Crime Fiction Links of the Week for May 7, 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 season finale of Slow Horses, The Shining Girls, DI Ray, Moon Knight, The Northman, season 6 of Better Call Saul, the series finale of Ozark, tributes to James Bama and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
• Crime Reads shares the best new crime novels for May 2022.
  
• Crime Reads shares the best reviewed new crime novels of April 2022. 
• Victoria Helen Stone shares thrillers set in isolated locations.
  
• Georgina Cross shares her favourite crime novels about wealthy families with dark secrets. 
• Zach Vasquez shares seven noir thrillers about motherhood. 
• Don Bentley shares five novels that accurately portray military comradery.
  
• Gytha Lodge talks about psychopaths in fiction and reality. 
• Elle Marr shares her five favourite new true crime titles. 
• Peter Swanson ranks the Travis McGee novels by John D. MacDonald. 
• Vinayak Chakravorty profiles Satyajit Ray's Indian sleuth Feluda.
  
• Otto Penzler shares his appreciation for the work of mystery writer Phoebe Atwood Taylor. 
  
• Crime by the Book share their favourite thrillers by Lisa Unger.
• Sandra Mangan shares a guide to the Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths.
• Stuart MacBride talks about writing No Less the Devil.
• David Baldacci remembers how he started to write.
• Laurie Buchanan explains how she went from teenaged runaway to crime fiction writer.
• John Bullard remembers cover artist James Bama. 
• Killer Covers remembers James Bama. 

 

Film and TV:

• Dwyer Murphy shares the best crime TV shows coming out in May 2022. 
• Rebecca Nicholson calls Prisoner C33 a dark, poetic one-man performance about Oscar Wilde's time in Reading gaol. 
• Rebecca Nicholson calls series 2 of Tehran a breathlessly exciting thriller.
  
• Courtney Howard calls The Aviary a spellbinding, sub-bleached survival thriller. 
• Lucy Mangan calls The Staircase a riveting true crime tale. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Thar a violent cop thriller set in Rajasthan, India.
  
• Leigh Monson calls The Ravine a drama about the aftermath of a horrible crime that is way too focussed on religion. 
• Leslie Felperin calls The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain a tense reconstruction of a fatal police encounter.
  
• Alison Foreman calls The Offer an overstretched series about the making of The Godfather. 
• Seun Odukoya shares his thoughts on The Batman. 
  
• David Cote shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Barry. 
• Lauren Chval shares her thoughts on season 2 of the desert island drama The Wilds.
  
• Todd Gilchrist interviews Liam Neeson, star of Memory. 
• Chris Godfrey interviews Jon Bernthal, star of The Punisher and We Own This City. 
• Jack Smart interviews Peeter Rebane and Tom Prior, writer and director of Firebird.
  
• Guy Lodge lists the best modern noir films now streaming. 
• Andrew Nette revisits the 1972 Italian gangster film Milano Calibre 9.
  
• Gwen Ihnat revisits the 1972 Columbo episode "Etude in Black".
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1974 blaxploitation film Black Belt Jones.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1987 thriller Backfire.
• Peter White reports that Blue Bloods has been renewed for its thirteenth season.
• Dalya Alberge reports that an unused 1956 screenplay for the James Bond story Moonraker, written by Ian Fleming himself, has resurfaced.
  

 

Comments on Slow Horses: 

• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the season 1 finale of Slow Horses.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 1 finale of Slow Horses and the series as a whole.
  

 

Comments on DI Ray:

• Lucy Mangan calls DI Ray like Line of Duty, but with racism at every turn. 
• Ruchira Sharma interviews Parminder Nagra and Maya Sondhi, star and writer of DI Ray. 

 

Comments on The Shining Girls:

• Lucy Mangan calls The Shining Girls an intense time-hopping thriller and praises the performance of Elizabeth Moss.
• David Cote calls the time travel thriller The Shining Girls "Zodiac on Xanax". 
• Saloni Gajjar interviews Wagner Moura who plays Dan Velasquez in The Shining Girls.  
• Adrienne Westenfeld interviews Lauren Beukes upon whose novel The Shining Girls is based.

