Crime Fiction Links of the Week for March 12, 2022

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 series 6 of Peaky Blinders, The Ipcress File, Daredevil, The Batman, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, The Thing About Pam, The Dropout, reactions of writers and publishing professionals to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week. 
• Lisa Levy hosts a roundtable about revenge in fiction and in life. 
• Anna Pitoniak talks about nuanced spy novels. 
• Liam McIlvanney talks about crime and crime fiction in Glasgow, Scotland.
  
• Holly Danvers lists cozy mystery towns to visit. 
• Louise Philips wonders why there are so many Irish women crime writers.
  
• Colleen Collins shares a list of novels featuring female private investigators.
  
• Matt Miksa explains what real world law enforcement agencies can learn from paranormal thrillers.  
• Alex Finlay talks about true crime in fiction. 
• Sarah Weinman shares ten groundbreaking true crime books.
  
• Paul French reports that Qiu Xiaolong is rebooting the venerable Judge Dee crime series.
• Catriona Ward talks about the background of her science fiction horror thriller Sundial.  
• Rick Pullen profiles David Corbett. 
• Luke Beirne remembers Canadian spy fiction writer Ian Adams.
  
• Bradley K. McDevitt shares his appreciation for the works of August Derleth. 
• Samuel Langland remembers the 1930s pulp hero The Shadow. 
  
• Jason Gots explains why stories are dangerous and why we need them anyway.  
• Molly Templeton wonders whether she is trying to read too many books at once. 
  
• Charles Stross shares an open letter from Ukrainian writers and artists to the world.
• File 770 shares a letter from a fan in Moscow, Russia, sharing his experiences as a Russian citizen opposed to the war in Ukraine.  

 

Film and TV:

• Rebecca Nicholson calls Our House a domestic thriller fuelled by universal fears. 
• Leslie Felperin calls Midnight a super-tense South Korean thriller with a deaf heroine.
  
• Cath Clarke calls La Civil a compelling cartel kidnapping drama. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Great Freedom an intelligent gay prison drama from Germany. 
• Lisa Weidenfeld shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Killing Eve. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Suspicion. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on The Tourist.
  
• Garrick Webster looks ahead at season 3 of the French crime drama The Crimson Rivers. 
  
• Keith Roysdon shares his favourite crime movies featuring reporters and journalists. 
• Nick Kolakowski takes a look at the many film adaptations of Donald E. Westlake's Parker novels. 
  
• Andrew Schenker revisits the 1989 L.A. Law episode "The Plane Mutiny".
• James Hibberd interviews Nicholas Cage who has been in everything. 
  
• Catherine Shoard interviews Adrian Lyne, director of Fatal Attraction and Deep Water.
  
• Andrew Pulver reports that Ryan Coogler, director of Black Panther and Creed, was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, after being mistaken for a bank robber. 
• Adam B. Vary reports that Disney CEO Bob Chapek has apologised to Disney employees for his lack of opposition to Florida's new anti-sex-education law, which primarily targets LGBTQ families.
  

 

Comments on series 6 of Peaky Blinders:

• Michael Hogan shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Peaky Blinders.
• Andrew Waskett-Burke shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Peaky Blinders.
  

 

Comments on The Ipcress File:

•  Stuart Jeffries shares his thoughts on the new adaptation of The Ipcress File.
• Mark Lawson interviews John Hodge, screewriter of the new version of The Ipcress File.

 

Comments on The Batman:

• Emmet Asher-Perrin declares that The Batman is all vibes and that this might work for some people. 
• Abigail Nussbaum is tired of cinematic takes on Batman and finds that The Batman offers nothing new. 
• Anthony Lane declares that The Batman wastes the talents of Robert Pattinson.
  
• Aaron Jones shares his thoughts on The Batman.
  
• Ben Child shares a spoilerish review of The Batman. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw discusses how The Batman deals with male privilege and draws some comparisons to the 1971 thriller Klute.
  
• David Betancourt is pleased that The Batman is not connected to the wider DC Cinematic Universe.
  
• Owen Gleiberman discusses whether The Batman or The Dark Knight is the better movie.
  
• Adam B. Vary interviews Matt Reeves, director of The Batman, about the movie's ending. 
• Germain Lussier ranks all Batman films.
  
• Michael Cavna and David Betancourt rank the actors who've played Batman.
• Jason Guerrasio also ranks the actors who have played Batman.
• Zack Sharf reports that Zoe Kravitz who plays Selina Kyle a.k.a. Catwoman in The Batman has auditioned for the same role in The Dark Knight Rises and was rejected due to be not white. 

 

Comments on Daredevil:

• Adam Barnhardt interviews Charlie Cox who played Matt Murdock in Daredevil. 
  
• Zack Sharf reports that the busybodies of the Parents TV Council have slammed Disney for adding more adult series such as Daredevil, Jessica Jones, The Defenders and others to Disney Plus, after they were removed from Netflix.

 

Comments on The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey: 

• Olivia Rutigliano calls The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey the role of a lifetime for Samuel L. Jackson. 
• Lucy Mangan also calls The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey Samuel L. Jackson's best performance to date, but is not enamoured with the actual series. 
• David Cote is also full of praise for Samuel L. Jackson's performance in The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,
  

 

Comments on The Thing About Pam:

• Gwen Ihnat calls The Thing About Pam a twisty true crime story.  
• Roxana Hadadi declares that Renee Zellweger's performance makes it difficult to tell what The Thing About Pam is trying to be.

