Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 20, 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 best mysteries, crime novels and thriller of 2021, Dexter: New Blood, The Mayor of Kingstown, Yellowjackets, tributes to John Malcolm, Petra Mayer, Heath Freeman and Wilbur Smith and much
more.
Crime fiction in general:
Crime fiction in general:
- Michael Giltz shares the 101 best mystery books of all time.
- Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week.
- Crime Reads shares the best debut crime novels for November 2021.
- Amy Pershing shares ten perfectly plotted Christmas mysteries.
- Olivia Rutigliano shares holiday gifts for crime and mystery lovers.
- Molly Odintz shares crime-related non-fiction books for crime and mystery lovers.
- US ambassador Philip Kaplan shares his favourite spy thrillers.
- The Bibliofile shares their favourite historical mysteries.
- Paul French share mysteries and crime novels set in Savannah, Georgia.
- Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson talk about religion in thrillers.
- Sara Foster asks why there are so many missing mothers in YA novels with empowered heroines.
- The Guardian shares some excerpts from the diaries of Patricia Highsmith.
- Curtis Evans profiles Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning, crime reports and crime writers.
- Paperback Warrior profiles western writer Clifton Adams.
- Ross Johnson shares the twenty-five best true crime podcasts.
- Kelly Jensen shares the best cities for book lovers.
- Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson talks about literature as a found text.
- Molly Templeton wonders whether to read the book or watch the film/TV adaptation first.
- Crime fiction writer John Malcolm has died.
- Petra Mayer, books and culture editor at NPR, has died aged 46.
- Locus remembers Petra Mayer.
- Adventure fiction writer Wilbur Smith died aged 88.
- Mike Ripley shares an obituary for Wilbur Smith.
Best of 2021:
- Kirkus share their favourite mysteries and thrillers of 2021.
- Amazon shares their favourite mysteries and thrillers of 2021.
- BookPage shares its favourite mysteries and thrillers of 2021.
- The Washington Post shares its favourite crime novels of 2021.
- Booklist Queen shares her favourite thrillers of 2021.
- The Bibliofile shares their favourite mysteries of 2021.
- Indigo shares its favourite books of 2021, including several genre novels.
Film and TV:
- Matt Schimkovitz wonders why The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark failed, whereas the Breaking Bad sequel El Camino succeeded.
- Lucy Mangan calls Crime disappointingly conventional, considering it was written by Irvine Welsh.
- Danny Leigh uses House of Gucci as an example for how true crime conquered the world.
- Cath Clarke calls Fixed a low budget British gangster flick that lands few punches.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Bruised an energetic martial arts drama.
- Aramide Tinubu calls Power Book II: Ghost an intense crime drama with a soap opera flair.
- Stephen Robinson calls Black and Missing a powerful documentary.
- Noel Murray calls The Line a documentary that examines the impossible contradictions of military service.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Shetland.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Craith.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Tower.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Dalgliesh.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Hightown.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Baptiste.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of CSI: Vegas.
- The Guardian wonders why people lie about having watched TV shows they haven't actually watched.
- Laura Martin traces how fan theories took over TV.
- Olivia Rutigliano lists ten murders committed with pens in movies.
- Sophie Heawood interviews Olivia Colman, star of Landscapers and many others.
- Scott Tobias revisits the 1971 thriller Duel, Steven Spielberg's directorial debut.
- Scott Tobias revisits the 1985 boxing film Rocky IV, which has just received a completely unnecessary director's cut.
- Mark Sweeney reports that the revenue of the UK cinema chain CineWorld has surpassed pre-covid level due to No Time to Die, Dune and Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
- Ted Johnson reports about the constant sexual harrassment actress Eliza Dushku experienced on the set of Bull.
- Actor Heath Freeman, best known for his roles in NCIS and Bones, has died aged only 41.
Comments on Mayor of Kingstown:
Comments on Dexter: New Blood:
Awards:
- The opening round finalists for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards have been announced.
- The shortlist for the 2021 Crime Fiction Lover Awards has been announced and is open for voting.
- The winner of the 2021 Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award has been announced.
- The winner of the 2021 Al Blanchard Award has been announced.
- The winners of the 2021 National Book Awards have been announced.
- The longlist for the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize has been announced with some love for genre novels.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Lincoln Michel talks about fairytales, fiction and realism.
- Thomas Perry explains how he learned to live with errors in his books.
- Lincoln Michel explains that MFAs don't have nearly as much influence as many people think.
- Jaqui Lipton talks about avoiding infringing someone else's copyright.
- Jack Whateley reports about Goodreads' Neonazi problem.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch discusses the US Department of Justice's anti-trust lawsuit against the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster.
- Hillel Italie reports that bookstore workers are increasingly unionising.
- Cassandra Pollock reports that Texas governor Greg Abbott wants to banish "books with overly sexual content" (i.e. books about LGBTQ issues) from public school libraries in Texas.
- Alison Flood reports that Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has been charged with insulting Turkishness - again.
Interviews:
- J.B. Stevens interviews Nick Kolakowski.
- Marshal Zeringue interviews Lori Rader-Day.
- Alan Petersen interviews H.Y. Hanna.
- Garrick Webster interviews Cynthia von Buhler.
- Robert Woolsey interviews John Straley.
- Victoria Selman interviews Dominic Nolan.
