Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 24, 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 Little Drummer Girl, The Girl in the Spider's Web, Escape at Dannemora, The Interrogation of Tony Martin, tributes to Lesley Horton and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Laura Wilson offers a round-up of the best recent crime novels. 
• Jessica Ferri shares eleven must-read mysteries ste in Los Angeles.
• Martin Österdahl offers an overview of the scope of Scandinavian crime fiction. 
• Alis Hawkins talks about the similarities between Nordic noir and Welsh noir.
• Colleen Coble explains why the Great lakes and Lake Superior are the perfect mystery setting.
• H.B. Lyle talks about spy fiction and the origins of the British Secret Service.
• Molly MacRae shares eight mysteries featuring bookstores.
• Janet Rudolph offers a round-up of mysteries set at Thanksgiving. 
• Peter Lynch uncovers the real life model for Sherlock Holmes' nemesis Professor James Moriarty.
• Curtis Evans finds an unexpected connection between cozy mystery writer Charlotte MacLeod and notorious gangster boss James "Whitey" Bulger.
• Paperback Warrior traces the career of crime fiction writer turned real life con man Milton Ozaki a.k.a. Robert O. Saber. 
• Nectar Gan reports about the case of Chinese gay erotica writer Tianyi who was sentenced to ten years in prison, more than many actual sex offenders, because of outdated obscenity laws. 

Tributes to Lesley Horton:

• Crime fiction writer and former CWA chairperson Lesley Horton has died aged 79. 
• Janet Rudolph remembers Lesley Horton. 
• David Knights remembers Lesley Horton.

Film and TV:

• Noel Murray finds that 2018 prestige television looks more and more like 1970s cinema. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls the thriller Assassination Nation social media revenge porn.
• Garrick Webster shares his thoughts on Farang, a Scandinavian crime drama set in Thailand.
• Justin Lowe shares his thoughts on the Japanese Hawaiian crime drama Killing for the Prosecution.
• James Davis Nicoll shares his thoughts on the South Korean thriller Steel Rain. 
• Peter Bradshaw shares his thoughts on Orione, a true crime documentary from Argentina.
• Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on the Coen brothes' movie The Ballad of Buster Scraggs.  
• Brian Greene shares five outstanding feminist characters in western movies. 
• Breena Kerr explains how HBO is changing its sex scenes in the wake of #MeToo.
• Hannah Jane Parkinson notes that there has been an uptick of lesbian stories in film and on TV. 
• The Spy Command traces the history of the 1960s spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and its connection to Ian Fleming.
• Michael Shonk revisits the 1982 TV crime series Gavilan.
• Crime Reads asks who should play Jack Reacher now that Tom Cruise is out.
• James Whitbrook declares that people have no idea what they want from the James Bond franchise according to a new survey.
• The Classic Film and TV Café remembers screenwriter Stirling Silliphant, who wrote In the Heat of the Night, The Poseidon Adventure and the TV show Route 66.
  

Comments on The Girl in the Spider's Web:

• Benjamin Lee calls The Girl in the Spider's Web an efficiently made but ultimately empty reboot. 
• Will Gompertz calls The Girl in the Spider's Web a serviceable but predictable action movie that doesn't reach the depth and darkness of previous adaptations of the Lisbeth Salander books. 
• Renaldo Matadeen calls The Girl in the Spider's Web "Hackers for the millennial generation".
• Renaldo Matadeen also explains the ending of The Girl in the Spider's Web.
  

Comments on The Little Drummer Girl: 

• Katie Rife declares that The Little Drummer Girl brings some swooning romance to the otherwise cold spy genre.
• Joe Bendel shares his thoughts on The Little Drummer Girl.
• Vikram Murthi offers episode by episode reviews of The Little Drummer Girl. 
• Graeme Virtue shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Little Drummer Girl.
  

Comments on Escape at Dannemora:

• Todd VanDerWerff calls Escape at Dannemora a beautifully acted prison break.
• Melanie McFarland declares that Escape at Dannemora is no Shawshank Redemption and that is on purpose.  
• Judy Berman declares that rural America is the real prison in Escape at Dannemora.
• Laura Bogart shares her thoughts on the first episode of the prison drama Escape at Dannemora. 
• Mike Pesca interviews Ben Stiller, director of Escape at Dannemora.

Comments on The Interrogation of Tony Martin: 

• Tim Dowling calls The Interrogation of Tony Martin a chilling portrait of self-righteousness.
• Phil Harrison interviews Steve Pemberton, star of The Interrogation of Tony Martin.
  

