Crime Fiction Links of the Week for March 23, 2019
Crime fiction in general:
- Laura Wilson shares a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
- Adam Abramowitz explains how gentrification threatens the big city noir.
- Paul French declares that it's time to discover the crime fiction of Helsinki.
- Sudeshna Shome Gosh takes a look at the rise of international crime fiction.
- Elisabeth Elo shares five thrillers set in Eastern Europe.
- S.C. Perkins shares six crime novels where past and present crimes are connected.
- Peter Swanson talks about ambiguous friendships in thrillers.
- Vanessa Savage talks about crimes, memories and psychological thrillers.
- Michelle Adams shares five thrillers in which memory is unreliable at best.
- Carolyn Kirby shares seven thriller sets in psychiatric hospitals and asylums.
- Carla Buckley shares nine books about women, wilderness and survival.
- Laura Benedict shares a brief history of unlikeable protagonists.
- Parvati Sharma explains what happens when a book finds you.
- Leah Rhyme explains how she fell for the lies of Dan Mallory a.k.a. A.J. Finn and why she takes his deception personally.
- Diana Wichtel profiles Dame Fiona Kidman.
- Art Taylor shares his appreciation for Janet Rudolph and J. Kingston Pierce.
- Alison Flood reports that there is still a gender gap regarding reviews and general coverage of works by male and female writers.
- Katy Waldman discusses the recent cancellations of YA books just before publication.
- Ross Johnson celebrates Batman's 80th birthday by picking the ten greatest Batman stories from Detective Comics.
- Alison Flood and Sian Cain report that true crime books have proven themselves to be remarkably popular at the London Book Fair.
Film and TV:
- Leslie Felperin calls The Journey a humane hostage drama with supreme acting.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of the terrorism drama The Enemy Within.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the first episode of The Fix, an alternate take on the O.J. Simpson case.
- LaToya Ferguson shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- Nick Harley shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the latest episode of The Good Fight.
- Abe Friedtanzer shares his thoughts on the thriller movie Body at Brighton Rock.
- Garrick Webster looks ahead at season 3 of the crime drama Follow the Money.
- Alex Fletcher shares three reasons why viewers will love the Hanna TV series.
- Elle Hunt lists the best celebrity guest stars and murders in the long-running British crime drama Midsomer Murders.
- Mike Hale shares five new international crime dramas to watch.
- Otto Penzler shares his appreciation for the 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express.
- Mike D'Angelo calls the terrorist docudrama Hotel Mumbai gruelling to watch.
- Lucy Mangan calls Stabbed: Britain's Knife Crime Crisis a heartbreaking documentary.
- Duncan Campbell discusses the moral quandaries raised by the surfeit of true crime documentaries.
- Julia Carrie Wong interviews Alex Gibney, director of the true crime documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.
- Rebecca Nicholson interviews Amy Berg, director of various true crime documentaries.
- Steve Rose interviews Ali Abbasi, director of the Swedish crime drama Border.
- Andrew Pulver reports that Danny Boyle quit the still untitled 25th James Bond film over a script dispute.
- Nellie Andreeva reports that The Blacklist has been renewed for season 7.
- Matthew S. Schwartz reports that Disney now officially owns 21st Century Fox.
Comments on The Bay:
- Lucy Mangan compares the new British crime drama The Bay to Broadchurch, only that it's set in Morecambe.
- Ed Cummings also compares The Bay to Broadchurch.
- Amanda Killelea shares nine reasons why The Bay is the new Broadchurch.
- Eleanor Bley Griffith shares everything you need to know about The Bay.
- Eleanor Bley Griffith explains why Morecambe is the perfect setting for The Bay.
- Katie Archer introduces the cast and characters of The Bay.
Comments on Dragged Across Concrete:
- A.A. Dowd calls the cop thriller Dragged Across Concrete equally queasy and thrilling.
- Richard Brody calls Dragged Across Concrete a stylish, but repugnant thriller.
- Marlow Stern calls Dragged Across Concrete a vile, racist, rightwing fantasy.
- Charles Bramesco calls Dragged Across Concrete a curious provocation.
- David Fear declares that Dragged Across Concrete feels like an overlong hardboiled crime novel.
- Stephen Garrett calls Dragged Across Concrete a B-movie that seems to be deliberately designed to troll leftwingers.
