Crime Fiction Links of the Week for June 22, 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 3 of Jessica Jones, Too Old to Die Young, When They See Us, Chernobyl and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Amazon shares the best mysteries and thrillers of 2019 so far. 
• The Real Book Spy shares his favourite thrillers of 2019 so far.
• Alison Flood shares a round-up of the best recent thrillers.
• Declan Hughes offers a round-up of recent crime fiction releases. 
• Ryan Steck shares the best political thrillers for June.
• Crime Reads shares the best debut crime novels and thrillers for June. 
• Crime Reads shares the best true crime books for June. 
• Lisa Levy shares seven excellent second crime novels by women writers.
• Rene Denfeld and Gilly MacMillan discuss the role of women in crime fiction.
• Jo Baker talks about the difficulties of writing violence against women in the age of #MeToo.
• Kelsey Rae Dimberg points out that noir is alive and well and as powerful as ever. 
• Lisa Levy takes a look at art world noir. 
• Paul French explores the crime fiction of Algiers. 
• Ben Boulden takes a look at mysteries set in circuses.
• Louise Candlish takes a look at crime novels and thrillers about bad neighbours. 
• Ellen Lacorte shares eight thrillers about those who are not what they seem.
• Nina Laurin shares her five favourite books about stalkers.
• Barbara Bourland takes a look at class conscious crime novels.
• Alexis Hall wonders whether Sherlock Holmes has more in common with the American hardboiled detective than with the traditional British puzzle mystery. 
• David Bruns explains how Tom Clancy changed his life. 
• Sonja van der Westhuizen shares the five books that got her hooked on crime fiction.
• Curtis Evans attempts to uncover the identity of the crime fiction author who wrote under the names Q. Patrick, Patrick Quentin and Jonathan Stagge. 
• Leo Benedictus talks about the so-called "cancel culture" in YA fiction and why it has become so vicious. 
• Rosemary Jenksinon explains why she prefers short stories to novels.
• Scott Simon reports about a conflict between the city of New York and the famous Strand Bookstore over the latter's status as a designated landmark.
  
• ANSA reports that Italian crime fiction writer Andrea Camillieri, creator of Commisario Montalbano, is in hospital in critical condition following a heart attack.
  

Film and TV:

• Sandra Mangan shares ten crime shows that time forgot. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the second and third episode of season 5 of Luther. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on City on a Hill.
• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky calls the spy thriller Anna a bland and trashy descent into self-parody.
• Peter Bradshaw calls The Captor a sexy true crime melodrrama. 
• William Hughes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Archer.  
• Shilpa Ganatra talks about Killing Eve and the allure of the rehabilitated villain.
• Edward Helmore explains why there are so much fewer sex scenes in Hollywood movies these days. 
• Stuart Heritage wonders why Netflix is cancelling so many shows of late.  
• Catherine Shoard reports that Murder Mystery has broken Netflix's viewer record. 
• Benjamin Lee wonders why movie stars no longer seem to be a draw at the box office, but do drive up Netflix download numbers.  
• Tyler Malone talks about John Wayne, cancel culture and the art of problematic artists.
• Tim Pelan looks back on the 1990 thriller movie The Hunt for Red October.
• Marjorie M. Liu shares her appreciation for Keanu Reeves and the many roles he played. 
• Chris Wiegand interviews Indira Varma who appeared in Game of Thrones, Torchwood and Luther.  
• Rory Tingle reports that actor Michael Palin, best known for his role in the Monty Python sketches, has been knighted.
• Amy Zimmerman reports that eight women accuse filmmaker Max Landis, best known for Bright, of sexual, physical and emotional abuse.
• Kate Erbland declares that Hollywood should have dropped Max Landis years ago, given his track record.
• Stuart Heritage shares some photos of Prince Charles visiting the set of the upcoming James Bond film at the Pinewood Studios.
• J. Kingston Pierce takes a look at the iconic poster art for the 1974 classic crime movie Chinatown.
  

Comments on season 3 of Jessica Jones:

• Graeme Virtue shares his thoughts on season 3 of Jessica Jones and bids farewell to the Marvel Netflix shows. 
• Dave Richards also shares his thoughts on season 3 of Jessica Jones and looks back on the Marvel Netflix shows.  
• Charles Pulliam-Moore declares that season 3 of Jessica Jones feels a little too familiar and is not a fitting swan song for the Marvel Netflix shows and their mini-universe.  
• Caroline Siede offers episode by episode reviews of season 3 of Jessica Jones. 
• Christina Radish interviews Krysten Ritter, star of Jessica Jones.
• Charles Pulliam-Moore interviews Carrie Ann Moss who plays Jeri Hogarth in Jessica Jones.
• Tyler Hersko interviews Melissa Rosenberg, showrunner of Jessica Jones.
• Abraham Riesman wonders what went wrong with the Marvel Netflix shows.
• Joshua Rivera ranks every season of the Marvel Netflix shows.
  

Comments on Too Old to Die Young:

• Peter Bradshaw calls Too Old to Die Young a dead-eyed Los Angeles noir nightmare.  
• Guy Lodge calls Too Old to Die Young a striking noir series, but complains that it is too long and too indulgent.
  

Comments on Chernobyl: 

• Renaldo Matadeen declares that Chernobyl isn't just a historical disaster drama, but straight up horror.
• British reporter Kim Wilsher, who reported about the disaster in the 1980s, declares that the truth about Chernobyl is much worse than what the already grim TV series depicts. 
• Rebecca Nicholson wonders why depressing series like Chernobyl and When They See Us are so popular.
• Renaldo Matadeen is bothered by the lack of Russian accents in Chernobyl.
• Tom Skipp shares some photos of Chernobyl and Pripyat today.
• Zack Sharf reports that tourism in Pripyat has spiked by forty percent due to Chernobyl.
  

Comments on When They See Us:

• Alissa Wilkinson declares that When They See Us uses a thirty-year-old true crime case to damn the present.
• Sarah Weinman declares that there is much more to Linda Fairstein's story than what is portrayed in When They See Us.
• Anne Gray Fisher shares some other issues with Linda Fairstein's time as a district attorney in New York City prosecuting sex crimes.
• Murray Richman weighs in on the attacks on Linda Fairstein in the wake of When They See Us.
  

Awards:

• The finalists of the 2019 Dead Good Reader Awards have been announced and voting is open. 
• The winners of the 2018 Foreword INDIES Awards in the mystery and thriller categories have been announced.
• The winners of the 2019 Maine Literary Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2019 MTV Movie and TV Awards have been announced with some love for genre works. 
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Florence Wetzel explains how she came to Sweden to research her thriller The Grand Man.
• Ken Miyamato shares 31 must-read screenwriting tips from Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone.  
• Tessa Palmer shares eight writing tips by Kurt Vonnegut. 
• Elizabeth Bear talks about professional jealousy and how to deal with people who've done you harm being successful. 
• Lauren Sapala talks about Jungian types, neuroscience and writers. 
• Alison Flood discusses the plight of the midlist author. 
• Edward Trimnell laments the ossification of indie publishing. 
• Marko Kloos explains why he is leaving social media.
  

Interviews:

• Lisa Allardice interviews Kate Atkinson.
• Martin Doyle interviews Mick Herron.
• Ayo Onatade interviews Mick Herron. 
• Simon Horsford interviews Mick Herron.
• The Guardian interviews Harlan Coben.
• Rachel Sugar interviews Anna Pitoniak.
• John Valeri interviews Joseph Reid.
• Michael Seidlinger interviews Nicholas Mancusi. 
• The Daily Mail interviews Simon Kernish.
• Sian Cein interviews Carl Cattermole who wrote a prison survival guide.
  

Reviews:

• BOLO Books reviews Gone Too Long by Lori Roy.
• Publishers Weekly reviews Beyond All Reasonable Doubt by Malin Persson Giolito, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles. 
• Mike Parker reviews Pity the Dead by Keith Nixon.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Good Sister by Gillian McAllister.
• Kirkus reviews Necessary People by Anna Pitoniak. 
• Craig Sisterson reviews The Chain by Adrian McKinty.
• Ray Palen reviews Dark Site by Patrick Lee. 
• Rob Kitchin reviews London Rules by Mick Herron. 
• Anthony Cummins reviews This Storm by James Ellroy. 
• Kevin Tipple reviews Charlie-316 by Colin Conway and Frank Zafiro.
• Kirkus reviews The Policewomen's Bureau by Edward Conlon.
• Judith Reveal reviews The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason. 
• Janet Webb reviews The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason. 
• Amber Keller reviews The Disappearance by Alistair Ainsworth by Leonard Goldberg,
• Jeff Somers reviews The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall.  
• Kirkus reviews Just One Bite by Jack Heath.
• Bethanne Patrick reviews The Sentence Is Death by Anthony Horowitz.
• Janet Webb reviews The Liar in the Library by Simon Brett.
• Kirkus reviews The Body in the Castle Well by Martin Walker. 
• Gayle Surrette reviews A Plain Vanilla Murder by Susan Wittig Albert. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Flipped for Murder by Maddie Day and tries a recipe from the book.  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Milwaukee Noir, edited by Tim Hennessy.
• Michael Shaub reviews Norco '80 by Peter Houlahan.
• Larry Clow reviews City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands by Dan Werb.
  

Classics reviews:

• Beneath the Stains of Time revisits the 1932 locked room mystery Damning Trifles by Maurice C. Johnson.
• Aubrey Hamilton revisits the 1934 detective novel The Cat Screams by Todd Downing. 
• J.F. Norris revisits the 1934 mystery The Sealed Room Murder by Michael Crombie. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1935 mystery Obelists Fly High by C. Daly King.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1936 Hercule Poirot mystery Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie.
• Olman Feelyus revisits the 1946 spy novel Horizon by Helen MacInnes. 
• James Reasoner revisits the 1947 detective novel Tall, Dark and Dead by Kermit Jaediker. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1950 Dr. Basil Willing mystery Through a Glass Darkly by Helen McCloy.
• Les Blatt revisits the 1953 mystery A Knife for Henry Dodd by George Bellairs. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1953 hardboiled crime novella Black Pudding by David Goodis.
• Steve Lewis revisits the 1954 noir novel Joy House by Day Keene.
• Joachim Boaz revisits the 1962 science fiction thriller Seconds by David Ely.   
• Brian Busby revisits the 1962 true crime book The Black Donnellys by Thomas P. Kelley.
• José Ignacio Escribano revisits the 1963 Hercule Poirot mystery The Clocks by Agatha Christie. 
• Steve Lewis revisits the 1965 detective novel The Dark Kiss by Douglas Enefer.
• José Ignacio Escribano revisits the 1968 mystery Maigret in Vichy by Georges Simenon, translated by Ros Schwartz.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1972 suspense novel Appointment with Yesterday by Celia Fremlin. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits The Libyan Contract, a 1974 novel in the Secret Mission men's adventure series by Don Smith.
• Paperback Warrior revisits Washington DC: This Gun for Justice, a 1976 novel in The Vigilante men's adventure series by V.J. Santiago.
• Allison Brennan revisits the Spenser mystery Promised Land by Robert B. Parker, winner of the 1977 Edgar Award. 
• Doreen Sheridan revisits the spy thriller Catch Me: Kill Me by William H. Hallahan, winner of the 1978 Edgar Award.
• Joe Kenney revisits The Vile Village, a 1988 novel in The Last Ranger men's adventure series.
  

Con and event reports:

• Martin Edwards reports about the Slaughter in Southwold Crime Fiction Festival in Southwold, UK, and shares several photos.
• Martin Edwards reports about a performance of Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie in London, UK.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch reports about the Las Vegas Licensing Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Research:

• Susannah Stapleton reports about the exploits of Maud West, femlae private investigator in Edwardian London.
• Daniela Petrova talks about her experiences as an accidental private investigator. 
• J.J. Green reports that an estimated 10000 people living in Washington DC are spies.
• The BBC reports about a mysterious series of tourists dying in resorts in the Dominican Republic.
• Rosa Goldensohn and Reuven Blau report that the City of New York has emptied the women's solitary confinement unit at the Riker's Island prison after the death of 27-year-old Layleen Polanco. 
• David Hagerty shares his experiences working as a teacher in a prison. 
• Elena Saavedra Buckley reports about a funeral home in Colorado which illegally traded in corpses.
• Ryan Jacobs talks about the dark underworld of the truffle trade.
• Stephen Erickson reports about a bird smuggler caught at JFK airport in New York City.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Bad Luck Opal" by Joelle Lambert in Tough.
• "The Bench Warmers" by Ben Newell in Shotgun Honey.
• "What a Life is Worth" by Stephen Patrick in Crimson Streets.
• "Taco Truck" by Nick Kolakowski in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "October 24, 1996" by Fred Shrum III in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Nothing New Under the Sun" by Dan A Cardoza in The Five-Two.
  

Odds and ends:

• Watch a trailer for Point Blank.