Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 13, 2018
Crime fiction in general:
- Ryan Steck shares the best new thrillers for October.
- Lou Berney shares ten classic chase novels about fugitives and their hunters.
- Claire O'Dell shares eight science fiction and fantasy crossover thrillers.
- Paul French discusses the crime fiction of Cambodia.
- Susanne Johnson shares five haunting mysteries set in the far north.
- Danny Leigh wonders why there are so many novels and movies about violence against teenagers at the moment and what this says about our time.
- Crime Reads shares Elmore Leonard's greatest opening lines.
- British thriller writer Evelyn Anthony has died aged 92.
Film and TV:
- Peter Bradshaw calls Widows a brutal heist thriller that delivers.
- Leslie Felperin calls Us and Them a bloody but tedious class war thriller.
- Kevin Bankston revisits the 1983 movie War Games on its 35th anniversary and traces the impact it had on actual US policies.
- Garrick Webster explains what makes Inspector Columbo the greatest TV detective.
- Jeremy Megraw shares the ultimate guide to the Swedish crime drama Beck.
- Actor Scott Wilson, best known for his appearances in In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night and The Walking Dead, has died aged 76.
Comments on Bad Times at the El Royale:
- Katie Rife calls Bad Times at the El Royale a twisty noir thriller.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Bad Times at the El Royale a kitschy hardboiled thriller.
- David Edelstein calls Bad Times at the El Royale long, laboured and self-conscious, but not boring.
- Sheri Linden shares her thoughts on Bad Times at the El Royale.
- Aaron Crouch interviews Drew Goddard, director of Bad Times at the El Royale.
Comments on The Deuce:
- Noel Murray shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.
- Paul MacInnes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.
Comments on Venom:
- Charles Pulliam-Moore calls Venom a surprisingly solid action movie that's a lot of fun.
- Simran Hans finds Venom disappointing compared to the Marvel movies.
- Chris Klimek praises Tom Hardy's performance in Venom, but declares that the film lacks bite.
- Brandon Zachary declares that Tom Hardy's performance as Eddie Brock is the best thing about Venom.
- Brandon Zachary also explains the mid-credits scene of Venom.
- Charles Pulliam-Moore declares that Venom's post-credits scenes are reason enough to watch the movie.
- Charles Pulliam-Moore also discusses the Freudian and sexual implications of Venom.
- Renaldo Matadeen explains how the portrayal of the villain Riot in Venom differs from the comics.
- Richard Newby explains why Venom is dividing critics and audiences.
- Hannah Collins reports about a campaign by Lady Gaga fans to flood Venom with negative reviews and so boost Lady Gaga's film A Star Is Born.
- Charles Gant reports that in spite of all efforts by Lady Gaga fans, Venom has soundly beaten A Star Is Born at the box office.
- Charles Pulliam-Moore interviews Ruben Fleischer, director of Venom.
- Hudson Hongo asks a biologist what would happen if someone were to vape Venom's alien goo.
Awards:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- J.J. Hensley explains how music influences his writing.
- Scott von Doviak shares the story behind his crime novel Charlesgate Confidential.
- Oluwatosin Faith Kolawole implores writers not to wait for inspiration, but to write right away.
- Scott Myers implores creatives to trust in the process.
- Scott Myers also talks about the pomodoro technique and shares some links to online timers and apps that can help.
- Scott Myers shares 120 scene writing prompts.
- Ana Dean shares her biggest writing mistake and how she avoids it.
- Destiny Soria shares some tips for writing through anger.
- Damien Walter shares the key to writing a great short story.
- R.F. Kuang talks about the racial rubber stamp and how to avoid it.
- Cat Rambo talks about Chekhov's gun, as deployed in James Tiptree Jr.'s story "The Women Men Don't See".
- Diane Morrison talks about crowdfunded publishing, its advantages and disadvantages.
- Lauren Sapala explains how writers can recover from a bad beta reader.
