Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 19, 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 Dublin Murders, The Irishman, Giri/Haji, The Deuce, El Camino, Parasite, Treadstone, Joker, Wachmen, Gemini Man, The Day Shall Come, By the Grace of God and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Laura Wilson offers a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
  
• Crime Reads shares the best true crime and nonfiction books for October 2019.
• Sherry Thomas declares that she doesn't read crime fiction just for the crimes. 
• Tim Maleeny talks about the art of blending crime fiction and humor.
• Lynne Truss talks about Brighton's crime fiction scene.
• Christopher Smith visits the fifteen most iconic Los Angeles locations of the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly.
• Bob Byrne takes a look at the history of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade in print and on film.
• Scott Bradfield remembers his mother's love for the Cool and Lam mysteries by Erle Stanley Gardner.
• Charlotte Higgins talks about the enduring appeal of Lee Child's Jack Reacher.
• Craig Pittman shares his appreciation for the Miami set noir thrillers of Charles Willeford.
• Brenna Ehrlich shares her appreciation for the suburban thrillers of Liane Moriarty.
• Joe Hill talks about his childhood as the son of Stephen King.  
• Rachel Readerer profiles Nobel Prize for Literature winner Olga Tokarczuk and also explains why she is a crime fiction writer.
• John Connolly offers a defense of the supernatural in crime fiction. 
• Max Booth III asks if supernatural crime fiction is allowed to be funny.
• Andrew Liptak reports that Stephen and Tabitha King are planning to turn their home in Bangor, Maine, into a library and writers' retreat. 
• Literary critic Harold Bloom has died aged 89. 
• Sara Danius, former secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died aged 57.
  

Film and TV:

• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Knives Out one of the best films of 2019. 
• Gwen Ihnat calls Why Women Kill an addictive feminist serial.
• Leslie Felperin calls the Polish film Corpus Christi a smart drama about an ex-con turned priest. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Official Secrets a shrewd and relevaqnt espionage drama. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls The Laundromat messy, unsatisfying and redundant.
• Lucy Mangan calls Limetown a load of tosh and cheap X-Files knock-off.  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Synchronic an original science fiction thriller.
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls The Report a grim docudrama about CIA torture and praises the performance of Adam Driver. 
• Phil Hoad calls Ladyworld a stylish feminist thriller.  
• Cath Clarke declares that Tell Me Who I Am is an amnesia documentary that plays like a psychological thriller. 
• Paul Levinson offers episode by episode reviews of the serial killer drama Prodigal Son.
• Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the latest episode of How To Get Away With Murder. 
• Camestros Felapton asks if John Wick 3 is fantasy.
• Aamna Mohdin profiles Jed Mercurio, creator of Bodyguard, Line of Duty and Bodies.
• Terrence Towles Canote celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of the crime drama The Untouchables.
• Paul Abbott asks if the 1980s cop drama Hill Street Blues was a rip-off of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series. 
• Scott Tobias revisits Fight Club for its twentieth anniversary. 
• Brian Greene profiles actress Susan George who appeared in several thrillers in the early 1970s.
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that Zoe Kravitz will play Catwoman in The Batman. 
• Zoe Wood explains how the historical crime drama Peaky Blinders has influenced fashion in the UK. 
• Sam Levin reports that John Reid and Associates, a law enforcement consulting firm which has developed a controversial interrogation technique, is sueing director Ava Du Vernay and Netflix for defaming their company in When They See Us.
• Actor Robert Forster, best known for his appearances in Banyon, Jackie Brown, Breaking Bad, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive and Delta Force, has died aged 78.
• J. Kingston Pierce remembers Robert Forster.
  

Comments on Dublin Murders:

• Lucy Mangan calls Dublin Murders a breathless whodunnit with more dread by the minute. 
• Darragh Berry shares all you need to know about Dublin Murders.
• Pete Crawley reports about a visit to the set of Dublin Murders. 
• George Morahan reports that Dublin Murders is a bigger hit for the BBC than Line of Duty.

Comments on The Irishman:

• Peter Bradshaw calls The Irishman Martin Scorsese's bets film in thirty years. 
• Andrew Pulver reports how Martin Scorsese defends his decision to let Netflix finance The Irishman. 
• Kim Marsters reports that Hollywood studios are increasingly selling films to Netflix and other streaming services rather than risk a box office flop. 

Comments on Giri/Haji:

• Lucy Mangan calls the British-Japanese crime drama Giri/Haji all killer and no thriller.
• Sandra Mangan looks ahead at the new British Japanese crime drama Giri/Haji. 