Awards:

• Film and TV composer Lalo Schifrin, who worked on many crime films and TV shows, has been honoured with the Governor's Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• The longlist for the 2019 international DUBLIN Literary Award has been announced with some love for genre novels.
• Karl-Johan Norén reports about changes made to the currently suspended Nobel Prize for Literature. 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• David Carlson discusses the challenges of writing a medieval mystery. 
• Christina James talk about writing about serial killers.
• Sylvia Whitman shares seven tips for writing across cultures. 
• Janice Hardy shares seven tips on writing a series. 
• Janice Hardy shares some tips for how to develop your novel's theme.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about dealing with resistance. 
• Libby Fisher Hellman explains why it has never been easier - or harder - to self-publish.
  

Interviews:

• John Valeri interviews Ben Aaronovitch.
• David Smith interviews Dan Brown.
• Alexandra Alter interviews Megan Abbott.
  

Reviews:

• Kristin Centorcelli reviews The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco. 
• Terry Halligan reviews Never Proven by Bill Daly.
• Beth Kanell reviews The Comforts of Home by Susan Hill.
• Emma Cazabonne reviews Newcomer by Keigo Higashino, translated by Giles Murray. 
• Victoria Goldman reviews Changeling by Matt Wesolowski
• Sandra Mangan reviews Anonymity by John Nicholl.
• Oline H. Cogdill reviews The Three Beths by Jeff Abbott.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Winters by Lisa Gabriele.  
• Magdalena Johansson reviews Lost Lake by Emily Littlejohn.
• Janet Webb reviews Debris Line by Matthew FitzSimmons. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Ruins by Brad Taylor.
• Larry Clow reviews High Crimes by Libby Fisher Hellman.
• Larry Clow reviews The Moscow Sleepers by Stella Rimmington.
• Garrick Webster reviews Minky Woodcock: The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini by Cynthia von Buhler.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery reviews The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian Hamilton. 
• Ben Boulden reviews An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good by Helene Tursten. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Deadly Camargue by Cay Rademacher.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Asking for Truffle by Dorothy St. James and tries a recipe from the book.
• Mark Baker reviews Books Can Be Deceiving by Jenn McKinlay. 
• Mark Baker reviews Wreath Between the Lines by Daryl Wood Gerber. 
• Liz Bourke reviews Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch. 
• Rob Bedford reviews MJ-12: Inception by Michael J. Martinez. 
• Brad Hawley reviews the noir comic Criminal Vol. 1: Coward by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.

Classics reviews:

• Sam Jordison revisits Agatha Christie's classic 1926 mystery The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. 
• Curtis Evans revisits the 1940 mystery The Station Wagon Murder by Milton Propper.
• Michael J. McCann revisits the 1950 crime novel So Many Doors by Oakley Hall.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1951 crime novel Here Comes a Candle by Fredric Brown.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1952 crime novel Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1971 prison novel Escape From Devil's Island by Peter McCurtin. 
• Ayo Onatade revisits the 1975 psychological thriller The Long Shadow by Celia Fremlin.  
• Mystery File revisits the 1992 mystery Hard News by Jeffery Wilds Deaver.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1996 mystery Blood and Rubles by Stuart M. Kaminsky.
  

Crowdfunding:

• Thousand Arrows, a samurai action tabletop roleplaying game by Brennan Taylor and James Mendez Hodes, is looking for funding. 
  

Con and event reports:

• Martin Edwards shares his experiences at the Iceland Noir crime writing festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, and shares some photos.
• Joy Kluver looks ahead at the December First Monday Crime event in London, UK. 
• Ayo Onatade reports that the Capital Crime festival in London, UK, has launched a digital companion festival.
• John G. Hartness shares the lessons he learned from one year on the convention circuit.
• The Keighley News reports about a meeting of the Airedale Writers Circle in Keighley, UK.
  

Research:

• Ian Urbina explains how police officers use the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network to catch killers and other criminals.
• David Kimmel traces a rape and murder case, followed by a lynching in 1870s Ohio.
• Katrina Carrasco talks about 19th century female prizefighters, athletes, criminals and other unusual Victorian women. 
• Eddie Kim explains why female soldiers are committing suicide at an alarming rate.
• Shaugnessy Bishop-Stall talks about weird hangover cures through the ages.

Free online fiction:

• "Before the Beginning" by Richard Zwicker in Crimson Streets.
• "That Voodoo That You Do" by Tess Makovesky in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "A First Time for Everything" by Bill Baber in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Genevieve" by Eoghan Lyng in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Molotov Cocktail Lounge" by Tom Leins in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "A Rainy Night in Soho" by Paul D. Brazill in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Pudgygate" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for Escape at Dannemora.
• Watch a trailer for The Limit.