#OpenAccess article: “Detecting Disability: Moving beyond metaphor in the #crimefiction of #JeffreyDeaver” by Jakubowicz & Meekosha shows how Deaver’s #LincolnRhyme reframes disability from metaphor to identity, revealing tensions between intellect, embodiment, and heroism. buff.ly/spphusN.

Call for Crime Fiction Studies Contributions! The Editorial Board of Crime Fiction Studies would like to invite you to submit an expanded version of your Captivating Criminality 12 conference for possible publication in the journal. To be considered for 7.2, submit by Dec. 12 2025!

#BOTW: In M. L. Rio’s Graveyard Shift (2024), five graveyard workers in a quiet college town walk among the tombstones until they uncover a grave that shouldn’t exist. Their investigation pulls them into secrets, strange science, and sudden violence — a moody, gothic spin on #crimefiction.

🎉Happy Birthday to #PatriciaWentworth (Dora Amy Elles), #bornonthisday in 1877. A master of British mystery, she created detective Miss Silver. With over 70 novels, including historical romances, her debut, A Marriage Under the Terror (1910), won the Melrose Prize. #CrimeFiction

On behalf of the Monash Crime Fiction Project, it's our pleasure to invite you to their next seminar, presented by Dr Eleanore Gardner & Dr Fiona Wade (Charles Sturt Uni.): "Trends or Tropes? Representations of Domestic Violence in Australian Crime Fiction”. 📆 12th Nov. 🕓 4pm - 5pm (AEST) 💻 Zoom

#CapCrim13 #Cfp Reminder! 🔎🫆Captivating Criminality 13: Crime Fiction, Conflict, and Representation 🫆🔍 📍 Bamberg, Germany 📆 25th - 27th June 2026 👥 In person ✍️ Abstract deadline: 15th Jan. 2026 sites.google.com/view/icfa/co...

Our #OpenAccess #AOTW examines #IanRankin’s #TheLieFactory, showing how Rankin integrates #RoryGallagher’s #songlyrics to expand the #hardboiled narrative. It highlights a unique blend of #bluesmusic and #crimefiction. buff.ly/Ro6AiGP.

On 9 November, come to the Torquay Museum for Crime at the Coast, a day of author panels, book signings, and a Q&A with forensic experts! Tickets and information at buff.ly/5FZekTQ

🚨#CallForPapers Reminder🚨 For our #VirtualCrime and #Detection themed issue of #CrimeFictionStudies to be published in March 2027, our guest editors would like to invite you to submit your abstracts! Deadline: 15 Dec. 2025 Please submit your abstract to [email protected].

🎉Happy Birthday to #PhilipMacDonald, #bornonthisday in 1900. Known for his "whodunnit" mysteries, including the Anthony Gethryn novels (e.g The Rasp), he was also a screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and won the Edgar Award twice for Best Short Story. #CrimeFiction

Waking up on a cold morgue slab wasn’t the end for Jet Mason — it was the start. As Halloween looms, she must piece together the night she “died” and uncover who wanted her gone. Every second counts in Holly Jackson’s Not Quite Dead Yet (2025), our #BOTW, perfect for the spooky season.

🔍✨ New post alert! Detective History in 10 Objects – a fascinating dive into the everyday tools used by early police detectives to develop their sleuthing skills🕵️‍♂️ 👉 Read it here: drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/detective-... #History #Victoriandetectives #ObjectsThatTellStories

#OpenAccess Article of the Week: "Crime Fiction and Black Criminality" by Theodore Martin buff.ly/aQBJm5J

🎉 Happy Birthday to #LeeChild, #bornonthisday in 1954! He is known for his bestselling #JackReacher series about the former military police major. Child has won the Anthony, Barry Awards, and the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger for his crime fiction. #CrimeFiction

#BOTW: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1970) by George V. Higgins marks his first entry into the literary world. At the time, Higgins was serving as an Assistant United States Attorney in Boston. This novel offers an authentic portrayal of the Irish-American criminal scene in Boston.

Today’s #OpenAccess article is “The Subterranean in Crime Fiction: Examining #Edinburgh’s Underground in #IanRankin’s John #Rebus Novels” wherein Ian R. Cook examines what underground settings in Rankin’s novels reveal about injustices of urban life. ➡️ bit.ly/470zEpi.

