Crime Fiction Links of the Week for January 19, 2019

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 season 3 of True Detective, season 2 of The Punisher, Deadly Class, Glass, Black Mirror Bandersnatch, Surviving R. Kelly, The Sopranos at twenty, the Black Dahlia murder 72 year on, the return of Perry Mason, a gaslighting and possible murder attempt of author Sherrilyn Kenyon and much more.

Crime fiction in general: 

• Laura Wilson shares a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
• Anthony Horowitz explains how detective novels are often metafiction.
• Matthew Quirk complains that Donald Trump keeps ruining the plots of his conspiracy thrillers. 
• Ryan Steck shares the best new thrillers for January. 
  
• Crime Reads shares the best international crime fiction for January.
• Paul French takes a look at the crime fiction of Naples. 
• Amij Raj Mulmi profiles Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, creators of the Martin Beck series and founding parents of nordic noir. 
• Gerard Gilbert profiles Danish author Sören Sveistrup, creator of The Killing.
• Neil Nyren shares his appreciation for the crime fiction of Nicholas Blake.
• Joseph Knox explains how he fell in love with American noir.
• Keith Scribner shares eight modern classics of rural noir. 
• Lisa Levy discusses the rise of mother/daughter noir.
• Taylor Adams shares five thrillers with great villains that drive the plot.
• Taylor Stevens explains how growing up in a religious cult and a chance encounter with a Robert Ludlum thriller turned her into a thriller writer.
• Camille Leblanc reports that several classic mysteries have entered the public domain on January 1, 2019.
• Paul D. Marks takes a look at the changing covers of classic mysteries and crime novels over the decades.
  

Comments on Sherrilyn Kenyon's marital and health issues:

• Fantasy author Sherrilyn Kenyon shares some disturbing news about her husband and other people in her orbit abusing her and her children.
• Elaina Sauber has more on Sherrilyn Kenyon's allegations against her husband.
• Annie Vainshtein also reports about the Sherrilyn Kenyon case.
  

Film and TV:

• Crime Reads shares twelve thrillers and crime movies they're looking forward to in 2019. 
• David Sim and Sam Earle rank the best psychological thriller movies of the past fifty years. 
• Katie Rife calls The Standoff at Sparrow Creek a lean, efficient and disturbingly timely thriller.
• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky calls Den of Thieves a low-rent Heat clone, but praises Gerard Butler's performance. 
• Peter Bradshaw shares his thoughts on the urban gangster drama Monsters and Men.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on You.
• Tess Makovesky shares her thoughts on the gangster drama Brotherhood.  
• Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on Titans. 
• Rebecca Keegan discusses Making a Murderer and the hidden dangers of the true crime documentary craze. 
• Daniel D'Addario shares his thoughts on the true crime documentary Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. 
• Paul Weimer shares his appreciation for the 1963 heist comedy It's a Mad Mad World. 
• Martin Edwards rewatches the 1970 British thriller And Soon the Darkness.
• Sarah Gailey watches Top Gun for a very first time and finds an unexpected heterosexual tragedy.  
• Pamela Hutchinson shares her appreciation for noir film icon Barbara Stanwyck.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts shares the pop culture she and her family are currently enjoying.
• Digg offers some graphs to show how film genres have changed in popularity since 1910.
• Mark Brown reports that the British film rating board has changed its guidelines and that scenes of rape and sexual violence are no longer allowed in films for people under 15. 
• Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski report that Matthew Rhys will star in a new Perry Mason limited series. 
• J. Kingston Pierce has more on the Perry Mason revival. 
• Nellie Andreeva reports that Michael Chabon's 2007 alternate history crime novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union will become a TV drama written by Chabon and his wife Ayelet Waldman. 
• Nellie Andreeva also reports that the profiling drama Criminal Minds will end with season 15.
• TV producer John Falsey, who created Northern Exposure and St. Elsewhere among others, has died aged 67.
  

