Crime Fiction Links of the Week for May 14, 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 Lincoln Lawyer, Bosch Legacy, The Staircase, Top Gun Maverick, Moon Knight, Our Father, season 6 of Better Call Saul, season 8 of Beck, tributes to Dennis Waterman and Fred Ward and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
• Lisa Levy shares the best psychological thrillers coming out in May. 
• Sandra Block talks about thrillers with twist endings.
• Connie Berry shares ten reasons why Victorian England is the perfect setting for murder mysteries.
  
• Brian Lebeau shares eight unnerving thrillers set in New England. 
• Ann McCulloch shares eight thrillers about mountaineering.
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares five science fiction works about fighting crime in space.  
• Jason Rekulak shares six suspense novels featuring nannies.
  
• Sara Paretsky explains how she came to write the V.I. Warshawski detective novels. 
• Tobias Carroll shares his appreciation for Gary Indiana's true crime trilogy.
  
• Andreas Hapke profiles Cora Buhlert (in German).  
• Keith Roysdon shares a brief history of newspaper crime comic strips.
  
• Fraser Massey explains why British crime novels are often retitled for the US market.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Dervla McTiernan talks about the current wave of TV and streaming mini-series adapted from thriller novels. 
• Dwyer Mruphy shares the best international crime and thriller movies and shows to watch this weekend. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on series 1 of DI Ray. 
  
• Alasdair Stuart reviews The Batman with Lego figures.  
  
• Cath Clarke calls Bluff a low budget cop thriller with a sprinkle of social realism. 
• Alison Foreman calls Candy a sexist true crime drama. 
• Phil Harrison calls Floodlights a harrowing drama about sexual abuse in football.
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls Rhino a stylish Ukrainian gangster film. 
• Rogues in the House discuss The Northman. 
• Martin Tsai calls On the Count of Three a grim drama about suicide and revenge.
  
• Phil Hoad calls Shattered an oddball erotic thriller. 
• Phuong Le calls Hell Hath No Fury a bleak, subversive parable on the lethal power of greed. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Grace. 
• David Cote shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Barry.
  
• Hannah J. Davis interviews Suranne Jones, star of Vigil. 
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1997 French cop thriller Dobermann.
  
• Jodé Millman discusses the portrayal of sex workers in Hollywood movies. 
• Winston Cho reports that Republican lawmakers want to retroactively shorten copyright protection in order to punish Disney for speaking out against bigoted anti-LGBTQ legislation.
  
• Steve Rose recounts Disney's relationship with both the LGBTQ community and the US Right.
• British actress Ann Davies, who appeared in Doctor Who, Z Cars and East Enders, died aged 87.
• Fred Ward, star of Tremors, The Right Stuff, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins and many others has died aged 79.
• Andrew Pulver remembers Fred Ward. 
• British actor Dennis Waterman, star of The Sweeney, Minder and New Tricks, has died aged 74.
• Mark Lawson remembers Dennis Waterman.
  

Comments on Bosch: Legacy:

• Alexis Gunderson wonders whether Bosch: Legacy can recapture the noir magic of the original.
• Todd Spangler reports that Bosch: Legacy has been renewed for season 2.
• Paul Hirons explains how to watch Bosh: Legacy in the UK.
  

 

Comments on The Lincoln Lawyer: 

• Saloni Gajjar calls The Lincoln Lawyer a bloated and old-fashioned legal drama. 
• Lucy Mangan calls The Lincoln Lawyer a modern day Knight Rider and utter nonsense. 
  

 

Comments on The Staircase:

• Lucy Mangan calls The Staircase a riveting true crime tale.  
• Alison Foreman calls The Staircase a harrowing true crime drama.
  
• David Smith discusses the treu crime case behind The Staircase.
  

 

Comments on season six of Better Call Saul:

• Paul MacInnes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Better Call Saul.
• Kimberly Potts shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Better Call Saul.

 

Comments on season 8 of Beck: 

• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of season 8 of Beck.  
• Garrick Webster looks ahead at season 8 of Beck.

 

Comments on Top Gun: Maverick: 

• Peter Bradshaw declares that Top Gun: Maverick is still a fun action film, but that it lacks the homoerotic tensions of the original. 
• Todd Gilchrist declares that Top Gun Maverick brings Tom Cruise's career full circle. 
• Matt Donnelly interviews Jennifer Connelly, one of the stars of Top Gun: Maverick.
  

 

Comments on Moon Knight:

• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares her thoughts on "Gods and Monsters", the season finale of Moon Knight. 
• Adam Holmes interviews Meghan Kasperlik, costume designer of Moon Knight.
• Adam B. Vary reports that there are QR codes hidden in episodes of Moon Knight, which lead to a website where you can read selected Moon Knight comics. 

 

Comments on Our Father:

• Lucy Mangan calls Our Father a gripping documentary about the shokcing crimes committed by a fertility doctor. 
• Stuart Heritage reports about the real case behind Our Father.
  

 

Awards:

• The winner of the 2022 Spotted Owl Award has been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2022 Maine Literary Awards have been announced.
• The winners of the 2022 BAFTA TV Awards have been announced with quite a bit of love for crime TV.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Steve McHugh talks about writing action scenes. 
• Colin Barrett talks about ideas, characters and writing. 
• Logan D. Whitney explains how he wrote a novel he loves. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rush explains how writers fail.
  
