Crime Fiction Links of the Week for September 12, 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 Young Wallander, Lovecraft Country, Tenet, tributes to Chadwick Boseman and Diana Rigg and much
more.
Crime fiction in general:
Film and TV:
Tributes to Diana Rigg:
Tributes to Chadwick Boseman:
Comments on Young Wallander:
Comments on Lovecraft Country:
Crime fiction in general:
- Molly Odintz lists the most anticipated crime novels and mysteries of fall 2020.
- Alison Flood offers a round-up of the best recent thrillers.
- Greg Levin shares his twelve favourite neo-noir authors.
- David Heska Wanbli Weiden explains why indigenous crime fiction matters.
- Nell Pattison shares five mysteries and crime novels featuring deaf characters.
- Neil Nyren offers a guide to the works of Alexander McCall Smith.
- Olivia Rutigliano reports that Elliott Roosevelt, son of Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt, wrote a series of murder mysteries featuring his mother as a sleuth.
- Mystery writer Gary Alexander died aged 79.
Film and TV:
- Martin Edwards compares Strike: Lethal White and the 2015 crime drama Black Work.
- Olivia Rutigliano ranks the thirty-five most iconic caper movies.
- Mike McCahill calls Hard Kill a mindnumbing action thriller.
- Phil Hoad calls Savage a moving street gang drama from New Zealand.
- Xan Brooks calls And Tomorrow the Entire World a crime drama that skewers left and right.
- Danette Chavez calls Rent-a-Pal a 1980s technothriller throwback.
- Xan Brooks declares that Mandibules, a heist comedy featuring a giant fly, does not quite live up to its bizarre idea.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of We Hunt Together.
- Garrick Webster looks ahead at season 2 of the Australian crime drama Mystery Road.
- Garrick Webster looks ahead at the Swedish crime drama Moscow Noir.
- Stuart Heritage wonders whether the world really needs another adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca.
- Damien Walter declares that the TV show Altered Carbon was always doomed.
- Nick Kolakowski shares five nuanced film noir villains.
- Andrew Nette revisits the 1948 noir movie Kiss the Blood Off My Hands.
- Jasper Sharp revisits Akira Kurosawa's classic 1950 movie Rashomon for its 70th anniversary.
- Katie Rife revisits the 1974 prison exploitation film Caged Heat, which also has the distinction of being Jonathan Demme's first film.
- Noel Murray revisits the 1981 biker drama The Loveless.
- Peter Bradshaw calls the 1995 street gang drama La Haine a timely re-release.
- Roxana Hadadi revisits the 2000 boxing drama Girlfight.
- Peter Bradshow revisits Bong Joon-ho's 2003 thriller Memories of Murder.
- Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on the 2018 serial killer movie Bad Samaritan.
- Sarah Hughes interviews David Tennant, star of the serial killer drama Des.
- Kaleem Aftab interviews Ismael El Iraki, director of Zanka Contact.
Tributes to Diana Rigg:
- Diana Rigg, best known for her roles in The Avengers, Game of Thrones and On Her Majesty's Secret Service, has died aged 82.
- Mark Lawson remembers Diana Rigg.
- Steve Vertlieb remembers Diana Rigg.
- Greg Whitmore shares photos of Diana Rigg in her most memorable roles.
Tributes to Chadwick Boseman:
- Ryan Coogler, director of Black Panther, shares a tribute to Chadwick Boseman.
- Carla Bruce-Eddings shares a tribute to Chadwick Boseman.
- Evan Narcisse shares a tribute to Chadwick Boseman.
- Kim Lyons reports that several Black Panther comics are available for free at Comixology.
Comments on Young Wallander:
- Paul Levinson calls Young Wallander a prequel done right.
- Tannavi Sharma calls Young Wallander a crime series like a labyrinth.
- Adrienne Tyler explains why Young Wallander is set in the present day.
Comments on Lovecraft Country:
- Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys share their thoughts on Lovecraft Country.
- Alex Brown shares her thoughts on "A History of Violence", the latest episode of Lovecraft Country.
- Steffan Triplett shares his thoughts on "A History of Violence".
- Ellen E. Jones shares her thoughts on "A History of Violence".
- Joelle Monique shares her thoughts on "A History of Violence".
- Emma Fraser shares her appreciation for the costumes worn by the character Leticia Lewis, played by Jurnee Smollet, in Lovecraft Country.
- Andrew Liptak interviews Matt Ruff, upon whose novel Lovecraft Country is based.
- Katie Rife and A.A. Dowd discuss Tenet.
- Nate Jones explains the plot of Tenet.
- Inspired by Tenet, Alex Hess discusses the new wave of time travel movies and TV shows.
- Josh Weiss discusses Tenet's use of IMAX cameras.
Awards:
- The winners of the 2020 Strand Critics Awards have been announced.
- The winner of the 2020 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction has been announced.
- Walter Mosley will be awarded the 2020 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
- The Guardian reports about new diversity rules for the Best Picture Oscars.
- Steve Rose wonders whether the Oscars' new diversity rules will make any difference.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw also weighs in on the Oscars' new diversity rules.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Charlie Jane Anders explains how to write a political story without falling on your face.
- Parnell Hall recalls how a medical emergency finally made him finish his first novel.
