Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 16, 2022
Crime fiction in general:
- Crime By the Book share their favourite crime novels for the summer of 2022.
- Mystery Tribune share their twenty-one favourite crime novels coming out in July 2022.
- Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week.
- Alison Flood shares a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
- Laura Wilson shares a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
- Lisa Levy shares five psychological thrillers coming out this July.
- Criminal Element recommend their favourite international mysteries and thrillers.
- Roz Nay shares her ten favourite thrillers about travelling.
- Paul French lists crime novels and mysteries set in Munich.
- Simon Toyne discusses the difficulty of writing about London, when so much has been written about the city already.
- Lo Patrick talks about small town mysteries.
- Tom Mead shares his ten favourite locked room mysteries.
- Lizzy Barber shares seven crime novels about rich people behaving badly.
- Ann Aptaker discusses the influence of the theatre on crime fiction.
- Nadine Matheson discusses how her work as a criminal defense lawyer influenced her crime fiction writing.
- Alex Temblador explains how she came to write about an outlaw biker gang.
- Paperback Warrior profiles Day Keene.
- Casey Sherman reports about the literary holiday community in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
- Molly Templeton explains what to read when you can't seem to stop staring at the television.
- Frederick Weisel remembers Susie Steiner.
Film and TV:
- Peter Bradshaw calls A Chiara a tense coming-of-age thriller about a teenaged girl taking on the mafia.
- Lucy Mangan calls The Girl from Plainville a questionable true crime drama.
- Stuart Heritage calls DB Cooper: Where Are You? an entertaining true crime documentary.
- Lucy Mangan calls The Invisible Pilot a true crime documentary that leaves a thousand questions unanswered.
- Joel Golby declares that the big mistake of the documentary series Night Coppers is that it expects the viewers to care about the police.
- Saloni Gajjar shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Only Murders in the Building.
- George Bass notes that television almost always gets street violence wrong.
- Tim Norbeck shares ten TV dramas for people who enjoy true crime.
- Pamela
Hutchinson notes that Hollywood movies from the pre-Hays Code era were
much more interesting and had much better roles for women.
- Lucas Ropek shares the ten best and worst hacker movies.
- Stuart Heritage celebrates the eightieth birthday of Harrison Ford, star of Star Wars, the Indiana Jones movies, Blade Runner and many others.
- L.Q. Jones, actor and director of A Boy and His Dog, has died aged 94.
- Monty Norman, composer of the James Bond theme, has died aged 94.
Tributes to James Caan and Tony Sirico:
- Actor Tony Sirico, best known for playing Pauli "Walnuts" Gualtieri in The Sopranos, has died aged 79.
- Robin McKie notes that the deaths of James Caan, Ray Liotta and Tony Sirico with a short period of time are a blow for the kind of mafia drama, through which all three became famous.
- Director Carol Morley remembers James Caan.
- Tanner Tafelski remembers James Caan's most memorable roles.
Comments on the road movie revival:
Comments on The Gray Man:
Comments on season 6 of Better Call Saul:
Awards:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Rachel Howzell Hall shares some tips for avoiding burnout and resetting your creative gears.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about the importance of finding the right words.
- Eva V. Gibson shares a beginner's guide to using and exploring horror tropes.
- Phoebe Wynne talks about writing unlikeable heroines.
- Kelley Armstrong shares some tips for writing a time travel mystery.
- Andrew
Albanese reports about the latest developments in the lawsuit of
various publishing companies against the Internet Archive over making
scanned copies of books illegally available.
- Andrew Albanese reports about a new study of trauma in librarians.
- Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris report that bookstores are not only thriving after the covid pandemic, but also becoming more diverse.
Interviews:
Reviews:
- Kirkus reviews Confidence by Denise Mina.
- Jen Lucas reviews The Hangman's Song by James Oswald.
- Janet Webb reviews Hatchet Island by Paul Doiron.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits Devil's Table by Kate Rhodes.
- Grab This Book reviews Hostage by Clare Mackintosh.
- Swirl and Thread reviews Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Girl In Ice by Erica Ferencik.
- Jen Lucas reviews The Blackbird by Tim Weaver.
- Beth Kanell reviews The Goldenacre by Philip Miller.
- Ben Boulden reviews The Lemon Man by Keith Bruton.
