Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 10, 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 Black Widow, The Suicide Squad, Stillwater tributes to Richard Donner and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Lesa Holstine shares her favourite mysteries and crime novels of the first half of 2021.
• Crime by the Book shares the most anticipated crime books for July 2021.
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• David Bell shares a list of thrillers starring writers.
  
• Rachel Donahue shares seven coming-of-age mysteries. 
• Barbara DeMarco-Barrett explains why Palm Springs is the perfect noir setting.
  
• Kalynn Bayron discusses how marginalised authors are transforming gothic fiction.  
• Liv Constantine talks about amnesia in literature and film.
  
• Jessica Chiarella attempts to explains why particularly women love true crime.
  
• Joanne Kaufman profiles Megan Abbott and her apartment in New York City. 
• Alex Dahl talks about the inspiration for the Scandinavian noir novel Cabin Fever. 
• Happiness is a Book shares her appreciation for the Brady Coyle mysteries by William G. Tapply.
  
• Jim Kempton explains how Agatha Christie of all people helped to popularize surfing. 
• Robert Thorogood talks about serendipity and the accidental similarity between his crime novel The Marlow Murder Club and The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.
  
• James Bacon shares his thoughts on the 2000AD Sci-Fi Special: Global Justice, 
  
• G.W. Thomas revisits the 1930s occult detective Dr. Muncing by Gordon MacCreagh. 
• M.A. Sieghart wonders why so many men are reluctant to read books by women.
  

Film and TV:

• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Leverage: Redemption a successful revival of the beloved heist show.
  
• Hector DeJean shares his thoughts on season 2 of Lupin.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on season 7 of Bosch, which he calls the best cop drama on TV. 
• Alasdair Stuart shares his thoughts on Fast and Furious 9.
  
• Gwen Ihnat shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Why Women Kill. 
• Harrison Blackman shares his thoughts on the new Mosquito Coast.
  
• Phuong Le calls Black Medicine a noir crime drama with a flatlined script and an excellent lead actress.
  
• Phil Hoad calls Trigger Point an instantly forgettable amnesia spy thriller.
• Steve Rose calls To Be Someone a Guy Ritchie knock-off two decades past its sell-by date.
  
• Ed Pilkington calls The Phantom a shocking documentary about the death penalty in the US. 
• Saloni Gajjar calls Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes a gripping documentary about the Harvey Weinstein investigation.
  
• Juan Barquin shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Lisey's Story.  
• Matt Schimkovitz overanalyses the trailer for The Many Saints of Newark. 
• Olivia Rutigliano shares crime movies with summertime settings to enjoy. 
  
• Charles Bramesco explains why the American sitcom endures.  
• Craig Pittman revisits Orson Wells' long-lost 1955 crime movie Mr. Arkadin.
  
• Victoria Silverwolf revisits the 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows and traces its connection to the gothic romances popular during the same era. 
  
• Richard Brody revisits the 1970 heist thriller Le Cercle Rouge.
• Danny Trejo, star of El Mariachi, Machete and many others, remembers his time in prison. 
• April Snellings profiles French actress Paula Maxa, star of the Theatre du Grand Guignol and the woman who was murdered the most times on stage. 
• Joe Otterson reports that Dark Winds, an adaptation of Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn and Chee mysteries, in in the works.
  
• Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar has died aged 98.
  
• Director Robert Downey Sr., father of actor Robert Downey Jr., has died aged 85.

 

Tributes to Richard Donner:

• Richard Donner, director of Superman, The Omen, Lethal Weapon, Ladyhawke and The Goonies, has died aged 91.
• Ryan Gilbey shares an obituary for Richard Donner.
• Jeff Cohen, who played Chunk in The Goonies, shares a tribute to Richard Donner.
  
• Tim Robey chronicles the troubled production of Richard Donner's 1978 movie Superman.
  

 

Comments on Stillwater:

• Peter Bradshaw calls Stillwater a fictionalised drama about the Amanda Knox murder case that's so bad it's bad. 
• Peter Debruge calls Stillwater a humbling crime drama that shows how the world sees America right now. 
• Matt Donelly interviews Matt Damon, star of Stillwater. 
• Matt Donelly and Ramin Setoodeh report about the premiere of Stillwater at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France. 
  

 

Comments on Black Widow: 

• Cath Clarke interviews Cate Shortland, director of Black Widow. 
• Marah Eakin interviews Cate Shortland, director of Black Widow.
• Alexi Duggins interviews David Harbour who plays Red Guardian in Black Widow.
• Meredith B. Kile interviews Kevin Feige, head of Marvel Studios.
• James Whitbrook reports that Black Widow was supposed to set up a connection to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
  

 

Comments on The Suicide Squad: 

• Eva Wiseman interviews Margot Robbie, star of I, Tonya, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Suicide Squad.
• Charles Pulliam-Moore interviews Peter Safran, producer of The Suicide Squad. 

 

Awards: 

• The winner of the 2021 Maltese Falcon Award has been announced.
• The winners of the 2021 Scribe Awards have been announced. 
• The winner of the 2021 San Diego Book Award has been announced. 
• The 2021 Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction is open for submissions.

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Greta Hayer tells authors to write what they know, but remember what they don't.
• Sarah Chorn talks about writing with an emotional landscape.
• T.J. Newman explains how she handled 41 rejections on the same novel.
  
• Victoria Strauss points out that publishers claiming copyright for edits is not legit.
• Tishani Doshi reports about the persecution of poets and writers around the world.
• Alison Flood reports that a Hungarian bookshop has been fined 250000 florint for selling a children's book featuring LGBTQ+ families without a warning label.
  
• Mark Athiakis wonders whether organising your book collection is worthwhile.
• The Guardian shares photos of the best new public libraries.
  

