Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 10, 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 Enola Holmes, Lovecraft Country, 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:

• Alison Flood offers a round-up of the best recent thrillers.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week. 
• Lisa Levy shares five psychological thrillers to read this October.
  
• Bryn Greenwood explains why she is proud to have her books called crime fiction.
• Romy Hausmann shares her five favourite German thrillers. 
• C.J. Cooke shares eight thrillers that bring an uncanny slant to the natural world.
  
• Heather Redmond shares seventeen crime fiction series that feature real historical figures as detectives.
  
• Kirsty Manning shares eight historical thrillers featuring real life treasures. 
• Lisa Unger talks about the portrayal of con artists in fiction, film and real life.
  
• Sophie Hannah shares the top ten underrated Agatha Christie novels. 
• Susan Amper talks about Edgar Allan Poe and his crypto-mysteries.
  
• Olivia Rutigliano profiles Catherine Louisa Pirkis and her character, the Victorian lady detective Loveday Brooke. 
• Curtis Evans reports about the letters exchanged between Raymond Chandler and fellow crime writer James M. Fox.
  
• Alison Flood reports that a previously unpublished humor piece by Raymond Chandler will be published for the first time this month. 
• Hillel Italie reports that an obscure work by Agatha Christie has also been published for the first time.
• Richard Lea reports that various writers have called for dropping the charges against Zimbawen novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga for incitation of violence.
• Alison Flood reports that several North American writers have signed an open letter in support of trans rights in response to the J.K. Rowling a.k.a. Robert Galbraith transphobia controversy.
  

 

Film and TV: 

• Garrick Webster shares his fifteen favourite international crime dramas. 
• Stuart Jeffries calls Tommy a liberating police procedural undone by a white saviour routine.
  
• Zack Handlen shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Fargo.
• William Hughes shares his thoughts on "Best Friends", the latest episode of Archer.   
• Gwen Ihnat calls Next a high stake cyber terror thriller.
  
• Gwen Ihnat calls Devils a bloodless financial thriller.
  
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1956 death row drama Yield to the Night. 
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1964 serial killer thriller The Strangler.
  
• Natalie Devitt revisits the 1965 cult movie Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
  
• Scott Tobias revisits the 1990 gangster movie Miller's Crossing for its 30th anniversary. 
• Mike D'Angelo revisits the 2000 legal drama Erin Brockovich.
  
• Camestros Felapton revisits the 2011 action movie Fast Five. 
• Camestros Felapton revisits the 2013 action movie Fast and Furious 6 and finds that it is actually a fantasy film.
  
• Megan Nolan revisits the 2013 serial killer drama The Fall and wonders why it is so compelling. 
• Ryan Gilbey interviews Kevin Bacon who was in everything.
  
• Fred Oyango explains why Netflix is a lifeline for African filmmakers.
  
• Stuart Heritage wonders whether Clint Eastwood's next movie Cry Macho will be the ultimate Clint Eastwood movie. 
• Evangelia Galanis shares more about the decision of actress Ruby Rose to leave Batwoman after only one season.  
  

 
Comments on Enola Holmes: 

• Hector DeJean shares his thoughts on Enola Holmes and discusses the character of  Eudoria Holmes with several Sherlockians.
• Alasdair Stuart shares a spoilerish review of Enola Holmes.
• Arwa Mahdawi reports about the lawsuit the Arthur Conan Doyle estate filed against the producers of Enola Holmes for depicting Sherlock Holmes having emotions.
• Brianna Robinson shares eleven books and series to read after watching Enola Holmes.
  

Comments on Lovecraft Country: 

• Joelle Monique shares her thoughts on "Jig-a-Bobo", the latest episode of Lovecraft Country.
• Ellen E. Jones shares her thoughts on "Jig-a-Bobo".
• Alex Brown shares her thoughts on "Jig-a-Bobo".
  

 

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

• Benjamin Lee reports that No Time to Die, the upcoming 25th James Bond film, has been delayed again until spring 2021 
• Jim Waterson and Julia Kollewe report about the impact the renewed delay of No Time to Die has on the already beleaguered British cinemas. 
• Peter Bradshaw accuses the James Bond producers of being cowardly and killing off the British movie theatres. 
• Ryan Gilbey wonders whether Hollywood and movie theatres will survive a year without blockbusters. 
• Guy Lodge declares that Tenet, which did open in cinemas, not only failed to save movie theatres, it may just have killed them for good. 
• Alia Waheed reports that impact of the shutting down of the Cineworld chain in the UK is also being felt in India, cause Bollywood relies on Cineworld for much of its overseas business. 
  
• Catherine Shoard and Anthony Pulver interview several representatives of the British film and theatre industry about the risk posed by the lack of new movies. 
• Tim Richards, head of the Vue cinema chain, declares that his company will survive, but that they need movies to show.
  
• Camestros Felapton declares that he still cannot imagine going to the cinema. 
• Steven Morris reports that British independent cinemas are booming as theatre chains are closing.
  
• The Spy Command reports about the many delays and the tangled history of No Time to Die. 
• Jeff Sneider reports that Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Dune has been delayed until October 2021. 
• Molly Templeton reports that The Batman has been postponed until March 2022. 
• Ben Child declares that if cinemas still exist in 2021, they will be inundated with postponed blockbusters.
  

 

Awards:

• The shortlist for the 2020 Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards has been announced.
  
• The CWA Debut Dagger is open for submissions. 
• The finalists for the 2020 National Book Awards have been announced.  
• Poet Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature. 
  
