Crime Fiction Links of the Week for April 16, 2022
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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