- Scott Cumming reviews February's Son by Alan Parks.
- Jen Lucas reviews The Redeemer by Victoria Goldman.
- Sandra Mangan reviews Architect of Courage by Victoria Weisfeld.
- The Book Decoder reviews The Skin Code by Stephen Williams.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Night Shadows by Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir.
- Grab This Book reviews The Dark Remains by Ian Rankin and William McIlvanney.
- Jen Lucas reviews The Dark Remains by Ian Rankin and William McIlvanney.
- BOLO Books reviews Dark Objects by Simon Toyne.
- G. Robert Frazier reviews Take No Names by Daniel Nieh.
- Ben Boulden reviews Say It Was Murder by Stephen Mertz.
- Paul Burke reviews The Whisperer's Game by Donato Carrisi, translated by Katherine Gregor.
- Mike Farris reviews Listen To Me by Tess Gerritsen.
- Beth Kanell reviews The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark.
- The Quick and the Read reviews One Last Secret by Adele Parks.
- Lou Jacobs reviews The Falcon by Isabella Maldonado.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Cougar Claw by Cary J. Griffith.
- Kevin Power reviews Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Perfect Neighbourhood by Liz Alterman.
- John Mauro reviews The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison.
- Sandra Callard reviews The Prime Minister's Affair by Andrew Williams.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Augusta Hawke by G.M. Malliet.
- Kittling Books reviews Augusta Hawke by G.M. Malliet.
- Kirkus reviews Jazzed by Jill Dearman.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Havana Highwire by John Keyse-Walker.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Ginza Ghost by Keikichi Osaka, translated by Ho-Ling Wong.
- Gayle Surrette reviews A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead.
- Liz Dexter reviews Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles.
- Leticia Montgomery-Rodgers reviews Vera Kelly Lost and Found by Rosalie Knecht.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Proof Is In the Poison by Diane Kelly and tries a recipe from the book.
- Marissa Moss reviews Holy Chow by David Rosenfelt.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards.
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Jacked: An Anthology of Crime Fiction, edited by Vern Smith.
- H.C. Newton reviews Jacked: An Anthology of Crime Fiction, edited by Vern Smith.
- Alan Price reviews Simenon The Man, The Books, The Films by Barry Forshaw
Classics reviews:
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1931 mystery Cat's Paw by Roger Scarlett a.k.a. Dorothy Blair and Evelyn Page.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1935 mystery Headed for a Hearse by Jonathan Latimer.
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1937 Inspector Harry Charlton mystery Murder in Blue by Clifford Witting.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1940 Rex McBride hardboiled detective novel Sabotage by Cleve Adams.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1941 mystery Death in High Heels by Christianna Brand.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1942 mystery The Seat of the Scornful a.k.a. Death Turns the Tables by John Dickson Carr.
- Mary Hillis revisits the 1948 Kosuke Kindaichi mystery Death on Gokumon Island by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Louise Heal Kawai.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1950 crime fiction anthology Four and Twenty Bloodhounds, edited by Anthony Boucher.
- Lesa Holstine revisits the 1957 mystery Two-Way Murder by E.C.R. Lorac.
- Joe Kenney revisits Golden Kill, a 1974 novel in the Black Samurai men's adventure series by Marc Olden.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1975 mystery My Brother's Killer by Jean Potts.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1985 TV tie-in novel Street Hawk by Jack Roberts.
- Joe Kenney revisits the novelisation of the 1987 action film Lethal Weapon by Joel Norst.
Con and event reports:
Research:
- Zayd Ayers Dohrn recounts his childhood on the run from the FBI, because his parents were radical leftwing activists in the 1970s.
- Science Daily reports that the mechanism of the biosynthesis of strychnine has been discovered.
- Anika Scott talks about the allure of confidential files.
- Eric Jay Dolin talks about the rise of privateering during the American revolution.
Free online fiction:
- "Perfect Day" by M.E. Practor in Shotgun Honey.
- "Smooth Enough" by Nick Kolakowski in Shotgun Honey.
- "Nobody Home" by Joseph S. Walker in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
- "A Burning Man" by Susan Kuchinskas in Tough.
- "Elvis at the White House" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- "Bad Habits" by Peter M. Gordon in The Five-Two.
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