Crime Fiction Links of the Week for May 18, 2019
Crime fiction in general:
- Laura Wilson offers a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
- Crime Reads shares the most anticipated crime novels and thrillers of summer 2019.
- Crime Reads shares the best international crime fiction for May 2019.
- The Times of India shares the best crime novels to read this year.
- Alison Flood lists the fifty greatest thrillers by women authors.
- Sam Kates shares his favourite thrillers.
- Sean Carswell talks about James M. Cain, the femme fatale and the male gaze.
- Tobias Carroll shares his appreciation for crime fiction and western author Oakley Hall.
- Casey Cep traces the history of Harper Lee's attempt at writing true crime.
- Casey Cep talks about the work partnership of Harper Lee and Truman Capote and their contribution to the true crime genre.
- Daniel Smith discusses the real life influences behind the creation of Sherlock Holmes.
- Nathan Ward talks about the dangers of western dime novels and explains that they were the first true crime genre.
- Michael Koryta talks about claustrophobic noir.
- Meghan Holloway discusses the nuances of war thrillers.
- S.R. Masters shares seven thrillers about troubled friendships.
- Various thriller authors share the most memorable bad dates in literature.
- Jeff Somers lists ten very strange detective protagonists from science fiction and fantasy crime novels.
- Alison
Flood reports that several romance writers have pledged to address the
subject of abortion in their novels following Alabama's new abortion ban
law.
- Dave Richards shares his appreciation for the hardboiled comic series Spencer & Locke by David Pepose and Jorge Santiago Jr.
- Michael Gonzales shares his appreciation for the art of Jim Steranko.
- Author Herman Wouk has died aged 103.
- Carmel Dagan remembers Herman Wouk.
Film and TV:
- Lucy Mangan calls 15 Days a deeply satisfying Welsh farmhouse mystery.
- Gwilym Mumford calls Arctic a gripping survival tale.
- Benjamin Lee calls The Intruder a silly and fun thriller.
- Phil Hoad calls My Days of Mercy a death penalty drama with added romance.
- Mike McCahill calls The Corrupted a pulpy gangland drama.
- Adrian Horton calls Catch-22 a dizzying, daring triumph for director George Clooney.
- Erik Adams feels that Catch-22 turns down the satire.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Les Misérables a savvy cop drama that turns into molotow cocktail mayhem halfway through.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Birds of Passage a poetic and shocking drama about drug trafficking.
- Paul Levinson declares that the disaster docudrama Chernobyl feels like a horror movie, but is made all the more horrible by the fact that everything depicted really happened.
- Danette Chavez says that the new TV crime series L.A.'s Finest is characterised by mediocre action and skimpy plotting.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Enemy Within.
- Vikram Murthi shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Barry.
- LaToya Ferguson shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1961 crime movie The Third Alibi.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1971 crime movie The Anderson Tapes.
- Molly Odintz shares the twenty best speeches in the history of crime cinema.
- Nellie Andreeva reports that actress Sela Ward will be leaving FBI.
- Nellie Andreeva also reports that Steven Spielberg and Amblin TV have pulled out of the legal drama Bull following sexual harrassment allegations against star Michael Weatherly.
- Actor Isaac Kappy, who appeared in Thor, Terminator Salvation and Breaking Bad has died aged 42.
- Actress Peggy Lipton, best known for her roles in The Mod Squad and Twin Peaks, has died aged 72.
- Actress Doris Day, best known for her parts in The Man Who Knew Too Much and Midnight Lace, has died aged 97.
- Internet phenomenon Grumpy Cat has died aged 7.
Comments on season 2 of Killing Eve:
- Lisa Weidenfeld shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Killing Eve.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Killing Eve.
Comments on John Wick 3: Parabellum:
- Brandon Zachary calls John Wick 3: Parabellum a delightfully over-the-top dance of death.
- Peter Travers calls John Wick 3: Parabellum bloodier and more brutal than ever.
- Cath Clarke declares that John Wick 3: Parabellum is as violent as always, but also suffering from franchise bloat.
- Brendan Burres talks about John Wick and the undying appeal of the revenge thriller.
- Chris O'Falt interviews Chad Stahelski, director of John Wick 3: Parabellum.
Comments on Trial By Fire:
- Benjamin Lee calls Trial By Fire a somewhat old-fashioned death row drama that pulses with anger.
- Mike D'Angelo declares that Trial By Fire turns a compelling real life tragedy into just another true crime docudrama.
Comments on Charlie Says:
- Joe Bendel shares his thoughts on Charlie Says.
- Burhan Wazir wonders why there are so many movies (three this year alone) about Charles Manson, his "family" and the murders they committed.
- Hugh Montgomery wonders why movies are so obsessed with sexy psychopaths like Ted Bundy or Charles Manson.
Comments on season 4 of Lucifer:
- LaToya Ferguson offers episode by episode reviews of season 4 of Lucifer.
- The Geekiary points out that season 4 of Lucifer is emotionally intense.
- Narayan Liu asks how much violence and nudity really add to Lucifer.
- Christina Radish interviews Tom Ellis who plays Lucifer Morningstar in Lucifer.
Comments on season 6 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D:
- Alan Brown shares his thoughts on "Missing Pieces", the season 6 premiere of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Kate Kulzick shares her thoughts on "Missing Pieces".
Comments on Detective Pikachu:
- Joshua Yehl calls Detective Pikachu super effective.
- Emily Asher Perrin declares that Detective Pikachu is this generation's Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
- Ali Plumb enjoyed Detective Pikachu a whole lot, even though the movie makes no sense.
- Brian Ashcraft reports that amazingly, Detective Pikachu is a good movie.
- Brian Ashcraft also discusses how Hollywood did not screw up Detective Pikachu.
- Vincent Acovino declares that enjoyment of Detective Pikachu largely depends on one's familiarity with the Pokémon franchise.
- Anthony Gramuglia explains how Detective Pikachu and the much maligned Sonic the Hedgehog trailer show why Pokémon endures, while Sonic has faded.
- Jon Del Arroz notes a resemblance between a villain in Detective Pikachu and far right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and smells a cospiracy.
- Mike Bloom interviews Rob Letterman, director of Detective Pikachu.
- Baraka Kaseko and Marah Eakin interview Justice Smith and Kathryn Newton, human stars of Detective Pikachu.
- Inspired by Detective Pikachu, Clara Mae asks why there are so few good movies based on videogames.
- Chris Godfrey explains how Pokémon became the highest grossing media franchise of all time.
- Borys Kit report that a Detective Pikachu sequel is already in the works.
Awards:
- The nominees for the 2019 Anthony Awards have been announced.
- The longlist for the 2019 CWA Dagger Awards has been announced.
- The winners of the various crime fiction awards presented at CrimeFest in Bristol, UK, have been announced.
- The nominees for the 2019 Strand Critics Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2019 British Book Awards have been announced.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Danielle Steel explaims to Samantha Leach how she manages to be so prolific.
- Michael Blumlein explains how he researched the biological and medical aspects of his fiction.
- Chuck Wendig declares that reviewers really shouldn't tag authors in their negative reviews.
Interviews:
- Sandra Mangan interviews Chris Carter.
- Ayo Onatade interviews Sarah Hilary.
- Victoria Goldman interviews Fiona Erskine.
Reviews:
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames.
- Gabino Iglesias reviews Flowers Over the Inferno by Ilaria Tuti.
- For Winter Nights reviews Valley of Death by Scott Mariani.
- Kate Vane reviews Worst Case Scenario by Helen FitzGerald.
- Janet Webb reviews Pray for the Girl by Joseph Souza.
- Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews The Ringmaster by Vanda Symon.
- For Winter Nights reviews No One Home by Tim Weaver.
- Sarah Ditum reviews Cari Mora by Thomas Harris.
- Ali Karim reviews Cari Mora by Thomas Harris.
- Lost in the Land of Books reviews Turbulent Wake by Paul E. Hardisty.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Turbulent Wake by Paul E. Hardisty.
- Victoria Goldman reviews Breakers by Doug Johnstone.
- Catherine Turnbull reviews Indian Summer by Sara Sheridan.
- Garrick Webster reviews Metropolis by Philip Kerr.
