Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 9, 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 Black Bird, Only Murders in the Building, The Undeclared War, the series finale of Better Call Saul, tributes to James Caan and much more.

Crime fiction in general:  

• Lesa Holstine shares her favourite mysteries and crime novels of 2022 to date. 
• Crime Reads shares the best new crime novels coming out in July.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Molly Odnitz shares twenty-one historical mysteries and thrillers coming out this summer.
  
• E.A. Aymar explains why diversity makes the crime fiction genre richer. 
• Faye Snowden talks about southern gothic crime fiction. 
• Sarah Vaughan explains why women are perfectly suited to writing psychological suspense.
  
• Louise Hare shares seven unconventional female crime and mystery protagonists. 
• Will Dean discusses the unsettling tradition of twins in crime fiction. 
• Dee Das shares eight feminist cozy mysteries to enjoy.
  
• Sarah Stewart Taylor shares eight mysteries where the detective solves the crime while on vacation. 
• David Bell wonders why so few crime novels tackle the subject of student loan debt.
  
• B.L. Blanchard shares five mystery novels set in speculative worlds.
  
• Michael Brown revisits the John Solomon adventure stories by H. Bedford-Jones.
• K.G. McAbee profiles Leigh Brackett.
• Leslie Kendall Dye declares that the organisation of people's bookshelves tells its own story. 
• Journalist and mystery writer Suzie Steiner has died aged 51.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Brent Simon calls Code Name Banshee an unoriginal assassin thriller. 
• Phil Hoad calls Corrective Measures a schlocky but distinctive superpowered prison drama.  
• Leslie Felperin calls Fortress: Sniper's Eye a placid family drama on a tropical island that is interrupted by men with guns.
  
• Jack Smart calls The Forgiven a crime drama about a cultural clash. 
• Sarah Rebecca Kessler discusses how the view of police procedurals like Law and Order: Special Victims Unit changed after the death of George Floyd due to police violence.
  
• Garrick Webster looks ahead at the Croatian crime drama Four Strangers.
  
• Lucy Mangan calls Girl in the Picture a true crime drama the scale of which will leave you reeling. 
• Jack Seale shares his thoughts on the true crime documentary Ghislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster. 
• David Ellis shares seven crime films depicting a "perfect" murder.
  
• Olivia Rutigliano shares her appreciation for Columbo and its star Peter Falk.
  
• Noah Gittell revisits the 2002 spy thriller The Bourne Identity for its twentieth anniversary.
  
• Roz Lewis interviews Ardal O'Hanlon, star of Death in Paradise.
• Nellie Andreeva reports that Magnum PI has been saved by NBC and received an order for two additional seasons. 
• Sarah Shaffi reports that Ben Aaronovitch's River of London urban fantasy cirme novels will be adapted for television. 
  
• Jamaican-British actress Mona Hammond, who appeared in Eastenders and The Archers and had a lengthy stage career, has died aged 91.  
  

 

Tributes to James Caan:

• James Caan, star of Rollerball, Misery, The Godfather, Thief , Alien Nation, El Dorado and many others has died aged 82.
• Peter Bradshaw shares his appreciation for James Caan. 
• Ronald Bergan shares an obituary for James Caan.  
• Ian Spelling remembers James Caan's fifteen best performances.
  
• Greg Whitmore shares photos of James Caan's lengthy career.
  

 

Comments on Black Bird: 

• Lucy Mangan calls Black Bird an exquisite true crime prison drama and praises the final performance of the late Ray Liotta.
  
• Emma Fraser calls Black Bird a compelling true crime drama.
• Saloni Gajjar calls Black Bird a slick true crime drama that will keep you hooked. 
• Laura Hurley explains how Black Bird avoided exploiting the true story on which it is based.
  

 

Comments on Only Murders in the Building:

• Saloni Gajjar shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Only Murders in the Building.
• Melanie McFarland shares her appreciation for the character of Bunny Folger in Only Murders in the Building.
  
• Rosemary Counter recounts the history of the apartment building that inspired Only Murders in the Building.
  

 

Comments on the series finale of Better Call Saul: 

• Kimberly Potts shares five burning questions that should be answered before the series finale of Better Call Saul. 
  
• Rachael Sigee reports about a popular cameo appearance in the series finale of Better Call Saul.
  

 

Comments on The Undeclared War: 

• Lucy Mangan calls The Undeclared War a cybersecurity drama that could have been written by Enid Blyton. 
• Cybersecurity expert Alan Woodward finds The Undeclared War remarkably realistic.
  
• Mark Lawson declares that the dystopian TV series The Undeclared War shows the perils and pitfaalls of near future science fiction. 

