Crime Fiction Links of the Week for December 15, 2018
Crime fiction in general:
- Barry Forshaw shares a round-up of the best recent thrillers.
- Declan Burke offers a round-up of recent crime novels.
- Ryan Steck shares the best new thrillers for December.
- Margot Hoot shares nine thrillers featuring duplicitous partners.
- Book Marks shares five books that prisons and the crisis of mass incarceration in the US.
- Stella Rimington shares a brief history of spy fiction.
- Lindsey Bever points out that according to public health experts, James Bond has a severe chronic alcohol problem.
- Stuart Heritage points out that James Bond is hardly alone, because many fictional characters are heavy drinkers.
- Scott Adlerberg looks at the curious subgenre of literary stoner noir.
- Mark Schreiber takes a look at modern Japanese crime fiction.
- Paul French talks about the crime fiction of Galway.
- Neil Nyren shares his appreciation for the works of Emma Lathen, author of financial thrillers.
- Mark Stevens explains how Patricia Highsmith and her books helped him overcome his strictly religious upbringing.
- Alison Flood reports that John Le Carré will release his twenty-fifth novel next year.
- Various British crime fiction writers share their favourite Christmas books.
- Tobias Carroll aska why the US just doesn't care for novellas.
- AbeBooks shares one hundred books to read in a lifetime.
- Jim Millot and Rachel Deahl are wondering why fiction sales have dropped by 16% between 2013 and 2017.
- Grant Morrison explains why he doesn't like Watchmen.
- Craig Smith reports that Val McDermid has received an honourary degree from St. Andrews University in Scotland.
- Children's mystery author Barbara Brooks Wallace, author of the Peppermints in the Parlor mystery series, has died aged 95.
Best of 2018 lists:
- Crime Reads shares the twenty best crime novels of 2018.
- Crime Reads shares the fifteen best true crime books of 2018.
- Crime Reads also shares the fifteen best crime and mystery debuts of 2018.
- Crime Reads also shares the ten best reissued mysteries of 2018.
- Crime Reads also shares the ten best historical crime novels of 2018.
- The Real Book Spy shares the best thrillers of 2018.
- Book Marks shares the best mysteries, crime novels and thrillers of 2018.
- The Boston Globe shares its favourite crime novels of 2018.
- Crime Time shares several critics' favourite crime novels of 2018.
- Tom Nolan shares his ten favourite crime novels of 2018.
- Catherine Turnbull shares her top five crime novels of 2018.
- Vicki Weisfeld shares her top five crime novels of 2018.
- Jim Napier shares his favourite crime novels of 2018.
- Kevin Burton Smith shares his favourite crime novels of 2018.
- Steve Donoghue shares his favourite mysteries of 2018.
- Crime Reads shares the ten best crime shows of 2018.
- Crime Fiction Lover shares the ten best crime shows of 2018.
Film and TV:
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Ray Donovan.
- Rebecca Nicholson shares her appreciation for the legal drama The Good Fight.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Lizzie an edgy update to the familiar Lizzie Borden story.
- Cath Clarke shares her thoughts on the crime movie White Boy Rick.
- Cathi Unsworth offers an overview of British noir films.
- Dino-Ray Ramos reports that Starz will adapt the Dublin Murder Squad novels by Tana French as a TV series.
- Germain Lussier reports that according to director Lucrecia Martel, Marvel did not want her to direct the action sequences of the planned Black Widow film, just the interpersonal scenes.
- Shift7 has published a story that female-led films outgross movies with male leads.
- Alex Cranz ranks all the screen Lois Lanes.
- Keith Phipps shares his forty favourite Christmas movies of all time.
- Ryan Gilbey explains that all the best Christmas movies mix darkness and light.
- Patrick Brzeski interviews Filipino thriller director Erik Matti.
- Actress Sondra Locke, who appeared in many action and crime movies with her then partner Clint Eastwood, has died aged 74.
Comments on Widows:
- Cate Young calls Widows the rare heist film that explores women's sacrifice.
