Crime Fiction Links of the Week for June 25, 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 LGBTQ fiction, Sherwood, Suspect, RRR and much more.

Crime fiction in general: 

• Laura Wilson offers a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week.
• Crime Reads shares the best debut crime novels for June 2022.
  
• Scott Blackburn shares seven great crime novels with first person narrators. 
• Amy Pershing investigates the enduring appeal of the female amateur sleuth. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel muses about the changing definition of the term cozy mystery.
  
• Julie Mayhew makes the case for catharsis in crime fiction. 
• Michael Gonzales talks about gun culture in US pop culture of the 1970s.
  
• Julie Clark shares tales about female con artists to read or watch. 
• Alan Drew talks about the real dangers of conspiracy fiction.
  
• Vicki Delany a.k.a. Eva Gates points out why lighthouses make the perfect setting for mysteries.
  
• Lisa Levy profiles Gillian Flynn. 
• Cornelius Fortune explores Gertrude Stein's interest in pulp fiction, particularly detective and crime fiction. 
  
• Curtis Evans explains how the crossdressing experiences of golden age mystery writers Rufus King and Clifford Orr influenced their fiction and introduced an LGBTQ element into the mystery genre. 
• Ella Braidwood reports about the rise of LGBTQ+ romance fiction.
• Vanessa Zoltan discusses how the mainstream popularity of the Bridgerton series has caused toxic fans to invade romance fandom.  

 

Film and TV:

• Adrian Horton calls The Man From Toronto a dull action comedy.
  
• Lucy Mangan calls The Offer a dragging and overlong Godfather prequel that has no point.
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls There Are No Saints a schlocky revenge thriller.
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw wasn't particularly impressed with the futuristic prison thriller Spiderhead, but praises Chris Hemsworth's performance. 
• Leslie Felperin calls The Big Hit a predictable drama about a theatre production in a French prison.
  
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the season 1 finale of the Welsh crime drama Y Golau a.k.a. The Light. 
• Lucy Mangan calls How to Hire a Hitman a chilling documentary. 
• Lorelei Marcus revisits the 1967 James Bond movie You Only Live Twice. 
  
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1982 action movie Rambo: First Blood.
  
• Linda Codega interviews David Jenkins, showrunner of Our Flag Means Death.  
• Fiona Sturges interviews Bill Pullman, star of Independence Day, Spaceballs, Ruthless People, Lost Highway, The Sinner and many others. 
  
• Rebecca Nicholson interviews Monica Dolan, star of The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe and Appropriate Adult.
• Keith Roysdon remembers actor Norman Lloyd, who frequently worked with Alfred Hitchcock. 
  
• Actor Tyler Sanders, who appeared in Just Add Magic: Mystery City, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Fear the Walking Dead and The Rookie, has died aged only 18.

 

Comments on Sherwood: 

• Michael Hogan shares his thoughts on episode 3 of Sherwood.
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 3 of Sherwood.
• Michael Hogan shares his thoughts on episode 4 of Sherwood.
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 4 of Sherwood. 
• Adam Sweeting calls Sherwood a traumatic journey through a painful past. 

 

Comments on Suspect:

• Helen Hawkins calls Suspect a stylised remake of a Danish crime drama.
• Rebecca Nicholson calls Suspect a cartoonish crime series which wants to be the next Luther, but falls short. 
  

 

Comments on RRR: 

• Todd Gilchrist calls the Telugu language film RRR a crowd-pleasing must-see genre mash-upthrill ride that you didn't know you needed to watch. 
• Sabina Graves lists movies to watch after RRR.
  

 

Awards:

• The winner of the 2022 Hammett Prize has been announced. 
• The longlist for the 2022 Ngaio Marsh Awards has been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2022 Munsey Awards have been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2022 Scribe Awards have been announced.
• The MWA has launched the Lilian Jackson Braun Award for cozy mysteries.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Mark Lawrence points out that writing skills do matter. 
• Kate Williams talks about writing unlikeable characters.
  
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about longterm IP management.
  
• Victoria Strauss reports about the US Copyright Claims Board, a new option for copyright disputes. 
• The HWA warns its members about someone using their address data to send out scam e-mails with fake job offerings. 
• Mike Glyer reports that the HWA claims that there was no security breach. 
• Claire Woodcock reports that a TikTok user has encouraged people to abuse Amazon's return policy. 
• Paul Dean reports that used bookstores in the UK are struggling.
  
• Mike Glyer reports that Don Blyly hopes to reopen that Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's bookstores, which were burned down by arsonists during riots in Minneapolis, Minnesota, following the death of George Floyd in 2020, in July in a new location.
  
