Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 24, 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 tributes to Jill Paton Walsh, the latest adaptation of Rebecca, Lovecraft Country, The Trial of the Chicago Seven, the latest delay of the James Bond film No Time to Die and other blockbusters and its impact on the UK cinema industry and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week.
• Crime Reads shares six debut crime novels to read this October.
  
• Paul French talks about crime fiction set in Toronto, Canada. 
• Rose Carlyle shares seven thriller which take readers to far-off places.
  
• R.V. Raman wonders why there are so few murder mysteries in India. 
• Peter Colt shares his favourite amateur sleuths.
  
• Ben Creed shares his six favourite cold war crime novels.
  
• Avery Bishop shares five thrillers which explore mean girl culture. 
• Emily Danforth talks about lesbian relationships in gothic horror. 
• John Woods talks about the intersection of noir and horror.
  
• Steven Erickson discusses the relationship between authors and literary criticism. 
• Hector DeJean talks about pop songs about crime. 
• Lizzy Steiner shares ten true crime podcasts about politics.  
• Ela Bittencourt shares her appreciation for the works of Brazilian crime fiction author Rubem Fonseca.
  
• Mystery writer Jill Paton Walsh has died aged 83. 
• Martin Edwards remembers Jill Paton Walsh.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Benjamin Lee calls I'm Your Woman a retro thriller that goes from marvelous to middling.
• Andrew Pulver calls A Call to Spy a historical espionage drama that avoids clichés. 
• Cath Clarke praises the performance of Olivia Cooke in the Irish heist comedy Pixie.
  
• Ellen E. Jones finds a lot to admire about the MMA fighting thriller Huracán.
  
• Zack Handlen shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Fargo. 
• William Hughes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Archer.  
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1955 crime comedy The Ladykillers.
  
• Mike D'Angelo revisits the 1955 thriller Diabolique. 
• Gwen Ihnat revisits the 1963 soy thriller Charade.
  
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1971 horror thriller Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?  
• Craig D. Lindsey revisits the 1984 thriller Body Double. 
• Katie Rife revisits the 2009 thriller Mother.
  
• Jesse Hassenger revisits the 2013 thriller Stoker.
  
• Camestros Felapton revisits the 2017 action film Fate of the Furious. 
• Marah Eakin interviews Adam Brody, star of The Kid Detective.
  
• Hannah J. Davies interviews Samuel L. Jackson, who appeared in Star Wars, Avengers, Pulp Fiction and lots of other things.  
• Jimmy Kimmel interviews former Batman Michael Keaton.  
• Steve O'Brien explains why writers' rooms make for great television. 
  
• Jamie Doward reports that EON Productions, who produce the James Bond movies, receive millions in UK tax credits   
• The Guardian reports that actor Jeff Bridges, best known for Starman, True Grit, The Fabulous Baker Boys and lots of other roles, is suffering from lymphoma.  
  

 
Comments on the latest version of Rebecca:

• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls the new Rebecca a laughable misfire. 
• Gwen Ihnat compares the 1940 and 2020 versions of Rebecca.
• Cameron Scheetz interviews Ann Dowd, best known for her roles in Rebecca and The Handmaid's Tale.  
• Inspired by Rebecca, Shirley and The Haunting of Bly Manor, Steve Rose wonders why haunted house movies are making a comeback.
  
• Christina Lane takes a look behind Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1940 adaptation of Rebecca.
  
• Anne Billson shares the ten best adaptations of Daphne du Maurier's novels. 
• Kit Frick shares her thoughts on the unnamed narrator of Rebecca.
  

 
Comments on The Trial of the Chicago Seven:

• Paul Levinson declares that The Trial of the Chicago Seven is a little too fictional for a docudrama.
• A.A. Dowd calls The Trial of the Chicago Seven yet another Aaron Sorkin courtroom drama
• Marah Eakin interviews Mark Rylance who plays the lawyer in The Trial of the Chicago Seven.

 
Comments on Lovecraft Country: 

• Alex Brown shares her thoughts on "Full Circle", the season finale of Lovecraft Country.
• Ellen E. Jones shares her thoughts on "Full Circle".
• Joelle Monique shares her thoughts on "Full Circle".
• Tyler Dean shares his thoughts on season 1 of Lovecraft Country.
  

 

Comments on the renewed delay of the James Bond film No Time to Die and other movies and its impact on the ailing movie theatre chains: 

• Catherine Shoard and Andrew Pulver interviews several people who work in the UK film insutry about the continued impact of the pandemic onto the industry.
  
• Scott Campbell reports that the movie theatre chain AMC will run out of money in six months.
• Zoe Wood reports that the British movie theatre chain Everyman is laying off 400 employees. 
  
• Kate Hutchinson reports about various people working in arts and culture who has to retrain and find other jobs due to the covid pandemic.
  

