Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 3, 2021
Crime fiction in general:
- Crime Reads shares ten new mysteries, crime novels and thrillers coming out this week.
- Crime Reads shares the ten best new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers for July.
- Crime Reads shares the best reviewed new crime novels of June.
- Kate White asks several popular crime fiction authors which crime novels they've read more than once.
- Fraser Massey wonders who the literary heirs of Hercule Poirot are.
- Heather Levy shares eight thrillers about dark desires.
- Tracy Clark talks about crime novels featuring private investigators of colour.
- Tracy Clark also offers a round-up of crime novels featuring black detectives.
- Grady Hendrix wonders why serial killer thrillers are so suffused with transphobia.
- Hilary Davidson shares seven crime novels in which the dead help to solve their own murders.
- Gabriel Krauze declares that public housing projects are more than settings for crime and misery porn.
- Aggie Blum Thompson asks what makes American suburbs so terrifying.
- Torquil MacLeod talks about the importance of place in crime fiction.
- Kate Carlisle shares seven mystery novels where the crimes are motivated by books.
- Daryl Wood Gerber shares her favourite cozy mysteries about gardening.
- John Galligan shares the seven essential elements about fishing related crime fiction.
- J.A. Crawford discusses how long-running crime fiction series like Jack Reacher or Spenser deal with their characters aging (or not).
- J. Kingston Pierce remembers Douglas Selby, Erle Stanley Gardner's other lawyer hero.
- Neil Sharpson shares his appreciation for John Le Carré's George Smiley.
- Luke Poling remembers 1960s spy fiction author Adam Diment who was once called the successor to Ian Fleming and then just disappeared in 1971 after writing only four novels.
Film and TV:
- Benjamin Lee calls The Ice Road a cut and paste action B-movie.
- Phil Hoad calls A Perfect Enemy a devious thriller featuring the manic pixie dram girl from hell.
- Leslie Felperin calls Embattled an oddly compelling and nuanced cage fighting family drama.
- Jack Seale calls Somos the flipside of drug and cartel crime dramas.
- Steve Rose calls Crazy Samurai: 400 versus 1 a marathon swordfight for hardcore action fans.
- Alex McLevy shares his thoughts on the Dutch revenge comedy The Columnist.
- Gwen Ihnat shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Why Women Kill.
- Juan Barquin shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Lisey's Story.
- Lucy Mangan calls Sophie: A Murder in West Cork a vivid and tasteful true crime documentary.
- Stuart Jeffries calls Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Falls of the Great British Stuntman a thrilling documentary.
- Lucy Mangan finds the documentary Epstein's Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell too apologetic.
- Tanner Tafelski shares five lesser known film adaptations of Patricia Highsmith novels.
- Dwyer Murphy shares international thrillers to watch this weekend.
- Caroline Siede revisits the 2003 gangster romantic comedy Gigli and finds that it really is as bad as its reputation.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 2012 thriller Disconnect.
- The Guardian reports about the woes of the British television industry after Brexit.
- Nellie Andreeva reports that NCIS is getting two new castmembers following the exit of Emily Wickersham.
- Molly Templeton reports that The Old Guard will be getting a sequel.
- Matt Schimkovitz reports that actress Allison Mack, best known for her role in Smallville, has received a three year prison sentence for her part in the NXIVM abusive sex cult.
- John Langley, creator of the reality TV show Cops, has died aged 78.
Comments on No Sudden Move:
Comments on Black Widow:
- Peter Bradshaw calls Black Widow a movie about a Russian super-spy with an Electra complex that's great fun.
- A.A. Dowd calls Black Widow a fun dysfunctional family sitcom set in the Marvel Universe.
- Germain Lussier declares that it's the supporting cast that makes Black Widow work.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Black Widow a tired rehash of Cold War era spy thrillers, which does not really engage with the dark side of Natasha Romanov.
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.
- Valerie Complex reports that Fast and Furious 9 has had the biggest opening weekend since December 2019.
Comments on Last Man Standing:
- Peter Bradshaw calls the documentary Last Man Standing a reinvestigation of the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls and a disturbing look at the 1990s rap music industry.
