Crime Fiction Links of the Week for September 5, 2020
Crime fiction in general:
- Crime Reads shares twelve crime novels, mysteries and thrillers to read this September.
- Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week.
- Crime Reads shares six true crime books to read this month.
- The creators of the mystery series Grantchester shares their seven favourite crime novels.
- Tori Eldridge explains that we need crime fiction, because the world is a dark and dangerous place.
- Deon Meyer discusses crime fiction and the power of verisimilitude.
- Paul French talks about the crime novels of Istanbul.
- Maaza Mengiste talks about noir from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- Milan Polk talks to black women writers of crime fiction about the difficulties they have faced.
- Alyssa Cole shares five ways to think about social justice in crime fiction.
- Lyndsay Faye shares her appreciation for the works of Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett.
- Paperback Warrior traces the crime writing career of interior designer Richard Himmel.
- Annie Lampman shares diverse novels by women set in remote places.
- Deborah Sheldon shares the top ten dark novels written by women.
- Marit Weisenberg shares six crime novels featuring teenagers and young adults with secrets.
- Chris Mooney shares six genre bending novels.
- Ellie Marney explains why thrillers and horror fiction are so popular during the corona pandemic.
- Matthew Farrell shares his love for the true crime genre.
- Carla Woodson takes a look at the romance comics of the 1960s.
- AFP reports that an offensive term has been removed from the French title of the Agatha Christie novel now known as And Then There Were None.
- Crime fiction writer Dorothy Simpson has died aged 87.
Film and TV:
- Dwyer Murphy offers an overview of all the new crime movies and series streaming in September.
- Stuart Jeffries calls Strike: Lethal White daft, dark hokum.
- Rebecca Nicholson calls Two Weeks to Live a dark action comedy.
- Lanre Bakare praises the heist movie The Duke and shares the true story that inspired it.
- Xan Brooks declares that the crime thriller Amants is more style than substance.
- Alasdair Stuart shares his thoughts about 21 Bridges.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of We Hunt Together.
- Eleni Theodoropoulos shares her appreciation for the TV series Monk.
- Garrick Webster takes a look at the Senegalese crime show Sakho & Mangane.
- Adrian Horton shares his thoughts about the true crime documentary The Vow.
- Radheyan Simonpillai calls The Mole Agent the most unusual documentary of the year.
- Brian Greene revisits the 1982 neo-noir movie Hammett.
- K.A. Laity revisits the 1994 supernatural noir movie Witch Hunt.
- Jesse Hassenger revisits the 2017 crime movie Good Times.
- Damon Wise interviews David Lynch, creator and director of Twin Peaks.
- Ryan Gilbey discusses how drones are transforming filmmaking.
- Jessica Murray reports that future Batman Robert Pattinson has tested positive for COVID-19 and that production has been halted on the film.
- Actress Lori Nelson, best remembered for Revenge of the Creature and I Died a Thousand Times, has died aged 87.
Tributes to Chadwick Boseman:
- Actor Chadwick Boseman, best known for Black Panther, 21 Bridges and Da Five Bloods, has died of cancer aged only 43.
- Marc Malkin and Alex Stedman share reactions from co-stars and others to the death of Chadwick Boseman.
- Molly Blackall shares reactions from actors, politicians and sports figures to the death of Chadwick Boseman.
- Ryan Gilbey remembers Chadwick Boseman.
- Clint Smith shares a tribute to Chadwick Boseman.
- Peter Bradshaw shares a tribute to Chadwick Boseman.
- Vincent Schilling shares a tribute to Chadwick Boseman.
- Halle Kiefer shares the tribute of Letitia White, who played Shuri in Black Panther, to Chadwick Boseman.
- Steve Rose explains how Chadwick Boseman changed film forever.
- Andrew Tejada declares that Chadwick Boseman's legacy will live on after his death.
- Ben Child wonders if and how the Black Panther series will continue after Chadwick Boseman's death.
- Keith L. Alexander has some advice for parents of young Black Panther fans how to tell them about Chadwick Boseman's death.
- Inspired by the death of Chadwick Boseman, Pam Belluk asks why more younger people and more black people are dying of colon cancer.
- Watch Marvel Entertainment's video tribute to Chadwick Boseman.
Comments on Young Wallander:
- Joel Golby calls Young Wallander a nordic noir prequel that will leave viewers cold.
- Ellen E. Jones isn't happy about the decision to set Young Wallander in the present day rather than in the 1960s/70s.
- Stuart Heritage interviews the cast and crew of Young Wallander.
Comments on season 5 of Lucifer:
- LaToya Ferguson shares her thoughts on "Spoiler Alert", the latest episode 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 "Holy Ghost", the latest episode of Lovecraft Country.
- Ellen E. Jones shares her thoughts on "Holy Ghost".
- Joelle Monique shares her thoughts on "Holy Ghost".
- Kinitra D. Brooks shares her thoughts on "Holy Ghost".
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on "Holy Ghost".
- Philissa Cramer complains about an anti-semitic trope rearing its ugly head in Lovecraft Country.
- Marah Eakin interviews Jurnee Smollett, one of the stars of Lovecraft Country.
Comments on Tenet:
- A.A. Dowd calls Tenet a sleek time travel thriller that's more confusing than exciting.
- David Sims enjoyed Tenet and wants to watch it again, which he fears is not a good idea under the current conditions.
