Crime Fiction Links of the Week for September 15, 2018
Crime fiction in general:
- Alison Flood shares a round-up of recent thrillers.
- Ryan Steck shares the best new thrillers for September.
- Crime Reads shares seven new true crime books for September.
- Stephanie Gayle shares the best race against time thrillers.
- Jo Jakeman takes a look at ten classic revenge novels.
- Elisabeth Norebäck takes a look at thriller featuring psychologists.
- Margaret Mizushima shares seven crime novel featuring police dogs.
- Stephen Giles shares seven classic country house mysteries.
- Tod Goldberg traces the connection between crime fiction and gangster rap.
- Sarah Zettel explains how crime fiction can help us understand gaslighting and the dynamics of abuse.
- Jon Michaud takes a look at the literary references in George Pelecanos' latest novel The Man Who Came Uptown.
- Keith Stuart explains what YA fiction taught him.
- Max Booth III takes a look at the crime novels of Stephen King.
- Levi Stahl shares his appreciation for Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels.
- Jeremy Megraw offers a guide to the Inspector Sejer mysteries by Karin Fossum.
- Jamie Bernthal reviews Frank Richardson's 1906 novel The Mayfair Mystery.
- Joe Kenney revisits The Girl in the Telltale Bikini, a 1971 novel in the Operation Hang Ten men's adventure series by Patrick Morgan.
- Joe Kenney also revisits the 1979 drug thriller Panama Red by Stephen Diamond.
- Crime Reads shares the twenty best Agatha Christie quotes.
Film and TV:
- Elena Lazic discusses the rise of the feminist detective in crime movies.
- Benjamin Lee calls Widows a masterful thriller.
- Sam Wollaston calls the true crime drama Trust a lavish production that lacks depth.
- Sam Wollaston calls Strangers an intriguing thriller set in Hongkong and praises star John Simm.
- Leslie Felperin calls Final Score a routine but enjoyable action thriller.
- Pamela Hutchinson calls Red Joan a stodgy and mediocre spy thriller.
- Mike McCahill calls the drug lord biopic Escobar flabby and muddled.
- Marlow Stern calls Mel Gibson's new thriller Dragged Across Concrete a vile, racist, rightwing fantasy.
- The Real Book Spy praises the streaming video show Jack Ryan and particularly the performance of star John Krasiski.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the first episode of The Mayans M.C.
- Andrew Pulver reports that veteran screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have been hired to salvage the still untitled next James Bond film.
- British actor Peter Benson, best known for his role in Heartbeat, has died aged 75.
Comments on season 2 of Iron Fist:
- Charles Pulliam Moore declares that season 2 of Iron Fist is much stronger than its predecessor and particularly praises the finale.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido declares that the first few episodes of season 2 of Iron Fist are a big improvement compared to season 1.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw also finds season 2 of Iron Fist much improved, though she still finds that Danny Rand is boring.
- Camestros Felapton is surprised that season 2 of Iron Fist is actually good.
- Laura Prudom declares that season 2 of Iron Fist is a big improvement compared to season 1, but that Danny Rand is still the least interesting character.
- Laura Prudom also discusses the twist ending of season 2 of Iron Fist as well as the post-credits scene (spoilers).
- Kevin Melrose declares that the final twist of season 2 of Iron Fist completely changes the character and the mini-universe of the Netflix Marvel series.
- Kevin Melrose also finds an unexpected link between Iron Fist and Avengers: Age of Ultron in the character of Mary Walker.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw explains why the character of Mary Walker a.k.a. Typhoid Mary is highly problematic.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw also talks about Iron Fist's new powers.
- Renaldo Matadeen shares the biggest moments of season 2 of Iron Fist.
- Charles Pulliam Moore and James Whitbrook share five things they liked and four they didn't about season 2 of Iron Fist.
- Charles Pulliam Moore also takes a look at various comic characters introduced in season 2 of Iron Fist.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido shares a brief history of Iron Fist in the comics.
Comments on Peppermint:
- Allison Shoemaker declares that Peppermint fails on almost every level.
- Renaldo Matadeen declares that Peppermint is not the female Punisher.
- Princess Weeks is bothered by the racist overtones in Peppermint.
Comments on Bodyguard (spoilers):
- Sarah Hughes shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Bodyguard.
- Jim Waterson reports that Bodyguard showrunner Jed Mercurio deliberately wanted to upset the balance with a big twist (spoilers).
- Lucy Mangan offers a guide to the various suspects in Bodyguard.
- Matthew Holmes shares the best Bodyguard theories from Guardian readers.
- Stuart Heritage offers Bodyguard as an example in a discussion when it is okay to reveal spoilers.
- Rebecca Nicholson reports that some viewers were upset about seeing Richard Madden's bare butt in Bodyguard.
