Crime Fiction Links of the Week for September 22, 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 Bodyguard, Iron Fist, Killing Eve, The Deuce, a new James Bond director, the Bloody Scotland festival, the disintegration of KBoards and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares six debut crime novels to read this September.
• Criminal Element shares all the cozy mysteries coming out in October. 
• Tobias Carroll explains how international police procedurals chart the rise of authoritarianism around the world.
• Ryan Gattis shares the five best crime novels set in Los Angeles, 
• William Boyle shares five music albums that evoke the gritty realism and crime fiction set in New York City.
• Terrence McCauley takes a look at the connections between westerns and crime fiction. 
• Aya de Leon discusses immigrant narratives in crime fiction. 
• Charlotte Ahlin shares eleven crime novels that don't start with a dead woman.
• Eve Peyser lists five crime fiction writers who turned out to be actual murderers.
• Ryan Gattis attempts to define the new subgenre of the gangster procedural, where criminals solve crimes. 
• Stuart Turton shares nine crossgenre crime novels.
• T.M. Logan discusses how social media is changing the thriller genre.
• Jess Lourey shares five codebreaking thriller to read.
• Karin Tidbeck shares five stories about cannibalism. 
• Grady Hendrix shares five devil-worshipping pulp horror novels from the 1970s.  
• Tom Siegel explains why mystery readers are tough jurors.
• Sarah Weiman wonders whether Vladimir Nabokov really hated crime fiction as he claimed. 
• Anne Diebel traces the strange career of Dashiell Hammett.
• Neil Nyren shares his appreciation for the works of Eric Ambler, father of the modern thriller.
• Samuel Wilson takes a look at the magazine Esquire and its contributions to the crime and adventure genres.
• Jack Smalley remembers his time as a pulp editor and writer in the 1920s and 1930s in a two-part post. 
• Kim Pruett reprints an article by Dave Mason about fiction magazine distribution in the 1950s. 
• Molly Odintz explains how to turn your child into a crime fiction fan. 
• The Oxford Mail reports that a new statue of Agatha Christie will be set up in her hometown Wallingford, UK.

Film and TV:

• Peter Bradshaw calls Never Here a dark and disturbing surveillance thriller.
• Peter Bradshaw calls Mile 22 a chaotic action romp. 
• Louis Bravos reports about the new Australian crime drama Mystery Road.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season finale of The Sinner. 
• Paul Levinson reviews the latest episode of The Mayans M.C. 
• Ben Beaumont-Thomas shares his thoughts about the YouTube crime drama Shiro's Story.
• Elle Tharp lists every woman who died after sleeping with James Bond in the movies.

Comments on Bodyguard:

• Sarah Hughes shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Bodyguard.
• Sarah Hughes reports that Netflix has acquired the international rights for Bodyguard and wonders if the BBC could lose the series altogether. 
• The Guardian declares that in order to keep making high quality shows like Bodyguard the BBC needs the respective resources.
  

Comments on Iron Fist:

• Chris Edwards declares that season 2 of Iron Fist is better than season 1, but not by far.  
• Dave Richards shares his thoughts on episodes 1 to 4 and episodes 5 to 7 of season 2 of Iron Fist.
• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on season 2 of Iron Fist and focusses particularly on the characters of Misty Knight and Colleen Wing a.k.a. the Daughters of the Dragon.
• Ian Sandwell and David Opie explain who the character of Typhoid Mary, who appears in season 2 of Iron First, is.
• Bea Mitchell finds a Marvel hero hidden in season 2 of Iron Fist.
• Ryan Scott finds another Easter egg in season 2 of Iron Fist and wonders what this means for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  

Comments on Killing Eve:

• Rachel Cooke declares that Killing Eve is the future of television.
• John Dugdale explains how Killing Eve keeps his love of adaptations alive.
• Luke Jennings, author of the self-published novella series on which Killing Eve was based, recounts how he created the characters.
• Rebecca Nicholson interviews the cast of Killing Eve.
  

Comments on The Deuce: 

• Paul MacInnes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.
• Erik Adams shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.
  

Comments on the new James Bond director:

• Mike Fleming Jr. reports that Cary Joji Fukunaga will direct the next James Bond movie after the previous director left over creative differences.
• Brent Lang explains why Cary Joji Fukunaga is a risky bet for a Bond movie.
• Peter Bradshaw believes that Cary Joji Fukunaga can refresh the James Bond franchise.
• Alex Godfrey interviews Cary Joji Fukunaga.
  

