Crime Fiction Links of the Week for June 6, 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 the season 3 finale of Killing Eve, the 2020 Dagger Award longlists and several other crime fiction awards, the latest event cancellations and virtual events due to the corona virus, the attacks on several book and comic shops during the current riots in the US and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares ten crime novels to read this June. 
• Lisa Levy shares five psychological thriller to read this June.
• Cynthia Chow shares cozy pet myssteries to read this summer. 
• Molly Odintz shares eleven crime novels that explore the tensions between the police and the communities they are supposed to serve.
• Lauren A. Forry shares the best thrillers, crime and horror novels to read while self-isolating.
• Emily Liebert shares nine thrillers with writer protagonists. 
• David Albertyn talks about the classics of boxing literature.
• T.R. Ragan shares seven crime novels where vengeance is justified. 
• Louise Jensen shares six thrillers about complex family relationships.
• James Davis Nicoll shares tips for recovering from readers' block.

Film and TV:

• Dwyer Murphy shares the best crime movies and dramas to stream this June. 
• Leslie Felperin calls Trick or Treat a mildly amusing thriller. 
• A.A. Dowd calls Becky a preposterous and ridiculous home invasion thriller.
• William Hughes calls Dreamland a not particularly thrilling thriller.
• Jesse Hassenger calls The Last Days of American Crime a bloated science fiction heist movie.
• Mike D'Angelo calls the South Korean thriller Yourself and Yours an ambiguous Vertigo knockoff. 
• Shannon Miller calls I May Destroy You a thorough look at sexual abuse and healing.
• Lucy Mangan shares her thoughts on the Canadian crime drama Cardinal.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Hightown. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on Angel Has Fallen. 
• Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Snowpiercer.
  
• Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.  
• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on Bloodshot. 
• Martin Edwards rewatches the 1946 noir movie Bedelia.
• Nathan Ward shares his love for the 1974 TV series The Rockford Files. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1998 thriller Twilight.
• Katie Rife, A.A. Dowd and Danette Chavez revisits The X-Files.
• Drew Murray shares his five favourite crime movies in science fiction settings.  
• Andrew Pulver shares the ten best Vietnam War movies.
• Mark Birrell shares ten action thrillers for fans of the recent Equalizer movies starring Denzel Washington.
• In the wake of the death of George Floyd due to police brutality and the protests that followed, Nina Metz wants fewer cop shows on television and more shows which imagine a world without police.
• Alexis Soloski profiles Matthew Rhys, who will play Perry Mason in the upcoming eponymous series.
• Chris Wiegand interviews Tom Hiddleston, best known for his appearances in the Thor movies, The Night Manager, High Rise and Only Lovers Left Alive. 
• Actor Anthony James, best known for his appearances in In the Heat of the Night, The Unforgiven, The Beauty and the Beast and Star Trek: The Next Generation, has died aged 77. 
• Actor Richard Herd, best known for his appearances in V, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The China Syndrome, T.J. Hooker and Get Out, has died aged 87.

Comments on season 3 of Killing Eve:

• Lisa Weidenfeld shares her thoughts on the season 3 finale of Killing Eve.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 3 finale of Killing Eve.
  

Awards:

• The longlist for the 2020 Dagger Awards has been announced.
• The finalists for the 2020 CrimeFest Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2020 Shamus Awards have been announced.
• The longlist for the 2020 Davitt Awards has been announced.
• The winners of the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards have been announced.
• The winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Awards have been announced.
• The nominees for the 2020 Munsey Awards have been announced. 
• The nominees for the 2020 Bafta TV Awards have been announced 
• AudioFile Magazine has announced the winners of the Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Jodi Turchin shares five ways to put the fun back into writing. 
• Janice Hardy explains why you should tighten the narrative focus of your novel. 
• Drew Murray talks about writing a technothriller. 
• Thomas O'Callaghan talks about writing and researching his crime novels.
• Alison Flood reports how some authors are feeling the need to adapt their fiction to the corona virus pandemic. 
• Tochi Onyebuchi talks about the duty of the black writer in times of unrest in the US. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch discusses how book promotion has changed over the decades. 
• Angela Yuriko Smith talks about marketing without marketing. 
• Victoria Strauss shares some tips for evaluating publishing contracts. 
• Claire Kirch reports that three agents have left the Red Sofa Literary agency in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after the owner called the police to report protesters as potential looters
• Foz Meadows shares her experiences with the Red Sofa Literary agency. 
• The Mystery Writers of America have released a statement in support of Black Lives Matter and the current protests.
• Sarah McNally declares that the corona virus isn't the greatest threat to New York City's independent bookstores.
• Ann Kjellberg profiles the Black Stone Bookstore in Ypsilanti, Michigan.  
• Mike Glyer reports that the science fiction bookstore Uncle Hugo's and the mystery bookstore Uncle Edgar's have been burned down and that the science fiction and comic book store Dreamhaven Books has been vandalised during the riots following the death of George Floyd by police violence in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 
• Dylan Thomas also reports about the arson attack on Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's bookstores in Minneapolis. 
• J. Kingston Pierce also reports about the destruction of Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's. 
• Mike Glyer offers an update about the arson attack on the Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's bookstores.
• Claire Kirch reports about various Minneapolis bookstores damaged or destroyed during the riots.
• Rich Johnston reports that eight comic book stores in various US cities have been attacked by looters and vandals during the recent riots.
• Katya Reimann shares some additional information about the attempted looting of Dreamhaven Books and Comics in Minneapolis, including the fact that the would-be looters were white young men.
• Jim Milliot reports that five publishers have filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive for copyright infringement regarding their so-called "National Emergency Library". 