• Lark O. Jensen discusses how the covid pandemic affected writers.
  
• Sian Bayley warns that a fraudster is impersonating a Harper Collins editor and offering book contracts. 
• Michael Hiltzik reports about Disney's continuing failure to pay writers.
  
• The Guardian reports that an essay by plagiarist Jumi Bello was pulled, when it turned out that she had plagiarised again.
• Lucy Knight reports that Dave Eggers will give copies of his novel The Circle as well as four other books that were deemed unsuitable for students, pulled from school libraries and destroyed to schools in South Dakota.
• Sarah Shaffi reports that Dolly Parton's charity Imagination Library will give books to refugee children in London, UK, for free.
  

 

Interviews: 

• Nancie Clare interviews Harini Nagendra. 
• Paul Burke interviews Ben Creed a.k.a. Chris Rickaby and Barney Thompson.
• Ayo Onatade interviews D.V. Bishop.
• Wrong Place, Write Crime interviews Stephen Burdick.
  
• Mystery Tribune interviews Jason Rekulak. 
• John A. Hoda interviews Julie Hennrikus. 
• E.B. Davies interviews Connie Berry.
  
• Debbi Mack interviews Sascha Rothschild.
• Lisa Haselton interviews Kirstyn Petras.
• Joanna Penn interviews Angela Marsons.
• Marshal Zeringue interviews Chris Holm.
  

Reviews:

• Mike Parker reviews Bad Actors by Mick Herron.
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Bad Actors by Mick Herron. 
  
• Sandra Mangan reviews The Cook by Ajay Chowdhury. 
• Becky LeJeune reviews The Last Guests by J.P. Pomare. 
• Paul Burke reviews The Last To Disappear by Jo Spain.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews And By Fire by Evie Hawtrey.
  
• Garrick Webster reviews City on Fire by Don Winslow.
• Sandie Herron reviews Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger. 
• Adam Colclough reviews The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell.
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Shadow of Memory by Connie Berry.
• Jenny Maloney reviews Two Little Girls by Laura Jarratt.
  
• Paul Burke reviews May God Forgive by Alan Parks.
  
• BOLO Books reviews Sinkhole by Davida G. Breier.
• BOLO Books reviews The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews A Book of Murder by Victoria Dowd. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson. 
• Becky LeJeune reviews The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson. 
  
• Kathy Reel reviews A Three Dog Problem by S.J. Bennett. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Simmering with Resentment by Daryl Wood Gerber and tries a recipe from the book.   
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Jade Setter of Janloon by Fonda Lee.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
  
• Anthony Cummins reviews Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz. 
• Grab This Book reviews the crime graphic novel The Junction by Norm Konyu. 
• Crossexamining Crime reviews This Deadly Isle: A Golden Age Mystery Map by Martin Edwards.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1876 mystery One Night's Mystery by May Agnes Fleming.
  
• Michael Brown revisits the 1924 crime novel Red Runes of China by H. Bedford-Jones. 
• Happiness Is a Book revisits the 1933 mystery Death Sails the Nile by F. Burks McKinley a.k.a. Mary Frances Burke.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1962 hardboiled mystery Kim by Robert Colby. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1965 suspense novel Family Skeletons by Patrick Quentin a.k.a. Hugh Wheeler.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1972 detective novel A Bullet for the Bride by Jon Messman.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1974 Counter-Terror action thriller Hour of the Wolf by Robert Charles a.k.a. Robert Leader.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1999 non-fiction book The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, edited by Rosemary Herbert.
  

Con and event reports:

• It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club reports about Malice Domestic in Bethesda, Maryland.
  
• Lesa Holstine shares her experiences at the Edgar Awards ceremony in New York City.
• John O'Neill reports about the 2022 Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention in Chicago, Illinois. 
• Ayo Onatade looks ahead at Lyme Crime in Lyme Regis, UK.

 

Research:

• NBC News reports that due to the water level in Lake Mead, Nevada, steadily dropping, barrells with the decomposed bodies of mob victims from Las Vegas are resurfacing. 
• Associated Press reports that a man in Trenton, South Caroline, died while burying the body of a woman he had murdered.
  
• Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellell discuss the complications of modern shipping and modern piracy. 
• Kathryn Miles reports about the so-called "Shenandoah Murders" in 1996, which are still unsolved.
• Eden Collinsworth traces the mystery of Leonardo Da Vinci's painting "Lady with an Ermine".
  

 

Free online fiction:

• "Early Release" by John Scheck in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Left Is Right" by Aeryn Rudel in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Clothes Unmake the Man" by Regan MacArthur in Guilty.
  
• "Gloria" by Marina Richards in Mystery Tribune.
• "The Jacumba Translator" by M.B. McDonough in Mystery Tribune.
• "The Manglik Curse" by Smita Harish Jain in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Fiction Podcast. 
• "Maximum Rossi" by Paul W. Papa in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
• "Twinkles" by Kristin Garth in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "The Purge" by Rena J. Worley in The Five-Two.