling author Danielle Trussoni, whose fiction has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Prix Bête Noir des Libraires 2025 and has been translated into over thirty languages; and they also chatted with Lori Rader-Day about her country music thriller, Wreck Your Heart.
House of Mystery Radio spoke with Karen Odden about An Artful Dodge, in which Victorian London comes to vivid life in this heist novel about an all-female thieving gang and one young woman’s heroic plan to escape a life of crime.
On Wrong Place, Write Crime, Aaron Philip Clark returned to the show to discuss the continuing adventures of Trevor Finnegan.
On the latest episode of Spybrary, Shane Whaley spoke with historian Rory Cormac about his book Fakers: A Top Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Line and the extraordinary true story of the Information Research Department—Britain’s secret propaganda and forgery machine.
On the Pick Your Poison podcast, Dr. Jen Prosser profiled an animal that can cause pain and toxicity without ever biting or stinging and has been used as an aphrodisiac and even for murder.
VIDEO GAMES
While Amazon is busy casting the next James Bond for its live-action movies, the franchise has enlisted Patrick Gibson to take on the iconic role in the new video game, 007 First Light. The Dexter: Original Sin actor stars as a younger Bond in this origin story about the secret agent’s early days in an elite MI6 training program. In the game, players step into the shoes of 26-year-old James Bond, a promising yet sometimes reckless Royal Navy air crewman recruited into MI6’s rigorous training program for the
once revered and newly resurrected, elite 00-Programme. The rest of the cast includes Lennie James, Priyanga Burford, Alastair McKenzie, Kiera Lester, Noemie Nakai, Gemma Chan, and Lenny Kravitz.
