Crime Fiction Links of the Week for December 1, 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 yet more best books of 2018 lists, tributes to Nicholas Roeg, The Little Drummer Girl, Mrs. Wilson, Die Hard at 30, an uproar surrounding the 2018 MWA Grand Masters and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Marina Sofia shares five woman crime writers to watch. 
• P.J. Vernon, Gale Massey and Kelly J. Ford talk about own voices and crime fiction. 
• Paul French talks about Mumbai noir. 
• Rosemary Simpson shares six historical crime novels set during the gilded age.
• V.M. Burns shares six cozy mystery series set in bookstores. 
• Grady Hendrix takes a look at the occult detectives of the Victorian era. 
• Sarah Weinman remembers domestic suspense writer Merriam Modell a.k.a. Evelyn Piper. 
• Mrs. Peabody Investigates remembers translator Anthea Bell with a focus on her translations of German and French language crime fiction.
• Margot Kinberg talks about crime novels where falsely accused characters don't even try to defend themselves.
  

Best crime fiction of 2018 lists:

• NPR shares the best mysteries and thrillers of 2018.
• Barry Forshaw shares his favourite crime novel of 2018.
• Kristopher Zgorski shares his top ten crime novels of 2018.

Film and TV:

• Sergio Perreira explains why the BBC thriller Bodyguard tells the kind of James Bond story he craves.
• Mrs. Peabody Investigates shares her thoughts on the Australian crime drama Mystery Road.
• Robin Robertson shares a poet's guide to film noir. 
• Stuart Heritage talks about the rise of anthology series like Black Mirror and Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams.   
• Michael A. Gonzalez shares his appreciation for Abel Ferrara's noir movies of the 1980s.
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the classic action thriller and holiday favourite Die Hard on its 30th anniversary. 
• Scott Tobias explains why Die Hard is still the quintessential Hollywood action film thirty years after it was first released. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1956 courtroom drama The Last Man To Hang.
• Rebecca Nicholson calls the documentary A Great British Injustice: The Maguire Story a harrowing tale.  
• Mike McCahill calls the Polish crime movie Plagi Breslau a blood splattered serial killer thriller. 
• Laura Bogart shares her thoughts on part 2 of the prison drama Escape at Dannemora.
• Jennifer Ouellette reports that Netflix has cancelled Daredevil as well.
  
• Alison Flood explains why she believes that Tom Cruise was miscast as Jack Reacher.
• Claire Armitstead interviews true crime documentary filmmaker Penny Woolcock.
• The Guardian reports that there have been new sexual harrassment allegations against filmmaker Luc Besson.
• Magician and actor Ricky Jay, who appeared in Deadwood and Tomorrow Never Dies and consulted on Ocean's Thirteen, has died aged 72.
  

Tributes to Nicholas Roeg:

• Nicholas Roeg, celebrated director of Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Walkabout and Performance, has died aged 90. 
• The BBC calls Nicholas Roeg the most original filmmaker Britain ever produced in theirn obituary.
  
• Peter Bradshaw shares his appreciation for Nicholas Roeg and his work.
• Julie Muncy shares a brief tribute to Nicholas Roeg.
  

Comments on The Little Drummer Girl: 

• Graeme Virtue shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Little Drummer Girl.
• Vikram Murti shares his thoughts on the series finale of The Little Drummer Girl.
  

Comments on Mrs. Wilson:

• Lucy Mangan calls the domestic suspense thriller Mrs. Wilson a compellingly sinister howdunnit.
• Vanessa Thorpe interviews Ruth Wilson about playing her own grandmother in Mrs. Wilson.
  

Awards:

• The winner of the 2018 Irish Independent Crime Fiction Novel of the Year has been announced. 
• The winner of the inaugural Staunch Book Prize has been announced.
• The Mystery Writers of America have announced the recipients of the 2019 Special Edgar, Grand Master, Raven and Ellery Queen Awards.
• Attica Locke shares her concerns regarding one of the newly announced MWA Grand Masters.
• Mike Glyer reports about the concerns regarding the Grand Master honours for Linda Fairstein.
• Margery Flax reports that the MWA has withdrawn the Grand Master award for Linda Fairstein in response to the criticisms.
• Mike Glyer offers some more background about the withdrawal of the Grand Master award from Linda Fairstein.
• The Guardian also reports about the controversy involving the MWA's Grand Master award for Linda Fairstein.  
• Sean Piccoli and Michael Gold also report about the controversy involving the MWA's Grand Master awards for Linda Fairstein. 
• The shortlist for the 2018 Costa Book Awards has been announced and includes one genre novel, The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton.
• The shortlist for the 2018 Bad Sex Award has been announced. 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Marc Cameron explains how he ended up continuing Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series.
• Brian Kurian shares three simple things you can do to find your writing voice. 
• Shane C. Heath attempts to explain what makes a story tick. 
• Janice Hardy shares three ways to add tension to a scene during revisions. 
• Lauren Sapala talks about being a woman writer of transgressive fiction. 
• Jill Schlesinger reports that small bookstores are booming after nearly being wiped out. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch cautions writers against going exclusive with Amazon or any other retailer.
  