Awards:

• The winner of the 2018 McIlvanney Award is Liam McIlvanney after whose father the award was named.
• The winners of the 2018 Primetime Emmys have been announced with some love for genre shows. 
• The shortlist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize has been announced.
• The shortlist for the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award has been announced.
• Haruki Murakami has withdrawn himself from consideration for the New Academy Prize in Literature. 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Matt Miller shares tips for finding writing inspiration.
• Sara Gran explains why she writes genre fiction. 
• Robert Wood explains why writers should avoid fridging female and minority characters. 
• Peter Blauner talks about portraying police officers in crime fiction.
• Richie Billing shares a guide for writing fight scenes.
• Ivy Pochoda explains how living in Los Angeles inspired her crime novel Wonder Valley. 
• Claire Kirch reports that Target has been censoring book titles and descriptions.
• The Passive Voice reports about a rights grab uproar involving the popular self-publishing forum KBoards.
• Julie Ann Dawson also reports about the unannounced TOS change at KBoards after the forum was taken over by VerticalScope and offers a timeline of events.
• Marilyn Vix weighs in on the KBoards issue.
  

Interviews:

• Tina Jordan interviews Robert Galbraith a.k.a. J.K. Rowling.
• Alison Flood interviews Dominick Donald.
• The Real Book Spy interviews Andrew Gross.
• Gilly Macmillan and Mary Kubica interview each other.
• Paul D. Brazill interviews Paul Heatley.
• Scott Montogomery interviews Scott von Doviak.
• Bill Selnes interviews Jayne Barnard.
• Jane Hamilton interviews Felix Francis.
  

Reviews:

• Jake Arnott reviews Lethal White by Robert Galbraith. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews Lethal White by Robert Galbraith.
• Haven Bassett reviews I Know You Know by Gilly Macmillan.
• Kristin Centorcelli reviews Broken Windows by Paul D. Marks.
• Angie Barry reviews A Forgotten Place by Charles Todd.
• Mike Parker reviews Suspended Retribution by Rob Ashman.
• Eleanor Kuhns reviews The Druid of Death by Richard T. Ryan. 
• Gabino Iglesias reviews The Ancient Nine by Ian K. Smith. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews The Lingering by S.J.I. Holliday.
  
• The Real Book Spy reviews Nomad by James Swallow.
• Michelle Carpenter reviews Man of War by Sean Parnell. 
• John Valeri reviews Button Man by Andrew Gross.
• Gabino Iglesias reviews Charlesgate Confidential by Scott von Doviak.
• Michael Patrick Hicks reviews My Pet Serial Killer by Michael J. Seidlinger.
• Louis Bravos reviews After the Death of Ellen Keldberg by Eddie Thomas Petersen, translated by Toby Bainton.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Double Fudge Brownie Murder by Joanne Fluke and tries a recipe from the novel.
  

Classics reviews:

• Gray Basnight revisits the 1935 crime novel They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy. 
• Chris Morgan also revisits They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy. 
• Scott von Doviak shares his appreciation for the 1970 crime novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins and explains how it created the Boston noir subgenre. 
• Joe Kenney revisits Night Crossing, a 1975 adventure novel by Ken Kolb.
• Joe Kenney revisits Ultimate Price, a 2001 Executioner men's adventure novel by Gerald Montgomery.

Crowdfunding:

• Fiction River, an original anthology series edited by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is looking for funding.

Con reports:

• Ali Karim reports about the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and shares several photos. 
• Hugh MacDonald reports about the Bloody Scotland crime writing festival in Stirling, Scotland.
• Louise Fairbairn reports about Bloody Scotland.
• Kenny Smith reports about the Bloody Scotland festival, including a football match between English and Scottish crime fiction writers.
• Deborah Chu explains what to expect from Bloody Scotland.
• Joy Kluver reports about the First Monday Crime event in London, UK.
  

Research:

• Tim Bowler profiles female bodyguard Jacquie Davis.
• Luke Harding discusses the case of the Cold War double agent Oleg Gordievsky.
• Geoff Manaugh wonders how the police will solve murders on Mars. 
• Molly Olmstead reveals the true reason why the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, was shut down by the FBI and evacuated.  
• Amanda Patterson explains the difference between psychopaths and sociopaths.

Free online fiction:

• "One The Hard Way" by Tia Ja'nae in Shotgun Honey.
• "With Hair Blacker than Coal" by Chris McGinley in Tough. 
• "Meanwhile, on Willow Lane" by Larry Tyler. in Over My Dead Body.
• "Heading for Dillabough" by Paul Finnigan in Over My Dead Body.
• "Walking Captain Kirk" by Barry S. Brown in Over My Dead Body.
  

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for Mystery Road.
• Watch a trailer for FBI.
• Watch a trailer for season 3 of Daredevil. 
• Watch a trailer for You Might Be The Killer. 
• Alaleh Banu explains how to look like Modesty Blaise.