Crime Fiction Links of the Week for April 14, 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 City and The City, Homeland, Deep State, Death Wish, international crime fiction, spy fiction, men's adventure paperbacks and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Sophie Hannah discusses the appeal of mysteries and crime fiction, which have just become the top selling genre in the UK.
• Vomle Springford wonders why New Zealanders are so enamored with crime fiction. 
• Yrsa Sigurdardottir discusses the popularity of Icelandic crime fiction.
• Paul French shares a guide to crime fiction set in Venice.
• David Prestidge shares a guide to John Connolly's Charlie Parker novels. 
• Adrian McKinty shares his appreciation for David Peace's Red Riding Quartet.
• Mark Brown reports that Ian Rankin's Rebus mysteries will be adapted as a stage play by Ian Rankin himself and Rona Munro. 
• Nadia Terki revisits Joseph Conrad's 1907 espionage novel The Secret Agent and calls it a story of modern state terrorism.
• Joe Kenney revisits Ian Fleming's 1956 James Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever.
• Joe Kenney also revisits the 1974 men's adventure novel The Fireball Assignment, book 2 of the Israeli Commandos series by Andrew Sugar.
• Elinor Potts profiles the crime and mystery bookstore No Alibis in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  

Film and TV:

• Jake Nevins calls the miniseries Killing Eve a dazzling thriller. 
• Peter Bradshaw shares his thoughts on the psychological thriller Thoroughbreds. 
• Paul Levinson reviews the latest episode of The Americans.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Homeland.
• James Donaghy shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Homeland.
• Sam Wollaston shares his thoughts on the first episode of Deep State and finds it all rather familiar.
• Phil Harrison wonders whether the rapid news cycle has made conspiracy dramas like Homeland and Deep State less effective.
• Daniel Palmer shares his favourite 1970s conspiracy thrillers.
• Rachel Cooke revisits the 1978 BBC legal drama Law and Order. 
• Nicholas Barber explains why the classic thriller The Silence of the Lambs is a feminist fable.
• Romy Oltuski profiles Priyanka Chopra, star of the crime drama Quantico, and also discusses the discrimination Chopra faced as a woman of colour in both Bollywood and Hollywood.
  

Comments on The City and The City: 

• Ellen E. Jones has mixed feelings about The City and The City, a TV series adaptated from China Miéville's eponymous novel.  
• Alex Mullane offers a primer to the worlds of The City and The City.
• Eleanor Bley Griffith introduces the cast of The City and The City.
• Morgan Jeffery reports that David Morrissey, star of The City and The City, doubted that the novel was filmable.
  

Comments on Death Wish:

• Peter Bradshaw calls the remake of the classic vigilante thriller Death Wish a woeful remake and unwholesome celebration of American gun culture.
• Amy Nicholson calls Death Wish a misfire that comes at exactly the wrong time.
• Graeme Virtue wonders whether the Death Wish remake is an alt-right fantasy.

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2018 ITW Thriller Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2018 Strand Critics Awards have been announced.
• The finalists for the 2018 Rita and Golden Heart Awards have been announced.
• The longlist for the 2018 Best Translated Book Awards has been announced.
• The shortlist for the Man Booker International Prize has been announced.
• The finalists for the 2018 Peabody Awards have been announced.
• Ahrvid Engholm reports about a scandal surrounding the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Liam McIlvanney talks about writing a crime novel based on a real unsolved case. 
• Stephanie Marland explains how she created her character Clementine Starke.
• Brendan Duffy talks about crafting the perfect noir sitting.
• Chuck Wendig shares the most important writing advice people need right now.
• Ilana C. Myer explains when to stop researching and start writing.
• Joseph Malik talks about narrative voices and POV.
• Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett wonders why do many male authors have problems writing female characters. 
• Meanwhile, Electric Literature has a handy chart for determining how a male author would describe a female character.
• Zak Alvarez wonders what makes a writer brave. 
• Brian Brewington shares some thoughts from an introverted writer.
• Lauren Sapala explains what the writers who make it all have in common.
• Tracy Townsend explains that relentless stealing from real life is her writing superpower. 
• Trisha McNary explains how she brought a dead book back to life.
• Kameron Hurley shares some hard publishing truths.
• The Guardian takes a look at writer's notebooks.
  

Interviews:

• The Real Book Spy interviews K.J. Howe.
• Victoria Goldman interviews Theresa Talbot.
  

Reviews:

• Catherine Turnbull reviews The Fire Pit by Chris Ould. 
• Emma B. Books reviews The Fountain in the Forest by Tony White. 
• Mike Parker reviews The Woman in the Woods by John Connolly.
• Katrina Niidas Holm reviews The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks. 
• Vanessa Orr reviews The Bad Daughter by Joy Fielding. 
• Caroline O'Donoghue reviews While You Sleep by Stephanie Merritt.
• Victoria Goldman reviews My Little Eye by Stephanie Marland.
• Mal McEwan reviews Doll Face by Dylan H. Jones.
• Jen Lucas reviews Deadly Secrets by Robert Bryndza.
• Jacob Collins also reviews Deadly Secrets by Robert Bryndza. 
• Craig Sisterson reviews The Plea by Steve Cavanagh. 
• I Loved Reading This reviews The Ice Swimmer by Kjell Ola Dahl.
• Purity Brown reviews Hall of Mirrors by Christopher Fowler.
• Betty Webb reviews Havana Libre by Robert Arellano.
• Sharon Magee reviews Mood Indigo by Ed Ifkovic.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Number 7, Rue Jacob by Wendy Hornsby.
• Sandra Mangan reviews We Were the Salt of the Sea by Roxanne Bouchard, translated by David Warriner.
• Sam Reader reviews The Body Library by Jeff Noon. 
• Maggie Boyd reviews The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard. 
• Runalong the Shelves also reviews The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard. 
• Rich Rosell reviews Noir by Christopher Moore. 
• Rich Horton reviews Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty.  
• Jeff Somers reviews One Way by S.J. Morden. 
• Niall Alexander also reviews One Way by S.J. Morden.
• Renay Williams reviews Head On by John Scalzi.
• Oliver Bullough reviews The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti.

Con reports:

• Fiona reports about the Murder in the Library crime fiction event in Christchurch, New Zealand.
• Howard Andrew Jones shares his experiences and purchases at the Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention in Lombard, Illinois.

Research:

• Su Lin Tan profiles Jodie Ward, a forensic scientist specialising in missing person cases. 
• Danny Shaw reports that according to Cressida Dick, head of the London Metropolitan Police, murders are becoming more difficult to solve.
  

Free online fiction:

• "The Body and the Library" by Shelley Puhak in Crime Reads.
• "A Murder Told in Reverse" by Nelly Reifler and Shelly Oria in Electric Literature. 
• "The Salty Dog and the Sea Maiden" by Linda M. Scott at Akashic Books.
• "The Howling Detective" by Brandon O'Brien in Uncanny. 
• "Fixing the Race After the Finish" by Walter Giersbach in Crimson Streets.