Crime Fiction Links of the Week for May 15, 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 Those Who Wish Me Dead, The Woman in the Window, Oxygen, Mare of Easttown, The Mosquito Coast and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares the most anticipated crime books for summer 2021.
  
• Crime Reads shares new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week. 
• Lisa Levy shares five psychological thrillers to read this May.
  
• Lily Meyer explains how literary fiction is increasingly influenced by crime fiction. 
• S.A. Lelchuck shares nine great thrillers which feature murderous alter egos.
  
• Kaira Rouda talks about the role of wives in psychological thrillers and domestic suspense.
• Jane Rosenthal explains why the area surrounding Highway 99 in California is such a popular setting for crime fiction.
  
• Mary Keliikoa shares her favourite crime fiction writers from Oregon.
  
• H.B. Lyle traces the history of the Baker Street Irregulars. 
• Olivia Rutigliano discusses the persistent mystery of Arthur Conan Doyle's name.
  
• Otto Penzler profiles Mary Roberts Rinehart, bestselling mystery writer of the early 20th century.
  
• Phyllis Richardson talks about Agatha Christie's houses, which inspired the settings of her mysteries. 
• Dr. Sam Hirst talks about the woman writers of the early gothic novel. 
  
• Noemi Arellano-Summer talks about society, class and the police in Tamora Pierce's Provost Dog trilogy.  
• Carmen Maria Machado points out that banning her domestic violence memoir In the Dream House will not protect anybody's children from violence.  
• Emily Temple shares the most discussed books on the internet.
  
• Joshua L.H. Burnett profiles comic strip artist and writer Alex Raymond, creator of Flash Gordon, Secret Agent X-9 and Rip Kirby.  
• Mystery writer Anabel Donald has died aged 76.

Film and TV:

• Matt Goldberg declares that Wrath of Man shows Guy Ritchie at his most brutal and unforgiving. 
• Leslie Felperin calls The Secrets We Keep a pulpy suburban mystery. 
• Roxana Hadadi calls There Is No Evil an elegant and humane anti-death penalty film from Iran. 
• Mike D'Angelo calls The Killing of Two Lovers a superb suspense thriller about toxic masculinity.
  
• Rebecca Nicholson declares that season 4 of Fargo fails to shine. 
• Jesse Hassenger calls Profile a dull thriller about catfishing terrorists.
  
• Cath Clarke calls Great White a familiar and shallow shark thriller.
  
• Charles Bramoesco calls the Danish thriller Riders of Justice umeven and darkly comic. 
• Rob Bricken is troubled by the way Batwoman treats the character of Kate Kane. 
  
• Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Clarice.
  
• Adrian Horton shares his thoughts on the true crime documentary The Crime of the Century.
• Kris Vyas-Myall revisits the 1966 spy film Modesty Blaise.
• Oliver Macnaughton revisits the 1991 heist movie Hudson Hawk and finds it better than its reputation.
  
• Lincoln Michel shares some dialogue lessons from The Sopranos. 
• Charles Bramesco interviews Vincent D'Onofrio, who appeared in Daredevil, The Cell, The Whole Wide World, Men in Black, Law and Order: Criminal Intent and many others. 
  
• Peter White reports that Big Sky has been renewed for season 2. 
• Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne report that there are more sexual harrassment allegations against actor and director Noel Clarke, best known for Doctor Who, Kidulthood and Bulletproof. 
• Alasdair Stuart reports about the allegations of sexual misconduct against Noel Clarke, star of Doctor Who, Kidulthood and Bulletproof, and the accusations of inappropriate behaviour against fellow Doctor Who star John Barrowman and wonders about the unequal response. 
• Actor Norman Lloyd, who appeared in the Hitchcock thrillers Saboteur and Spellbound as well as in St. Elsewhere, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Murder She Wrote and countless other movies and TV shows, has died aged 106.
• File 770 remembers Norman Lloyd.  

 

Comments on Those Who Wish Me Dead:

• Peter Bradshaw calls Those Who Wish Me Dead a fierce action film. 
• A.A. Dowd calls Those Who Wish Me Dead a Saturday afternoon thriller for the streaming era. 

 

Comments on The Woman in the Window:

• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky calls The Woman in the Window a convoluted would-be Rear Window mystery. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls The Woman in the Window a subpar Hitchcock wannabe.
  

 

Comments on Mare of Easttown: 

• Joshua Alston shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Mare of Easttown.
• Zack Budryk explains how Mare of Easttown is breaking new ground for crime dramas.
  

 

Comments on Oxygen:

• Katie Rife calls Oxygen a claustrophobic science fiction thriller. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Oxygen a claustrophobic survival nightmare.

 

Comments on The Mosquito Coast: 

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Mosquito Coast. 
  
• Marah Eakin interviews Justin Theroux, star of The Mosquito Coast and nephew of Paul Theroux, upon whose eponymous novel the series is based.
  
• Marah Eakin interviews Logan Polish and Gabriel Bateman, the two young stars of The Mosquito Coast.
  

 

Awards: 

• The winner of the 2021 Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction has been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2021 Imadjinn Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2021 Maine Literary Awards have been announced.
  
• The inaugural Joffe Books Prize for Crime Fiction Writers of Colour is open for submissions.
  
• The finalists for the 2021 MTV Movie and TV Awards have been announced.
• Dominic Patten reports that the Golden Globes will not be broadcast on US TV after concerns about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. 
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Leah Schnelbach shares her eighteen favourite books on writing. 
• Howard Linskey wonders why his standalone novels keep turning into series. 
  
• Anne Hillerman talks about the inspiration for the crime novel Stargazer.
  
• Alan Hruska explains how to find the perfect audiobook narrator.
• Sarah Nicholas explains how much authors make per book.
  
• Luna Station Quarterly talks about terminating an agency agreement. 
  
• Mike Glyer reports that the #DisneyMustPay joint taskforce of several writers organisations is making headway. 
• Kat Smith explains why she had deleted Goodreads.
  
• Publishers Weekly reports that sales of print books have risen in April.
  
• Elizabeth Stamp offers a look at some beautifully designed independent bookstores around the world.
  

 

Interviews:

• Book Marks interviews Ruth Ware.
  
• Suspense Radio interviews J.A. Jance.
• Garrick Webster interviews Sólveig Pálsdóttir.
• The Guardian interviews Emma Donaghue. 
  
• The New York Times interviews Stacey Abrams.
• Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviews Stacey Abrams.
  
• Nancie Clare interviews Mariah Fredericks. 
• Alan Petersen interviews Mia P. Manansala. 
• Keri-Rae Barnum interviews Hank Phillippi Ryan. 
• The Dark Phantom interviews Amy Rivers.
  
• Brad Shreve interviews Tammy Bird. 
• Wrong Place, Write Crime interviews Matt Fitzpatrick. 
• J.B. Stevens interviews Craig Terlson.
  

Reviews:

• Sandra Mangan reviews Bound by Vanda Symon. 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Guilty by Siobhán MacDonald. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews City of Dark Corners by Jon Talton. 
• Catherine Turnbull reviews Not Dark Yet by Peter Robinson.
  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Love and Theft by Stan Parish.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Thirty-One Bones by Morgan Cry.
• John Valeri reviews Beyond the Headlines by R.G. Belsky. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Lonely Man by Chris Power.
• Paul Burke reviews A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames.
• Joy Kluver reviews What They Knew by Marion Todd.
  
• No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews All My Lies by Sophie Flynn.
• The Dark Phantom reviews Brushed Off by M. Lee Musgrave.
• Louis Bravos reviews Lady Joker, Vol. 1 by Kaoru Takamura, translated by Allison Markin Powell and Marie Lida.
  
• BOLO Books reviews Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Company by Sally Spencer. 
• Gwen Moffat reviews The Pact by Sharon Bolton.
  
• Mike Parker reviews Geiger by Gustaf Skordeman, translated by Ian Giles.
  
• Janet Webb reviews Dance with Death by Will Thomas. 
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Triflers Need Not Apply by Camilla Bruce. 
• Janet Webb reviews The Granite Coast Murders by Jean-Luc Bannalec. 
• Angie Barry reviews A Peculiar Combination by Ashley Weaver.
  
• Janet Webb reviews Deadly Editions by Paige Shelton.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait by Cleo Coyle. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto.
• Alex Brown reviews A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark. 
• Heather Martin reviews A Little Gold Book of Unconsidered Trifles by Lee Child.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1925 Race Williams hardboiled novella "I'll Tell the World" by Carroll John Daly.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1931 mystery The Triple Bite by Brian Flynn. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1939 crime novel Make My Bed in Hell by John Sanford.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1941 mystery Seven Clues in Search of a Crime by Bruce Graeme. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1945 mystery The Vet It Was That Died by Marguerite Silverman. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1950 mystery The Summer School Mystery by Josephine Bell.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1961 lesbian crime novel The Outcasts by March Hastings a.k.a. Sally Singer.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1963 mystery Flush As May by P.M. Hubbard.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1972 crime novel Panic! by Bill Pronzini.
• Joe Kenney revisits The Porn Tapes, a 1983 novel in The Protector men's adventure series by Rich Rainey.
  

 

Research:

• Julia Sirmons takes a look at the history of skyjackings. 
• Simon Cooper reports about the daring escape of KGB double agent George Blake from prison in 1966. 
• Iona Whishaw recounts what it is like to grow up in a family of spies.  
• Fabienne Lang reports that a man in Tennessee allegedly paid a hitman in bitcoin to murder his wife.
  
• Dustin Waters reports how a multimillionaire's cat went missing on Sullivan's Island off the South Carolina coast and how a large reward brought cat searchers to the island.
• Lara Bazelon shares her praise for female public defenders.
• Julien Levy talks about the sad case of creative writing teacher Karyn Kay who was beaten to death by her own son following an epileptic seizure and a bout of psychotic violence.
• Audrey Blake shares six medical non-fiction books which read like thrillers.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Murder by Proxy" by Fred Zackel in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Transmigration, or If Not for Ice Cream" by Aber O. Grand in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "The Life and Death of Mia Fremont: An Interview with a Killer" by A.K. Hudson in Apex Magazine.  
• "Back to McGallagher's Farm" by Paul Finnigan in Over My Dead Body. 
• "Mississippi Blue 42" by Eli Cranor in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Girth" by Crysta Parkinson in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Junk in the Trunk" by April Kelly in Tough.
  
• "Not a Penny More" by Jon Land in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
• "Clouds - A Heist Story" by Mike McHone in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "The Emperor" by Michael Chin in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "The Incident at New Meridian Global" by Justin Terry in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "I Didn't Ask" by Judge Santiago Burdon in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "The 27 Club" by Michael Bracken in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "A Different Life" by T.W. Garland in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Early Retirement" by Rebecca Field in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Levels" by Alec Cizak in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Poems for the Victims of Ted Bundy" by Cat Dixon in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "The Mystery at Lilac Inn" by Kristin Garth in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Finis" by Rena J. Worley in The Five-Two.
  
• "Hitchhiking Across and Ancient Sea" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for part 2 of Lupin.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Protegé.
  
• Watch a trailer for Stillwater.
  
• Watch a trailer for Lisey's Story.