Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 6, 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 past, present and future of James Bond, Red Notice, The Sopranos, Last Night in Soho, Squid Game, the fatal shooting accident on the set of Rust and much more.

Crime fiction in general: 

• Alison Flood shares the best recent thrillers.
• Crime Reads shares ten crime novels to read this November.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Steph Cha shares her favourite classic crime novels.
  
• Joy Castro explains how crime fiction can help us to understand violence. 
• Eloisa Diaz shares seven Latin American noir novels to read. 
• Catherine Edwards discusses why Scandinavian crime fiction is so popular. 
• Thomas Kniesche attempts to explains why crime fiction and crime dramas are so popular in Germany.
  
• Nicole Baart shares mysteries set in the US Midwest.
  
• Paul French takes a look at crime fiction set in Zimbawe. 
• Raquel V. Reyes celebrates sleuths who are also mothers. 
• T. Jefferson Parker talks about the books which influenced his new crime novel A Thousand Steps.
  
• Eloísa Díaz shares a crime novelist's mea culpa. 
• Lori Rader-Day explains what today's crime fiction writers can learn from Agatha Christie. 
• Olivia Rutigliano shares her appreciation for Sherlock Holmes' partner und chronicler of their adventures Dr. John Watson. 
• Witness History discusses the enduring legacy of Fu Manchu.
• Paperback Warrior profiles Lionel White. 
• G.W. Thomas revisits the Lance Lewis, Space Detective comic series from the 1947/48 issues of Startling Comics.
  
• Matt Maldre reports that the Dick Tracy comic strip will get its first female artist in ninety years in Shelley Pleger.
• Richard Hammer, journalist and author of true crime books, has died aged 93.
  

 

Comments on James Bond past, present and future:

• Nick Kolakowski notes that fatalism has always been at the core of the James Bond series, whether the novels or the movies.  
• Lucy Knight wonders what the future will bring for James Bond in fiction and on screen.
  
• Alison Flood reports that Kim Sherwood has been hired to expand the James Bond universe with novels not featuring Bond himself.  

 

Film and TV: 

• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls The Harder They Fall a star-studded western that is incredibly fun.
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls The Card Counter a high-stakes hypnotic nightmare. 
• Rebecca Nicholson calls Showtrial a schlocky murder drama. 
• Cath Clarke praises the performance of Robin Lively in Disappearance at Lake Elrod, but finds the overall storyline weak. 
  
• Leslie Felperin calls Every Last One of Them an overfamiliar revenge thriller. 
• Saloni Gajjar calls Dr. Brain an engrossing science fiction mystery from South Korea. 
  
• Sam Barsanti calls Blade Runner: Black Lotus a fine replication of Blade Runner and nothing more. 
  
• Radheyan Simonpillai calls Attica a revealing documentary about the infamous prison riot. 
• Lucy Mangan calls Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes a harrowing documentary about the Harvey Weinstein case.
  
• Doreen Sheridan shares her thoughts on season 3 of You.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on season 1 and 2 of Manhunt.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Hightown. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of American Rust. 
• Ines Bellina shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Impeachment: American Crime Story.
• Issy Sampson discusses how those affected by the crime in question feel about true crime podcasts and TV series based upon them.
  
• Dwyer Murphy shares international thrillers to watch this weekend.
  
• Keith Roysdon traces the roots of Inspector Columbo. 
• Alex McLevy find a lot to like about the later seasons of Dexter.
  
• Germain Lussier revisits the 1993 action portal fantasy film Last Action Hero and finds it much better than its reputation.  
• Phil Hoad interviews Francis Ford Coppola and C. Thomas Howell, director and star of the 1983 juvenile delinquency drama The Outsiders. 
• Mark Lawson interviews Gemma Whelan, who appeared in The Tower, The Moorside and Game of Thrones.  
• Actor Val Bisoglio, best known for his roles in Quincy M.E. and The Sopranos, has died aged 95. 
  

