Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 28, 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 best mysteries and thrillers of 2020, Big Sky, The Undoing and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week. 
• Crime Reads shares the best reviewed crime novels, mysteries and thrillers of November 2020.
  
• Crime Reads shares five true crime books to read this November. 
• Halley Sutton explains how modern writers are reinvigorating classic noir tropes. 
• Andrea J. Johnson talks about the intersection of cozy mysteries and legal thrillers. 
• Catriona McPherson shares her favourite islands in crime fiction. 
• Crime by the Book offers an overview of crime fiction from Iceland.
  
• Nicolas Lietzgau talks about dark romanticism and the gothic.  
• Piper J. Drake reminds us that people of colour and other marginalised people in historical settings are historically accurate.  
• Lish McBride talks about combatting book shame and reading outside your comfort zone. 
• Larissa Irankunda shares bestselling novels which started as NaNoWriMo projects.
• Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett wonders why so many books won't name Donald Trump.
• Paul French shares ten international true crime podcasts to listen to.  
• Mark Aldridge talks about his research about Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. 
  
• Sarah Weinman reports about the short tragic life of Linda Millar, daughter of crime fiction writers Margaret Millar and Kenneth Millar a.k.a. Ross MacDonald.
  
• Science fiction and mystery writer Hayford Peirce and his wife Wanda Zhang Peirce have died aged 78.

 

Best of 2020:

• The Washington Post shares its favourite crime novels and thrillers of 2020.
  
• Bloodhound Books shares its most popular crime novels and thrillers of 2020.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Danette Chavez declares that The Flight Attendant oscillates between thriller and comedy.
  
• Ellen E. Jones calls Jungleland a flimsy boxing drama.
  
• Rebecca Nicholson calls the documentary The Hijacker Who Vanished: The Mystery of D.B. Cooper a real life Twin Peaks.
  
• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky shares his thoughts on the action movie Vanguard and the historical fantasy movie Iron Mask.  
• Zack Handlen shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Fargo. 
• Gwen Ihnat shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Next. 
  
• Mystery Tribune lists the twelve most critically acclaimed thrillers and crime movies available to stream. 
• Dwyer Murphy shares international crime and thriller series available to stream.
  
• Katie Rife discusses five new true crime documentaries available on HBO. 
• Gwen Ihnat revisits the 1948 noir movie Sorry, Wrong Number. 
• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky revisits the 1974 thriller The Yakuza.
  
• Marin Edwards revisits the 2015 thriller A Patch of Fog. 
• Peter Bradshaw shares his ten favourite movie villains.
  
• The Nitrate Diva wonders why dynamite metaphors are so common in noir cinema.
  
• Zach Vasquez takes a look at the influence of John Cassavetes on crime and noir cinema.  
• The Nitrate Diva shares the three best noir movies starring Norman Lloyd. 
  
• Rosanna Greenstreet interviews Jason Isaacs who played Jackson Brodie in Case Histories and Captain Gabriel Lorca in Star Trek Discovery.  
• Stuart Heritage interviews Craig Fairbrass, star of Muscle and other action movies.
  
• Dwyer Murphy shares the twenty best fall jackets and coats in crime movies and TV shows.
  
• The Guardian shares a gallery of iconic film cars. 
  

Comments on Big Sky: 

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Big Sky.
• LaToya Ferguson shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Big Sky.
  

 

Comments on The Undoing:

• Lucy Mangan calls The Undoing a perfect whodunnit that's gripping more than one nation.
  
• Lisa Weidenfeld shares her thoughts on the latest episode of The Undoing.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Undoing.
• Morenna Ferrier reports that a controversy has broken out about a coat worn by Nicole Kidman in The Undoing.
  

 

Awards:

• The winner of the Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year Award has been announced.
  
• The recipients of the 2021 MWA Grand Master and Raven Awards have been announced.
• The shortlist for the 2020 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year has been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2020 Costa Book Awards have been announced. 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Ann Langley explains that writing does not always come easily and how she came to terms with that fact.
• Kate McKean explains that it's perfectly normal to hate what you write.
  
• Gideon Marcus shares some questions to ask yourself whether you are ready for publishing.
  
• Belinda Pollard shares some tips for briefing beta readers. 
• Anthony W. Eichenlaub discusses the pros and cons of independent publishing in 2020.
  
• Gideon Marcus talks about distribution for small presses and indie authors. 
• Gideon Marcus shares some tips for setting up your own publishing company. 
• Gideon Marcus declares that in order to market your books, you must first market yourself. 
• Derek Murphy shares some blogging tips for authors. 
• Patch O'Furr weighs in on Disney's failure to pay Alan Dean Foster and reminds people of Foster's importance to the furry community.  
• Alison Flood reports that employees of Random House Canada are protesting against plans of the company to publish a new book by controversial professor Jordan Peterson. 
  
