Crime Fiction Links of the Week for August 30, 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 St. Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend, the elements of suspense and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Greg Levin shares fifteen crime novels which are both funny and gritty.
• Louise Jensen shares four elements all suspense novels need. 
• Hank Philippi Ryan discusses the geometry of suspense. 
• Molly Odintz offers a brief history of campus thrillers and university noir.
• Edwin Hall shares five crime novels set on islands.  
• Edwin Hall takes a look at true crime books set in Boston through the decades.
• Scott Neuman reports that the Chinese born Australian spy fiction writer Yang Hengjun has been detained in China for alleged espionage.
  

Film and TV:

• Sandra Mangan reports about the British true crime series A Confession.
• Garrick Webster reports about the French crime series No Second Chance. 
• Garrick Webster reports about the French cop show Cain.
• Garrick Webster reports about the Danish crime series Darkness: Those Who Kill.
• Alex Taylor wonders whether it is possible to modernise James Bond.  
• Radha Vatsal celebrates Alfred Hitchcock's most iconic shots.
• Animator Richard Williams who worked on Who Framed Roger Rabbit? among others has died aged 86.
  

Awards:

• The shortlist for the 2019 Ned Kelly Awards has been announced.
• The winners of the 2019 Silver Falchion Awards have been announced.
• The winner of the 2019 Munsey Award has been announced. 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Janice Hardy talks about setting the right tone for your novel.
• Evan Ramzipoor talks about balancing writing and your day job.
• Timothy the Talking Cat shares his thoughts on writing. 
• Angela Slatter explains how to deal with rejection as a writer.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about time management for writers.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about licensing for writers and making decisions.
  

Interviews:

• Olivia Rutigliano interviews Lisa Lutz. 
• Lisa Levy interviews Rob Hart. 
• Molly Odintz interviews Rachel Monroe. 
• Crime Reads interviews Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston. 
• Ali Karim interviews Gareth Rubin.
• Molly Odintz interviews Danny Caine of The Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, Kansas.
  

Reviews:

• Sandra Mangan reviews How the Dead Speak by Val McDermid.
• John Valeri reviews Cold Woods by Karen Katchur. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Catacombs by Mary Anna Evans. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews I Spy by Claire Kendal.
• Gabino Iglesias reviews Too Close by Natalie Daniels. 
• Kirstin Centorcelli reviews The Date by Louise Jensen. 
• Kristin Centorcelli reviews The Whisper Man by Alex North.
• Emma Cazabonne reviews A Better Man by Louise Penny. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Hit by Nadia Dalbuono.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Devotion by Madeline Stevens. 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Fishermen of Kérity by Peter James Quirk.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Singapore Sapphire by A.M. Stuart.
• Angie Barry reviews The Pearl Dagger by L.A. Chandlar.
  
• For Winter Nights reviews The Darker Arts by Oscar de Muriel. 
• Janet Webb reviews A Deadly Deception by Tessa Harris. 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Lever Templar by Matt Gianni.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Killer Edition by Lorna Barnett and tries a recipe from the book.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Death in a Budapest Butterfly by Julia Buckley and tries a recipe from the book.
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia reviews The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa.

Classics reviews:

• Les Blatt revisits the 1920 Hercule Poirot mystery The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1928 Lord Peter Wimsey mystery The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1937 mystery Midsummer Murder by Clifford Witting.
• Patricia Abbott revisits the 1951 suspense novel My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier.
• Elgin Bleeker revisits the 1965 Perry Mason mystery The Case of the Beautiful Beggar by Erle Stanley Gardner.  
• Luc Sante revisits the 1972 political thriller Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette.
• Hank Philippi Ryan revisits A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine, winner of the 1987 Edgar Award for Best Novel.
  
• Barry Ergang revisits the 1998 87th Precinct crime novel The Last Best Hope by Ed McBain.
  

Crowdfunding:

• Pulphouse Fiction Magazine is running a subscription drive.
  

Con and event reports:

• Ayo Onatade reports about St. Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend in Oxford, UK, and shares several photos. 
• Ayo Onatade shares another report about St. Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend.
• Martin Morse Wooster reports about the Noir at the Bar reading event in Shirlington, Virginia.
  

Research:

• Olivia Rutigliano remembers the female detectives of the gilded age.
• Cindy Anstey talks about British policing in the early 19th century.
• Hugo Bachega reports about the wave of random killings in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
• Caroline Kelly reports that astronaut Anne McClain has been accused of illegally accessing the bank account of her estranged wife while aboard the ISS. 
• Tori Telfer retells the story of Kathy Kleiner, the woman who survived an encounter with serial killer Ted Bundy.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Anger Serves a Greater Purpose" by Heather Santo in Yellow Mama.
• "Till Human Voices Wake Us" by John Post in Yellow Mama. 
• "Mysterious Ways and All That" by Gary Priest in Crimson Streets. 
• "Shadow Bands" by T.R. North in Crimson Streets.
• "Tap and Rack" by Stephen D. Rogers in Flash Bang Mysteries.
• "Courtesy Call" by T.L. Huchu in Shotgun Honey.
  

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for A Confession.
• Watch a trailer for Joker.