Crime Fiction Links of the Week for May 16, 2020

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 season 3 of Killing Eve, Capone, Friday the Thirteenth at forty, the latest event cancellations due to the corona virus and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Lisa Levy shares five psychological thrillers to read this May. 
• The Real Book Spy shares the top ten most lethal thriller characters right now.
• Olivia Rutigliano ranks the most iconic detective sidekicks. 
• CBC Books shares 22 Canadian mysteries and thrillers to read.
• Joseph Souza shares crime novels set in tourist towns. 
• Francine Mathews talks about crime novels set on the capes and islands of New England.
• Brian Panovich takes a look at the crime writers of Georgia. 
• Melanie Abrams shares seven novels about crime in communes, cults and other alternative communities. 
• Laura Thompson explains why Agatha Christie set so many of her mystery novels in confined conditions.
• Mary Keliikoa takes a look at some tough mothers from mysteries and crime fiction  
• Tracy O'Neill takes a look at the home life of fictional spies. 
• Liv Constantine offers a brief history of the rise of female stalkers in crime fiction and film. 
• Francesca Serritella talks about the clues people leave behind after their death.
• S.L. Huang wonders about the distinctions between thriller and science fiction. 
• Dr. Sam Hirst revisits women authors of gothic novels in the 18th century.  
• Scott Turow muses about his favourite character, defence lawyer Sandy Stern. 
• Brian Ferguson reports that the National Library of Scotland offers a look into its Ian Rankin archives.
• Sian Cain reports that the 1982 thriller The Virus by Stanley Johnson, father of UK prime minister Boris Johnson, will be republished.  
• Alison Flood reports that Stéphane Bourgoin, French author of true crime books about serial killers, has admitted that he made much of his books up, including the supposed murder of his wife.

Film and TV:

• Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on Knives Out.
• Abigail Nussbaum shares her thoughts on season 5 of Better Call Saul.
• Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the series finale of How to Get Away With Murder.
• Vikram Murthi shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Run. 
• Lucy Mangan calls the Spanish crime drama White Lines brilliant and gloriously lurid fun.
• Stuart Jeffries wonders whether Peaky Blinders has jumped the shark.
• Ben Child explains why Robert Pattinson could be the most exciting Batman in years.   
• Zach Baron interviews Robert Pattinson, star of Twilight, The Lighthouse and Batman to be. 
• Marah Eakin interviews the cast of the crime drama Hightown.
• Otto Penzler revisits the 1931 ganster film The Public Enemy. 
• Olivia Rutigliano revisits the 1973 mystery TV series The Snoop Sisters. 
• Tom Breihan shares his thoughts on the 1986 action film Top Gun.
• Diane Shipley revisits the 1990s British crime drama Prime Suspect and wonders when it went off the rails. 
• Laurence Topham revisits the 1989 adventure film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, his favourite film aged 12.  
• Patrick Gomez revisits the 2015 take on The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• Andrew Pulver reports that Luca Guadagigno and the Coen brothers will remake Scarface.

Comments on season 3 of Killing Eve: 

• Lisa Weidenfeld shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Killing Eve. 
• Martin Gilbert declares that Killing Eve went from fantastic to forgettable.
• Jack Seale wonders whether Killing Eve has jumped the shark.
• Ben Travers interviews Jodie Comer who plays Villanelle in Killing Eve.
  

Comments on Capone:

• A.A. Dowd calls Capone a baroque portrait of the gangster's decline.
• Peter Bradshaw shares his thoughts on Capone and praises the performance of Tom Hardy in the titular role.
• Matt Patches profiles Josh Trank, director of Capone and the 2015 Fantastic Four movie. 
• Peter Bradshaw ranks the twenty best performances of Capone star Tom Hardy.

Friday the Thirteenth at Forty:

• Benjamin Lee revisits the 1980 slasher film Friday the 13th for its 40th anniversary.   
• Katie Rife and A.A. Dowd revisit the Friday the Thirteenth slasher movie series for the fortieth anniversary of the first film.

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Charlie Jane Anders shares some advice for writing through difficult times.
• Art Taylor talks about writing what you know. 
• Damien Walter explains why all stories are fractal. 
• Chris Rhatigan shares an approach to writing short stories.
• Joanna Hershon explains what an improv theatre class taught her about writing. 
• Diana Urban discusses how authors are approaching book promotion during the corona virus crisis. 
• Evelyn Maguire shares fifteen ways authors are using Instagram to promote their books while self-isolating.
• Diana Urban shares how authors are supporting other authors and their book launches during the corona virus pandemic. 
• Diana Urban shares eight ideas for virtual book launch events.
• Carlyn Robertson explains how reader behaviour is changing during the corona virus pandemic.
• Rachel Cook discusses how the corona virus impacts the publishing industry in the UK. 
• Diana Urban discusses how publishers are handling book marketing during the corona virus crisis.
• Shelf Awareness reports that the Comicbook United Fund has raised 950 000 US-dollar to help the comic book stores shuttered due to the corona virus.

