Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 23, 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 Only Murders in the Building, season 3 of You, The Harder They Fall, Impeachment: American Crime Story, Squid Game, Halloween Kills, the fatal shooting accident on the set of Rust, more on Ruby Rose's exit from Batwoman and much more.

Crime fiction in general: 

• Barnes & Noble share their favourite mysteries and thrillers of 2021.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week. 
• Lisa Levy shares the best psychological thrillers for October.
  
• Denise Mina shares her ten favourite true crime novels.
  
• Garrick Webster shares ten chilling crime reads for Halloween. 
• Tara Laskowski shares a list of Halloween themed crime novels.
  
• Molly Odintz shares ten new horror novels that are perfect for crime fiction fans. 
• C.J. Cooke shares eight thrillers and mysteries with supernatural elements.
  
• Barbara Ross shares spooky cozy mysteries to enjoy this Halloween. 
• Elizabeth Penney shares mysteries that take place in bookshops.
  
• Sasha Wunsch shares speculative YA thrillers to blow your mind.  
• Gregory Galloway shares eight noir novels featuring saps and suckers.
  
• Nick Kolakowski discusses the strange intersection between noir and plastic surgery. 
• Otto Penzler explains how the Victorian mystery was born. 
• Janet Beard discusses the timeliness of Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.
  
• Romy Hausmann shares five thrillers set in the woods.
  
• Archer Mayor explains how the landscape of Vermont influences his Joe Gunther mysteries. 
• Tony Knighton explains how being a firefighter prepared him for writing crime fiction.
  
• Brian McGilloway explains why he returned to the character of Ben Devlin. 
• Curtis Evans profiles the Detection Club and chronicles the fight over fair play in crime fiction in the mid 20th century. 
• Paperback Warrior profiles noir writer Orrie Hitt.
  
• Marina Luz explains how to find a book, when you know neither the title nor the author.  
• Paul French shares eight international true crime podcasts to listen to.
  
• Hannah Ryan reports that Spanish crime fiction writer Carmen Mola has been revealed to be a pseudonym used by the male writers Agustín Martínez, Jorge Díaz and Antonio Mercero during an awards ceremony to honour Mola.
  
• British crime writer Martin Russell has died aged 87.
• Watch the documentary Dark Travellers: The Rise of Scottish Crime Writing.
  

 

Film and TV: 

• Peter Bradshaw calls Bull a vicious gangland revenge shocker. 
• Vikram Murthi declares that A Cop Movie blurs the thin line between reality and fiction.
  
• Danette Chavez calls Dopesick a drawn-out but compelling drug drama. 
• Leslie Felperin calls 7 Prisoners a devastating but compelling human trafficking drama.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 2 premiere of Hightown.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 2 premiere of Baptiste.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on episode 2 and episode 3 of CSI: Vegas.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of American Rust.
• Caroline Siede revisits the 1963 spy comedy Charade.
• Xan Brooks interviews Michael Caine, star of Get Carter, The Ipcress File, The Muppets Christmas Carol and many others.
• Stuart Jeffries interviews Christopher Walken who has been in everything. 
  
• Dwyer Murphy shares flirting lessons from Michael Mann thrillers.
  
• Mark Seal declares that the real through line from The Godfather to The Sopranos is not the mob but the American family. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that fans are upset that Mel Gibson will star in the John Wick spin-off The Continental.
  
• Matt Webb Mitovich reports that Mark Harmon leaves NCIS after nineteen seasons.
• Andrew Dalton reports that the strike of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which would have brought all film and TV productions in the US to a halt, has been averted at the eleventh hour.

  

Comments on Only Murders in the Building:

• Danette Chavez, Gwen Ihnat and Saloni Gajjar share six questions they have after watching Only Murders in the Building. 
• Danette Chavez interviews John Hoffman, co-creator of Only Murders in the Building. 
  
• Marah Eakin interviews Siddhartha Khosla, who composed the score for Only Murders in the Building.
  

 

Comments on season 3 of You:

• Rebecca Nicholson shares her thoughts on season 3 of You.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on season 3 of You. 
• Marah Eakin interviews Sera Gamble, showrunner of You.
• Saloni Gajjar interviews Shalita Grant who plays Sherry Conrad in You.
• Kathryn Rath discusses how the character of Love Quinn in You has changed in season 3.
  

 

Comments on Impeachment: American Crime Story:

• Lucy Mangan calls Impeachment: American Crime Story a salacious sensation.
• Ines Bellina shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Impeachment: American Crime Story.
• Jordan Williams looks back on Bill Clinton's impeachment and wonders how accurate Impeachment: American Crime Story is.
  

