Crime Fiction Links of the Week for June 19, 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 Time, Clarice, Lisey's Story, Raiders of the Lost Ark at forty, a debate about content warnings and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Alison Flood shares a round-up of the best recent thrillers.
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week.
• Crime Reads shares the best crime novels of 2021 so far.
  
• Ayo Onatade lists her most anticipated crime novels for the second half of 2021.
• Keith Roysdon talks about the rise and evolution of true crime books.
• Kitling Books shares mysteries with a strong sense of place set in Africa and Australasia.
• Chris Offutt recalls how writing about Appalachia made from a crime fiction writer.
• Christine Mangan explains why Venice in winter makes a great gothic setting for crime fiction.
• Paul Neilan shares his favourite borderline noir novels.
• P.J. Vernon shares good crime novels with well-drawn gay villains or antiheroes.
• Zach Vasquez shares six novels about fatherhood and crime.
  
• Melissa Larsen talks about millennial thrillers and the power of obsession.
  
• Emily Beyda talks about classic thrillers featuring doppelgangers. 
• John McMahon explains how cars illuminate character in crime fiction
  
• Camille Aubray reports that The Godfather by Mario Puzo was inspired by Puzo's mother.
• Elizabeth Foxwell reports that pioneering mystery writer Anna Katherine Green was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. 
• Alison Flood reports that English Heritage recognises the xenophobia and racism inherent in the works of Rudyard Kipling and Enid Blyton and acknowledges this on its website, but will not remove the plaques honouring them. 
  
• Journalist and true crime author Janet Malcolm has died aged 86.
  

Film and TV:

• Gwen Ihnat shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Why Women Kill.
  
• Garrick Webster looks ahead at season 8 of the Swedish crime drama Beck. 
• Zoe Williams calls A Murder in West Cork a true crime documentary with a difference.
  
• Lucy Mangan declares that the documentary The Return: Life After Isis will make viewers question their assumptions about so-called "IS brides".
  
• Talking Pulp revisits the 1947 noir movie Boomerang. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1952 noir movie Don't Bother to Knock. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1974 conspiracy thriller The Parallax View.
  
• Scott Tobias shares his thoughts on the 1981 adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark for its 40th anniversary.  
• Nick Kolakowski revisits the 1999 neo-noir movie The Limey. 
• Olivia Rutigliano recommends summer crime movies with urban settings.
  
• Andrew Pulver shares his favourite movies of 2021 to date. 
• The Guardian shares their favourite TV shows of 2021 to date. 
  
• Andrew Pulver reports that actor Riz Ahmed had called for changing the toxic portrayals of Muslims in film and TV.
• Gwen Ihnat reports that in 1974 the Romanian government, fearing a riot, enlisted Peter Falk himself to assure the Romanian people that more Columbo episodes were on the way. 
• Actress Lisa Banes, who appeared in Gone Girl, The Orville and many others, has died aged 65 following a hit and run accident. 
• Actor Ben Roberts who appeared in The Bill, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and many others, has died aged 70. 
  
• Actor Ned Beatty, best known for his appearances in Homicide, All the President's Men, Superman, The Execution of Private Slovik, Deliverance and many others, has died aged 83. 
  
• Claudia Barrett, star of Robot Monster, White Heat and The Great Jewel Robbery, has died aged 91.
  

 

Comments on Time:

• Lucy Mangan calls Time an enraging prison drama and praises the performance of Sean Bean and Stephen Graham. 
  
• Eric Allison calls the British prison drama Time realistic from the POV of a former prisoner. 
  

 

Comments on Clarice:

• Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Clarice.
  
• Nellie Andreeva reports that Clarice may be doomed due to a rights negotiation stalemate between CBS and MGM. 

 

Comments on Lisey's Story: 

• Juan Barquin shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Lisey's Story. 
• Matthew Jackson explains why Lisey's Story is one of Stephen King's most important novels.
  
• Matthew Jackson interviews J.J. Abrams, producer of Lisey's Story.
  
• Eric Piepenburg interviews Stephen King on whose eponymous novel Lisey's Story is based. 
• Jane Pauley interviews Stephen King about Lisey's Story. 

 

Raiders of the Lost Ark at forty:

• Scott Tobias shares his thoughts on the 1981 adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark for its 40th anniversary. 
• Amy Nicholson shares some behind the scenes facts from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

Awards: 

• The shortlist for the 2021 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award have been announced.  
• The longlist for the 2021 McIlvanney Prize has been announced. 
• The winner of the 2021 CWA Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition has been announced.
  
• The longlist for the 2021 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award has been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2021 Bisexual Book Awards have been announced.  
• The winner of the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize has been announced.

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Verity Bright explains why writing about fictional murders is fun.
• Melissa Larsen explains how she came to write her debut thriller Shutter.
• Kellie Doherty talks about character voice. 
• Taylor Adams asks what makes a killer plot twist. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes about indie authors and the fear of missing out. 
• Lincoln Michel talks about various examples of authors being under attack for supposedly harmful content in their books.
• Laura Miller reports that authors Elin Hilderbrand and Casey McQuiston have been pressured into changing two lines in their respective novels following a social media uproar. 
• The "We Need Diverse Books" initiative announces that they will no longer use the #OwnVoices hashtag, because it is wandered away from its original purpose. 
• Max Florschutz discusses the issues with Royal Road, Vella and similar services. 
• Alison Flood reports that several museums and libraries in the UK have united to save the Hornesfield Library, inaccessible since 1939, from being sold off to private buyers.
  

