Crime Fiction Links of the Week for December 4, 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, Alice Sebold's rape memoir Lucky and the exoneration of the man convicted of raping her, Dexter: New Blood, True Story, The Sopranos, Hawkeye and much more.

Crime fiction in general: 

• Alison Flood shares the best recent thrillers.
• Crime Reads shares the ten best crime novels, mysteries and thrillers for November. 
• Crime Reads shares the best reviewed crime books of November 2021.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, thrillers and mysteries coming out this week. 
• S.A. Cosby explains why the conversation around policing in America needs to change. 
• Kelly Roache share eight murder mysteries that are perfect for teenagers.
  
• Jennifer J. Chow shares cozy mysteries with protagonists who travel. 
• Flora Collins explains how writing a culinary thriller helped her find a healthy relationship with food. 
• Sarah Strohmeyer shares crime novels with beach and seaside settings.
  
• Paul French takes a look at crime fiction from Tasmania, Australia. 
• Yasmin Angoe declares that her protagonist is not a damsel or a victim but a survivor.
  
• Erin Kelly explains why the high pressure world of ballet is the perfect background for a feminist thriller.
  
• Briana Cole shares her favourite sexy psychological thrillers.
  
• G.W. Thomas takes a look at Agatha Christie stories first published in pulp magazines. 
• Molly Templeton talks about a year of unread books.  
• Stephen J. Golds shares his favourite mystery and crime fiction related podcasts of 2021.
  
• Lizzy Steiner shares eight true crime podcasts to listen to this winter.
  

 

Best of 2021:

• Waterstones share their favourite crime novels and thrillers of 2021. 
• The London Times shares their favourite crime novels and thillers of 2021.  
• Laura Wilson shares her favourite crime novels and thrillers of 2021.
  
• Maureen Corrigan and Richard Lipez share their favourite mysteries and thrillers of 2021.
  
• Stephen J. Golds shares his favourite crime books of 2021.
• AudioFile Magazine share their favourite crime and mystery audiobooks of 2021.
  

Comments on Alice Sebold's rape memoir and the exoneration of the man convicted of raping her: 

• Alison Flood reports that the publisher Scribner will cease to distribute Alice Sebold's rape memoir Lucky after the the man found guilty of raping her in 1981 has been exonerated.
• Alison Flood reports that Netflix will no longer adapt Alice Sebold's rape memoir Lucky, after the man found guilty for her rape was exonerated. 
• Archie Bland reports how Anthony Broadwater spent sixteen years innocently in prison, because Alice Sebold misidentified him as the man who raped her. 
• Alice Sebold apologises to Anthony Broadwater.
  

 

Film and TV:  

• Katie Rife calls Nightmare Alley a stylish but uneven carnival noir.
  
• Stuart Jeffries calls American Rust a cliched crime drama about the American opoid crisis that we've seen a thousand times before. 
• Phil Hoad calls Stealing Chaplin a charming, but messy crime drama. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Blue Bayou a heartbreaking immigration drama.
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls There Is No Evil a passionate plea against the death penalty in Iran. 
• Roxana Hadadi calls The Forever Prisoner an incisive documentary about the war on terror.
  
• Cath Clarke calls Ted Bundy: American Bogeyman a pointless portrait of a serial killer.
  
• Paul Levinson shates his thoughts on the Norwegian crime drama Catch and Release. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on season 3 of Hanna. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on season 4 of The Sinner.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Hightown. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of CSI: Vegas.
  
• Leila Latif shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Yellowjackets. 
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the British espionage TV series Spooks. 
• Olivia Rutigliano revisits the 1965 spy comedy series Get Smart.
  
• Michael Hogan interviews Joanne Froggatt, star of Angela Black. 
• Tim Lewis interviews Will Sharpe, actor and director of Giri/Haji. 
• Alex Mistlin interviews the writer and stars of the British legal drama You Don't Know Me.
  
• Guy Lodge shares the best spy movies streaming right now. 
• Ben Pearson explains why movie dialogue is getting more and more difficult to understand. 
  
• Adrian Horton reports that Alec Baldwin claims he did not pull the trigger on the set of Rust, where cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot. 
• Dani Anguiano and Andrew Pulver share the highlights of the first interview Alec Baldwin gave after accidentally shooting and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust. 
  
• Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has died aged 91. 
  

 

Comments on Hawkeye:

• Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on "Never Meet Your Heroes", the series premiere of Hawkeye.
• Annika Rollock shares her thoughts on "Echoes", the latest episode of Hawkeye. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares her thoughts on "Echoes". 
• Caroline Siede shares her thoughts on "Echoes".  
• Germain Lussier shares his thoughts on "Echoes".
  
• Sam Barsanti explains how the legcy of Hawkeye's violent alter-ego Ronin sits at the heart of the Hawkeye series. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw wonders whether Wilson Fisk a.k.a. Kingpin will appear in Hawkeye.
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw explains how a brief moment in Hawkeye of Clint Barton spotting a "Thanos was right" graffitti in a bathroom has become a meme.
• David Grossman explains how Rogers: The Musical, a fake Broadway musical featured in Hawkeye, came to be.
• David Betancourt interviews Hailee Steinfeld who plays Kate Bishop in Hawkeye.
• Brian Davids interviews Vera Farminga and Tony Dalton, who play Eleanor Bishop and Jack Duquesne in Hawkeye.
• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on Black Widow.
  