- Peter Clines talks about the difficulty of writing comedy.
- Cora Buhlert shares her experiences doing the 2020 July Short Story Challenge.
- Rik Hoskins discusses the importance of Feedback.
- Locus discusses the impact of the corona pandemic on the publishing and bookselling industry.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch reports about the current woes of the publishing industry.
- Mike Glyer offers an update on the status of Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's bookstores, which were burned down during the riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Bradford Morrow talks about rare early books by famous writers and how often their true worth is not recognised by used book dealers.
- Claire Kirch reports that the International Thriller Writers organisation is electing a new board after most of the old one resigned following a series of controversies.
Interviews:
- E.B. Davis interviews Ellen Byron.
- Mimi Wong interviews Nancy Jooyoun Kim.
- Murray Scougall interviews Andrew James Greig.
- Deborah Kalb interviews Vanessa Lillie.
- Lisa Haselton interviews Virginia Crow.
- Lisa Haselton interviews Thomas O'Callaghan.
- The Qwillery interviews Alice James.
- Marshal Zeringue interviews Gerald Elias.
Reviews:
- Janet Webb reviews Shadows in Death by J.D. Robb.
- Sandra Mangan reviews House of Correction by Nicci French.
- Bill Selnes reviews The Purity of Vengeance by Jussi Adler-Olsen.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews A Song of Isolation by Michael J. Malone.
- Janet Webb reviews The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves.
- No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole.
- Janet Webb reviews Hidden by Laura Griffin.
- Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Three Bodies by N.R. Brodie.
- Crime by the Book reviews One by One by Ruth Ware.
- Cullen Gallagher reviews Cold in the Grave by Stephen Mertz.
- Angela Cowther reviews The Stranger by Simon Conway.
- Toni V. Sweeney reviews The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard.
- John Valeri reviews Blood World by Chris Mooney.
- She Treads Softly reviews No Woods So Dark As These by Randall Silvis.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Knife Edge by Simon Mayo.
- Cathy Corman reviews Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen.
- Tina Woodbury reviews Whatever It Takes by Paul Cleave.
- Anthony Cummins reviews Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze.
- Kirkus reviews Interference by Brad Parks.
- Men Reading Books reviews Payback by Lorenzo Carcaterra.
- Cullen Gallagher reviews Kiss Her Goodbye by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins.
- BOLO Books reviews The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hannah.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards.
- Crossexamining Crime reviews Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Hanging Falls by Margaret Mizushima.
- Angie Barry reviews A Deception at Thornecrest by Ashley Weaver.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Murder in the Bayou Boneyard by Ellen Byron.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Boston Scream Murder by Ginger Bolton and tries a recipe from the book.
- Sandie Herron reviews Some Like It Hawk by Donna Andrews.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews The Vinyl Detective: Low Action by Andrew Cartmel.
Classics reviews:
- Beneath the Stains of Time revisits the 1932 Anthony Bathurst mystery The Edge of Terror by Brian Flynn.
- Martin Edwards also revisits The Edge of Terror by Brian Flynn.
- J.F. Norris revisits the 1934 domestic suspense novel Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins.
- Publishers Weekly revisits the 1934 mystery Recipe for Murder a.k.a. The Great Hotel Murder by Vincent Starrett.
- Antonia Fraser revisits the 1948 mystery The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1959 crime novel A Ticket to Hell by Harry Whittington.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1961 suspense novel Encounter with Evil by Amber Dean.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1964 mystery The Departure of Mr. Gaudette a.k.a. Fateful Departure by Doris Miles Disney.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1966 spy novel A Dandy in Aspic by Derek Marlowe.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1966 Joaquin Hawks spy novel A Spy in the Java Sea by Bill Ballinger.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1968 spy novel The Billikin Courier by T.C. Lewellen
- Joe Kenney revisits A Promise for Death, a 1975 novel in The Revenger men's adventure series by Jon Messman.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1975 mystery A Country Kind of Death by Mary McMullen.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1979 adventure novel Wilderness by Robert B. Parker.
- Jim Thomsen revisits the 1996 crime novel A Man's Game by Newton Thornburg.
Research:
- Dani Hendrix reports about Italian serial killer Leonarda Cianciulli who made soap and tea cakes from her victims' bodies.
- Michele Caimmi reports about the American 19th century serial killer known as the Servant Girl Annihilator.
- Miles Corwin discusses the still unsolved 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short a.k.a. the Black Dahlia.
- Stephen Dudley explains how MS-13, the USA's most notorious street gang, came to be.
- Tobias Carroll discusses the brief heyday of the true crime magazine Crime Beat in the 1990s.
- Science Daily reports that changes in the chemistry of trees and other plants can help to locate dead bodies.
- August Norman explains how to start your own cult in five easy steps.
- Joseph P. Laycock offers a brief history of exorcisms.
Free online fiction:
- "I Got You" by Zane Castillo in Mystery Tribune.
- "Prophetic Words" by Bruce Harris in Flash Bang Mystery.
- "The Opaque Detachment by Samuel Prince in Shotgun Honey.
- "Shadow Prisons of the Mind" by Caroline M. Yoachim in Lightspeed.
- "Courting Rites" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- "Crow" by Tad Tuleja in The Five-Two.
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