Crime Fiction Links of the Week for April 9, 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 Slow Horses, Peaky Blinders, Tokyo Vice, All the Old Knives, Moon Knight, The Northman and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime by the Book shares the most anticipated crime novels of April and May 2022.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Crime Reads shares the best psychological thrillers for April.
  
• Cassie Gutman attempts to define sunshine noir and shares some examples. 
• Ellen Crosby shares her favourite spy novels set in Russia. 
• Alex Callister explains why fiction needs more female action heroes.
  
• Amelia Kahaney shares a list of coming of age mysteries and thrillers. 
• Anna Downes celebrates badarse mothers in thrillers.
  
• Tessa Wegert shares crime novels about a killer in the family. 
• James Davis Nicoll shares five captivating SFF mystery novels. 
  
• Guillermo Martínez talks about fiction within fiction.  
• Jeffrey Siger talks about the law of unintended consequences.
  
• Jamie Canaves shares some detective novels to adapt instead of yet another adaptation of Sherlock Holmes.
• Paperback Warrior profiles Jack Pearl, prolific writer of war, adventure, science fiction and tie-in novels as well as non-fiction books.
• Beth Astley reports about Lily Baldwin's true crime podcast Stories of the Stalked.
• Tobi Thomas reports that mystery writer and TV presenter Richard Osman will step down as host of the British quiz show Pointless.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Stuart Heritage calls Dodger a scary, starry and irresistible Oliver Twist prequel. 
• Todd Gilchrist calls Ambulance an action film that feels as if it was written by an algorithm and directed by a drone (though it's really by Michael Bay).
  
• Bob Mayer calls The Tourist a well-done thriller with stunning twists. 
• Paul Hirons calls Holding a quirky and enjoyable cozy crime drama.
  
• Alex Brown discusses the queer joy of Our Flag Means Death.  
  
• Rebecca Nicholson calls The Split a sex-packed legal drama. 
• Tom Lowery calls 61st Street an important but not particularly well told drama about police racism in Chicago.
  
• Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on the black comedy thriller I Care A Lot. 
• Saptarshi Ray calls the Indian historical adventure epic RRR a biryani western on bhang. 
  
• Leslie Felperin calls Catch the Fair One an unsettling tale about violence, revenge and sex trafficking. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Prayers for the Stolen a heartrending tale from Mexico about a childhood destroyed by drug cartels. 
  
• Lisa Weidenfeld shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Killing Eve. 
• Randall Colburn shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Dropout. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the French crime drama Inside.
  
• Garrick Webster shares his thoughts on season 2 of the Italian crime drama The Hunter. 
  
• Lucy Mangan calls Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story a devastating documentary.
  
• Stuart Jeffries calls House of Maxwell a confidently told documentary about Robert and Ghislain Maxwell. 
• Rich Pelley intervies Jason Isaacs who played Jackson Brodie in Case Histories.  
• Olivia Rutigliano reports that basketball player, actor and writer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote an episode of the teen crime show Veronica Mars.
  
• Nellie Andreeva reports that CBS has renewed all NCIS shows. 
• Lesley Goldberg and Borys Kit report that Robert Downey Jr. and Lionel Wigram are planning a Sherlock Holmes universe at HBO Max.
  
• Steve Vertlieb remembers film composer Elmer Bernstein. 
  
• Actress Estelle Harris, who appeared in Toy Story, Night Court, Once Upon a Time in America and Seinfeld, has died aged 93.
• Actress June Brown, best known for playing Dot Cotton in East Enders, has died aged 95.
• Actor Nehemiah Persoff, who was in everything, has died aged 102.
  

 

Comments on Slow Horses: 

• Paul Levinson calls Slow Horses a fast moving spy thriller.  
• Alexis Gunderson declares that Slow Horses is worth the slow burn.
  
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the first two episodes of Slow Horses.
  

 

Comments on Peaky Blinders:

• Michael Hogan shares his thoughts on the series 6 finale of Peaky Blinders.  
• Andy Welch shares the ultimate Peaky Blinders quiz.
  