 

Comments on The Harder They Fall:

• Peter Bradshaw calls The Harder They Fall a garishly violent western
• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky calls The Harder They Fall an irreverant revenge western that falls flat.
  

  

Comments on Squid Game: 

• Matt Webb Mitovich asks fifteen burning questions about Squid Game.
• Peter Mutuc explains how every major character death in Squid Game was foreshadowed. 
• James Kerr wonders whether the games are always the same in every round of Squid Game.
  
• Stuart Heritage reports about the actors playing the masked VIPs in Squid Game. 
  
• Daisy Hernandez shares dystopian recommendations for fans of Squid Game. 
• Eleanor Harding worries that Squid Game might turn children into violent bullies.
• Danny Perkins reports that the comedy show Saturday Night Life has already paradied Squid Game.
  

 

Comments on Halloween Kills: 

• Cheryl Eddy declares that watching Halloween Kills is like digging your fingers into an open wound.
• Katie Rife declares that Halloween Kills cannot help but shoot itself in the foot. 
• Natalie Zutter calls Halloween Kills a cautionary tale against true crime and vigilante justice. 
  
• Nadia Khomani declares that Halloween Kills marks a new high in the horror renaissance. 
• Inspired by Halloween Kills and others, Benjamin Lee notes that even though the slasher horror movie is a genre that never dies, it is currently making a big comeback.
  
• Cheryl Eddy shares a spoilerish discussion of Halloween Kills.
  
• Tom Beasley interviews David Gordon Green, director of Halloween Kills.
  
• Cheryl Eddy interviews the cast of Halloween Kills. 
• Katie Rife and A.A. Dowd look back at more than forty years of Halloween movies.
• Katie Rife and A.A. Dowd also discuss how Halloween Kills compares to the slasher movies that came before.
• Cheryl Eddy ranks all twelve Halloween movies to date.
  
• Justin Carter declares that Halloween Kills has done very well at the box office and not so well on streaming.
• Rob Bricken shares some photos of Jamie Lee Curtis at the Halloween Kills premiere, dressed up as her mother Janet Leigh in Psycho.
  

 

Comments on the fatal shooting accident on the set of Rust: 

• Samantha Locke and Luke Harding report that actor Alec Baldwin accidentally killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza while firing a prop gun on the set of Rust.
• Luke Harding profiles cinematographer Halyna Hutchins who was killed on the set of Rust aged 42.
• Luke Harding also reports about Alec Baldwin's reaction to the fatal shooting accident on the set of Rust. 
• Catherine Shoard takes a look at fatal accidents and deaths on film sets. 
  

 

More on Ruby Rose's exit from Batwoman:

• Danielle Sanchez reports that Ruby Rose has spoken out about unsafe conditions on the set of Batwoman and why she left the show. 
• Charles Pulliam-Moore also discusses Ruby Rose's negative experiences on the set of Batwoman. 
• Shawn DePasquale reports that actor Dougray Scott has denied Ruby Rose's abuse allegations against him.

 

Awards:

• The winner of the 2021 Capital Crime Amazon Publishing New Voices Award has been announced.
• The winner of the 2021 Tony Hillerman Prize has been announced.
• Ayo Onatade reports that the Glencairn Glass Crime Short Story Competition has been launched.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Mike Ripley talks about writing mysteries starring Margery Allingham's sleuth Albert Campion.
• Claire Gradidge talks about the inspiration for Mystery at Hursley Park House.
• Trace Conger shares the inspiration for his crime novel Five Will Die.
• Onyeka Nwelue talks about the difficulties he faced as a Nigerian author of crime fiction.
• Kyle Chayka wonders how Amazon has changed fiction. 
• Lincoln Michel discusses how writers can deal with envy. 
• Mark Lawrence chronicles his struggles trying to get Amazon KDP to accept that he is indeed Mark Lawrence, author of his own books. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch notes that publishers are ignoring the untapped potential of their back catalogue. 
• Judith Rosen reports that independent bookstores have experienced a boom during the covid pandemic.

 

Interviews:

• Wrong Place, Write Crime interviews William Kent Krueger and Maria Marotti.
• Alan Petersen interviews Rory Clements.
• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Elodie Harper. 
• Grace Topping interviews Lorie Lewis Ham. 
• E.B. Davis interviews M.E. Browning. 
• Punk Noir Magazine interviews James Kestrel.
  
• Punk Noir Magazine interviews King Brian Asman.
  

Reviews:

• George Easter reviews Five Decembers by James Kestrel.
  
