Crime Fiction Links of the Week for March 20, 2021

 

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 Courier, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Get Carter at 50, tributes to Yaphet Kotto and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Laura Wilson shares the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels and thrillers coming out this week. 
• Stephen King recommends his ten favourite authors of pulpy crime novels. 
• Rod Davis attempts to define Texas Noir. 
• Crime by the Book shares their favourite supernatural mysteries and thrillers.
  
• Nadine Matheson wonders why people are so obsessed with psychopaths. 
  
• Angeline Boulley shares five novels about solving crimes in native communities.
• Debbie Babitt shares eight coming of age thrillers. 
  
• Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman share six riveting thrillers about ultra-conservative parents.
• Elizabeth Brooks talks about gothic fiction and its fascination with incestous sibling relationships. 
• Bruce Riordan discusses the evolution of John Le Carré's George Smiley. 
  
• Nick Cornwell a.k.a. Nick Harkaway remembers his mother Jane, crucial but unsung collaborator to his father David cornwell ak.a. John Le Carré.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Lucy Mangan calls Grace a twisty race against time and praises the performance of John Simm.
• Martin Edwards praises the BBC series The Terror. 
• Leslie Felperin calls Assault in Station 33 an unthrilling Die Hard rip-off. 
• Phil Hoad calls Russian Raid a steroid laden action film.
  
• Cath Clarke calls Silk Road an underpowered Silicon Valley crime thriller. 
• Paul Levinson calls The One a good science fiction mystery.
  
• Ellen E. Jones calls Sky Rojo a trashy but entertaining human trafficking drama from Spain.
  
• Cath Clarke calls Josie & Jack a shockingly lifeless incest drama. 
  
• Joel Golby calls The Flight Attendant a twisty but funny mystery and praises the performance of Katy Cuocco. 
• James Donaghy shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Unforgotten. 
• Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Snowpiercer.  
• Danette Chavez shares her thoughts on season 3 of Mayans M.C.
• Sarah Ann Harris shares her love for the British mystery TV show Midsomer Murders. 
• Zoe Williams is troubled by the fact that so many British crime dramas tend to feature the bloody murder of women. 
• Andrew Pulver shares his thoughts on the true crime documentary Killing Escobar. 
  
• Lucy Mangan calls Allen vs. Farrow a one-note documentary. 
• Stephen Robinson declares that the documentary Q: Into the Storm exposes the banality of the Q-Anon movement.
  
• William Boyle discusses the transmedia work Fire Bones.
• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky revisits the 1964 Pink Panther crime comedy A Shot in the Dark.
• Nuts4R2 revisits the 1966 thriller The Brides of Fu-Manchu.  
• Zach Vasquez revisits the 1981 neo-noir movie Cutter's Way for its 40th anniversary.
  
• Olivia Rutigliano revisits the 1993 version of The Fugitive and notes that part of it takes place on St. Patrick's Day.
  
• Stuart Heritage interviews Henry Lloyd-Hughes, who plays Sherlock Holmes in The Irregulars.
• Tim Lewis interviews Kevin Macdonald, director of The Mauritanian
• Peter White reports that the latest version of the Equalizer has been renewed for season 2.
• Peter White also reports that the British serial killer drama Bloodlands has been renewed for series 2.
• Yaphet Kotto, star of Alien, Live and Let Die and Homicide: Life in the Streets, has died aged 81.
• Alex McLevy remembers Yaphet Kotto. 

 

Comments on The Courrier: 

• Mike D'Angelo declares that even Benedict Cumberbatch can't make the spy movie The Courier exciting. 
• Marah Eakin interviews Benedict Cumberbatch, star of The Courier. 

 

Comments on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier:

• Benjamin Lee declares that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is off to a sturdy start.
  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw declares that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is already a political quagmire. 
• Germain Lussier interviews Malcolm Spellman, showrunner of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
  
• Jomi Adeniran shares a guide to which Marvel movies to watch before The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
  
• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares a brief history of the Falcon and the Winter Soldier in the comics.

 

Comments on Get Carter at 50:

• Andrew Nette revisits the 1971 gangster film Get Carter for its 50th anniversary.  
• Nick Triplow revisits the 1970 neo-noir novel Jack's Return Home by Ted Lewis, the basis of the 1971 movie Get Carter.
  

 

Awards: 

• The winner of the Icelandic Blóðdropinn (Blood Drop) Award has been announced.
• The finalists for the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards have been announced.  
• The finalists for the 2021 NAACP Image Awards have been announced with some love for crime fiction.  
• The winners of the 2021 Spur Awards have been announced.
• The nominationsn for the 2021 Razzie Awards have been announced.
• The nominations for the 2021 Academy Awards have been announced with little love for genre film, but at least Chadwick Boseman gets a posthumous nod.

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Emma Stonex talks about retelling history as fiction. 
• Heather Young talks about writing thrillers and mysteries in one.
  
