Crime Fiction Links of the Week for September 29, 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 Bodyguard, Iron Fist, The Deuce, Maniac, hardboiled mysteries, the Bloody Scotland festival and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares September's best international crime fiction.
• Ryan Gattis shares his five favourite crime novels set in Los Angeles. 
• Crime Reads collects quotes from crime writers about Los Angeles. 
• Charles Todd shares fifteen mystery series set in the British countryside.
• Paul French takes a look at the crime fiction of Marseille.
• Paula Munier shares her favourite canine mysteries. 
• Lisa Brackman discusses the dystopian realities of the feminist thriller.
• Reed Farrell Coleman traces the connection between alcoholism and crime fiction. 
• Benet Brandreth talks about the murderous playwrights of Elizabethan England. 
• Garrick Webster explains that reading makes you smarter.
• Anne Leigh Parrish explains why we need woman-driven stories. 

Film and TV:

• Bruce Riordan takes a look at the evolution of the police procedural on the big and small screen.
• Pilot Viruet shares her thoughts on the season 20 premiere of Law & Order: SVU.
• Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the season 5 premiere of How To Get Away With Murder.
• Peter Bradshaw shares his thoughts on the historical thriller Black 47.
• Tim Dowling shares his thoughts on the Swedish crime drama Alex.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Mayans M.C.
• Bill Koenig remembers the original Hawaii Five-O for its 50th anniversary.
• Sleuth Sayers revisits the 1981 noir thriller Sharky's Machine.
  

Comments on the Bodyguard finale:

• Lucy Mangan shares her thoughts on the Bodyguard finale.
• Sarah Hughes shares her thoughts on the Bodyguard finale.
• Ed Cumming is not convinced that Bodyguard is the best TV show of 2018.
• Vanessa Thorpe interviews Bodyguard's police advisor David Zinzan about the portrayal of the police in the show. 
• Tasnim Nazeer is not happy with the portrayal of Muslim women in Bodyguard.
• Readers of The Guardian share their thoughts on Bodyguard. 
• Jim Waterson reports that the Bodyguard finale was one of the most watched programs of the year in the UK.

Comments on season 2 of Iron Fist: 

• Keith R.A. DeCandido declares that season 2 of Iron Fist handles the martial arts aspects better, but isn't quite there yet.
• Dave Richards shares his thoughts on the last few episodes of season 2 of Iron Fist.

Comments on The Deuce:

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.
• Lauren Bakare shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce. 
• Noel Murray shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce. 

Comments on Maniac:

• Daniel D'Addario calls the Netflix science fiction series Maniac an imaginative thriller.
• Darren Franish declares that Maniac fails in every reality.
• Lucy Mangan calls Maniac a career highlight for Jonah Hill and Emma Stone.
• Jeff Somers shares ten science fiction books Maniac fans will enjoy.
  

 
Awards:

• The winners of the 2018 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière hav been announced.
• The finalists for the 2018 People's Choice Awards have been announed. 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• L.A. Chandlar explains how to writes crime fiction set in the 1930s that is about more than just soup kitchens and the Great Depression. 
• Lawrence Osborne explains what it was like to step into Raymond Chandler's shoes and write a new Philip Marlowe mystery.
• Kyle Mills explains that thriller authors are always looking for the next big threat.
• Karen Lee Street talks about using location as inspiration for her crime fiction.
• Alice LaPlante talks about the pleasures of unreliable narrators.
• Ashley and Leslie Saunders talk about how they define their heroines.
• August Birch explains how to keep writing when you're worried, upset, angry, depressed or frustrated. 
• Pamela Pan explains how reading can make you a better writer.
• S.L. Huang talks about writing women with sharp edges.
• Julie Ann Dawson shares some suspicions regarding the sale of the popular self-publishing forum KBoards to VerticalScope.
  

Interviews:

• Daneet Steffens interviews Kate Atkinson.
• Garrick Webster interviews Mark Dawson. 
• Steve Powell interviews Martin Edwards. 
• Randy Dotinga interviews Ovidia Yu.
• Craig Sisterson interviews Simone Buchholz.
• Elise Cooper interviews Charles and Caroline Todd.
• Elise Cooper interviews J.A. Jance.
• Michael P. Daley and Jack Womack interview each other.
  

Reviews:

• Ariell Cacciola reviews The Witch Elm by Tana French. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Witch Elm by Tana French. 
• Jamie Bernthal reviews Lethal White by Robert Galbraith a.k.a. J.K. Rowling.
• Sandra Mangan reviews The Birthday by Carol Wyer.
• Marina Sofia reviews All This I Will Give To You by Dolores Redondo, translated by Michael Meigs.
• Kristin Centorcelli reviews Stalker by Lisa Stone.
• Ray Palen reviews The Night Crossing by Robert Masello.
• Benjamin Boulden reviews The Devil's Wind by Steve Goble. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews Wrecked by Joe Ide.  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Damage Done by P.J. Parrish.
• Betty Webb reviews The Moment Before Drowning by James Brydon. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews Bury the Lead by Archer Mayor. 
• Ray Palen reviews Bury the Lead by Archer Mayor.
• Joe Kenney reviews High Fliers by Jim Esposito. 
• Tim Parks reviews The Piranhas by Roberto Saviano, translated by Anthony Shugaar.
• Angie Barry reviews Treacherous Is The Night by Anna Lee Huber.
• Sandra Mangan reviews Murder at the Book Club by Betsy Reavley. 
• John Valeri reviews Silver Anniversary Murder by Leslie Meier.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Walking Bread by Winnie Archer and tries a recipe from the book. 
• Lance Charnes reviews Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent by Michael McGowan and Ralph Pezzullo.

Classics reviews:

• Jesse Sublett reviews The Big Book of the Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett.
• James Reasoner revisits the 1946 hardboiled novella When Dames Get Tough by Hank Janson a.k.a. Stephen D. Frances. 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits The Drowning Pool, a 1950 Lew Archer mystery by Ross Macdonald.
• Paperback Warrior revisits Blonde Bait, a 1959 thriller by Ed Lacy.  
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1963 spy thriller The Limbo Line by Victor Canning.
• Paperback Warrior revisits The Jugger, a 1971 Parker novel by Richard Stark a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake.
• Joe Kenney revisits Whirlwind Beneath the Sea by Ken Stanton, a 1972 novel in The Aquanauts men's adventure series.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1991 mystery New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith.
  

Con reports:

• Catherine Turnbull reports about the Bloody Scotland crime fiction festival in Stirling, Scotland, and shares some photos.
• Vonn McKee reports about the Western Fictioneers Convention in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
  

Research:

• Aunray Stanford shares his experiences about being incarcerated at age 11.
• Liberian journalist Rodney D. Sieh shares his experiences about being incarcerated at a Liberian prison on trumped up charges.
• Soutik Biswas reports how fake news WhatsApp videos create fear and terror and even caused lynchings in rural India.
• Astrid Holleeder explains why she betrayed her crime boss brother.
• Travis McDade talks about the rare book theft at the heart of the movie American Animals.
• Sarah Emerson reports that drug lord Pablo Escobar's captive hippos have taken over the rivers near Medellin in Columbia since his death and keep multiplying.
• Richard Lea reviews forensic pathologist Richard Shepherd.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Walking Amsterdam" by Patricia Abbott in Retreats From Oblivion.
• "She Goes First" by Mary Thorson in Tough.
• "Familiar Procedure" by Scott Miles in Shotgun Honey.