Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 18, 2020
Crime fiction in general:
- Crime Reads shares ten new crime novel, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week.
- Alison Flood shares the best recent thrillers.
- Laura Wilson shares the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
- Lisa Levy shares five psychological thrillers to read this July.
- Crime Reads shares the best true crime books for July.
- Glen Erik Hamilton wonders why bad fathers are so popular in crime fiction and thrillers.
- Anna Downes wonders about the popularity of thrillers focussed on houses.
- Alex Gilly rethinks the meaning of border noir.
- Michael Gonzales finds unexpected parallels to noir fiction and the songs of Billy Joel.
- Glen Erik Hamilton talks about Seattle as a setting for crime fiction.
- Xavier Lechard talks about golden age detectives who took justice into their own hands.
- Beatriz Garcia profiles Mexican mystery writer MarÃa Elvira Bermúdez
- Paul French shares some international true crime podcasts to listen to.
- Rhiannon Lucy Cossett reports about the latest death of the novel, this time due to female writers writing books that old white men do not care for.
- Gal Beckerman explains how The Baby-Sitters Club children's books taught him everything he needed to know about fiction.
- Olivia Rutigliano recalls the time Mario Vargas Llosa punched Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez in the face.
- Rudolfo Anaya, initiator of the Chicano literature movement and mystery author, has died aged 82.
Comments on the debate about so-called "cancel culture":
- Several prominent writers and scholars have posted an open letter, complaining about so-called cancel culture.
- Michael Hobbes responds to the open letter signed by several prominent writers and scholars condemning so-called cancel culture.
- Andrew Keen and Osita Nwanevu discuss the open letter condemning so-called cancel culture.
- Gabrielle Bellot responds to the open letter condemning cancel culture.
- Timothy the Talking Cat also speaks out against cancel culture.
Film and TV:
- Ellen E. Jones calls Arkansas a buddy caper movie.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Clemency a devastating death row drama.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Above Suspicion a brash true crime drama.
- Saloni Gajjar calls The Capture a timely and eye-opening surveillance drama.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Disappearance at Clifton Hill a bizarre psycho-melodrama.
- Benjamin Lee calls Fatal Affair a cheap Fatal Attraction knock-off.
- Danette Chavez calls Psych 2: Lassie Come Home a charming midsummer crime comedy.
- Allison Shoemaker shares her thoughts on the latest episode of the new Perry Mason.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Hightown.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on Reckoning.
- Kayla Kumari Updhyaya shares her thoughts on the season 1 finale of Snowpiercer.
- Kate Kulzick shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Ashley Ray-Harris shares her thoughts on the latest episode of I May Destroy You.
- Shilpa Ganatra shares her appreciation for the crime comedy The Young Offenders.
- Adrian Horton shares his thoughts on the true crime series The Business of Drugs.
- Otto Penzler revisits the 1934 crime comedy The Thin Man.
- Otto Penzler revisits the 1947 noir movie Out of the Past a.k.a. Build My Gallows High.
- K.A. Laity discusses the many adaptations of The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.
- Lila Shapiro asks the production staff of several TV crime dramas what it feels like to make a cop show in 2020.
- J. Kingston Pierce discusses the brief vogue for so-called "Wheel" mystery shows in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- Zach Vasquez discusses Joel and Ethan Coen's enduring ties to crime fiction.
- Xan Brooks interviews Malcolm McDowell, star of Clockwork Orange, Time After Time, The Big Ugly and innumerous other films.
- Steve Rose interviews Mike Hodges, director of Flash Gordon, Black Rainbow and Get Carter.
- Ammar Kalia interviews Idris Elba, star of Luther, Pacific Rim and the Thor movies.
- Jake Kanter reports that according to star Idris Elba, a Luther movie may be forthcoming.
- Lorelei Marcus shares her appreciation for actor Tony Randall.
- Wendy Ide wonders whether cinema will survive the corona pandemic.
- Chris Sullivan reports that the historical crime drama Endeavour will end at 33 episodes.
- Paul Hirons reports that the historical crime drama Vienna Blood has been renewed for a second season.
- Actress Naya Rivera, best known for her parts in Glee and CSI Miami, has drowned aged 33.
- Actress Galyn Görg who appeared in Twin Peaks, M.A.N.T.I.S., RoboCop and Point Break has died aged 55.
- Actress Kelly Preston, who appeared in Sky High, Space Camp, Gotti, Battlefield Earth and many others, has died aged 57.
- Peter Bradshaw remembers Kelly Preston.
Comments on The Old Guard:
- Linda Holmes calls The Old Guard a smart blend of action and emotion.
- Emmet Asher-Perrin declares that The Old Guard proves that you don't need a huge badget to make a worthy comic book movie.
- Benjamin Lee is thrilled that a major Hollywood action movie like The Old Guard finally dares to include a gay couple.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls The Old Guard a forgettable action movie.
- James Davis Nicoll shares his thoughts on The Old Guard.
- Devin Coggan interviews Charlize Theron and the rest of the cast of The Old Guard.
- Tim Lewis interviews KiKi Layne, one of the stars of The Old Guard.
- Watch a clip from The Old Guard with a very sweet gay kiss.
Comments on I May Destroy You:
- Hannah J. Davies calls I May Destroy You a true gamechanger for British TV.