- Brian Bandell reviews The Kremlin Strike by Dale Brown.
- The Real Book Spy reviews Rules of War by Matthew Betley.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews No Way by Simon Morden.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews A Time for Violence: Stories with an Edge, edited by Andy Rausch and Chris Roy.
- Betty Webb reviews Take-Out: And Other Tales of Culinary Crime by Rob Hart.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews An Appetite for Murder by Lucy Burdette and tries a recipe from the book.
- John Valeri reviews Bitter Brew by G.A. McKevett.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Flip Back by Andrew Cartmel.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Strange Tombs by Syd Moore.
- Jonathan Steele reviews An Impeccable Spy by Owen Matthews.
Classics reviews:
- Elgin Bleeker revisits the 1915 spy thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan and Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film version.
- Beneath the Stains of Time revisits the 1943 children's mystery The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage by Enid Blyton.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1945 mystery The Iron Gates by Margaret Millar.
- Janet Webb revisits the 1951 mystery Duplicate Death by Georgette Heyer.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1954 science fiction mystery The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1955 hardboiled crime novel I See Red by Sterling Noel.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1963 crime novel She'll Hate Me Tomorrow by Richard Deming.
- Paperback Warrior revisits Kill Quick Or Die, a 1970 novel in The Butcher men's adventure series by Stuart Jason a.k.a. James Dockery.
- Larry Clow revisits the racetrack mystery Forfeit by Dick Francis, winner of the 1970 Edgar Award.
- Abby Endler revisits the 1968 Swedish crime thriller The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, winner of the 1971 Edgar Award.
- Pritpaul Bans revisits the thriller The Day of the Jackal by Frderick Forsyth, winner of the 1972 Edgar Award.
- Ellison Cooper revisits the thriller The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer, winner of the 1973 Edgar Award.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1973 crime thriller Chase by Norman Daniels.
- Joe Kenney revisits The Red Horse Caper, a 1975 novel in the Renegade Roe men's adventure series by L.V. Roper.
- Paperback Warrior revisits Ambush at Derati Wells, a 1977 novel in the Soldier of Fortune men's adventure series by Peter McCurtin a.k.a. Ralph Hayes.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1983 crime thriller The Name of Annabel Lee by Julian Symons.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1988 crime thriller The Accident of Robert Luman by David Fletcher.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1993 mystery A Bleeding of Innocents by Jo Bannister.
- Sam Jordison revisits the 1995 crime novel American Tabloid by James Ellroy.
Crowdfunding:
Con and event reports:
- Katie Mansfield reports that Martina Cole has praised the diverse line-up of the Capital Crime Festival in London, UK.
- Ayo Onatade reports that Capital Crime will also launch a digital festival.
- Ayo Onatade reports that there will be a library conference attached to the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire, UK.
- Ali Karim shares some photos of CrimeFest in Bristol, UK, and talks about his appreciation for the works of Thomas Harris.
- Ali Karim reports about the launch event for Cari Mora by Thomas Harris in London, UK, and shares several photos.
- Ali Karim reports about the launch of the Black Thorn crime fiction imprint in London, UK, and shares some photos.
- Ali Karim looks ahead at the 2021 Bouchercon in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he will be one of the guests of honour.
- J. Kingston Pierce reports about taking the "Champion Challenge" at the Independent Bookstore Day in Seattle, Washington, and shares some photos.
Research:
- Lilly Dancyger explains what true crime documentaries and podcasts feel like for the families of murder victims.
- Wendy Walker reveals how a few bad dates inspired her latest thriller.
- Matt Johnson talks about human trafficking and modern slavery.
Free online fiction:
- "Conversation with the Murderer" by Heidi Hunter in Flash Bang Mystery.
- "Darker Than Dark" by Mark Joseph Kevlock in Yellow Mama.
- "The Errand" by Mason Anaya in Shotgun Honey.
- "Picture Perfect" by James Blakey in Crimson Streets.
- "Nick Break" by M.L. Joy in Tough.
- "Why I don't remember my Aunt Letty" by E.F. Fluff in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "The Young Shall See Visions and the Old Dream Dreams" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- "Cornelia Gale" by Juleigh Howard-Hobson in The Five-Two.
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