• Kim Neville explains how reading mysteries made her a better fantasy writer. 
• Catriona Ward talks about the inspiration for her crime novel The Last House on Needless Street.
  
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch explains how Kickstarter can be a gamechanger for writers.
  
• Geoffrey A. Fowler discusses how Amazon is impacting libraries.
• Mike Glyer reports about bad behaviour from Longshot Press.
  
• Victoria Strauss warns about Paper Bytes Marketing Solutions.
• Julie Alexander reports that bookbinders are turning fanfiction into physical editions.
  

 

Interviews:

• Justine Jordan interviews Catriona Ward. 
• Deborah Kalb interviews J.A. Jance.
• Crime by the Book interviews J.T. Ellison.
• Crime by the Book interviews C.J. Cooke
  
• Sandra Mangan interviews Peter Swanson.
• Debbi Mack interviews Laurie Buchanan.
• Nancie Clare interviews Jess Montgomery.
• Rosemary Kaye interviews Claire MacLeary. 
• E.B. Davis interviews Amy Pershing. 
  
• Queer Writers of Crime interviews Wendy Heard.
• Suspense Magazine interviews Joel Rosenberg.
• Tony Parsons interviews Paul Burke.
  

Reviews:

• Ray Palen reviews Transient Desires by Donna Leon.
  
• Bitter Tea and Mystery reviews Silence in the Streets by Adrian McKinty. 
• Scott Montgomery reviews All the Cowboys Ain't Gone by John J. Jacobson.
  
• Sandie Herron reviews Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger.
  
• Sandie Herron reviews Copper River by William Kent Krueger. 
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex. 
• BOLO Books reviews Blackout by Marco Carocari.
  
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward. 
• Joy Kluver reviews Trust Me by T.M. Logan.
  
• Crime By the Book reviews Her Dark Lies by J.T. Ellison.
• No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews Her Dark Lies by J.T. Ellison.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Last Secret You'll Ever Keep by Laurie Faria Stolarz.
  
• Janet Webb reviews Omerta by Larry Dexter. 
  
• Judith Sullivan reviews The Rapunzel Act by Abi Silver. 
• For Winter Nights reviews The Rose Code by Kate Quinn.
  
• No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews The Takers and the Keepers by Ivan Pope.
• Mike Parker reviews Like Flies From Afar by K. Ferrari, translated by Adrian Nathan West.
• Lis Carey reviews Fireworks in France by Alison Golden.
• Crossexamining Crime reviews Farewell My Herring by L.C. Tyler.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Shucked Apart by Barbara Ross and tries a recipe from the book. 
• Marion Deeds reviews Weaver's Folly by Sarah Madsen. 
• Gabino Iglesias reviews American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950-2000 by Peter Vronsky.

 

Classics reviews:

• Martin Edwards revisits the 1937 mystery The Death of Mr. Dodsley by John Ferguson.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1948 mystery Blueprint for Murder by Roger Bax.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1952 crime novel The Hoodlums by John Eagle a.k.a. George Benet.
  
• Christina Baker Kline revisits the 1955 novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and is boggled by the fact that some people consider it a love story.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1956 mystery The End of the Track by Andrew Garve. 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1959 Hercule Poirot mystery Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1960 noir story "Forever After" by Jim Thompson. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1965 Virgil Tibbs crime novel In the Heat of the Night by John Ball.
  
• Joe Kenney revisits A Dirty Way to Die, a 1975 novel in The Sharpshooter men's adventure series by Bruno Rossi a.k.a. Peter McCurtin and Russell Smith.  
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1980 mystery Murder for Treasure by David Williams.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Ali Karim reports about the virtual book launch party for Into the Fire by Rachael Blok.
• The program for the virtual Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival is now online.
• Ayo Onatade reports that the CWA has designated June National Crime Reading Month in the UK.
• Justin St. Germain chronicles a trip to Holcomb, Kansas, to visit the location of the brutal murder of the Clutter family, as chronicles by Truman Capote in In Cold Blood.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Prosperitea: A Game of Artisanal Tea Blending by Metha Designs is looking for funding.

 

Research:

• Ava Berry discusses how the death of Marilyn Monroa in 1963 ushered in an era of morbid curiosity about celebrity deaths.
• Felicia Yap talks about the use of predictive algorithms in policing.
• Alafair Burke talks about the racist dimensions of the Atlanta shootings.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Death in Rancho Las Amigas" by Gary Toltl Kinman in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
• "Death Wish" by Susan Cornford in Mystery Tribune.
• "Dial M for..." by Bruce Harris in Shotgun Honey. 
• "The Quiet/Loud Dynamic" by Scott Cumming in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Por Fin" by Lago Milagros in Shotgun Honey.
• "Lemmings" by Jay Butkowski in Shotgun Honey.
• "Little Miracles" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 
• "Murder They Say" by Sharon Lask Munson in The Five-Two.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for The Irregulars.  
• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Lupin.