Crime Fiction Links of the Week for September 26, 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 debate about Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith a.k.a. J.K. Rowling, Enola Holmes, White Collar, Lovecraft Country, season 11 of Archer, the virtual Bloody Scotland festival and much
more.
Crime fiction in general:
Crime fiction in general:
- Mystery Tribune shares the sixteen best crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this September.
- Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
- Crime Reads shares five debut crime novels to read this September.
- Crime Reads shares six true crime books to read this September.
- Lisa Levy hosts a roundtable on sex in crime fiction.
- Araminta Hall explains how midcentury thriller writers rebelled against the image of the perfect woman created by advertising.
- Martin Edwards lists ten detective story writers of the golden age who deserve to be better known.
- Richard Osman attempts to explain why British people love murder mysteries so much.
- Tara Cheesman offers an introduction to the Japanese honkaku mysteries.
- Keith Roysdon takes a look at mystery series for young readers.
- Smith Henderson and Jon Marc Smith share ten classic American literary novels that are actually crime fiction.
- Philip K. Zimmerman reports about Ludwig Wittgenstein's love for hardboiled crime fiction and pulp magazines.
- Gordon McAlpine explains why crime fiction writers are so fascinated by The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, both as a novel and an object.
- Lizzy Steiner shares eight true crime podcasts to listen to this fall.
- Alona Ferber interviews Judith Butler about the J.K. Rowling/Robert Galbraith transphobia controversy among other things.
- Alison Flood reports that Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith a.k.a. J.K. Rowling sits at number 1 of the UK bestseller lists in spite of the transphobia charges levelled against book and author.
Film and TV:
- Caroline Framke calls Ratched an inscrutable, gratuitiously unpleasant origin story.
- Danette Chavez shares her thoughts on the season 4 premiere of Fargo.
- Mark Lawson wonders whether the British honour killing drama Honour focusses too much on the police and not enough on the victim.
- Saloni Gajjar calls the Israeli thriller Tehran an uneven mix of real world tensions and emotional drama.
- A.A. Dowd calls The Trial of the Chicago Seven a zingy, corny courtroom drama.
- Anne Easton shares her thoughts on the true crime drama A Wilderness of Error.
- Phil Hoad declares that Schemers needed more bite.
- Katie Rife and A.A. Dowd discuss The Nest and The Devil All the Time.
- K.A. Laity revisits the 1939 supernatural noir film Miracles for Sale.
- Zack Budryk revisits the 1990 gangster film Miller's Crossing for its 30th anniversary.
- Guy Lodge revisits Martin Scorsese's 1990 mafia drama Goodfellas for its 30th anniversary.
- Noel Murray revisits the 1998 crime movie A Simple Plan.
- Camestros Felapton shares his thoughts on the 2001 action movie The Fast and the Furious, which he watched for the very first time.
- Camestros Felapton also wtaches the 2003 sequel 2Fast 2Furious for the very first time.
- Mike D'Angelo revisits the 2002 crime comedy Welcome to Collinwood.
- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky revisits the 2017 caper movie Logan Lucky.
- Hannah J. Davies interviews Adrian Lester, star of Hustle.
- Nicole
Sterling and Brooke Barnes report that audiences are still not
returning to movie theatres, even though there actually are new movies
again.
- Stuart Heritage reports about rumours that Tom Hardy will be the next James Bond.
- Joe Otterson reports that a Nick Fury series starring Samuel L. Jackson is planned at Disney Plus.
- Jennifer Maas reports that the crime drama Stumptown has been cancelled after only one season due to the corona pandemic.
- Actor and stuntman Ernie F. Orsatti, best known for falling through a skylight in The Poseidon Adventure, has died aged 80.
- Actor Michael Lonsdale, best known for playing Hugo Drax in the James Bond movie Moonraker, has died age 89.
Comments on Enola Holmes:
- Steve Rose declares that Enola Holmes lives up to its feminist ideals.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Enola Holmes an amiable, starstudded mystery.
- Jesse Hassenger calls Enola Holmes disappointing and dull.
- Shannon Connellan reports about a free online game that ties in to Enola Holmes.
Comments on season 11 of Archer:
Comments on White Collar:
Comments on Lovecraft Country:
- Joelle Monique shares her thoughts on "Meet Me in Daegu", the latest episode of Lovecraft Country.
- Ellen E. Jones shares her thoughts on "Meet Me in Daegu".
- Alex Brown shares her thoughts on "Meet Me in Daegu".
- Marah Eakin interviews Misha Green, showrunner of Lovecraft Country.
- Jana Nyman reviews Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff, the novel the eponymous series is based upon
Awards:
- The winner of the 2020 Glass Key Award has been announced.
- The winner of the 2020 Banjo Prize has been announced.
- The winners of the 2020 Emmy Awards have been announced
- The 2021 Claymore Award is open for submissions.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Charlie Jane Anders declares that the unexamined story is not worth writing.
- Suyi Davies Okungbowa talks about worldbuilding through extrapolation.
- Judtih Tarr explains why it is important to write horses right.
- The Writers' Police Academy has gone virtual.
- Garth Nix shares his experiences working as a bookseller.
- Cory Doctorow wonders about the market dominance of Audible.
- Alex Green reports about bookseller unions.