- Scott Tobias reports that S. Craig Zahler, director of Dragged Across Concrete and similar movies, doesn't care that many viewers consider his films racist trash.
Comments on The Act:
- Adrian Horton declares that the true crime drama The Act tells a staggeringly disturbing story.
- Katie Rife calls The Act a guilty pleasure wrapped in a pretty prestige bow.
- Camille LeBlanc discusses the real life case of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard, on which The Act is based.
- Danielle Turchiano interviews Michelle Dean and Nick Antosca, writers and producers of The Act.
Comments on Leaving Neverland:
- Rachel Winters explains that the true crime documentary Leaving Neverland shows how Michael Jackson exploited the vulnerability of immigrants.
- Mike Pesca claims that those who defend Michael Jackson after the allegations repeated in Leaving Neverland sound like conspiracy theorists.
- Sam Adams points at the many jokes made about Michael Jackson's alleged preference for little boys over the decades, which both kept the allegations alive and ridiculed them.
- The Guardian reports that a French Michael Jackson fan club are sueing Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who accused Jackson of having sexually abused them as children, over Leaving Neverland.
Awards:
- The finalists for the 2019 Rita and Golden Heart Awards have been announced
- The 2019 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Crime Fiction by Writers of Colour is open for submissions.
- The finalists for the 2019 Colorado Book Awards have been announced.
- The finalists for the 31st Annual IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards have been announced.
- Mary Robinette Kowal shares some tips for new authors who have been nominated for an award.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Annie Neugebauer asks if there is such a thing as trying too hard, when it comes to writing.
- Rachel Gardner tackles the dilemma of having too many ideas and not enough time to write them all.
- Rayne Hall shares some tips for writing novel opening scenes.
- Sarah Kuhn points out that stereotypes only become a problem, when a character has no other traits beside the stereotypical ones.
- Phil Parker explains how to use the western zodiac for characterisation.
- Alma Katsu explains why she chose to write about the infamous Donner party.
- Sarah Pinsker shares the music that inspired her various stories.
- Tonya Thompson shares ten tips for writing great flash fiction.
- Patrick LeClerc offers some tips for dealing with bad reviews.
Interviews:
- Ali Karim interviews Harlan Coben.
- Lina Das interviews Gregg Hurwitz.
- The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival interviews Mark Brandi.
- Crime by the Book interviews Emily Carpenter.
- B.V. Lawson interviews Patricia Abbott.
- Victoria Goldman interviews Brad Parks.
- Victoria Goldman interviews J.G. Murray.
- Kittling: Books interviews Wendall Thomas.
- Cullen Gallagher interviews Paul D. Brazill.
Reviews:
- Live and Deadly reviews A Gift for Dying by M.J. Arlidge.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Last Act by Brad Parks.
- Crime by the Book reviews Until the Day I Die by Emily Carpenter.
- Criminolly reviews The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney.
- Matt Fowler reviews An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks.
- Sarah Wendell reviews The Woman in the Lake by Nicola Cornick.
- Brian Bandell reviews Dead in a Week by Andrea Kane.
- Colman Keane reviews Last Year's Man by Paul D. Brazill.
- Raven Crime Reads reviews The Scandal by Mari Hannah.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Pretense by John Di Frances.
- Vanessa Orr reviews Tear It Down by Nick Petrie.
- The Real Book Spy reviews Blood Oath by Linda Fairstein.
- Jo's Book Blog reviews Resin by Ane Riel.
- The Real Book Spy reviews Redemption by David Baldacci.
- Louis Bravos reviews Prefecture D by Hideo Yokoyama, translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davis.
- Janet Webb reviews The Road to Grantchester by James Runcie.
- For Winter Nights reviews The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear.
- Susan Amper reviews A Dangeorus Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn.
- Alex Calamela reviews Murder Once Removed by S.C. Perkins.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder with Macaroni and Cheese by A.L. Herbert and tries a recipe from the book.
- Janet Webb reviews Broken Bone China by Laura Childs.
- Scott Adlerberg reviews Hipster Death Rattle by Richie Narvaez.
- Paperback Warrior reviews Killer Thriller by Lee Goldberg.
- Michael Patrick Hicks reviews The Cartel by Don Winslow.
- The Real Book Spy reviews Metropolis by Philip Kerr.
- Ray Palen revies The Malta Exchange by Steve Perry.
