Crime Fiction Links of the Week for December 2, 2017

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 best crime novels of 2017, Murder on the Orient Express, The Punisher, Peaky Blinders, Longmire, Blade Runner 2049 and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Mark Lawson shares his favourite crime novels and thrillers of 2017.
• Marcel Berlin shares his best crime fiction of 2017. 
• Crime Fiction Lover shares the five best crime debut novels of 2017.
• Laura Wilson offers a round-up of the best recent crime novels.
• Ellie Bate shares 18 fascinating true crime books everybody should read.
• Richard Auffrey shares his favourite fiction books of 2017, including several crime and mystery novels.
• AudioFile announces the best mystery and supense audiobooks of 2017.
  
• The New York Times shares its 100 notable books of 2017, including some genre works.
• Jeff Somers shares ten fiendishly clever science fictional locked room mysteries. 
• Sarah Hughes profiles A.A. Dhand, author of Streets of Darkness.
• Domenica Bongiovanni reports about the collection of Ian Fleming's manuscripts, papers, and his personal book collection which is kept at the Lilly Library in Bloomington, Indiana.
• Mystery writer Joan Hess died aged 68.
  

Film and TV:

• David Cranmer reviews the season 6 premiere of Longmire as well as episode 2 and episode 3 of season 6.
• Sarah Hughes shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Peaky Blinders.
• Julia Raeside reviews Shot in the Dark, a documentary about crime reporters and crime scene photographers.  
• Emma Vestrheim announces Rig 45, a new European TV thriller set aboard a North Sea oil rig. 
• Prolific television actor Rance Howard, father of actor Clint Howard and actor/director Ron Howard, died aged 89.
  

Comments on Murder on the Orient Express:

• Nicholas Barber reviews Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Agath Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
• Oline H. Cogdill reviews Murder on the Orient Express.

Comments on The Punisher:

• Dave Richards reviews episodes 5 to 7 of The Punisher.
• Renaldo Matadeen praises The Punisher's treatment of Frank Castle's PTSD.
• Amanda Bruce shares fifteen Easter eggs from The Punisher that many viewers will have missed.
• Mark Zambrano shares fifteen superpowers you never knew the Punisher had.
• Kevin Melrose declares that The Punisher should have killed off Frank Castle.

Comments on Blade Runner 2049:

• Julie Muncy discusses Blade Runner 2049's treatment of women and reports about director Denis Villeneuve's own statements about this issue.
• Marykate Jasper also discusses how Denis Villeneuve attempts to defend the portrayal of women in Blade Runner 2049.
• Sam Moore also discusses Denis Villeneuve's statement regarding the treatment of women in Blade Runner 2049.
• Jordan Hoffman interviews Denis Villeneuve, director of Blade Runner 2049.
• Andrew Wright shares his thoughts on Escape, a documentary about Hampton Fancher, who was the screenwriter of the original Blade Runner.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Zak Slayback shares the easiest way to become a better writer. 
• Larissa Runkle shares the ten best books for fiction writers. 
• Steve Tornello shares his secret for writing sixty pages in two days.
• The Puppet Show shares a list of random setting generators.

Interviews:

• Criminal Element interviews Joanna Schaffhausen.
• Locard's Lab interviews Max Houck.
  

Reviews:

• Kristin Centorcelli reviews The Man in the Crooked Hat by Harry Dolan.
• Jen Lucas reviews Give Me The Child by Mel McGrath. 
• Hooked From Page One reviews All the Wicked Girls by Chris Whitaker. 
• Crime Fiction Lover reviews Holy Island by L.J. Ross.
• Crime Fiction Lover also reviews When Time Runs Out by Elina Hirvonen, translated by Hildi Hawkins.
• Alyson Baker reviews Nothing Bad Happens Here by Nikki Crutchley.
• Janet Webb reviews The Hapsburg Variation by Bill Rapp.
• Marina Sofia reviews Whiteout by Ragnar Jonasson, translated by Quentin Bates. 
• John Valeri reviews Tango Down by Chris Knopf.
• Chris Wolak reviews Hunter Killer by David Poyer. 
• Sharon Magee reviews Among the Dead by J.R. Becklund.
• Eileen Brady reviews House. Tree. Person by Catriona McPherson. 
• Alyson Baker reviews Hot Flush by Rosy Fenwicke. 
• Lynne F. Maxwell reviews Full Bodied Murder by Christine E. Blum.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Not a Creature Was Purring by Krista Davis and tries a recipe from the book.
• Crime Fiction Lover reviews Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran.
• Mark Yon reviews Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities by James Lovegrove.  
• Joel Cunningham reviews The Inside Out Man by Fred Strydom. 
• Michael Patrick Hicks reviews The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson.

Crowdfunding:

• Writer Elizabeth Ann West needs some help with legal expenses connected to frivolous lawsuit.
  

Con reports:

• The Yorkshire Post reports about the Hull Noir crime fiction festival in Hull, UK.
• Oline Cogdill reports about the Iceland Noir crime fiction festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, and shares some photos.
  

Research:

• Steve Thomas blames the recent review of ten thousand criminal cases in the UK due to potentially tainted forensic evidence on the privatisation of services.   
• Pallab Gosh reports that British judges will be supplied with scientific guides on forensics and a number of other subjects.
• New forensic technology will make it impossible to destroy or erase fingerprint evidence. 
• Joanna Schaffhausen discusses the long shadow cast by serial killer Ted Bundy.
• Brynn Holland and Missy Sullivan report about a poetry writing supercomputer programmed to crack the cyphers sent by the serial killer known only as the Zodiac Killer to the San Francisco Chronicle. 
  

Free online fiction:

• "The Discovery" by Jen Lucas.
• "The First Blow" by Tom Andes at Akashic Books.
• "In the Newspaper" by Bruce Harris in Crimson Streets.

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for The Alienist.