Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 7, 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 Sean Connery and Rachel Caine, Lucky Grandma, NaNoWriMo advice and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Alison Flood offers an overview of the best recent thrillers. 
• Crime Reads shares ten crime novels to read this November.
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
• Christopher Brown talks about the importance of "the border" in American noir fiction.
  
• John Connolly shares his thoughts on the state of Irish crime fiction. 
• Crime by the Book offers an overview of Norwegian crime fiction.
  
• Paul French takes a look at crime novels set in Cambridge, UK.
• Tara Lush recommends her favourite tropical cozy mysteries.
• Martin Edwards shares mysteries set on Guy Fawkes Night.
  
• Layne Fargo explains how to figure out whether your fictional character is a vigilante or just a plain killer. 
• Bella Ellis shares the story behind her historical mystery series featuring the Bronte sisters solving crimes.
  
• W.L. Ripley talks about the inspiration behind his new crime novel Thunder Storme.
• H.B. Lyle profiles Erskine Childers, pioneering spy fiction writer and Irish revolutionary who was executed for his participation in the Irish Civil War.
• Bob Freeman shares his appreciation for the John Thunstone occult detective tales by Manly Wade Wellman. 
• Leaf Arbuthnot wonders why novels, movies and podcasts are getting ever longer. 
• Spy fiction author Alan Williams died aged 85.
  
• Fantasy, science fiction and thriller author Roxanne Conrad a.k.a. Rachel Caine died aged 58.
• Andrew Liptak remembers Rachel Caine.
• Locus remembers Rachel Caine.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Ellen E. Jones calls Looted an impressive thriller that combines social commentary, poignant drama and lyrical cinematography.
• Carlos Aguilar calls Jungleland a boxing drama with macho tenderness. 
• Zack Handlen shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Fargo. 
• Lisa Weidenfeld shares her thoughts on the latest episode of The Undoing. 
• Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on the thriller The Sister. 
• Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on the thriller Coyote Lake.
  
• Simon Hattenstone interviews Wesley Snipes, star of Blade, Passenger 57, The Expendables and many others.  
• Mike D'Angelo revisits the 1973 caper movie The Sting. 
• Bill Koenig takes a look at a 1997 attempt to revive Hawaii Five-O that never happened.
  
• Anna Swanson shares the fifty best shots from the James Bond movies. 
• Paul Hirons reports that Young Wallander is getting a second series.
  
• British actor Geoffrey Palmer who appeared in Doctor Who, Whoops, Apocalypse and the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies among many others has died aged 93.
  

 

Tributes to Sean Connery:

• Brian Phillips shares a tribute to Sean Connery.  
• Bill Koenig shares a tribute to Sean Connery. 
  
• Aljean Harmetz remembers Sean Connery.  
• Jake Coyle remembers Sean Connery.  
• Vanessa Thorpe shares tributes by co-stars and colleagues to Sean Connery. 
• Micheline Roquebrune, wife of the late Sean Connery, reveals that the actor suffered from dementia towards the end of his life.
  
• Martin Belam and Libby Brooks are outraged by Donald Trump's response to the death of Sean Connery.

Comments on Lucky Grandma:

• Ellen E. Jones calls Lucky Grandma a fun caper movie and praises the performance of Tasi Chin.
• Stuart Jeffries interviews Tsai Chin, star of Lucky Grandma, who also played the daughter of Fu Manchu, a Bond girl and a Chinese immigrant in The Joy Luck Club. 

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Awards have been announced.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Anna Catalano talks about NaNoWriMo. 
• David Barnett explains how to make the best out of NaNoWriMo. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch explains how stories can help you through difficult times.
  
• Charlie Jane Anders explains how writers can control time and space in their writing. 
• Dominic Martell discusses how writers handle the aging or lack thereof of longrunning series characters. 
  
• Susan Cox talks about writers who lost their manuscripts through various mishaps.
  
• Victoria Strauss talks about a new scam aimed at writers.
• Martin Latham declares that bookshops are a sanctuary for everyone.
• Alison Flood reports about Bookshop.org, a platform created as an alternative to Amazon.
  

 

Interviews:

• Molly Odintz interviews Tana French.
• The Real Book Spy interviews Kevin Miller. 
  