- Kayleigh Donaldson reports about various scammy tactics used particularly by certain self-published romance authors.
- Margaret Bates reports how certain self-published romance authors, usually male, are engaging in scammy tactics and pretending to be women, writers of colour or LGBT writers.
- David Gaughran declares that Kindle Unlimited is a cheater magnet.
Interviews:
- Molly Odintz interviews Tana French.
- Catherine Turnbull interviews M.B. Vincent.
- Crime Reads interviews Joe Ide.
- S.W. Sondheimer interviews Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
- Marina Sofia interviews Leye Adenle.
- Kura Carpenter interviews L.P. Ring.
- Juliette Wade interviews Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.
Reviews:
- Sandra Mangan reviews Wildfire by Ann Cleeves.
- Bruce Harris reviews Know Me From Smoke by Matt Phillips.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Harm's Way by Thomas Rayfiel.
- Mike Parker reviews November Road by Lou Berney.
- Angie Barry reviews Down the Broken Road by J.R. Backlund.
- Robin Agnew reviews When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica.
- Hank Wagner reviews The Truth Itself by James Rayburn.
- Stuart Kelly reviews The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry a.k.a. Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman.
- Chris Wolak reviews Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller.
- Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie review No One Can Hear You by Nikki Crutchley.
- Lance Charnes reviews The Fallen Architect by Charles Belfoure.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Broken Windows by Paul D. Marks.
- Sam Jordison reviews The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan.
- Mike Parker reviews The Contract by J.M. Gulvin.
- Janet Webb reviews Death in Paris by Emilia Bernhard.
- Joy Kluver reviews A House of Ghosts by W.C. Ryan.
- The Cozy Experience reviews A Very Merry Murder by Mary Angela.
- Lisa K's Book Reviews reviews Murder at the Museum by Karen Shughart and tries a recipe from the book.
- Bree Herron reviews Premeditated Peppermint by Amanda Flower.
- Karen Owen reviews The Cats Came Back by Sofie Kelly.
- Ana Grilo reviews The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton.
- Anthony Cummings reviews Berta Isla by Javier Mariás.
- John Langan reviews Halcyon by Rio Youers.
- The Real Book Spy reviews Tim Clancy: Oath of Office by Marc Cameron.
- P.D. Smith reviews The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman.
Classics reviews:
- Paperback Warrior revisits You'll Die Next, a 1954 crime novel by Harry Whittington.
- Erica Wright revisits the 1956 crime novel A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball by Ian Fleming.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1969 spy novel Operation Breakthrough in the Earl Drake series by Dan J. Marlowe.
- Joe Kenney revisits Satellite Slaughter by Lionel Derrick, a science fictional outing of The Penetrator men's adventure series from 1979.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1985 novel Vegas Vengeance in the Hawker men's adventure series by Carl Ramm.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1987 men's adventure novel Rig Warrior by William W. Johnstone.
Con reports:
- Mark Brown reports about the "Spying Game" panel at the Cheltenham Literature festival in Cheltenham, UK.
- The Qwillery reports about Book Expo America in New York City and shares several photos.
- Joy Kluver reports about an advance screening of the true crime TV program Written in the Blood.
Research:
- Olivia Smith and Elisa Tang report that 14-year-old student Audrey Larson has designed a bulletproof wall to protect students during school shootings.
- Yemisi Adegoke reports about a 100-year-old prisoner on death row in Nigeria.
- Demian Vitanza shares his experiences conducting a writing workshop in prison.
Free online fiction:
- "At Witt's End" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- "Stark Raven Mad" by Maddi Davidson in Over My Dead Body.
- "Much Obliged" by Stephen D. Rogers in Flash Bang Mystery.
- "Crimson and Clover" by Greg Forrest in Shotgun Honey.
- "Asphalt, River, Mother, Child" by Isabel Yap in Strange Horizons.
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