Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 4, 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 Inheritance, A White, White Day, recommendations for true crime podcasts, the latest event cancellations and virtual events due to the corona virus and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares twelve crime novels, mysteries and thrillers to read this July. 
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week.
• Alison Flood asks several crime fiction writers how they came up with their most famous detective characters.
• Lisa Levy continues her overview of crime novels and thrillers with the word "girl" in the title.
• Leah Konen discusses the women writers of crime and suspense fiction whose novels Alfred Hitchcock adapted. 
• Crossexamining Crime discusses the influence of P.G. Wodehouse on classic crime fiction. 
• Neil Nyren offers a guide to the works of P.D. James. 
• Chip Mosher shares his appreciation for the works of Charles Willeford.
• Katherine St. John shares eleven crime novels about vacations gone horribly wrong.
• Katie Tallo shares ten crime novels about returning home.
• S.W. Lauden traces the connection between popular music, crime fiction and crime fact.
• Lydia Kang shares novels about the messy history of medicine.  
• Sulari Gentill declares that crime fiction trains us for crisis.
• Alison Flood reports that Lee Child has admitted that he doesn't particularly like his most famous character Jack Reacher.
  

Recommendations for true crime podcasts:

• Hannah J. Davis shares the ten most gripping crime podcasts.
• Lizzy Steiner shares ten true crime podcasts to listen to this summer. 
• Kit Frick talks about the rise of the true crime podcast novel. 
• The Guardian recommends true criem podcasts.

Film and TV:

• Dwyer Murphy offers an overview of all the crime and mystery programming streaming in July.
• Paul Levinson calls the French crime drama Bathazar a mix of Quincy and The Fugitive.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Hightown.
• Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Snowpiercer. 
• Danette Chavez shares her thoughts on the season 1 finale of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. 
• Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.  
• Danette Chavez shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Search Party. 
• Ashley Ray-Harris shares her thoughts on the latest episode of I May Destroy You. 
• Rebecca Nicholson shares her thoughts about the true crime documentary A Killer Uncaged. 
• Chris Godfrey interviews Pierce Brosnan, best known for playing Remington Steel and James Bond.  
• Marah Eakin interviews Patton Oswalt, actor and husband of Michelle McNamara, author of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, upon which the eponymous true crime series is based.   
• Zoe Williams interviews actors and musicians Martin and Gary Kemp, best known as members of Spandau Ballet and for their roles in The Krays.
• Mike D'Angelo revisits the 1936 disaster movie San Francisco. 
• Otto Penzler revisits the 1960 suspense thriller Psycho. 
• Gwen Ihnat revisits the 1972 disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure.
• Otto Penzler revisits the 1973 caper movie The Sting.
• Martin Edwards rewatched the 1973 horror thriller Nothing But the Night.
• Olivia Rutigliano revisits the 1975 disaster movie Jaws.
• Scott Tobias revisits the 1980 disaster film parody Airplane!
• Patrick Gomez revisits the 1996 disaster movie Daylight. 
• Stuart Heritage makes fun of director Christopher Nolan's aversion to chairs on set. 
• Actor and director Carl Reiner has died aged 98. 

Comments on Inheritance:

• Ellen E. Jones calls Inheritance a preposterous and paperthin thriller. 
• E.J. Moreno declares that Inheritance doesn't even manage to be so bad that it becomes good.
  

Comments on A White, White Day:

• Kevin Maher calls A White, White Day a slow burn Icelandic thriller. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls A White, White Day an edge-of-your-set psychological thriller. 
• Jamie East calls A White, White Day grgeous yet unsettling to watch.
• Chris Machell shares his thoughts on A White, White Day.
  

Awards:

• The longlist for the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Awards has been announced.
• The winners of the 2020 British Book Awards have been announced.
• The winner of the 2020 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award has been announced.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Shanna Swendson shares some tips for writing through difficult times.
• Charlie Jane Anders declares that the most powerful thing a story can do is show how people change. 
• Leonard Goldberg talks about originality in writing and why it's overrated. 
• Brenda Clough shares yet more ways to tank your writing career.
• F.J. Bergman explains how to piss off a poetry editor.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch explains what to do about late payments from publishers and agents.
• Laurie Hertzel shares memories of Uncle Edgar's and Uncle Hugo's bookstores, which burned down during the recent riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  

Interviews:

• Emma Shacklock interviews Karin Slaughter. 
• B.V. Lawson interviews Jane Stanton Hitchcock.
• The Picky Bookworm interviews Ian Patrick.
• Meet the Thriller Author interviews Marc Cameron.
  

