Crime Fiction Links of the Week for August 28, 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 Clickbait, Reminiscence, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Jungle Cruise, a sequel to Enola Holmes and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week. 
• Molly Odintz shares the best debut crime novels for August. 
• Crime Reads shares the best crime novel and mysteries out in paperback this month.
  
• Crime Reads shares the best true crime and non-fiction crime books for August. 
• Alan Parks talks about crime novels where the city serves not just as a backdrop but is a character in its own right.
  
• Paul French takes a look at crime fiction from Sir Lanka. 
• Clinical psychologist S.F. Kosa a.k.a. Sarah Fine talks about her favourite psychological thrillers.
  
• Holly Kybett Smith talks about gothic fiction and the fear of change.  
• Gordy Sauer explains that westerns are violent because they have to be. 
• Thomas Mullen talks about totalitarian noir.
  
• Amber Garza shares her appreciation for the psychological thrillers of Sophie Hannah. 
• Virginia Feito shares her appreciation for the works of Caroline Blackwood. 
• Bob Byrne shares his appreciation for the hardboiled fiction of Norbert Davis.
  
• Tim Major talks about the joys and difficulties of writing a faithful Sherlock Holmes pastiche.
  
• Romanian editor and writer Bogdan Hrib explains that he blackmailed himself into writing crime fiction. 
• Book Marks shares Conrad Knickerbocker's 1966 review of the true crime novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
  
• Ellen Byron shares the real life pets who have served as cover models for cozy mysteries. 
• James Davis Nicoll shares five ludicrous reasons for not reading a perfectly good book.  
• Molly Templeton explains how to pick what to read next.  
• Tanner Tafelski profiles Tony Parker who interviewed British prisoners, criminals and others for his oral history projects.
  
• Alison Flood reports that Jonathan Mattingly, one of the police officers who shot black nurse Breonna Taylor without any justification, has pulled out of a book deal, after Simon and Schuster refused to distribute the book on behalf of its rightwing publisher.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on the 2020 version of Rebecca.
  
• Mike D'Angelo calls No Man of God a redundant true crime drama about Ted Bundy.
  
• Phil Hoad calls Sound of Violence a neo-giallo film that's big on lurid violence.  
• Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya shares her thoughts on the season 5 finale of The Good Fight. 
• Vikram Murthi shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
  
• William Hughes shares his thoughts on the season 12 premiere of Archer. 
  
• Claire Armitstead interviews Jodie Comer, star of Killing Eve and Free Guy, as well as Stephen Graham, her co-star in Help.  
• Danette Chavez interviews Julianne Nicholson, one of the stars of Mare of Easttown.
  
• Julia Sirmonds revisits the 1991-2006 British crime drama Prime Suspect.
  
• Jesse Pasternack declares that most of Wes Anderson's films are crime films.
  
• Andrew Paul reports how the 1974 martial arts movie The Street Fighter became the first film to receive an X rating for extreme violence in the US. 
  
• Katie Rife and Matt Schimkovitz share their favourite martial arts movies starring the late Sonny Chiba. 

 

Comments on Clickbait:

• Saloni Gajjar calls Clickbait a misguided dizzying thriller. 
• Adrian Horton calls Clickbait a silly Netflix thriller that's not worth watching. 

 

Comments on Reminiscence:

• Owen Gleiberman calls Reminiscence a science fiction noir love story that's déjà vu all over again. 
• Molly Templeton calls Reminiscence a tired mystery dressed up in nice science fiction clothes.
  
• Paul Levinson finds a lot to like about Reminiscence.
  
• Elizabeth Aubrey interviews Lisa Joy, director of Reminiscence. 
• Marah Eakin interviews Hugh Jackman, star of Reminiscence. 
• Isaac Feldberg interviews Thandiwe Newton, star of Reminiscence, Westworld and Solo.
  
• Rebecca Rubin reports that Reminiscence is a box office flop and that movies aimed at adult audiences are struggling in general.
  

 

Comments on Jungle Cruise:

• Foz Meadows watches Jungle Cruise, so you don't have to, and finds it suffused with nostalgia.  
• Christina Radish interviews Veronica Falcón, who plays Trader Sam in Jungle Cruise.
  

 

Comments on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings:

• Peter Bradshaw calls Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings a spirited martial arts action fest. 
• Nancy Wang Yuen declares that Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings brings compelling new heroes and awe-inspiring action to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  
• Katie Rife calls Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings a martial arts movie meets superhero film. 
  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw finds some parallels between Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Jackie Chan movies. 
• Chelsea Tang interviews Tony Leung who plays Wenwu a.k.a. the Mandarin in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
  
• Watch a teaser for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
  

 

Comments on a sequel to Enola Holmes: 

• Lauren Morris shares some information about the sequel to Enola Holmes.
• Hull Live reports that the Enola Holmes sequel will be shooting in Hull, UK.
  

 

Awards: 

• The winners of the 2021 Macavity Awards have been announced. 
• The winner of the 2021 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Colour Award has been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards have been announced.
  
• The winner of the 2021 Munsey Award has been announced.  
• The winners of the 2021 Silver Falchion Awards have been announced.  
• The winner of the 2021 Prix Charbonnier has been announced.
  
• The Crime Cymru First Novel Prize is open for submissions.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• William Kent Krueger talks about the storyteller's promise.
  
