Crime Fiction Links of the Week for May 9, 2020
Crime fiction in general:
- Bill Ott shares his ten favourite recent crime novels.
- Bill Ott also shares his ten favourite debut crime novels.
- Crime Reads offeres personalised crime fiction recommendations for those who are self-isolating.
- Guy Fraser-Sampson celebrates Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham and Josephine Tey, the four queens of Britain's golden age of crime fiction.
- Iain Maitland shares his five favourite detective duos.
- Jordan Farmer talks about the cornerstones of country noir.
- Lisa Regan shares ten riveting thrillers filled with shocking secrets and twists.
- Kimberly McCreight shares some happy marriages in crime fiction.
- Heather Gudenkauf shares crime novels starring fierce mothers-to-be.
- Casey Dunn shares her appreciation for the complex female characters of Gillian Flynn.
- Rick Pullen profiles Michael Connelly.
- Joshua Gillingham offers a defense of genre fiction.
- Wendy Lesser shares her appreciation for the Martin Beck crime fiction series by Per Wahlöö and Maj Sjöwall and discusses the origins of Scandinavian noir.
- Wendy Lesser talks about visiting Ystad, Sweden, where Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander mysteries are set.
- Scott Kenemore finds some unexpected parallels between the works of H.P. Lovecraft and crime fiction.
- Olivia Rutigliano recalls when the literary feud between Wallace Stevens and Ernest Hemingway turned physical.
- Mark Brown reports that Stanley Johnson, father of UK prime minister Boris Johnson, hoped to re-release his 1982 technothriller The Marburg Virus because of the corona virus pandemic.
- Mystery writer Angela Zeman died of the corona virus.
Film and TV:
- Rebecca Nicholson declares that season 2 of the crime comedy Brassic is lewd, crude and totally brilliant.
- Noel Murray declares that Arkansas is reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers, but does not have enough noir originality of its own.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on series 3 of Babylon Berlin.
- James Donaghy shares his thoughts on the series finale of Homeland.
- Vikram Murthi shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Run.
- Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughs on the latest episode of How To Get Away With Murder.
- J.R. Moores wonders whether Ozark may have jumped the shark.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that The Blacklist has circumvented the production shutdown due to the corona virus by making its season 7 finale animated.
- Graeme Virtue revisits the 1932 thriller The Most Dangerous Game.
- Otto Penzler revisits the 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil.
- Martin Pengelly revisits the 1974 thriller Gold, his and his friend Tom's favourite film age 12.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1975 thriller The Passenger.
- Karen Stefano talks about Hollywood's portrayal of female lawyers.
- Adrian Horton shares his thoughts on the documentary Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
- Actor Joseph Gilgun shares his love for true crime TV shows.
- Yomi Adegoke talks about cases where reality TV contestants turned out to be involved in criminal activities.
- Adrienne Jones reports that the police family drama Blue Bloods will have a highly emotional season 10 finale.
- Nellie Andreeva reports that all three NCIS shows have been renewed and that the various stars have extended their contracts.
- Denise Petski reports that the crime series Dare Me has been cancelled after one season.
- Christina Radish interviews Ben Barnes, star of Gold Digger and Shadow and Bone.
- Matt Patches profiles Josh Trank, director of Capone and the 2015 Fantastic Four movie.
- Phil Hoad discusses the difficulties the stars of the Romanian noir movie The Whistlers had to learn the whistling language el silbo gomero.
- Amanda Quick discusses how 1930s press photographers created the visual definition of noir.
- Actor Dimitri Diatchenko, who appeared in Sons of Anarchy, Bones and Alias, has died aged 52.
Comments on season 3 of Killing Eve:
- Lisa Weidenfeld shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Killing Eve.
- Rhian Daly shares their thoughts on the latest episode of Killing Eve.
- Dan Snierson interviews Sally Woodward Gentle, producer of Killing Eve.
- Josh Weiss interviews Kim Bodnia who plays Konstantin in Killing Eve.
- Toyin Owoseja reports that many of the murders in Killing Eve are inspired by real crimes.
Comments on Dangerous Lies:
- Benjamin Lee calls Dangerous Lies a diverting but dopey thriller.
- Cameron Scheetz itnerviews Camila Mendes and Jessie T. Usher, the stars of Dangerous Lies.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- The Guardian shares tips for writers struggling to write during the corona virus pandemic.
- Roger Wolfson muses how writers will respond to the corona virus pandemic in their writing.
- Cory Doctorow talks about writing, rules for writers and two writing books that greatly influenced him.
- Maggie Tokuda-Hall explains how to heist your novel.
- Elizabeth Zelvin talks about mixing crime fiction with magic and supernatural elements.
- B.M. Carroll talks about the inspiration for their book Who We Were.
- Cat Rambo shares several ideas for writers to socialise online.
- Shaun Duke explains why he does not like e-books.
- Rob Hart talks about book promotion in the age of the corona virus.
- Camestros Felapton and Sir Tim Cattenborough take a not entirely serious look at the life cycle of a novel.
- Nick Mamatas attempts to answer the question whether writers need to attend conventions or conferences.
- Alison Flood reports that more than half of Britain's small publishers fear that they may go bankrupt due to the corona virus.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about the general uncertainty of the future affecting many people right now.
