Crime Fiction Links of the Week for February 10, 2018

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 Endeavour, Altered Carbon, Hard Sun, McMafia, Waco and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Lisa Levy shares five must-read crime novels for February.
• Barry Foreshaw offers an overview over the best recent thrillers. 
• Maxim Jakubowski shares the best new crime novels.
• Rian Dundon takes a look at the lesbian pulp fiction of the 1950s and 1960s. 
• Jamie Bernthal revisits the 1938 mystery Murder on the Second Floor by Frank Vosper.  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1963 crime novel Motive for Murder by Charles Barling. 
• Martin Edwards also revisits the 1944 comic crime novel The Deadly Dove.
• Karen Thompson Walker shares the top ten fears in classic literature.
  

Film and TV:

• Michael Sloan shares his all-time favourite mystery and thriller movies.
• Natalie Corner reports that young viewers are put off by the casual racism and sexism in vintage James Bond movies. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1962 crime drama Night of the Prowler.
• Garrick Webster shares his five favourite German crime dramas (of which three are largely unknown in Germany and the last two are part of the same anthology series).
  
• Lucy Mangan feels that The X-Files has jumped the shark.
• Lance Charnes explains why the historical crime drama The Alienist is worth watching. 
• Gavin Hines wonders whether the US spy drama Homeland is actually any good. 
• Kyle Fowle views the documentary drama The Assassination of Gianni Versace as a parable about the violence of capitalism.
• David Stubbs reviews the latest episode of McMafia.
• Ardi Alspach reviews the latest episode of Waco.
• Stuart Heritage explains why he roots for the villains of shows like Hard Sun and Lost. 
• Greg Fleming interviews Neil Cross, creator of Luther and Hard Sun.
• Actor Reg Cathey, who appeared in many TV crime dramas, has died aged 59.
  

Comments on Endeavour:

• Stuart Chandler offers a look ahead at series 5 of the British period crime drama Endeavour. 
• Sam Wollaston calls Endeavour as comforting as cheese on toast.
• Benji Wilson calls the season 5 premiere of Endeavour a well-grafted drama somewhat lacking in gravitas.
• BT.com interviews Shaun Evans, star of Endeavour.

Comments on Altered Carbon:

• Benjamin Lee calls Altered Carbon flashy, flawed and fun. 
• Clara Mae declares that Altered Carbon has the potential to become a truly diverse science fiction series. 
• Damien Walter calls Altered Carbon a flat and shiny series adapted from an equally flat and shiny novel. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw declares that Altered Carbon proves that Cyberpunk had failed to progress.  
• Bob Mayer calls Altered Carbon an intriguing journey.
• Sam Reader shares five books to read after watching Altered Carbon.
  

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2018 Audie Awards have been announced.
• Anna Maria Tremonti discusses the new Staunch Prize for thriller without violence against women and talks to supporters and critics of the prize.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• V.S. Kemanis talks about writing legal suspense.
• Stuart Binns talks about the inspiration for his new thriller Betrayal.
• Kameron Hurley explains what she has learned about being a writer. 
• D.J. Collins shares some writing tips for new authors. 
• Lauren Sapala implores writers to trust their own process. 
• Lauren Sapala also explains why it is so difficult for certain personality types to share their writing with others.
• Thomas Pluck debunks bad writing advice. 
• Stacy Whitman takes a look at the role of cultural experts and sensitivity readers.
• Michael Coorlim talks about author identity as a marketing tool. 
• Kim Pruett discusses the reasons why writers use pen names.
  

Interviews:

• Michael Barson interviews Max Allan Collins. 
• Catherine Turnbull interviews Joseph Knox. 
• Criminal Element interviews Tracee de Hahn.
• Victoria Goldman interviews Simone Buchholz.
• Compulsive Reader interviews Stuart Turton.
  

Reviews:

• Doreen Sheridan reviews This Fallen Prey by Kelley Armstrong.
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Restless Coffins by M.P. Wright.
• Crime Book Junkie also reviews Restless Coffins by M.P. Wright. 
• Angie Barry reviews The Gate Keeper by Charles Todd.
• The Book Whisperer reviews The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor. 
• Deborah Lacy review Hellbent by Gregg Hurwitz. 
• Mike Parker reviews Into the Black Nowhere by Meg Gardiner. 
• Raven Crime Reads reviews A Darker State by David Young.
• Purity Brown reviews A Cold Cold Heart by John Nicholl.
• Gabino Iglesias reviews The Storm King by Brendan Duffy.
• Chris Wolak reviews Force of Nature by Jane Harper.
• John Valeri reviews Look For Me by Lisa Gardner. 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Need to Know by Karen Cleveland. 
• Bodies in the Library reviews This Is How It Ends by Eva Dolan.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Cream Puff Murder by Joanne Fluke and tries a recipe from the book.
• The Middle Shelf reviews The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson.
• Gabino Iglesias reviews The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch.
• Sam Reader reviews The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch.  
• David Cranmer reviews Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980, edited by Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette.

Crowdfunding:

• Good Society, a Jane Austen inspired roleplaying game, is looking for funding.
• Tarie Crawford, the mother of podcaster and critic Shaun Duke, needs some help with medical expenses following abdominal surgery.
  

Con reports:

• The Puppet Show shares the ultimate guide to crime writing festivals and conventions.
• Grant Nicol explains how the Rotorua Noir crime festival in Rotorua, New Zealand, came to be. 

Research:

• Meehan Crist and Tim Requarth report about the crisis of forensics in the US, using a 1991 bombing case from Colorado as an example.  
• Meanwhile, Karen Richmond tackles the forensic crisis in the UK.
• April Dembosky reports about forensic dogs who can sniff out human ashes in wildfire wreckage.
• Hunter Stuart reports that one of three prisoners who escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 may be still alive and may have resurfaced.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Helpless" by Séamus Scalon at Akashic Books. 
• "Cold Turkey" by Keith Rawson in Beat to a Pulp.
• "Listen Up" by Peter DiChellis in Flash Bang Mysteries.
  

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Jessica Jones. 
• Watch a trailer for Mission Impossible: Fallout.
• Watch a trailer for Endeavour.