• John Wisniewski interviews Tom Vater.
• Alan Petersen interviews Dan Padavona.
• The Gay Mystery Podcast interviews Randy Boyd.
  

Reviews:

• Sandra Mangan reviews The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly.
  
• Ray Palen reviews A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson.
  
• BOLO Books reviews The Witch Hunter by Max Seeck. 
• No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews The Witch Hunter by Max Seeck.
  
• Margaret Agnew reviews The Cabin on Souder Hill by Lonnie Bush.
  
• Crime by the Book reviews The Nesting by C.J. Cooke.
  
• Catherine Turnbull reviews All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny. 
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Betrayal by Lilja Sigurðardóttir, translated by Quentin Bates.
• Adam Colclough reviews Kill a Stranger by Simon Kernick. 
• Sara Townsend reviews When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Petra's Ghost by C.C. O'Cinneide. 
• K.A. Laity reviews Transference by John Bowie.
  
• Cullen Gallgher reviews King of Midnight by Wallace Stroby.
  
• Ali Karim reviews Trojan Horse by S. Lee Manning. 
  
• Joy Kluver reviews The Stasi Game by David Young.
• Katrian Niidas Holm reviews Death Overdue by David S. Pederson.
  
• Benjamin Boulden reviews The Readers' Room by Antoine Laurain. 
• Noelle Holton reviews A Bowl of Cherries by Effie Merryl.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Candy Slain Murder by Maddie Day and tries a recipe from the book. 
• Kat Hooper reviews The Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold. 
  
• Ali Karim reviews The Reacher Guy by Heather Martin.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Ryan Harvey revisits the 1936 weird menace stories "Black Wind Blowing" and "Graveyard Rats" by Robert E. Howard. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1936 crime novel So I Killed Her by Leonard O. Mosley.
  
• Philip Gooden revisits the 1939 mystery novel Catt Out Of the Bag by Clifford Whitting. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1948 mystery This Way Out by James Ronald.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1951 noir novel 13 French Street by Gil Brewer.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1951 Detective Kosuke Kindaichi mystery The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Yumiko Yamazaki. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1953 hardboiled crime novel Bourbon Street by G.H. Otis. 
• Cullen Gallagher revisits the 1953 crime novel Mrs. Homicide by Day Keene. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1964 adventure novel Passage by Night by Hugh Marlowe a.k.a. Henry Patterson a.k.a. Jack Higgins.
  
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1974 men's adventure novel The Liquidator by R.L. Brent. 

 

Con reports:

• Noelle Holton shares her thoughts on the online crime event What a Carve Up!
  

 
Crowdfunding: 

• The tabletop roleplaying game The Dee Sanction: Elizabethan Agents of the Supernatural is looking for funding.  
• The family of the late science fiction writer Debra Doyle needs some help with the funeral costs.
• SFF writer Adam-Troy Castro and his wife Juli have become victims of identity theft, had their accounts cleared out and are losing their home and need help.
  

 

Research:

• Olivia Rutigliano traces the history of the Bow Street Runners, London's first police force, and its connection to novelist Henry Fielding.
  
• Matthew Hart talks about the odyssey of a rare pink diamond.
• Thomas Doherty chronicles the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr. and the chaotic investigation that followed.
• Julie Miller reports how Amelia Norman stabbed her faithless former lover in 1843 and created a media sensation.
  
• Nev March discusses the still unsolved murder of the Godrej sisters in Mumbai, India, in 1891.   
• Michael Gonzales talks about the murder of actress and drug dealer Jennifer Stahl in New York City in 2001.
  
• Summer H. Paulus talks about the origins of Halloween and its traditions.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Killers and Samaritans" by Marie S. Crosswell in Tough. 
• "Dolla Dolla Bill Wall" by David James Keaton in Tough. 
• "Contact Tracing" by Nick Kolakowski in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "The Hard Time" by Stephen J. Golds in Shotgun Honey. 
• "On Being Fourteen and Rolling a Drunk" by Stephen J. Golds in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "The Thread" by Collin Jones in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Don't Want to Die in Jersey" by Judge Santiago Burton in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Not Everyone Lived" by Jack Weddle in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "The Voice, The Hands, and Rattlesnake Rodeo" by Nick Kolakowski in Criminal Element.
  
• "Updates" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a video of a 3D printed Zoetrope reenacting the slaughter of the innocents.