- The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Charles Cumming.
- Wrong Place, Write Crime interviews S.F. Kosa.
- Lisa Haselton interviews Weldon Burge.
- Runalong the Shelves interviews Robin Triggs.
- Robert Justice interviews Abby Vandiver, Marla Bradeen, Steph Cha and Alafair Burke.
Reviews:
- Publishers Weekly reviews The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Her Name Is Knight by Yasmin Angoe.
- John Parker reviews Rabbit Hole by Mark Billingham.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Midnight Lock by Jeffery Deaver.
- Grab This Book reviews The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly.
- Crime by the Book reviews The Dark by Emma Haughton.
- Bill Selnes reviews Ghost Light by Stan Jones and Patricia Watts.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Dangers of an Ordinary Night by Lynn Reeves.
- John Parker reviews Peace by Garry Disher.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Lethal Game by Charlie Gallagher.
- Kirkus reviews So Far and Good by John Straley.
- J.B. Stevens reviews Twentymile by C. Matthew Smith.
- Kevin Tipple reviews Bone Canyon by Lee Goldberg.
- Kevin Tipple reviews Death Stalks Door County by Patricia Skalka.
- Sandie Herron reviews Tamarack County by William Kent Krueger.
- Paul Burke reviews Good Cop Bad Cop by Simon Kernick.
- Carole V. Bell reviews As the Wicked Watch by Tamron Hall.
- Grab This Book reviews Have You Seen Me? by Alexandra Weis.
- Kirkus reviews The Archivist by Rex Pickett.
- Paul Burke reviews Never by Ken Follett.
- M.A. Orthofer reviews Never by Ken Follett.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Appointment in Tehran by James Stejskal.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Psychopaths Anonymous by Will Carver.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Disorder by Amy Crider.
- Kate Reel reviews Fogged Off by Wendall Thomas.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Dolphin Junction by Mick Herron.
- Alan Cranis reviews A Blizzard of Polar Bears by Alice Henderson.
- Judith Reveal reviews Down a Dark River by Kate Odden.
- Janet Webb reviews The Bloodless Boy by Robert J. Lloyd.
- Grab This Book reviews Murder at the Bailey by Henry Milner.
- Sandie Herron reviews A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Murder by Dianne Freeman.
- Toni V. Sweeney reviews The Return of the Pharaoh by Nicholas Meyer.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Deck the Donuts by Ginger Bolton and tries a recipe from the book.
- Gabino Iglesias reviews Midnight, Water City by Chris McKinney.
- The Quick and the Read reviews The Dublin Railway Murder by Thomas Morris.
- Ian Thomson reviews The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham.
- Emma Brockes reviews Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, edited by Anna von Planta
Classics reviews:
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1932 mystery Murder in the Basement by Anthony Berkeley.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1937 mystery These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1938 Amos Lee Mappin mystery Death of a Celebrity by Hulbert Footner.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1942 suspense novel Her Heart in Her Throat a.k.a. Midnight House a.k.a. The Unseen by Ethel Lina White.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1955 mystery The Willing Witness by Belton Cobb.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1956 noir novel You Find Him - I'll Fix Him by Raymond Marshall a.k.a. James Hadley Chase.
- Paperback Warrior revisits Give the Boys a Great Big Hand, a 1960 novel in the 87th Precinct police procedural series by Ed McBain.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1962 men's adventure anthology Women Without Morals by Richard F. Gallagher.
- Joe Kenney revisits The Filthy Five, a 1967 novel in the Nick Carter: Killmaster men's adventure series by Manning Lee Stokes.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1971 suspense thriller Chase by K.R. Dwyer a.k.a. Deean R. Koontz.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1973 car racing novel Rim of Thunder by Dave J. Garrity.
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 2003 period mystery One Last Hit by Nathan Walpow.
Research:
- Raffi Khatchadourian profiles genetic genealogist CeCe Moore who helps to crack cold cases among other things.
- Richard Lettieri talks about the many pathways to false confessions.
- Kevin Birmingham talks about Fyodor Dostoevsky's experiences in a Siberian prison camp.
- Dan Nosowitz reports about the theft of the so-called Irish crown jewels from Dublin castle in 1907, which is considered the greatest unsolved heist in history.
- Eduardo Medina reports how a bank robbery in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1969 was solved fifty years later.
- James Wolf declares that the story of espionage is often the story of incompetence.
- Shane Whaley interviews Robert Wallace, retired technical services director of the CIA.
- Lisa Gray attempts to explain why some women fall for bad men.
- Maggie Downs reports that everything we thought we knew about the so-called hobo code is wrong.
- Emily Brightwell explains what we owe to the Victorians.
Free online fiction:
- "Hank in the South Dakota Sun" by Stephanie Kraner in Apex Magazine.
- "Late Pickup at Sonny's Icehouse" by Scott von Doviak in Tough.
- "Accidents Cost Twenty" by Steven James Cordin in Mystery Tribune.
- "The Right Reasons" by Greg Levin in Shotgun Honey.
- "Harvey and the Redhead, Part I" by Debra H. Goldstein in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
- "Uh-oh, Love Comes to Town" by Jeff Esterholm in Beat to a Pulp.
- "Saving Face" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- "In Midair" by Toby Widdicombe in The Five-Two.
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