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2020 CWA Dagger Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2020 Anthony Awards have been announced.
• The winners of the 2020 Barry Awards have been announced.
• The shortlist for the 2020 Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year Award has been announced and is open for voting.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch declares that there is not just one way to succeed in writing and tells writers to write what they love. 
• Dean Wesley Smith also tells writers to write what they love.
• Seraphina Nova Glass explains how to write a novel in three months. 
• Charlie Jane Anders discusses the importance of a strong narrator. 
• Stuart Turton declares that mixing genres is all about messing with structure. 
• Molly Spencer talks about juggling writing and motherhood.
  
• Ginger Smith explains what collecting comic books and toys taught her about writing.
• Jim Milliot reports that book sales are surprisingly strong. 
• Elizabeth A. Harris reports that independent bookstores in the US are not doing well during the corona pandemic.
  
• Elizabeth Stamp reports about the striking architecture of the Dujiangyan Zhongshuge bookstore in Chengdu, China.
• Locus reports that Barnes & Noble suffered a cyberattack and that customers' personal data may have been accessed.
  

 

Interviews:

• The Guardian interviews Jeffery Deaver.
  
• Alan Peterson interviews Noelle Holton. 
• Scott Montgomery interviews Mark Pryor. 
• Lisa Haselton interviews John Casey. 
• Crime Time interviews Cathi Unsworth. 
• Marshal Zeringue interviews Antony Johnston.
  
• Locus interviews Naomi Kritzer.

Reviews:

• Lesa Holstine reviews Dreaming Death by Heather Graham. 
• Benjamin Boulden reviews Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden.
  
• Rachael McKenzie reviews Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith a.k.a. J.K. Rowling. 
• Raven Crime Reads reviews The Nesting by C.J. Cooke.
• Cullen Gallagher reviews The Boise Longpig Hunting Club by Nick Kolakowski. 
• Cullen Gallagher reviews Rattlesnake Rodeo by Nick Kolakowski. 
• Russell James reviews Crocodile Tears by Mercedes Rosende.
  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry.
  
• BOLO Books reviews The Last Resort by Susi Holliday.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Santa Monica by Cassidy Lucas. 
• Ray Palen reviews Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy. 
• Robin Agnew reviews Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen.  
• Angie Barry reviews Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood.
  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews City of Ghosts by Ben Creed.
  
• Mike Parker reviews Play the Red Queen by Juris Jurjevics. 
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison. 
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Dead Man in a Ditch by Luke Arnold. 
• For Winter Nights reviews The Devil and Dark Water by Stuart Turton.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Knit of the Living Dead by Peggy Ehrhart and tries a recipe from the book. 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Solace of Bay Leaves by Leslie Budewitz. 
• Benjamin Boulden reviews Tampa Bay Noir, edited by Colette Bancroft.
  

Classics reviews:

• Scott Peoples revisits the 1840 detective story "The Man of the Crowd" by Edgar Allan Poe. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1941 hardboiled novel Solomon's Vineyard by Jonathan Latimer. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1942 mystery No Coffin For the Corpse by Clayton Rawson.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1945 suspense novel Blood from a Stone by Ruth Sawtell Wallis. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1954 adventure novel Satan Takes the Helm by Calvin Clements.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1970 war novel A Piece of This Country by Thomas Taylor. 
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1980 science fiction thriller Star Driver by Lee Correy a.k.a. G. Harry Stine. 
• Cullen Gallagher revisits the 1981 adventure novel Razorback by Peter Brennan. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1986 men's adventure novel Hatch's Island by Don Merritt.
  
• Joe Kenney revisits Crackdown, a 1987 novel in the Kane's War men's adventure series by Nick Stone. 
  
• Simon Stephenson revisits the 1991 mystery thriller The Crow Road by Iain Banks.
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1998 police procedural Good Cop, Bad Cop by Barbara D'Amato.
  

 

Con reports:

• Oline H. Cogdill reports about the virtual 2020 Bouchercon.
• The Back Room announces a series of virtual crime fiction events.
  

 
Research:

• Megan Rosenbloom talks about the 1828 execution of William Corder for murdering his lover Ann Marten and the subsequent afterlife of his executed corpse as a macabre bit of memorabilia.
  
• Jonathan Daniel Wells reports about a wave of kidnappings of black citizens of New York City in the early 19th century to sell them into slavery in the South.
• Daco Auffenorde talks about the so-called White Death train disaster in Wellington, Washington, in 1910.
• Doris V. Sutherland notes a revival of the so-called Satanic Panic of the 1980s in the QAnon conspiracy theory and alt-right circles in general. 

Free online fiction:

• "Changing of the Guard" by Beau Johnson in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Mamet and Son" by Beau Johnson in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "The Chimp" by K.A. Laity in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Basement Dweller" by Stanton McCaffery in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Room Service" by B.L. Conradis in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "The Day After St. Valentines Day" by Stephen Golds in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "Assisted Suicide" by Brian Wells in Daily Science Fiction.  
• "Policing" by Linda Lerner in The Five-Two.

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for I'm Your Woman.
• Watch Bruce Willis returning to the role of John McClane in a car battery commercial.