Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 3, 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 Widows, The Little Drummer Girl, Homecoming, Burning, The Deuce, the cancellation of Iron Fist and Luke Cage and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Craig Boyack explains the difference between mystery, horror and suspense.
• Gary McPherson attempts to analyse the appeal of crime thrillers.
• Publishers Weekly shares the best crime novels and thrillers of 2018.
• Crime Reads shares ten crime novels to read in November. 
• Dwyer Murphy shares eleven modern classics of conspiracy noir. 
• Claire Fuller talks about voyeurism in crime fiction.
• Lydia Kano shares nine great medical thrillers.
• Anna Snoekstra shares eight Australian crime novels by women writers.
• Garrick Webster shares his six favourite Japanese crime novels.
• Paul French talks about the crime fiction of Barcelona. 
• Steven Cooper asks why investigative reporters so often become mystery writers. 
• Aliya Whiteley wonders whether smoking is still acceptable in science fiction and fantasy noir.  
• Max Booth III shares twenty essential crime and horror crossovers.
• Robert Masello shares six classic novels featuring supernatural crimes. 
• David van Leer talks about horror, imagination and psychology in the works of Edgar Allan Poe.  
• Swapna Krishna profiles S.L. Huang. 
• Hannah Giorgis discusses how romance novels handle consent. 
• Vicky Who Reads explains how the YA book community isolates and sometimes forgets who the actual target audience for those books is.
• Julie Sedevy explains why literature has become more concerned with characters' emotions and motivations over time.

Film and TV:

• Paul Levinson calls the British suspense drama Bodyguard brilliant and more. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 6 premiere of Ray Donovan.
• Jack Seale shares his thoughts on season 6 of House of Cards.
• Leslie Felperin calls King of Crime a new low for the British gangster film. 
• Sandy Ferber revisits Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1960 film Psycho.
• Darryl Jones talks about the many psychopathic serial killers of cinema. 
• Morwenna Ferrier explains the big role fashion plays in the spy drama Killing Eve.
• Daniel Dylan Wray profiles actor Danny Trejo who appeared in many genre films.
• Arifa Akbar profiles Mark Gatiss of League of Gentlemen and Sherlock fame.
• Justin Carter reports that Kip Pardue, one of the stars in Runaways, has been accused of sexually harrassing actress Sarah Scott. 
• Michael McGowan reports that actor Geoffrey Rush has been accused of sexually harrassing actress Eryn Jean Norvill during a production of King Lear in Sydney, Australia.
• Actor James Karen, who appeared in The China Syndrome, Poltergeist and Return of the Living Dead among others, has died aged 94. 

Comments on Widows:

• David Edelstein calls the new version of Widows a thoroughly entertaining caper.
• Peter Bradshaw calls Widows a brutal heist thriller that delivers. 
• Paul Whitington calls the new version of Widows a feminist crime caper that's beautiful to look at. 
• Richard Trenholm calls Widows an assured heist thriller that's a little too slow paced.
• Owen Gleiberman particularly praises Viola Davis' performance in Widows.
• Sarah Hughes revisits the original 1983 TV series Widows on which the new movie is based.
  

Comments on The Little Drummer Girl:

• Lucy Mangan calls The Little Drummer Girl a gripping espionage drama with globetrotting appeal. 
• Graeme Virtue shares his thoughts on episode one of The Little Drummer Girl.
• Jason Burke wonders whether The Little Drummer Girl helps us understand modern terrorism.
• John Mullan explains how John Le Carré's 1983 novel The Little Drummer Girl predicted our dangerous world.
• Gwilym Mumford explains why spy dramas like Bodyguard, Killing Eve and The Little Drummer Girl are suddenly dominating British TV screens again.
  

Comments on Homecoming: 

• Stuart Heritage calls Homecoming an old-fashioned mystery with hints of Hitchcock. 
• Joe Bendel shares his thoughts on the psychological thriller Homecoming.
• Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the first episode of Homecoming.
• Tara Conlan explains how A-list stars like Julia Roberts and Sissy Spacek wound up in a streaming video drama like Homecoming.

Comments on Burning: 

• Joe Bendel calls the South Korean crime drama Burning an off-kilter thriller.
• Jamie Sugah shares her thoughts on Burning.
  

Comments on The Deuce:

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

Comments on the cancellation of Iron Fist and Luke Cage:

• Travis Clark analyses social media data and discovers that interest in Iron Fist and Luke Cage dropped dramatically between season 1 and 2 and that the other Marvel Netflix shows might also be in trouble.
• Dylan Balde shares the reaction of actor Finn Jones, star of Iron Fist, to the cancellation of his show as well as Luke Cage.

