Crime Fiction Links of the Week for August 29, 2020
Crime fiction in general:
- Laura Wilson shares the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
- Crime Reads shares ten new mysteries, thriller and crime novels coming out this week.
- Crime Reads shares five debut crime novels to read this August.
- Crime Reads shares six true crime books to read this month.
- Michael Laurence shares eight thrillers with unforgettable antagonists.
- Bella Ellis shares her five favourite real and fictional female detectives.
- Wendy Corsi Straub shares five crime novels where the setting is a character in itself.
- Elizabeth Penney shares five cozy mysteries which feature murders at fun fairs.
- Esme Addison shares cozy mystery set by the seaside.
- S.J. Watson shares six suspense novels set by the seaside.
- Karen Dionne talks about thrillers which turn the home into a place of danger.
- Amber Garza shares five crime novels exploring the relationship between mothers and sons.
- Vanessa Savage talks about fairytales retold as crime stories.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five short and compact paperback novels you can easily read on the go.
- Alison Flood reports that J.K. Rowling a.k.a. Robert Galbraith is returning the Ripple of Hope Award she was given by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights foundation, after the organisation's president criticised Rowling for her transphobic views.
Film and TV:
- Mike McCahill calls One Night in Bangkok a dull and plodding thriller.
- Noel Murray calls Come to Daddy a gory noir comedy.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on episodes 2 and 3 of We Hunt Together.
- Anne Bilson talks about stereotypes of female assassins in movies.
- Ashley Ray-Harris shares her thoughts on the season finale of I May Destroy You.
- Marianne Eloise delcares that I'll Be Gone in the Dark brings sensitivity to true crime series.
- Lucy Mangan shares her thoughts on the true crime documentary The Unbelievable Story of Carl Beech.
- Adrian Horton shares his thoughts on the true crime documentary Driven to Abstraction.
- Radheyan Simonpillai shares his thoughts about the documentary The Prison Within.
- Stuart Heritage interviews the cast of Young Wallander.
- Jude Rogers interviews Alan Davies, star of Jonathan Creek.
- Aisha Tyler interviews Matt Reeves, director of The Batman.
- Hadley Freeman interviews Ralph Macchio, star of Karate Kid and Cobra Kai.
- Otto Penzler calls the 1949 noir movie The Third Man the greatest crime film of all time.
- Olivia Rutigliano explains why the 1972 film The Sting is still the ultimate grifter movie.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 2001 true crime movie Another Life.
- Peter Bradshaw looks back on Sean Connery's career for the actor's 90th birthday.
- Allison Shoemaker shares her love for Murder She Wrote and also offers a look at all the Murder She Wrote merchandise available.
- Tracy Brown reports about Criminal Minds fandom on TikTok.
- Lesley Goldberg reports that Penny Dreadful: City of Angels has been cancelled.
Comments on season 5 of Lucifer:
- LaToya Ferguson offers episode by episode reviews of season 5 of Lucifer.
- Stuart Heritage interviews Tom Ellis, star of Lucifer.
- Chancellor Agard interviews Kevin Alejandro, who plays Dan in Lucifer and also directed an episode.
Comments on Lovecraft Country:
- Alex Brown shares her thoughts on "Whitey's on the Moon", the latest episode of Lovecraft Country.
- Ellen E. Jones shares her thoughts on "Whitey's on the Moon".
- Joelle Monique shares her thoughts on "Whitey's on the Moon".
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "Sundown" and "Whitey's on the Moon".
- Spacefaring Kitten shares her thoughts on Lovecraft Country.
- Sam Stone discusses how Lovecraft Country reveals its characters' greatest fears.
- Marah Eakin interviews Jonathan Majors who plays Atticus Freeman in Lovecraft Country.
- Marah Eakin interviews Courtney B. Vance and Aunjanue Ellis, who play George and Hippolyta in Lovecraft Country.
- Danette Chavez interviews Tony Goldwyn who plays Samuel Braithwaite in Lovecraft Country.
- Angelique Jackson discusses how the marketing campaign for Lovecraft Country highlighted the so-called blerd community.
Comments on Tenet:
- Catherine Shoard calls the long awaited thriller Tenet a palindromic dud.
- Mike McCahill calls Tenet a humourless disappointment.
- Jessica Kiang declares that Tenet dazzles the sense but does not touch the heart.
- Ian Sandwell calls Tenet an original and mindbending take on a spy movie.
- Alex Godfrey calls Tenet James Bond without the baggage.
- Guy Lodge calls Tenet grandly entertaining and a futuristic throwback.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Tenet supremely ambitious and superb cinema,
- Jason Gorber calls Tenet the most Christopher Nolan-ish movie of all time, for better or for worse.
- Steve Rose offers a spoilerish review of Tenet.
- Luke Holland traces how Christopher Nolan became the king of the family friendly action film.
- Beth Elderkin declares that watching Tenet and New Mutants in the theatre is not worth risking catching the corona virus
- Stuart Heritage reports that Tom Cruise actually went to see Tenet in a cinema and posted a video of himself doing so.
- Watch a trailer for Tenet.
Awards:
- The shortlist for the 2020 Ned Kelly Awards has been announced.
- The winners of the 2020 Silver Falchion Awards have been announced.
- Marcie Rendon, author of the Cash Blackbear Mysteries, has been named 2020 Distinguished Artist by the McKnight Foundation.
- Yasmin McClinton, winner of the 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Writers of Color Award, talks about what winning the award means to her.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Wendy Corsi Staub asks several crime fiction authors if and how they are addressing the corona pandemic in their novels.