🔓 Demystify Open Access with our OA Hub  This #OpenAccessWeek, discover our collection of guides on all aspects of OA publishing, including: - The different types of Open Access  - How to publish your own research via Open Access - How Open Access is funded Explore now 👇  

Today’s #BOTW is a Gothic novel rather than straightforward #crimefiction. Natalia Theodoridou’s enigmatic Sour Cherry (2025) is a skilled retelling of Bluebeard. It may be set in a far-away land, & a far-away time but it's made painfully current by giving his victims a voice.

👋🏻 #CrimeFiction Seminar Reminder 👋🏻 As part of the Samvãda: A Dialogue on #Decolonization lecture series, Dr. A. Acharya would like to invite you to Dr. Katrina Younes's talk on #SouthKorean #Eco-Noir taking place this Wednesday via Zoom. 📆 Oct. 22nd 🕤 9:30am (GMT-4) 💻 Online: buff.ly/liV7j8d.

🎉 Happy Birthday to #JohnleCarré (David Cornwell), #bornonthisday in 1931. He was MI5 & MI6 before penning 26 iconic spy thrillers. From Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy to The Constant Gardener, he redefined espionage fiction and elevated the genre to a literary one. #CrimeFiction

Call for Contributions. Publication and issue: A Journal of Anglo-American Studies: Series 4, No. 1 (2026) – General Issue: (New) Beginnings. Deadline for proposal submissions: 15 January 2026. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-volumes-...

In connection with the topic of YA readership, this week’s #openaccess article discusses the relevance of crime fiction as an educational tool due to the genre’s mirroring of societal changes in terms of ethics and morals. ➡️

🎉 Happy Birthday to #SSVanDine (Willard Huntington), #bornonthisday in 1888! He was a key figure in Golden Age detective fiction, creating detective Philo Vance in The Benson Murder Case (1926), which inspired films and radio dramas. A puzzle mystery master! #CrimeFiction

🎉 Happy Birthday to #EdMcBain, #bornonthisday in 1952! He revolutionized the police procedural genre with his 87th Precinct series—known for realism and ensemble casts. He also wrote The Blackboard Jungle and Hitchcock’s The Birds screenplay. #CrimeFiction

#NEW #Interdisciplinary #CfP🚨 👉🏻 LANGUAGE & THE INEFFABLE: EXPRESSING THE INEXPRESSIBLE 👈🏻 8th Annual International Comparative Literature Conference, Louisiana State University 📆 March 27-28th, 2026 (Fri.-Sat.) 💻 Virtual attendance 🗣️ 15-20 minute presentations 1/3

🌟 The latest bulletin from our ECR Council for Early Career/Postgradutate Researchers 🌟

⭐ ECR/PGR Members Event Reminder ⭐ ➡️ Join us on Friday 17th October for a 'How To' workshop! Dr K. Münderlein will tell us all about the conference paper writing process. 📆 17th Oct. 🕑 2pm - 3:30pm (CEST) 💻 ECR/PGR Discord Server. Join here: buff.ly/HLxQxV0.

#BOTW: Dreadful Sorry (1993) is a YA crime novel featuring psychological time travel and a thrilling switch of the protagonist’s POV. As Molly tries to make sense of her dark nightmares, she experiences visions of a girl named Clementine, whose eerie past seems to be repeating itself.

For colleagues who also research Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, this #interdisciplinary #CallforPapers (#CfP) may be of interest!

Jaber’s article “The 'Unclaimed Experience': #Trauma and #CrimeFiction” explores how trauma shapes crime fiction via fragmentation, repetition, and ambiguity, offering a complex lens that challenges traditional and clinical genre interpretations. ➡️

🗣️UPCOMING Seminar on #CrimeFiction🗣️ On behalf of the Monash Crime Fiction Project, we are delighted to share details of their Oct. seminar, presented by Dr Clara Sitbon (The University of Sydney): "Decentring through Islands: Archipelagic Approaches to Multilingual Crime Fiction". #academicsky 1/2

⭐ ECR/PGR Members Event ⭐ ➡️ Join us on Friday 17th October for a 'How To' workshop! The workshop, hosted by Dr K. Münderlein, will guide you through the process of writing a conference paper. We hope you can join us! 📆 17th Oct. 🕑 2pm - 3:30pm (CEST) 💻 ECR/PGR Discord Server: buff.ly/HLxQxV0.