 

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 the series finale of Ozark: 

• Stuart Jeffries bids farewell to Ozark and calls it the most thrilling and rewarding crime show on the air.
  
• Alison Foreman declares that Ozark has a baffling and sentimental series finale.
• Brian Davis interviews Alfonso Herrera, one of the stars of Ozark.

 

Comments on Moon Knight:

• Leah Schnelbach shares her thoughts on "Gods and Monsters", the season finale of Moon Knight. 
• Andy Welch shares his thoughts on "Gods and Monsters". 
• Manuel Betancourt shares his thoughts on "Gods and Monsters". 
• James Whitbrook shares his thoughts on "Gods and Monsters". 
• Germain Lussier interviews Grant Curtis and Mohamed Diab, producers and director of Moon Knight.
  
• Inspired by Moon Knight, Trace Townsend talks about the way popular culture handles mental illness.

 

Comments on The Northman: 

• Jamie Philbrick calls The Northman brilliant, beautiful and bloody filmmaking at its best.
  
• Sean C. Tadsen calls The Northman Hamlet meets Conan. 
• Matthew W. Quinn calls The Northman definitely worth seeing.
• A.O. Scott calls The Northman "Danish Premodern".
• Bob Mondello calls The Northman two and a half hours of arthouse savagery.
• Rich Lowry notes that The Northman shows why people continue to be fascinated by Vikings.
  

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2022 Edgar Awards have been announced.
• The winners of the 2022 Derringer Awards have been announced.
• The longlist for the 2022 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award has been announced and is open for voting by the public.
• The winner of the Crime Cymru First Novel Prize has been announced.
• The winner of the 2022 First Crime Novel Competition has been announced.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Helen Lowe shares a three part post about what makes a hero.
• Daniel Kalla talks about building tension and suspense.
  
• Elizabeth Day discusses the fine art of incredibly plot twists.
• Laura Jarratt explains how to write thrillers as a discovery writer.
  
• Cassidy Lucas shares writing tricks from commerical thriller writers. 
• The Pulp Net shares writing advice from Erle Stanley Gardner 
• Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood talks about taking writing lessons from tarot. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about writing endings that will sell the next book.
  
• Laura Jarratt asks if genre matters and how editing shapes genre.
  
• Lincoln Michel interviews Alexander Chee about his writing process.
• The #DisneyMustPay task force shares an open letter, because Disney still isn't paying many writers and creators.
  

 

Interviews: 

• The Guardian interviews Lee Child.
  
• Elizabeth Tabler interviews Ben Aaronovitch.
• Scott Edelman interviews Alex Segura.  
• Alan Petersen interviews Jeremy Scott.
• John Valeri interviews Elle Marr.
• John A. Hoda interviews Elaine Isaak.
• Paul Burke interviews Heather Young and Peter Murphy.
• Lenny Picker interviews Tom Mead.
  

Reviews:

• Becky LeJeune reviews Life Sentence by A.K. Turner. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews Life Sentence by A.K. Turner. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Devil's Advocate by Steve Cavanagh.
  
• Grab This Book reviews Dark Objects by Simon Toyne. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Coffin Cove by Jackie Elliott. 
• Chris Power reviews Devil House by John Darnielle.
  
• Sandra Mangan reviews The Shot by Sarah Sultoon. 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Shot by Sarah Sultoon. 
• Paul Burke reviews Target Zero by Anthony Riches.
  
• Kirkus reviews The Wild Life by David Gordon. 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer.
  
• Scot Cumming reviews Blood Trip by Jesse Hilson. 
• Ernest Lilley reviews Pay Dirt Road by Samantha Jayne Allen.
  
• John Valeri reviews The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Dangerous Consequences by Claire Booth. 
• Opinions of a Wolf reviews I'll Be You by Janelle Brown.
  
• Christopher P. Hood reviews Strangers We Know by Elle Marr.
  
• Joy Kluver reviews First Born by Will Dean.
  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Disappeared by Bonnar Spring. 
• Cara DiConstanzo reviews Make Me Disappear by Jessica Payne. 
• Emma Mayer reviews Magpie by Elizabeth Day.
  
