Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 23, 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 Terminal List, The Gray Man, season 6 of Better Call Saul, season 2 of Only Murder in the Building and much more.

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares the best crime novel of 2022 so far.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
• CBC Books shares twelve mysteries and crime novels to enjoy this summer.
  
• Tika Vitari discusses the difference between mysteries, suspense and thriller novels. 
• Colleen Coble shares her favourite long-running crime and mystery series.
  
• Liberty Hardy shares her eight favourite police procedural series. 
• Fiona Barton shares her favourite thrillers featuring female detectives.
  
• Jesse Doogan shares ten cozy mysteries to enjoy. 
• Jennifer J. Chow shares her favourite culinary cozy mysteries. 
• Paula Munier shares cheese-themed cozy mysteries.
  
• Tom Mead shares ten puzzling mysteries featuring impossible crimes.
  
• Tirzah Price explains why mysteries and thrillers make such great beach reads. 
• Carolina Ciucci shares eight crime novels that true crime fans will enjoy.
  
• Ann-Marie Cahill shares her favourite mysteries about treasure hunting.
  
• Addison Riozer shares eight mysteries or thrillers featuring bookstores or libraries. 
• Aggie Blum Thompson shares six thrillers set at private schools.
  
• Don Bruns talks about putting together a music-themed crime fiction anthology. 
• Margot Harrison discusses the popularity of caves, cellars, crawl spaces and dark passages in crime and suspense fiction. 
• Dan Kois shares the fifty greatest fictional deaths of all time.
  
• Crime Reads hosts a roundtable discussion about the meaning of "The Other".  
• Akanksha Singh reports about the true crime boom in India.
  
• Rick Pullen profiles Laura Lippman. 
• Curtis Evans profiles golden age mystery writer Milton Propper.
  
• Alan Grant, writer of Judge Dredd and Batman, has died aged 73. 
  

 

Film and TV:

• Lucy Mangan calls The Control Room a thriller that's almost too good for the slow summer TV season. 
• Todd Lazarski calls The Old Man a late period masterwork for Jeff Bridges.
  
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the Faroese crime drama Trom in episode by episode reviews. 
• Keith R.A. DeCandido shares his thoughts on The King's Man.
• Jack Seale calls The Thing About Pam a tacky true crime comedy drama.
  
• Phuong Le calls All Light, Everywhere a stylised documentary about how cameras have revolutionised police work and ushered in the surveillance state. 
• Todd Gilchrist interviews legendary director and film producer Roger Corman. 
  
• Zoe Williams interviews Julian Glover who has been in everything, mostly playing villains. 
  
• Sean O'Hagan interviews Gabriel Byrne, star of Excalibur, Miller's Crossing and The Usual Suspects. 
• Keith Roysdon profiles Quinn Martin, producer of many popular TV crime shows like The Fugitive, The Streets of San Francisco and many others, in the 1960s and 1970s.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1946 film noir The Stranger.
  
• Phil Harrison revisits the 2007 period drama Mad Men for its fifteenth anniversary.
  
• Justin Carter revisits the 2012 Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises. 
• David Craig reports that star Douglas Henshall will leave the Scottish crime drama Shetland.
  
• Andrew Pulver reports that director, writer and star Sylvester Stallone is engaged in a fight with producer Irwin Winkler over the rights to the Rocky franchise. 
• Andrew Pulver reports that Jackie Chan producing an action film, parts of which are filmed in the Syrian town of Al Hajar Al Awad, which was destroyed in the Syrian civil war, has caused criticism and outrage.
  

 

Comments on The Terminal List: 

• Daniel Fienberg calls The Terminal List a zero-fat and zero-humor action thriller.
• Ryan Gajewski reports that Jake Carr, author of the novel upon which the military thriller The Terminal List is based, has slammed critics of the movie adaptation for supposedly being "triggered" by the movie. 
  

 

Comments on The Gray Man: 

• Peter Debruge calls The Gray Man a spectacular action thriller.  
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls The Gray Man a dull and derivative waste of money and star power.
  
• Mia Galuppo interviews Joe and Anthony Russo, directors of The Gray Man.
  

 

Comments on season 2 of Only Murders in the Building:

• Saloni Gajjar shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Only Murders in the Building.
  
• Abbey White reports about a song performed by Steve Martin in the latest episode of Only Murders in the Building.  
  
• Brandon Katz reports that Only Murders in the Building has been renewed for season 3.

 

Comments on season 6 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. 
• Alan Sepinwall shares his thoughts about the latest episode of Better Call Saul.
  

Awards:

• The winner of the 2022 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year has been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2022 Orwell Prizes have been announced. 
• The shortlist for the 2022 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize has been announced.

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Barbara Bourland talks about writing under the surface.
  
• Ann Langley offers writing advice based on tarot cards. 
• Ellery Kane talks about research as inspiration.
  
• The SFWA has launched a page with resources for indie writers. 
• Jacqui Lipton talks about agency agreements. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about agents.
  
• Sarah Shaffi reports that alleged manuscript thief Filippo Bernardini, who scammed authors out of unpublished manuscripts, may avoid trial in the US. 
• Sydney Page reports how the bookstore The 27th Letter in Detroit, Michigan, was scammed and how the local community stepped in to save the store.
  
• Ty Rushing reports that the Vinton public library in Vinton, Iowa, was forced to close after most of the staff quit following complaints by locals about LGBTQ themed book displays.