• Richard Klinzman reviews The Nameless Ones by John Connolly.
  
• Sandra Mangan reviews The Unheard by Nicci French.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Litani by Jess Lourey.
• Becky LeJeune reviews Litani by Jess Lourey.
• Joseph Finder reviews Silverview by John Le Carré.
• Beth Kanell reviews Diamond and the Eye by Peter Lovesey.
• Crime by the Book reviews The Ice Coven by Max Seeck and The Corpse Flower by Anne Mette Hancock. 
• Becky LeJeune reviews Cold As Hell by Lilja Sigurðardóttir.
• Bill Capossere and Rachael McKenzie review Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. 
• Andrew Hill reviews No Way To Die by Tony Kent.
• John Slayton reviews Sleepless by Romy Hausmann. 
  
• BOLO Books reviews The Mother Next Door by Tara Laskowski. 
• John Parker reviews Keep Her Quiet by Emma Curtis. 
• BOLO Books reviews Hold Me Down by Clea Simon. 
• Mike Parker reviews Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian.
  
• Kairen Cullen reviews My Best Friend's Murder by Polly Phillips.
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews Among the Shadows by Bruce Robert Coffin. 
• Clifford Garstang reviews Lemon by Kwon Yeo-sun, translated by Janet Hong.
  
• Crossexamining Crime reviews A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky by Margaret Verble. 
• Nut Press reviews Black Drop by Leonora Nattrass.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews In the Crypt with a Candlestick by Daisy Waugh. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz. 
• Kirkus reviews Everything Is Jake by Jethro K. Lieberman. 
  
• BOLO Books reviews Mango, Mambo and Murder by Raquel V. Reyes.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Mulled to Death by Kate Lansing and tries a recipe from the book. 
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Down the Hatch by M.C. Beaton and R.W. Green.
  
• Garrick Webster reviews The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston.
• Grab This Book reviews The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston. 
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Best in Snow by David Rosenfelt. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Hypnosis is for Hacks by Tamara Berry.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews In the Company of Witches by Auralee Snow.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Hood by Lavie Tidhar.  
• Rebecca Nesvet reviews Hyde by Craig Russell.
  
• Paperback Warrior reviews Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis.
  
• Sarah Ditum reviews Reprieve by James Han Mattson.  
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews April in Spain by John Banville.
  
• BOLO Books reviews State of Terror by Hilary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny.
• Paul Burke reviews State of Terror by Hilary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny.
  
• Alethea Kontis reviews Fan Fiction by Brent Spiner. 
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, edited by Ellen Datlow.  
• Publishers Weekly reviews The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries, edited by Otto Penzler.
  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021, edited by Alafair Burke and Steph Cha.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Bloody Spicy Books revisits the 1932 Shadow adventure The Romanoff Jewels by Maxwell Grant a.k.a. Walter B. Gibson.
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1949 Superintendent Budd mystery The Tipster by Gerald Verner.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1952 revenge story "The Death Hunter" by Steve Frazee.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1961 mystery The Murderers by Fredric Brown.
  
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1965 spy novel On Hazardous Duty by David St. John. 
• Bloody Spicy Books revisits the 1966 spy novel The Spy Who Didn't by Jack Laflin.
• Joe Kenney revisits Amsterdam, a 1968 novel in the Nick Carter Killmaster men's adventure series by William Rohde.
  
• Book Marks revisits the 1974 spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré.
  
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1976 mystery A Little Local Murder by Robert Barnard.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1976 crime graphic novel Chandler: Red Tide by Jim Steranko.

 

Con and event reports:

• J. Kingston Pierce reports that the 2022 Bouchercon will take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Talaura Harms reports about a touring stage adaptation of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
  

  

Crowdfunding:

• The 2021 WMG Publishing Holiday Spectacular is looking for funding.

 

Research:

• James Dolan remembers his father, James "Doc" Dolan, who was a mafia hitman.
• The BBC reports about a man in India who murdered his wife by making a cobra bite her.
  

Free online fiction:

• "There Will Come a Harvest" by Mike McHone in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "The Other Sam" by Patrick Whitehurst in Guilty. 
• "The Negotiation" by Alison Ruth in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "Delivery" by Eric Beetner in Tough.
  
• "The Demise of Snot Rocket" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
• "Carpet Jones" by Rena J. Worley in The Five-Two.
  

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for Ambulance. 
• Watch a trailer for Red Notice. 
• Watch a trailer for Uncharted.
• Watch a trailer for The Batman.
• Watch a preview for Batman: Caped Crusader.