Crime Fiction Links of the Week for January 26, 2019
Crime fiction in general:
- Paul French talks about the crime fiction of New Orleans.
- Chris Hammer offers an overview of the new wave of Australian crime writing.
- Paul Gadsby shares his favourite cat and mouse chase thrillers.
- Kristyn Kusek Lewis shares eight thrillers about scandals and secrets.
- Will Medearis takes a look at seven novels about crooked land deals, which he calls "America's oldest swindle".
- Garrick Webster takes a look at eleven crime shows and the books they're based on or vice versa.
- Bruce Riordan looks at the evolution of Michael Connelly's detective character Harry Bosch since his first appearance in 1992.
- Paperback Warrior offers a primer to the Pete Selby Detective a.k.a. Sixth Precinct series by Jonathan Craig a.k.a. Frank E. Smith, which debuted in 1955.
- Nick Rennison takes a look at the rivals of Sherlock Holmes, various nigh forgotten detectiuve characters from the late 19th and early 20th century.
- Emily Temple shares a brief and incomplete survey of Edgar Allan Poe portrayals in pop culture.
- Crime Reads share their twenty-five favourite Edgar Allan Poe illustrations of all time.
- Luke Barnes reports that one month after tumblr purged supposedly adult content, the network is overrun by far right propaganda.
- Writer and editor Diana Athill has died aged 101.
- Natalie Cornish reports that James Bond's fictional home from Ian Fleming's novels is up for sale.
- Julia Wright profiles men's adventure magazine artist Norman Eastman.
- Robert Deis profiles men's adventure magazine artist Samson Pollen.
Film and TV:
- Peter Bradshaw calls the cop drama Destroyer a riveting revelaiton and praises the performance of Nicole Kidman.
- Katie Rife calls King of Thieves an embarrassing misstep for its director, its writer and its star.
- Rob Hunter calls Close a convincing low-key action thriller.
- Peter Bradshaw calls The Mule a sentimental drama about an aged drug runner.
- Rebecca Nicholson wonders why a prison escape drama with such a stellar cast as Escape at Dannemora is nonetheless so slow.
- Radha Vasal explains why the French crime drama Spiral cannot be compared to The Wire.
- Danny Leigh wonders when Hollywood will finally stop making bad socially conscious movies about drug addiction and drug smuggling.
- Gem Wheeler offers a catch-up of what happened in the previous five seasons of the British period crime drama Endeavour so far.
- Paul Levinson praises Prime Suspect 1973, a prequel to the British crime drama Prime Suspect.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Counterpart.
- Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the latest episode of How To Get Away With Murder.
- Otto Penzler revisits the 1941 crime movie High Sierra.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1952 noir movie Sudden Fear.
- Kieran Fisher shares the true story behind Michael Mann's 1995 crime thriller Heat.
- Brian Greene revisits Brian de Palma's 1976 suspense movie Obsession.
- Alex McLevy interviews Charlie Cox, star of Daredevil.
- Nellie Andreeva reports that Michael Chabon's 2007 alternate history crime novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union will become a TV drama written by Chabon and his wife Ayelet Waldman.
Comments about season 3 of True Detective:
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of True Detective.
- Lanre Bakare shares his thoughts on the latest episode of True Detective.
- Emily L. Stephens shares her thoughts on the latest episode of True Detective.
- Matthew Gault believes that clues to the mystery behind season 3 of True Detective may be found in the moon.
Comments on Polar:
- Stephen Snart calls Polar a hyper-violent thriller that drowns in gore and stupidity.
- Peter Sobczynski calls Polar a gross, stupid and relentlessly ugly film from start to finish.
- Rob Hunter calls Polar a silly action romp, but is pleased with the performance of Mads Mikkelsen.
- Emma Stefansky admits that Polar is a very violent and not very good film, but she finds it a lot of fun.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Polar "John Wick crossed with a Katy Perry video".
- Danny Salemme explains the ending of Polar.
Comments on The Punisher:
- Maggie Donahue implores us to enjoy The Punisher while we can, before Netflix inevitably cancels it.