- Hannah Jane Parkinson offers a guide to the Brutalist housing estates seen in Bodyguard.
Comments on season 2 of The Deuce:
- Kevin Fallon reports that season 2 of The Deuce focusses more on the female characters following sexual harassment allegations against star James Franco.
- Rebecca Nicholson shares her thoughts on season 2 of The Deuce.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on season 2 of The Deuce.
- Erik Adams shares his thoughts on the first episode of season 2 of The Deuce.
- Paul MacInnes shares his thoughts on the first episode of season 2 of The Deuce.
Awards:
- The winners of the 2018 Anthony Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2018 Shamus Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2018 Macavity Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2018 Emmy Creative Arts Awards have been announced.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Graeme Cameron explains how the city of Norfolk inspired his crime fiction.
- John Gorman shares tips for finding your writing voice.
- Nick Maccarone shares three surefire ways to write more consistently.
- N.A. Turner shares five reasons why writing short stories makes you a better writer.
- Lilah Raptopoulos explains why you should start a bullet journal.
- Sam H. Arnold evaluates five social media platforms from a writer's POV.
- Joanna Penn explains how ton use infographics to successfully promote your book.
- Nate Hoffelder explains how to make an infographic.
Interviews:
- The Guardian interviews Paula Hawkins.
- Kate Kellaway interviews Sebastian Faulks
- Steve Russell interviews John Banville a.k.a. Benjamin Black.
- John Valeri interviews Traci Lamprecht a.k.a. P.J. Tracy.
- John Valeri interviews T.M. Logan.
- Paul D. Brazill interviews Dietrich Kalteis.
- Jonathan Maberry interviews Lee Goldberg.
- Jonathan Maberry interviews Max Allan Collins.
- The Real Book Spy interviews Sean Parnell.
- Chapter in My Life interviews Gordon Brown.
- Crime Book Junkie interviews Denzil Meyrick.
- Daneet Steffens interviews Sarah Weinman.
Reviews:
- Janet Webb reviews In the Darkest Hour by Anna Carlisle.
- Kristin Centorcelli reviews Dark Sky Island by Lara Dearman.
- Angie Barry reviews The Devil's Wind by Steve Goble.
- John Valeri reviews A Borrowing of Bones by Paula Munier.
- John Cleal reviews Money in the Morgue by Ngaio Marsh and Stella Duffy.
- Novel Heights reviews The Murder of Harriet Monckton by Elizabeth Haynes.
- Mike Parker reviews The Age of Exodus by Gavin Scott.
- Mike Parker reviews Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak.
- Lisa Allardice reviews Transcription by Kate Atkinson.
- Weston Ochse reviews The Confession by Jo Spain.
- Krsitin Centorcelli reviews Her Name Was Rose by Claire Allan.
- Janet Webb reviews The Exes' Revenge by Jo Jakeman.
- Janet Webb reviews All Things by Amber Belldene.
- Jamie Bernthal reviews The Actor's Guide to Greed by Rick Copp.
- Michael Jecks reviews The Cold Summer by Gianrico Carofiglio.
- Marina Sofia reviews Inhuman Resources by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Sam Gordon.
- Michael Patrick Hicks reviews Red War by Kyle Mills.
- Larry Clow reviews Nomad by James Swallow.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Past & Present by Judy Penz Sheluk.
- Debbie Meldrum reviews Hitting the Books by Jenn McKinlay.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews In Cold Chocolate by Dorothy St. James and tries a recipe from the book.
Crowdfunding:
- The Continuous City, a photography book exploring videogame cities by Gareth Damian Martin, is looking for funding.
- Longterm science fiction fan and disability activist Samatha Jeude needs some help.
Con reports:
- Colette Bancroft reports about Bouchercon in St. Petersburg, Florida.
- Heloise Wood reports about Capital Crime, an upcoming "Comic Con" style crime and thriller festival in London, UK.
- The Skinny lists five events to attend at the Bloody Scotland crime festival in Stirling, Scotland.
- Ayo Onatade reports that the next Noireland crime fiction festival will take place in spring 2019 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- Edward Oldfield reports about a reading of the lost Agatha Christie play The Lie at the International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, UK.
- T.P. Fielden also reports about the reading of The Lie at the International Agatha Christie Festival.
Research:
- Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza explains why wrongful convictions are so common and why police and prosecutors rarely apologise.
- Sarah Weinman traces the real life kidnapping case that inspired Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
- Jeanette Ng takes a look at the Winchester Mystery House as the archetype of the haunted house.
- David Morell discusses his research into Victorian London for his historical thriller Ruler of the Night.
Free online fiction:
- "The Wager" by Tom Mead in Crimson Streets.
- "Nogo" by David Harry Moss in Shotgun Honey.
- "Sarah, Sweet and Stealthy" by Preston Lang in Tough.
- "The Fifth Witness" by Tony Mason in The Big Click.
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