Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 6, 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 a controversy about the Staunch Prize for thrillers without violence against women, the continuing woes of the upcoming 25th James Bond movie, Escape Plan 3, women in suspense, Indian crime drama, an uproar at Edinburgh Book Festival, the 2019 Bodies from the Library conference and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares thirteen new crime novels to read this July. 
• Top Reddit Books shares the top fifty most discussed crime books on Reddit. 
• Kimberly Belle explains why women are dominating the suspense genre these days. 
• Nina Laurin discusses the popularity of thrillers with the word "girl" in the title. 
• Araminta Hall explains why most great thrillers are really about obsessive and destructive love and shares some examples. 
• Emily Liebert shares seven thrillers that explore relationships between women that aren't always perfect.
• Laura L. Sullivan explains why poison is traditionally considered a woman's weapon and why poisoners are so despised. 
• Caz Frear shares six crime novels that capture the essence of London.
• Paul French talks about crime fiction set in Dubai.
• Riley Sager shares the most terrifying buildings in literature.  
• David Nemeth hosts a roundtable on indie and small press crime fiction.
• Camille Leblanc takes a look at classic mysteries which have just entered the public domain.
• Dwyer Murphy shares his favourite quotes by James M. Cain.
• Jake Rossen shares ten little known facts about the mystery boardgame Clue, which celebrates its seventieth anniversary.
• Justine Jordan reports how Enid Blyton's Mallory Towers series has been updated for modern times.
  

Comments on the Staunch Prize controversy:

• Alison Flood reports that British crime fiction writers have reacted with fury to insinuations by the organisers of the Staunch Prize for thrillers without violence against women that crime novels may hinder prosecutions of rape cases by biassing jurors.
• Katie Welsh responds to the allegations of the Staunch Prize organisers and points out that she cannot write about a world without rape, because she does not live in a world without rape.
  

Film and TV:

• Joel Golby declares that Murder Mystery is very mediocre and not even funny and wonders why it became one of the most watched Netflix productions of all time.
• David Gordon shares the best crime movies set in New York City.
• Akanksha Singh talks about Bollywood Noir and the recent popularity of Indian crime dramas.
• Wendy Ide calls Article 15 a no holds barred Indian crime thriller.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on season 2 of Absentia.
• 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.
• Peter Bradshaw declares that the 1973 thriller Don't Look Now is still scary 46 years later.
• Adam White reports that actor Rami Malek refused to play an Arab terrorist in the upcoming 25th James Bond film. 
• The Guardian wonders if the upcoming 25th James Bond film is the most cursed production of all time.
• Mark Sweeney wonders whether the lackluster summer box office is a sign of Hollywood franchise fatigue.
• British actor Bryan Marshall, best known for his part in the gangster film The Long Good Friday, has died aged 81.
  

Comments on Escape Plan 3: 

• Lesley Felperin declares that Escape Plan 3 offers yet more macho mayhem, but dilutes what made the first two movies somewhat interesting. 
• Andrew Gaudion calls Escape Plan 3 a run of the mill action thriller that feels even cheaper than the previous installment.
• Steve Huff reports that Sylvester Stallone has called the previous installment in the series Escape Plan 2 the worst movie he ever made.
  

Awards:

• Aoife Clifford shares a brief history of the Ned Kelly Awards.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Stacy Bowditch explains how freewriting can help you beat writer's block. 
• Brandon Sanderson explains what to do when you are unsatisfied with your own writing.
• Elizabeth Bear talks about narrative focus.
• Leslie Scase explains why he set his latest novel in Pontypridd, Wales.
• Alison Layland explains why she chose to write about environmental issues in her latest mystery.
• Jason Sanford asks if library e-book lending hurts sales.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about the licensing business and the implications for writers.
  

Interviews:

• Mark Rubinstein interviews Lee Child. 
• Ed Brubaker and Megan Abbott interview each other.
• Mystery People interviews Denise Mina.
• Erica Ruth Neubauer interviews Tim Hennessy.
• Sandra Mangan interviews M.W. Craven.
• Rachel Cooke interviews Sanam Maher.
  

Reviews:

• Doreen Sheridan reviews Big Sky by Kate Atkinson.
• Kristin Centorcelli reviews Wherever She Goes by Kelley Armstrong.  
• Angie Barry reviews Milady by Laura L. Sullivan.
  
• Eleanor Kuhns reviews Paper Son by S.J. Rozan.
  
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Shameless by Ace Atkins.
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Chain by Adrian McKinty.
• For Winter Nights reviews Black Summer by M,W. Craven. 
• Kate Vane reviews The Sleepwalker by Joseph Knox.
  
• The Real Book Spy reviews This Side of Night by J. Scott Todd. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews The New Girl by Daniel Silva.
• John Valeri reviews Girl in the Rearview Mirror by Kelsey Rae Dimberg. 
• Michelle Carpenter reviews Last Summer by Kerry Lonsdale.
• Sarah Moss reviews The Body Lies by Jo Baker.
• Shelly Fallows reviews One Way Out by A.A. Dhand. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews Red Metal by Mark Greaney and H. Ripley Rawlings IV. 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Swann's Down by Charles Salzberg.
• For Winter Nights reviews The Gameshouse by Claire North.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Guilty as Charred by Devon Delaney and tries a recipe from the book.
• Richard Z. Santos reviews Growing Things by Paul Tremblay.
• Liz Bourke reviews The Hound of Justice by Claire O'Dell. 
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Point of Knives by Melissa Scott. 

Classics reviews:

• Martin Edwards revisits the 1930 thriller It Walks By Night, the debut novel of John Dickson Carr.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1947 mystery Tall, Dark and Dead by Kermit Jaediker. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1949 mystery Crooked House by Agatha Christie.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1959 hardboiled novel McHugh by Jay Flynn.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1961 crime novel Vice Cop by Richard Deming.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1961 mystery She Shall Die by Anthony Gilbert. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1963 mystery Death of a Busybody by Dell Shannon. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1966 suspense novel Stalemate by Evelyn Berckman.
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1972 crime novel A Piece of Something Big by Harry Reed. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits Funeral Rites, a 1974 novel in the Stark a.k.a. The Revenger men's adventure series by Joseph Hedges.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1975 terrorism thriller Target Manhattan by Drew Mallory a.k.a. Brian Garfield.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1988 historical mystery Perfect Gallows by Peter Dickinson.
  

Con and event reports:

• Crossexamining Crime reports about the 2019 Bodies From the Library Conference at the British Library in London, UK. 
• Martin Edwards shares his experiences at the 2019 Bodies From the Library conference.
• Tim Cornwell declares that the Edinburgh Book Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, focusses too much on crime fiction and not enough on proper literature. 
• Live and Deadly responds to the criticisms of the Edinburgh Book Festival and offers up a passionate defence of crime fiction.
• Robert Deis reports about his presentation about men's adventure magazines at Pulpfest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  

Research:

• Maureen Callahan reports about the hunt for serial killer Israel Keyes.
• Radley Balko asks how to fix forensics.
• Paul Burston recounts how a stalker brought him to his wits' end.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Dark Doings in Sedona" by Jeffery Scott Sims in Crimson Streets. 
• "Not Like Other People" by Matthew C. Funk in Flash Fiction Offensive. 
• "The Mistress" by Nikki Dolson in Tough.
• "Old Bones" by Joseph S. Pete in Shotgun Honey.
• "The Bear" by Gareth Spark in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Patriotic Gestures" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
• "America" by Thom Young in The Five-Two.
  

Odds and ends:

• Watch a trailer for Knives Out.
• Watch a trailer for The Informer.