- Lanre Bakare talks about moments of horror in I May Destroy You.
- Candice Carty-Williams praises the performance of Michaela Coel in I May Destroy You.
- Nosheen Iqbal profiles Michaela Coel, creator and star of I May Destroy You.
- Alex Ritman interviews Michaela Coel.
- Claire Armitstead interviews Paapa Essiedu, who plays Kwame in I May Destroy You.
Awards:
- The winners of the 2020 ITW Thriller Awards have been announced.
- The nominees for the 2020 Macavity Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2020 Scribe Awards have been announced.
- The shortlist for the 2020 Imadjinn Awards has been announced.
- Colson Whitehead has won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Sung J. Woo explains how he learned to write a mystery novel.
- Catherine Asaro explains where she gets her ideas.
- Charlie Jane Anders declares that a good plot is made of two things.
- Janice Hardy discusses two things every novel must do.
- Michele Tracy Berger talks about writing during difficult times.
- Laurence McNaughton shares four free apps for writers.
- Mike Glyer reports that author Alexandra Duncan has pulled her upcoming novel Ember Days over complaints of cultural appropriation and insensitivity and that Publishers Weekly subsequently pulled an article about the book cancellation.
- Mike Glyer offers an update on the status of Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's bookstores, which burned down during the recent riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Interviews:
- Smith Henderson and Jon Marc Smith interviews each other.
- Marshal Zeringue interviews J. Todd Scott.
- Marshal Zeringue interviews Chris Nickson.
- Deborah Kalb interviews Kevin Myers.
- Mrs. Peabody Investigates interviews Quentin Bates.
- The Real Book Spy interviews Robert Bailey.
- Cole Rush interviews Nadia Odunayo.
Reviews:
- Mike Parker reviews Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Crosby.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Neon by G.S. Locke.
- Michael Patrick Hicks reviews When These Mountains Burn by David Joy.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews The Big Chill by Doug Johnstone.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Shadows by Alex North.
- The Real Book Spy reviews Near Dark by Brad Thor.
- Jim Napier reviews One Good Deed by David Baldacci.
- Ray Palen reviews A Dangerous Breed by Glen Erik Hamilton.
- Ray Palen reviews Clean Hands by Patrick Hoffman.
- Publishers Weekly reviews The Unspoken by Ian K. Smith.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Primary Obsessions by Charles Demers.
- Publishers Weekly reviews The Sicilian Method by Andrea Camillieri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
- For Winter Nights reviews The Split by Sharon Bolton.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis.
- For Winter Nights reviews Island of Secrets by Rachel Rhys.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Wrecked by Mary Anna Evans.
- Garrick Webster reviews The Resident by David Jackson.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Safe Place by Anna Downes.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Tell Me How It Ends by V.B. Grey.
- Mike Parker reviews Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple by Gary Phillips.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Crime in Cornwall by Emma Dakin.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Murder in the Balcony by Margaret Dumas.
- Lesa Holstine reviews A Spell for Trouble by Esme Addison.
- Publishers Weekly reviews The Solace of Bay Leaves by Leslie Budewitz.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder, She Knit by Peggy Ehrhart and tries a recipe from the book.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Of Mutts and Men by Spencer Quinn.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Muzzled by David Rosenfelt.
- Steve J. Wright reviews Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer.
Classics reviews:
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1933 mystery Fatal Shadows by Dorothy Cole Meade.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1937 mystery The Hand in the Glove by Rex Stout.
- Charles Finch revisits the 1947 mystery The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1951 hardboiled crime novel The Chinese Keyhole by Richard Himmel.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1953 crime novel The Snatchers by Lionel White.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1956 mystery The Case of the Flowery Corpse by Christopher Bush.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1960 Matt Helm spy novel The Wrecking Crew by Donald Hamilton.
- Joe Kenney revisits The Kamikaze Assignment, a 1975 novel in the Israeli Commandos men's adventure series by Andrew Sugar.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1977 thriller Rekill by Ian Kennedy Martin.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1977 psychological thriller Making Hate by Jacqueline Wilson.
Con and event reports:
- Killer Nashville in Nashville, Tennesse, has been cancelled due to the corona virus.
- Sister in Crime offers a live webinar called Mystery in the Midlands.
Crowdfunding:
- Artist Jenny Parks has cancer and could use some help.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch explains why Kickstarter is a gamechanger for creatives.
Research:
- Ingrid and Joachim Wall recall the moment they learned that their daughter, journalist Kim Wall, had been murdered.
- Baynard Wodds and Brandon Soderberg talk about corruption in the Baltimore police department.
- Nicholas Griffin reports about a car chase and shootout in Miami, Floride, in 1979.
- Melissa Valentine explains what it feels like to have a brother in prison.
- Karen Strike shares vintage crime scene photos from the Los Angeles Police Department.
- Christiana Schwarz takes a look at the stations of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's lives.
Free online fiction:
- "Lazarus Party" by Colin Alexander in Shotgun Honey.
- "One Small Step" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- "Excess Baggage" by John Patrick Robbins in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Buenas Madrugada" by Judge Santiago Burton in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Besos" by Hector Acosta in Mystery Tribune.
- "That Feeling" by Stephen Golds in Mystery Tribune
- "Fire Bug" by Rusty Barnes in The Five-Two.
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