Crime Fiction Links of the Week for April 16, 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 the series finale of Killing Eve, Slow Horses, Moon Knight, The Northman, Dual and much
more.
Crime fiction in general:
Crime fiction in general:
- Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
- Laura Wilson shares her favourite recent crime novels and thrillers.
- Michael Dirda shares some recent mysteries to enjoy.
- Thirty-two authors pick their favourite mysteries and thrillers of all time.
- M.E. Hilliard talks about the enduring appeal of the country house murder.
- Nell Pattison shares ten crime novels with isolated settings.
- Paul French talks about crime novels set on the Faroe Islands.
- Stacey Halls shares six gothic suspense novels with an overwhelming sense of unease, menace and coercive control.
- Jennifer Karr shares her favourite murder party novels, i.e. novels concerned with how to get away with a murder.
- Sandra Murphy and Cynthia Chow share some culinary cozy mysteries to enjoy this Easter.
- Nicole Fanning talks about the thin line between thriller and romance.
- James Davis Nicoll shares five captivating SFF mystery novels.
- Adam Oyebanji shares five great science fiction novels that mystery and crime fiction readers will enjoy.
- Marion Deeds shares five unconventional SFF heist novels.
- Laure van Rensburg takes a look at Gillian Flynn's psychological thrillers and the dark side of feminism.
- Molly Templeton talks about the joy of reading hidden gems.
- Cole Rush explains how starting a home lending library has made him a better friend.
- David Nikel reports about the Norwegian tradition of reading crime novels at Easter.
- Paige Shelton celebrates the "Big Three" of Scottish literature.
- Alexandra Penth profiles Cora Buhlert.
- Howard Andrew Jones shares a guide to the works of Harald Lamb.
- Bill Ward shares the striking cover art of the pulp magazine Adventure.
- Craig Frederighi reports that Agatha Christie gifted the rights to her play The Mouse Trap to her grandson Matthew in 1952.
- Lizzy Steiner shares eight true crime podcasts to listen to this spring.
- Thriller author Harry Patterson, best known as Jack Higgins, has died aged 92.
Film and TV:
- Peter Bradshaw calls The Lost City an enjoyable adventure comedy.
- Olivia Rutigliano calls season 2 of The Flight Attendant a fun espionage comedy.
- Mark Lawson calls The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe a true crime drama based on a mindblowing insurance scheme.
- Rebecca Nicholson declares that the political thriller Anatomy of a Scandal has a ridiculously far-fetched plot and that the dialogue does not sound like anything ever spoken by human beings.
- Rachel Aroesti calls Hard Cell a lacklustre prison sitcom.
- Garrick Webster looks ahead at Bosch: Legacy.
- Jack Seale calls the true crime documentary Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing a string of missed opportunities.
- Phil Harrison shares his thoughts on the true crime documentary Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story and notes that Savile gaslit an entire country.
- Julia Sirmons revisits the 1971 true crime movie 10 Rillington Place.
- Jeremy Scott shares seven great rural crime films.
- Eve Taft ranks horror movies about Escape Rooms.
- Sirin Kale interviews Sofia Helin, star of the Scandinavian crime drama The Bridge.
- Rory Carroll interviews Jude Hill, the young star of Belfast.
- Adrian
Horton reports that Will Smith has been banned from the Oscars for ten
years after skapping Chris Rock on stage after insulting Jada
Pinkett-Smith. No word on whether Chris Rock and other offensive hosts
and presenters have been banned as well.
Comments on Slow Horses:
Comments on the series finale of Killing Eve (spoilers):
Comments on Moon Knight and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general:
- Daniel D'Addario calls Moon Knight a refreshing change of course for Marvel.
- Leah Schnelbach shares her thoughts on "The Friendly Type", the latest episode of Moon Knight.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares her thoughts on "The Friendly Type".
- Andy Welch shares his thoughts on "The Friendly Type".
- Manuel Betancourt shares his thoughts on "The Friendly Type".
- Sabina Graves shares her thoughts on "The Friendly Type".
Comments on The Northman:
- Germain Lussier calls The Northman a visceral and powerful historical thriller.
- David Rooney calls The Northman a big, bloody, medieval Viking sage about fate, family and revenge.
- Peter Bradshaw calls The Northman a brutal vision of vengeance and violence.
- Tomris Laffley calls The Northman Shakespearean drama wrapped in Old Norse vengeance.
- Hannah Strong calls The Northman an epic tale of a wronged Viking prince's quest for vengeance.
- Guy Lodge interviews Robert Eggers, director of The Northman.
- Charles Bramesco interviews Robert Eggers.
- John Sundholm reports that the subway posters for The Northman left out the title of the movie, inspiring Twitter users to fill in the blanks.
Awards:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Carter Wilson explains what he learned from hosting a writing podcast.
- Ocean Vuong talks about taking the time you need to write.
- Max Florschutz points out that conflict does not have to be physical.
- Sarah Maria Griffin talks about learning storytelling from videogames.
- Stacey Murphy talks about her love for research.
- Grape reports about the Manuscript Writing Café in Tokyo, Japan, which is intended solely for writers on a deadline.
- Jacqui Lipton explains what happens when a publisher cancels a book.
- Former Tor editorial assistant Molly McGhee opens up regarding the punishing work environment of junior publishing employees.
- Ginia Bellafante reports that staffers at Condé Nast are unionising.
- Elle Hunt reports about people who use books as furnishings rather than actuall read them.
- John Loeppky reports that dozens of LGBTQ books were removed from Target's online store, supposedly due to a glitch.
- Andrew Albanese reports that PEN America has noted a massive spike in book banning attempts.
