Crime Fiction Links of the Week for May 28, 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 Crimes of the Future, Our Flag Means Death, Top Gun Maverick, season 6 of Better Call Saul, season 3 of Barry, tributes to Ray Liotta and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week. 
• Molly Odintz shares the most anticipated crime books of summer 2022. 
• Molly Odintz shares the best international crime novels for May 2022. 
• Crime Reads shares the best reviewed crime novels of May 2022.
  
• Polly Stewart hosts a roundtable on what really distinguishes a crime novel
  
• Erin Britton shares the five books that got her hooked on crime fiction.
• K.G. McAbee shares her favourite mysteries featuring amnesiacs.
  
• May Cobb shares her favourite salacious thrillers. 
• Molly Templeton talks about travelling and reading. 
  
• French science fiction and crime fiction writer Joel Houssin has died aged 69.

 

Film and TV:

• Rebecca Nicholson calls season 2 of The Flight Attendant a modern day Charlie's Angels.
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls Nostalgia a bittersweet gangster film from Italy.
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls Decision to Leave a black widow noir film from South Korea.
  
• Leslie Felperin calls The Burning Sea a mediocre disaster thriller from Norway.
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls Holy Spider an implausible serial killer thriller from Iran based on a true case. 
• Phuong Le calls Anek an Indian action thriller which asks questions about political conflicts and cultural identity.
  
• Cath Clarke calls Shut In a ropey, rightwing, Christian thriller. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Grace. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Beck. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of the Welsh crime drama Y Golau a.k.a The Light. 
• Chris Jenkins wonders whether it is time to say good-bye to Inspector Morse after 35 years and three different TV series.
  
• The AV Club rank their five favourite episodes of Black Mirror. 
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1960 horror thriller Psycho. 
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1971 gangster film Get Carter. 
• Nick Kolakowski revisits the 2020 time travel thriller Tenet and declares that it deserves a second chance. 
  
• Frederick Weisel interviews Tim Maskell, location manager for the Scottish crime drama Shetland.
• Saloni Gajjar interviews Elisabeth Moss, star of The Shining Girls, The Handmaid's Tale and Mad Men. 
• Holly Richardson interviews Penn Badgley, star of You.
• Steve Rose reports why so many Hollywood filmmakers collaborate with the US military and how the US military influences the resulting films. 
  
• The Guardian reports that actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with three counts of sexual assault against young men. 
• Ray Liotta, star of Goodfellas, Cop Land and many others, has died aged 67.
• Ryan Gilbey shares an obituary for Ray Liotta.
  

 

Comments on season 3 of Barry:

• David Cote shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Barry. 
• Rosy Cordero reports that Barry has been renewed for a fourth season.
  

 

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 Our Flag Means Death: 

• Samara Breger talks about Our Flag Means Death and the importance of queer fantasy.  
• Alison Foreman interviews Rory Kinnear, star of Our Flag Means Death and Men. 
• Linda Codega interviews Maggie Phillips, music supervisor for Our Flag Means Death and many other shows.
  

 

Comments on Crimes of the Future:

• Peter Bradshaw calls Crimes of the Future a body horror sensation by David Cronenberg. 
• Jordan Hoffman notes that Crimes of the Future revisits ideas and iconography from David Cronenberg's past.

 

Comments on Top Gun: Maverick:

• Peter Scobel and Todd Gilchrist interview Joseph Kosinski, director of Top Gun Maverick.
  
• Todd Gilchrist interviews Jay Ellis, one of the stars of Top Gun Maverick.
• Peter Scobel and Todd Gilchrist interview Jennifer Connelly, one of the stars of Top Gun Maverick.
  

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2022 Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2022 British Book Awards have been announced.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Tori Eldridge discusses how to write across genres while maintaining your "brand".
  
• Marissa Lingen explains what taking criticism truly means.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch shares yet more reasons why writers fail.
  
• Mike Glyer reports that personal information from the SFWA member directory has been scraped and made public.
• 1300 authors of children's and YA books have signed an open letter to protest the recent wave of book bannings in the US.
• Martin Pengelly reports that Margaret Atwood responds to the latest wave of book bannings in the US by creating an unburnable edition of The Handmaid's Tale.
• Kelly Jensen reports that a Republican politician is sueing a Barnes & Noble store in Virginia Beach, Virginia, for carrying the books Gender Queer: A Memoir by Marie Kobabe and A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas.
  

 

Interviews: 

• David Masciotra interviews James Lee Burke.
  
• Lisa Allardice interviews Richard Osman and Marian Keyes.
  
• Ayo Onatade interviews Barbara Nadel.
• Dr. Jacky Collins interviews Barney Thompson and Chris Rickaby a.k.a. Ben Creed.
• Ayo Onatade interviews William Shaw.
  