Comments about season 3 of True Detective:

• Todd VanDerWerff declares that True Detective is back to form after a lacklustre season 2.
• Allison Keene declares that season 3 of True Detective is an engrossing return that has learned from the mistakes of the past.
• Kevin Burton Smith also declares that season 3 of True Detective is back to form and may even be the best one yet.
• James Poniewozik declares that season 3 of True Detective circles back flatly to season 1. 
• Rebecca Nicholson calls season 3 of True Detective sufficiantly gripping depsite the mumbling.
• Melanie McFarland declares that season 3 of True Detective is still a mess and even Mahershala Ali can't save it.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the first two episodes of season 3 of True Detective.
• Lanre Bakare shares his thoughts on the first two episodes of season 3 of True Detective.
• Emily L. Stephens shares her thoughts on the first two episodes of season 3 of True Detective and praises Mahershala Ali's performance. 
• The Killing Times shares their thoughts on the first two episodes of season 3 of True Detective. 
• Brian Tallerico explains why season 2 of True Detective wasn't as bad as many people think. 
• Jeremy Gordon points out that True Detective is good, including the much reviled second season. 
• Christina Radish interviews Nic Pizzolatto, creator of True Detective, as well as season 3 star Mahershala Ali.  
• Tom Lamont interviews Mahershala Ali, the star of season 3 of True Detective.
• Joanna Robinson takes a look at the literary allusions viewers might have missed in season 3 of True Detective.
  

Comments on The Punisher: 

• Alex McLevy declares that even The Punisher cannot escape the season 2 curse of the Marvel Netflix shows.
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw declares that season 2 of The Punisher remains slow.
• Charles Pulliam-Moore reports that season 2 of The Punisher tries to turn Frank Castle into a superhero.
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw takes a look at Jigsaw, the villain of season 2 of The Punisher.
• Cynthia Vinney reports that actress Deborah Ann Woll, who plays Karen Page in the various Marvel Netflix shows, believes that season 2 of The Punisher will be the last time she plays that particular character.
  

Comments on Glass:

• John DeFore calls Glass a partly satisfying conclusion to an eccentric saga. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Glass a pointless superhero sequel.
• A.A. Dowd calls Glass a wacky sequel that mashes up two past hits. 
• Glen Weldon calls Glass leaden.
• Zach Vasquez declares that the lacklustre Glass proves that cinema should stop trying to deconstruct superheroes.
• Germain Lussier offers a recap of everything you need to remember from Unbreakable and Split before seeing Glass.
• Sam Stone reminds us that Unbreakable was the first postmodern superhero movie.
  

Comments on Deadly Class:

• Alex Abad-Santos calls the new TV series Deadly Class addictive and compares it to Harry Potter with prison gangs and Yakuza. 
• Allison Keene calls Deadly Class dark and disaffected.
• Beth Elderkin calls Deadly Class more awkward than cool. 
• Brian Tallerico declares that Deadly Class needs to improve to become more than a guilty pleasure.
• Alex Abad-Santos also interviews the cast and crew of Deadly Class.
• Dave Richards interviews Rick Remender, co-creator of Deadly Class.
• Kevin Melrose praises the soundtrack of Deadly Class.
  

Comments on Black Mirror: Bandersnatch:

• Abigail Nussbaum talks about Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, interactive fiction and the illusion of free will.
• Mira Jacobs explains why Black Mirror: Bandersnatch has some inaccessible scenes. 
• Amanda Bell found a new way to kill a pivotal character in Bandersnatch. 
• Germain Lussier reports that Chooseco, the company which owns the rights to the Choose Your Own Adventure books, has sued Netflix for trademark infringement over Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
• Hannah Jane Parkington finds some unexpected parallels between Bandersnatch and the real life Brexit mess. 
• Germain Lussier shares some Bandersnatch viewer choice statistics.
• Amanda Bell reports that Bandersnatch themed pop-up stores have been spotted in London, Birmingham and other major UK cities.

The Sopranos at twenty:

• Mike Fleming Jr. remembers the mafia series The Sopranos on its twentieth anniversary.
• Jeremy Egner interviews David Chase, creator of The Sopranos for the show's twentieth anniversary. 
• Creator David Chase and actress Edie Falco remember The Sopranos twenty years later.
• Noel Murray shares a guide to rewatching The Sopranos.
• Watch a video of The Sopranos cast remembering the late James Gandolfini.
  

