Crime Fiction Links of the Week for August 14, 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 The Dry, season 8 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, John and the Hole, Don't Breathe 2, The Suicide Squad, tributes to Markie Post, Jane Withers and Una Stubbs and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Alison Flood shares a round-up of the best recent thrillers.
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillery coming out this week.
• Crime by the Book shares the most anticipated crime novels for fall 2021. 
• Anthony Horowitz shares his favourite classic crime novels.
  
• Paul French talks about the rise of Welsh crime fiction.
• Lucy Burdette explains why mysteries and food go together perfectly.
  
• Steven Tingle pairs beers and crime novels.
  
• Sarah Warburton shares six crime novels based on real cases.
  
• Ashley Winstead discusses a new wave of crime fiction about institutional violence. 
• Grady Hendrix traces the rise of true crime from highbrow to cash cow.
  
• Caitlin Landuyt shares her appreciation for the mysteries of Charlotte Carter.
• Glen Erik Hamilton shares his appreciation for the thrillers of Marc Olden.
• Michele Weinstat Miller explains how her own troubled life influenced her crime fiction.
• Molly Templeton discusses what happens in the brain when we read.  
• Eugene Gerden reports that foreign crime fiction is selling like hot cakes in Russia.
  
• Sandra Mangan reports about Bite Size Crime Stories, a new short fiction subscription project started by Catherine Turner.
• Crime Reads reports about Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?, a graphic novel about serial killer Ed Gein by Eric Powell and Harold Schechter.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Benjamin Lee calls Beckett a pleasant throwback to 1970s thrillers.
  
• Paul Levinson calls the Norwegian crime drama Outlier a nordic noir style Criminal Minds. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls New Order a violent and cynical thriller from Mexico.
  
• Leslie Felperin calls Beasts Clawing at Straws a black crime comedy with perfectly pitched performances from South Korea. 
• Simran Hans calls Stillwater a thoughtful movie hidden inside an action thriller. 
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls The Courier a solid cold war drama. 
• Leslie Felperin calls Midnight in the Switchgrass a dated and tawdry thriller. 
• Alex McLevy calls Brand New Cherry Flavor a David Lynch meets David Cronenberg horror noir.  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the Israeli crime drama Hit and Run.
  
• Garrick Webster shares his thoughts on the Bulgarian crime drama The Devil's Throat.
  
• Mike McCahill calls Shershaah a nuance free military biopic from India.
  
• Mark Lawson reports about Stephen, a British docudrama based on the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993.
  
• Mark Lawson calls Jimmy Savile: The People Who Knew a devastating and damning documentary. 
• Jesse Hassenger declares that the animated children's movie Paw Patrol will have parents howling for release.  
• Stuart Jeffries interviews Sion Daniel Young, who plays a man wrongfully accused of murder in the true crime drama Deceit. 
• Marah Eakin interviews Jodie Comer, star of Free Guy and Killing Eve.  
• Simon Thompson interviews John Davis and John Fox, producers of Jungle Cruise. 
• Olivia Rutigliano revisits the 1995 action film Die Hard with a Vengeance. 
• William Hughes talks about an alternate ending to Black Widow. 
  
• Charles Fleming reports that Barris Kustom Industries, a car customiser in North Hollywood, California, which created the 1960s Batmobile and many other custom cars for movies and TV shows, is closing down.
• Stuntman Brad Allen, who worked on many Jackie Chan films, Wonder Woman and the Kingsman series, has died aged 48. 
  
• Former child star and voice actress Jane Withers has died aged 95.  
• Pat Hitchcock, actress and only daughter of Alfred Hitchcock who also appeared in several of his movies, has died aged 93.
  
• Actress Markie Post, who appeared in The Fall Guy, Night Court, The Incredible Hulk and many other TV series, has died aged 70.
• Actress Una Stubbs who appeared in Worzel Gummidge, Till Death Do Us Part, The Worst Witch, Heartbeat and Sherlock, has died aged 84.
• Michael Coveney shares an obituary for the late Una Stubbs. 
• Pejman Faratin remembers Una Stubbs' many roles.
  

 

Comments on The Dry:

• Luke Buckmaster calls The Dry a gripping, tough and psychologically intense thriller from Australia.
• Garrick Webster shares his appreciation for The Dry. 

 

Comments on John and the Hole:

• A.A. Dowd calls John and the Hole a spooky portrait of budding teenage socoiopathy. 
  
