Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 17, 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 the first "best crime fiction of the year" lists,  The Little Drummer Girl, The Girl in the Spider's Web, Narcos, tributes to William Goldman, gritty British crime drama, Agatha Christie revisited and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Laura Wilson offers a round-up of the best recent crime novels.
• The Real Book Spy shares a holiday shopping guide for thriller fans.
• Crime Reads shares five essential true crime books for November.
• Paul French discusses the crime fiction of Edinburgh. 
• J. Kingston Pierce shares a brief history of reporters in crime fiction.
• Gabino Iglesias shares the ten weirdest crime novels.
• Emily Littlejohn shares seven mystery novels featuring myths and fairy tales.
• M.R. Carey asks if horror and crime go together. 
• Diane A.S. Stuckart shares her five favourite feline sleuths.  
• Ellie Alexander shares a selection of cozy mysteries featuring drinks.
• Radha Vatsal looks at Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White and the nineteenth century origins of the modern thriller. 
• Molly Odintz shares nine ways of looking at Sherlock Holmes. 
• Lauren Oyler profiles Gillian Flynn.
• Ken Cuthbertson profiles Alexander McCall Smith.
• Dean Taylor profiles Scott Bainbridge.
• Neil Nyren shares his appreciation for the works of Ngaio Marsh.
• Garrick Webster talks about Just the Clothes on My Back by Naked Blue, an album inspired by Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels.
  

Year's best crime fiction lists:

• Kirkus shares the best mysteries and thrillers of 2018. 
• Maureen Corrigan shares the best mysteries and thrillers of 2018. 
• Andrew Gulli shares the best crime novels of 2018.

Film and TV:

• A.A. Dowd calls Widows a thrilling heist movie. 
• Katie Rife shares her thoughts on the techno-thriller Cam.
• Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the season finale of Homecoming.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season finale of Mayans M.C. 
• Lucy Mangan shares her thoughts on the second season of the spy drama Patriot.
• Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the latest episode of How To Get Away With Murder.
• Dave Trumbore praises the 2002 gritty crime series The Shield and explains how it paved the way for today's so-called peak TV.
• Paul D. Brazill looks back on the gritty crime series of British television in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. 
• Paul D. Brazill shares his appreciation for the British crime drama Strangers and its spin-off Bullman.
• Paul D. Brazill recalls Robert Mitchum's real life experiences with the US justice system and how it influenced his acting.
• Jesse Doogan reports that Netflix is planning a new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. 

Tributes to William Goldman:

• Screenwriter William Goldman, best remembered for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Marathon Man, All the President's Men, The Stepford Wives and The Princess Bride, has died aged 87. 
• Richard Natale and Brent Lang share an obituary for William Goldman.
• Jennifer Ouellette remembers William Goldman.
• Aja Romano remembers William Goldman.
• Margeaux Sippell shares William Goldman's best lines.
• Crime Reads share their favourite William Goldman quotes.
  

Comments on The Little Drummer Girl:

• Allison  Keene calls The Little Drummer Girl a smoldering spy tale. 
• Troy Patteron calls The Little Drummer Girl a fever dream of spy glamour. 
• Ben Travers calls The Little Drummer Girl an alluring thriller.
• Alan Sepinwall declares that The Little Drummer Girl is pretty to look at, but finds the plot overly convoluted.
• Graeme Virtue shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Little Drummer Girl.

Comments on The Girl in the Spider's Web: 

• Ariston Anderson declares that The Girl in the Spider's Web is more James Bond than Agatha Christie.
• Rory Cashin calls The Girl in the Spider's Web a case study in how not to make a sequel.
• Scott Mendelson claims that The Girl in the Spider's Web failed to understand what viewers expect from a Lisbeth Salander movie.
• Rob Hunter calls The Girl in the Spider's Web an empty adaptation of an empty sequel. 
• Richard Newby uses The Girl in the Spider's Web as an example for how stories can grow beyond their creators.
• Ian Sandwell reports that Claire Foy was initially reluctant to take the role of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl in the Spider's Web.
  

Comments on season 4 of Narcos:

• Dennis Perkins declares that season 4 of Narcos stays true to its premise.
• Jack Seale shares his thoughts on the latest season of the drug drama Narcos.
• Karen Han offers an episode by episode look at Narcos.
• Eneko Ruiz Jimenéz interviews Diego Luna, one of the stars of Narcos.
  

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards have been announced.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• A.J. Waines talks about psychological research for thrillers. 
• L.C. Taylor talks about accuracy in crime fiction. 
• Allen Eskens explains how his experiences as a lawyer for drug cases helped him write crime fiction.
• August Birch shares the one thing he wishes he knew before he started writing professionally.  
• John Walters shares some tips for handling disappointment in your writing career.
• Simone Michaud explains how she kickstarted her writing productivity. 
• Jonathan Franzen shares his ten rules for novelists to much controversy. 
• Susan Triceratops shares her ten rules for novelists. 
• Reedsy shares a great character name generator.
• Writers Write shares 123 ideas for character flaws.  
• Joslyn Chase shares some tips for writing cliffhangers.
• Toby Frost shares some tips for editing your writing.
• David Gaughran reports about an Amazon glitch that has made thousands of e-books, usually self-published, unviewable by and unavailable to international readers.
  