• Karen Hamilton shares some tips for creating characters. 
• Karen Rose shares the secret to writing great romantic suspense. 
  
• Sarah Chorn shares ten tips for writing believable pain. 
• T.J.Klune explains how grief influences his writing.
• Scott Oden shares his writing process.
• Benjamin C. Kinney shares expectations and best practices for short fiction rejection letters. 
• Stephen Womack talks about returning to an abandoned series.
  

 

Interviews:

• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview S.A. Cosby. 
• Maris Kraizman interviews Megan Abbott. 
• Kristen Lepionka interviews Megan Abbott. 
  
• Emma Brockes interviews Paula Hawkins. 
• Aurelia C. Scott interviews Louise Penny. 
• Rebecca Clarke interviews William Kent Krueger.
  
• Stephen J. Golds interviews Will Carver.
• Brad Shreve interviews Lucy Sussex.
• Paul Burke interviews Daniel Cole.
  
• Alan Petersen interviews Terry Roberts.
• Debbie Mack interviews Saralyn Richard.
  

Reviews:

• Blue Book Balloon reviews Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
• Laura Miller reviews Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
  
• Alice Cary reviews How to Find Your Way in the Dark by Derek B. Miller.
  
• Joe Hatlaub reviews The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indridason. 
  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Cold Sun by Anita Sivakumaran. 
• Gwen Moffat reviews Dust Off the Bones by Paul Howarth. 
• Andrew Taylor reviews 1979 by Val McDermid. 
• Rob Merrill reviews Billy Summers by Stephen King.  
• A Bookworm's World reviews Rabbit Hole by Mark Billingham. 
• Mary Picken reviews Mimic by Daniel Cole.
  
• C.S. Harrison reviews City Problems by Steven Goble.
  
• BOLO Books reviews The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny.
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny. 
• The Reading Room reviews The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny. 
• Mary Cadden reviews The Family Plot by Megan Collins. 
• Paperback Warrior reviews Come With Me by Ronald Malfi.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris.
• David's Book Blurg reviews The Price by Kerry Kaya. 
• Becky LeJeune reviews 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao.
  
• Russell James reviews The Basel Killings by Hansjörg Schneider. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Island by Ben Coes.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews No Honour by Awais Khan. 
• Raven Crime Reads reviews No Honour by Awais Khan. 
• The Quick and the Read reviews A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry. 
• KRL reviews Grevy Danger by Victoria Tait.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Secret Staircase by Sheila Connolly. 
• John Slayton reviews How to Kill Your Best Friend by Lexie Elliott. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews How to Kill Your Best Friend by Lexie Elliott.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Wrinkle in Thyme by Sarah Fox and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Adam Whitehead reviews Baking Bad by Kim M. Watt. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Seven-Year Witch by Angela M. Sanders. 
  
• Mark Yon reviews A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlì Clark.  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark. 
  
• Heather Fitt reviews Murder: The Biography by Kate Morgan.
• Philip Olterman reviews Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman.

 

Classics reviews:

• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1943 mystery Too Many Bones by Ruth Sawtell Wallis.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1944 mystery Till Death Do Us Part by John Dickson Carr.
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1945 mystery Unholy Dying by R.T. Campbell.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1950 mystery So Pretty a Problem by Francis Duncan a.k.a. William Underhill. 
• Alan Cranis revisits the 1958 crime novel All the Way and the 1959 crime novel The Sailcloth Shroud by Charles Williams.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1959 crime thriller The Slasher by Ovid Demaris.
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1959 mystery The Grey Flannel Shroud by Henry Slesar.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1960 noir novel Night Squad by David Goodis.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1965 crime novel No Through Road by Martin Russell.
• Joe Kenney revisits Killer Steele, a 1990 novel in the Steele science fiction men's adventure series by J.D. Masters.

 

Con and event reports:

• George Easter shares the free virtual replacement program for the cancelled 2021 Bouchercon.
  
• Ayo Onatade shares the program for the Ilkley Literature Festival in Ilkley, UK. 
• Ayo Onatade shares the program of the Durham Book Festival in Durham, UK.
  
• Martin Edwards reports about the launch party for the crime fiction anthology Many Deadly Returns in Whitley Bay, UK.
• Lou Armagno reports about the Seven Keys Lodge in Estes Park, Colorado, which was built in homage to Charlie Chan creator Earl Derr Biggers.
  

 

Research:

• Sammy Caiola reports how sexual assault and other trauma affects memory. 
• Karen Cleveland explains what CIA analysts and investigative journalists have in common.
  
• Michael Laurence talks about cults, control and how good people can be persuaded to do bad things.
• Philip Oltermann reports about a mass poisoning case at a university in Darmstadt, Germany.
• Michael Cabantuan reports that Al Capone's granddaughters are auctioning off his belongings, including his favourite handgun.
  

Free online fiction:

• "One of Us" by Lorie Lewis Ham in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast. 
• "Blind Curve" by Kim Pittaway in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Nice Things" by Conrad Person in Shotgun Honey. 
• "The Box" by Peter Glazebrook in Mystery Tribune
  
• "The Dregs of the Rocket Fuel Hustle" by Garth Jones in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Breathless" by Thomas Joyce in Guilty.
• "Live Performance" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
• "My Eyes Are Blue, His Are Brown, But They're the Same" by Terry Dawley in The Five-Two.
  

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for The King's Man.