- Tyler McCarthy offers a spoiler free review of season 2 of The Punisher.
- Caroline Siede offers an episode by episode review of season 2 of The Punisher.
- Charles Pulliam-Moore declares that Jigsaw is the most fascinating puzzle in The Punisher, because Frank Castle cannot solve him.
- Meagan Damore reports that season 2 of The Punisher has cast many real life veterans in supporting roles.
- James Hunt explains the ending of season 2 of The Punisher (spoilers, obviously).
- Nathaniel Brail reports that Daredevil and Kingpin might appear in season 3 of The Punisher, provided there is one.
- Joe Otterson interviews Jon Bernthal who plays Frank Castle in The Punisher.
Comments on Glass:
- Emily Asher-Perrin calls Glass an unnecessary sequel that undercuts Unbreakable.
- Brad Gullickson talks about Glass and the legacy of sourceless superheroes in Hollywood.
- Renaldo Matadeen sums up all the superhuman origin stories in Glass.
- Brandon Zachary points out that the secret cabal in Glass is like Marvel's SHIELD, only actually efficient.
- Germain Lussier discusses the ending of Glass.
- Clark Collis discusses the ending of Glass with director M. Night Shyamalan.
- Inspired by Glass, Susana Polo wonders whether supervillain origin stories are all about bad parents.
Comments on Serenity (no, not the Firefly movie):
- Charles Bramesco calls Serenity a gloriously bad movie and thrillingly awful thriller.
- Hillary Busis calls Serenity the best bad movie in years, which sets a new bar for ridiculous twists.
- A.A. Dowd calls Serenity a preposterous thriller that takes the twistiness of suspense thrillers to an absurd extreme.
- Chris Nashawaty declares that Serenity steps over the line between stupid and clever.
- Wesley Morris calls Serenity a very bad mess.
- Todd McCarthy calls Serenity a waterlogged modern noir thriller.
- Karen Han declares that Serenity has the most ludicrous twist of the year - and it's only January. She then goes on to spoil the twist.
- Jacob Stolworthy reports that the final twist in Serenity is so silly that moviegoers are actually lining up to see the film just to learn what it is.
Comments on The Many Saints of Newark:
- Justin Kroll reports that Jon Bernthal and Vera Farminga have been cast for The Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark.
- Gwilym Mumford reports that Michael Gandolfini, son of The Sopranos star James Gandolfini, has been cast to plays the young Tony Soprano in The Many Saints of Newark.
- Trey Williams reports that Corey Stoll and Billy Magnussen have also been cast in The Many Saints of Newark.
Comments on Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes:
- Lucy Mangan calls the true crime documentary Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes harrowing but pointless.
- Katie Rife declares that the most shocking thing about Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes is that the filmmakers actually seem to take Bundy at his word.
Awards:
- The nominees for the 2019 Edgar Awards have been announced.
- The nominees for the 2019 Barry Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2018 Scarlet Stiletto Awards have been announced.
- The nominees for the 2019 Academy Awards have been announced with a little love for genre films and much more love for bad bio pics.
- The winners of the 2019 Producers Guild Award have been announced with little love for genre films.
- The nominees for the 2019 Razzie Awards have been announced with some disdain for genre movies.
- Cora Buhlert shares her general displeasure with the 2019 Academy Award nominees.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Taylor Adams explains how to add violence to fiction without overdoing it.
- Tim Johnston explains how his childhood experiences as the son of a lawyer influenced his writing.
- Lauren Sapala implores writers and artists to stop trying to fit into society's conventional boxes.
- Bob Mayer points out that idea is not story.
- Sarah Cy shares some unusual tips supposed to make you a better writer.
- Gilbert Bassey shares the ultimate guide to creating compelling antagonists in fiction.
- Elizabeth McCracken talks about short stories.
- Josiah Bancroft discusses epigraphs in fiction.
- Belinda Griffin shares five reasons authors resist marketing and why they're crap.