Interviews:

• Mary Louise Kelly interviews Jonathan Lethem.
• Lou Pendergrast interviews Lou Berney.
• Crime Reads interviews Liane Moriarty.
• The Real Book Spy interviews J.T. Patten.
• Rhys Bowen interviews Ellen Crosby.
• Hank Phillippi Ryan interviews Linda Fairstein.
• Dwyer Murphy interviews David Grann.
• Dana Gee interviews Sam Wiebe. 
• Matthew Turbeville interviews Jeff Abbott. 
• Radmila May interviews Kate Helm.
• Molly Tanzer and Amy Stewart interview each other.
  

Reviews:

• Sandra Ruttan reviews In the Galway Silence by Ken Bruen.
  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews November Road by Lou Berney. 
• Garrick Webster reviews Newcomer by Keigo Higashino, translated by Giles Murray.
• Hank Wagner reviews Death in Shangri-La by Yigal Zur. 
• Jeremy Megraw reviews Cold Breath by Quentin Bates.
• Philip Rafferty reviews Still Lives by Maria Hummel.
• Kristin Centorcelli reviews Body and Soul by John Harvey. 
• Jennifer S. Palmer reviews Walls of Silence by Ruth Wade.
• Seattle Book Mama reviews A Shot in the Dark by Lynne Truss.
• Dan Malmon reviews Debris Line by Matthew Fitzsimmons. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews City of Secrets by Victoria Thompson.
• Janet Webb reviews The Red Ribbon by H.B. Lyle. 
• Janet Webb reviews Hushed in Death by Stephen Kelly.
• Joy Kluver reviews The Lingering by SJI Holliday. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Limetown by Cote Smith. 
• Paul D. Brazill reviews Welcome to HolyHell by Math Bird.
• Beth Kannell reviews The Moscow Sleepers by Stella Rimington. 
• Trip Fiction reviews Overkill by Vanda Symon.
• Nancy Carty Lepri reviews We, the Jury by Robert Rotstein.
• The Real Book Spy reviews Judgment by Joseph Finder.
• Paperback Warrior reviews Quarry's Choice by Max Allan Collins.
• Grady Hendrix reviews the Bill Hodges trilogy by Stephen King.
• Joe Kenney reviews Jimi After Dark by Stephen Mertz.
• Gabino Iglesias reviews The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem. 
• Rachael McKenzie reviews Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch 
• Sandra Mangan reviews Providence by Caroline Kepnes. 
• Robin Agnew reviews In Want of a Knife by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli. 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Virtual Sabotage by Julie Hyzy. 
• Michael Patrick Hicks reviews Night Shift by Robin Triggs.  
• Kristin Centorcelli reviews Inhuman Resources by Pierre Lemaitre. 
• Joe Hartlaub reviews An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten, translated by Marlaine Delargy.
• Debbie Meldrum reviews Fool's Moon by Diane A.S. Stuckart.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Raspberry Danish Murder by Joanne Fluke.  
• K.A. Laity reviews The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman.
• Angie Barry reviews A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence and the Execution of Edith Thompson by Laura Thompson.
• Art Taylor reviews Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s by Leslie S. Klinger.

Classics reviews:

• Martin Edwards revisits the 1930 mystery novel The Shop Window Murders by Vernon Loder. 
• Curtis Evans revisits the 1935 mystery novel The Election Booth Murder by Milton Propper. 
• Mike Baker revisits Agatha Christie's 1937 Hercule Poirot mystery Death on the Nile.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery also revisits Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1942 mystery And Death Came Too by Richard Hull. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1953 crime novel Hero's Lust by Kermit Jaediker. 
• Carol Westron revisits the 1957 crime novel The Colour of Murder by Julian Symons.
• Paperback Warrior revisits Julian Mayfield's 1958 not quite crime novel The Long Night. 
• Sam Jordison revisits Agatha Christie's 1967 mystery Endless Night. 
• Joe Kenney revisits Death Race, a 1973 novel in the The Butcher men's adventure series by Stuart Jason. 
• Evan Lewis revisits Nicholas Meyer's 1974 take on Sherlock Holmes The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.
• Paperback Warrior revisits Sandwiches are Not My Business, a 1975 novel in the strangely named Pepperoni Hero men's adventure series by Bill Kelly.
• Paperback Warrior revisits A Taste for Blood, a 1975 novel in the Hunter men's adventure series by Ralph Hayes.
  

Con reports:

• Joy Kluver reports about the First Monday Crime event in London, UK, and shares several photos. 
• Joy Kluver also reports about an event at the West Barnes Library in London, UK; featuring crime writers William Barnes and SJI Holliday.
• Martin Edwards reports about the Salisbury Literary Festival in Salisbury, UK, and shares several photos.
• John Rogers, president of San Diego Comic Con International, has died.
  

Research:

• The BBC traces the life of drug lord El Chapo. 
• David Brooks discusses how the rise of DNA testing and relative finding services will both help solve crimes and violate privacy rights.
• Lawyers Andy and Jade Piltser-Cowan talk about believing survivors and due process. 
• Arkady Martine explains what really happens after massive disasters and why post-apocalyptic fiction gets it wrong so often. 

Free online fiction:

• "The Last Case" by James Blakey in Over My Dead Body.
• "Best Laid Plans" by Robin Brian Taylor in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Ye Olde Crime Scene" by John M. Floyd in Flash Bang Mysteries.
• "Hot Sauce Charlie" by Les Berkley in Crimson Streets.
• "The Ballad of Caprisha Marlin" by Shannon Giglio in The Big Click.
  

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for Detective Pikachu.