Comments on season 3 of The Deuce:

• Noel Murray shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Deuce.
  

Comments on El Camino: 

• Abigail Nussbaum shares her thoughts on El Camino and Breaking Bad in general. 
• Daniel Fienberg declares that El Camino doesn't add much to Breaking Bad. 
• Paul Levinson calls El Camino an unqualified success.
• Zach Vasquez and readers of The Guardian discuss whether El Camino was worth the wait.
  

Comments on Parasite:

• A.A. Dowd calls Parasite a thrilling genre hopper.
• Guy Lodge talks about how director Bong Joon Ho had difficulties getting Parasite made and marketed after some problems in Hollywood.
• Katie Rife interviews Bong Joon Ho, director of Snowpiercer and Parasite. 

Comments on Treadstone:

• Tim Goodman declares that the Bourne prequel Treadstone has lots of brainless action, but little brain.
• Benjamin Lee calls the Bourne prequel Treadstone a surprise success. 

Comments on Joker:

• Brock Wilbur declares that Joker is a very stupid film that pretends to be an arthouse film, because it believes that's what arthouse films look like. 
• Emily Asher-Perrin declares that the enduring popularity of the Joker is due to the fact that the character can fit any story you want to tell. 
• Ben Child explains why Joker should be kept isolated from the rest of the Batman and DC movies.
• Angel Wilson analyses the complex drama surrounding Joker. 
• Chris Yogerst declares that we shouldn't fear Joker, because it is unlikely to provoke real world violence. 
• Joshua Yehl reports that Jared Leto, who played the Joker in Suicide Squad, was upset that Joaquin Phoenix was cast for the part in Joker.
• Inspired by Joker, Zach Vasquez wonders why American filmmakers are so fascinated by angry white men driven to violence and murder, because the world doesn't hand them everything on a silver platter. 
• Pete Keeley reports that a man got a lifetime from the US cinema chain AMC Theatres because of a prank about a "no singles" policy for showing of Joker.
• Kristin Salaky reports about the Joker Frappuccino available at Starbuck's.
  

Comments on the latest version of Watchmen: 

• Danette Chavez calls Watchmen a reckoning worth waiting for.
• Tim Goodman calls Watchmen relentlessly entertaining, but also difficult for people who are not familiar with the comic. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw declares that the latest version of Watchmen leans into the political side of the comic.
• Emma Brockes interviews Regina King, one of the stars of Watchmen. 
• Ross Johnson explains everything you need to know about Watchmen past, present and future.

Comments on The Day Shall Come:

• Mark Kermode calls The Day Shall Come an overcooked FBI farce.
• Peter Bradshaw calls The Day Shall Come a sly satire.
  

Comments on By the Grace of God:

• Mike D'Angelo finds little urgency in the abuse drama By the Grace of God. 
• Kim Willsher interviews Francois Ozon, director of the abuse drama By the Grace of God. 

Comments on Gemini Man: 

• Leonard Maltin calls Gemini Man a highly-enjoyable, action-packed thriller and praises the organic use of 3D technology and high frame rates. 
• Simran Hans calls Gemini Man a silly science fiction thriller that all the digital de-aging technology in the world cannot make convincing. 
• A.A Dowd declares that Gemini Man uses de-aging technology to make a case against de-aging technology.
• Mark Jenkins calls Gemini Man sluggish and sterile. 
• Leah Schnelbach wonders whether Gemini Man is a movie or something new. 
• John Scalzi shares his thoughts on Gemini Man and its high frame rate.
• Brandon Zachary finds Gemini Man's villain surprisingly engaging - most of the time.  
• Brandon Zachary shares the best action scenes in Gemini Man.

Awards:

• The Testaments by Maragret Atwood and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo are sharing the 2019 Book Prize. 
• The finalists for the 2019 Booker Prize explain why they wrote the shortlisted novels.

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Madison Malone Kirchner shares writing tips by thirteen mystery authors.
• Kameron Hurley explains why writing books gets tougher instead of easier with time. 
• Dwyer Murphy explains why he finds Elmore Leonard's ten rules for writing so valuable.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about three different kinds of writers.
• Linden A. Lewis explains how to turn a short story into a novel.
• Daniel Brotzel discusses how to make author collaborations work.
• Rocking Book Covers shares eight questions for coming up with standout book cover ideas.
• Katie Mansfield reports about the launch of the Viper crime fiction imprint of UK publisher Serpent's Tail.