- Spencer Quinn explains how he learned to write from his mother.
- Charlie Jane Anders explains how revision is the process of turning fake emotion into real emotion.
- Scott Noel, editor of Dreamforge Magazine, explains why he rejects stories.
- Mimi Swartz profiles Vivian Stephens, RWA co-founder and pioneering romance editor.
- Ryan Gilbey asks why authors often get so little money for film rights.
- Alexandra Alter report about supply issues affecting the US book industry due to a printer shortage.
Interviews:
- Dwyer Murphy interviews Carl Hiaasen
- Wendy Heard interviews Jennifer Hillier.
- Hadley Freeman interviews Emma Cline.
- Teresa Dovalpage interviews Uva de Aragón.
- Marshal Zeringue interviews Lisa Black.
- Red Crapet Crash interviews Brad Parks.
Reviews:
- Raven Crime Reads reviews Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh.
- John Valeri reviews The Butcher's Daughter by Wendy Corsi Straub.
- Ray Palen reviews Shadows of the Dead by Spencer Kope
- BOLO Books reviews The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves.
- Ray Palen reviews The Second Mother by Jenny Milchman.
- Ian Mond reviews Sisters by Daisy Johnson.
- Sandie Herron reviews Red Flags by Tammy Kaehler.
- Red Crapet Crash reviews One Step Behind by Lauren North.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews You Again by Debra Jo Immergut.
- Lesa Holstine reviews All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
- BOLO Books reviews All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny.
- BOLO Books reviews And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall.
- Raven Crime Reads reviews Hinton Hollow Death Trip by Will Carver.
- Publishers Weekly reviews The Well of Ice by Andrea Carter.
- Kelly Lasiter reviews The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards.
- Catherine Turnbull reviews Oranges and Lemons by Christopher Fowler.
- Publishers Weekly reviews The Silver Shooter by Erin Lindsey.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Dead-End Detective by Amanda Flower.
- Jenny Maloney reviews Midnight at the Barclay Hotel by Fleur T. Bradley.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Heather and Homicide by Molly MacRae.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Eat, Drink and Be Wary by Devon Delany and tries a recipe from the book.
- Publishers Weekly reviews On Deadly Tides by Elizabeth J. Duncan.
- Kat Hooper reviews Peace Talks by Jim Butcher.
- Crossexamining Crime reviews Bodies From the Library 3, edited by Tony Medawar.
- Paperback Warrior reviews The Best of Manhunt Vol 2, edited by Jeff Vorzimmer.
Classics reviews:
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1937 mystery These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac.
- Cullen Gallagher revisits Death Wears a White Gardenia, a 1938 Mary Carner mystery by Zelda Popkin
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1940 mystery Murder in the Family by James Ronald.
- Cullen Gallagher revisits the 1955 crime novel Who Has Wilma Lathrop? by Day Keene.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1957 crime novel Ride the Gold Mare by Ovid Demaris.
- Paperback Warrior revisits Kill Me in Tokyo, a 1958 Burns Bannion detective novel by Earl Norman a.k.a. Norman Thomson.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1967 mystery A Different Kind of Summer by Gwendoline Butler.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1969 men's adventure novel Gannon's Vendetta by John Whitlatch.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1977 Brother Cadfael historical mystery A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters.
- Nev March revisits the 1977 crime novel Unknown Man #89 by Elmore Leonard.
- Cullen Gallagher revisits the 1978 detective novel Some Die Hard by Stephen Mertz a.k.a. Stephen Brett.
- Sam Jordison revisits the 1986 mystery A Taste for Death by P.D. James.
- Raven Crime Reads revisits the 2000 gangster novel Layer Cake by J.J. Connolly.
Con and event reports:
- Ayo Onatade shares the program for the now virtual 2020 Bloody Scotland crime fiction festival.
- Ayo Onatade shares the program for the virtual crime writing festival SlaughterFest.
- Crossexamining Crime reports about the virtual 2020 International Agatha Christie Festival.
- Janet Rudolph reports that the 2021 Left Coast Crime festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been rescheduled for 2022.
- The 2020 WriteNow! Conference organised by the Sistser in Crime Desert Sleuths Chapter in Phoenix, Arizona, is going virtual.
- The virtual BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival is open for registration.
- Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on virtual crime fiction festivals.
Research:
- Niko Vorobyov talks about drug wars in South Africa and the legacy of Apartheid.
- Alan Feuer talks about the mythology surrounding Mexican druglord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán.
- Jennifer Graeser Dornbush remembers what it was like to grow up as the daughter of a coroner.
- Brandy Schillace talks about a 1909 murder in Ohio and how forensics specialists were called up as expert witnesses for the first time.
- Carter Covington reports about the murder of Ashley Zhao and the cover-up that followed.
- Travis McDade shares the inside story of an eight miilion US-dollar heist at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Laura Griffin talks about the ubiquity of surveillance cameras.
- "Whiteout" by G.M. Malliet in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
- "The Cardboard Box by Terrence Faherty in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
- "Poison" by Winston Bribach in Shotgun Honey.
- "Before the Storm" by Beau Johnson in Shotgun Honey.
- "Count Me Out" by Bern Sy Moss in Mystery Tribune.
- "Aperture" by Michael Carter in Mystery Tribune.
- "Alex's Choice" by Barb Goffman in Crime Travel.
- "Indiana Cold" by John Patrick Robbins in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Nitrous Oxide" by Ian Lewis Copestick in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "The Fruit Cellar" by Lindey Grant in The Five-Two.
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