Crime Fiction Links of the Week for September 21, 2019
Crime fiction in general:
- Ryan Steck shares the best action thrillers for September 2019.
- Sarah Lotz shares eight novels featuring atypical amateur sleuths.
- Gina LaManna shares crime fiction's seven most terrifying marriages.
- Evelyn Toynton shares a brief history of monstrous mothers in literature.
- Scarlett Harris talks about the female archetypes of true crime.
- Madhulika Sikka profiles Attica Locke.
- Martin Edwards writes about the rediscovery of the Golden Age of detectiuve fiction in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Paperback Warrior offers a primer on the John Raven mysteries by Donald MacKenzie and their reinvention as a series of men's adventure paperbacks.
- Jan Stocklassa wonders whether the secret files of Stieg Larsson contain vital clues to the still unsolved murder of Swedish minister president Olof Palme.
Film and TV:
- Carlos Aguilar calls Imprisoned a criminally unsubtle prison drama.
- Hanna Flint declares that Mossul falls prey to white saviour syndrome.
- Benjamin Lee calls Ready or Not a scrappy horror comedy that is all bark and no bite.
- Roxana Haddadi calls Bloodline a psycho parenthood thriller.
- Lucy Mangan calls the documentary series Crime and Punishment a damning look at the British prison system.
- Rebecca Nicholson declares that the legal sitcom Defending the Guilty embraces the inherent silliness of a serious world.
- Benjamin Lee calls Ready or Not a scrappy horror comedy that is all bark and no bite.
- Garrick Webster shares his appreciation for the Austrian-German crime series Der Pass.
- Garrick Webster talks about season 7 of the French crime drama Spiral.
- Lucy Mangan shares her thoughts on the documentary Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein.
- Rosa Boshier explains how Hustlers shows the importance of female solidarity.
- Lilly Dancyger shares her appreciation for Law and Order and its spin-off Law and Order SVU.
- Tom Breihan shares his appreciation for the offbeat 1971 cult action movie Billy Jack.
- Zach Vasquez shares his appreciation for the 1982 neo-noir movie Vice Squad.
- Sam Wollaston reports about documentary filmmaker Vanessa Engle, who was on the trail of conman Michael Cohen for seventeen years.
- Christi Carras reports about the search for missing silent era Sherlock Holmes movies.
- Pamela McClintock talks about the increasing length of movies and how this is testing the patience of audiences.
- Emma Brockes interviews David Chase, creator of The Sopranos.
- James Hibberd interviews Damon Lindelof, showrunner of the upcoming Watchmen series.
- Germain Lussier interviews Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix, director and star of Joker.
Comments on Peaky Blinders:
- Sarah Hughes shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Peaky Blinders.
- Andy Welch interviews Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, about the historical crime drama's remarkable success.
- Andy Welch reports about the Legitimate Peaky Blinders Festival in Birmingham, UK.
Comments on season 3 of The Deuce:
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.
- Noel Murray shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.
- Linwood Barclay explains why he believes that Get Shorty and The Deuce are two of the best crime dramas of today.
Comments on Rambo: Last Blood:
- Kenneth Turan declares that Rambo: Last Blood goes for the jugular, but in darker ways.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Rambo: Last Blood a laughable Trumpian fantasy.
- Jesse Hassenger declares that somewhere between First Blood and Last Blood the Rambo series became a forever war not worth fighting.
Comments on Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood:
- Kim Morgan shares his thoughts on Once Upon a Time.. in Hollywood.
- Tim Lucas shares his thoughts on Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.
- Wendy Ide calls Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood an uneven ode to a lost era.
- Kim Morgan interviews Quentin Tarantino, director of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.
Comments on Criminal:
- Liz Shannon Miller calls Criminal a satisfying police procedural.
- Lucy Mangan declares that Criminal is like Line of Duty at its best.
- Steve McIntosh talks about the Netflix crime drama Criminal and the restrictions of a show set only in a single location.
Comments on Unbelievable:
- Paul Levinson calls Unbelievable an all-too-true docudrama which is reminiscent of Brett Kavanaugh and other real life cases.
- Jen Chaney calls Unbelievable a radical, exceptional true crime series.
- Lila Shapiro interviews Susannah Grant, showrunner of Unbelievable.
Comments on Carnival Row:
- Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on the steampunk fantasy crime series Carnival Row.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Carnival Row a cliched, humourless disaster.
Awards:
- The winners of the 2019 Ngaio Marsh Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2019 McIlvanney Prize and Scottish Crime Debut of the Year Award have been announced.
- The nominees for the DHH Literary Agency New Voices Award have been announced.
- The winners of the 2019 Saturn Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2019 Bollywood Film Awards have been announced with lots of love for spy and action films.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Reed Farrel Coleman explains where he gets his ideas from.
- Mark Coggins shares the story behind his crime novel The Dead Beat Scroll.
- Debbie De Louise shares the pantser's guide to writing a mystery.
- P.J. Tracy declares that authenticity is the key to writing a compelling setting in a crime novel.
- Matthew Pearl explains what writers today can learn from Dante Alighieri.
- Colleen Coble shares several ideas for how DNA tests can advance or inspire a story.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about contract negotiation.