 

Interviews: 

• Molly Odintz interviews Ruth Ware.
• The Guardian interviews Tess Gerritsen. 
• Layne Fargo interviews Tess Gerritsen. 
• Aine Toner interviews Mark Billingham.
  
• Nancie Clare interviews Louise Welsh. 
• Ayo Onatade interviews Nadine Matheson.
• Peter Handel interviews Nadine Matheson. 
  
• Ayo Onatade interviews Imran Mahmood. 
• Dr. Jacky Collins interviews Victoria Selman.
  
• Ayo Onatade interviews Leye Adenle.
  
• John A. Hoda interviews Andrew Patterson.
  
• Paul Burke interviews Gordon Kerr. 
• E.B. Davis interviews Susan Van Kirk.
  

Reviews:

• Sandie Herron reviews The Hidden One by Linda Castillo.
• Andrew Hill reviews The Accomplice by Steve Cavanagh. 
• Garrick Webster reviews Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager. 
• Haley Newlin reviews The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Lies At Her Door by A.A. Abbot. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Edge of Dust by Colleen Coble. 
• BOLO Books reviews Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews All the Dirty Secrets by Aggie Blum Thompson.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Summer We Buried by Jody Gehrman.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews What Doesn't Break Us by Helen Sedgwick.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews See You Next Tuesday by Ken Harris. 
• C. Matthew Smith reviews Money the Hard Way by David Tromblay.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Redeemer by Victoria Goldman.
• Joy Kluver reviews The Redeemer by Victoria Goldman.
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Retreat by Sarah Pearse.
  
• Elizabeth Tabler reviews Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis. 
  
• Beth Kanell reviews Chrysalis by Lincoln Child.
  
• Stephanie Merritt reviews Meantime by Frankie Boyle. 
• Martin Edwards reviews The Paris Manuscript by Joseph Goodrich.
  
• Joy Kluver reviews Death in Blitz City by David Young. 
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Last Call at the Nightingale by Katherine Schellman. 
• Janet Webb reviews The Unkept Woman by Allison Montclair.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Realm of Darkness by Paul Doherty. 
• Beth Kanell reviews Death Doesn't Forget by Ed Lin.
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews The Ghost of Ivy Barn by Mark Stay.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Lost by Jeffrey B. Burton.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Wedding Plot by Paula Munier. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Five Belles Too Many by Debra H. Goldstein and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Peppermint Barked by Leslie Budewitz. 
• Paul Burke reviews A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers. 
• Joe Kenney reviews In the Pulp Fiction Trenches by Len Levinson.  

 

Classics reviews:

• Olivia Rutigliano revisits the 1892 Sherlock Holmes mystery "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
  
• The Green Capsule revisits the 1931 mystery Cat's Paw by Roger Scarlett.
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1937 Oscar Piper mystery The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla by Stuart Palmer.
  
• Doreen Sheridan revisits the 1948 Kosuke Kindaichi mystery Death on Gokumon Island by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Louise Heal Kawai.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1951 Kosuke Kindaichi mystery The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Yumiko Yamizaki.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1952 mystery Reputation for a Song by Edward Grierson. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1952 mystery Reputation for a Song by Edward Grierson. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1953 suspense novel Death of an Intruder by Nedra Tyre. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1953 crime novel High Priest of California by Charles Willeford. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the posthumously published 1955 Algy Lawrence mystery Come to Paddington Fair by Derek Howe Smith.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1958 crime novel Invitation to Violence by Lionel White.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1961 suspense novel A Friend of Mary Rose by Elizabeth Fenwick.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1974 Penetrator men's adventure novel Capitol Hell by Lionel Derrick a.k.a. Mark K. Roberts.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1981 Matthew Scudder detective novel A Stab in the Dark by Lawrence Block.
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1995 Staekout Squad police procedural Line of Fire by D.A. Hodgman.
  
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 2001 mystery Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express by Stuart M. Kaminsky.
  

Con and event reports:

• Miriam Gillinson calls Bugsy Malone an enjoyable and slick play about prohibition era gangsters by Sean Holmes, which is currently being performed in Bath, UK.
  
• Arifa Akbar notes that the immersive play Peaky Blinders: The Rise, which is being performed in Camden, London, UK, has a criminally flimsy plot.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Lucille Robbins, widow of the late SFF writer Eric Flint, needs some help with treatment and funeral costs.

 

Research:

• J.L. Abramo talks about the 1957 murder of Victoria Zielinski and her killer Edgar Smith.
  
• Paul Gambino talks about clothing worn by famous criminals.
• Joe Pappalardo talks about law and order in the Old West.
  

 

Free online fiction:

• "The Scourge of the Earth" by Chelsea M. Brown in Mystery Tribune.
• "The Collector of All Things Uncollectible" by Ivanka Fear in Mystery Tribune. 
• "The More Of The Man In The Talking, The Weaker The Whisper Within" by Michael Tyler in Mystery Tribune.
• "Marshall's Law" by Richard Cass in Tough. 
• "Listen to the Gunsmith" by Jim Guigli in Guilty.
  
• "Get in the Trunk" by Scott McDonald in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Kindred Souls" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 
• "And the Children Sing 'Mr. Carl Bach'" by Suzanne Ondrus in The Five-Two.  

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for The Patient.