Interviews:

• Mimi Wong interviews Imraan Coovadia.
• Vicki Weisfeld interviews Lisa Gabriele.
• Crime Reads interviews Alex Segura and Monica Gallagher.
• John Valeri interviews Bryan Gruley.
• Nick Douglas interviews Ausma Zehanat Khan.
• Sandra Mangan interviews John Marrs. 
  
• The Real Book Spy interviews Mike Lupica.
• The Real Book Spy interviews Marc Cameron.
• Jill's Book Café interviews Faith Hogan.
• Jill's Book Café interviews Dough Johnstone.
  

Reviews:

• Sandra Mangan reviews Bleak Harbor by Bryan Gruley. 
• Vanessa Orr reviews Lost Lake by Emily Littlejohn.
• Vanessa Orr reviews The Comforts of Home by Susan Hill. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews Her Last Move by John Marrs.
• Sandra Mangan reviews Bury the Bodies by Keith Nixon. 
• Vanessa Orr reviews Uneasy Lies the Crown by Tasha Alexander.
• Eleanor Kuhns reviews Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets by Rosemary Simpson. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Just Plain Murder by Laura Bradford. 
• Jill's Book Café reviews After He's Gone by Jane Isaac.
• The Real Book Spy reviews Crucible by James Rollins.
• The Real Book Spy reviews Mission Critical by Mark Greaney. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Mansion by Ezekiel Boone. 
• Booker Talk reviews Bearman by Fredrik Backman.
• The Tattooed Book Geek reviews Changeling by Matt Wesolowski. 
• Paul Di Filippo reviews The Subjugate by Amanda Bridgeman.  
• Robert Allen Papinchak reviews The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Playing with Bonbon Fire by Dorothy St. James and tries a recipe from the book.
• Brad Hawley reviews Criminal Vol. 2: Lawless, a comic by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.
• Jon L. Breen reviews The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study of the Father Brown Stories and Detective Fiction by Laird R. Blackwell.
  

Classics reviews:

• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1948 Nero Wolfe mystery And Be A Villain by Rex Stout.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1953 noir novel Whom Gods Destroy by Clifton Adams.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1958 noir novel Man on the Run by Charles Williams. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1958 crime novel Case of the Cop's Wife by Milton K. Ozaki.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1961 western thriller Desert Stake-Out by Harry Whittington.
• Tom McCarthy revisits the 1965 political thriller Night of Camp David by Fletcher Knebel.
  
• From First Page to Last revisits the 1975 holiday thriller The Long Shadow by Cynthia Fremlin.
• Paperback Warrior revisits Gang War, a 1975 novel in the Death Squad men's adventure series by Frank Colter a.k.a. Dan Streib.
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1977 thriller The Mexican Connection by Alexander Mason.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1981 crime novel The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada, translated by James Pugmire.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1995 thriller Singled Out by Simon Brett.
  

Crowdfunding:

• The Writer's Book of Doubt by Aidan Doyle is looking for funding.
• The mystery focussed bookstore Once Upon a Crime in Minneapolis, Minnesota, needs some help.
  

Con and event reports:

• Ayo Onatade reports that Peter James and Lynda La Plante will be the guests of honour at the 2019 Capital Crime festival in London, UK. 
• Locus shares a photo of the Genrepalooza event in New York City.
  
• Martin Edwards shares his experiences conducting a writing workshop at the Blue Cap Hotel in Sandiway, UK.
• Martin Edwards shares his experiences at Jersey's Festival of Words in St. Helier, UK.
  

Research:

• The Violence Research Centre of the University of Cambridge offers a medieval murder map of London based on coroner's reports.
• Rhonda Evans talks about researching nineteenth century crime and punishment and its depiction in popular culture via the New York Public Library's online resources.
• Maia Chance shares what she learned researching her 1920s set historical mystery series.
• The BBC reports how theatre projects in prisons can change lives.
• Melanie Ehrenkranz reports that a woman has been falsely accused of traffic violations in China, because facial recognition software flagged her face on an ad on the side of a city bus.

Free online fiction:

• "Gas" by Joshua Wade Freeman in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Hard Times" by Jason J. McCuiston in Crimson Streets.
• "One More Chance" by Michael A. Gonzalez in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "A Secret Place" by Samhaine, read by Theo Copeland in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "The Merry Wink" by Kurt McGill at Akashic Books.