Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 28, 2018
Crime fiction in general:
- Barry Forshaw offers a round-up of the best recent thrillers.
- Criminal Elements shares a list of cozy mysteries coming out in August 2018.
- Linda Castillo shares six mysteries that explore crime in closed societies.
- Scott Adlerberg looks at the dawn of crime fiction in Argentina.
- Gray Basnight shares a brief history of cryptography in fiction.
- Becca Schuh explains how reading Mary Higgins Clark taught her to be wary of men.
- Crime Reads share their appreciation for the work of John D. MacDonald.
- James Lovegrove lists all the times Sherlock Holmes faced the supernatural.
- Gray Basnight talks about writing futuristic thrillers on the borderline between science fiction and thriller.
- Ashley R. Pollard takes a look at the popularity of spy fiction and technothrillers such as Alistair MacLean's Ice Station Zebra and Ian Stuart's The Satan Bug in the early 1960s.
- Joe Kenney revisits Vengeance Mountain, a 1985 novel in The Specialist men's adventure series by John Cutter a.k.a. John Shirley.
- Joe Kenney also revisits Coffy, Paul Fairman's 1973 tie-in novel to the eponymous blaxploitation thriller starring Pam Grier.
- Alison Flood reports that James Patterson remains the most borrowed author in UK libraries for the eleventh year in a row.
Raymond Chandler remembered on his 130th birthday:
- To celebrate Raymond Chandler's 130th birthday, Book Marks has dug up the first reviews of all seven Philip Marlowe novels.
- Anthony Dean Rizzuto shares eight things you probably didn't know about Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep.
- Megan Abbott talks about reading Raymond Chandler in the age of #MeToo.
- J. Kingston Pierce explains how he fell in love with Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe.
- J. Kingston Pierce looks at reinterpretations of Philip Marlowe by authors other than Raymond Chandler.
- GQ interviews Megan Abbott and Jonathan Lethem who published an annotated version of Raymond Chandler's classic hardboiled novel The Big Sleep.
Film and TV:
- James Donaghy shares his thoughts on episodes 1 and 2 of series 3 of Unforgotten.
- Lauren Carroll Harris shares her thoughts on the crime drama Dead Lucky.
- Arielle Bernstein declares that the prison system is the biggest villain in season 6 of Orange is the New Black.
- Phil Hoad shares his thoughts on the Chinese historical crime film Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings.
- Brian Greene shares his appreciation for the crime and suspense films of Elsa Martinelli.
- Tor.com shares some details about the upcoming season 2 of Iron Fist.
Comments on Sharp Objects:
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on episodes 1 and 2 as well as episode 3 of Sharp Objects.
- Rebecca Nicholson shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Sharp Objects.
- Rebecca Nicholson also points out that crime dramas like Sharp Objects and Killing Eve prove that TV's best antiheroes at the moment are woman.
Comments on Castle Rock:
- Glenn Garvin shares his thoughts on Castle Rock.
- Cheryl Eddy shares her thoughts on the first episode of Castle Rock.
- Cheryl Eddy interviews Bill Skarsgard, one of the stars of Castle Rock.
- Cheryl Eddy also interviews Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason, showrunners of Castle Rock.
- Jeff Somers shares every Stephen King story set in Castle Rock.
Awards:
- The shortlist for the 2018 CWA Dagger Awards has been announced.
- The winners of the 2018 Scribe Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2018 RITA Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2018 Golden Heart Awards have been announced.
- Read Suzanne Brockmann's RWA Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Lauren Sapala explains why the creative life can be so hard for certain personality types.
- Michael Coorlim talks about multidisciplinary creative balance.
- Becky Mandelbaum mourns the writer she used to be.
- Lauren Sapala explains why characters with unresolved trauma can give their writers huge headaches.
- Dominic Stansberry talks about the inspiration behind his novel The White Devil.
- Cara Hunter talks about the difficulties of publishing your second book.
- Nicola Griffith shares some tips on editing for narrative logic.
- Lee Child gives a talk on writing crime fiction (video).
Interviews:
- Moira Macdonald interviews Megan Abbott.
- Victoria Goldman interviews Nicki Mackay.
- Victoria Goldman interviews Hannah Sheppard.
- BBC Breakfast interviews Mark Dawson (video).
Reviews:
- John Valeri reviews Little Girl Lost by Wendy Corsi Staub.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Don't You Cry by Cass Green.
- Wendy Crutcher reviews Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone.
- Gabino Iglesias reviews The Last Thing I Told You by Emily Arsenault.
- Matt Fowler reviews The Killing Habit by Mark Billingham.
- Debbie Meldrum reviews Day of the Dead by Nicci French.
- Jenny Maloney reviews A Measure of Darkness by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman.
- Kirsitn Centorcelli reviews A Noise Downstairs by Linwood Barclay.
- Jeremy Megraw reviews Unrest by Jesper Stein, translated by David Young.
- The Real Book Spy reviews Feared by Lisa Scottoline.
- Mike Parker reviews Death in the Woods by Bernie Steadman.
- Janet Webb reviews Flight of the Fox by Gray Basnight.
- The Real Book Spy reviews Desolation Mountain by William Kent Krueger.
- The Real Book Spy reviews November Road by Lou Berney.
- Kristin Centorcelli reviews Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer.
- Anne Bonny reviews Sins As Scarlet by Nicolás Obregón.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Yellowhammer by James Henry.
- Vicki Wiesfeld reviews Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin.
- Catherine Dilts reviews the anthology Noir at the Salad Bar, edited by Verena Rose, Harriette Sackler and Shawn Reilly Simmons.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Till Death Us Tart by Ellie Alexander and tries a recipe from the book.
Con reports:
- Catherine Turnbull reports about the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and shares some photos.
- Ali Karim reports about the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and shares some photos.
- Stav Sherez reports about the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and explains how crime fiction became the most popular genre in the UK.
- Ayo Onatade reports that Ashley Jensen, star of the Agatha Raisin TV series, will appear at the Bloody Scotland festival in Sitrling, Scotland, together with M.C. Beaton, the author on whose novels the series is based.
- Farid Ul-Haq reports about the Riverdale panel at San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California.
Research:
- Courtney Summers explains why it is so important to remember crime victims.
- Flynn Berry remembers the infamous Lord Lucan case.
- Sarah Weinman remembers a horrific true crime case involving a fake preacher turned pimp in Brooklyn, New York.
Free online fiction:
- "Save the Last Dance" by Tony Haynes in Crimson Streets.
- "Ten Days to Die" by Erin Lanter in Flash Bang Mysteries.
- "The Final Sleep" by David Nemeth in Shotgun Honey.
- "Viking Funeral" by Nick Kolakowski in Tough.
- "Long Drive Home" by Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Tough.
- "Identity Theft" by Nathan Burrows.
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