 

Interviews:

• Alan Petersen interviews Mary Keliikoa. 
• Deborah Kalb interviews Susan Elia MacNeal.
  
• Nancie Clare interviews Hilary Davidson. 
• Deborah Kalb interviews Hilary Davidson. 
• Deborah Kalb interviews Carol Goodman.
  
• Victoria Selman interviews Harriet Tyce and Sarah Vaughan.
  
• Alex Preston interviews Robert Harris.  
• Ayo Onatade interviews Peter Hanington.
  
• Criminal Element interviews Graham Hurley. 
• Brad Shreve interviews Ann McMan. 
• Joan Schweighardt interviews Sue Coletta.
  

Reviews:

• Kittling Books reviews The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby. 
• Crime by the Book reviews Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Falling by T.J. Newman,
  
• Catherine Turnbull reviews I Know What I Saw by Imran Mahmood. 
• Alan Cranis reviews False Witness by Karin Slaughter.
  
• Sandra Mangan reviews A Cut for a Cut by Carol Wyer.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry.
  
• John Valeri reviews Her Last Breath by Hilary Davidson. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Lost Girls by Jessica Chiarella.
  
• No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews Girls Who Lie by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir.
• Mike Parker reviews Good Neighbours by Sarah Langan.
• For Winter Nights reviews The Serial Killer's Wife by Alice Hunter.
  
• Men Reading Books reviews The Cover Wife by Dan Fesperman. 
  
• Lucy Popescu reviews People Like Them by Samira Sedira. 
• Emma Cazabonne reviews People Like Them by Samira Sedira. 
• Lynn Patrick reviews The Family Tree by Steph Mullin and Nicole Mabry.  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Two Boys at Breakwater by Boston Teran.
  
• Paul Burke reviews Rosy & John by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Frank Wynne.
  
• Gabino Iglesias reviews Later by Stephen King.  
• Martin Edwards reviews True Crime Story by Joseph Knox. 
• Grab This Book reviews True Crime Story by Joseph Knox.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Beresford by Will Carver.
• No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews The Beresford by Will Carver. 
  
• Rob Doyle reviews Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Taratino.
• Kittling Books reviews The Hollywood Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal.
  
• Marleen Harris reviews An Irish Hostage by Charles Todd. 
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder at St. Winifred's Academy by J.D. Griffo and tries a recipe from the book.
• Lesa Holstine reviews Little Black Book by Kate Carlisle.
• Mark Rose reviews Antiques Carry On by Barbara Allan.
• Michael Thomas Barry reviews Palm Springs Noir, edited by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
• Kirkus reviews To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America by Andrew Baker.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1945 Miss Silver mystery She Came Back by Patricia Wentworth. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1947 historical thriller Waltz Into Darkness by William Irish a.k.a. Cornell Woolrich.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1953 crime novel I'll Call Every Monday by Orrie Hitt.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1962 crime novel Hell Is Too Crowded by Harry Patterson a.k.a. Jack Higgins. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1966 adventure novel When Eight Bells Toll by Alistair MacLean. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1967 Detective Charmian Daniels mystery A Differemt Kind of Summer by Jennie Melville a.k.a. Gwendoline Butler. 
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1969 crime novel Mongo's Back in Town by E. Richard Johnson.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1972 adventure novel Driscoll's Diamonds by Ian MacAlister a.k.a. Marvin Alpert.
• Joe Kenney revisits Panic in Philly, a 1973 novel in The Executioner men's adventure series by Don Pendleton.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Will Gore reports about the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and traces Harrogate's connections to crime fiction.
  
• Andrew Pulver reports about the return of the Cannes Film Festival as a physical event.
• Elizabeth Foxwell reports about an exhibition about Agatha Christie at the Isokon Building in London, UK, where Christie lived during the 1940s. 

 

Research:

• Charlotte Philby remembers her grandfather, KGB double agent Kim Philby.
  
• Jackie Kabler recounts how she interviewed convicted murderer Ian Huntley shortly before his arrest.
  
• Carol Goodman discusses the traumatic life of her mother in Depression era New York City and uncovers that there were Magdalen laundries in New York City.
• Amy Sohn chronicles Ida Craddock's fight against 19th century obscenity laws in the US.
• Samira Sedira discusses the murder of Xavier Flactif and his entire family in France in 2003 and that the possible motif for the murders was racism.
• Mikita Brottman talks about leading a reading group in the psychiatric hospital for mentally ill offenders in Maryland.
• Brad Hunter talks about the unsolved murder of Frank Calder in Trenton, Ontario, in 1976. 
• Jelisa Castrodale chronicles the alleged contract killing of a peacock in California.
  
• Susan Elia MacNeal reports about the Hollywood Canteen, a WWII era social club for soldiers, and how much of the racial harmony depicted in American WWII propaganda was just a lie.
  
• Josephine Wilkinson talks about the mystery of the so-called "Man in the Iron Mask" and how Voltaire helped to spread this early conspiracy theory.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Family Affair" by Kris Nelscott.
  
• "Pig Lickin' Good" by Debra H. Goldstein in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
• "Silm Jim" by John L. Thompson in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Coming Clean" by Ivanka Fear in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Give or Take a Quarter Inch" by Joseph Walker in Tough.
  
• "Gutter Ball" by Ben Newell in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Back East" by Chandler Morrison in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Devil's Morning" by M.M. Harrold in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "The Karma Hospital" by Sybil Rain in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Parkville" by Sean O'Leary in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Campaign Moment Blown to Shit" by Nathan Pettigrew in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "That's Life" by Mark Atley in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "The Postal Clerk" by Gay Degani in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Heloise's Epistle" by Jennifer Lagier.
  

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for Dark Blood.