- Oliver Bullough reviews An Impeccable Spy by Owen Matthews.
- Gabino Iglesias reviews Dannemora by Charles A. Gardner.
Classics reviews:
- David Vineyard revisits the 1925 thriller The Seven Sleepers by Francis Beeding.
- Margot Kinberg revisits the 1932 mystery The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson.
- Troy Brownfield revisits Raymond Chandler's classic 1939 hardboiled mystery The Big Sleep for its 80th anniversary.
- Jonathan Lewis revisits the 1940 thriller Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler.
- Walker Martin revisits the June 1943 issue of Dime Detective.
- Evan Lewis revisits the 1947 mystery Half-Past Mortem by John A. Saxon, who may or may not have been Robert Leslie Bellem.
- Patrick Ohl revisits the 1950 Nero Wolfe mystery In the Best Families by Rex Stout.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1952 crime novel The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson.
- Brian Busby revisits the 1954 collection Bright Paths to Adventure by Gordon Sinclair.
- Les Blatt revisits the 1956 Nero Wolfe mystery Three Witnesses by Rex Stout.
- Aubrey Hamilton revisits the 1956 mystery Death in the Quadrangle by Eilis Dillon.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1958 Al Wheeler mystery The Body by Alan Yates a.k.a. Carter Brown.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1960 crime novel Good Time Girl by Don Kingery.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1961 crime novel Drive East on 66 by Richard Wormser.
- Philip Jett revisits The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carrè, winner of the 1965 Edgar Award for best novel.
- Mystery File revisits the 1969 Lew Archer mystery The Good-Bye Look by Ross MacDonald.
- Mystery File revisits the 1971 crime novel Lemons Never Lie by Richard Stark a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1972 men's adventure novel Valley of Death, first in the Chopper Cop series by Paul Ross a.k.a. Dan Streib.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1975 men's adventure novel City For Sale, a book in The Revenger series by Jon Messmann.
- Barry Gardner revisits the 1982 heist novel Kahawa by Donald E. Westlake.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1984 mystery Smoke Detector by Eric Wright.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1987 mystery The Habit of Fear by Dorothy Salisbury Davis.
- Jerry's House of Everything revisits the 1993 medical thriller The Select a.k.a. The Foundation by F. Paul Wilson.
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1993 mystery Death in Store by Jennifer Rowe.
Crowdfunding:
- Common Bonds, an anthology of speculative fiction featuring aromantic characters and platonic relationships, edited by Clausie Arsenault, is looking for funding.
- Kickstarter is running a digital conference about the future of publishing.
Con and event reports:
- Martin Edwards shares his experiences at the Essex Book Festival and the Golden Age Weekend in Southend-on-Sea, UK.
- Mike Glyer looks ahead at the Vintage Paperback Collectors Show in Glendale, California, and shares the signing schedule.
- Will Hunt reports about a three day expedition to walk across Paris entirely underground through the famous catacombs.
- KDKA-TV reports about CluedUpp, a live action murder mystery game that is coming to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Research:
- Dominic Smithers reports that researchers from Liverpool believe that they have uncovered the true identity of Jack the Ripper.
- Cara Robertson takes a look at the infamous Lizzie Borden case.
- Philip Jett remembers the first bombing of a commercial airliner in 1955.
- Guy Bolton takes a loook at the classic Los Angeles hotels where Hollywood stars and mobsters rubbed shoulders.
- Gianni Russo, actor and singer with mob connections, remembers has time as a hotel magnate in Las Vegas in the 1970s.
- Leah Carroll takes a look inside the world of amateur Facebook sleuths and true crime fanatics.
- Steven Melendez reports that the NYPD has unveiled a controversial algorithm that can track crime patterns.
- Clive Thompson talks about the myth of fingerprints as the ultimate crimefighting tool.
- Ana Valens reports about the links between Gamergate, 8chan and the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Free online fiction:
- "Example" by Adam-Troy Castro in Nightmare Magazine.
- "Thinkers" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- "Whiskey Noir" by Daphne Strasert in Crimson Streets.
- "In the Morning Hour She Calls Me" by Russell W. Johnson in Tough.
- "Practically Family" by David Powell in Shotgun Honey.
- "Search the Hollow" by Benjamin Welton in The Five-Two.
- "The Big Fight" by Ian Copestick in Punk Noir Magazine.
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