UK bookseller Waterstones has chosen as its 2025 Book of the Year the romantic-mystery, The Artist, by Lucy Steeds. Set in the 1920s in southern France, the novel explores the escalating tensions between an enigmatic painter, his niece, and a British journalist. Two of the finalists included The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, a mix of fantasy and whodunit centered on a brutal murder at a contest to replace the emperor of Orrun, and Strange Pictures by Uketsu (author), Jim Rion (translator), a macabre and fiendishly clever interactive Japanese mystery that revolves around nine bizarre pictures full of clues. Waterstones had previously released their picks for the best Crime & Thriller titles of the year.
The inaugural Helsinki Noir festival is set for February 23 through March 1 in 2026. The festival will feature some of the top crime fiction writers from Finland as well as international authors and will include discussions and activities about crime fiction and true crime. Some of the previously announced authors scheduled to attend include Jo Nesb, Elly Griffiths, Chris Whitaker, Stefan Ahnhem, Lilja Sigurdardóttir, and more.
Author, blogger, and editor, Martin Edwards, is author of the Lake District mysteries and more and has received the CWA Diamond Dagger, UK crime writing's highest honor. He has also served as president of the Detection Club and recently celebrated his tenth anniversary serving in that role. The Detection Club was formed in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, with G. K. Chesterton serving as the first president. Under Edwards's administration, the group has published Motives to Murder, a short story collection in honor of Peter Lovesey, which yielded three stories shortlisted for the CWA Dagger, and Playing Dead, this year's collection of stories honoring Simon Brett.
In a round-robin for The Express, ten leading psychological thriller writers—Lisa Jewell, Anna Mazzola, Claire Mackintosh, Steph McGovern, Emma Curtis, Lilja Sigurðardóttir, Claire McGowan, Louise Candlish, C L Taylor, and Eve Smith—shared their picks for the best books of 2025. The Express also rounded up nine crime writers—Ian Rankin, Jane Harper, Kate Atkinson, John Connolly, Peter James, MW Craven, Janice Hallett, GD Wright, and Luca Veste—to discuss their top book picks for the year.
The CBC explored the cozy book trend getting us through the colder months, including some crime fiction titles.
The Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum in Orlando is featuring the exhibit, “True Crime: Blood, Lies and Alibis," for a limited time. The exhibition include artifacts associated with Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jesse James and much more, including interactive displays.
This week's crime poem up at the 5-2 Crime Poetry Weekly is "Elegy for Fifty Cents" by Allison Whittenberg.
In the Q&A roundup, author Mike Lupica discussed Showdown (the latest installment in his continuation of Robert Parker's Spencer series), as well as immigration battles and a toxic podcaster, with Massachusetts Live; and Ace Atkins (who had written the Spencer continuation novels prior to Lupica) talked about his writing, including his latest novel, the comedic thriller, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, with both the Orange County Register and Shots Magazine.
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