 

Comments on The Dropout:

• Randall Colburn shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Dropout.
  
• Steve Rose interviews Naveen Andrews, star of The Dropout and Lost.
  

 

Awards:

• The winner of the 2021 Glencairn Glass Short Story Competition has been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2022 Romantic Novel Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2022 Audie Awards have been announced.
  
• The nominations for the 2022 Razzie Awards have been announced.

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Dane Bahr talks about writing outside and inside the genre lines.
  
• D.V. Bishop talks about the challenge of balancing mystery and suspense.
  
• W.M. Akers talks about the joy of researching historical fiction.
  
• James Dawson reports that according to a new law librarians in Idaho could face jail time, if they lend materials deemed harmful to minors.
  

 

Interviews: 

• Alison Flood interviews Ann Cleeves.
  
• Debbi Mack interviews Emilya Naymark.
• Shane Whaley interviews Alma Katsu.
• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Anna Mazzola. 
• Paula L. Woods interviews Kellye Garrett.
  
• John A. Hoda interviews Karen Odden.
• Paul Burke interviews Charlie Higson. 
• Deborah Kalb intervies Joyce St. Anthony. 
• Gay Yellen interviews Kathryn Lane.
  
• Wrong Place, Write Crime interviews Dan Bronson.
  
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club interviews Meredith Jeager. 
• Grace Topping interviews Joan Long.
  
• Curtis Ippolito interviews J.B. Stevens.
  
• Michael A. Gonzales interviews Ronda Racha Penrice.
  
• Lincoln Michel interviews Matt Bell. 

 

Reviews:

• Maggie Boyd reviews The Night Shift by Alex Finlay. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews Shadows Reel by C.J. Box. 
• J.B. Stevens reviews Shadows Reel by C.J. Box.
  
• Sandie Herron reviews Pray For Silence by Linda Castillo.
• BOLO Books reviews Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett.
• Grab This Book reviews The Second Cut by Louise Welsh. 
• Julie Cantrell reviews Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Harbor by Katrine Engberg.
  
• Kathy Reel review The Water's Dead by Catherine Lea. 
• Paul Burke reviews The Corpse Flower by Anne Mette Hancock. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Killing Kind by Jane Casey. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Heights by Louise Candlish.
  
• Book Reviews to Ponder reviews The Darkest Place by Philip Margolin. 
• Matt Pechy reviews The Broken Room by Peter Clines.
  
• The Quick and the Daed reviews The Perfect Escape by Leah Konen. 
• Erin Britton reviews Run Rose Run by James Patterson and Dolly Parton.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel. 
• Adrian Magson reviews The Dictator's Wife by Freya Berry. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Reputation by Sarah Vaughan.
  
• For Winter Nights reviews The Interview by C.M. Ewan. 
  
• Meredith Frazier reviews Fake by Erica Katz. 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Nine Lives by Peter Swanson.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Sins of Edom by Carl Brookins. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Texas Job by Reavis Z. Wortham.
  
• Kirkus reviews The Berlin Exchange by Joseph Kanon.
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley.
• Meredith Frazier reviews The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley.
• Lesa Holstine reviews All the Queen's Men by S.J. Bennett.
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Sundial by Catriona Ward. 
• Jodé Millman reviews Death of a Green-Eyed Monster by M.C. Beaton.
• Stephanie Merritt reviews The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews.  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Fatal Glow by Valerie Wilson Wesley and tries a recipe from the book.  
• Paperback Warrior reviews issue 4 of Men's Adventure Quarterly.
  
• Ilana Masad reviews Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman.
• Thomas McClung reviews Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas.

 

Classics reviews:

• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1921 short mystery collection Malcolm Sage, Detective by Herbert Jenkins,
  
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1929 mystery The Museum Murder by John T. McIntyre.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1937 detective novel Six Queer Things by C. St. John Sprigg.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1944 Theodore Terhune mystery Ten Trails to Tyburn by Bruce Graeme.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1946 mystery The Band Played Murder by Edith Howie.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1960 noir novel Girl on a Slay Ride by Louis Trimble.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1966 suspense novel The Footsteps on the Stairs by Jean Potts.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1971 crime novel The Stalker by Bill Pronzini.
  
• Joe Kenney revisits Boston Avenger, a 1973 novel in The Lone Wolf men's adventure series by Mike Barry. 
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1980 men's adventure novel Shotgun a.k.a. Hardacre's Way by William Wingate.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Mike Glyer shares the signing schedule at the Vintage Paperback Collectors Show in Glendale, California.
  

 

Research:

• S.J. Peddie talks about the love life of mafioso Sonny Franzese.
  
• Brandon Presser talks about the history of the Pacific island of Pitcairn and its connection to the infamous mutiny on the Bounty. 
• Kit Mayquist talks about historical poisons and medicines and that they often were the same.
• Michelle Taylor reports about the earliest known murder which happend 430 000 years ago in Spain.
  

Free online fiction:

• "The Valley of the Shadow" by Harris Coverley in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "Lord of the Spoils" by B. Elisha Oluyemi in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "The Day" by B.W. Carter in Mystery Tribune. 
• "An Ugly Decision No. 1" by Scott Michael May in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Pompo's Disguise" by William Burton McCormick in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Fiction Podcast. 
• "What People Leaave Behind" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 
• "True Crime Story: Imagining An Empire, Or, Where It Is That Crime Starts" by David Erdos in The Five-Two.
  

 

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Bullet Train.
• Watch a trailer for The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
  
• Watch a trailer for All the Old Knives. 
  
• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Top Boy.