3 Crime Authors and the $1.5 Billion AI Settlement
The "best of" lists keep coming, plus adaptations news, and more
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3 Crime Authors and the $1.5 Billion AI Settlement

The "best of" lists keep coming, plus adaptations news, and more

Jamie Canaves

November 24, 2025

Here’s what’s happening in the world of mystery news: we have two more Best of 2025 lists, authors fighting back against their work being pirated to train AI, David Baldacci’s new initiative, adaptation news, and more!

A great profile on Rian Johnson

The New Yorker has a great profile on Rian Johnson, whose work shows his deep love for Agatha Christie. “Johnson had wanted the mystery to be ‘set in the current social climate,’ he told me, ‘and to engage with that in the way that Agatha Christie did with her time.’”

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