 

Comments on Tokyo Vice: 

• Matt Schimbovitz calls Tokyo Vice a stylish, neon-soaked thriller. 
• Olivia Rutigliano reports that Tokyo Vice revisits the last days of a striking genre. 

Comments on All the Old Knives: 

• Peter Bradshaw calls All the Old Knives a watchable spy drama that is reminiscent of John Le Carré.  
• Luke Y. Thompson declares that All the Old Knives lacks the edge of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan stories.
  
• Justin Kroll interviews Chris Pine, star of All the Old Knives.

 

Comments on Moon Knight: 

• Leah Schnelbach shares her thoughts on "Summon the Suit", the latest episode of Moon Knight.
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares her thoughts on "Summon the Suit". 
• Andy Welch shares his thoughts on "Summon the Suit". 
• Manuel Betancourt shares his thoughts on "Summon the Suit". 
• Sabina Graves shares her thoughts on "Summon the Suit". 
  
• David Betancourt interviews Oscar Isaac, star of Moon Knight. 

 

Comments on The Northman: 

• Sam Knight calls The Northman the most accurate Viking movie ever made and the most ambitious one. 
• Valerie Ettenhofer shares some early reactions to The Northman. 

 

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2022 Hugo Awards have been announced and Cora is one of them. 

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Charlie Jane Anders shares seven tips for avoiding the biggest problems with villains. 
• Amanda Eyre Ward explains why keeping secrets is an important tool for writers. 
• Lincoln Michel points out that conflict is only one way to think about stories.
  
• Timothy David Mack talks about cowriting. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks some more about copyright.
  
• Locus reports about the so-called Great Resignation in the US publishing industry.
  
• Libby Brooks reports that children's books on diversity are increasingly subject to bans or censorship even in the UK. 
• Danika Ellis reports that Follett Learning, a company that develops software for school libraries, is developing a system that would allow parents to monitor the books their children are reading.
  
• Gina Cherelus reports that the New York Public Library has abolished all late fees and promptly got a lot of long missing books returned.
• Mike Glyer reports that Don Blyly, owner of the Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's SFF and mystery bookstores, which were burned down during the riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2020, has found a new home for both stores.
  

 

Interviews: 

• Anthony Cummins interviews David Peace. 
• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Janice Hallett.
  
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club interviews Mally Becker and Mia P. Manasala.
• Alan Petersen interviews Lisa Scottoline.
  
• Nancie Clare interviews Jess Montgomery. 
• Molly Odintz interviews Grace D. Li. 
• Eli Cranor interviews Kellye Garrett.
  
• Debbi Mack interviews Ben Westerham.
• Wrong Plance, Write Crime interviews John McMahon.
• John A. Hoda interviews Dale Phillips.
• Lisa Haselton interviews Pat Duggan.
• Paul Burke interviews Bogdan Hrib.
• Jay Stringer interviews himself.
  

 

Reviews:

• Kevin Tipple reviews Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby.
  
• Garrick Webster reviws One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews 1979 by Val McDermid.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Darkest Game by Joseph Schneider.
  
• Gwen Moffat reviews First Born by Will Dean.
• Gwen Moffat reviews The Daughter by Liz Webb.
• Ali Karim reviews Nobody But Us by Laura Van Rensburg.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews See No Evil by David Fennell. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews One Last Chance by Jeffrey Siger. 
  
• Sara Townsend reviews The Village by Caroline Mitchell. 
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert.
  
• Kathy Reel reviews Widowland by C.J. Carey. 
• Joe Kenney reviews The Undertaker: Death Transition by John Doe.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Witness for the Persecution by E.J. Copperman. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Fool Dies Last by Carol Miller.
• Carole Tyrell reviews Desperate Undertaking by Lindsey Davis. 
• Nina Allan reviews Metronome by Tim Watson.  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Murder Under Her Skin by Stephen Spotswood. 
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Dog Park Club by Cynthia Robinson.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Batter Off Dead by Maddie Day and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Martin Edwards reviews Reader, I Buried Them and Other Stories by Peter Lovesey.