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards have been announced.
• The finalists for the 2022 Silver Falchion Awards have been announced. 
• The winner of the 2022 Falcon Award has been announced. 
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about writing with chronic illness.
  
• Elizabeth A. Harris explains how TikTok generates bestsellers. 
• Jim Milliot reports that the HarperCollins Union has authorised a strike at the publishing company.

 

Interviews: 

• Eli Cranor interviews James Kestrel.
  
• All About Agatha interviews Ruth Ware.
  
• Ayo Onatade interviews Beth Lewis.
• Runalong the Shelves interviews Lauren Wilkinson.  
  
• Paul Burke interviews Jack Lutz.
  
• Debbi Mack interviews Fabian Nicieza. 
• John A. Hoda interviews Edith Maxwell. 
• Ayo Onatade interviews Greg Buchanan. 
• Jenny Staff Johnson interviews Chris Cander. 
• E.B. Davis interviews Jennifer J. Chow. 
• Steve Powell interviews Jill Dearman.
  

Reviews:

• Jen Lucas reviews Confidence by Denise Mina.  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Confidence by Denise Mina.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Faceless by Vanda Symon.
• Kathy Reel reviews The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Chain by Adrian McKinty. 
• Gabino Iglesias reviews No Second Chances by Rio Youers.   
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Listen To Me by Tess Gerritsen.
  
• Sandra Mangan reviews The Blackbird by Tim Weaver.
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews Blackout by Erin Flanagan.
• Becky LeJeune reviews Night Shadows by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir.
• Judith Sullivan reviews Deep Water by Emma Bamford.
  
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Beneath Cruel Waters by Jon Bassoff. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Bring Her Home by S.A. Dunphy.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Should I Fall by Scott Shepherd. 
• Paul Burke reviews Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto, translated by Jesse Kirkwood.
  
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews The Lover by Helene Flood, translated by Alison McCullough.
  
• Jennie Ivins reviews Duckett & Dyer: Dicks for Hire by G.M. Nair.
• Blue Book Balloon reviews A Scandal in Brooklyn by Lauren Wilkinson. 
• Grab This Book reviews London Black by Jack Lutz.
• Erin Britton reviews The Trust by M.H Eccleston 
• Becky LeJeune reviews The White Hare by Jane Johnson.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Castle Deadly, Castle Deep by Veronica Bond. 
• Erin Britton reviews Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews A Fatal Booking by Victoria Gilbert. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Muddled Through by Barbara Ross and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries, edited by Otto Penzler
• Joe Kenney reviews Men’s Adventure Quarterly #5, edited by Robert Deis and Bill Cunningham.

 

Classics reviews:

• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1950 Mike Hammer hardboiled detective novel Vengeance Is Mine by Mickey Spillane.
• Happiness Is a Book revisits the 1950 mystery Forget My Fate by Ruth Sawtell Willis.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1952 Johnny Liddell hardboiled detective novel Bare Trap by Frank Kane. 
  
• J. Kingston Pierce revisits the 1953 prison memoir Next Time Is For Life by Paul Warren a.k.a. Fred Sandiford. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1959 swamp noir novel Nude in the Sand by John Burton Thompson. 
  
• Briallen Hopper revisits the 1965 Miss Marple mystery At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1965 gothic suspense novel The Pavilion at Monkshood by Anne Maybury a.k.a. Anne Arundel. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1976 mystery The Night of the Twelfth by Michael Gilbert.
  

Con and event reports:

• Martin Edwards reports about the Dagger Awards ceremony in London, UK.
  
• Miriam Gillinson calls Nine Circles an unflinching play by Bill Cain about war crimes, which is currently being performed in London, UK.
• Arifa Akbar shares her thoughts on the latest production of Shakespeare's Richard III in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK.
• Martin Edwards reports about attending an actual Gaudy Night event, which inspired Dorothy Sayers' eponymous novel, at Oxford University in Oxford, UK.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Pulphouse Fiction Magazine is looking for funding.

 

Research:

• Douglas Century chronicles the borth of the Russian mob in Brooklyn, New York.
• Erica X. Eisen talks about the food crisis in US prisons.
• Robert Lloyd talks about experiments with blood transfusions in the seventeenth century.
  

 

Free online fiction:

• "A Life of Service" by Hugh Lessig in Shotgun Honey. 
• "New Enthusiasm" by James Hadley Griffin in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "A Truck Full of Illegal Fireworks" by Michael Grimala in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Fiction Podcast.
• "Shag Haul" by M.E. Proctor in Guilty.
  
• "The Husnock" by Robert Cooperman in The Five-Two.
• "The Hanging Judge" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for See How They Run.