- Ava DuVernay shares her thoughts on Widows.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar discusses Widows in the contaxt of the current blaxploitation revival.
Comments on Escape at Dannemora:
- Laura Bogart shares her thoughts on the latest episode of the prison drama Escape at Dannemora.
- Director Ben Stiller breaks down a prison yard scene from Escape at Dannemora.
Comments on Counterpart:
- Chitra Ramaswamy shares her thoughts on season 2 of the parallel world spy drama Counterpart.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 2 premiere of Counterpart.
Comments on The Mule:
- Benjamin Lee calls the drug drama The Mule a slow misfire.
- Jesse Hassenger calls The Mule an unsuccessful good-bye tour for Clint Eastwood.
- Peter DeBruge calls The Mule a feelgood story about a casually racist old man.
- Todd McCarthy declares that longtime Clint Eastwood fans will enjoy The Mule.
Comments on The House That Jack Built:
- Peter Bradshaw calls The House That Jack Built a self-congratulatory serial killer gorefest.
- A.A. Dowd calls The House That Jack Built an unpleasant serial killer drama.
Comments on the cancellation of Daredevil:
- Deadline claims that Netflix ignored viewer demand, when they cancelled Daredevil.
- Charles Pulliam-Moore reports that according to Netflix's internal data, Daredevil and the other Marvel shows may have been popular, but were less binge-watched than other Netflix offerings.
- Following the cancellation of Daredevil, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, Renaldo Matadeen asks what would happen if Marvel were to leave Netflix altogether.
- Joe Otterson reports that according to the contract terms between Marvel and Netflix, the characters of the cancelled shows cannot appear anywhere else for two years.
- Meanwhile, Sam Stone reports that season 2 of The Punisher will air on Netflix in January.
- Ed Power interviews Charlie Cox, star of Daredevil.
Awards:
- Prolific Swedish science fiction, fantasy and crime fiction translator John-Henri Holmberg has won the 2018 De Nios translator award.
- The nominees for the 24th Annual Critics Choice Awards have been announced with some love for genre films.
- The nominees for the 2019 Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced with some love for genre works.
- The winner of the 2018 Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year has been announced.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Alex Michaelides talks about writing the perfect thriller.
- Bebe Nicholson talks about the best time to write when you don't have time.
- Christopher Mart explains how to write a scene.
- Christopher Mart also explains how to write like Dan Brown, should you feel the need to.
- Felicia C. Sullivan shares some tips for writing your way through the middle.
- Tim Rettig talks about his problems making a living writing.
- Heather Havrilesky explains what to do if you cannot stop comparing yourself to more successful writers.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about hype, big fish and how you should always questions someone's claims of success.
- R.L. Maizes shares ten gifts for writers that don't exist... yet.
- Don Vaughan and Mark Bristol talk about storyboarding.
Interviews:
- Mystery People interviews Ken Bruen.
- Alex Segura interviews Ed Brubaker.
- Louise Rhind-Tutt interviews David Nolan.
- Nick Kolakowski interviews Travis Richardson.
- Paul Weimer interviews S.L. Huang.
- John Dwaine McKenna interviews Wallace Stroby.
- Drucilla Shultz interviews Ian Andrew.
Reviews:
- Gabino Iglesias reviews Bleak Harbor by Bryan Gruley.
- Declan Bruke reviews In the Dark River by Conor Brady.
- Lynne Patrick reviews Death on a Shetland Isle by Marsali Taylor.
- Josephine Livingstone reviews My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews The One That Got Away by Joe Clifford.
- Ray Palen reviews Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci.
- Classic Mystery reviews The Sentence Is Death by Anthony Horowitz.
- Joe Kenney reviews Web of Doom by Len Levinson.
- L.J. Roberts reviews Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny.
- Beth Kanell reviews Not Of This Fold by Mette Ivie Harrison.
- Kirkus reviews Revolution Sunday by Wendy Guerra, translated by Achy Obejas.