• Simon Thompson interviews Michael C. Hall, star of Dexter and John and the Hole.
  

 

Comments on Don't Breathe 2:

• Benjamin Lee calls Don't Breathe 2 a dull and dingy sequel. 
• Jesse Hassenger notes that Don't Breathe 2 turns the memorable villain from part 1 into a hero.
  

 

Comments on season 8 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine: 

• LaToya Ferguson shares her thoughts on the season 8 premiere of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
  
• Saloni Gajjar interviews John C. McGinley who plays Frank Sullivan in Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
  

 

Comments on The Suicide Squad:

• Emmet Asher-Perrin declares that The Suicide Squad is every bit as ridiculous as it should be.  
• Arturo Serrano calls The Suicide Squad silly, morbid, gory, hilarious and surprisingly topical. 
• Alex McLevy calls The Suicide Squad a useful corrective to the bloodless nature of superhero movies.
  
• Germain Lussier shares a spoilerish discussion of The Suicide Squad. 
• Tatiana Tenreyro shares her thoughts on The Suicide Squad and compares it to the animated Harley Quinn series.
  
• Adam B. Vary interviews James Gunn, director of The Suicide Squad and the Guardians of the Galaxy films.
  
• Alex McLevy and William Hughes ranks the characters of The Suicide Squad.
• Tatiana Tenreyro reports that a Guardians of the Galaxy actress makes a cameo appearance in The Suicide Squad.
• Anthony D'Alessandro reports that The Suicide Squad has underperformed at the box office so far.
  

 

Awards: 

• The winner of the Best Mystery of the Decade award handed out by Honkaku Mystery Writers Club in Japan has been announced.

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Charlie Jane Anders asks twelve fellow authors how to write during tough times. 
• Jeffrey B. Burton shares the creative outlets that led to him becoming a writer.
  
• Lincoln Michel shares everything he learned about being a professional writer in one post. 
• Joy Fielding declares that there is no secret to writing a bestseller.
  
• Brian Murphy explains why reviewing is a big time commitment. 
• Megan McCluskey reports about the Goodreads fake review, reviewbombing and extortion problem. 
• Lucy Wright reports about an uproar in the UK Society of Authors involving president Philip Pullman. 
  
• Adrian Humphreys reports that Richard Robinson, CEO of Scholastic Publishing, has died aged 84 and has willed the company to a co-worker and lover rather than his family.
  

 

Interviews:

• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Mark Billingham and Steve Cavanagh. 
• Eli Cranor interviews Steph Cha.
  
• Alan Petersen interviews Gregg Olsen.
• Ayo Onatade interviews Lucy Atkins. 
  
• Debbi Mack interviews Thomas O'Callaghan. 
• Robert Justice interviews Tracy Clark. 
• Brad Shreve interviews Marko Realmonte.
• Désiréé Zamorano interviews Naomi Hirara.
  
• The Cozy Ink Podcast interviews Jay Forman. 
  
• Nancie Clare interviews Taylor Moore.
• Ayo Onatade interviews Emma Smith.
  

Reviews:

• Paula Guran reviews Moon Lake by Joe R. Lansdale.
  
• Ayo Onatade reviews Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby. 
• John Valeri reviews Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens. 
• A Bookworm's World reviews Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens.
  
• Garrick Webster reviews The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indridason, translated by Victoria Cribb. 
• Sarahlyn Buck reviews My Mistress' Eyes Are Raven Black by Terry Roberts. 
• Greer MacAllister reviews The Turnout by Megan Abbott. 
• Diane Kiesel reviews Widespread Panic by James Ellroy. 
• Alan Cranis reviews Then She Vanishes by Claire Douglas. 
• Ruth Castleberry reviews The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine.
  
• Sandie Herron reviews Northwest Angle by William Kent Krueger. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews Island of Thieves by Glen Erik Hamilton. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews A Rattle of Bones by Douglas Skelton.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Dust to Dust by Audrey Keown. 
• BOLO Books reviews Gone for Good by Joanna Schaffhausen. 
• Ian Mond reviews The Good Neighbours by Nina Allan.
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena.  
• Maggie Boyd reviews Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Unthinkable by Brad Parks. 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Doll by Yrsa Sigurdadottir.
  
• Bitter Tea and Mystery reviews Woman with a Blue Pencil by Gordon McAlpine.
• Ron Fortier reviews To Live and Spy in Berlin by Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens.
  
