Crime Fiction Links of the Week for August 11, 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 BlacKkKlansman, Sharp Objects and much more.
Crime fiction in general:
Film and TV:
Comments on Sharp Objects:
Comments on BlacKkKlansman:
Awards:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
Interviews:
Reviews:
Con reports:
Research:
Free online fiction:
Crime fiction in general:
- David Gordon shares ten classic heist novels.
- Dwyer Murphy shares the twenty best legal thrillers of the last twenty years.
- Lori Rader-Day talks about Midwestern crime fiction.
- David Joy explains that rural literature is a lot more diverse than many people think.
- Sam Jordison revisits Wilkie Collins' 1868 mystery novel The Moonstone.
- Victoria Lucas revisits John Dickson Carr's 1937 supernatural mystery The Burning Court.
- J. Kingston Pierce reviews Mickey Spillane's early Mike Hammer thriller Killing Town, which was only recently rediscovered and published.
- Tina Jordan shares book reviews written by prisoners for the Sing Sing prison newspapers in 1911.
- Claire O'Dell shares some of her and her character Jane Watson's favourite science fiction and fantasy novels.
- Jamie Grierson reports that far right protesters have ransacked the leftwing bookshop Bookmarks in Central London.
Film and TV:
- Phil Hoad shares his thoughts on the hostage drama The Negotiator.
- William Hughes calls the latest adaptation of Agatha Christie's Ordeal by Innocence a gloriously trashy take on a classic.
- James Donaghy shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Unforgotten.
- Garrick Webster reports about the Belgian crime drama Code 37: Sex Crimes.
- Paul Levinson calls the TV drama The Sinner an unconventional and irresistable mystery.
- Kelly Lawler explains how the new Magnum P.I. differs from the 1980s original featuring Tom Selleck.
- Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1988 high school crime comedy Heathers thirty years on.
- Oline H. Cogdill revisits the 1957 TV crime drama Decoy Police Woman starring Beverly Garland.
- Actress Mary Carlisle, who appeared in many B-movie crime dramas and a few horror films in the 1930s, has died aged 104.
Comments on Sharp Objects:
- Rebecca Nicholson shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Sharp Objects.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Sharp Objects.
- Laura Bogart shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Sharp Objects.
Comments on BlacKkKlansman:
- A.A. Dowd shares his thoughts on the true crime comedy BlacKkKLansman.
- Stephanie Zacharek declares that BlacKkKlansman is the movie we need right now.
- Jason Parham declares that BlacKkKlansman is Spike Lee at his searing best.
- David Sims declares that even though BlacKkKlansman is set in the 1970s, it is a very timely movie.
- A.O. Scott calls BlacKkKlansman a journey into the dark heart of white America.
- Ryan Parry reports that the writers of BlacKkKlansman expect to receive death threats because of the controversial nature of the movie.
- Taylor Crumpton retells the real life story behind BlacKkKlansman.
- Olivia B. Waxman interviews Ron Stallworth, the black police officer on whose story BlacKkKlansman is based.
Awards:
- The finalists for the 2018 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards have been announced.
- Mia Manansala talks about the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award and the importance of writing mysteries with characters of colour.
- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the establishment of a new oscar for popular movies and that the announcements of some of the technical categories will no longer be broadcast live.
- Germain Lussier does not think that the establishment of an Oscar for popular movies is a good idea.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Marriage therapist Rena Olsen talsk about crafting realistic relationships in psychological thrillers.
- Rob Hart talks about ending a series.
- Amanda Patterson shares the nine types of unreliable narrator.
- Kameron Hurley explains why it's normal and often crucial for writers to have day jobs.
- Tiffany Meurat shares two reasons day jobs are good for writers.
- Don Lee wonders what the point of writing is, if you believe you're not going to succeed anyway.
- Lauren Sapala explains how self-publishing changed her life.
- Claire Kirch reports about complaints against literary agent Danielle Smith.
- Alison Flood reports about the harrassment several authors received after the e-book piracy website OceanPDF was taken down following complaints by authors and publishers.
- S.A. Soule shares some tips for creating awesome book titles.
- Rocking Book Covers shares twelve book cover design mistakes.
Interviews:
- Alison Flood interviews Belinda Bauer.
- The Real Book Spy interviews Meg Gardiner.
- Victoria Goldman interviews Nathan Blackwell.
Reviews:
- The Real Book Spy reviews Holy Ghost by John Sandford.
- The Real Book Spy reviews Button Man by Andrew Gross.
- Amber Keller reviews The Coroner by Jennifer Graeser Dornbush.
- Marina Sofia reviews The Good Sister by Morgan Jones.
- Catherine Turnbull reviews Sins of the Dead by Lin Anderson.
- Mike Parker reviews Kiss of Death by Paul Finch.
- Louis Bravos reviews A Willing Executioner by Connell Nisbit.
- Kristin Centorcelli reviews Make Them Sorry by Sam Hawken.
- Kristin Centorcelli reviews Our House by Louise Candlish.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman.
- Danielle Antosz reviews Sweet After Death by Valentina Giambaco.
- Marina Sofia reviews Return to Hiroshima by Bob van Laerhoven, translated by Brian Doyle.
- Sandra Mangan reviews No Place Like Home by Rebecca Muddiman.
- Euro Crime reviews Nothing Bad Happens Here by Nikki Crutchley.
- Kristin Centorcelli reviews Under a Dark Sky by Lori Rader-Day.
- Rob Bedford reviews Planetside by Michael Mammay.
- Russell Letson reviews One Way by S.J. Morden.
- Amber Keller reviews Toucan Keep a Secret by Donna Andrews.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews A Soufflé of Suspicion by Daryl Wood Gerber and tries a recipe from the book.
- From First Page to Last reviews Out of Thin Air by Anthony Adeane.
- Jon L. Breen reviews Maigret's World: A Reader's Companion to Simenon's Famous Detective by Murielle Wenger and Stephen Trussel.
Con reports:
- Bobbi Neely reports about the Longmire Days in Buffalo, Wyoming.
- Vaseem Khan and M.W. Craven will be talking about the importance of location in crime fiction at the Borderlines Book Festival in Carlisle, UK.
- Julie Muncy reports that a mock court martial for the character of Poe Dameron from The Last Jedi was held at San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California. There is also a video.
- Sian
Cain reports that several authors from Africa, the Middle East and
Eastern Europe supposed to appear at the Edinburgh Book Festival in
Edinburgh, Scotland, have been refused visa after intrusive application
processes.
Research:
- Gina Wohlsdorf reports about the 1980 murder case of Jean Harris.
- Robin Bowles talks about a suspicious death in Australia and how the case was bungled.
- Jeff Guinn recalls a night in 1968 when Charles Manson partied with celebrities at the legendary Hollywood club Whisky a Go Go.
- Ben Hooper reports that 260 pounds of marihuana were found hidden inside a truck load of lettuce.
Free online fiction:
- "Judith" by April Snellings in Shotgun Honey.
- "Morning After" by Terri Lynn Coop in Shotgun Honey.
- "Masonry" by Rob McClure Smith in Tough.
- "A Musical Clue" by John M. Floyd in Flash Bang Mystery.
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