Crime Fiction Links of the Week for March 5, 2022
Crime fiction in general:
- Crime Reads shares the best new crime novels coming out in March.
- Crime by the Book lists the most anticipated crime novels of March 2022.
- Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
- Crime Reads shares the best reviewed crime novels of February 2022.
- Nusrah Javed shares mysteries by black authors.
- Leanne Kale Sparks shares six thrillers that will make even the hardiest readers a little squeamish.
- James Wolff wonders whether contemporary spy novels can ever live up to the classics of the Cold War era.
- Steph Mullin and Nicole Mabry share five thrillers about cold cases.
- Jane Cockram shares a list of multigenerational family mysteries.
- Frederick Weisel shares six crime novels set in public schools.
- Louise Candlish shares the greatest apartments in crime fiction.
- The Pulp Archivist attempts to explain what pulp fiction is.
- Nikki Knight profiles small town libraries and retro mysteries.
- Erica Ferencik explains what stand-up comedy taught her about fear and thrillers.
- Molly Templeton asks if it is possible to read without expectations.
- Cornelius Fortune profiles Donald Goines.
- Lyndsay Faye declares that Arthur Conan Doyle would probably feel flattered by the current wave of Sherlock Holmes pastiches and fanfiction.
- J. Kingston Pierce takes a look at common themes in crime and noir paperback covers of the 1950s and 1960s.
- Mystery writer J. Robert Janes has died aged 86.
Film and TV:
- Paul Hirons calls The Responder the first great crime drama of 2022.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel declares that season 11 of Death in Paradise is as good as it always was.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on season 2 of Young Wallander: Killer's Shadow, which he calls a very odd Nordic noir.
- Paul Hirons calls Chloe an unsettling psychological thriller.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Nightride a lean, taunt gangster thriller.
- Paul Hirons calls The Promise a very good crime drama from France that sadly flew under the radar.
- Benjamin Lee calls Against the Ice a simple but sturdy survival drama.
- Adrian Horton calls The Weekend Away a taut but thin thriller.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Zeros and Ones a dream-like thriller that struggles to make sense.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on season 4 of The Sinner.
- Leila Latif shares her thoughts on The Tourist.
- Lisa Weidenfeld shares her thoughts on the season finale of The Afterparty.
- Rebecca Nicholson calls The Dropout not daring enough for a true crime thriller.
- Stuart Heritage calls Worst Roommate Ever the worst true crime show ever.
- Mike D'Angelo calls Huda's Salon a clumsy Palestinian thriller.
- Emily Schlesinger talks about the portrayal of psychoanalysis in The Sopranos.
- Garrick Webster looks ahead at the Swedish crime drama Snow Angels.
- D.C. Taylor lists three true crime stories from Los Angeles, California, that have been adapted into movies, often more than once.
- Danny Leigh revisits the 1972 gangster film The Godfather for its fiftieth anniversary and wonders why it still rings true.
- Camestros Felapton analyses the famous theme song of the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger.
- Mark Lawson interviews John Hodge, screewriter of the new version of The Ipcress File.
- Nibaq Farar interviews Park Seo Jun, star of Parasite and Captain Marvel 2.
- Actor Ned Eisenberg, who appeared in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, has died aged 65.
Comments on series 4 of Killing Eve:
Comments on The Batman:
- Nicholas Barber calls The Batman a noirish pulp fantasy.
- Peter Bradshaw calls The Batman a gloomy superhero film elevated by Robert Pattinson's performance.
- A.A. Dowd calls The Batman a flawed but striking pop-noir blockbuster.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw notes that The Batman borrows heavily from 1970s gritty neo-noir film and praises the performance of Robert Pattinson.
- Sam Machkovech calls The Batman a refreshing comic book movie triumph, but finds it too long.
- Wendy Ide profiles Robert Pattinson who plays Bruce Wayne in The Batman.
- Rebecca Keegan profiles Paul Dano who plays the Riddler in The Batman.
- Ryan Gilbey interviews Peter Sarsgaard, who plays District Attorney Gil Coulson in The Batman.
- Stuart Heritage discusses the strange marketing campaign for The Batman.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw discusses Barry Keoghan's role in The Batman.
- Scott Standley reports that Robert Pattinson sometimes replies to troll posts on Batman fan forums incognito.
Comments on Pieces of Her:
Comments on The Dropout:
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls The Dropout a conventional true crime drama that treats its subject, fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, with too much sympathy.
- Lucy Mangan calls The Dropout yet another mind-blowing portrait of an American fraudster.
- Randall Colburn praises the performance of Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout, but finds the series too tiday compared to the messy case it's based upon.
Awards:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Annie Ward shares her thoughts on writing what you know.
- Isaac Fellman tells people not to dismiss fanfiction.
- Reeves Wiedeman profiles Filippo Bernadini, who stole several unpublished manuscripts.
- Study in Switzerland shares the result of a study about international reading habits.
- Reid McCarter reports that erotica author and international treasure Chuck Tingle has purchased the domain GovernorAbbott.com and uses it to link to charities supporting trans people.
- Mike Glyer reports that Russian SFF author Sergey Lukianenko has doubled down on previous comments and defends the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- Mike Glyer reports that several Russian SFF authors have signed an open letter supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the iniative of Sergey Lukianenko.
- More than one thousand writers from around the world condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
- Shelf Awareness shares several statements from writing and publishing organisations around the world condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- Jim Milliot and Ed Nawotka report that the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Bologna Children's Book Fair have suspended cooperation with Russian state organisations in charge of organising the collective Russian stall at both fairs.
- Brian J. White announces that Fireside Magazine will cease publication later this year.
- John Maher reports about the proposed "Freelance isn't Free" bill in New York State that will also affect freelance writers, editors, journalists, etc...
