Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 24, 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, Gunpowder Milkshake, Turner and Hooch, Snake Eyes, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions and much more.
Crime fiction in general:
Crime fiction in general:
- Laura Wilson offers a round.up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
- Crime by the Book shares its top ten crime books of 2021 so far.
- Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week.
- Otto Penzler attempts to explain the golden age of detective fiction.
- Grady Hendrix talks about the depection of forensic profilers in thrillers and crime fiction and how it has almost nothing to do with reality.
- Samantha Downing shares her favourite thrillers.
- Paul French talks about crime fiction set in San Francisco.
- Elizabeth di Mariaffi shares six thrillers where the natural world is a character rather than just a setting.
- Katherine Schellman explains why American crime writers love British manor houses so much.
- Miranda Beverly-Whittemore explains how she turned a place she knows very well into the setting for a psychological thriller.
- Andrew Welsh-Huggins lists nine thrillers with plots pulled from real life.
- Michael Russell talks about the appeal of the historical mystery.
- S.C. Perkins shares seven mystery and thrillers that prominently feature family.
- Dr. Gwen Adshead explains how crime fiction helps her in her work with violent offenders.
- Greg Buchanan talks about the role of animals in crime fiction.
- Mick Finlay talks about writing Victorian mysteries in the shadow of Sherlock Holmes.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five captivating SFF mystery novels.
- Amanda Kabak declares that we need more victim focussed narratives.
- Molly Templeton points out that there is no wrong way to read a book.
- Lizzie Steiner shares eight true crime podcasts to listen to this summer.
Film and TV:
- Stuart Jeffries calls series two of Baptiste a heartstopping whodunnit.
- J. Kingston Pierce discusses season 7 of Bosch and the future of the cop drama.
- Steve Rose calls Riders of Justice a far-fetched revenge thriller.
- Leslie Felperin calls Rogue Hostage a fun, dumb and violent thriller.
- Katie Rife calls I Blame Society a sharp serial killer satire.
- Steve Rose calls Night of Kings an imaginative prison drama from the Ivory Coast which escapes into magical realism.
- Rebecca Nicholson calls Uprising a devastatating documentary about the 1981 New Cross fire, a racist arson attack, which killed 13 black teenagers at a birthday party.
- Gwen Ihnat shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Why Women Kill.
- Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the latest episode of The Good Fight.
- Jordan Farley talks about the troubled production of the James Bond film No Time to Die.
- Jim Thomsen shares eleven great crime TV movies from the 1970s.
- Rebecca Nicholson interviews Nikki Amuka-Bird, who starred in Old, Avenue 5 and Luther.
Comments on the new Turner and Hooch:
Comments on Black Widow:
- Valerie Complex declares that Black Widow is a good film, but has its share of flaws.
- Germain Lussier shares Kevin Feige's replies to viewer questions about Black Widow on Twitter.
- Stuart Heritage reports that Black Widow has caused the sale of red hair dye to rise.
- Charles Pulliam-Moore reports that Black Widow experienced a box office drop-off in its second week, which has cinema owners worrying about streaming and piracy.
Comments on Gunpowder Milkshake:
Comments on Snake Eyes:
- Jesse Hassenger calls Snake Eyes a slick G.I. Joe origin story that's a whole lot of fun.
- Germain Lussier declares that Snake Eyes misses its target.
- Germain Lussier interviews Henry Golding and Andrew Koji, stars of Snake Eyes.
- Germain Lussier reports about the Snake Eyes panel at the virtual 2021 San Diego Comic Con.
Comments on Escape Room: Tournament of Champions:
Awards:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Christopher Fowler explains how he still comes up with new ideas for Bryant and May mysteries after twenty years.
- Claire Allan explains how facts feed into fiction.
- Lincoln Michel declares that the CIA did not invent the oft quoted writing advice "Show, don't tell."
- S.M. Carrière points out that writers don't have to do social media, if they're not good at it.
- Jim Milliot reports that print book sales have risen during the first half of 2021.
- Paula Cocozza profiles Carole-Ann Warburton who opened a bookshop at age 65.
Interviews:
- Alma Katsu and Owen Matthews interview each other.
- Michael Gonzales interviews Andy Rausch.
- Lisa Allardice interviews Jean Hanff Korelitz.
- Ayo Onatade interviews Jane Casey.
- Ayo Onatade interviews Cara Hunter.
- Brad Shreve interviews Meredith Doench.
- Nancie Clare interviews Jeff Abbott.
- Alan Petersen interviews Lorraine Evanoff.
- Lisa Haselton interviews Michael Devendorf.
- E.B. Davis interviews Ginger Bolton.
- Stephen J. Golds interviews Chris McDonald.
- Stephen J. Golds interviews DuVay Knox.
- Stephen J. Golds interviews Alec Cizak.
Reviews:
- Lesa Holstine reviews Fallen by Linda Castillo.
