Crime Fiction Links of the Week for May 26, 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 Revenge, The Americans, Pauley Perrette's exit from NCIS, Stephen King's new novel The Outsider, CrimeFest 2018, various TV show cancellations, several awards and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Alison Flood shares a round-up of the best recent thrillers.
• Sandra Mangan lists Britain's best new women crime writers.
• Claire North shares ten science fiction thrillers that tore down genre boundaries.
• Lisa Levy lists the ten creepiest neighbours in modern suspense. 
• Steve Burrows finds parallels in the obsessive nature of bird watching and detective work. 
• Eliot Pattison explains why historical crime fiction matters.
• Recurring Bafflement explains why they are unconvinced by the case laid out in Josephine Tey's 1951 historical mystery The Daughter of Time. 
• Scott Adlerberg revisits Daphne Du Maurier's 1951 gothic suspense novel My Cousin Rachel and its various film adaptations.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1930 crime novel To Be Hanged by Bruce Hamilton.
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1967 Nick Carter: Killmaster novel The Devil's Cockpit.
• Dwyer Murphy ranks the many covers that Dashiell Hammett's classic hardboiled mystery The Maltese Falcon has had over the years.
• Author Philip Roth has died aged 85.

Film and TV:

• Peter Foy contemplates what Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller Unsane means for the future of cinema.
• Sulagna Mishra is thrilled that movies like Black Panther and Ocean's 8 finally give women of colour a space in action movies. 
• Chris Edwards bemoans that action heroes in summer blockbusters used to fight capitalism, while they now embrace it.  
• Stuart Heritage gets snarky about Skyscraper, a blatant Die Hard rip-off starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. 
• Alan Glynn contemplates whether TV crime dramas can move beyond the structures of the 19th century novel. 
• Rachel Shabi shares her problems with the Israeli action thriller Fauda.
• Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on the British crime drama Innocent.
• Graeme Virtue shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Bridge.
• Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Americans. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Americans.
• Peter Foy reviews the French thriller Revenge.
• Peter Bradshaw calls Revenge a gorgeously shot tale of hideous violence. 
• The BBC reports that Luc Besson, director of The Fifth Element, Leon, Lucy, Nikita and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, has been accused of rape.  
• An Phung and Chloe Melas report that sixteen women have accused actor Morgan Freeman of sexual harrassment. 
• Actress Patricia Morrison who played femme fatale roles in many noir thrillers of the 1940s and 1950s has died aged 103.

Comments on Pauley Perrette's exit from NCIS: 

• Ben Travers reports that actress Pauley Perrette has said that she left NCIS after fifteen seasons because she experienced multiple physical assaults on set.
• Hanh Nguyen reports that CBS has responded to Pauley Perrette's allegations and confirmed that Pauley Perrette had contacted them over workplace concerns.
• Michael Nordine reports that  a crewmember was apparently bitten by co-star Mark Harmon's dog in 2016, which caused Pauley Perrette to eventually leave the series, when the dog was not banned from set.
  

Discussion of various TV show cancellations and rescues:

• Jay Bushman shares five reasons why Amazon should save The Expanse.
• Sam Stone reports that the US network Fox will still air the two bonus episodes of Lucifer, but that the series hasn't been picked up by another network yet.
• Beth Elderkin shares a list of all the genre TV shows that have been cancelled or were not picked up in the first place.

Awards:

• The longlist for the 2018 CWA Dagger Awards has been announced.
• The longlist for the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Awards has been announced.
• The winners of the various awards given out at CrimeFest Bristol have been announced.
• The winners of the 2018 Arthur Ellis Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction have been announced. 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• R.G. Belsky explains how several real life news stories that he covered as a journalist inspired his mystery fiction. 
• Martin Granger talks about the inspiration behind his thriller Drugs to Forget.
• Luisa Perkins explains why story structure is essential. 
• Brian Berni shares twenty mistakes to avoid when writing your first novel.
• Rebecca Alexander talks about transforming a ghost story into a crime novel.
• Aja Gabel explains how her passion for classical music influenced her writing. 
• Michael Patrick Hicks talks about the demise of Kindle Worlds and why diversification is so important.

Interviews:

• The Real Book Spy interviews Aimee Molloy.
• The Real Book Spy interviews Peter Kirsanov.
• The Real Book Spy interviews Matthew Betley.
  

Reviews:

• The Real Book Spy reviews Dead If You Don't by Peter James. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews Paradox by Catherine Coulter.
• Joseph Scarpato Jr. reviews Speakeasy by Alisa Smith. 
• Liz Bourke reviews A Study in Honor by Claire O'Dell.
• Betty Webb reviews Phoenix Burning by Isabella Maldonado.
• Sandra Mangan reviews The Chosen Ones by Carol Wyer. 
• Amber Keller reviews 39 Winks by Kathleen Valenti.
• Ben Boulden reviews Splintered Silence by Susan Furlong.
• The Real Book Spy reviews A Sharp Solitude by Christine Carbo.
• The Real Book Spy reviews Stay Hidden by Paul Doiron.
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Woman in the Woods by John Connolly.
• Kristin Centorcelli reviews How Far She's Come by Holly Brown.
• Jay Roberts reviews Bloody January by Alan Parks.
• Mike Parker reviews Blood Standard by Laird Barron. 
• Michael Patrick Hicks reviews Blood Standard by Laird Barron.
• Sandra Mangan reviews The Cutting Edge by Jeffrey Deaver. 
• Kristin Centorcelli reviews Paper Ghosts by Julia Haeberlin.
• Craig Sisterson reviews Green Sun by Kent Anderson.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Beside the Syrian Sea by James Wolff.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Expiration Date by Devon Delaney and tries a recipe from the book.
• Eileen Brady reviews Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano.
• Niall Alexander reviews The Outsider by Stephen King.
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Outsider by Stephen King.
• James Smythe reviews The Outsider by Stephen King.
• Louis Bravos reviews Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Kalau Almony.

Crowdfunding:

• The Mystery Lovers Bookstore in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is looking for new owners. 
  

Con reports:

• Jacky Collins reports about CrimeFest 2018 in Bristol, UK. 
• Martin Edwards reports about CrimeFest 2018 and shares some photos.
• G.B. Williams shares her experiences at CrimeFest 2018. 
• The organisers of CrimeFest 2018 issued a statement in response to problematic remarks made by a panel moderator.
  

Research:

• Edith Zimmermann takes a look at the history of the poisonous plant colchicum autumnale a.k.a. autumn crocus from murder weapon to medicine.
• Brenda Clough takes a look at misogynist Victorian laws that provide plot inspiration for historical mysteries.
  

Free online fiction:

• "I Never Meant to Start a Murder Cult" by Darrell Z. Grizzle in Shotgun Honey.
• "Fuel of Fools" by Lee Blevins in Crimson Streets.
• "While You Were Out" by John M. Floyd in Flash Bang Mysteries.
  

Odds and ends:

• Watch a trailer for Whiskey Cavalier. 
• Watch a trailer for Reverie.  
• Watch a trailer for The Fix.
• Watch a trailer for The Happytime Murders.
• Watch a trailer for BlacKkKLansman.
• Watch a trailer for Cloak and Dagger.  
• Kate Young shares a recipe for Crepes Suzette from Mary Stewart's 1954 romantic suspense novel Madam, Will You Talk?