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2020 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction have been announced.
• The longlist for the 2020 Margery Allingham Short Story Competition had been announced.
• The shortlist for the 2020 Goldboro Book Glass Bell Award has been announced.
• The finalists for the 2020 Maine Literary Awards have been announced.
• The finalists for the 2020 Best Translated Book Award have been announced. 

Interviews:

• Keir Mudie interviews Val McDermid.
• Crime Reads interviews Mariah Fredericks and Jess Montgomery.
• Lesa Holstine interviews A.J. Devlin. 
• E.B. Davis interviews Abby Collette.
• Marshal Zeringue interviews Timothy Hallinan.
• The Real Book Spy interviews Scott Brick.
  

Reviews:

• John Valeri reviews Secret Investigation by Elizabeth Heiter. 
• For Winter Nights reviews Curse the Day by Judith O'Reilly.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Making Wolf by Tade Thompson.
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Making Wolf by Tade Thompson. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews Bad Trust by Michael A. Khan.
• Sandra Mangan reviews Shh by Jocelyn Dexter. 
• BOLO Books reviews These Women by Ivy Pochoda. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews Find Me by Anne Frasier.
• Gabino Iglesias reviews Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews Departure by Joseph Reid. 
• Dru's Book Musings reviews Derailed by Mary Keliikoa. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Rolling Thunder by A.J. Devlin. 
• Blue Book Balloon reviws Hammer to Fall by John Lawton.
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews The Mist by Ragnar Jonasson, translated by Victoria Cribb. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Poison Flood by Jordan Farmer. 
• Joy Kluver reviews The Weight of Small Things by Julie Lancaster.
• Martin Edwards reviews A Spot of Folly by Ruth Rendell. 
• Dru's Book Musings reviews Wedding Bell Ruse by Kate Flora.
• Dru's Book Musings reviews To Kill a Mocking Girl by Harper Kincaid 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews One Feta In The Grave by Tina Kashian and tries a recipe from the book.
• Janet Webb reviews Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead by Karen Lee Street.
• Lesa Holstine reviews Private Investigations, edited by Victoria Zackheim. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews Tampa Bay Noir, edited by Collette Bancroft.
• BOLO Books reviews The Beat of Black Wings: Crime fiction inspired by the songs of Joni Mitchell, edited by Josh Pachter.
  

Classics reviews:

• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1924 suspense thriller The Face in the Night by Edgar Wallace.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1934 mystery Panic Party by Anthony Berkeley.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1940 crime novel They Don't Dance Much by James Ross.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1945 crime novel Two Names For Death by E.P. Fenwick. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits I, the Jury, the first Mike Hammer novel by Mickey Spillane from 1947.
• Judith Tarr revisits the 1954 spy thriller At Swords' Points by Andre Norton.  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1955 crime novel Rain of Terror by Malcolm Douglas a.k.a. Douglas Sanderson. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1959 mystery The Grey Flannel Shroud by Henry Slesar. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1963 thriller After the Fine Weather by Michael Gilbert.
• Paperback Warrior revisits The Jugger, a 1965 Parker novel by Richard Stark a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits Death Race, a 1973 novel in The Butcher men's adventure series. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1976 Matthew Scudder detective novel In the Midst of Death by Lawrence Block. 
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1976 mob novel The Plastic Man by David J. Gerrity.
• Paperback Warrior revisits Hanoi Hellground, a 1983 novel in the Black Eagles men's adventure series.
• Joe Kenney revisits Cairo Countdown, a 1983 novel in the Able Team men's adventure series by Dick Stivers a.k.a. G.H. Frost.
• Jim Napier revisits the 1990 thriller Westwind by Ian Rankin.
  

Con and event reports:

• Ali Karim reports that Thrillerfest 2020, originally to be held in New York City, has gone online.
• Ayo Onatade reports that the physical edition of St. Hilda's Crime and Mystery Weekend in Oxford, UK, has been cancelled due to the corona virus, but that there will be an online event.
• Ed Nawotka reports that BookCon and BookExpo in New York City are both going virtual in response to the corona virus.
• The Newberry Book Fair in Chicago, Illinois, has been cancelled due to the corona virus. 
• The Romance Writers of America Annual Conference in San Francisco, California, has been cancelled due to the corona virus and will go virtual.
• Andrew Pulver reports that the 2020 Cannes film festival in Cannes, France, has been cancelled due to the corona virus, but that the festival will sponsor showings of movies supposed to premiere there at other festivals.
  

Research:

• Keri Blakinger reports that the food in Texas prisons has become even worse in response to the corona virus.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Vengeance Come My Way" by Christopher Ryan in Shotgun Honey.
• "Flu Season" by John M. Floyd in Shotgun Honey.
• "Against the Grain" by Rob McClure Smith in Tough. 
• "Confession" by K.A. Laity in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Longcroft on Lockdown" by Darren Sant in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Maryland Crab Cakes, Balmer Style" by Stephen D. Rogers in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "What the Monster Saw" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
• "Flawless Conviction" by William L. Domme in The Five-Two.