The CWA Crime Writers' Clinics are BACK! Join industry experts and bestselling authors to take your craft to the next level! Workshops are free for CWA members and £15 for non-members. Find out more at: buff.ly/P6byNXb

🎉 Happy Birthday to #KirinoNatsuo, #bornonthisday in 1951! A leading voice in Japanese crime fiction, she’s known for her novels "Out" and "Grotesque," which delve into the psychological struggles of women and blend mystery with social critique. #CrimeFiction

#BOTW: In The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim, a feminist psychological horror, Ji-won, a Korean college student, unravels after her father’s abandonment, obsessing over her mother’s boyfriend’s blue eyes as she spirals into violence and madness.

🎉 Happy Birthday to #MaryElizabethBraddon, #bornonthisday in 1835! A pioneer of Victorian crime fiction, her novel Lady Audley's Secret captivated readers with its twists, secrets and scandals, shaping the modern mystery genre. #CrimeFiction

🚨Call for Papers! ❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day 🗺️Loughborough University 📅27 March 2026 💷 FREE For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for... Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at [email protected] for more information

❗️ICFA Website Announcement ❗️ We're moving! 🏡 From Monday 6th Oct. our website's new home will be sites.google.com/view/icfa/home! Till then, our current website (www.captivatingcriminalitynetwork.net/journal.html) will remain live. Please remember to save our new location. 😁

⭐ ECR/PGR Event ⭐ ➡️ Join us, the #ICFA’s ECR/PGR Council, for a welcome to the discord & ‘what to expect from us’ meeting! 📆 2nd Oct. 🕑 4pm - 5pm (CEST) 💻 ECR/PGR Discord Server. Join here: buff.ly/HLxQxV0.

🎉 Happy Birthday to #EdmundCrispin (Robert Bruce Montgomery), #bornonthisday in 1921. He was a crime fiction writer known for detective Gervase Fen. His novels, such as The Moving Toyshop, blend mystery, humour, and literary style—classic British crime fiction. #CrimeFiction

🎉 Happy Birthday to #GrahamGreene, #bornonthisday in 1904! He wrote "entertainments," including crime and suspense novels like The Power and the Glory, Brighton Rock, and A Gun for Sale, rich in espionage and moral complexity. #CrimeFiction

Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize. The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social

🎉 Happy Birthday to #TrumanCapote, who was #bornonthisday in 1924. Best known for "Breakfast at Tiffany’s" and "In Cold Blood"—his groundbreaking true crime account of the 1959 Clutter murders—Capote was a novelist and playwright, not a crime writer by trade. #TrueCrime

🎉 Happy Birthday to #ColinDexter who was #bornonthis day in 1930. Creator of Inspector Morse, he blended puzzles with modern themes, redefining detective fiction. Winner of all major CWA Daggers, his plots and characters left a lasting mark on crime literature. #CrimeFiction

⬇️ Reminder to add this upcoming talk to your calendar! 📆

⭐ ECR/PGR Event ⭐ ➡️ Join us, the #ICFA’s ECR/PGR Council, for a welcome to the discord & ‘what to expect from us’ meeting! 📆 2nd Oct. 🕑 4pm - 5pm (CEST) 💻 ECR/PGR Discord Server. Join here: buff.ly/HLxQxV0.

Call for Contributions. Publication and issue: The Cultural Imaginaries of (Dis)Trust. Literatūra, no. 68, Winter 2026. Deadline for proposal submission: 15 November 2025 (abstract, 300 words); 1 June 2026 (full chapter). #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-volumes-...

#CapCrim13 #CfP Reminder 🔎🫆Captivating Criminality 13: #CrimeFiction, #Conflict, and #Representation 🫆🔍 📍 Bamberg, Germany 📆 25th - 27th June 2026 👥 In person (our host institution unfortunately does not have the infrastructure to support hybrid mode) #AcademicSky #Conference #Interdisciplinary

🎉 Happy Birthday to #MajSjöwall, #bornonthisday in 1935. She is considered the godmother of modern Scandinavian crime fiction, co-authoring 10 influential novels with detective #MartinBeck, praised for their style and impact on crime-writing internationally. #CrimeFiction

#OpenAccess article of the week: Nadine Muller's 'Dead Husbands and Deviant Women: Investigating the #Detective Widow in #Neo-Victorian #CrimeFiction' ➡️ buff.ly/XTT6CGW. #AcademicSky