Interviews:

• Stephen Hale interviews John Grisham.
• Paul Henderson interviews James Ellroy.
• Thomas Pluck interviews Joyce Carol Oates.
• Lisa Levy interviews Steph Cha.
• Crime Reads interviews Susan Isaacs. 
• Sonja van der Westhuizen interviews Sally Andrew. 
• Scott Adlerberg interviews Jake Hinkson.
• Joy Kluver interviews W.C. Ryan. 

Reviews:

• John Valeri reviews The Shape of Night by Tess Gerritsen.
• For Winter Nights reviews Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Girls Like Us by Cristina Alger.
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Lost Man by Jane Harper.
• Gabino Iglesias reviews The Off-Islander by Peter Colt. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews This Little Dark Place by A.S. Hatch.
• Janet Webb reviews The Dead Beat Scrolls by Mark Coggins. 
• Janet Webb reviews A Bitter Feast by Deborah Crombie.
• Kate Vane reviews Pursuit by Joyce Carol Oates. 
• Steven Poole reviews Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carré. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Good Man Gone Bad by Gar Anthony Haywood.
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Motive X by Stefan Ahnhem, translated by Agnes Broome.
• Michelle Mastro reviews Bloomland by John Englehardt. 
• Mark Yon reviews Ghoster by Jason Arnopp.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Haunted House Murder by Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis and Barbara Ross and tries a recipe from the book.
• John Valeri reviews Christmas Cocoa Murder by Carlene O'Connor, Maddie Day and Alex Erickson. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Christmas Cocoa Murder by Carlene O'Connor, Maddie Day and Alex Erickson.
• Janet Webb reviews A Merry Murder by Kate Kingsbury. 
• The Tattooed Book Geek reviews Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon by James Lovegrove.
• Katharine Coldiron reviews Necropolis PD by Nathan Sumsion. 
• Martin Edwards reviews The Hooded Gunman by John Curran.
  

Classics reviews:

• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1950 detective novel Very Cold for May by William P. McGivern.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1950 mystery A Bullet for Rhino by Clifford Wittig. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1958 noir novel Web of Murder by Harry Whittington.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1959 thriller Murder Noon and Night by Kelly Roos.
• Paperback Warrior revisits Operation New York, a 1968 novel in the Malko spy fiction series by Gerard de Villiers. 
• Joe Kenney revisits Spying Blind, a 1968 novel in the Mark Hood spy fiction series by James Dark a.k.a. J.E. MacDonnell.  
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1971 political thriller Thorne in the Flesh by Rhona Petrie a.k.a. Eileen Marie Duell Buchanan.
• Paperback Warrior revisits God Save the Child, a 1974 Spenser detective novel by Robert B. Parker.
• Paperback Warrior revisits Raker, a 1982 men's adventure novel by Dan Scott a.k.a. Lee Hayes.
• Joe Kenney revisits Show No Mercy, a 1985 novel in the SOBs men's adventure series by Jack Hild a.k.a. Robin Hardy.
• Paperback Warrior revisits Mercenary Mountain, a 1986 novel in the Nick Carter Killmnaster men's adventure series by Dennis Lynds.
  

Con and event reports:

• Martin Edwards reports about the Isle of Wight Literary Festival in Cowes, UK, and shares several photos.
• Matt Moore shares some tips for being a good panel moderator at conventions.
• John D. Berry compares the usefulness of convention badges and nametags.
• Mike Glyer reports that Luis R. Rondon, King of the Society for Creative Anachronism’sEast Kingdom, has been expelled following his arrest as a murder suspect.
  

Research:

• Francesca Williams reports about the pen friendship between a young British woman and a prisoner on death row in Louisiana. 
• Melissa Jeltsen reports about the case of Bresha Meadows, who killed her abusive father at age 14.
• Former CIA agent Amaryllis Fox explains why restaurants are so important for spies. 
• Paddy Hirsch explains how arson became a capital crime.
• Naima Mohamud reports about Yasuke, a 16th century samurai of Japanese origin.
• The BBC reports that a Japanese students of ninja history has handed in an essay written in invisble ink. 
• Emma Brockes interviews Ronan Farrow, the investigative reporter who brought down Harvey Weinstein.

Free online fiction:

• "Snowflakes" by Randy Numann in Yellow Mama.
• "They Are Nameless" by Edward Punales in Crimson Streets. 
• "The Barbecue Pot" by B.V. Lawson in Flash Bang Mysteries.
• "Nocturne" by John Oughton in The Five-Two.
  

Odds and Ends:

• Watch a trailer for Giri/Haji. 
• Watch a trailer for Corpus Christi.
• Watch a trailer for Bombshell.
• Watch a trailer for Ladyworld.