Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 6, 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 The Cry, The Deuce, the Bloody Scotland festival, the Morecambe and Vice festival and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares nine crime novels to read in October. 
• Barry Forshaw shares a round-up of the best recent thrillers.
• Peter Stone shares twelve essential thrillers about political scandals.
• Leslie S. Klinger traces the birth of American detective fiction.
• Nic Joseph talks about familiarity and foreignness in crime fiction. 
• Angel Luis Colón wonders why there isn't more crime fiction from the Bronx.
• S.L. Huang explains why we need more problematic women in crime fiction.
• Val McDermid shares her appreciation for the work of Josephine Tey and why she would love to discover a lost Josephine Tey novel.
• Christine Ro explains how Agatha Christie has shaped how the world sees Britain. 
• Sean Carswell explains how a miners' strike turned violent in West Virginia inspired James M. Cain.
• Sherry Thomas shares her favourite Sherlock Holmes pastiches.
• Leo Benedictus remembers the time when reading novels was considered dangerous.
  

Film and TV:

• Molly Odintz lists the fifteen women crime writers whose works were most frequently adapted as films. 
• Leslie Felperin calls Blue Iguana a middling crime comedy.
• Garrick Webster shares his thoughts about the Swedish crime drama Alex. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Mayans M.C. 
• Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the latest episode of How To Get Away With Murder.
• Victoria Lucas revisits the 1963 supernatural thriller The Burning Court.
• Sandy Ferber also revisits the 1968 science fiction film The Power.   
• John Fecile revisits the 1978 cult shocker Faces of Death.
• Lesley Goldberg reports that actor Damon Wayans is also leaving the TV version of Lethal Weapon.
  

Comments on The Cry: 

• Lucy Mangan calls the psychological thriller The Cry a worthy follow-up to Bodyguard.
• Sandra Mangan shares her thoughts about the British crime drama The Cry. 

Comments on The Deuce: 

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.
• Noel Murray shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.
• Paul MacInnes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.

Awards:

• The winners of the 2018 DBW Awards have been announced.  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Ryan J. Pelton implores writers to write what they want to read.
• Lauren Sapala explains why writer's block hits writers with the INFJ Meyers-Briggs personality type harder than any other types. 
• Kameron Hurley talks about building the story of ourselves.
• Betsy Dornbush discusses why writers return to certain themes and questions over and over again.
• Lulu shares the four key elements of great short stories. 
• Oren Ashkenazi discusses eight absurdities forced on female characters. 
• S.L. Huang explains how working in the US film industry inspired the criminal underworld in Zero Sum Game.
• Roz Morris talks about her quiet rebellion against conventional marketing wisdom.
• Michael R. McGowan talks about how his real life experience as an FBI agent differs from writing FBI thrillers. 
• Gillian McAllister explains how a real life court case inspired her novel No Further Questions.
• P.J. Parrish asks if there is anything off limits in crime writing.
• Marc and Cleo Coyle explain why they revives their Haunted Bookshop mystery series after almost ten years.
  

Interviews:

• John Valeri interviews Leslie S. Klinger.
• The Real Book Spy interviews Kyle Mills.  
• Mark Westmoreland interviews Chris Graham.
  

Reviews:

• The Real Book Spy reviews Shell Game by Sarah Paretsky.
• Janet Webb reviews Death Is Not Enough by Karen Rose.
• The Real Book Spy reviews Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci.
• The Real Book Spy reviews Into the Night by Sarah Bailey. 
• Kristin Centorcelli reviews The Night in Question by Nic Joseph.
• Janet Webb reviews The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse.
• Angie Barry reviews A Murder By Any Other Name by Suzanne M. Wolfe. 
• Mike Parker reviews A House of Ghosts by W.C. Ryan. 
• Joseph Scarpato Jr. reviews The Thirty-One Kings by Robert J. Harris.
• The Real Book Spy reviews Kill For Me by Tom Wood.
  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews The Janus Run by Douglas Skelton. 
• Louis Bravos reviews The Moving Blade by Michael Pronko. 
• Anna Carey reviews Transcription by Kate Atkinson.
• Purity Brown reviews Sleepers by Mark Dawson.
• Ian Mond reviews The Outsider by Stephen King.
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Three Beths by Jeff Abbott.
• John Valeri reviews The Dead Ringer by M.C. Beaton.
• Eileen Brady reviews The Antiquities Hunter by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.
• Deborah Lacy reviews Glitter Bomb by Laura Childs with Terrie Farley Moran.
• Hope C. Tarr reviews The Pint of No Return by Ellie Alexander.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Christmas Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke and tries a recipe from the book.  
• Liz Bourke reviews Exit Strategy by Martha Wells. 
• Liz Bourke reviews Zero Sum Game by S.L. Huang. 
• Gabino Iglesias reviews Zero Sum Game by S.J. Huang.

Classics reviews:

• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1934 mystery The Murder of My Aunt by Richard Hull.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1935 Hercule Poirot mystery Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie. 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1946 noir novel Dark Passage by David Goodis.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1957 crime novel Hostage for a Hood by Lionel White.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits The Con Man, a 1957 87th Precinct novel by Ed McBain.
• Paperback Warrior revisits The End of the Night, a 1960 crime novel by John D. MacDonald.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1965 adventure novel High Citadel by Desmond Bagley.
• Joe Kenney revisits Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert by Paul Ross, a 1975 novel in the Chopper Cop men's adventure series.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1991 hardboiled novel Killing Suki Flood by Robert Lieninger.
  

Con reports:

• Heleen Kist shares her experiences at the Bloody Scotland crime fiction festival in Stirling, Scotland. 
• Sandra Mangan reports about the 2018 Morecambe & Vice crime writing festival in Morecambe, UK, and shares several photos. 
• The Visitor reports about the Morecambe and Vice festival.
• Ayo Onatade reports about a launch event for Gallows Court by Martin Edwards in London, UK.
• Dominique Jeannerod shares a call for papers for the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Crime Fiction Research Group at Maynooth University in Ireland.
• Rebecca Romney reports about her visit to a replica of 221B Baker Street in Reading, Pennsylvania, and shares some photos.
• Andrea Carter shares a beginner's guide to literary festival gigs.
  

Research:

• Laurie Loewenstein discusses the surprising intimacy of rural county jails in early to mid 20th century America and the role sheriff's wives played in dealing with prisoners.
• Ben Macintyre profiles Oleg Gordievsky, the greatest spy you've never heard of. 
• Sarah Rainford wonders whether Russian spies have lost their touch, following several bungled operations.
• The Guardian reports that a prisoner on death row in San Quentin, California, was killed by another condemned prisoner.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Luck of the Irish" by Cindy Rosmus in Shotgun Honey.
• "The Blood Orange Tree" by Michelle Clump in Crimson Streets. 
• "Known Associates" by Beau Johnson in Story and Grit.
• "At the Dungeon" by Danielle McLaughlin in The Irish Times.
  

Odds and ends:

• Watch a trailer for Holmes and Watson. 
• Watch a trailer for The Cry. 
• Watch a trailer for Alex. 
• Watch a trailer for season 3 of Daredevil.
• Watch a trailer for Robin Hood.