Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 2, 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 Sherwood, Only Murders in the Building, The Terminal List, Top Gun Maverick, Nitram and much more.

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels and thrillers coming out this week.
• Crime Reads shares the best reviewed crime novels for June 2022.
• Daryl Wood Gerber shares six paranormal cozy mysteries to enjoy.
• Jeffrey Fleishman explains why Los Angeles, California, is the perfect noir setting.
  
• Paul French takes a look at crime novels set in Santiago de Chile. 
• Debbie Babitt shares books and movies which blur the line between justice and revenge. 
  
• Molly Odintz declares that we need more novels in which women make choices about reproduction and birth control.
  
• Alanna Schubach shares eight novels exploring the transgressions of young women.
• Dianne Freeman lists Agatha Christie's most memorable unlikeable characters.
• Erika Kobayashi remembers growing up with parents who translated Sherlock Holmes into Japanese.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Dwyer Murphy shares a guide to the best new TV crime dramas coming out this month.
  
• Eric Allison lists the best prison movies from the POV of a former prisoner.
  
• Leslie Felperin calls Clean a disappointing gangland drama, but praises the performance of Glenn Fleshler. 
• William Hughes calls Moonhaven a science fiction buddy cop series with heady ideas and arresting visuals. 
  
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the first episode of the Danish crime drama Rig 45: Murder at Sea.
  
• Lucy Mangan calls Scouting for Girls: Fashion’s Darkest Secret a harrowing documentary about sexual abuse in the modelling industry.
• Duncan Campbell shares his thoughts on Ithaka, a documentary about Julian Assange.
  
• Lucas Ropek shares ten conspiracy thriller movies for the truly paranoid. 
• Rich Pelley interviews Denise Richards, star of The World Is Not Enough, Tammy and the T-Rex and Starship Troopers. 
  
• Catherine Shoard reports that according to producer Barbara Broccoli, the next James Bond film will be a complete reinvention.

 

Comments on Sherwood: 

• Michael Hogan shares his thoughts on episode 5 of Sherwood.
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 5 of Sherwood.
  
• Michael Hogan shares his thoughts on the season finale of Sherwood.
  
• Lucy Mangan shares her thoughts on the season finale of Sherwood. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the season finale of Sherwood. 
• Paul Hirons reports that Sherwood has been renewed for season 2.
  

 

Comments on Only Murders in the Building:

• Rebecca Nicholson calls season 2 of Only Murders in the Building a layer cake of meta murder fun.
• Saloni Gajjar shares her thoughts on the first two episodes of season 2 of Only Murders in the Building.

 

Comments on Top Gun Maverick:

• Inspired by Top Gun Maverick, Ben Lindbergh and Rob Arthur wonder why movie stars seem to be getting older.
• Rebecca Rubin reports that Top Gun Maverick is now the highest grossing movie of 2022 gloablly for reasons unfathomable.

Comments on The Terminal List: 

• Todd Lazarski calls The Terminal List a thriller straight from Tom Clancy's playbook.
• Benjamin Lee calls The Terminal List terminally dull.
  
• Mickey Rapkin interviews Chris Pratt, star of Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World: Dominion, The Terminal List and many others. 
  

 

Comments on Nitram: 

• Peter Bradshaw calls Nitram a deeply disturbing drama about mass murderer Martin Bryant.
• Phil Hoad interviews Caleb Landry Jones, star of No Country For Old Men, Get Out! and Nitram.
  

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2022 Dagger Awards have been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2022 Strand Critics Awards have been announced.
  
• The shortlist for the Bloody Scotland 2022 Debut Prize has been announced.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Katrina Schroeder explains that characters need to change over the course of a story or novel.
• William Miller shares the first commandment of good sentences.
  
• Lucy Clarke talks about finding your novel's perfect rhythm.
  
• Ann Langley offers writing tips based on a drawing of Tarot cards. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about the different types of money woes facing writers.
  
• Lincoln Michel explains why it takes so long to publish a book. 
• Locus reports that the publisher Macmillan has experienced a security incident. 
• Sally Weale reports about reactions to the announcement of Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, UK, to suspend their English literature degree, because it supposedly offers no value.
• Dave Eggers explains how his novel The Circle was banned in the Rapid City, South Dakota, school district after a Republican takeover of the school board. 
• Kelly Jensen reports that a Republican state delegate from Virginia is sueing the publishers Oni Press over publishing the graphic novel Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, which he considers obscene.
  
• Deanna Schwartz reports about Amazon's problematic e-book return policy.
  
• Paul Weimer shares a look inside the premises of the new Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's bookstores in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

 

Interviews: 

• Nancie Clare interviews Dwyer Murphy.
• John A. Hoda interviews Emilya Naymark. 
• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview David Fennell.
  
• Brad Shreve interviews Lev Raphael. 
• Frank Zafiro and Colin Conway interview Mark Bergin. 
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club interviews Karen Odden. 
• Lesa Haselton interviews Robert Creekmore. 
• Ayo Onatade interviews Trevor Wood.
  
• Paul Burke interviews Laurie Petrou. 
• Dr. Jacky Collins interviews Henrik Fexeus. 
• Scott Adlerberg interviews Jason Starr.
  
• Crime Reads interviews Brenda Buchanan and Leslie Karst. 
• E.B. Davis interviews Barbara Ross. 
• Kevin Canfield interviews Patrick Radden Keefe.
  

