Crime Fiction Links of the Week for August 18, 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, The Sinner, The Equalizer 2, Mile 22 and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Signature shares the 100 best thrillers of all time.
• Jake Kerridge shares the best crime novels and thrillers of 2018 so far. 
• Laura Wilson takes a look at the best recent crime novels.
• Crime Reads shares five debut crime novels to read this August.
• Amy Stuart shares ten crime novels to keep you up at night.
• Criminal Element shares a list of cozy mysteries coming out in September. 
• Dave Richards shares six new comic series for crime fiction fans.
• Lucy Atkins shares ten crime novels set in beautiful and picturesque places. 
• Paul French talks about crime fiction set in the Scottish Highlands and the islands.
• Rachel Caine talks about finding the darkness in thrillers and true crime fiction.
• Sam Reader eight intriguing dark fantasy noir novels. 
• Sam Kean declares that reading fiction might make doctors more empathetic.  
• Neil Nyren shares his appreciation for the work of Josephine Tey.
• Johanna Schneller profiles Linwood Barclay.
• Jonas Rohe revisits The Gravedigger's Bread, a 1956 crime novel by Frédéric Dard.
• Joe Kenney revisits Welcome to Oblivion, a 1975 The Smuggler novel by Paul Petersen.
• John DeVore shares his love for Batman.

Film and TV:

• James Donaghy shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Unforgotten.
• Sam Wollaston calls the new TV series 9-1-1 wooden and over the top.
• Kyoko M. shares her appreciation for the character of Mariah Stokes Dillard in Luke Cage.
• Roberto Saviano analyses how Italian movies portray the mafia. 
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1945 noir thriller Mildred Pierce. 
• The Columbophile shares the top ten Columbo episodes.

Comments on The Equalizer 2: 

• Charles Bramesco reports that The Equalizer 2 is a dull sequel full of middle aged male wish fulfillment.
• Chris Wasser calls The Equalizer 2 a bloated, bland and confusing thriller.
• Damon Smith calls The Equalizer 2 underwhelming.
• Guy Lodge declares that even Denzel Washington cannot save The Equalizer 2.
• Tim Robey actually prefer The Equalizer 2 to the previous film.
  

Comments on BlacKkKlansman:

• Katie Rife declares that BlacKkKlansman doesn't let white woman off the hook, nor should it.
• The Telegraph reports that Denzel Washington is very proud that his son John David Washington stars in BlacKkKlansman.
• Zack Sharf reports that actor Topher Grace who plays David Duke in BlacKkKlansman received threatening phone calls over his role.
  

Comments on Mile 22: 

• David Ehrlich calls the action thriller Mile 22 the worst movie of the summer.
• A.A, Dowd calls Mile 22 a dumber, sloppier and more patriotic Fallout.
• David Fear calls Mile 22 incoherent and chaotic and compares it to the conspiracy website Infowars.
• Robert Abele calls Mile 22 the movie equivalent of being shouted at by your drunk ex-army father.
• Bruce Demara calls Mile 22 a fast-paced spy thriller.
  

Comments on season 2 of The Sinner:

•  Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on season 2 of The Sinner.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Sinner.
  

Awards:

• The winners of the 2018 Davitt Awards have been announced.
• The winners of the 2018 American Book Awards have been announced and include several genre titles.
• The nominees for the Edinburgh International Book Festival's First Book Award have been announced and include several genre titles.

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Jennifer Lane reveals how her crime novel All Our Secrets was conceived.
• Ruth Ann Nordin shares a common sense approach to the writing business. 
• Maggie Lynch analyses some survey to explain what makes readers buy books.
• M.J. Rose shares some advice for writing blurbs. 
• J.P. Mangalindan reports about the banning of fantasy authors J.A. Cipriano and Michael-Scott Earle from Amazon, both of whom claim to have done nothing wrong.
• David Gerrold talks about writer cooperatives and Patreon.
  

Interviews:

• The Real Book Spy interviews David Joy.
• Sarah Hughes interviews Jed Mercurio.
• Mystery Tribune interviews Mike Maden.
  

Reviews:

• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Broken Ground by Val McDermid
• Vanessa Orr reviews Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier. 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Language of Secrets by Ausma Zehanat Khan.
• Sharon Magee reviews A Sin Such As This by Ellen Hopkins.
• Garrick Webster reviews Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn.
• Amber Keller reviews Abandoned by Allison Brennan. 
• Mike Parker reviews The Forger by Cay Rademacher, translated by Peter Millar.
• Sandra Mangan reviews Little Liar by Lisa Ballantyne.
• Janet Webb reviews The Man Who Couldn't Miss by David Handler.
• Ariell Cacciola reviews Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott. 
• Victoria Goldman reviews The Lingering by Susi Holliday.
• Robin Agnew reviews No Cure For the Dead by Christine Trent.
• Alex Calamela reviews Requiem by Geir Tangen.
• Marina Sofia reviews Dead of Night by Michael Stanley.
• Marina Sofia reviews The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories by Teresa Solana, translated by Peter Bush.
• Mike Parker reviews The Boise Longpig Hunting Club by Nick Kolakowski.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Red Velvet Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke and tries a recipe from the book.
  

Con reports:

• Ali Karim reports about a double launch event for two new thrillers in London, UK, and shares some photos.
• Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon weighs in on the issue of several writers supposed to appear at the Edinburgh Book Festival having their visas refused. 
  

Research:

• Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz discuss Al Capone's media obsession.
• Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz also shares ten surprising facts about Al Capone and Eliot Ness.
• Paul Levitz talks about the ghosts of New York City. 
• Susan Spann talks about crime and punishment in Japan during the Shogun era.
• George Dvorsky reports that Nebraska has used the drug Fentanyl during an execution for the very first time.
• Prince Albert Now shares the story of a particularly stupid criminal.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Too Few Heroes" by Alan Orloff in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Nice Guys Finish Last" by J.C. Andrijeski in Mystery Tribune.
• "Once Upon a Time in Chicago" by Tia Ja'nae in Tough. 
• "Daddy's Girl" by Joe Congel. 
• "Pride" by Eric J. Gates in Mystery Tribune.
• "Crossroad" by John Davis in The Strand.
• "The Atonement Path" by Alex Irvine in Lightspeed.

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for I Am A Killer.