Crime Fiction Links of the Week for June 16, 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 Ocean's 8, Cloak and Dagger, Superfly, Hotel Artemis, Fauda, diversity in publishing and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Laura Wilson offers a round-up of the best recent crime novels.
• Criminal Element offers an overview of cozy mysteries coming out in July 2018.
• Laurie R. King explains why historical crime fiction is more than just escapism. 
• David Barnett takes a look at the writers who are diversifying crime fiction.
• Jennifer Hillier shares eight crime novels about women starting over.  
• Carissa Chesanek takes a look at the eight worst fathers in modern suspense.
• Meaghan Ball shares twelve fantasy heist novels.
• Paul D. Marks takes a look at San Francisco noir. 
• Liz Nugent talks about the gothic horrors of 1980s Ireland and how they influenced a generation of writers. 
• Crime Reads shares one crime novel from every country participating in the 2018 World Cup. 
• Amanda of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books explains why she no longer wants to see men with guns on the covers of romance novels.  
• Oscar de Muriel explains how forensic science, the Jack the Ripper case and MacBeth influenced Bram Stoker's horror classic Dracula.
• Joe Kenney revisits Hammerhead, a 1962 spy novel by James Mayo.  
• Joe Kenney revisits Capo's Revenge, a 1992 novel in the Cybernarc men's adventure series by Robert Cain.
• Thomas Wickersham shares a tribute to the late TV chef Anthony Bourdain, who died aged 61, and talks about Bourdain's love for crime fiction.

Film and TV:

• Lance Charnes shares his thoughts on the Israeli thriller Fauda. 
• James Dellingpole wonders why Fauda is such a hit with Palestinians of all people.
• Hannah Woodhead discusses the troubling tendency of movies to use facial scars as a shorthand for evil.  
• Guy Lodge shares the eight most criminally awful things about John Travolta's mafia film Gotti.
• Jade Budowski shares eleven things you may not know about Martin Scorsese's thriller The Departed.
• Nicole Sobon explains why the pilot for the proposed Marvel TV show Most Wanted has never aired.
• Actor Sylvester Stallone is under investigation for an incident of sexual misconduct.

Comments on Ocean's 8:

• Laura M. Browning, Gwen Ihnat and Danette Chavez declare that the best thing about Ocean's 8 is the women on screen.
• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky calls Ocean's 8 more knock-off than spin-off. 
• Sarah Wendell shares her thoughts on Ocean's 8. 
• Catherine Shoard explains that Ocean's 8 star Mindy Kaling blames the mixed reviews of Ocean's 8 on the predominance of men among film reviewers.
• Farid Ul-Haq reports that Ocean's 8 has had an impressive opening weekend at the box office.
• Andrew Pulver declares that the unexpected box office success of Ocean's 8 shows the power of female audiences.

Comments on Superfly: 

• Charles Bramesco calls Superfly a sleek and swaggering remake of the 1972 blaxploitation film. 
• Chris Nashawaty declares that Superfly has sex, drugs and violence, but not much more.
• Meanwhile, Kyle Ryan revisits the original 1972 Super Fly.
• Todd Boyd wonders whether the time is ripe for a blaxploitation revival.
  

 Comments on Hotel Artemis:

• David Sims declares that Hotel Artemis wastes its cult classic potential.
• Benjamin Lee calls Hotel Artemis a fun dystopian thriller.
• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky calls Hotel Artemis a reheated knock-off of various films including The Purge and John Wick.
• Renaldo Matadeen explains the ending of Hotel Artemis (spoilers obviously).
  

Comments on Cloak and Dagger:

• Albert Ching reports that even though the comic is more than thirty years old, Cloak and Dagger mirrors many contemporary concerns.
• Nicole Sobon reports that Cloak and Dagger has been the best series premiere in years on the Freeform channel.
  

The debate about diversity in publishing:

• Lionel Shriver is bothered by a diversity initiative of publisher Penguin Random House UK. 
• Stella Duffy responds to Lionel Shriver.  
• Hanif Kureishi responds to Lionel Shriver.
• Chitra Ramaswamy responds to Lionel Shriver.
• David Barnett reports that Lionel Shriver has been removed from the jury of a writing competition run by Mslexia magazine following her problematic remarks.