  

Comments on Red Notice: 

• Benjamin Lee calls Red Notice a disposable and ridiculously expensive action comedy. 
• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky declares that Red Notice proves that even a lot of money and big stars don't guarantee a good movie.
  

 

Comments on The Sopranos:

• Rob Walker interviews Michael Imperioli, one of the stars of The Sopranos. 
• Gabrielle Sanchez reports that Sopranos showrunner David Chase has finally revealed Tony Soprano final fate after the show's ambiguous ending.
• Hannah J. Davies reports that Sopranos showrunner David Chase is annoyed by people who wanted to see Tony Soprano killed on screen. 

  

Comments on Last Night in Soho:

• Olivia Rutigliano calls Last Night in Soho a film about the dangers of nostalgia. 
  
• James Hunt discusses the variosu twists and turns in Last Night in Soho (spoilers!)
  
• Germain Lussier interviews Edgar Wright, director of Last Night in Soho. 
• Marah Eakin interviews Edgar Wright.
  
• Marah Eakin interviews Thomasin McKenzie who plays Ellie Turner in Last Night in Soho. 
• Ash Crossan interviews Thomasin McKenzie.
  
• Inspired by Last Night in Soho, Vikram Murthi shares the ten greatest musical moments in the movies of Edgar Wright.
• Listen to Anya Taylor-Joy performing Petula Clark's "Downtown" in Last Night in Soho.
  

 

Comments on Squid Game:

• Kyung Hyun Kim notes that Squid Game hides a hopeful message in the dystopian nightmare it depicts. 
• Reid McCarter reports that schools are banning Squid Game Halloween costumes as well as the traditional childhood games from the series.  

 

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

• William Earl reports that Hannah Guiterrez Reed, the armourer on the set of Rust, claims that she has no idea where the live round that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joal Souza came from. 
• Catherine Shoard reports that Hannah Guiterrez Reed was paid less than 8000 US-dollars for the entire shoot of Rust.
  
• Kerry J. Byrne shares Alec Baldwin's first public remarks about the fatal shooting on the set of Rust.
  
• Andrew Pulver reports that the fatal shooting on the set of Rust has sparked a new debate about gun violence on screen.
  

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Awards have been announced. 
• The winner of the 2021 Petrona Award has been announced. 
• The shortlist for the 2021 Staunch Prize for flash fiction and short stories has been revealed. 
• The shortlist for the 2021 Waterstones Book of the Year Prize has been revealed.
  
• The winner of the 2021 Booker Prize has been announced. 

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Allie Reynolds shares the inspiration behind her thriller Shiver. 
• Joy Ellis talks about characters hijacking books. 
  
• Heather Redmond explains how object and symbols can help to define characters. 
• Anne Emery talk about reality being stranger than fiction.
  
• Neil Clarke explains why the conventional wisdom about short fiction markets is contradictory and often wrong.
  
• Margaret Atwood explains how her cats have influenced her writing.
  
• Melissa Gilligan and Kevin Fleming report that a bat has made its home in a bookstore in Inglewood, Alberta, Canada.  
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about marketing fatigue and a book or series becoming stale to the author.
  
• Jenna Schnuer discusses the supply chain issues hitting the publishing industry and whether they will affect readers are not.
• Elizabeth A. Harris, Alexandra Alter and David McCabe report that the US Department of Justice is sueing publisher Penguin Random House to stop them from acquiring rival publisher Simon and Schuster.
  

 

Interviews:

• Book Marks interviews Tana French.
  
• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interviews Clare Whitfield. 
• Alex Segura interviews Ed Brubaker.
  
• Debbi Mack interviews Anne Laughlin. 
• Deborah Kalb interviews Jane Casey. 
• Deborah Kalb interviews Alison Gaylin.
  
• Dr. Jacky Collins interviews Ann Bloxwich.
• Wrong Place, Write Crime interviews Diego Ornelas Tapia.
• E.B. Davis interviews Susan Van Kirk.
• Punk Noir Magazine interviews Douglas Lumsden.
• Grab This Book interviews Heather Martin.
  