 

Classics reviews:

• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1933 Hercule Poirot mystery Lord Edgware Dies a.k.a. Thirteen at Dinner by Agatha Christie.
• Happiness is a Book revisites the 1933 Dr. Priestley mystery The Motor Rally Mystery a.k.a. Dr. Priestley Lays a Trap by John Rhode.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1944 Arthur Crook mystery He Came By Night a.k.a. Death at the Door by Anthony Gilbert.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1947 Hercule Poirot collection The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie.
• Fiona Sturges revisits the 1957 hardboiled crime novel For the Love of Imabelle a.k.a. A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1958 Colonel North spy novel Two Tickets for Tangier by Van Wyck Mason. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1958 mystery Mischief in the Offing by Clifford Witting.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1970 adventure novel A Cage of Ice by Duncan Kyle a.k.a. John Franklin Broxholme
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1971 dystopian thriller Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1973 men's adventure novel Gold Bait by Walter J. Sheldon. 
• Joe Kenney revisits Killer's Cargo, a 1974 novel in The Butcher men's adventure series by Stuart Jason a.k.a. James Dockery.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1980 Brother Cadfael historical mystery Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters.
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1993 anthology 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories, edited by Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Arifa Akbar declares that Harper Lee would approve of Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, which is currently playing in London, UK.
• Lucy Knight reports that the Hay Literary Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, will take place as an in-person festival again in 2022. 
• Litfest Pasadena in Altadena, California, shares the schedule of its crime fiction track. 
• Scott Adlerberg bids farewell to the Italian restaurant Forlini's in Manhattan, New York, which was a favourite hang-out for lawyers, judges and prosecutors for decades.
  

 

Research:

• Mark T. Givens and David Bushman talk about the unsolved murder of Hazel Drew in Upstate New York in 1908, which inspired Twin Peaks.  
• Stephen Bates talks about the murder of Katherine Armstrong in 1921 and why there are doubts about the guilt of her husband who was hanged for the crime.
  
• Logan D. Whitney talks about modern day piracy.  
• Keith Roysdon reports about the so-called "Satanic Panic" that swept across the US in the 1980s.
  
• M. Chris Fabricant points out that poor people and people of colour are being convicted of crimes on the basis of faulty forensic science.
  
• Rene Ebersol reports that police officers in Tennessee are trained to use dowsing to find bodies.
• Tim Cushing also reports about police officers being trained to use dowsing to find bodies.
• Edmund Richardson reports about the 19th century fugitive and adventurer James Lewis a.k.a. Charles Masson.
• Johnny Diamond reports about the case of romance writer Nancy Crampton Brophy, who wrote a book called How to Murder Her Husband and who was subsequently charged with murdering her husband.
  

 

Free online fiction:

• "The Heat in the Kitchen" by Stewart Dudley in Mystery Tribune.
• "Late-Night Snack" by Jacob Graysol in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "Dissimulation" by Jason Smith in Mystery Tribune.
• "The Broken T" by Ellery Queen in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Fiction Podcast.
• "The Methodical Mr. Drake" by Gabriel M. Hart in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "The Hole in the Bathroom is Filled With Ghosts" by Christine Makepeace in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Remembering Sunday" by Courtenay S. Gray in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "The Gift That Keeps on Giving" by Peter Kelly in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Come Away to the Water" by N.B. Turner in Punk Noir Magazine (content warning: harm to a child).
• "The Last Mile" by Tyrell James in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Blood Sport Love" by Bryan M. Tarver in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Alliteration" by D.M. Testa in The Five-Two.
• "Unknown Baby Girl" by Kirstine Kathryn Rusch (content warning: harm to a child).
  

 

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Hold Tight. 
• Watch a trailer for Signora Volpe.
  
• Watch a trailer for season 2 of The Hunter.