• Non-binary writer Akwaeke Emezi has declared that they will no longer submit their work to the Woman's Prize for Literature after being asked to provide proof of their legal gender. 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Irene Hannon shares some advice for writing romantic suspense. 
• Sherry Thomas explains how she accidentally became a mystery writer.
• Dean Wesley Smith challenges writers to dare to be bad. 
• Charlie Jane Anders answers the thorny question when it is okay to write from another culture or experience. 
• Paul DalGarno shares some tips for finding the balance between writing and your dayjob. 
• Anna Lee Huber explains how ruins inspire her. 
• Jane Yolen explains how poems and short stories can grow into longer works.
• Alec Marsh talks about the inspiration for his historical crime novel Enemy of the Raj.
  
• Dwyer Murphy shares a video of Elmore Leonard talking about writing.
  
• Candice Carty-Williams tells new writers to submit their books to contests, for even if they don't win, they will be seen.
• Aarian Marshall reports that libraries are increasingly moving to e-books.
• Mike Glyer shares an update on the state of Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's bookstores, which burned down during the riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  

 

Interviews:

• Caitlyn Flynn interviews Gillian Flynn. 
• Blue Book Balloon interviews Sharon Doering. 
• Marshal Zeringue interviews David Heska Wanbli Weiden.
  
• Marshal Zeringue interviews Robert Dugoni.
  
• Garrick Webster interviews Peter Hain. 
• E.B. Davis interviews M.E. Browning.
• Charles McGrath interviews John Banville a.k.a. Benjamin Black.
  

Reviews:

• Janet Maslin reviews The Searcher by Tana French.
  
• The Reading Closet reviews Overkill by Vanda Symon. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Winter Count by David Heska Wanbli Weiden. 
• Marcel Theroux reviews The Abstainer by Ian McGuire. 
• Jim Napier reviews Find Them Dead by Peter James. 
• Crime by the Book reviews The Witch Hunter by Max Seeck.
  
• Angie Barry reviews Only the Women Are Burning by Nancy Burke.
• Colleen Mondor reviews The Loop by Ben Oliver.  
• BOLO Books reviews Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger.
  
• Mike Parker reviews Dear Child by Romy Hausmann. 
• John Valeri reviews Dear Child by Romy Hausmann. 
• Jeff VanderMeer reviews Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh.
  
• Catherine Turnbull reviews To Cook a Bear by Mikael Niemi, translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner.
  
• Alfred Hickling reviews The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.
• Angie Barry reviews A Resolution at Midnight by Shelley Noble.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews A Pretty Deceit by Anna Lee Huber.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Deception by Gaslight by Kate Belli. 
• Janet Webb reviews Murder at Queen's Landing by Andrea Penrose. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Veiled in Death by Stephanie Blackmore and tries a recipe from the book. 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews A Death Long Overdue by Eva Gates. 
• BOLO Books reviews Invitation to Murder, edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman and Marcia Talley. 
• Ray Palen reviews Tampa Bay Noir, edited by Colette Bancroft.
  
• Crossexamining Crime reviews Howdunnit: A Master Class in Crime Writing, edited by Martin Edwards.
  

Classics reviews:

• J.F. Norris revisits the 1921 Pennington Wise mystery The Come Back by Carolyn Wells.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1933 Ebenezer Buckle mystery The Fair Murder a.k.a. The Carnival Murder by Nicholas Brady a.k.a. John V. Turner a.k.a. David Hume.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1945 mystery The Black Eye by Conyth Little.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits Dark Road, a 1946 Jeff DiMarco mystery by Doris Miles Disney.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1948 noir novel Gift of Death by Edward S. Aaron.
  
• Cullen Gallagher revisits the 1952 nautical noir novel Satan Takes the Helm by Calvin Clements. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1955 heist novel Violent Saturday by W.L. Heath 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1956 Mr. and Mrs. North mystery Voyage into Violence by Frances and Richard Lockridge. 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1956 suspense novel The Keys to My Prison by Frances Shelley Wees. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1962 Parker novel The Hunter a.k.a. Point Blank by Richard Stark a.k.a. Donald Westlake.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1962 psychological thriller The Evil Wish by Jean Potts.
• Joe Kenney revisits Candidate's Blood, a 1980 novel in The Penetrator men's adventure series by Lionel Derrick a.k.a. Mark Roberts.
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1997 historical thriller Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon
  

Crowdfunding:

• Anton Stout is looking for funding for his new urban fantasy crime fiction collection Claw and Order.
• Rogues Gallery, a pulp-style adventure novel by Richard A. Knaak, is looking for funding 

 

Con reports:

• The Northern Kentucky Tribune shares the schedule for the virtual Kentucky Book Festival.
  

 
Research:

• Darcy Coates talks about three prolific, but little known serial killers.
• Andrew Nette recounts how the case of the so-called Jukebox killer in 1950s New Zealand was blamed on American crime novels by authors like Mickey Spillane.
• Michael Cannell discusses the 1935 murder of gangster Dutch Schultz and his strangely poetic deathbed statement. 
  

Free online fiction:

• "Pandora's Box" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.  
• "To Keep a Secret" by J.B. Stevens in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "A Night for Chicken Pizza" by John Weebly in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Out Here" by J.C. Davis in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "The X-Factor" by Sebnem Sanders in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "A Love Story" by Tom Barlow in The Five-Two.

 

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Snowpiercer.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Watch.