Crime Fiction Links of the Week for September 14, 2019
Crime fiction in general:
- Alison Flood offers a round-up of the best recent thrillers.
- The Real Book Spy shares twenty thrillers to look forward to in 2020.
- Radha Vatsal discusses how Sisters in Crime is helping to diversify the mystery genre.
- Thomas Kies shares four iconic crime fiction and mystery protagonists who are more memorable than the stories they appeared in.
- John Copenhaver looks at modern subversions of the femme fatale stereotype.
- Susan Elia MacNeal shares ten novels about female spies in World War II.
- Lizzy Barber takes a look at thrillers which feature the extreme of religion and faith.
- T.M. Logan shares eight thrillers about academics behaving badly.
- Kelsey Rae Dimberg discusses how modern writers handle classic noir tropes.
- Alex Seguara discusses the long tradition of jazz-infused crime novels.
- James R. Benn takes a look at crime fiction written during World War II and how it does or doesn't address the war.
- Siri Mitchell takes a look at thriller set during the 1990/91 Iraq War.
- Lee Goldberg remembers crime fiction writer Carolyn Weston.
- Nathan Masaryk offers a defense of the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- John Vercher takes a look at graphic novels and social justice.
Film and TV:
- The Killing Times looks ahead at upcoming crime dramas in the UK.
- Rebecca Nicholson declares that the latest season of Top Boy is more violent, more gripping and more shocking than ever.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Motherless Brooklyn a heavy-going adaptation of Jonathan Lethem's eponymous crime thriller.
- Peter Bradshaw calls True History of the Kelly Gang a brutal portrait of the Australian outlaw that moves away from the legends.
- Benjamin Lee calls Bad Education an uneven embezzlement drama and praises Hugh Jackman's performance.
- Leslie Felperin calls the vigilantism thriller Night Hunter a throwback to the days of straight to video schlock.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on The Spy.
- Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on the steampunk fantasy crime series Carnival Row.
- Dennis Broe shares the best crime films shown at the 2019 Venice Film Festival.
- Olivia Rutigliano declares that 1990s romantic comedies are like detective stories in disguise.
- Rebecca Nicholson interviews Gillian Anderson, star of The X-Files and The Fall.
- Fatima Bhutto talks about the surprising global success of Turkish TV dramas.
- Damian Gayle reports that Francis Ford Coppola is not pleased that Boris Johnson has called The Godfather his favourite film.
- Lesley Goldberg reports that Walter Mosley has quit the Star Trek Discovery writers' room after he allegedly said the n-word.
- Walter Mosley explains why he resigned from Star Trek Discovery.
- The BBC wonders what Disney and Netflix leasing most of the Pinewood Studios for the next decade means for the British film industry and the James Bond films.
- Rhonda Richford reports that former James Bond Pierce Brosnan feels that the next James Bond should be a woman.
- Actress Carol Lynley died aged 77.
Comments on season 3 of The Deuce:
- Noel Murray shares his thoughts on the season 3 premiere of The Deuce.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 3 premiere of The Deuce.
Comments on Knives Out:
- A.A. Dowd calls Knives Out a madly entertaining murder mystery.
- Benjamin Lee calls Knives Out a devious meta whodunnit.
Comments on Clemency:
- Benjamin Lee calls Clemency a devastating prison drama and praises the performance of Alfre Woodard.
- Eric Kohn calls Clemency a must-see prison drama and also praises Alfre Woodard's performance.
- Amy Nicholson calls Clemency a moving death penalty drama.
Comments on Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood:
- Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.
- Luke Buckmaster interviews Damon Herriman who plays Charles Manson in both Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood and Mindhunter.
Comments on Unbelievable:
- Danette Chavez calls Unbelievable a powerful and all-too-real story about sexual assault.
- Hannah J. Davies calls Unbelievable a grimly credible story of power, trauma and injustice.
Comments on Hustlers:
- Jesse Hassenger finds the stripper crime drama Hustlers surprisingly bittersweet and praises the performance of Jennifer Lopez.
- Benjamin Lee calls Hustlers a vicarious thrill.
- Cameron Scheetz interviews Lorene Scafaria, director of Hustlers.
- Cameron Scheetz interviews the stars of Hustlers.
Comments on Joker:
- A.A. Dowd calls Joker derivative, but declares that it brings something new to superhero cinema.
- Xan Brooks wonders what Joker winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival means.
- Dave Itzkoff profiles Joaquin Phoenix and Todd Philips, star and director of Joker.
- Ethan Alter interviews Todd Phillips, director of Joker.
Scooby Doo at fifty:
- Olivia Rutigliano declares that Scooby Doo, Where Are You? was the weird and hopeful mystery series that 1969 needed.
- Eleni Theodoropoulos explains how Scooby Doo, Where Are You? revived gothic storytelling for generations of young viewers.
- Vance Kotrla explains how Scooby Doo and Vincent Price introduced him to the horror genre.
GamerGate Five Years Later:
- Charlie Warzel asks what GamerGate is.
- Noah Berlatsky points out that yes, GamerGate was a misognynist hate campaign.
- Cathy Young believes that almost everything people say about GamerGate is wrong.
Awards:
- The winners of the 2019 Ned Kelly Awards have been announced.
- Joker has won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Erin Lindsey explains how she connected history, mystery and the supernatural to write Murder on Millionaire's Row.
- Colleen Coble shares several ideas for how DNA tests can advance or inspire a story.
- Tor.com shares writing advice from Rachel Aaron a.k.a. Rachel Bach.
- Cat Rambo explains how you can learn how to write fiction.
- Arkady Martine talks about narratology and why stories need to make sense.
- Lauren Sapala explains how writers can stop being consumed by the fear of not being good enough.
