Crime Fiction Links of the Week for May 11, 2019

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 season 2 of Killing Eve, the series 5 finale of Line of Duty, John Wick: Parabellum, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, The Hustle, Detective Pikachu, High Life, Chernobyl, the 2019 Agatha Awards, Newcastle Noir and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Mystery Tribune shares the best crime, mystery and thriller novels for May 2019. 
• Booklist shares the best crime novels of the year. 
• Crime Reads shares the best non-fiction crime books for May 2019.
• Malcolm Mackay lists crime fiction's most unforgettable outsider protagonists. 
• Alafair Burke shares her top ten thrillers about siblings. 
• Marybeth Mayhew Whalen shares seven crime novels that explore the darker side of small towns and suburbia.
• Rebecca Alexander shares ten historical mysteries which balance the crime plot and history.
• Mollie Cox Bryan takes a look at mysteries set in the golden age of Hollywood.
• W.M. Akers shares his appreciation for the Jerry Tracy hardboiled crime stories by Theodore A. Tinsley and discusses how to deal with racism and other problematic attitudes in vintage genre fiction. 
• Bill Sheehan profiles Thomas Harris and muses whether the success of Harris' Hannibal Lecter novels was responsible for the rise of serial killer thrillers.
• Tobias Carroll profiles Laird Barron.
• Laird Barron explains that setting and geography are a character in noir and crime fiction. 
• Laura Elliott takes a look at ten great crime noves set on islands.
• Tim Hennessy takes a look at crime fiction set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• Paul French talks about crime fiction set on the French Riviera.
• Eamonn Griffin explains why Wales is such a perfect setting for crime novels.
• Colleen Coble, Cara Putman, Randy Singer and Carrie Stuart Parks hold a roundtable discussion about Christian suspense fiction.  
• Amanda Quick talks about 1930s robot technology and how she incorporated it into her historical mystery Tightrope. 
• Michael Weinreb declares that even sixty years after it was first published, The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condor remains a timely thriller.
• Nick Kolakowski wonders why people who are completely ignorant about the current state of the crime and thriller genre nonetheless feel compelled to talk about it.
  

Film and TV:

• LaToya Ferguson shares her thoughts on episodes 1 and 2 of season 4 of Lucifer. 
• LaToya Ferguson shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
• Vikram Murthi shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Barry.
• Katie Rife shares her thoughts on the Manson family movie Charlie Says.
• Abe Friedtanzer shares his thoughts on the period crime drama Dreamland. 
• Garrick Webster takes a look at season 3 of the Canadian crime drama Cardinal.
• Vikram Murthi calls El Chicano a shoddy Batman imitation starring an all Latino cast. 
• Renaldo Matadeen lists every callback to the original Karate Kid trilogy in season 2 of Cobra Kai. 
• James Donaghy shares his appreciation for the corrupt cop drama The Shield.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1950 noir movie Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.
• Lucy Mangan shares her thoughts on the true crime documentary Sex on Trial.
• Steven Poole discusses how the spoiler became the most heinous sin in pop culture.
• Alex Taylor explains the difference between US and UK TV productions.

Comments on season 2 of Killing Eve:

• Lisa Weidenfeld shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Killing Eve. 
• Hanh Nguyen shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Killing Eve.
• Kat Rosenfeld shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Killing Eve. 
• The London Times interviews Jodie Comer who plays Villanelle in Killing Eve. 
• Ali Stagnitta interviews Kim Bodnia who plays Konstantin in Killing Eve.
• Rosie Knight interviews Emerald Fennell, showrunner of Killing Eve.
  

Comments on series 5 of Line of Duty: 

• Sarah Hughes shares her thoughts on the series 5 finale of Line of Duty.
• Lucy Mangan shares her thoughts on the series 5 finale of Line of Duty and declares that series 5 hasn't been up to snuff.
• Stuart Heritage shares his thoughts on the series 5 finale of Line of Duty and declares that the series ate itself.
• Lanre Bakare interviews Stephen Graham, who plays John Corbett in Line of Duty.
• Jamie Grierson reports that the Line of Duty series 5 finale was the most watched TV program of 2019 in the UK to date.
  

Comments on John Wick: Prabellum: 

• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky calls John Wick: Parabellum less elegant, but just as thrilling as its predecessors.
• Kevin Harley calls John Wick: Parabellum the 2019 action movie to beat.
• David Ehrlich calls John Wick: Parabellum a breathtakingly violent sequel. 
• Alissa Wilkinson calls John Wick: Parabellum as beautiful and bonkers as ever. 
• Andrew Barker calls John Wick: Parabellum as dazzling as it is deadening.
• Jim Vejvoda declares that John Wick: Parabellum dives into John Wick's backstory and contains all the over-the-top action fans of the franchise have come to expect.
  

Comments on Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile:

• A.A. Dowd calls Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile an interesting and ambitious misfire.
• Rishabh Vanishta calls Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile extremely meh.
• Madeline Fry declares that Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile offers an important perspective on serial killer Ted Bundy.
  