• Jim Milliot reports that Bertelsmann, who already own Penguin Random House, will also buy Simon & Schuster from Viacom CBS. 
• Jim Milliot reports that the Big Five (soon to be Big Four) publishers have reported big gains in the third quarter of 2020. 
• Charlie Deitch reports that Allegheny County Jail in Pennsylvania limits inmates to only 214 selected e-books, mostly public domain classics, which may only be read on a tablet with high fees.

 

Interviews:

• Sam Briger interviews Anthony Horowitz.
  
• Theresa Talbot interviews Jeffery Deaver. 
• Paula Gail Benson interviews E.A. Aymar a.k.a. E.A. Barres.
• Scott Montgomery interviews Jeff Vorzimmer. 
• Scott Montgomery interviews John T. Davis and Manning Wolfe.
  
• Alan Petersen interviews Jennifer Graeser Dornbush.
  

Reviews:

• Ali Karim reviews The Sentinel by Lee and Andrew Child.
  
• Hank Wagner reviews The Suicide House by Charlie Donlea.
  
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews One by One by Ruth Ware.
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Fallen Angels by Gunnar Staalesen.  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Play the Red Queen by Juris Jurjevics.
• Paul Burke reviews Scatter Her Ashes by Heine Bakkeid, translated by Anne Bruce. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews Poetic Justice by Andrea J. Johnson.
  
• Ray Palen reviews Do Not Disturb by Claire Douglas. 
• NB Magazine reviews The Lost and the Damned by Olivier Norek, translated by Nick Caistor. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews Last Dance by Jeffrey Fleishman.
  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Turncoat by Anthony J. Quinn.
  
• Andrew Hill reviews Hunter Killer by Brad Taylor.
  
• Sandra Mangan reviews Lethal Voyage by Kevin G. Chapman. 
• Tony R. Cox reviews Fools Gold by Ian Patrick. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews The March Fallen by Volker Kutscher, translated by Nial Sellar.
  
• Mystery Tribune reviews Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March. 
• For Winter Nights reviews The Mitford Trial by Jessica Fellowes.
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
• Noelle Holton reviews Fifteen Coffins by Tony J. Forder.
  
• Jean Gazis reviews The Book of Lamps and Banners by Elizabeth Hand. 
• Kirkus reviews Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz. 
• Swiftly Tilting Planet reviews Hot to Trot by M.C. Beatong and R.W. Green.
  
• Lis Carey reviews A Murderous Tangle by Sally Goldenbaum.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Murder at the Bake Sale by Lee Hollis. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Gingerdead Man by Maya Corrigan and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Kat Hooper reviews Dead Man in a Ditch by Luke Arnold.  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Dead Man in a Ditch by Luke Arnold.  
  
• John Valeri reviews Murder She Wrote: Murder in Season by Jon Land and Jessica Fletcher.
  

Classics reviews:

• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1938 Dr. Basil Willing mystery Dance of Death by Helen McCloy.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1941 mystery Murder at Liberty Hall by Alan Clutton-Brock.
• Shaun Osborne revisits the 1951 mystery collection The Memoirs of Solar Pons by August Derleth.  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1972 mystery Cobweb by Pat Flower.
  
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1975 police procedural Rape Squad by Simon Wolf 
  
• Steven Nester revisits the 1976 political thriller Crisscross by Harmon Henkin. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1977 Tessa Crichton mystery Scared to Death by Anne Morice a.k.a. Felicity Shaw. 
  
• Judith Tarr revisits the 1981 children's adventure novel Ten Mile Treasure by Andre Norton.
• Joe Kenney revisits End Game, a 1993 novel in the Cybernarc science fiction men's adventure series by Robert Cain.

Con reports:

• Walker Martin reports about the 2020 Pulp Adventurecon in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. 

Research:

• Shaun Bythell asks what's the worst kind of book thief.
  
• Alvin Ward lists the twelve most haunted roads in America.
• Amanda Holpuch reports that a helicopter pilot has found a strange monolith in a remote part of Utah, while counting sheep.
  

 
Free online fiction:

• "Felon" by Garbiel Heller in Tough.
  
• "Short Timer" by David Tromblay in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Pacific" by Dennis Trafoya in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Neighbors" by K.A. Williams in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "Serious Business" by Brian Beatty in Mystery Tribune.
• "The Thanksgiving After" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
• "The Little Angel" by Billy Kring in Mystery People. 
• "The Clown" by K.A. Laity in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Easy Mark" by Rena J. Worley in The Five-Two.
• "Exclusive Preview" of Code of Silence by Phillip Jordan