 

Comments on True Story:

• Charles Pulliam-Moore declares that True Story takes a look at the ugly side of obsessive fandom.
• Fletcher Peters wonders whether True Story is actually based on a true story. 

 

Comments on Dexter: New Blood:

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Dexter: New Blood. 
• Joshua Alston shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Dexter: New Blood.
  
• Aaron Couch interviews Jack Alcott, one of the stars of Dexter: New Blood.
  

  

Comments on The Sopranos:

• Laura Adamczyk discusses the portrayal of American families in The Sopranos and Six Feet Under.
• Hadley Freeman interviews Edie Falco who played Carmela Soprano in The Sopranos.

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2021 Scarlet Stiletto Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2021 HWA Crown Awards have been announced with some love for historical mysteries.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Valerie Valdes explains why marginalised writers like using second person POV. 
• Elysia Whisler recounts how her female protagonist was called "too strong" and "unlikeable".
  
• Nick Kolakowski explains how to resurrect an inconveniently dead character.
  
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch looks back on her writing year.
• Ailbhe MacMahon reports about the Zhongshuge bookstore in Shenzhen, China.
  

 

Interviews:

• Eli Cranor interviews Alex Segura.
  
• Paul Burke interviews Chris Offutt.
  
• Debbi Mack interviews Iain Parke.
• Alan Petersen interviews Mark Edward Langley.
• Molly Odintz interviews Faith Jones.
  

Reviews:

• Paul Burke reviews The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee.
• Adam Colclough reviews The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Midnight Lock by Jeffery Deaver. 
• Michael J. McCann reviews The Midnight Lock by Jeffery Deaver. 
• Paul Burke reviews Love and Bullets by Nick Kolakowski.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews The Killer in the Snow by Alex Pine.
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews The Lost by Simon Beckett.
• Grab This Book reviews The Lost by Simon Beckett.
• Grab This Book reviews The Guide by Peter Heller. 
• Beth Kanell reviews The Deathwatch Beetle by Kjell Erickson. 
• John Valeri reviews Autopsy by Patricia Cornwell.
  
• BOLO Books reviews All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris.
• Alan Cranis reviews Five Strangers by E.V. Adamson. 
• The Civilian Reader reviews The Days to Come by Tom Rosenstiel.
  
• Grab This Book reviews No Way to Die by Tony King. 
• Paperback Warrior reviews Below by Ryan Lockwood. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant.
  
• Crime by the Book reviews Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner. 
• Sandie Herron reviews Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger. 
• Kathy Reel reviews Under Pressure by Sara Driscoll.
  
• Sandra Hoover reviews Hello, Transcriber by Hannah Morrissey. 
• Jenny Maloney reviews Hello, Transcriber by Hannah Morissey. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Deadliest Sin by Jeri Westerson.
  
• Kirkus reviews Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas.
  
• Erin Britton reviews The Corpse with the Granite Heart by Cathy Ace.
  
• Crossexamining Crime reviews The Windsor Knot by S.J. Bennett.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder at the Mistletoe Ball by J.D. Griffo and tries a recipe from the book.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder at the Lobstah Shack by Maddie Day and tries a recipe from the book.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1891 mystery The Mynn's Mystery by George Manville Fenn. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1932 mystery About the Murder of the Circus Queen by Anthony Abbot.
  
• Nick Toches revisits the 1946 surreal thriller Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1946 mystery Trouble-A-Brewing by John Bude.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1949 adventure thriller The White South by Hammond Innes. 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1951 mystery Maigret's Christmas by Georges Simenon.
  
• Lesa Holstine revisits the 1955 mystery The Man Who Didn't Fly by Margot Bennett.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1957 noir novel Walk With Evil by Robert Wilder.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1957 crime story "Tip on a Dead Jockey" by Irwin Shaw.
  
• Joe Kenney revisits Bay Prowler, a 1972 novel in the Lone Wolf men's adventure series.
• Paperback Warrior revisits The Invisible Assassins, a 1983 novel in The Executioner men's adventure series by Alan Bomack a.k.a. David Wade.
  

 

Research:

• Darcie Wilde discusses murder investigations in Regency England.
  
• Sara Driscoll shares everything you ever wanted to know about detection dogs.
• Dick Lehr discusses the challenges the FBI faced in infiltrating a radical militia in rural Kansas.
• Craig Pittman reports about Sanibel Island, a retirement community for former CIA agents in Florida.
• Dean Jobb reports about French con artist Marthe Hanau.
• Michael Miscione reports how the urban legend of alligators living in the sewers of New York City came to be.
• The Markup reports that the crime prediction software PredPol, which was supposed to be free of biases, actually perpetuates them.

Free online fiction:

• "The Question of the Befuddled Judge" by Jeff Cohen in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Podcast. 
• "On My Honor" by Brenda Kilianski in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Ready, Set, Go" by Tom Walsh in Mystery Tribune. 
• "The Confession" by Joan Leotta in Yellow Mama.
  
• "Vickie's Revenge" by Kenneth James Crist in Yellow Mama.
  
• "Neal's Torment: The Villanelle of the Pontiac" by Cynthia Steele in The Five-Two.
  

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for Reacher.
  
• Watch a trailer for Ray Donovan: The Movie.