Interviews:

• Rick Pullen interviews Tess Gerritsen.
• Dwyer Murphy interviews Patrick Hoffman.
• Nancie Clare interviews Paul D. Marks.
• Alan Petersen interviews Barbara Nickless.
• John Wisniewski interviews A.J. Devlin.
  

Reviews:

• Raven Crime Reads reviews Ash Mountain by Helen Fitzgerald.
• Sandra Mangan reviews The Curator by M.W. Craven. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews Sister Margaret by Travis Myers and Natasha Myers Marsiguerra 
• For Winter Nights reviews Without a Trace by Mari Hannah. 
• For Winter Nights reviews The Pretender's Gold by Scott Mariani. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Black Sun Rising by Matthew Carr. 
• Eileen Brady reviews The Silence by Susan Allott.
• Hank Wagner reviews Die Next! by Jonathan Stone.
• Janet Webb reviews Don't Make a Sound by T.R. Ragan.
• Eileen Brady reviews Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar.
• Sandra Mangan reviews The Blues Don't Care by Paul D. Marks. 
• Paperback Warrior reviews Dead Girl Blues by Lawrence Block. 
• BOLO Books reviews Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas.
• Fatima Bhutto reviews Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translated by Elizabeth Jaquette. 
• Anthony Cummins reviews Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translated by Elizabeth Jaquette. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Voter File by David Pepper. 
• Jamie Goecker reviews Murder House by C.V. Hunt.
• Jim Napier reviews Mr. Campion's Séance by Mike Ripley.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Judge Lu's Case Files by P.A. De Voe.
• Katrina Niidas Holm reviews Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht.
• Cynthia Chow reviews Murder in the Storybook Cottage by Ellery Adams.
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Clutter Corpse by Simon Brett.
• Janet Webb reviews Death by Auction by Alexis Morgan.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder with Clotted Cream by Karen Rose Smith and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander. 
• Ben Boulden reviews Tales of a Sad, Fat Wordman by Ralph Dennis. 

Classics reviews:

• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1932 mystery Murder in Maryland by Leslie Ford.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1949 mystery The Case of the Famished Parson by George Bellairs.
• Paperback Warrior revisits on the 1957 adventure novel The Concubine a.k.a. McCreary Moves In by Morris West 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1957 noir novel The Wife of the Red-Haired Man by Bill S. Ballinger.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1972 police procedural The Cops by Jack Pearl.
• Joe Kenney revisits Hung Up to Die, a 1976 Hardy detective novel by Martin Meyers.
• Joe Kenney revisits Prairie Fire, a 1984 novel in The Executioner men's adventure series by Michael Newton. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1987 detective novel Death on the Rocks by Michael Allegretto
• Paperback Warrior revisits Invasion USSR, a 1988 novel in the MIA Hunter men's adventure series by Jack Buchanan a.k.a. Stephen Mertz and Arthur Moore.

Crowdfunding

• Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's, the beloved science fiction and mystery bookstores in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which burned down during the recent riots following the death of George Floyd by police brutality, are looking for funding to rebuild.
• Dreamhaven Books and Comics, another Minneapolis store damaged during the recent riots, is looking for funding to rebuild.
  

Con and event reports:

• Oline H. Cogdill reports that ThrillerFest in New York City has gone virtual.
• Ali Karim has more information about the virtual ThrillerFest.
• Watch a video about the virtual ThrillerFest.
  

Research:

• Franck Dimatteo and Michael Benson take a look at the deprived childhood of mafia killer Umberto Anastasia. 
• Paul Levinson talks about the problem of police authority.
• Drew Murray explains that some science fiction technology already exists and that criminals can and will use it.
• Carlos Busqued interviews Argentinian serial killer Ricardo Melogno.
• Tatsiana Melnichuk and Tatsiana Yanutsevich report about two brothers on death row in Belarus, the last European country that still has the death penalty.

Free online fiction:

• "Scapegoat" by Nick Kolkowski in Tough.
• "Demonology" by Tom Leins in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Farm-to-Market Road Justice" by Curtis Ipollito in Shotgun Honey.
• "Last Supper" by James D.F. Hannah in Shotgun Honey.
• "The Kiss of the Executioner's Blade" by Cora Buhlert 
• "Sweet Spot" by Bruce Harris in Flash Bang Mysteries.
• "Do You Believe in Magic?" by Judge Santiago Burdon in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Cut From A Different Cloth" by Robert Ragan in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "The Wrong Girl" by Donis Casey in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
• "Busted at the Book Sale" by Margaret S. Hamilton in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
• "Trump and COVID-19" by Robert Cooperman in The Five-Two.
  

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for The Last Days of American Crime. 
• Watch a trailer for I'll Be Gone in the Dark.