Comments about Surviving R. Kelly:

• Lisa Respers France declares that Surviving R. Kelly resonates more because of #MeToo. 
• Inspired by Surviving R. Kelly, Vanessa Taylor talks about the culture that protects R. Kelly and men like him.
• Robert Weiss takes a look at the psychological underpinning of Surviving R. Kelly.
  

Awards:

• The winners of the 2018 Danish Criminal Academy Awards have been announced. 
• The nominees for the 2019 Lefty Awards have been announced.
• Stuart Turton has won the Costa First Novel Award for The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
• Sara Paretsky has been honoured with the Fuller Award of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.
• The finalists for the 2019 BBC Audio Drama Awards have been announced.
• The winners of the 2018 Golden Tomato Awards have been announced.
• The winners of the 2019 Critics Choice Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2018 AWFJ EDA Awards have been announced.

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Anne R. Allen shares ten tips to protect your creative writer self in the marketplace. 
• Christopher J. Yates explains how childhood experiences with a violent neighbourhood kid inspired his novel Grist Mill Road.
• The members of the Kill Zone share their advice for writing series. 
• Marty Thornley talks about the differences between writing novels and writing screenplays. 
• Lauren Sapala asks why so many writers are afraid of transgressive fiction.
• Carrie V. Mullins declares that the decline in author incomes found by a recent survey of the Author's Guild isn't solely Amazon's fault. 
• P.J. Parish takes a look at bestseller lists and how they are compiled.

Interviews:

• Ayobami Adebayo interviews Oyinkan Braithwaite.
• Richard Lea interviews Oyinkan Braithwaite. 
• Barbara Hodgson interviews Ann Cleeves. 
• The Real Book Spy interviews Nick Petrie.
• The Real Book Spy interviews Larry Loftis.
• Criminal Element interviews Matthew Quirk.
• Steph Cha interviews Matthew Quirk.
• Lenny Picker interviews Niklas Natt Och Dag.
• Colette Bancroft interviews Gilbert King.
  

Reviews:

• Carrie Sessarego reviews My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.
• A Life in Books reviews My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. 
• BOLO Books reviews A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee.
• The Real Book Spy reviews Wolf Pack by C.J. Box.
• Michael Patrick Hicks reviews The Killer Collective by Barry Eisler. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews Killer Thriller by Lee Goldberg.
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Rule of Law by John Lescroart.
• Eleanor Kuhns reviews No Mercy by Joanna Schaffhausen.  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Perfect Liar by Thomas Christopher Greene.  
• By the Letter Book Reviews reviews Deep Dirty Truth by Steph Broadribb.
• Janet Webb reviews The Au Pair by Emma Rous.
• Michelle Carpenter reviews Darling by Rachel Edwards.
  
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Moroccan Girl by Charles Cumming.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews A Long Night in Paris by Dov Alton, translated by Danielle Zamir. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Last Act by Brad Parks.
  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews The Puppet Show by M.W. Craven. 
• Ewa Sherman reviews Cold Breath by Quentin Bates. 
• Garrick Webster reviews Red Snow by Will Dean. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews No Exit by Taylor Adams. 
• John Dwaine McKenna reviews Broken Windows by Paul D. Marks. 
• Betty Webb also reviews Broken Windows by Paul D. Marks.
• Kristin Centorcelli reviews Freefall by Jessica Barry.
• Sandra Mangan reviews Scrublands by Chris Hammer. 
• Hank Wagner reviews Residue by Michael McGarrity. 
• Jean Gazis reviews Chosen People by Robert Whitlow.
• Terrie Farley Moran reviews No Sunscreen for the Dead by Tim Dorsey.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Hooks Can Be Deceiving by Betty Hechtman and tries a recipe from the book.
• Michael Patrick Hicks reviews Take-Out and Other Tales of Culinary Crime by Rob Hart.
• Lou Pendergrast reviews The Sun Does Shine - How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hilton and Lara Love Hardin.
• The Real Book Spy reviews The First Conspiracy - The Secret Plot Against George Washington by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch.
  

Classics reviews:

• Martin Edwards revisits the 1944 mystery Fell Murder by E.C.R. Lorac.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1950 crime novel Beyond a Reasonable Doubt by C.W. Grafton, father of Sue Grafton. 
• Andrea Johnson revisits Isaac Asimov's classic 1952 science fiction mystery The Caves of Steel.  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1953 hardboiled crime novel Everybody's Watching Me by Mickey Spillane.
• Megan Mitchell revisits the 1956 Edgar Award winning suspense novel Beast in View by Margaret Millar.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1960 crime novel The Cheaters by Orrie Hitt. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1964 adventure novel The Strange Intruder by Arthur Catherall.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1973 adventure novel A Cold Night's Death by Barbara Harrison.
• Joe Kenney revisits Las Vegas Vengeance, a 1975 novel in The Sharpshooter men's adventure series by Bruno Rossi.
  

Crowdfunding: 

• Bedside Press is looking for funding to adapt the 1986 detective novel Work For a Million by Eve Zaremba, featuring lesbian private investigator Helen Keremos, as a graphic novel.
• Monalisa Foster is looking for funding to create intellectual property tracker for indie and hybrid authors.
  

Con and event reports:

• Ayo Onatade reports about the launch event for the crime novel The Man With No Face by Peter May in London, UK, and shares some photos.
• Ayo Onatade shares a call for papers for the conference "Agatha Christie: Investigating the Queen of Crime" at Solent University in Southhampton, UK. 
• Ayo Onatade also shares a call for papers for the inaugural issues of the journal Crime Fiction Studies. 
• Elisabeth Vincentelli reports about BroadwayCon in New York City and shares several photos.
• Luke Plunkett reports that an obsessed stalker has torched seven cars outside Anime Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California.
• Dan Berry reports about the line-up of PaleyFest in Los Angeles 2019, California. 
• Locus reports about the exhibition Gregory Manchess: Above the Timberline, featuring artwork from the eponymous book, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
• Mike Glyer reports that Dan Wells will be the keynote speaker at the Wasatch Writers Fellowship conference in Kaysville, Utah.

Research:

• Michael Graczyk shares his experiences witnessing more than 400 executions in Texas as a reporter.
• Joseph Beer talks about spending Thanksgiving in prison. 
• Mikael Thalen reports that a smartwatch helped to send a British hitman to prison for life.
• Edward Humes discusses the many problems with arson investigations and how they got innocent people convicted of crimes they did not commit.
• Seth Augenstein reports that gunshot residues can be transferred through handshakes, possibly implicating innocent people in crimes. 
• The North Carolina State University reports that forensic software used to determine the age of persons on the basis of skeletal remains is flawed.
• Rebecca Jones reports that cybersecurity systems evolve as they learn from would-be hackers.
  

Discussion of the Black Dahlia murder: 

• Larry Harnish talks about the still unsolved 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short a.k.a. the Black Dahlia and why so many supposed facts about the case are wrong. 
• Joan Renner remembers the Black Dahlia case and shares some historical photos and newspaper clippings. 
• J. Kingston Pierce also remembers the Black Dahlia case and takes a look at how it was reflected in crime novels and films.
• Larry Harnish shares six reasons why Dr. George Hodel likely did not kill Elizabeth Short a.k.a. the Black Dahlia.
• Larry Harnish also points out that Dr. George Hodel was not in fact one of the most evil men in history.
• Larry Harnish offers an overview of various books about the Black Dahlia case in a two part post.
• Larry Harnish offers an overview of various website about the Black Dahlia case in a two part post.

Free online fiction:

• "Still Life 1931" by Kris Nelscott. 
• "Black Flies" by Jacqueline Seewald in Flash Bang Mysteries.
• "The Consultant" by Tony Deans in Crimson Streets.
• "Home Invasion" by B.L. Conradis in Shotgun Honey.
• "Our Dirty Little Secrets" by Geoffrey Philp at Akashic Books.
  
• "Conscience Inc." by Richard Prosch in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Swamplands" by Paul D. Brazill in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "The Rex" by Morgan Boyd in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Evel Knievel and the Fat Elvis Diner" by Richard Wall in Punk Noir Magazine.
  

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for John Wick 3: Parabellum.
• Watch a trailer for Little Woods.