• Angie Barry reviews The Perfume Thief by Timothy Schaffert. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye. 
  
• Beth Kanell reviews The Bucket List by Peter Mohlin and Peter Nyström. 
• Paul Burke reviews Brazilian Psycho by Joe Thomas. 
• Kirkus reviews The Knight's Tale by M.J. Trow. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Mother Midnight by Paul Doherty.
  
• Janet Webb reviews A Fiancée's Guide to First Wives and Murder by Dianne Freeman. 
• Toni V. Sweeney reviews A Fiancée's Guide to First Wives and Murder by Dianne Freeman. 
  
• Kat Hooper reviews Synchronized Sorcery by Juliet Blackwell. 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Cajun Kiss of Death by Ellen Byron.
  
• Janet Webb reviews Fatal Family Ties by S.C. Perkins.
• Valerie Fortier reviews Antiques Carry On by Barbara Allan.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Two Wicked Desserts by Lynn Cahoon and tries a recipe from the book.
• Kirkus reviews The Silver Waves of Summer, edited by David M. Olsen.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1897 detective novel Agony by Frederico de Roberto, translated by Andrew Edward.
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1902 mystery collection The Adventures of Romney Pringle by R. Austin Freeman.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1925 Charlie Chan mystery The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1926 mystery The Zoo Murder a.k.a. The Murder in the Garden by Francis Grierson.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1933 mystery The White Cockatoo by M.G. Eberhart.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1936 mystery The Puzzle of the Red Stallion by Stuart Palmer.
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1939 cozy mystery Murder in Style by Emma Lou Fetta.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1942 mystery House with Crooked Walls by Bruce Graeme.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1952 mystery A Hive of Suspects by Shelia Pim.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1952 mystery The Widow of Bath by Margot Bennett. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1953 crime novel You're Wrong, Delaney a.k.a. Blind Alley by Bant Singer a.k.a. Charles Herbert Shaw. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1955 adventure thriller Gulf Coast Girl a.k.a. Scorpion Reef a.k.a. Flight to Nowhere by Charles Williams.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1955 juvenile delinquent novel The Life and Times of a Tough Guy a.k.a. Teen-Age Mobster by Benjamin Appel. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1959 gothic novel Moura by Virginia Coffman. 
  
• John Boston revisits the 1966 science fiction detective novel Watchers of the Dark by Lloyd Biggle Jr. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1979 spy novel That Man Gull by Anthony Stuart. 
• Joe Kenney revisits Cutthroat Cannibals, a 1988 novel in The Last Ranger post-apocalyptic adventure series.  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1996 political thriller A Sort of Virtue by Julian Symons.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• B.V. Lawson reports that the cancelled 2021 Bouchercon in New Orleans, Louisiana, will be replaced by virtual programming. 
• Jen Lucas reports that the 2021 Bloody Scotland Festival in Stirling, Scotland, will go ahead in person.
  
• Bernard Bec shares the history of the Cognac Polar Festival, a thriller festival in Cognac, France.
• Ayo Onatade shares the program for the virtual 2021 SlaughterFest.
• Doug Ellis looks ahead at the 2021 Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention in Lombard, Illinois and shares some of the rare items going up for auction.

 

Research:

• Joanna Schaffhausen talks about unsolved serial killer cases. 
• Joanna Schaffhausen also talks about serial killers who stopped killing years before they were caught. 
• Mitzi Szereto discusses the social media influenced murder of 15-year-old Dutch Chinese teenager Joyce Hau in Arnhem in 2012.
  
• Curtis Evans discusses how the brief disappearance of 17-year-old Florence Rush from Massachussetts in 1920 caused a panic about alleged "white slavery".
• Benjamin T. Smith reports about the first drug panic centered on marihuana imported from Mexico in the early 20th century.
• Charlie English discusses the Nazis' war on so-called "degenerate" art, i.e. modern art.
• Susan Williams shares a brief history of CIA operations in Africa.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Four Words" by Dale C. Andrews in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Fiction Podcast.
• "Draw Play" by Hal Charles in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Fiction Podcast.
• "Mr. Harrison" by John Litweiler in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Trailer Park Hero" by Dennis Smith in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits" by James D.F. Hannah in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Amends" by C.W. Blackwell in Tough.
• "How to Make a Whale out of an Envelope" by Amy Holman in The Five-Two.
  

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for season 6 of Lucifer. 
  
• Watch a trailer for Cop Shop.
• Watch a trailer for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean.