Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 27, 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 Burning, The Deuce, Mayans M.C., Making a Murderer, Daredevil, Venom, a new version of Halloween, the CWA Dagger Awards and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Jon Land offers a round-up of recent thrillers.
• Jeff Somers offers the best new thrillers for October.
• Jeff Somers also offers the best new mysteries for October.
• Tamara Berry shares the best mysteries set in spooky mansions or castles. 
• Craig Sisterson shares ten Northern Irish crime novels to try. 
• Emma Viskic shares five crime novels set in rural or small town Australia. 
• Julie Hyzy explains why Chicago produces so much great crime fiction.
• Erica Wright shares seven mysteries featuring unusual sleuths.
• Amy Giles talks about how to write crime fiction for teenagers without sugarcoating the issues facing many teens. 
• Catriona McPherson talks about the various mother archetypes of crime fiction. 
• Molly Odintz looks at crime novels on the borderline to the horror genre. 
• Robert Masello shares six classic novels featuring supernatural crimes. 
• Blake Morrison explains how lurid Victorian crime novels caused a moral panic in 19th century England. 
• Neil Nyren shares his appreciation for the work of Ross Thomas.
• Jeff Somers ranks every Megan Abbott book.
• CBC Books shares 25 things you might not know about Lee Child and his Jack Reacher series. 
• Paperback Warrior profiles the 1970s and 1980s crime and men's adventure writer Duane Schermerhorn, who wrote under the pen names James Marcott and Spike Andrews.
• Jeff Abbott talks about losing his personal library to a house fire.
• Todd Bol, creator of the Little Free Library movement, has died aged 62.
• Crime writer Tom Kakonis has died.
  

Film and TV:

• Gwilym Mumford discusses the renewed popularity of spy dramas in the UK, as evidenced by the success of Bodyguard and Killing Eve.
• Joe Bendel shares his thoughts on the latest TV adaptation of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. 
• Rebecca Nicholson shares her thoughts on the series finale of the psychological thriller The Cry.
• Benjamin Lee has mixed feelings on The Girl in the Spider's Web, an adaptation of Stieg Larsson's posthumous Lisbeth Salander thriller. 
• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky calls Hunter Killer a watchably dumb submarine thriller.
• Wendy Ide shares her thoughts on the Italian crime film Dogman.
• Anthony DeCastro shares his appreciation for the film noirs of Burt Lancaster. 
• Tim Major shares his appreciation for the 1915 silent film horror serial Les Vampires.
• Stuart Heritage shares a list of overused TV and movie characters that should be retired for a while. 
• Justin Carter reports that Netflix has also cancelled the Marvel series Luke Cage.
• James Whitbrook bemourns that with the cancellation of Iron Fist and Luke Cage, we won't get to see more of the characters of Misty Knight and Colleen Wing a.k.a. the Daughters of the Dragon. 
• Laura Hurley reports that the 1990s crime drama NYPD Blue is getting a revival.
• Benjamin Lee reports that the number of LGBT characters on US television is at an all-time high, though there are still many issues. 

Comments on Burning:

•  A.A. Dowd calls the South Korean crime movie Burning one of the best films of the year.
• Joe Bendel calls Burning a taught mystery drama.
• David Ehrlich shares five reasons to see Burning as soon as possible.
• Karen Han interviews Steven Yuen and Lee Chang-dong, star and director of Burning.
• E. Alex Jung wonders whether Burning can win South Korea its first Oscar nomination.
  

Comments on The Deuce:

• Paul MacInnes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.
• Noel Murray shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce. 

Comments on Mayans M.C.:

• Dave Richards explains why you should be watching Mayans M.C. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Mayans M.C. 

Comments on season 3 of Daredevil: 

• Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on season 3 of Daredevil.
• Caroline Siede offers and episode by episode review of season 3 of Daredevil. 
• Leah Schnelbach calls season 3 of Daredevil miraculously better than ever. 
• Leah Schnelbach also declares that for her, the scenes focussing on Matt Murdoch's Catholicism are among the best parts of Daredevil.
• Leah Schnelbach and Emily Asher-Perrin share their favourite moments from season 3 of Daredevil. 
• James Whitbrook and Jill Pantozzi share four things they liked and four things they didn't like about season 3 of Daredevil.
• Julie Muncy explains why some characters did not appear in season 3 of Daredevil.
• Renaldo Matadeen explains why Daredevil didn't ask the other Defenders or the Punisher for help during season 3 of his solo series. 
• Renaldo Matadeen also ranks Bullseye's kill shots in season 3 of Daredevil.
• Kevin Melrose explains how season 3 of Daredevil makes the fight scenes matter.
• Kevin Melrose explains the completely unhinged finale of season 3 of Daredevil. 
• Julie Muncy explains that actor Wilson Bethel, who plays Bullseye in season 3 of Daredevil, was nearly cast as Captain America.
• Watch a clip from season 3 of Daredevil.

Comments on Venom:

• Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg call Venom the Eddie Brock show starring Eddie Brock.
• Nicholas Barber calls Venom a derivative, sketchily plotted B-movie. 
• Stephen Thompson, Glen Weldon, Lars Gotrich and Daisy Rosario discuss Venom.
  

Comments on the latest version of Halloween: 

• Tom Robey calls the latest version of Halloween a suspenseful slasher sequel. 
• Geoffrey Macnab declares that Halloween delivers all the expected thrills and chills. 
• Ed Potton calls the latest Halloween painfully workmanlike horror.
• Jeanette Catsoulis calls the latest Halloween a straight-up sequel to the original, ignoring forty years of movies inbetween. 
• Chris Evangelista praises Jamie Lee Curtis' performance in Halloween.  
• Monica Castillo praises how the latest version of Halloween handles the trauma suffered by Jamie Lee Curtis' character over forty years of Halloween movies.
• A.A. Dowd compares how the new Halloween and the new Suspiria handle their famous predecessors.
• Inspired by Halloween, Hannah Collins wonders why there are so few scream queens of colour. 
• Also inspired by Halloween, Anne Billson wonders why you almost never see men begging for their lives in horror films.
• Germain Lussier discusses the ending of the new Halloween. 
• Sam Stone reports that Halloween is about to break box office records and beat Venom.
• Anna Smith wonders what lies behind Halloween's box officer success.
  

Comments on season 2 of Making a Murderer: 

• Rebecca Nicholson is enthralled by season 2 of Making a Murderer.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on season 2 of Making a Murderer. 
• Paul Levinson also discusses both seasons of Making a Murderer on the Lights On Lights Through podcast. 
• Inspired by season 2 of Making a Murderer, Stuart Jeffries wonders whether true crime documentaries are running out of material or evolving.
  

Awards:

• The winners of the 2018 CWA Dagger Awards have been announced.
• The ICFA announces the establishment of the International Crime Fiction Association Book Prize.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Damien Walter explains why writing is hard.
• Lauren Sapala talks about the despair of being creatively blocked and how to pull yourself out. 
• Rick Perry talks about lack of motivation and the frustrations of writing.
• Bob Mayer shares some NaNoWriMo tips.
• Scott Myers shares some tips for writing a great opening scene. 
• Aliette de Bodard talks about the art of rewriting.
• Jane Friedman shares the best book marketing advice of 2018.

Interviews:

• Jeff Somers interviews Lee Child.
• Crime Reads interviews John Grisham.
• Lily Meyer interviews Sarah Meuleman. 
• Joy Kluver interviews Fiona Cummins. 
• Daniel Magennis interviews Richard O'Rawe.
• The Real Book Spy interviews Jeff Abbott.
• My Life, My Books, My Escape interviews Michael Zimecki.
  

Reviews:

• Alison Flood reviews Lethal White by Robert Galbraith.
• Sandra Mangan reviews Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connolly. 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Cold Summer by Gianfranco Carofiglio, translated by Howard Curtis.
• Janet Webb reviews The Blue Kingfisher by Erica Wright. 
• Benjamin Boulden reviews Cape Diamond by Ron Corbett.
• Kristin Centorcelli reviews When You Find Me by P.J. Vernon.
• Marina Sofia reviews Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar. 
• Jamie Bernthal reviews Every Three Hours by Chris Mooney.
• Kristin Centorcelli reviews Pulse by Michael Harvey.
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Cold Breath by Quentin Bates.
• Emma Cazabonne reviews Newcomer by Keigo Higashino, translated by Giles Murray. 
• Raven Crime Reads reviews The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré.
• Dave Richards reviews Paper Gods by Goldie Taylor.
  
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Night Agents by Matthew Quirk. 
• Mike Parker reviews The Drop by Mick Herron.
• The Real Book Spy reviews Deep War by David Poyer.
• Rich Horton reviews Artificial Condition by Martha Wells and Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Wade Roush.
• Martin Cahill reviews Zero Sum Game by S.L. Huang.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Wedding Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke and tries a recipe from the book. 
• Betty Webb reviews Unloaded Vol. 2: More Crime Writers Writing Without Guns, edited by Eric Beetner. 

Classics reviews:

• Jamie Bernthal revisits The Hollow Man, a 1935 classic mystery by John Dickson Carr. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits James M. Cain's 1938 hardboiled crime novel The Embezzler.
• Paperback Warrior revisits Gil Brewer's 1954 crime novel A Killer Is Loose and his 1958 crime novel The Red Scarf.  
• Paperback Warrior revisits Miami Manhunt, a 1958 novel in the Brad Dolan mystery series by William Fuller.
• Joe Kenney revisits The Cop-Killers, a 1972 crime novel by Steve Scott a.k.a. William Crawford.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits His Burial Too, a 1973 mystery novel by Catherine Aird. 
• Joe Kenney revisits The Assassination Is Set For July 4, a 1974 novel in the Donovan's Devils men's adventure series by Lee Parker. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1975 crime novel Hard to Kill by James Marcott a.k.a. Duane Schermerhorn.
  

Crowdfunding:

• Fantasy author Brandon Barr, who has terminal cancer, and his family could use some financial help.  
  

Con reports:

• Ayo Onatade shares a call for papers for the 6th Annual Conference of the International Crime Fiction Association in Chieti, Italy.
• Rachel Swirsky shares her experiences at the Surrey International Writers' Conference in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. 
  

Research:

• Philip Jett reports about the case of Georgia Tann, who operated a black market adoption ring in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, using a charity as a cover, and even caused the deaths of several children.
• Matthew Campbell reports about an unsolved double murder in Canada.
• Cecilia Ruiz shares some unusual deaths caused by inanimate objects.
• Frank Dalesio recounts how he accidentally wound up running an outlaw biker gang.

Free online fiction:

• "Fumes" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
• "Dashboard Reverie" by Leone Ciporin in Flash Bang Mystery.
• "The Line" by Brandon Daily in Shotgun Honey.
• "Stacking the Cards" by J.M. Williams in Over My Dead Body.
• "A Little Peace" by Sharon Hunt in Over My Dead Body.
  

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for The Girl in the Spider's Web.