Awards:

• The shortlist for the Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year has been announced.
• Voting is open for the first round of the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards.
• The nominees for the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards in the mystery and thriller category are here. 
• The winners of the 2018 Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest have been announced 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Peggy Webb talks about writing an epic whodunnit.
• Sue Coletta explains how to use false eyewitness testimony in thrillers.
• Staci Troilo analyses the covers of a historical mystery series. 
• Lauren Sapala shares NaNoWriMo advice for writers. 
• Callum Sharp explains why going off-grid is important for writers.
• Callum Sharp shares ten rules for better fiction writing.
• Morgan Hazelwood shares seven tips to prepare for writing a novel. 
• Bridget Webber explains why  aiming for perfection can kill your writing.
• Kristen Kieffer sheds some light on the popular "Show Don't Tell" advice.
• Jennifer Harris explains how to track your scenes. 
• P.H. Salomon explains how to plan for NaNoWriMo success using Scrivener.
• Janice Hardy talks about overplotting.
• Janice Hardy talks about providing emotional clarity in your writing. 
• K.M. Allan shares six tips for adding tension.
• David Safford shares three tips for writing terrifying scenes. 
• Bonnie Randall explains how to use setting to create story tension.
• John Scalzi shares some notes and advice from a book tour.
  

Interviews:

• Ian Fleming interviews Raymond Chandler (in 1958). 
• John Valeri interviews Julie Hyzy.
• Max Booth III interviews Joseph Fink.
• Nick Kolakowski interviews Tom Pitts.
• Grab This Book interviews Mason Cross.
  

Reviews:

• Purity Brown reviews In the Galway Silence by Ken Bruen.
• Sharon Magee reviews Dark Sky Island by Laura Dearman. 
• John Valeri reviews River Bodies by Karen Katchur. 
• Grab This Book reviews Lost in the Lake by A.J. Waines.
• Sandra Mangan reviews Shell Game by Sara Paretsky.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Uneasy Lies the Crown by Tasha Alexander.
• Stephanie Merritt reviews Tombland by C.J. Samson. 
• Debbish reviews Bright Young Dead by Jessica Fellowes. 
• Gabino Iglesias reviews The Lies We Told by Camilla Way. 
• Cross Examining Crime reviews The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz. 
• For winter nights reviews The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz.
• The Real Book Spy reviews Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz. 
• For winter nights reviews The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffith.
• Jeremy Megraw reviews Trap by Lilja Sigurdardottir, translated by Quentin Bates.
• Craig Sisterson reviews Trap by Lilja Sigurdardottir, translated by Quentin Bates.
• Grab This Book reviews The Mystery of the Three Quarters by Sophie Hannah. 
• Jamie Bernthal reviews Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House by M.C. Beaton. 
• Janet Webb reviews Overkilt by Kaitlyn Dunnett.
• John Valeri revies Yule Log Murder by Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis and Barbara Ross.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Christmas Caramel Murder by Joanne Fluke and tries a recipe from the book.
• The Real Book Spy reviews Daughter of War by Brad Taylor.  
• Angie Barry reviews Monster of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files by Zack Handlen and Todd Vanderwerff
  

Classics reviews:

• James Davis Nicoll revisits The Man of Bronze from 1933, the first novel in the Doc Savage series by Kenneth Robeson a.k.a. Lester Dent. 
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1956 crime novel Saturday Night Town by Harry Whittington.
• Richard Dansky revisits the 1958 crime novel The Count of Nine by Erle Stanley Gardner writing as A.A. Fair.
• Ben Boulden revisits the 1960 crime novel Death of a Citizen by Donald Hamilton, first in the Matt Helm series.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1966 Parker novel The Seventh a.k.a. The Split by Richard Stark a.k.a. Donald Westlake. 
• Joe Kenney revisits Death Grip, a 1972 novel in the Soldato men's adventure series by Al Conroy a.k.a. Marvin Albert.
• Paperback Warrior revisits The Godwulf Manucript from 1973, the first book in Robert B. Parker's Spenser private detective series.
• Ben Boulden revisits L.A. Gang War, a 1990 novel in the M.I.A. Hunter men's adventure series by Stephen Mertz.
  

Crowdfunding:

• A GoFundMe Certified Charity campaign has been started for the victims of the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting.
• Comics writer Mark Waid needs some help to pay his legal fees after a member of the "Comicsgate" movement sued him for frivolous reasons.
  

Con and event reports:

•  Lou Pendergrast shares a video of George Pelecanos discussing his new novel The Man Who Came Uptown at the Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. 
• Mike Stotter reports that James Patterson will be the guest of honour at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
• Joanna Penn reports about her visit to the NINC conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, and shares many insights and photos.

Research:

• Janet Burns discusses the psychology of faking your own death. 
• Sarah Meuleman discusses the mysterious disappearance of writer Barbara Newhall Follett.
• Damien Echols who was sentenced to death for a triple murder he did not commit explains how ritual magick saved his life in prison.
• The BBC reports that Canada still has witccraft trials aimed at fraudulent mediums and fortunetellers.
• Ryan Briggs reports about a cult that sprang up around a medium and con woman pretending to be the daughter of God in 19th century Philadelphia.
  
• Boston gangster and crime lord James "Whitey" Bulger has been murdered in prison aged 89.
• Matthew Haag wonders what became of James "Whitey" Bulger's crew.
• Katie Dowd reports that an old letter from a police informer has surfaced that may contain a clue to the still unsolved Black Dahlia murder case.
  

Free online fiction:

• "It Otter Be Illegal" by Patrick Whitehurst in Shortgun Honey.
• "Big Yellow Lexus" by Mark Bilsborough in Crimson Streets.
• "Bottom of the Thirteenth" by James Blakey in Flash Bang Mysteries. 
• "Ball and Chain" by Dan A. Cardoza in Spelk.
• "Children" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for The White Orchid.