- Katie Rife and A.A. Dowd discuss Tenet.
- Leo Barraclough reports about sound problems with Tenet.
- Ralph Jones delcares that the muffled dialogue of Tenet is a common problem with modern films.
- Mark Sweeney reports that Tenet has already grossed more than 50 million US-dollars worldwide.
Awards:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Maria Romasco-Moore recounts how serving on a grand jury inspired her latest novel.
- Charlie Jane Anders shares twelve ways to keep the fun of writing alive.
- Hepzibah Anderson explains what early drafts of classic novels explain about the writing process.
- Emma Christie talks about social media and how it influenced her latest novel.
- August Norman talks about the inspiration for his latest crime novel Sins of the Mother.
- Spencer Kope talks about book collecting and the thrill of the hunt.
- McKenzie Jean-Philippe offers an overview of black-owned bookstores in the US.
- I Love Libraries wonders how library cats feel during the corona pandemic.
- Ann Cleeves explains why she is funding bibliotherapists.
Interviews:
- Anita Sethi interviews Denise Mina.
- Sarah Weinman interviews Steph Cha.
- Catherine Turnbull interviews S.J. Watson.
- Deborah Kalb interviews Brad Parks.
- Lex Berman interviews Seb Doubinsky.
Reviews:
- Angie Barry reviews When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole.
- Declan Burke reviews The Dirty South by John Connolly.
- Louis Bravos revies The Pyramid by Henning Mankell, translated by Ebba Segerberg and Laurie Thompson.
- Publishers Weekly reviews The Nesting by C.J. Cooke.
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Frozen by Ann Cleeves.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Fool's Run by Sidney Williams.
- For Winter Nights reviews Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi.
- Janet Webb reviews Three Perfect Liars by Heidi Perks.
- Raven Crime Reads reviews The Innocent Dead by Lin Anderson.
- Kate Kellaway reviews Brixton Hill by Lottie Moggach.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim.
- Sara Collins reviews The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Death Above the Line by Janet Dawson.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Oranges and Lemons by Christopher Fowler.
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Coral Bride by Roxanne Brouchard, translated by David Warriner.
- Joy Kluver reviews The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.
- Book'd Out reviews The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.
- Sandie Herron reviews The Silence of the Library by Miranda James.
- Lesa Holstine reviews One For the Books by Jenn McKinlay.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Dough or Die by Winnie Archer and tries a recipe from the book.
- Sandie Herron reviews Decaffeinated Corpse by Cleo Coyle.
- Janet Webb revies Doggone Dead by Dane McCaslin.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Grave Secrets by Alice James.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Grave Secrets by Alice James.
- Lesa Holstine reviews The House on Widows Hill by Simon R. Green.
Classics reviews:
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1931 Mr. Pinkerton mystery Two Against Scotland Yard a.k.a. The By-Pass Murder by David Frome a.k.a. Zenith Jones Brown.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1942 mystery Don't Monkey With Murder by Elizabeth Ferrars.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1944 mystery Checkmate to Murder by E.C.R. Lorac.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1946 Kosuke Kindaichi detective novel The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Louise Heal Kawai.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1955 Timothy Dane detective novel Hell is a City by William Ard.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1957 crime novel Night Extra by William P. McGivern.
- Cullen Gallagher revisits the 1960 crime novel The Three-Way Split by Gil Brewer.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1960 crime novel Home is the Prisoner by Jean Potts.
- Cullen Gallagher revisits the 1961 Cool and Lam mystery Shills Can't Cash Chips by A.A. Fair a.k.a. Erle Stanley Gardner.
- Judith Tarr revisits the 1977 gothic romance Velvet Shadows by Andre Norton.
- Paperback Warrior revisits Miami Blues, a 1984 Hoke Moseley hardboiled novel by Charles Willeford.
- Joe Kenney revisits Miami War Zone, a 1988 novel in the MIA Hunter series by Jack Buchanan a.k.a. Bill Crider.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1994 Judge Deborah Knott mystery Shooting at Loons by Margaret Maron.
Con and event reports:
Crowdfunding:
- Chris Garcia and Vanessa Applegate need help, because their home was affected by the California wildfires.
- Pandemonium Noir, a tabletop roleplaying game inspired by Weird Tales, is looking for funding.
- Andrew Tan has started a petition to save the comic series John Constantine: Hellblazer from cancellation.
Research:
- Patrick Freyne interviews Joseph O'Callaghan, the youngest person to be placed in a witness protection program in Ireland.
- Kimberly C. Moore reports about the so-called "astronaut love triangle" case.
- Andrew Pyper takes a look at the paranormal history of the White House.
Free online fiction:
- "Old-Fashioned" by N.B. Turner in Shotgun Honey.
- "Missionaries" by Christopher David Rosales in Shotgun Honey.
- "Burning the Mistake" by Katalina Bryant in Shotgun Honey.
- "More Stars Than You'd Think" by Justin Bendell in Mystery Tribune.
- "Ten-Wide" by Mark Cotton at Akashic Books.
- "Looking for Ida's Chevy" by Bud Sabelhaus in Flash Bang Mysteries.
- "Death on D Street" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- "The Big Job" by Ian Lewis Copestick in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "English Teacher, or An Institutional Nightmare" by Emory D. Jones in The Five-Two.
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