Crime Fiction Links of the Week for August 15, 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 new Perry Mason, Lovecraft Country, the Agents of SHIELD series finale, Project Power, Spree, the continued travels of Uncle Hugo's and Uncle's Edgars, the mystery and science fiction bookstores that burned down during the Minneapolis riots and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Alison Flood shares the best recent thrillers.
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week.
• Lisa Levy shares five psychological thrillers to read this August.
• Elsa Hart shares her favourite crime short stories. 
• James Galligan explains why he thinks people enjoy reading crime fiction. 
• E.G. Scott discusses the best frenemies in crime fiction. 
• R.J. Jacobs talks about obsession in crime fiction. 
• J.P. Pomare shares several crime novels which discuss the appeal of cults.
• Elisa Shoenberger shares six murder mysteries featuring classical music. 
• Kate Reed Petty shares seven thrillers about filmmakers and subversive art.
• Jo Furness shares ten crime novels based on folk horror.
• Susanna Lee explains how Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels updated the hardboiled detective for the 1970s. 
• David Morrell remembers writing First Blood. 
• Tobias Carroll shares his appreciation for the SFF crime novels of Jeff Noon.
  
• Khurrum Rahman explains how he turned his youth in Hounslow, West London, into a spy thriller.
• Nina Sadowsky explains that writing about psychopaths keeps her sane.
• The Guardian reports that crime fiction author David Jewell got mixed up with an erotica author of the same name.
• Katie Dickinson also reports about the mix-up between the two David Jewells.
• Journalist and crime fiction writer Pete Hamill has died aged 85.
• Cosy mystery author Betty Rowlands has died aged 96.
  

Film and TV:

• Rebecca Nicholson calls the Columbian movie The Great Heist a soapy, high stakes delight. 
• Ellen E. Jones calls Message Man a gory and awkward revenge thriller.
• Ani Bundel shares her thoughts on the season 2 finale of The Alienist: Angel of Darkness. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts about the Swedish crime drama Rebecka Martinsson. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the British crime drama We Hunt Together.  
• Gwen Ihnat says that Teenage Bounty Hunters has a silly premise, but is saved by a charming cast.
• Rory Carroll reports how the Irish crime comedy The Young Offenders has given the Irish city of Cork more attention.
• A.A. Dowd calls Sunless Shadows a heartbreaking prison documentary.
• Ashley Ray-Harris shares her thoughts on the latest episode of I May Destroy You 
• Katie Rife and A.A. Dowd discuss Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy.
• Rosy Cordero interviews Ruby Rose about her decision to leave Batwoman after a single season. 
  
• Tara Brady reports about the upcoming SFF spy movie Tenet and interviews cast and crew. 
• Otto Penzler revisits the 1941 hardboiled movie The Maltese Falcon. 
• Cullen Gallagher revisits the 1952 war movie The Red Ball Express.
• Cora Buhlert revisits the 1965 thrillers Again, the Ringer and The Face of Fu Manchu. 
• Gwen Ihnat shares her appreciation for the soundtrack of the 2000 chain gang movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• A.A. Dowd revisits Lars von Trier's 2000 crime musical melodrama Dancer in the Dark.
• Read John Scalzi's film reviews from the 1990s. 
• Catherine Shoard reports that Sean Connery has been voted best ever James Bond, with Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan in second and third place.  
• Catherine Shoard reports that Dwayne Johnson is now the highest paid actor in the world.  
• Stuart Heritage reports about a rumour that Tom Cruise does not want other actors to run beside him on screen. 
• Film composer Billy Goldenberg who wrote the score for Columbo and many other crime and mystery movies and TV series has died aged 84. 

Comments on the new Perry Mason:

• Allison Shoemaker shares her thoughts on the season 1 finale of the new Perry Mason. 
• Gwen Ihnat interviews Timothy Van Patten, director of Perry Mason.
  