• Book Reviews To Ponder reviews Redemption by Mike Lawson. 
• Cannonball Reads reviews Our Little World by Karen Winn.
  
• Publishers Weekly reviews The Plague Road by L.C. Tyler.
  
• For Winter Nights reviews A Sunlit Weapon by Jacqueline Winspear.
  
• Kathy Reel reviews The Corpse with the Turquoise Toes by Cathy Ace. 
  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen. 
• Austenesque Reviews reviews The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray. 
• The Lily Café reviews The Mad Girls of New York by Maya Rodale.
  
• Publishers Weekly reviews The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood. 
• Janet Webb reviews Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage by Nancy Atherton. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Three Tainted Teas by Lynn Cahoon and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews One Foot in the Fade by Luke Arnold.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz. 
• Rob Doyle reviews Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz.   
• Ron Fortier reviews The Menace by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins.
• Michael J. McCann reviews Crime Hits Home, edited by S.J. Rozan.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1896 occult thriller Dr. Nikola Returns by Guy Boothby.
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1938 mystery The Port of London Murders by Josephine Bell. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1946 Dr. Gideon Fell mystery He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1948 mystery Death Before Dinner by E.C.R. Lorac. 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1951 Inspector MacDonald mystery Murder of a Martinet a.k.a. I Could Murder Her by E.C.R. Lorac. 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 1955 suspense novel Beast in View by Margaret Millar.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1956 James Bond spy novel Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1957 noir novel The Brat by Gil Brewer.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1958 noir novel All the Way a.k.a. The Concrete Flamingo by Charles Williams. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1960 Mother Paul mystery Faculty of Murder by June Wright. 
• James Reasoner revisits the 1960 Tokey Wedge detective novel Mad For Kicks by Jack Lynn. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1963 suspense novel The Trouble Makers by Celia Fremlin.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1974 adventure novel Sea Vengeance by Robert Charles a.k.a. Robert Leader.
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1975 detective novel Harry O. by Lee Hays.
  
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1979 Lyon and Bea Wentworth mystery The Death in the Willows by Richard Forrest.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 2011 Andreas Kaldis mystery Murder in Mykonos by Jeffrey Siger.
  

Con and event reports:

• CBC reports about the Motive Crime and Mystery Festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  
• Ayo Onatade reports that CrimeFest in Bristol, UK, is donating crime novel to libraries around Bristol. 
• Martin Edwards reports about the Colonsay Book Festival in Colonsay, Scotland.
• Arifa Akbar calls Prima Facie a roaring legal drama starring Jodie Comer of Killing Eve fame and performed right now in London, UK.
• Lucy Knight reports that Julie Finch is the new CEO of the Hay Literature Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, after founder Peter Florence resigned over bullying allegations.

 

Research:

• Mark Gollum reports that Canada's criminal code will also cover crimes committed on the moon.
• Matthew Cantor explains why celebrities are sometimes served legal papers while in public, performing on stage.
• Charles Bethea reports about a series of heists on film sets in Atlanta, Georgia.
• John Gleeson recounts how mafioso Sammy Gravano was persuaded to cooperate with the authorities and testify against John Gotti.
• Gus Garcia-Roberts traces the intersection of police corruption and local politics on Long Island, New York.
• Leyland Cecco reports about a mysterious plane crash in Sioux Lookout, Canada, where two murder suspects were aboard the crashed plane.
  

 

Free online fiction:

• "Date with Yellow Mama" by Tom Barker in Yellow Mama. 
• "Sinners and Singers" by Cindy Rosmus in Yellow Mama.
  
• "Six Rounds of Revenge" by Joel Dickens in Mystery Tribune.
• "Rent Control" by Jack Bristow in Mystery Tribune.
• "Duper's Delight" by Carolynn Kingyens in The Five-Two.
• "The Decision" by Sean Cudeck in Daily Science Fiction.

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for Crimes of the Future
  
• Watch a trailer for Don't Worry Darling.