- AustCrime reviews Tell Me a Lie by C.J. Carver.
- The Real Book Spy reviews Tear Me Apart by J.T. Ellison.
- Janet Webb reviews A Murdered Peace by Candace Robb.
- Kristin Centorcelli reviews Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors by Christopher Fowler.
- Ben Boulden also reviews Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors by Christopher Fowler.
- Ian Sansom reviews Jeeves and the King of Clubs by Ben Schott.
- Benjamin Boulden reviews The Accident on the A35 by Graeme Macrae Burnet
- Janet Webb reviews Eggs on Ice by Laura Childs.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews A Spell of Murder by Clea Simon.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Stowed Away by Barbara Ross and tries a recipe from the book.
- Kevin Burton Smith reviews The Big Book of Female Detectives, edited by Otto Penzler.
- Mark Yon reviews Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea Devils by James Lovegrove.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Rat's Maze by M.E.S. Gibson.
- Rob Bedford reviews MJ-12: Shadows by Michael J. Martinez.
Classics reviews:
- Classic Mystery revisits the 1928 Philo Vance mystery The Greene Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine.
- Classic Mystery revists Dashiell Hammett's 1930 hardboiled detective novel The Maltese Falcon.
- Classic Mystery revisits the 1935 locked room mystery The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr.
- Classic Mystery revisits Erle Stanley Gardner's 1940 Perry Mason novel The Case of the Baited Hook.
- Curtis Evans revisits the 1944 thriller Don't Look Behind You by Samuel Rogers as well as its sequels You'll Be Sorry and You Leave Me Cold, published in 1945 and 1946 respectively.
- Paperback Warrior revisits One Is a Lonely Number, a 1952 noir novel by Bruce Elliott.
- Cross-Examining Crime revisits the 1952 mystery The Right Honourable Corpse by Max Murray.
- Cross-Examining Crime revisits the 1956 psychological thriller The Beckoning Dream by Evelyn Berckman.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1975 novel Your Daughter Will Die in the The D.C. Man men's adventure series by James P. Cody a.k.a. Peter T. Rohrbach.
- Mystery File revisits Ira Levin's 1976 science fiction thriller The Boys From Brazil.
- Cross-Examining Crime revisits the 1976 crime novel Cross Purposes by Henry Cecil.
- Joe Kenney revisits American Paradise, a 1988 novel in the Doomsday Warriors post-apocalyptic adventure series by Ryder Stacy a.k.a. Ryder Syvertsen.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits Peter Hoeg's 1992 thriller Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow.
- B.V. Lawson revisits Barbara D'Amato's 1998 police procedural Good Cop, Bad Cop.
Crowdfunding:
- The comic magazine Full Bleed Vol. 3: Heavy Rotation is looking for funding.
- SFF writers A. Merc Rustad and Marianne Kirby are looking for funding to allow them to attend the Futurescapes Writing Workshop in Park City, Utah.
Con and event reports:
- Michael Lee offers an overview of different types of conventions.
- Tony Mecia reports about a visit to the James Bond museum on the Schilthorn peak (which appeared as Piz Gloria in On Her Majesty's Secret Service) in Mürren, Switzerland.
- Cecelia Mecca shares her takeaways from the 20 Books to 50K conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Adriana Delgado reports about the many events hosted at the Murder on the Beach mystery bookstore in Delray Beach, Florida.
Research:
- Jean Casella and Sal Rodriguez talk about solitary confinement in US prisons.
- Lawyer Shauneen Lambe explains how she saved a man from death row.
- Richard David Ash explains how mass spectrometry has helped to shed new light on a cold case of thallium poisoning.
Free online fiction:
- "A Single Ripe Strawberry on a White Paper Plate" by B.F. Jones in Spelk.
- "The Witness" by Bern Sy Moss in Mystery Tribune.
- "Hank Williams' Cadillac" by Richard Wall in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Inside Pandora's Box" by Jesse Rawlins in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Shafer Work" by Mark Slade in Punk Noir Magazine.
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