- Mike Glyer responds to a false piracy accusation by Richard Fox against File 770.
- Camestros Felapton also responds to Richard Fox.
- Camestros Felapton shares an update on Richard Fox's false piracy accusations.
- Mike Glyer sets Richard Fox straight with regard to copyright law.
Interviews:
- Scott Montgomery interviews Craig Johnson.
- E.B. Davis interviews Ellen Byron.
- E.B. Davis interviews Marilyn Levinson a.k.a. Allison Brook.
- Mani's Book Corner interviews Anthony O'Neill.
- Debra Wallace interviews David Lagercrantz.
Reviews:
- Sara Collins reviews Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke.
- Larry Clow reviews Land of Wolves by Craig Johnson.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Gallows Court by Martin Edwards.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews The Penny Black by Rob Parker.
- BOLO Books reviews The Long Call by Ann Cleeves.
- John Valeri reviews The Missing Ones by Edwin Hill.
- Thomas Pluck reviews Pursuit by Joyce Carol Oates.
- BOLO Books reviews Three Fifths by John Vercher.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Flesh and Blood by Emma Salisbury.
- Michael Sears reviews Missing Person by Sarah Lotz.
- Alyssa Ganmello reviews The Stranger Inside by Lisa Unger.
- Mike Parker reviews The Silent War by Andreas Norman, translated by Ian Giles.
- Brian Greene reviews C'est la Vie by Pascal Garnier, translated by Jane Aitken.
- Janet Maslin reviews The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Bone China by Laura Purcell.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Mulberry Mischief by Sharon Farrow and tries a recipe from the book.
- John Valeri reviews Murder in the Corn Maze by G.A. McKevett.
- Xan Brooks reviews The Institute by Stephen King.
- Michael Patrick Hicks reviews The Institute by Stephen King.
- Gary K. Wolfe reviews The Gameshouse by Claire North.
- Toni V. Sweeney reviews Cold Storage by David Koepp.
Classics reviews:
- Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits More Work for the Undertaker, a 1948 Albert Campion mystery by Margery Allingham.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1951 suspense novel Stairway to an Empty Room by Dolores Hitchens.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1953 suspense novel Terror Lurks in Darkness by Dolores Hitchens.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1960 hardboiled novel The Woman Chaser by Charles Willeford.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1969 historical adventure novel Mantee by Robert J. Hensler and also traces the author's background and career.
- Joe Kenney revisits Omerta, a 1972 mafia novel by Peter McCurtin.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1973 Tommy and Tuppence mystery Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1973 historical mystery Dear Laura by Jean Stubbs.
- Joe Kenney revisits Fire Bomb, a 1973 novel in The Butcher men's adventure series by Stuart Jason a.k.a. James Dockery.
- Paperback Warrior revisits Kiai!, a 1974 novel in the Jason Striker martial arts adventure series by Piers Anthony and Roberto Fuentes.
- Lee Goldberg revisits the 1975 crime novel Atlanta a.k.a. The Broken Fixer by Ralph Dennis.
- Alan Crannis revisits the 1976 crime novel Deadman's Game a.k.a. A Talent for Killing by Ralph Dennis.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1977 suspense novel Final Proof by Marie R. Reno.
- Paperback Warrior revisits King of the Mountain, a 1985 novel in the Dennison's War men's adventure series by Adam Lassiter a.k.a. Steven M. Krauzer.
- Angie Barry revisits New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith, winner of the 1991 Edgar Award for Best Novel.
Con and event reports:
- Sisters in Crime Australia reports about the 2019 Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival in Huon Valley, Tasmania, Australia.
- Martin Edwards shares a two part report about the Cryme Day at the Rye Arts Festival in Rye, UK.
- Ayo Onatade reports how the speakers and participants of the Bloody Scotland Festival in Stirling, Scotland, will support the worldwide so-called climate strike.
- YorkMix reports about the York Literature Festival in York, UK, which features several crime fiction authors.
- Dominique Jeannerod shares a call for papers for the 7th Annual Conference of the International Crime Fiction Association in Bath, UK.
Research:
- Nile Capello talks about Münchhausen by proxy syndrome and explains that it is much rarer in real life than on TV.
- Eddy Mwanza reports about Kenya's most wanted woman, Jane Wawira Mugo, a criminal who poses as a private investigator.
- Jonathan Lee tells the story of robbery accomplice Heather Tallchief, once the most wanted woman in America.
- The BBC reports about the murder of a Dutch lawyer who was involved in a case against the Moroccan mafia.
- Wojciech Orlinski reports about the altercation between Stanislaw Lem and Philip K. Dick, because Dick believed that Lem was a secret cabal of KGB agents out to infiltrate US science fiction.
Free online fiction:
- "The Vetting" by Michael Cassutt at Tor.com.
- "From the Ashes" by Nicky Tomsko in Shotgun Honey.
- "No One Knew He Was Gone" by Bradford Middleton in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "The Prodigal Daughter" by Joseph Cusumano in Crimson Streets.
- "Fools For Love" by Cindy Rosmus in Yellow Mama.
- "Grand" by Preston Lang in Tough.
- "Howie's Cell" by Chris McCartney in Yellow Mama.
- "Post-Enlistment Trail" by David S. Pointer in The Five-Two.
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