Comments on Lovecraft Country:

• Jacob Oller calls Lovecraft Country delightfully pulpy. 
• Shannon Miller calls Lovecraft Country a stunning horrific look at a grotesque legacy.
• Inspired by Lovecraft Country, Alexis Soloski revisits H.P. Lovecraft's fiction and its adaptations.
• The Takeaway interviews Victor LaValle and Silvia Moreno-Garcia about Lovecraft Country and H.P. Lovecraft in general.
  

Comments on the Agents of SHIELD series finale:  

• Alex McLevy calls the Agents of SHIELD series finale a massive spectacle and bittersweet goodbye. 
• Alan Brown shares his thoughts on the series finale of Agents of SHIELD.
• Alasdair Stuart takes a look at the long strange journey of Agent Daniel Sousa in Agent Carter and Agents of SHIELD.
  

Coments on Project Power:

• Peter Bradshaw calls Project Power an enjoyable action thriller with superhero elements.
• Katie Rife calls Project Power forgettable.

Comments on Spree: 

• Garrick Webster calls Spree a crime film for the digital age.
• Cath Clarke calls Spree a shallow social media thriller.

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Awards have been announced.
• The finalists for the 2020 Claymore Awards have been announced.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Charlie Jane Anders discusses the importance of relationships, when writing characters.
• Lisa McLendon hosts a roundtable discussion about writing during the pandemic. 
• Megan Goldin talks about writing courtroom dramas.
• Jane Johnson remembers a life in publishing. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about merchandise and licensing contracts.
• Alison Flood reports that support funds for UK authors affected by the corona pandemic are running out.
• Mike Glyer offers an update on the status of Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's bookstores which burned during the riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota, two months ago. 
• Mike Glyer also shares a newspaper article about the continued travails of Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's. 
• J. Kingston Pierce also reports about the continued travails of Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's.  
• Jeffrey Meitrodt reports that the bureaucratic tax requirements, which blocked the rebuilding of Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's and many other businesses destroyed during the Minneapolis riots have been removed.   
• Claire Kirch also reports about the situation of the bookstores damages or destroyed by the Minneapolis riots. 

Interviews:

• David Masciotra interviews James Lee Burke. 
• Steve Powell interviews Leah Konen, 
• Marshal Zeringue interviews Julie McElwain.
• Marshal Zeringue interviews Nina Sardowsky.  
• Marshal Zeringue interviews Heather Vogel Frederick.
• Lesa Holstine interviews Patty Callahan.
• Cullen Gallagher interviews Paul D. Brazill. 
• John Wisniewski interviews Dominic Adler.
• John Soltes interviews Charles Ardai.
• Mae Miller Claxton interviews Ron Rash.
  

Reviews:

• Lesa Holstine reviews Deadly Touch by Heather Graham. 
• Cullen Gallagher reviews Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Crosby. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews Back Bay Blues by Peter Colt.
• Publishers Weekly reviews Imperfect Women by Araminta Hall. 
• Zachary Houle reviews Imperfect Women by Araminta Hall.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Wicked Sister by Karen Dionne.
• Publishers Weekly reviews The Wicked Sister by Karen Dionne.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Quiet Girl by S.F. Kosa. 
• Beth Kanell reviews When She Was Good by Michael Robotham.
• Murder by the Book reviews His and Hers by Alice Feeney.
• Craig Sisterson reviews We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Haeberlin.
• No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews He Started It by Samantha Downing. 
• For Winter Nights reviews The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard. 
• John Valeri reviews The First to Lie by Hank Philippi Ryan. 
• Alan Cranis reviews The Truth Hurts by Rebecca Reid.
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Written in Blood by Chris Carter.
• Beth Kanell reviews The Finisher by Peter Lovesey.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Revelators by Ace Atkins. 
• Jim Napier reviews Running from the Dead by Mike Knowles.
• Garrick Webster reviews Rabbit Hole by Jon Richter. 
• Kirkus reviews Indigo by Loren D. Estleman.
• Mike Parker reviews The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Sáenz, translated by Nick Caistor. 
• Michael J. McCann reviews The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Sáenz, translated by Nick Caistor. 
• Radmilla May reviews A Time to Die by Barbara Nadel. 
• James Reasoner reviews The Old Dead Magic by Robert J. Randisi. 
• Martin Edwards reviews Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder in the East End by Jennifer Ashley. 
• Janet Webb reviews The Last Mrs. Summers by Rhys Bowen
• Sandie Herron reviews Watchers of Time by Charles Todd. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Shadows in Time by Julie McElwain. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews Deception by Gaslight by Kate Belli.
• Publishers Weekly reviews Murder by Milk Bottle by Lynne Truss.
• Lesa Holstine reviews Booked for Death by Victoria Gilbert. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Vintage Crime, edited by Martin Edwards.
• Gabino Iglesias reviews Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit and Obsession, edited by Sarah Weinman.
• Publishers Weekly reviews Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History by Susanna Lee.
• Crossexamining Crime reviews 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee & The Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

