Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 21, 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 Sharp Objects, Mission Impossible - Fallout, Luke Cage, Ant-Man and the Wasp, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Festival and much more.
Crime fiction in general:
Film and TV:
Comments on Mission Impossible - Fallout:
Awards:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
Interviews:
Reviews:
Con reports:
Research:
Free online fiction:
Odds and ends:
Crime fiction in general:
- Laura Wilson offers a round-up of the best recent crime novels.
- Crime Reads shares ten debut crime novels to read this summer.
- Matthew Eden lists eight crime fiction authors who served time in prison.
- Shannon Kirk shares ten seaside mysteries.
- Lori Roy recommends eight Southern gothic mysteries.
- Gregg Hurwitz explains how thrillers offer an antidote to toxic masculinity.
- Rio Youers discusses the role of books in providing a safe space to examine society.
- Owen Hill, Pamela Jackson and Anthony Rizzuto explain how Raymond Chandler reinvented himself and the crime novel.
- Brandon Vogt reports that there is a motion to make G.K. Chesterton, author of the Father Brown mysteries, a Catholic saint.
- Joe Kenney revisits The Golden Shaft, a 1974 Iceman blaxploitation crime novel by Joseph Nazel.
- Crime fiction and screenwriter Jessica Mann has died aged 80.
Film and TV:
- Garrick Webster shares the best new crime shows from around the world.
- Rebecca Nicholson shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Sharp Objects.
- Sam Wollaston shares his thoughts on season 8 of the legal drama Suits.
- Alexa Grave calls Ant-Man and the Wasp an awesome team-up.
- Brandon O'Brien is pleased by the presence of LGBT characters in season 2 of Luke Cage, but would like to see more.
- Tor.com shares some details about the upcoming season 2 of Iron Fist.
- Sam Stone reveals some plot details about the third season of Agent Carter that never was to be.
- Peter Bradshaw calls the Thai prison drama A Prayer Before Dawn grisly, visceral and terrifying.
- Leslie Felperin calls Escape Plan 2 a baffling prison break thriller.
- Peter Bradshaw calls the crime thriller The Receptionist an intimate voyage into London't underworld.
Comments on Mission Impossible - Fallout:
- Sean O'Connell wonders whether the Ethan Hunt character from the Mission Impossible series is actually a good spy or just very lucky.
- Sean O'Connell also takes a look at the character Fortnite in the Mission Impossible series.
- Adam Holmes explains why Jeremy Renner is not in Mission Impossible - Fallout.
- Ryan Gilbey interviews Rebecca Ferguson, one of the stars of Mission Impossible - Fallout.
Awards:
- The winner of the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Prize has been announced.
- The winners of the 2018 Thriller Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2018 Strand Critics Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2018 Pinckley Prize for Crime Fiction have been announced.
- The longlist for the 2018 Ned Kelly Awards has been announced.
- Mystery author Ellen Hart has won the 2018 Pinckley Prize for Distinguished Body of Work.
- The winner of the 2018 Radio Bremen Krimipreis has been announced.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Owen Hill shares tips for writers who want to write hardboiled crime fiction without becoming a cliché.
- Jonathan Putnam explains how real history shaped his Lincoln & Speed historical mysteries.
- John T. Weiss shares nine tips for filling up your creative gas tank.
- Nicole Kornher-Stace explains why she prefers writing platonic relationships to writing romantic relationships.
- Chuck Wendig discusses the problem of writers relying too much on Blake Snyder's popular screenwriting book Save the Cat.
- Gabino Iglesias lists ten types of writers that should be (metaphorically) thrown down a well.
- Sarah Jeong offers a summary of the so-called "Cockygate" affair and the shenangigans that some indie romance authors get up to.
Interviews:
- The Northern Echo interviews Lee Child.
- The Real Book Spy interviews Linda Castillo.
- The Real Book Spy interviews Ace Atkins.
- The Real Book Spy interviews Matthew Betley.
- The Real Book Spy interviews C.J. Box.
- Lisa Levy interviews Naben Ruthnum a.k.a. Nathan Ripley.
- Daneet Steffens interviews Megan Abbott.
- Ben Beaumont-Thomas interviews Chuck Palaniuk.
Reviews:
- The Real Book Spy reviews Past Tense by Lee Child.
- Rick Perry reviews The Midnight Line by Lee Child.
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Last Thing She Told Me by Linda Green.
- Tony White reviews The Price You Pay by Aidan Truhen.
- Janet Webb reviews The Price You Pay by Aidan Truhen.
- Kristin Centorcelli reviews Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Do No Harm by L.V. Hay.
- Mike Parker reviews Some Die Nameless by Wallace Stroby.
- John Valeri reviews The Disappearing by Lori Roy.
- The Real Book Spy reviews The Iceman by P.T. Deutermann.
- Janet Webb reviews Big Woods by May Cobb.
- Kristin Centorcelli reviews Caged by Ellison Cooper.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Rescued by David Rosenfelt.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Cherry Pies and Deadly Lies by Darci Hannah and tries a recipe from the book.
- Janet Webb reviews Bad Time to Be in It by David Burnsworth.
- Gabino Iglesias reviews Halcyon by Rio Youers.
- Hope C. Tarr reviews Four Dominions by Eric van Lustbader.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews I Only Killed Him Once by Adam Christopher.
Con reports:
- Ali Karim reports about CrimeFest 2018 in Bristol, UK, and shares some photos.
- Sue Wilkinson reports about the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
- Sue Wilkinson also interviews David Ritson, manager of The Old Swan hotel, where the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival takes place.
- StrayFM reports about the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.
- Apply for crime writing workshops at the Noirwich Fetsival in Norwich, UK.
- Karen Hardy reports about a Twitter feud related to the Camberra Writers' Festival in Camberra, Australia.
Research:
- Jessica Brown explains how normal life feels to nonviolent psychopaths.
- William Klaber wonders who really killed Robert Kennedy.
- Michael Scott Moore visits the Galkayo, the centre of Somali piracy.
Free online fiction:
- "Operation Bastard" by Karina Bush at Akashic Books.
- "Courting Trouble" by Rusty Barnes in Shotgun Honey.
- "Aerial Showdown" by Bruce Harris in Crimson Streets.
Odds and ends:
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