• Victoria Selman interviews Caz Frear and William Shaw.
• Alan Petersen interviews A.M. Adair.
• J.B. Stevens interviews Peter Farris. 
• Molly Odintz interviews Sarai Walker.
  
• John A. Hoda interviews Lori Robbins. 
• E.B. Davis interviews Anette Dashofy. 
• Lynn McPherson interviews Rose Kerr.
  
• Molly Odintz interviews Zarqa Nawaz.
  
• Wrong Place, Write Crime interviews Neely Tucker.
  

Reviews:

• Sarah Weinman reviews Bad Actors by Mick Herron.
  
• Sandie Herron reviews Gone Missing by Linda Castillo.
• BOLO Books reviews Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor.
  
• Grab This Book reviews Six Wounds by Morgan Cry. 
• Paul Burke reviews First Born by Will Dean.
• Grab This Book reviews The Daughter by Liz Webb. 
• BOLO Books reviews Never Broken by Lori Duffy Foster and Steadying the Ark by Rebecca K. Jones. 
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews Nothing To Lose by J.A. Jance.
• Julia Maxwell reviews The Change by Kirsten Miller.
  
• Rob Bedford reviews The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas.   
• Sandra Mangan reviews Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel by Glenda Young.
  
• Beth Kanell reviews The Lady With the Gun Asks the Questions by Kerry Greenwood.
• Gayle Surette reviews The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson.
• Beth Kanell reviews Buried in a Good Book by Tamara Berry.
• Lesa Holstine reviews Buried in a Good Book by Tamara Berry. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Buried in a Good Book by Tamara Berry. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Double Shot Death by Emmeline Duncan and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Alexander Larman reviews Brouhaha by Ardal O'Hanlon. 
  
• Matt Davis reviews the crime graphic novel Gun Honey by Charles Ardai and Ang Hor Kheng.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews This Deadly Isle: A Golden Age Mystery Map by Martin Edwards. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1938 Sir Clifton Driffield mystery Truth Comes Limping by J.J. Connington.
  
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1952 police procedural Last Seen Wearing by Hillary Waugh.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1963 historical adventure novel Pay the Devil by Henry Patterson a.k.a. Jack Higgins.
• Joe Kenney revisits The Torture Contract, a 1975 novel in The Marksman men's adventure series by Frank Scarpetta a.k.a. Steve Sherman.
• Curtis Evans revisits the 1982 mystery Here Lies Gloria Mundy by Gladys Mitchell.
  
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1997 non-fiction book Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction, edited by Jerome H. Delamater and Ruth Prigozy.

Con and event reports:

• Ayo Onatade looks ahead at SlaughterFest in London, UK.  
• Walker Martin reports about the 2022 Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention in Lombard, Illinois. 
  
• Kevin E.G. Perry reports about the Santa Fe Literary Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• Jane Ciabattari reports about the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, California.  
• Martin Edwards reports about the Birnam Book Festival in Birnam, Scotland.
• Martin Edwards shares some photos of the launch party for his new book The Life of Crime at the 2022 CrimeFest in Bristol. UK. 
• Lucy Knight shares some comments mystery and YA writer Anthony Horowitz made at the Hay Literary Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. 
  
• Claire Armitstead calls The Father and the Assassin a play about violence and colonialism that echoes into today and is currently playing in London, UK.
  

Research:

• Oliver Holmes reports that romance writer Nancy Crampton Brophy, who wrote a book called How to Kill Your Husband, was found guilty of killing her husband.
  
• Megha Mohan reports about Bangladeshi lawyer Shagufta Tabassum Ahmed and her sixteen year fight to bring her father's murderers to justice.
• Jim Cosgrove talks about his 26-year quest to solve the murder of Frank McGonigle in 1982.
  
• James Wolff reports about the new intiative towards openness and inclusivity by the Britih intelligence agencies. 
• Cora Buhlert reports about the À l'Innovation department store in Brussels in 1967, one of the deadliest building fires in Europe in the twentieth century.  
• Boyd and Beth Morrison talk abotu crimes in medieval Europe.
  

 

Free online fiction:

• "It Was Our Song" by Nikki Knight in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "A Beautiful Beginning" by Bradford Middleton in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "The Consortium" by Brian Townsley in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Persuader" by Susan Kuchinskas in Guilty.
  
• "Death on the Rocks" by Guy Belleranti in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
• "Rendez-Vous" by Jon Davies in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Alley" by Wil A. Emerson in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Some Unseen Thing" by Mike McHone in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Mother's Good Little Boy" by Sam Wiebe in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Take No Prisoners" by Tad Tuleja in The Five-Two.
  

 

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part 1.