- Alison Flood reports that Amazon has refuted the Authors Guild's claim that they are responsible for falling author incomes and instead blames the study's bad methology.
- Frances Yackell shares seven free or cheap writing residencies to apply for in 2019.
Interviews:
- Dwyer Murphy interviews James Lee Burke.
- Robyn Walton interviews Leigh Straw.
- Robyn Walton interviews Anna Snoekstra.
- The Real Book Spy interviews John Lescroart.
Reviews:
- Fiametta Rocco reviews My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.
- Kirkus reviews She Lies In Wait by Gytha Lodge.
- Ray Palen reviews The Death Messenger by Mari Hannah.
- Kristin Centorcelli reviews The Burglar by Thomas Perry.
- Maggie Boyd reviews The Suspect by Fiona Barton.
- Catherine Turnbull reviews The Village of the Lost Girls by Agustin Martinez, translated by Frank Wynne.
- Marina Sofia reviews The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts.
- Smart Bitches, Trashy Books review The Au Pair by Emma Rous.
- Lisa Fernandes reviews Last Woman Standing by Amy Gentry.
- Alex Calamela reviews Take-Out by Rob Hart.
- Michael Carlson revieiws The Chestnut Man by Sören Sveistrup.
- For Winter Nights reviews The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley.
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Disappeared by Sibel Hodge.
- For Winter Nights reviews Severed by Peter Laws.
- Kristin Centorcelli reviews The Liar's Room by Simon Lelic.
- The Real Book Spy reviews The Border by Don Winslow.
- Emily Culliton reviews Restoration Heights by Will Medearis.
- Book Reporter reviews Freefall by Jessica Barry.
- Justin Partridge reviews Charlesgate Confidential by Scott von Doviak.
- Kristin Centorcelli reviews Scrublands by Chris Hammer.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Long Road From Paris by Kirby Williams.
- Brian Greene reviews Backdoor to Hell by Paul Gadsby.
- Angie Barry reviews Tear It Down by Nick Petrie.
- Catherine Turnbull reviews Nemesis by Rory Clements.
- James Smart reviews The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow by Danny Denton.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Alchemist's Delusion by Gigi Pandian and tries a recipe from the book.
Classics reviews:
- Susan Amper revisits the 1845 Auguste Dupin mystery The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1919 mystery The Middle Temple Murder by J.S. Fletcher.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1945 detective novel Appleby's End by Michael Innes.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1952 noir novel Tears Are For Angels by Paul Connolly a.k.a. Tom Wicker.
- Ardi Alspach revisits Charlotte Armstrong's mystery A Dram of Poison, winner of the 1957 Edgar Award.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1973 crime novel Bloody Vengeance by Jack Ehrlich.
- Joe Kenney revisits The Slayboys, a 1979 novel in the Butler men's adventure series by Philip Kirk.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits A Colder Kind of Death, a 1995 Joanne Kilbourn mystery by Gail Bowen.
Con and event reports:
- Ayo Onatade shares a call for paper for the 6th Annual Conference of the International Crime Fiction Association at the Gabriele d'Annunzio University in Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
- Katie Mansfield reports that the Capital Crime convention in London, UK, will offer discounted tickets to librarians.
- Angel Wilson shares the ultimate guide to enjoying San Diego Comic-Con in San Diego, California, on a small budget.
Research:
- Heather Murphy reports that thanks to new technology, DNA tests will soon become as quick and commonplace as fingerprinting.
- Dameet Singh Chawla asks if criminals who have the so-called violence gene should be given lighter sentences.
- M. Monsuri talks about his experiences in Sing Sing.
- Steph Post lists the greatest fake sideshow acts and cons of all time.
- The Economist reports about the skyrocketing popularity of escape rooms and the related fire dangers.
Free online fiction:
- "Desert Justice" by Tom Barlow in Tough.
- "Blood Will Tell" by Arthur Evans in Shotgun Honey.
- "Trust Me" by Patricia Dusenberry in Flash Bang Mysteries.
- "I Heard a Copter" by Annette Gagliardi in The Five-Two.
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