- Claire Kirch reports that a US Congress hearing is investigating the spike in book bannings in schools in the US.
- Chytomo reports about publishers of Russian propaganda disguised as SFF.
Interviews:
- Molly Odintz interviews C.S. Harris.
- Andrew Preston interviews Ann Cleeves.
- Lauren Taylor interviews Lynda La Plante.
- Rick Pullen interviews Robert Dugoni.
- Robert Justice interviews Wanda Morris.
- Ali Karim interviews Laure van Rensburg.
- Paul Burke interviews Timothy J. Lockhart.
- Frank Zafiro interviews Aaron Philip Clark.
- John A. Hoda interviews Bridget Finnegan.
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club interviews Judy L. Murray and Jan Brogan.
- Gabino Iglesias interviews John Glatt.
Reviews:
- Caz Owens reviews When Blood Lies by C.S. Harris.
- Carole V. Ball reviews Secret Identity by Alex Segura.
- Tony R. Cox reviews Life Sentence by R.K. Turner.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Nine Lives by Peter Swanson.
- Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer.
- Gwen Moffat reviews The Dark by Sharon Bolton.
- Crime by the Book reviews Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews No Less the Devil by Stuart MacBride.
- Michael J. McCann reviews The Sacred Bridge by Anne Hillerman.
- Kirkus reviews The Houseboat by Dane Bahr.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Hot Time by W.H. Flint.
- Carolyn Scott reviews The Echo Man by Sam Holland.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Investigator by John Sandford.
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Investigator by John Sandford.
- Kevin Tipple reviews The Investigator by John Sandford.
- Grab This Book reviews Shattered Bones by Kate Bendelow.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor.
- Carolyn Scott reviews The Shadow House by Anna Downes.
- His Futile Preoccupations reviews The Heights by Louise Candlish.
- Kathy Reel reviews Murder in Immunity by Ann Cleeland.
- Margaret Agnew reviews The Match by Harlan Coben.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Cover Story by Susan Rigetti.
- Megan Elliott reviews The Long Weekend by Gilly Macmillan.
- Kirkus reviews Give Unto Others by Donna Leon.
- Lesa Holstine reviews The Kindness of Strangers by Andy Weinberger.
- Traveling in Books reviews Fierce Poison by Will Thomas.
- Publishers Weekly reviews The Unquiet Dead by Stacie Murphy.
- Adam Colclough reviews A Traitor's Heart by Ben Creed.
- She Reads Novels reviews Traitor in the Ice by K.J. Maitland.
- Grab This Book reviews Vine Street by Dominic Nolan.
- The Quick and the Read reviews Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare.
- Janet Webb reviews Lacie's Secrets by Teresa Sorkin and Tullan Holmqvist.
- Janet Webb reviews Three Debts Paid by Anne Perry.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Mask of the Vampire by Paul Halter.
- Erin Britton reviews The Corpse with the Turquoise Toes by Cathy Ace.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews A Half-Baked Alibi by Devon Delaney and tries a recipe from the book.
Classics reviews:
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1923 Race Williams hardboiled detective story "Three Thousand to the Good" by Carroll John Daly.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1941 mystery Such Bright Disguises by Brian Flynn.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1946 Theodore Terhune mystery A Case of Books by Bruce Graeme.
- Happiness Is a Book revisits the 1946 Lady Lupin mystery The Mystery at Orchard House by Joan Coggin.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1953 crime novel Say It With Bullets by Richard Powell.
- She Reads Novels revisits the 1953 Hercule Poirot mystery After the Funeral by Agatha Christie.
- Erin Britton revisits the 1956 mystery Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J. Farmer.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1956 crime novel The Woman on the Roof by Helen Nielsen.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1969 historical crime novel The Moonshine War.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1978 Ed Noon spy novel Assassins Don't Die In Bed by Michael Avalone.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1989 men's adventure novel Hitler's Legacy by David Alexander.
Con and event reports:
Research:
- John Dingwall reports that Denise Mina claims to have solved the mysterious 1956 murder of Marion Watt in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1956.
- T. Orr Munro shares her experiences working as a Scene of the Crime Officer.
- Sarah Weinman reports about the so-called Ukrainian Hall kidnappings in Little Ukraine, New York City, in 1938.
- W.H. Flint talks about William D'Alton Mann, a blackmailer operating in Gilded Age New York.
- Mark Arsenault reports about scandals and journalists in San Francisco, California, in the 1890s.
- Dalya Alberge interviews art forgers Wolfgang and Helene Beltracchi.
- Stuart Heritage tells the story of Phoenix Jones, a real-life superhero who operated in Seattle, Washington.
- Trish Esden reports that rural New England is an unlikely hotbed of antiques theft.
- Lucas Ropek reports that Romanian police have arrested the ringleaders of an alleged marketplace for hiring assassins on the dark web.
- Sophie Hardach discusses the psychological benefits of crime and mystery games.
Free online fiction:
- "Twilight Easter Egg Hunt" by Margaret S. Hamilton in Kings River Life.
- "Here Comes the Body" by Maria DiRico in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
- "Widow/Widower" by Natalia Antonova in Shotgun Honey.
- "The Road Players" by C.W. Blackwell in Shotgun Honey.
- "What's in the Box?" by Tom Pitts in Shotgun Honey.
- "Acknowledgements" by Karen Harrinton in Guilty.
- "Homework" by Alpheus Williams in Mystery Tribune.
- "The One" by Robert Baylot in Mystery Tribune.
- "The Powdered Metal Bullet" by James English in Mystery Tribune.
- "Death by Vending Machine" by Robert Cooperman in The Five-Two.
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