- Joy Kluver reviews Hostage by Claire Mackintosh.
- Always with a Book reviews Silver Tears by Camilla Lackberg.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Falling by T.J. Newman.
- Carol Westron reviews Diamond and the Eye by Peter Lovesey.
- BOLO Books reviews Walking Through Needles by Heather Levy.
- John Valeri reviews False Witness by Karin Slaughter.
- BOLO Books reviews Girls Who Lie by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Look What You Made Me Do by Helene Murphy.
- No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews Sleepless by Louise Mumford.
- Mike Parker reviews The Nameless Ones by John Connolly.
- Kirkus reviews The Heathens by Ace Atkins.
- Jenny Maloney reviews The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine.
- Lesa Holstine reviews One Half Truth by Eva Dolan.
- Crime by the Book reviews For Your Own Good by Smanatha Downing.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Hollows by Mark Edwards.
- J.B. Stevens reviews Godspeed by Nickolas Butler.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Good Neighbours by Sarah Langan.
- Kirkus reviews A Woman of Intelligence by Katherine Tanabe.
- J. Kingston Pierce reviews Come Spy With Me by Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens.
- Michael Carlson reviews The Therapist by Helene Flood.
- Lorraine Berry reviews The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donahue.
- Raven Crime Reads reviews The Beresford by Will Carver.
- Raven Crime Reads reviews Little Rebel by Jérôme Leroy, translated by Graham H. Roberts.
- Paul Burke reviews Little Rebel by Jérôme Leroy, translated by Graham H. Roberts.
- For Winter Nights reviews The Forevers by Chris Whitaker.
- Joy Kluver reviews The Forevers by Chris Whitaker.
- Gail Byrd reviews The Dying Day by Vaseem Khan.
- Kirkus reviews M, King's Bodyguard by Niall Leonard.
- The Quick and the Read reviews Arrowood and the Meeting House Murders by Mick Finlay.
- Janet Webb reviews Murder at Keyhaven Castle by Clara McKenna.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews A Glimmer of a Clue by Daryl Wood Gerber and tries a recipe from the book.
- Janet Webb reviews Draw and Order by Cheryl Hollon.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Fatal Family Ties by S.C. Perkins.
- Jenny Maloney reviews Golden Boy: A Murderer Among the Manhattan Elite by John Glatt.
- BOLO Books reviews Writing in Ice: A Crime Writer's Guide to Iceland by Michael Ridpath.
Classics reviews:
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1908 mystery The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart.
- The Cromcast revisits the 1929 hardboiled crime novel Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1937 mystery Murder of a Man Afraid of Women by Anthony Abbot a.k.a. Fulton Oursler.
- Alan Cranis revisits the 1957 mystery The Man with the Cane and the 1966 mystery The Only Good Secretary by Jean Potts.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1964 police procedural The Quarry by Robert L. Pike.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1967 spy novel The Flight of the Bamboo Saucer by Fritz Gordon.
- Joe Kenney revisits Operation Moon Rocket, a 1968 novel in the Nick Carter Killmaster men's adventure series by Lew Louderback.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1974 James Rhodes crime novel Black Cop by Dom Gober a.k.a. Joseph Gober Nazel.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1974 western crime novel The Threepersons Hunt by Brian Garfield.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1993 historical mystery Poison for the Prince by Elizabeth Eyre a.k.a. Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1996 mystery A Killing Spring by Gail Bowen.
Con and event reports:
Research:
- Rozlan Mohd Noor reports how self-styled citizen sleuths and internet detectives can mess up criminal investigations.
- John Glatt chronicles how Thomas Gilbert, son of a wealthy New York City banker, murdered his father in a dispute over money.
- Willa C. Richards wonders why we remember serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, but not the names of his victims.
- Ann Hagedorn reports how the defection of Soviet intelligence officer Igor Gouzenko helped to expose a massive spy network in the US and Canada.
- Elizabeth Gilpin talks about being sent to an abusive camp for supposedly troubled teenagers.
- Sam Kean explains why graverobbing was a booming industry in 18th century Britain.
- George Dvorsky reports that researchers have analysed the last meal eaten by Tollund Man, a Danish bog body, who was executed 2400 years ago.
Free online fiction:
- "A Life Worth Living" by N.B. Turner in Shotgun Honey.
- "Summit Lake" by Tom Gartner in Shotgun Honey.
- "Rogue River" by Tom Gartner in Mystery Tribune.
- "The Café des Inferneaux" by Julian Barrett in Mystery Tribune.
- "Haunting Dreams" by Jan Christensen in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
- "Disposable Women" by Michael Bracken in Tough.
- "Back to McGallagher's Farm" by Paul Ginnigan in Over My Dead Body.
- "Number A" by Rusty Barnes in Beat to a Pulp.
- "Stegosaurus Swallows Man! Read All About It!" by Tony Dawson in The Five-Two.
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