Interviews:
- Sally McDonald interviews Lee Child.
- Crime Reads interviews Craig Johnson.
- Lina Das interviews Lynda La Plante.
- Frank Zafiro interviews Walter Mosley.
- Scott Montgomery interviews Joe Lansdale.
- Molly Odintz interviews Ruth Ware.
- Ayo Onatade interviews Kate Simants.
- The Real Book Spy interviews Glen Erik Hamilton.
Reviews:
- The Real Book Spy reviews The Sentinel by Lee and Andrew Child.
- Scott Montgomery reviews Next to Last Stand by Craig Johnson.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Next to Last Stand by Craig Johnson.
- Mike Parker reviews Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Murder, Forgotten by Deb Richardson-Moore.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Hermit by S.R. White.
- Joy Kluver reviews Stone Cold Trouble by Amer Anwar.
- Ray Palen reviews Imperfect Women by Araminta Hall.
- Ray Palen reviews And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Innocent Dead by Lin Anderson.
- The Real Book Spy reviews Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly.
- BOLO Books reviews The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi.
- Raven Crime Reads reviews The Seven Doors by Agnes Ravatn.
- The Real Book Spy reviews One True Patriot by Sean Parnell.
- The Real Book Spy reviews The Last Agent by Robert Dugoni.
- John Valeri reviews The Last Agent by Robert Dugoni.
- Joy Kluver reviews City of Spies by Mara Timon.
- Alex Preston reviews V2 by Robert Harris.
- Tim Adams reviews The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman and The Diver and the Lover by Jeremy Vine.
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.
- For Winter Nights reviews The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.
- Mark Yon reviews Dead Man in a Ditch by Luke Arnold.
- Angie Barry reviews A Pretty Deceit by Anna Lee Huber.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Fifteen Minutes of Flame by Christin Brecher and tries a recipe from the book.
- Amelia Gentleman reviews Dancing with the Octopus by Deborah Harding.
- Ayo Onatade reviews The Reacher Guy: The Authorised Biography of Lee Child by Heather Martin.
Classics reviews:
- Jerry's House of Everything revisits the 1933 Spider novel Wings of the Black Death by Grant Stockbridge a.k.a. Norvell Page.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1935 Inspector French mystery Crime at Guildford by Freeman Wills Crofts.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1938 crime novel The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake a.k.a. C. Day Lewis.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1938 mystery Motive by Marie Belloc Lowndes.
- Jerry's House of Everything revisits the 1949 Shadow novel The Magigals Mystery by Maxwell Grant a.k.a. Walter B. Gibson.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1953 hardboiled crime novel The Net by Edward Ronns a.k.a. Edward Aarons.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1954 mystery Conjurer's Coffin by Guy Cullingford.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1955 crime novella In a Small Motel by John D. MacDonald.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1955 mystery Gideon's Fire by J.J. Maric a.k.a. John Creasey.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1964 crime novel God's Back Was Turned by Harry Whittington.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1974 men's adventure novel Mafia Operation Hijack by Don Romano a.k.a. Paul Eiden.
- Vicki Weisfeld revisits the 1975 humorous crime novel Brothers Keepers by Donald E. Westlake.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1976 crime novel Shadow Show by Pat Flower
Con reports:
- Cora Buhlert shares her experiences at the virtual Bloody Scotland crime fiction festival.
- The Tartan Noir Show reports about the virtual Bloody Scotland.
- Ayo Onatade reports about the virtual Bloody Scotland festival.
- The International Thriller Writers organisation has announced a virtual Winter Thrills event.
Crowdfunding:
- Actor Michael Hogan, who appeared in the new Battlestar Galactica, Teen Wolf, Fargo, The Man in the High Castle and many others, suffered a serious brain injury due to an accident and needs help.
- Cory Doctorow is looking for funding to produce the audiobook for Attack Surface, the third Little Brother book.
Research:
- Amika Mota reports about being used for cheap prison labour to fight wildfires in California.
- Sam Levin reports about the case of Kao Saelee, another prison firefighter from California, who was rearrested as soon as he had served his sentence and is to be deported to Laos, a country he left as a small child.
- Rachel Howzell Hall talks about the difficulties of disappearing in the modern world.
- George Anastasia and Ralph Cipriano report about the case of Dr. James Kauffman, who not only was a drug dealer but also murdered his wife.
- Debora Harding reports about being kidnapped, raped and held for ransom as a teenager and how she didn't trust her memories of the event for many years, because her mother insisted that it never happened.
- The BBC reports that stolen rare books worth 2.5 million pounds have been found under the floor of a house in Romania.
Free online fiction:
- "Notes from the Undertaker" by Paul Kindlon in Mystery Tribune.
- "Blue Buns" by Joe Surkiewicz in Shotgun Honey.
- "The Man with the Moist Lips" by Patrick Whitehurst in Shotgun Honey.
- "Homicidal Hubby" by Cindy Rosmus in Yellow Mama.
- "Messed Up Tattoo" by D.V. Bennett in Yellow Mama.
- "Bird Hearts Racing" by Amy Holman in The Five-Two.
- "noir at the heart of murder" by Eliana Vanessa in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Small Skeletons" by Kristin Garth in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Endure" by J.B. Stevens in Punk Noir Magazine.
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