Classics reviews:

• Martin Edwards revisits the 1946 suspense novel The Unsuspected by Charlotte Armstrong.
• Cullen Gallagher revisits the 1950 Sumuru novel Nude in Mink by Sax Rohmer. 
• Cullen Gallagher revisits the 1957 Fu Manchu novel Re-Enter Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer. 
• Lesa Holstine revisits the 1960 police procedural Case Pending by Dell Shannon a.k.a. Elizabeth Linington.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1961 crime novel Mona a.k.a. Grifter's Game by Lawrence Block.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1962 noir novel Swamp Nymph by John B. Thompson.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1965 crime novella Killer Mine by Mickey Spillane.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1970 mystery Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate by Doris Miles Disney. 
• Joe Kenney revisits Murder Mission!, a 1973 novel in the Soldato men's adventure series by Al Conroy a.k.a. Gil Brewer.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1973 adventure novel Skylark Mission by Ian MacAlister.
• Julia Haeberlin revisits the 1988 thriller The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris.
• Cullen Gallagher revisits the 1997 neo noir novel Rhode Island Red by Charlotte Carter.
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1998 interview collection Speaking of Murder: Interviews with the Masters of Mystery and Suspense, edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1999 Jack Reacher thriller Tripwire by Lee Child.
  

Con and event reports:

• The program for the now virtual St. Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend in Oxford, UK, has been announced.
• The 2020 Noireland Crime Fiction Festival in Belfast, UK, has been cancelled due to the corona virus.
• Brad Zongker reports that the Library of Congress' 2020 National Book Festival will take place online.
  

Crowdfunding:

• The family of pop culture journalist Seb Patrick needs some help after his untimely death.
  

Research:

• Dean Jobb revisits the original Ponzi scheme one hundred years later. 
• Strand Magazine shares ten surprising facts about Prohibition era federal agent Eliot Ness. 
• Rone Tempest talks about the case of Ed Cantrell, a preacher's son who became a police officer in Wyoming and eventually killed a fellow officer.
• Kali White remembers how three paper boys went missing in Iowa in the early 1980s and became the first ever missing children to have their faces printed on milk cartons.
• Megan Vallier how a blogger solved the cold case of eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling who was abducted in 1989.
• Maria Romasco-Moore talks about feral children.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Headless Ticket to Hawaii" by Thomas Pluck in Beat to a Pulp.
• "Future Repeat Offender" by Matt Neil Hill in Shotgun Honey.
• "Favors" by Mike Freveletti in Shotgun Honey.
• "Light and Shadow" by Daria Davis in Flash Bang Mystery.
• "It's a Dry Heat" by Charles West at Akashic Books.
• "Baked in the Cake" by Hillary Lyon in Yellow Mama.
• "Call Me Morbid, But..." by Stephen J. Golds in The Five-Two.
  

Odds and ends:  

• Watch a trailer for Spree.
• Watch a short video of Ian Rankin's Inspector John Rebus, as played by Brian Cox, coping with isolation and the pandemic