Awards:

• The historical crime novel Winter Downs by Jan Edwards, which we featured at the Indie Crime Scene, has won the Arnold Bennett Book Prize. 
• French crime writer Fred Vargas a.k.a. Frederique Audoin-Rouzeau has won the Spanish Asturias Prize for Literature. 
• The nominees for the 2018 Macavity Awards have been announced.
• A new crime fiction prize for writers of so-called BAME (Black Asian Minority Ethnic) backgrounds has been established in conjunction with the Bloody Scotland crime writing festival. 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• The Puppet Show shares seven tips to create tension in your story.
• G.W. Thomas shares some writing tips from the pulps. 
• Nicola Ford talks about digging up inspiration. 
• Rachel Swirsky discusses how long it takes to write a poem.
• Dawn Fields talks about finding the real engine in your book.
• Jaqui Rose talks about the fun of writing about recurring characters.
• Sarah Gailey explains how a sensitivity read changed her life.
• Alex Dahl talks about neurodiversity and creativity.
• Lea Wait a.k.a. Cornelia Kidd explains the reason behind her pen name.
  

Interviews:

• John Valeri interviews Nathan Ripley.
• The Real Book Spy interviews Bryan Reardon.
• Victoria Goldman interviews Scott Pack.
• Compulsive Readers interview Craig Robertson.
  

Reviews:

• Kristin Centorcelli reviews Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo. 
• Angie Barry reviews Gone Missing by Linda Castillo.
• John Valeri reviews Last Girl Gone by J.G. Hetherton.
• Ash K. Alexander reviews A Study in Treason by Leonard Goldberg. 
• Marina Sofia reviews Savage Liberty by Eliot Pattison. 
• Ardi Alspach reviews The Woman in the Woods by John Connolly.
• Michael Patrick Hicks reviews The Woman in the Woods by John Connolly. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Other Woman by Daniel Silva.
• Janet Webb reviews Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman.
• Thomas Pluck reviews Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier. 
• Purity Brown reviews The Chosen Ones by Howard Linskey.
• Garrick Webster reviews The Old Religion by Martyn Waites.  
• Mrs. Peabody Investigates reviews Star of the North by D.B. John. 
• For Winter Nights reviews The Blood Road by Stuart MacBride.
• The Real Book Spy reviews Safe Houses by Dan Vesperman. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Middleman by Olen Steinhauer.
• Sarah Gilmartin reviews Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh. 
• Victoria Goldman reviews First To Die by Alex Caan.
• Mike Parker reviews How It Happened by Michael Koryta.
• Terrie Farley Moran reviews Secrets, Lies and Crawfish Pies by Abby L. VanDiver.
• Janet Webb reviews Cherry Pies and Deadly Lies by Darci Hannah.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Diva Cooks Up a Storm by Krista Davis. 
• Mark Lawson reviews The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson.
• Gabino Iglesias reviews Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin.
• Ash K. Alexander reviews The Royal Art of Poison by Eleanor Herman.
  

Crowdfunding:

• FCTRY is looking for funding to make an action figure of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
  

Con reports:

• Brenda Buchanan reports about the Maine Crime Wave Festival in Portland, Maine, and shares some photos.
• The Puppet Show shares their experiences at the travelling Anatomy Live event in the UK.
• Ayo Onotade reports about an event featuring spy fiction writer Mick Herron at the Greenwich Book Festival in Greenwich, UK.
• Janet Rudolph reports that "Murder is a Beach", the 2020 Left Coast Crime convention, will take place in San Diego, California.
  

Research:

• Elizabeth Greenwood explains how weddings in prison work.
• Ben Blum shares some background information about the infamous Stanford prison experiment and how the "guards" were egged on by the psychologist running the experiment in order to get the desired results.
• Chelsea G. Summers talks about love in the age of true crime.
• The Puppet Show shares an infographic about technological innovations in criminal justice.
  

Free online fiction:

• "May You Find Salvation" by Alexander Nachaj in Shotgun Honey.
• "The Sun in Dust" by Jen Conley in Beat to a Pulp. 
• "Siphon" by G.B. Williams.
  

Odds and ends:

• Watch a trailer for Bad Times at the El Royale.