- Joe Abercrombie talks about his revision process.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about licensing out.
- David Gaughran wonders about how to tackle the rampant scamming in the self-publishing community.
- Patty Jansen talks about the state of indie publishing in 2019.
Interviews:
- Anita Sethi interviews Attica Locke.
- Xan Brooks interviews Stephen King.
- Shravan Kumar interviews Alexander McCall Smith.
- Tori Telfer interviews Rachel Monroe.
- Hallie Ephron interviews Lee McIntyre.
- Hank Phillippi Ryan interviews Paddy Hirsch.
- John Wisniewski interviews Jason Beech.
- Mystery People interviews Reed Farrel Coleman.
Reviews:
- Janet Webb reviews Vendetta in Death by J.D. Robb.
- Kate Vane reviews Heaven My Home by Attica Locke.
- Gabino Iglesias reviews Three-Fifths by John Vercher.
- The Real Book Spy reviews The Night Fire by Michael Connelly.
- Jenny Maloney reviews The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan.
- Clemence Michallon reviews Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman.
- Clemence Michallon reviews The Perfect Wife by J.P. Delaney.
- Pat H. Broeske reviews The Summer of Ellen by Agnete Friis.
- Chapter in My Life reviews The Quiet Ones by Theresa Talbot.
- Vanessa Orr reviews Whisper Network by Chandler Baker.
- Hepzibah Anderson reviews The Confession by Jessie Burton.
- Rachael McKenzie reviews The Confession by Jessie Burton.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Endgame by Daniel Cole.
- Robin Agnew reviews Death by the Bay by Patricia Skalka.
- Eric Beetner reviews See That My Grave Is Kept Clean by Bart Paul.
- Larry Clow reviews The Passengers by John Marrs.
- Michael Patrick Hicks reviews Lethal Agent by Kyle Mills.
- Ross Johnson reviews The Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes.
- Angie Barry reviews A Dangerous Engagement by Ashley Weaver.
- Kat Hooper reviews The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall.
- Paraic O'Donnell reviews Bone China by Laura Purcell.
- Corrina Lawson reviews The Spotted Dog by Kerry Greenwood.
- Allison Brennan reviews Life Is Short and Then You Die, edited by Kelley Armstrong.
- Janet Webb reviews Robert B. Parker's The Bitterest Pill by Reed Farrel Coleman.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Catholic School by Edoardo Albinati.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Unbelievable by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong.
Classics reviews:
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1928 mystery the Mystery of the Peacock's Eye by Brian Flynn.
- Paperback Warrior revisits Justice Inc., a 1939 Avenger novel by Kenneth Robeson a.k.a. Paul Ernst.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1952 Sergeant Beef mystery Cold Blood by Leo Bruce.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1953 crime novel The Short Weekend by T.S. Strachan.
- Crossexmining Crime revisits the 1954 suspense novel Go, Lovely Rose by Jean Potts.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1957 crime novel The Big Bite by Gerry Travis a.k.a. Louis Trimble.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits Champagne for One, a 1958 Nero Wolfe mystery by Rex Stout.
- Paperback Warrior revisits Road Block, a 1960 Fred Fellows mystery by Hillary Waugh.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1962 crime novel The Evil Wish by Jean Potts.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1964 Peter Styles mystery The Laughter Trap by Judson Philips.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1968 police procedural The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1969 spy thriller Red Heroin by Wade Curtis a.k.a. Jerry Pournelle.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1970 war novel Blood Patrol by George Fennell.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1973 mystery Death of an Informer by Will Perry.
- Joe Kenney revisits Invasion USSR, a 1988 novel in the MIA Hunter men's adventure series by Jack Buchanan a.k.a. Arthur Moore and Stephen Mertz.
- Paul Doiron revisits Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke, winner of the 1990 Edgar Award for Best Novel.
Con and event reports:
- Ayo Onatade shares the program of Murder One Ireland's Internation Crime Writing Festival in Dublin, Ireland.
- Martin Edwards reports about a Murder Mystery Night in Douglas, Isle of Man, and shares several photos.
- Jim Milliot reports about changes to BookExpo in New York City.
Research:
- Patricia Wiltshire talks about the work of forensic ecologists and how they help to solve crimes.
- Kerri Maniscalco wonders whether American serial killer H.H. Holmes was also Jack the Ripper.
- Vivian Ho chronicles the murder of Audrey Carey, a homeless young women in San Francisco.
- Dustin Waters reports about the so-called candlestick murder in 1958 in Charleston, South Caroline, which terrified the local gay community.
- Frances Mao reports about Jeni Haynes who developed 2500 different personalities to survive her father's abuse.
- Sarah McDermott tells the story of Margo Perrin whose father was a conman who took the whole family on the run from the FBI.
- Miriam Annenberg reports about Ben Shenton's upbringing in an Australian doomsday cult.
- Alexandra Stein explains why it is so hard to stop cults.
- Amy Stewart revisits the debate in the US during World War I to arm women, so they could protect themselves against sexual assault.
- Edith Maxwell explains what it was like to live as a blind person in 1889.
- D.M. Pulley talks about empty and abandoned houses and the crimes they attract.
- Priscilla DeGregory reports about the theft of several signed Ellery Queen novels which went unnoticed until the stolen books were offered for auction.
Free online fiction:
- "Backtrack" by Paul Doiron in Criminal Element.
- "The Flower Man" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- "Flower Man" by Morgan Boyd in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "The Tavern Brawler" by Robb T. White in Tough.
- "Single Point of Failure" by Elizabeth Bonesteel.
- "One Spent Shell" by Dan J. Fiore in Tough.
- "The Hunt" by Larry Chavis in The Five-Two.
- "It's Not Addiction, It's My Science" by John Patrick Robbins in Punk Noir Magazine.
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