- Locus reports that Amazon will be closing all of its brick and mortar bookstores.
- Jen Bartholomew reports that Waterstones will acquire the academic bookseller Blackwell's, the UK's biggest independent bookseller.
Interviews:
- Eli Cranor interviews David Heska Wanbli Weiden.
- Shane Whaley and David Craggs interview Paul Vidich.
- Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles interview each other.
- Paul Burke interviews Hannah King.
- Wrong Place, Write Crime interviews Bryan Collins
- John A. Hoda interviews James Ziskin.
- Ayo Onatade interviews Anne Metter Hancock.
- Deborah Kalb interviews Dean Jobb.
- Annette Dashofy interviews Joyce St. Anthony.
Reviews:
- Janet Webb reviews The Hanged Man's Tale by Gerald Jay.
- Paperback Warrior reviews Quarry's Blood by Max Allan Collins.
- John Valeri reviews The Night Shift by Alex Finlay.
- Crime by the Book reviews The Night Shift by Alex Finlay.
- Becky LeJeune reviews Deep Into the Dark by P.J. Tracy.
- Janet Webb reviews Dark Night by Piage Shelton.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Death in the Sunshine by Steph Broadribb.
- BOLO Books reviews The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill by C. S. Robertson.
- For Winter Nights reviews Where Blood Runs Cold by Giles Kristian.
- Grab This Book reviews The Killing Kind by Jane Casey.
- Grab This Book reviews The Death of Me by Michelle Davies.
- Janet Webb reviews My Darling Husband by Kimberly Belle.
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Day He Left by Frederick Weisel.
- Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Whatever Get You Through the House by Charlie Higson.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Hunted by Damian Dawes.
- BOLO Books reviews Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson and Dolly Parton.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Murder in the Park by Jeanne M. Dams.
- Crime by the Book reviews The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley.
- Paul Di Filippo reviews The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Verifiers by Jane Pek.
- Paul Burke reviews The Darkest Sin by D.V. Bishop.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Murder at the Porte de Versailles by Cara Black.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Caramel Pecan Roll Murder by Joanne Fluke and tries a recipe from the book.
- Sarah McCarry reviews The Book of the Most Precious Substance by Sara Gran.
- Bitter Tea and Mystery reviews Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories by Peter Lovesey.
- Becky LeJeune reviews Music of the Night, edited by Martin Edwards.
- Blake Morrison reviews The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits The Importance of Being Poirot by Jeremy Black.
Classics reviews:
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1922 mystery novel The Mystery of the Hidden Room by Marion Harvey.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1932 Hercule Poirot mystery Peril at End House by Agatha Christie.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1933 mystery Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkeley.
- L.J. Hurst revisits the 1935 mystery Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1937 mystery Death on the Board by John Rhode.
- Vintage Pop Fictions revisits the 1947 hardboiled detective novel Tall, Dark and Dead by Kermit Jaediker.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1952 crime novel Mourn the Hangman by Harry Whittington.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1961 crime novel Bird in a Cage by Frederic Dard.
- Vintage Pop Fictions revisits the 1963 James Bond spy novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming.
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1968 spy novel The Skeleton Coast Contract by Philip Atlee.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1969 crime novel The Big Bounce by Elmore Leonard.
- Brad Shreve revisits the 1970 Dave Bradstetter mystery Fadeout by Joseph Hansen.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1970 crime novel The Hit by Brian Garfield.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1982 historical mystery The Detling Murders by Julian Symons.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 2004 mystery Not a Clue by Chloé Delaume, translated by Dawn M. Cornelio.
- Cullen Murphy revisits the 2009 science fiction crime novel The City and the City by China Mieville.
Con and event reports:
- Scott Cumming shares his experiences at the Granite Noir Festival in Aberdeen, Scotland.
- Ayo Onatade reports that the chair as well as several special guests of the 2022 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire, UK, have been announced.
- The Yorkshire Times also reports about the line-up of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.
- Ayo Onatade shares the crime fiction related programming at the FT Oxford Literary Festival in Oxford, UK.
- Martin Edwards reports about the annual meeting of the northern chapter of the CWA in Boroughbridge, UK.
Research:
- Kelly Burke reports about the murder of Dr. George Duncan, who fell victim to an anti-gay hate crime in Adelaide, Australia, in 1972.
- Sarah Weinman profiles Vickie Zielinski, the 15-year-old girl who was murdered by Edgar Smith in 1956.
- Ron Franscell revisits the kidnappings and murders of Susie Jaeger and Sandra Smallegan in Montana in 1974, which was the first case where the FBI profilers were working in the field.
- Susan Jonusas talks about the so-called Bloody Benders, a family of serial killer who murdered at least eleven people in Kansas in 1872/73.
- Dr Benjamin Gilmer discusses a murder his almost namesake Dr. Vince Gilmer committed in 2004.
- Stephanie Wrobel shares her favourite non-fiction books about cults.
- Michelle Taylor reports that the Massachussetts State Police is using playing cards to look for new leads in cold cases.
Free online fiction:
- "A Sound Plan" by J.M. Taylor in Guilty.
- "Puerto Escondido" by Paul Grussendorf in Mystery Tribune.
- "The Visitor" by Ann Gelder in Mystery Tribune.
- "The Hider" by Barbara Stanley in Mystery Tribune.
- "Neighbors" by Daniel Bartlett in Mystery Tribune.
- "Happily Ever After, Take Two" by Deb Merino in Mystery Tribune.
- "Done Something" by Mark Atley in Punk Noir Magazine.
- "Pisan Zapra" by George Pachter in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
- "Bhatia, PI" by Shiv Ramdas in Lightspeed.
- "Last Visit to the Taxidermy Collection" by Angelina Mitescu in The Five-Two.
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