Reviews:

• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Cold Malice by Quentin Bates. 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Deep As Death by Katja Ivar. 
• Janet Webb reviews One Last Lie by Paul Doiron.
• Lesa Holstine reviews What You Don't See by Tracy Clark. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole.
• Runalong the Shelves reviews From the Shadow by G.R. Halliday. 
• John Valeri reviews I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Find Me by Anne Frasier.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews You Can Go Home Now by Michael Elias.
• BOLO Books reviews Once You Go This Far by Kristen Lepionka.
• Publishers Weekly reviews Funeral for a Friend by Brian Freeman. 
• BOLO Books reviews Mother Daughter Widow Wife by Robin Wasserman. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews Somebody's Daughter by Carol Wyer.
• Publishers Weekly reviews The Kingdom by Jo Nesbo, translated by Robert Ferguson.
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Finders by Jeffrey B. Burton. 
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews The Corpse with the Crystal Skull by Cathy Ace.
• Publishers Weekly reviews The Shapeshifter's Lair by Peter Tremayne. 
• For Winter Nights reviews The House of Lamentations by S.G. MacLean.
• Janet Webb reviews Murder at Blackwater Bend by Clara McKenna.
• Publishers Weekly reviews Murder in the Bayou Boneyard by Ellen Byron.
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Last Curtain Call by Juliet Blackwell.
• Kat Hooper reviews The Last Curtain Call by Juliet Blackwell.
• BOLO Books reviews Shattering Glass, edited by Valerie Plame and Heather Graham.
  

Classics reviews:

• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1939 Mike Shayne mystery Dividend on Death by Brett Halliday a.k.a. Davis Dresser.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1947 adventure novel The Lonely Skier a.k.a. Fire in the Snow by Hammond Innes. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1948 mystery Death of Jezebel by Christianna Brand 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1951 mystery The Woman in the Wardrobe by Peter Shaffer.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1953 Milo March spy novel No Grave For March by M.E. Chaber a.k.a. Kendell Foster Crossen. 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1965 Maud Silver mystery The Ivory Dagger by Patricia Wentworth.
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1975 detective novel Get Nookie by Ross Webb a.k.a. J.C. Conaway. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits The Captive City, a 1976 Ape Swain men's adventure novel by Daniel Da Cruz.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1979 mystery collection The Speciality of the House by Stanley Ellin. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1995 crime novel Windy City by Hugh Holton.
• Steven Nester revisits the 1997 crime novel King Suckerman by George Pelecanos.
  

Con and event reports:

• Catherine Turnbull looks ahead at the virtual Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.
• MurderCon in Raleigh, North Carolina, has gone virtual due to the corona virus.
• The 2020 Creatures, Crimes and Creativity Con in Columbia, Maryland, has been cancelled due to the corona virus.
  

Crowdfunding:

• Blacking Out, a crime graphic novel by Chip Mosher and Peter Krause, is looking for funding.
  

Research:

• The BBC reports that Joseph DeAngelo, the so-called Golden State Killer, has pleaded guilty to thirteen murders.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Leg Breakers" by David Harry Moss in Shotgun Honey.
• "Fists and Principles" by John Cooley in Shotgun Honey.
• "Ghillie Suit Man" by Esmeralda Gomez Fisher at Akashic Books.
• "A Steep Grade" by Reed Kuehn at Akashic Books.
• "Not Backing Down" by Robert Ragan in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Vengeance in Cadmium Blue" by Margaret Mendel, read by Ariel Lim, in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
• "I Died a Thousand Times: Death #999" by Richei Narvaez in The Five-Two.
  

Odds and ends: 

• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Hannah.
• Watch a trailer for The Nest.
• Watch a trailer for Psych 2.