- Locus
reports about the copyright controversy surrounding the Internet
Archive's so-called "National Emergency Library" and also explains whom
authors can contact to have their works removed.
Awards:
- The winners of the 2019 Agatha Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2020 Derringer Awards have been announced.
- The longlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year has been announced.
- The finalists for the 2020 Glass Key Award have been announced.
- The winners of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize have been announced.
- The 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award is open for submissions.
Interviews:
- David Canfield interviews Tana French.
- Criminal Element interviews Tasha Alexander.
- John Valeri interviews R.G. Belsky.
- Adrian Horton interviews Lawrence Wright.
- On the Bookshelf interviews Hannah Mary McKinnon.
- Debra Purdy Kong interviews A.J. Devlin.
- Lisa O'Kelly interviews Kevin Maxwell.
- Terry Gross interviews Benjamin Dreyer.
Reviews:
- BOLO Books reviews Ash Mountain by Helen Fitzgerald.
- Christine Tran reviews Dead Land by Sara Paretsky.
- Lesa Holstine reviews A Full Cold Moon by Lissa Marie Redmond.
- Michael Carlson reviews Camino Winds by John Grisham.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Crime in the Heat by Catherine Moloney.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Throwing Off Sparks by Michael Pool.
- Catherine Turnbull reviews When We Fall by Caroline Kirby.
- Booksplainer reviews Face of My Assassin by Jan Huckins and Carolyn Weston.
- The Caffeinated Reviewer reviews Close Up by Amanda Quick.
- Kirkus reviews He Started It by Samatha Downing.
- Paperback Warrior reviews The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins.
- Vanessa Orr reviews High Five by Joe Ide.
- Laura Miller reviews The End of October by Lawrence Wright.
- Lizzie Hayes reviews Lockdown by Peter May.
- Kirkus reviews Roar Back by John Farrow.
- Ray Palen reviews The Last Hunt by Deon Meyer.
- Janet Webb reviews The Pinebox Vendetta by Jeff Bond.
- Paperback Warrior reviews Spy in the Box by Ralph Dennis.
- Robin Agnew reviews Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon.
- Liz Bourke reviews Shadows of Annihilation by S.M. Stirling.
- Steve Powell reviews Mr. Campion's Séance by Mike Ripley.
- Andrew Fowlow reviews Ghoster by Jason Arnopp.
- Alan Cranis reviews Of Mice and Minnestrone by Joe R. Lansdale.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Mousse and Murder by Elizabeth Logan and tries a recipe from the book.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Little Bookshop of Murder by Maggie Blackburn.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Antiques Fire Sale by Barbara Allan.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews A Fatal Finale by Kathleen Marple Kalb.
- Carolyn Cushman reviews The Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold and Potions Are For Pushovers by Tamara Berry.
- Ben Boulden reviews Die Once - Die Twice, edited by David Rachels.
- Publisher's Weekly reviews The Faking of the President: Nineteen Stories of White House Noir, edited by Peter Carlaftes.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Deadly Anniversaries, edited by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini.
- Paperback Warrior reviews Cuba: Sugar, Sex, and Slaughter, edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle.
- Mark Rose reviews Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery by Wendy Lesser.
- Angie Barry reviews Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts by Kathryn Harkup.
Classics reviews:
- Paperback Warrior revisits The Man of Bronze, the 1933 first ever Doc Savage novel by Kenneth Robeson a.k.a. Lester Dent.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1940 mystery Black Corridors by Conryth Little a.k.a. Constance and Gwenyth Little.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1943 mystery The Art School Murders by Moray Dalton.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1957 crime novel Follow as the Night by Patricia McGerr.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1968 Martin Beck crime novel The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö.
- Paperback Warrior revisits The Godwulf Manuscript, a 1973 Spenser private investigator novel by Robert B. Parker.
- Joe Kenney revisits Drug Run, a 1974 Stryker crime novel by William Crawford.
- Paperback Warrior revisits Atlanta Deathwatch, a 1974 novel in the Hardman crime series by Ralph Dennis.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1975 crime novel Kingpin by Hugh Miller.
Con and event reports:
- Peter Florence reports what the online version of the Hay Festival, normally held in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, will look like.
- Catherine Shoard reports that the corona virus may have spread at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, as several attendants later experienced symptoms.
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Research:
- Chris Berg and James Paul Smith talk about avoidable errors in crime fiction from a police officer's point of view.
- R.G. Belsky discusses five notorious cold cases that he covered as a crime reporter that will probably never be solved.
- Kylie Logan talks about human remains detection dogs and how they are trained.
- Kylie Logan also reminisces about growing up as the daughter of a police officer.
- Eve Calder talks about five fascinating lost treasures.
- Locard's Lab reports that forensic scientists can determine from a saliva sample whether a person is a smoker or non-smoker.
Free online fiction:
- "Where You Belong" by C.J. Verburg in Shotgun Honey
- "Fragrant" by Rob D. Smith in Shotgun Honey.
- "Paper Boats" by Paul J. Garth in Tough.
- "Come Get Me" by Robert Ragan in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "London Bridge, Railway Station, Please Mate" by Stephen J. Golds in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Kitchen Witch" by Cora Buhlert
- "Sweet Young Things" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- "When I Met Her in the Street" by Gabriel Hart in The Five-Two.
- "The Disappeared" by Kristin Garth in Punk Noir Magazine.
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