• Kaylee S. Kim calls Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile surprisingly bland.
  
• Jennifer Stavros implores those watching Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile to think not of Ted Bundy but of murder victims like her sister Jessica Thomas.
  
• Jackie Strause interviews director Joe Berlinger and Zac Efron and Lily Collins, stars of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile 

Comments on The Hustle:

• Peter Bradshaw calls The Hustle a catastrophically unfunny caper comedy. 
• Caroline Siede calls The Hustle an unsatisfying comedy that doesn't have much to say.

Comments on Detective Pikachu:

• James Whitbrook calls Detective Pikachu almost too cute for its own good.
• Jesse Hassenger declares that Detective Pikachu offers tomorrow's nostalgia junk today.
• Michael Rechtshaffen declares that Detective Pikachu isn't half bad.
• Steve Rose declares that Ryan Reynolds' voice acting transforms Detective Pikachu from an average videogame movie to an enjoyable family film.
• Baraka Kaseko and Marah Eakin interview Ryan Reynolds, star of Detective Pikachu.
• Baraka Kaseko and Marah Eakin interview Rob Letterman, director of Detective Pikachu.
• Jennifer Ouellette discusses how neuroscientists have discovered a region in the brains of eager Pokémon players dedicated to identifying Pokémon.

Comments on High Life:

• Peter Bradshaw calls High Life a superbly eerie and mysterious space prison drama. 
• Margot Harrison calls High Life an existential science fiction odyssey. 
• Andrew Winter calls High Life one of the best films of the year.
• Daniel Vaughan calls High Life a look at the darker side of humanity.
• Alan Meban calls High Life a taboo-ridden and hellbound science fiction story.
• Ryan Gilbey has more problems connecting with High Life than with Claire Denis' other movies.

Comments on Chernobyl:

• Will Gompertz praises the mini-series Chernobyl for its harrowing realism.
• Amy Glynn calls Chernobyl brilliant, but almost too harrowing to watch. 
• Tim Goodman calls Chernobyl solid, but very difficult to watch.
• Lorraine Ali calls Chernobyl haunting.
• Ben Travers calls Chernobyl a jarring appraisal of human nature.
• Mike Hale declares that Chernobyl feels too much like a conventional disaster movie. 
• Lucy Mangan calls Chernobyl a confusing nuclear disaster epic.
• Joe Bendel shares his thoughts on Chernobyl. 
• Elena Nicolaou explains which of the characters in the Chernobyl TV series are based on real people.
• Watch a trailer for Chernobyl.

Awards:

• The winners of the 2019 Agatha Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2018 Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Readers Awards have been announced. 
• The winner of the 2019 Lindisfarne Prize for Debut Crime Fiction has been announced.
• The winners of the 2019 Independent Book Publisher Awards have been announced.
• The shortlist for the 2019 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize has been announced with some love for crime fiction.
• The recipients of the 2019 RWA Awards have been announced. 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Kath Middleton talks about genre and genre mashups. 
• Shaunta Grimes shares her system for reaching the end of the draft. 
• Seanan McGuire talks about the daily process of writing a novel.
• Scott D. Parker shares some writing lessons from pulp writer Frank Gruber. 
• Elizabeth Vaughan explains why she writes. 
• Chris Pavone talks about writing sequels and series. 
• Juliet Grames explains what writing a novel taught her about being an editor. 
• Mary E. Roach talks about how the demand for #ownvoices stories can cause agents or editors to ask intrusive questions of authors.
• Edward Trimnell talks about digital sharecropping and social media.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about a problematic rights grab paragraph in the Patreon Terms of Use.

Interviews:

• Joe Brosnan interviews Katherine Hall Page.
• Molly Odintz interviews Hallie Rubenfold.
• Camille LeBlanc interviews Casey Cep.
• Jacqueline Sheehan interviews Lee Child and Paul Doiron.
• Barbara DeMarco-Barrett interviews Gary Phillips.
• Ayo Onatade interviews Andrew Taylor.
• The Real Book Spy interviews Michael Houtz.
  

Reviews:

• No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews The Invited by Jennifer McMahon.
• Sandra Mangan reviews The Dare by Carol Wyer.
• Sandra Mangan reviews Hunting Evil by Chris Carter.
• Allison Brennan reviews The Lovely and the Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes.
• The Nerdy Book Fairy reviews One Small Sacrifice by Hilary Davidson. 
• Kristin Centorcelli reviews I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney. 
• Crime by the Book reviews I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Below the Fold by R.G. Belsky. 
• BOLO Books reviews The Last Time I Saw You by Liv Constantine.
• A Bookish Type reviews Stone Mothers by Erin Kelly. 
• John Valeri reviews Strong As Steel by Jon Land.
• Mystery People reviews Night Watch by David C. Taylor. 
• Kirkus reviews The Woman in the Blue Cloak by Deon Meyer, translated by K.L. Seegers.
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia reviews Flowers Over the Inferno by Ilaria Tuti, translated by Ekin Oklap.
• The Real Book Spy reviews Backlash by Brad Thor. 
• Men Reading Books reviews Like Lions by Brian Panowich. 
• Janet Webb reviews The Body in the Wake by Katherine Hall Page. 
• Debbie Haupt reviews Death of a New American by Mariah Fredericks. 
• Eleanor Kuhns reviews The Assassin of Verona by Benet Brandreth. 
• Grab This Book reviews Rocco and the Prince of Lies by Adrian Magson.
• Melinda Bargreen reviews Tightrope by Amanda Quick. 
• Nicola Mira reviews The Mongolian Conspiracy by Rafael Bernal. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Spring Cleaning by Antonio Manzini. 
• Robin Agnew reviews The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths.
• Robin Agnew reviews Death Waits in the Dark by Julia Buckley.
• Amber Keller reviews Antiques Ravin' by Barbara Allan. 
• Mystery Tribune reviews Antiques Ravin' by Barbara Allan.
• Mark Rose reviews Antiques Ravin' by Barbara Allan. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Knit One, Die Two by Peggy Ehrhart and tries a recipe from the book.
• Robert Davis reviews The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold.
  

Classics reviews:

• Only Detect revisits the 1935 suspense novel The Grindley Nightmare by Quentin Patrick.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1941 Hercule Poirot mystery Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie.
• B.V. Lawson revisits Suddenly at His Residence, a 1947 Inspector Cockrill mystery by Christianna Brand.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1956 noir novel Wild Wives by Charles Willeford.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1961 heist novel Scratch a Thief by John Trinian a.k.a. Zekial Marko a.k.a. Marvin Leroy Schmoker. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1972 crime novel Domino Island by Desmond Bagley. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1973 revenge novel The Scarred Man by Basil Heatter.
• Joe Kenney revisits Beirut Incident, a 1974 novel in the Nick Carter: Killmaster men's adventure series by Forrest V. Perrin. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits Ice Cold Kill, a 1984 novel in The Executioner men's adventure series by Don Pendleton a.k.a. Peter Leslie.  
• Paperback Warrior revisits Saigon Slaughter, a 1987 novel in the Stone: M.I.A. Hunter men's adventure series by Jack Buchanan a.k.a. Joe R. Lansdale and Stephen Mertz.
• Sam Jordison revisits the 1995 crime novel American Tabloid by James Ellroy.
  

Con and event reports:

• The Quiet Geordie reports about the Newcastle Noir festival in Newcastle, UK, in a three part post and shares several photos. 
• Mike Kelly reports about Newcastle Noir.
• Louise Fairbairn reports about Newcastle Noir.
• Crime Cymru reports about the Crime Cymru panel at Newcastle Noir.
• Cathy Ace and Elizabeth J. Duncan share their experiences at Malice Domestic in Bethesda, Maryland.
• Ali Karim reports about the launch party for the Black Thorn crime fiction imprint in London, UK, and shares several photos.
• Ayo Onatade reports that the Capital Crime Festival in London, UK, has announced more guests.
• J. Drew Brumbaugh reports about his book tour for Bula Bridge in Ashtabula County, Ohio.
• Heloise Wood reports that the Fun Lovin' Crime Writers, a band of consisting solely of crime fiction writers with lead singer Val McDermid, will perform at the Glastonbury Festival in Glastonbury, UK.
  

Research:

• Howie Kahn talks about the real lives of private investigators.
• R.G. Belsky talks about visiting the sites of several infamous crimes. 
• Richard Cooke traces the case of a border patrol agent in Laredo, Texas, who was a serial killer.
• Ritu Prasad reports that wealthy people convicted of crimes in the US hire so-called "prison consultants".
• Yassin Mohammed explains how art helped him survive four years in an Egyptian prison.
• Douglas Preston shares how the search for a childhood friend led him to a murder case.
• Kylie Logan talks about human remains detection dogs. 
• Mick Finlay discusses the unusual crimes of Victorian England.
• Lawrence Goldstone discusses the conspiracy behind the assassination of US-President William McKinley.
• Steve Powell recounts the story of Hollywood producer and conman Sam Stiefel.
• Helier Cheung reports about the Anna Sorokin case and asks why people are so fascinated by conmen and fraudsters.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Stupid Is As Stupid Does" by Karen Cantwell in Flash Bang Mystery.
• "Hollow Love" by Paul Matts in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Drivin' with Mr. D." by Richard Wall in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "There" by Robert Ragan in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Trimmigrant Song" by Angel Luis Colón in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Blood on the Crub, Part 1" by Nick Swain in Crimson Streets.
• "The Blind" by Russell Thayer in Tough.
• "Big Bird" by Zachary Loewenstein in Mystery Tribune.
• "Waterbirds" by G.V. Anderson in Lightspeed.
• "Tea and Treachery" by Cora Buhlert.
• "Mother" by Sanjeev Sethi in The Five-Two.
  

Odds and ends:

• Watch a trailer for City on a Hill.
• Watch a trailer for Watchmen.