Reviews:

• Gwen Moffat reviews Confidence by Denise Mina.
• Kevin Tipple reviews Movieland by Lee Goldberg.
  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Up Close and Fatal by Fergus McNeill. 
• Grab This Book reviews Up Close and Fatal by Fergus McNeill. 
• Judith Reveal reviews Good Night, Forever by Jeffrey Fleishman. 
• Garrick Webster reviews Immoral Origins by Lee Matthew Goldberg.
  
• BOLO Books reviews Outside by Ragnar Jónasson.
  
• Grab This Book reviews The Lost Ones by Marnie Riches. 
• Heather Fitt reviews The Guilty Couple by C.L. Taylor. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews The Lunar Housewife by Caroline Woods.
  
• Simon Toyne reviews Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter. 
• BOLO Books reviews In the Dark We Forget by Sandra S.G. Wong. 
• Damp Pebbles reviews Wake by Shelley Burr.
  
• Grab This Book reviews The Chemical Cocktail by Fiona Erskine. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews Red on the River by Christine Feehan.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Dreadful Water by Thomas King. 
• Sadie Hartmann reviews Beneath Cruel Waters by Jon Bassoff.
  
• Mark Baker reviews The Drowning Sea by Sarah Stewart Taylor.
  
• Carolyn Haley reviews Hatchet Island by Paul Doiron. 
• Lauren Emily Whalen reviews The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Rika Onda, translated by Alison Watts.
• Grab This Book reviews Cat & Mouse by M.J. Arlidge. 
• Ray Palen reviews Monkey in the Middle by Loren D. Estleman.
  
• Paul Burke reviews Tom Boy by Shelley Blanton-Stroud. 
• Mark Rose reviews Kalmann by Joachim B. Schmidt. 
• The Book Decoder reviews Assassin's Lullaby by Mark Rubinstein. 
  
• Paul Di Filippo reviews The Next Time I Die by Jason Starr. 
• Brian Greene reviews The Next Time I Die by Jason Starr  
• Cannonball Read reviews The Next Time I Die by Jason Starr.
  
• The Hugo Book Club Blog reviews A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark.  
• Liz Bourke reviews The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison. 
  
• Elizabeth Fitzgerald reviews A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows. 
• Kirkus reviews The Key to Deceit by Ashley Weaver.
  
• Charlene Gianetti reviews The Ghosts of Paris by Tara Moss. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter by Lizzie Pook. 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews A Bride’s Guide to Marriage and Murder by Dianne Freeman.
• Erin Britton reviews Dear Little Corpses by Nicola Upson. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Lost by Jeffrey B. Burton. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Nonna Maria and the Case of the Missing Bride by Lorenzo Carcaterra.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder Is No Picknick by Amy Pershing and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Amy Myers reviews The Three Dahlias by Katy Watson. 
  
• Kathy Reel reviews A Girl Called Justice: The Spy at the Window by Elly Griffiths. 
• Blue Book Balloon reviews the graphic novel Gun Honey by Charles Ardai, Ang Hor Kheng and Asifur Rahman
• James Reasoner reviews Ghost of the Hardy Boys by Leslie McFarlane.
  
• Ayo Onatade reviews Simenon: The Man, the Books, the Films by Barry Forshaw.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Benjamin Thomas revisits the 1916 yellow peril novel The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer.  
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1924 mystery The Templeton Case by Victor L. Whitechurch.
• James Reasoner revisits the July 1933 issue of Magic Carpet Magazine.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1938 Perry Mason mystery The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe by Erle Stanley Gardner.
  
• Lesa Holstine revisits the 1944 Inspector Macdonald mystery Fell Murder by E.C.R. Lorac.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1950 mystery The Black Smith by Constance and Gwenyth Little.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1950 mystery The Black House by Constance and Gwenyth Little. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1959 crime story "Scratch One Mark" by Dan J. Marlowe. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1959 detective novel 77 Sunset Strip by Roy Huggins.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1959 supernatural mystery collection City of Brass and Other Simon Ark Stories by Edward D. Hoch. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1960 sleaze crime novel Untamed Lust by Orri Hitt. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1960 crime novel Cornered by James McKimmey.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1975 POW memoir Yet Another Voice by Norman A. MacDaniel. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1978 historical mystery The Honey Harlot by Christianna Brand.
  
• Joe Kenney revisits American Overthrow, a 1989 novel in the Doomsday Warrior postapocalyptic men's adventure series by Ryder Stacy a.k.a. Ryder Syvertson.
  
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1990 crime novel Kiss Kill by Roy Sorrels.
  

Con and event reports:

• Lauren Brown reports that the immersive incident room will return to the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
  

Research:

• Claire Armitstead recounts of South African journalist Liz McGregor confronted her father's killer.
• Jamie Barlett profiles con artist Ruja Ignatova.
  
• Amanda Skenadore explains what nineteenth century hospitals were like.
  

 

Free online fiction:

• "Insult to Injury" by D.K. Snyder in Shotgun Honey. 
• "New Enthusiasm" by James Hadley Griffin in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Murder on the Eighty-Six" by Phillip Temples in Mystery Tribune.
• "Going" by K.A. Liedel in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Pint of No Return" by Dana Mentink in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast. 
• "Ghosts" by Jessica Hwang in Tough.
  
• "Total Immersion" by Charles Rammelkamp in The Five-Two. 
• "Shadow Side" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for season 2 of We Hunt Together.
• Watch a trailer for Surface.