Reviews:

• BOLO Books reviews Gallows Rock by Yrsa Sigurdardoittir.
• BOLO Books reviews Where the Shadows Lie by Michael Ridpath. 
• Becky LeJeune reviews The Hideout by Camilla Grebe. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews I Know You by Claire McGowan. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Fogged Off by Wendall Thomas. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Without a Trace by Jane Bettany.
• Grab This Book reviews Good Cop Bad Cop by Simon Kernick.
  
• Paul Burke reviews OJ's Knife by John Gibson.  
  
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Psychopaths Anonymous by Will Carver.
  
• John Valeri reviews The Collective by Alison Gaylin.
  
• For Winter Nights reviews The Genesis Inquiry by Olly Jarvis. 
• BOLO Books reviews The Commandments by Óskar Guðmundsson, translated by Quentin Bates.
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Commandments by Óskar Guðmundsson, translated by Quentin Bates. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews New Gods by Robin Triggs.
  
• Lis Carey reviews The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield. 
• Becky LeJeune reviews Babes in the Wood by Mark Stay. 
• Raven Crime Reads reviews To Cook a Bear by Mikael Niemi.
  
• Janet Webb reviews Murder at Mallowan Hall by Colleen Cambridge.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Midnight at Malabar House by Vassem Khan. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder by Maria DiRico and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Marion Deeds reviews Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest.  
• Karen Salyer McElmurray reviews Coal Black by Chris McGinley.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Many Deadly Returns, edited by Martin Edwards. 
• Linda Stratman reviews Murder Isn’t Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine. 

 

Classics reviews:

• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1920 adventure novel The Fortieth Door by Mary Hastings Bradley.
  
• Jess Nevins revisits the 1930 werewolf mystery Murder at Full Moon by John Steinbeck. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the1933 mystery In Muffled Night by D. Erskine Muir. 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1934 mystery Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1948 mystery Dead on Time by Clifford Witting.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1954 hardboiled mystery Murder Makes the Corpse by Sean Gregory a.k.a. Harry Hossant. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1958 adventure novel The Land God Gave to Cain by Hammon Innes. 
• Joe Kenney revisits President's Agent, a 1963 novel in the Bart Gould spy series by Joseph Hilton. 
  
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1970 space thriller Four Came Back by Martin Caidin. 
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1971 mystery Suspicion in Triplicate by Belton Cobb. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1972 gothic novel Circle of Secrets by Claudette Nicole a.k.a. John Messman.
  
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 2000 Gregor Demarkian mystery Skeleton Key by Jane Haddam.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Tina Hodgkinson visits the former premises of the Detection Club on Kingly Street in Soho, London, UK,.
  

 

Research:

• Jennifer Wright profiles the Roman poisoner Locusta of Gaul who operated in the first century AD and may have been the world's first serial killer. 
• Dietrich Kalteis profiles Ben and Stella Mae Dickson, a couple who robbed several banks in North and South Dakota in the late 1930s. 
• Josh Sanburn reports how the FBI arrested a 90-year-old archaeologist and grave robber in rural Indiana. 
• Donald Cameron Clark Jr. recounts how he partnered with a lawyer nun to represent a man condemned to death in Alabama.
  
• Rebecca Taylor talks about learning that one of her neighbours had committed a cold case murder in 1987.
  
• T.J. Macias reports that three dinosaur statues have been stolen from a museum in Cedar Creek, Texas, and later reappeared damaged near a fraternity house near the University of Austin in Austin, Texas.
  

Free online fiction:

• "The Survivor" by Gabriel Bergmoser in Crime Fiction Lover. 
• "Side Swept" by Colby Potter in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Doughnuts and Chocolate Milk" by Shayne K. Keen in Guilty.
  
• "Then: Same As Now" by Beau Johnson in Shotgun Honey. 
• "You Lie in a Grave Alone" by Rob D. Smith in Tough.
  
• "A Grave Case" by Cora Buhlert.
• "Little Red Corvette" by Charles Rammelkamp in The Five-Two.