Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 27, 2019
Crime fiction in general:
- T.M. Logan shares his top crime novels for summer.
- Megan Goldin shares her six favourite classic locked room mysteries.
- Owen Matthews shares his favourite Cold War thrillers.
- Crime Reads shares the best debut crime novels and thrillers for July.
- Crime Reads shares the best true crime books for July.
- Crime Reads shares the best international crime fiction for July.
- Daniel Nieh shares international thrillers for world travellers.
- David Bell shares some musings about the airport thriller.
- Maggie Gee talks about crime fiction in the time of Brexit.
- Norris Eppes talks about the rise of Southern rural noir.
- Kerry Lonsdale shares crime novels about overcoming self-doubt.
- Victoria Helen Stone shares eight crime novels full of family secrets.
- T. Marie Vandelly offers a primer on domestic horror.
- Lisa Levy shares the forays of popular crime fiction writers into other genres.
- David Masciotra remembers Gore Vidal's crime writing career as Edgar Box in the 1950s.
- Dwyer Murphy shares the ten greatest opening paragraphs by Raymond Chandler.
- Heloise Wood reports that the true crime book Mind Games by Paul Harrison has been withdrawn from sale, after some of Harrison's claims have been questioned.
Comments on Colm TóibÃn slamming crime fiction and thrillers:
- In an interview with Lisa O'Kelly, Irish writer Colm TóibÃn slams crime fiction and thrillers and all genre fiction (though he does apparently enjoy Agatha Christie).
- Martin Doyle shares the responses of several crime writers to Colm TóibÃn.
Film and TV:
- Rebecca Nicholson shares her thoughts on the Welsh crime drama Keeping Faith.
- Lucy Mangan calls I Am Nicola a rare and stunning TV drama about abusive relationships.
- Peter Bradshaw calls The Wedding Guest a thriller that runs out of fizz.
- Tom Breihan shares his thoughts on the prison thriller Avengement and the Korean thriller Furie.
- Sam Barsanti calls Pennyworth a surprisingly engaging spy show that neither needs the Batman connection nor does much with it.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of City on a Hill.
- Liz Shannon Miller shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- William Hughes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Archer.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido looks back at thirteen seasons of Marvel shows on Netflix.
- Otto Penzler revisits the 1973 crime movie Mean Streets.
- Jacob Hall ranks every James Bond villain to date.
- Michael Hogan interviews Adrian Dunbar, star of Line of Duty.
- Emma Brockes interviews Matthew Macfadyen, star of Spooks, Ripper Street and Succession.
- Steve Rose reports that film stunts are under scrutiny after a series of stunt accidents and deaths.
- Actor Jeremy Kemp, best known for playing Picard's brother in Star Trek: The Next Generation, a police officer in Z Cars and lots of Nazi generals, has died aged 84.
- Actor David Hedison, best known for his appearances in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and The Fly and as Felix Leiter in two James Bond movies, has died aged 92.
- Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, best known for Blade Runner, Ladyhawke and The Hitcher, died aged 75.
- Peter Bradshaw remembers Rutger Hauer.
- Adam Rogers remembers Rutger Hauer.
Comments on Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood:
- Charles Bramesco calls once Upon a Time... in Hollywood a movie about change and the end of an era.
- Katie Rife calls Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino's wistful midlife crisis movie.
- Karen Han calls Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino's sweetest movie.
- A.O. Scott shares his thoughts on Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.
- Katie Rife also shares the ending of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, for those who don't want to sit through the movie (spoilers, obviously).
- Rich Juzwiak declares that Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood doubles down on Tarantino's shittiness towards women.
- Roy Chacko declares that it's time to cancel Quentin Tarantino.
- Andrew Clifford responds to Roy Chacko and declares that violence against women is not one of Quentin Tarantino's vices.
- Michael Hainey interviews Quentin Tarantino, director of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood as well as stars Leonardo di Caprio and Brad Pitt.
- Ed Sanders wonders why pop culture is so fascinated with Charles Manson.
- Inspired by Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood Zach Vasquez shares his favourite crime and noir movies set in and around Hollywood.
Comments on season 4 of Veronica Mars:
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw offers a spoiler-free review of season 4 of Veronica Mars.
- LaToya Ferguson offers an episode by episode review of season 4 of Veronica Mars.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw explains why there is no swearing in Veronica Mars.
- Emily Temple shares fifteen books for Veronica Mars fans.
Comments on the final season of Orange Is the New Black:
- Rebecca Nicholson declares that the final season of Orange Is the New Black is back to its very best.
- Myles McNutt offers an episode by episode review of Orange Is the New Black.
- Arielle Bernstein explains how Orange Is the New Black changed female narratives.
- Eva Wiseman interviews Natasha Lyonne, star of Russian Doll and Orange is the New Black.
Comments on Pennyworth:
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Pennyworth a deliriously strange addition to the Batman franchise.
- Sam Barsanti calls Pennyworth a surprisingly engaging spy show that neither needs the Batman connection nor does much with it.
Comments on The Boys:
- Graeme Virtue calls The Boys an antidote to traditional superhero stories.
- Liz Shannon Miller declares that The Boys is fun, but doesn't have a lot to say.
Awards:
- The winners of the 2019 Dead Good Reader Awards have been announced.
- The shortlist for the 2019 CWA Dagger Awards has been announced.
- The finalists for the 2019 Macavity Awards have been announced.
- The winner of the 2019 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction has been announced.
- The nominees for the Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards have been announced.
- The longlist for the 2019 Booker Prize has been announced with some love for genre fiction.