 

Interviews:

• Brad Shreve interviews Mia P. Manansala. 
• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Laura Shepherd-Robinson and Will Shaw. 
• J.B. Stevens interviews Chris Offutt. 
• Deborah Kalb interviews Maureen Johnson.
  
• Alan Petersen interviews Alma Katsu.
• John A. Hoda interviews Robert McCaw.
• Ayo Onatade interviews Justin Fenton.
  
• The Reading and Writing Podcast interviews Les Edgerton. 
• Wrong Place, Write Crime interviews Cynthia Kuhn. 
• Runalong the Shelves interviews R.J. Dark.
  
• Nancie Clare interviews Jean Hanff Korelitz. 
• Paul Burke interviews James Wolff. 
• Lisa Haselton interviews Michael Campeta.
• Marshal Zeringue interviews Martine Bailey. 
  
• Lucy Clark interviews Jacqueline Bublitz.
• Dwyer Murphy interviews Jonathan Lee.
  

Reviews:

• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland by Paul Tremblay.
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt.
• Lesa Holstine reviews Wolf Kill by Cary J. Griffith.
  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews One Way Street by Trevor Wood. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews Hostage by Claire Mackintosh. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Confess To Me by Sharon Doering.
  
• Crime by the Book reviews The Maidens by Alex Michaelides and Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams. 
• Lis Carey reviews Death on the Lake by Jo Allen. 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews An Empty Grave by Andrew Welsh-Huggins. 
• Paul Burke reviews Burying the Newspaperman by Curtis Ippolito
  
• Catherine Taylor reviews Ghosted by Jen Ashworth. 
• Mike Parker reviews Sleepless by Romy Hausmann, translated by Jamie Bulloch.
  
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Young Blood by Sifiso Mzobe. 
• Susan Osborne reviews The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris. 
• Regina Porter reviews The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris.
  
• Paul Burke reviews Knock Knock by Anders Roslund. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Shutter by Melissa Larsen.
  
• Sandie Herron reviews Vermilion Drift by William Kent Krueger.
• Janet Webb reviews The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey. 
• Gary K. Wolfe and Liz Bourke review A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark. 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit by Krista Davis.
• Marion Deeds reviews Seven of Infinities by Aliette de Bodard.
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder. 
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews When a Stranger Comes to Town, edited by Michael Koryta. 
  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Moonlight and Misadventure, edited by Judy Penz Sheluk.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1913 mystery The Case of Jennie Brice by Mary Roberts Rhinehart.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1926 mystery The Wychford Poisoning Case by Anthony Berkeley.
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1946 Gervase Fan mystery The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin a.k.a. Robert Bruce Montgomery.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1946 mystery Murder Menagerie by Jeremy Lane. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1950 disaster novel The Angry Mountain by Hammond Innes.
  
• G.W. Thomas revisits the 1959 mystery short story "The Man from Yesterday" by John Wyndham. 
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1971 James Pibble mystery Sleep and His Brother by Peter Dickinson.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1975 disaster novel Cyclone by Eric Nilsen. 
• Joy Kenney revisits Deadly Alliance, a 1975 novel in the Stryker men's adventure series by William Crawford.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1976 disaster novel Hurricane by Gardner F. Fox.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1977 disaster novel Snowbound Six by Richard Martin Stern.
  
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 2003 crime novel The Small Boat of Great Sorrows by Dan Fesperman.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• The program for the virtual Mystery in the Midlands conference is now online. 
• Ayo Onatade shares the program for "Daggers live!", the virtual CWA Dagger Award ceremony.
  
• Watch the virtual "How to Write a Mystery" panel, presented by the New York Society Library and the New York chapter of the Mystery Writers of America.
  
• Watch the virtual "Queer Mystery Writers" panel, presented by the NorCal chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. 
  
• The mystery place 2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick: A Dick Darrow Investigation will be performed at the Cabaret Fringe Festival in Adelaide, Australia.
• Chloe Rabinowitz announces the cast for the crime play Looking Good Dead by Peter James and Joshua Andrews, which will premiere in Leicester, UK.
• Phil Boucher reports about the "Save Agatha's Home" campaign which plans to purchase Agatha Christie's former home and turn it into an arts and literature center.
  

 

Research:

• Dean Jobb profiles the con artist Joseph Weil a.k.a. the Yellow Kid. 
• Stephanie Dickinson reports about the life of Krystal Riordan, convicted as an accomplice to murder in 2006, in prison in New Jersey.
  
• Noel Obiora talks about the history of police brutality against people of colour and the Black Lives Matter movement.
• Brian Masaru Hayashi talks about Asian American OSS agents in WWII and how they found themselves under constant suspicion.
• Joe Thomas talks about life and crime in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• John Tresch reports about an 1844 balloon hoax committed by Edgar Allen Poe.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Two Girls" by Oreoluwa Oladimeji in Shotgun Honey.
• "A Day's Work" by John Bosworth in Shotgun Honey. 
  
• "The Lost Dream" by Leonore Wilson in Tough.
  
• "Sometimes You Just Get Lazy" by David Centorbi in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Does a Ghost Remember What a Body Never Forgets?" by S.M. Fedor in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Every Time I Eat Vegetables, It Makes Me Think of You" by J.R. Handfield in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "The Siren" by Yasumi Tsuhara, translated by Toshiya Kamei in Punk Noir Magazine. 
  
• "Elemental" by Alex Ruby in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Gig Economy" by Michael Grant Smith in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Dealings" by Sean O'Leary in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Tent City" by Chris Cascio in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Get Forked" by Judge Santiago Burdon in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Pins" by David Cranmer in The Five-Two.
• "The Life and Deaths of Rachel Long" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for season 8 of Beck.
  
• Watch a trailer for Lansky.