• Gaby Hinsliff recounts the uproar about Kate Clanchy's memoir Some Children I Taught and What They Taught Me and the fallout for the British publishing industry.
  
• Heidi MacDonald reports that comics and graphic novels are particularly affected by the current rise in book banning attempts at US libraries.

 

Interviews: 

• Dr. Jacky Collins interviews Martin Walker.
• Victoria Selman interviews Eva Björg Ægisdóttir and Will Dean.
• Garrick Webster interviews Lee Matthew Goldberg.
  
• Wrong Place, Write Crime interviews Jeffery Hess. 
• John A. Hoda interviews Max Folsom. 
• E.B. Davis interviews Debra H. Goldstein.
  
• Aya de León interviews Cleyvis Natera. 
• Lisa Haselton interviews Nathalie Guilbeault.
• Lisa Haselton interviews Mark Rubinstein.
  
• Talking Books and Stuff interviews Rick Mofina. 
• Molly Odintz interviews Richard O'Rawe.
  

Reviews:

• Lesa Holstine reviews Movieland by Lee Goldberg. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Self-Made Widow by Fabian Nicieza.
  
• Adam Colclough reviews The Cliff House by Christopher Brookmyre.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Killing Rain by Faye Snowden. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Drowning Sea by Sarah Stewart Taylor.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews Under the March by G.R. Halliday. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Dark Objects by Simon Toyne. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews Trick of the Night by Joy Ellis.
  
• Heather Fitt reviews Bad for Good by Graham Bartlett.
• Paul Burke reviews Bad For Good by Graham Bartlett. 
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Nothing Else by Louise Beech. 
• Janet Webb reviews Tell Us No Secrets by Siena Sterling.
  
• Jon Morgan reviews The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark.
• Joy Kluver reviews Up Close and Fatal by Fergus McNeill. 
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley.
  
• Paul Gitsham reviews The Botanist by M.W. Craven.
  
• Sandra Mangan reviews Two Night in Lisbon by Chris Pavone. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Balloon Dog by Daniel Paisner. 
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Seven Dead Sisters by Jen Williams. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead. 
• Crossexamining Crime reviews Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson. 
• Janet Webb reviews The Tuesday Night Survivors' Club by Lynn Cahoon. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Bayou Book Thief by Ellen Byron and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Mike Glyer reviews Duckett and Dyer: Dicks for Hire by G.M. Nair.  
• Bill Capossere reviews The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison. 
• Leah Schnelbach reviews The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison.

 

Classics reviews:

• Martin Edwards revisits the 1931 Albert Campion mystery Look to the Lady a.k.a. The Gyrth Chalice by Margery Allingham.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1938 Perry Mason mystery The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe by Erle Stanley Gardner.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1940 Nigel Strangeways mystery Malice in Wonderland by Nicholas Blake.
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1943 mystery Death Beats the Band by Ida Shurman.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1952 mystery The Three Widows by Bernice Carey. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1966 crime novel Footsteps on the Stairs by Jean Potts. 
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1972 crime novel The Syndicate by Peter McCurtin.
  
• Joe Kenney revisits Love Me To Death, a 1980 novel in the Butler men's adventure series by Philip Kirk a.k.a. Len Levinson. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits Hard-Boiled Dames: A Brass-Knuckled Anthology of the Toughest Women From the Classic Pulps, edited by Bernard A. Drew.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1991 Wyatt heist novel Kickback by Harry Disher.
  

Con and event reports:

• Ayo Onatade shares the program for the 2022 Bloody Scotland crime fiction festival in Stirling, Scotland.
  
• Martin Edwards reports about the Bodies from the Library crime fiction event at the British Library in London, UK.
  
• Charles Bramesco reports about an even to celebrate the 1995 crime movie Heat at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
• Kate Wyver reports about a performance of August Wilson's play about racial injustice Jitney at the Old Vic Theatre in London, UK.
  

Research:

• Vimal Patel reports how two paintings stolen in New Paltz, New York, were recovered fifty years later.
  

 

Free online fiction:

• "All the Pretty Flowers" by Russell Thayer in Guilty.
  
• "Reminiscence" by Tim Gerstmar in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Staff Sergeant Shithead" by Sara Spock in Mystery Tribune.
• "Nobody's Seen Him For Years" by Patrick Daniel in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "The House of Dead Rock Stars" by Maria Thomas in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Dog" by John Bovio in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Her Shadow" by Kelly Sargent in The Five-Two.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a teaser for Tulsa King.