- The winners of the 2019 Scribe Awards have been announced.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Wendy Corsi Staub talks about the challenges of setting your crime novel in the not too distant past.
- Dan Sinykin explains how capitalism changed American literature.
- Patty Jansen points out that yes, you can make a living as an artist.
- Mary E. Pearson talks about researching cold war bunkers for her novel Vow of Thieves.
- Nick Setchfield talks about the inspirations behind The Spider Dance.
- Laura Lippman talks about the inspiration for her novel The Lady in the Lake.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about making an inventory of your works and doing triage on what to focus on.
- J.D. Lasica shares six things indie authors should know about audiobooks.
Interviews:
- Joanne Kaufman interviews Kate Atkinson.
- Erin Keene interviews Laura Lippman.
- Molly Odintz interviews Cara Black.
- Weston Ochse interviews Jeremy Finlay.
- John Wisniewski interviews Beau Johnson.
- Criminal Element interviews John Glatt.
Reviews:
- Janet Webb reviews Second Sight by Aiofe Clifford.
- Meghan Harker reviews Pretty Revenge by Emily Liebert.
- Aminatta Forna reviews The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.
- For Winter Nights reviews The July Girls by Phoebe Locke.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews One Little Secret by Cate Holahan.
- For Winter Nights reviews Who Killed Ruby? by Camilla Way.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Over Your Shoulder by C.J. Carver.
- Blue Book Baloon reviews The Last Stage by Louise Voss.
- For Winter Nights reviews The Escape Room by Megan Goldin.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Purgatory by Guido Eekhaut.
- Raven Crime Reads reviews A Sinner's Prayer by M.P. Wright.
- Sarah Gilmartin reviews Call Him Mine by Tim MacGabhann.
- Sarah Gilmartin reviews Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland.
- Ray Palen reviews A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Knife by Jo Nesbo, translated by Neil Smith.
- Terrie Farley Moran reviews The Pawful Truth by Miranda James.
- Debbie Haupt reviews Murder Lo Mein by Vivien Chien.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Accidental Alchemist by Gigi Pandian and tries a recipe from the book.
- For Winter Nights reviews The Bear Pit by S.G. MacLean.
- Dirk Lochte reviews Neon Prey by John Sandford.
- Jenny Maloney reviews The Need by Helen Phillips.
- Gabino Iglesias reviews American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan.
- Colin Grant reviews The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness by Michelle Alexander.
Classics reviews:
- Crossexamining Crime revisits Unnatural Death, a 1927 Lord Peter Wimsey mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1950 suspense novel Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1956 Nero Wolfe mystery Might As Well Be Dead by Rex Stout.
- Paperback Warrior revisits The Handle a.ka. Run Lethal, a 1966 heist novel in the Parker series by Richard Stark a.k.a. Donald Westlake.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1969 men's adventure novel The Specialists by Lawrence Block.
- Paperback Warrior revisits The Girl in Gold, a 1970 Pete Selby mystery by Jonathan Craig a.k.a. Frank E. Smith.
- Joe Kenney revisits Moscow At High Noon Is The Target, a 1973 novel in the Hot Line men's adventure series by Paul Richard a.k.a. Chet Cunningham and Dan Streib.
- Paperback Warrior revisits The Big Payoff, a 1974 novel in the Super Cop Joe Blaze series by Robert Novak a.k.a. Nelson Demille.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1975 suspense novel The Long Shadow by Celia Fremlin.
- Paperback Warrior revisits The Great Pretender, a 1974 novel in the Decoy men's adventure series.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1977 mystery A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1978 crime novel Real Endings by Gene Duris.
- Hank Wagner revisits the 1979 historical thriller The War Heist a.k.a. MacTaggart's War.
- Stephen Erickson revisits Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer, winner of the 1983 Edgar Awrd for Best Novel.
- Ashley Dyer revisits the 1988 seminal serial killer thriller The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris.
Con and event reports:
- Catherine Turnbull reports about the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and shares several photos.
- Sue Wilkinson reports about the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.
- Joe Brosnan reports about the launch event for the crime fiction anthology Invisible Blood at the Mysterious bookshop in New York City.
- Cheryl Eddy reports about the Nancy Drew panel at San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California.
- Cheryl Eddy reports about the Evil panel at San Diego Comic Con.
- Tor.com reports about the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. panel at San Diego Comic Con.
- Ayo Onatade shares a call for papers for a conference of Caribbean crime fiction at Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence, France.
Research:
- Cara Giaimo reports about the Mystery Man with 21 Faces, a Japanese gang who blackmailed candy companies and poisoned candy in the 1980s and was never caught.
- Cara Giaimo reports about the mysterious and still unsolved murder of Andy, the goose who wore baby shoes.
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia reports about prohibition era crossborder tourism to Mexico to buy alcohol and gamble in luxurious clubs.
- Rachel DeLoache Williams profiles con artist Anna Delvey.
- Jeff Maysh reports about Paul Gonzales, the so-called Dine and Dash Dater, and how he was caught.
Free online fiction:
- "The Struggle Is Real" by Beau Johnson in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Cosplayers Shouldn't Kill" by Patrick Whitehurst in Shotgun Honey.
- "Annie Works the Midnight Shift" by Steve Liskow in Tough.
- "The Kalamazoo Kid" by Stephen Shaiken in Crimson Streets.
- "Transatlantic Railroad" by Mary M. Burke in The Irish Times.
- "Remodeling" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- "Playgiarhythm" by Jim George in The Five-Two.
- "That bitter fire thing the dream makes you eat" by Gareth Spark in Punk Noir Magazine.
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