- Steve Rose shares his thoughts on the documentary Last Man Standing and wonders why Hollywood is so obsessed with the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls twenty-five years ago.
Awards:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Lincoln Michel takes a look at the "flight forward" writing method devised by Argentinian writer César Aira.
- Maxim Jakubowski talks about writing in multiple genres.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about the various fears affecting writers.
- Chris Paling explains why agents can be useful for writers.
- Alison Flood reports about the rise of BookTok.
Interviews:
- Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Alex Michaelides and Imran Mahmood.
- Suspense Magazine interviews James Patterson.
- Paul Burke interviews Jane Thynne a.k.a. C.J. Carey.
- Kristen Lepionka, Layne Fargo, and Wendy Heard interview Heather Levy.
- Zach Vasquez interviews Barry Gifford.
- Brad Shreve interviews Dean Klinkenberg.
- The Dark Phantom interviews Connie Berry.
- Lucy Burdette interviews Terrie Farley Moran.
- Alan Petersen interviews Robyn Gigl.
Reviews:
- J.B. Stevens reviews Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby.
- BOLO Books reviews Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby.
- Crime by the Book reviews Hostage by Clare Mackintosh.
- Joy Kluver reviews The Trawlerman by William Shaw.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Nightshift by Kiara Ladner.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Bad Moon Rising by John Galligan.
- Crime by the Book reviews Survive the Night by Riley Sager.
- Janet Webb reviews A Distant Grave by Sarah Stewart Taylor.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Runner by Tracy Clark.
- Peter Bradshaw reviews Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Taratino.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Queen of the Cicadas by V. Castro.
- No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews Queen of the Cicadas by V. Castro.
- No More Grumpy Bookseller reviews The Lost Girls by Heather Young.
- Jon Morgan reviews Ascension by Oliver Harris.
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Keepers by Jeffrey B. Burton.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Corpse with the Iron Will by Cathy Ace.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Death of an Irish Mummy by Catie Murphy.
- Lis Carey reviews Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison.
- Paul Burke reviews Accra Noir, edited by Nana-Ama Danquah.
- Paul Burke reviews Writing in Ice: A Crime Writer's Guide to Iceland by Michael Ridpath.
- Rachel Cooke reviews Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy by Anna Sebba.
Classics reviews:
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1929 Walter Ghost mystery Murder on B Deck by Vincent Starrett.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1930 mystery The Avenging Parrot by Anne Austin,
- Curtis Evans revisits the 1937 mystery Octagon House by Phoebe Atwood Taylor.
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1950 Dr. Basil Willing mystery Through a Glass, Darkly by Helen McCloy.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1965 psychological thriller A Fragment of Fear by John Bingham.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1971 crime novel The Freedom Trap by Desmond Bagley.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1981 collection More Good Old Stuff by John D. MacDonald.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 2001 thriller Bel Canto by Ann Pratchett.
Con and event reports:
- Ayo Onatade shares the program for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
- Ayo Onatade shares the schedule for the virtual More Than Malice festival.
- Imke Wrage reports about a visit to the Krimibibliothek in Bremen, Germany, one of only three libraries dedicated to crime fiction worldwide.
Research:
- Michael Ridpath shares a crime writer's guide to Iceland.
- Steven Saylor wonders whether the Roman Emperor Constantine should be considered a saint or a serial killer.
- Michael Gonzales talks about drug boss Frank Lucas, rapper Jay.Z and gangsters in 1970s New York City.
- Jeffrey B. Burton reports about cadaver dogs who are trained to locate dead bodies.
Free online fiction:
- "Contraband" by Susan K. Maciolek in Over My Dead Body.
- "The Boy Detective and the Summer of '74" by Art Taylor in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Podcast.
- "Stick with the Plan" by Dustin Walker in Shotgun Honey.
- "Tinian Then Saipan" by Ted Flanagan in Shotgun Honey.
- "When a Cuppa Won't Do" by Dale Rutherford in Mystery Tribune.
- "Partners in Crime" by Mark Atley in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Since You Love Her So Much" by Robert Ragan in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Euphoria" by Kirstyn Petras in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Eastside Shakedown" by C.W. Blackwell in The Five-Two.
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