Crime Fiction Links of the Week for June 26, 2021
Crime fiction in general:
- Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week.
- Crime Reads shares six debut crime novels to read this June.
- Crime Reads shares the best crime novels out in paperback this June.
- Molly Odintz shares the best international crime novels to read this June.
- Crime Reads shares five true crime books to read this month.
- Criminal Elements shares a flowchart to help you pick a new mystery or thriller to read this summer.
- Val McDermind shares her favourite up and coming crime fiction writers.
- Lisa Levy hosts a roundtable discussion about LGBTQ crime fiction.
- Martha Hall Kelly shares nine immersive historical mysteries.
- Gabriella Cage discusses how true crime turns real life tragedies into a genre.
- V. Castro declares that crime fiction should show more respect to sex workers instead of just portraying them as victims and props.
- Clare Mackintosh shares ten crime novels about air travel.
- Nicci French shares ten thrillers that revolve around grief.
- Nicole Trope discusses the strange intimacy of domestic suspense.
- Grady Hendrix shares some not entirely serious tips for surviving slashers, based on horror movies.
- Neil Sharpson shares his five favourite SFF detectives.
- Justin Wooley explains why heist stories work so well in science fiction.
- Neil Hyren offers a guide to the works of Donna Leon.
- Sarah Stewart Taylor shares her appreciation for the works of Irish mystery writer Elizabeth Bowen.
- Juri Nummelin takes a look at vintage sleaze novels that are also crime.
- Paul S. Hirsch recounts the history of the US comic book industry with a particular focus on the crime comics of the 1940s and early 1950s.
- Eileen Gonzales revisits Toni Gayle, a female detective character who appeared as a backup feature in the Young King Cole comic in 1945.
- Robert Quackenbush, author of animal detective stories for children, has died aged 91.
Film and TV:
- Owen Gleiberman calls No Sudden Move a playfully dark 1950s set noir film.
- Phil Hoad calls Endangered Species a bizarrely perky safari thriller.
- Gwen Ihnat shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Why Women Kill.
- Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the season 1 finale of Clarice.
- Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the season 5 premiere of The Good Fight.
- Katie Rife shares her thoughts on season 2 of the true crime documentary I'll Be Gone in the Dark.
- Lucy Mangan calls Philly DA: Breaking the Law a deeply thrilling and hopeful documentary series.
- Olivia Rutigliano shares crime movies with small town settings to watch this summer.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1953 film noir The Hitch-Hiker.
- Steve Aldous revisits the 1971 crime movie Shaft for its 50th anniversary.
- Scott Tobias revisits the 1971 thriller Klute for its 50th anniversary.
- Charles Bramesco revisits the 1981 boxing drama Raging Bull for its 40th anniversary.
- The Columbophile revisits the 1991 Columbo episode "Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health".
- Charles Bramesco revisits the 1996 crime drama Fargo for its 25th anniversary.
- Tom Breihan revisits the 2014 war movie American Sniper.
- Jordan Williams discusses Alfred Hitchcock's unmade movies.
- Elisabeth Moss, who plays June/Offred in The Handmaid's Tale, and Gillian Anderson, who played Dana Scully in The X-Files, interview each other.
- Gwen Ihnat remembers that Rita Moreno was a recurring guest star in The Rockford Files in the 1970s and even won an Emmy for her role.
- William Hughes reports that the revenge thriller Nobody may be getting a sequel.
Comments on season 7 of Bosch:
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Comments on Fast and Furious 9 and the Fast and Furious movies in general:
- Peter Bradshaw calls Fast and Furious 9 magnificently silly and gravity defying.
- Steve Rose wonders whether Fast and Furious is the ultimate franchise for our times.
- Katie Rife and A.A. Dowd wonder why the Fast and Furious series is still going strong after twenty years.
- Germain Lussier ranks all ten Fast and Furious films.
- Brande Victorian interviews Natalie Emmanuel, one of the stars of Fast and Furious 9.
Comments on Lisey's Story:
Awards:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Robert McKee recommends ten things writers need to create convincing characters.
- Dean Wesley Smith talks about deadly problems for writers and shares a personal story.
- Lincoln Michel talks about Michael Moorcock's process to write a novel in three days.
- LeVar Burton will teach a masterclass on the power of storytelling.
- John McMahon explains how the covid pandemic influenced his writing process.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch explains why going exclusive with Amazon is not a good idea for writers.
- James Shackell reports that most of Australia's literary heritage is out of print.
- Alison Flood reports that the Samir Mansour bookstore in Gaza, Palestine, has received a flood of donations after it was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.
- Samantha Barbas reports about the lawyer who got the ban of James Joyce's Ulysses overturned at the US Supreme Court.
Interviews:
- Lee Child interviews Bill Clinton and James Patterson.
- Tom Wickersham interviews James Ellroy.
- Angel Luis Colon interviews S.A. Cosby.
- Nancie Clare interviews Laurie R. King.
- Victoria Selman interviews Sarah Pinborough and Alex North.
- Gytha Lodge interviews Chris Whitaker.
- Brad Shreve interviews Shane K. Morton.
- Alan Petersen interviews Don Bentley.
- John A Hoda interviews Tammy Euliano.
- Lisa Haselton interviews Hugh Fritz.
Reviews:
- Janet Webb reviews Dead by Dawn by Paul Doiron.
- Angie Barry reviews Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza.
- Beth Kanell reviews Hostage by Clare Mackintosh.
- For Winter Nights reviews Falling by T.J. Newman.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Dream Girl by Laura Lippman.
- Adam Colclough reviews The Rising Tide by Sam Lloyd.
- For Winter Nights reviews The Pact by Sharon Bolton.
- BOLO Books reviews What's Done in Darkness by Laura McHugh,
- Sara Townsend reviews One Half Truth by Eva Dolan.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Bad Apples by Will Dean.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery reviews The Travelers by Chris Pavone.
- Lesa Holstine reviews A Distant Grave by Sarah Stewart Taylor.
- Ali Karim reviews Come Closer by Sara Gran.
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Great Silence by Doug Johnstone.
- Amy Myers reviews The Hollows by Mark Edwards.
- Lis Carey reviews The Cuckoo's Cry by Caroline Overington.
- No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews Let's Fly by Giles Fraser.
- No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews Fragile by Sarah Hilary.
- Carole Tyrell reviews The Colours of Death by Patricia Marques.
- Paul Burke reviews The Transparency of Time by Leonardo Padura, translated by Anna Kushner.
- Russell James reviews The Transparency of Time by Leonardo Padura, translated by Anna Kushner.
- Michael Jecks reviews Red Traitor by Owen Matthews.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery reviews Three Stations by Martin Cruz Smith.
- Doris V. Sutherland reviews True Crime by Samatha Kolesnik.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Kiss the Detective by Elmer Mendoza, translated by Mark Fried.
- Janet Webb reviews A Rogue's Company by Allison Montclair.
- Sandie Herron reviews French Pressed by Cleo Coyle.
- Beth Kanell reviews It Takes Two to Mango by Carrie Doyle.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Death on the Night of Lost Lizards by Julia Buckley and tries a recipe from the book.
- Mark Yon reviews Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg.
- Leah Schnelbach reviews The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison.
- Adri Joy reviews The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison, The Worst of All Possible Worlds by Alex White and The Liar of Red Valley by Walter Goodwater.
- Paul French reviews The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed.
- Melissa Benn reviews Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy by Anna Sebba.
- Stephanie Merritt reviews Black and Blue: One Woman’s Story of Policing and Prejudice by Parm Sandhu.
Classics reviews:
- Happiness Is a Book revisits the 1914 Paul Beck mystery Pigeon Blood Rubies by M. McDonnell Bodkin.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1931 noir novel Bodies Are Dust a.k.a. Hell Cop by P.L. Wolfson.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1943 mystery Murder by Inches by Stanley Hopkins Jr.
- Happiness Is a Book revisits the 1949 Perry Mason mystery The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom by Erle Stanley Gardner.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1954 James Bond novel Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1958 crime novel The Gigantic Shadow a.k.a. The Pipe Dream by Julian Symons.
- Happiness Is a Book revisits the 1964 police procedural Greenmask by Elizabeth Linington.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1967 disaster novel The Wrecking of Offshore Five by Ronald Johnston.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1967 war novel Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1971 war novel Dive in the Sun by Alexander Kent a.k.a. Douglas Reeman.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1972 crime novel The Rainbird Pattern by Victor Canning.
- Joe Kenney revisits Double Trouble, a 1975 novel in the Radcliff blaxploitation series by Roosevelt Mallory.
- Joe Kenney revisits A Black Hole to Die In, a 1976 novel in The Baroness espionage series by Paul Kenyon.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1987 DCI Barnaby mystery The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham.
Con and event reports:
- Ayo Onatade reports that the virtual SlaughterFest will be happening this September.
- Arianna Grainey reports about a performance of the mystery play Spider's Web by Agatha Christie in Scotsdale, Arizona.
- Mystery author William Kent Krueger shares his experiences as the Grand Marshal of the 2021 Turtle Fest Parade in Perham, Minnesota.
Research:
- Hadley Freeman interviews Robert and Michael Meeropol, the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were executed for alleged espionage in 1953.
- Curtis Wilkie reports how Tom Landrum, a farmer from Jones County in Mississippi, infiltrated the Klu Klux Klan in 1965 to help take them down.
- Katherine Dykstra discusses the still unsolved murder of 18-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1970.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that a TikToker found the outline of a dead body under the carpet of their new apartment.
- The Guardian reports that antivirus software creator John McAfee has died in a Spanish prison aged 75, likely of suicide.
Free online fiction:
- "A Day's Work" by John Bosworth in Shotgun Honey.
- "Was It Worth It?" by Chris L. Robinson in Shotgun Honey.
- "Collect Call" by K. Anderson in Shotgun Honey.
- "...signifying nothing" by L. Jordan James in Tough.
- "Iron Goddess" by Dharma Kelleher in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
- "The Heriot" by Dale Strumberg in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Strange Lovers" by M.D. Smith in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Snapped" by Jennifer Patino in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Bus Station" by Mark Renney in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Used Panties" by Anthony Neil Smith in Punk Noir Magazine (NSFW).
- "A Split Mind is Convenient to Hide the Axe" by Richard Krause in The Five Two.
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