Crime Fiction Links of the Week for September 3, 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 series 2 of The Capture, series 8 of Shetland, Ridley, The Suspect, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me at thirty and much more.

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Crime Reads shares thirteen crime novels to read this September.
  
• Crime Reads shares the best reviewed crime novels of July and August 2022. 
• Stewart King, Alistair Rolls and Jesper Gulddal discuss how crime fiction went global. 
  
• Alice Feeney shares her favourite locked room mysteries.  
• Shelley Burr shares four crime novels with memorable settings. 
• Luanne Rice explains why holiday destinations make perfect crime fiction settings.
  
• Lucy Burdette talks about cook books and cooking in mystery fiction. 
• John Kaledin talks about apex predators in fiction. 
• V.M. Burns talks about relating to diverse characters. 
  
• Lucy Worsley talks about Agatha Christie's mysterious disappearance in 1926.
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports about the backlash against The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith a.k.a. J.K. Rowling.
  

 

 

Film and TV:

• Dwyer Murphy shares the best crime shows coming out in September.
  
• Benjamin Lee calls The Forgiven a darkly comic thriller. 
• Leslie Felperin calls One Way a thriller that's not half bad and praises the performance of Colson Baker a.k.a. Machine Gun Kelly. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Blackbird a fabulously bad spy film.
  
• Geoffrey Bunting explains how the South Korean lawyer show Extraordinary Attorney Woo portrays ableism and breaks the mould. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Athena a gritty thriller about police violence in France.
  
• William Hughes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Archer.  
• Olivia Rutigliano declares that the documentary Loving Highsmith offers a peek into Patricia Highsmith's guarded inner life.
  
• Cath Clarke calls Big Boys Don't Cry a painful drama about abuse in a children's home.
  
• Phuong Le calls Dry Ground Burning an angrossing movie about an all-female gang in a Brazilian favela. 
• Zach Vasquez revisits the 1947 noir film Kiss of Death.
  
• Ben Travis interviews Rian Johnson, director of The Last Jedi and Knives Out.  
• Andrew Male interviews Richard Harris, star of Foundation, Chernobyl and Mad Men.  
• Emine Saner interviews Keeley Hawes, star of Ashes to Ashes, Crossfire and Spooks. 
• Germain Lussier interviews Ralph Macchio and Thomas Ian Griffin, stars of Cobra Kai.
  
• The late Michael K. Williams talks about his experience in The Wire.
• Gabrielle Sanchez reports that photo editor Rachel Williams has sued Netflix over her portrayal in the true crime series Inventing Anna. 
• Ashley Tropez, who appeared in the true crime reality show Beyond Scared Straight, has been killed aged 24. 
  

 

Comments on series 2 of The Capture: 

• Stuart Jeffries calls series 2 of The Capture implausible, daft and thoroughly gripping. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the first episode of series 2 of The Capture. 
• Paul Hirons also shares his thoughts on the second episode of series 2 of The Capture. 
• Abby Robinson shares a spoilerish review of episode 2 of The Capture.
  
• Abby Robinson interviews Holliday Granger, one of the stars of The Capture.
  

Comments on Ridley: 

• Lucy Mangan calls Ridley a great return to crime drama for Adrian Dunbar, who even gets to show off his singing and piano playing skills. 
  
• Helen Daly declares that Ridley is a bit more complex than just a singing detective.
  

 

Comments on The Suspect: 

• Lucy Mangan calls The Suspect a fun, sadistic thriller with a creepy performance by Aidan Turner. 
• Rosie Fletcher calls The Suspect an enjoyable if somewhat familiar thriller.
  
• Morgan Jeffery interviews James Strong, director of The Suspect.
  

 

Comments on series 8 of Shetland: 

• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the third episode of series 8 of Shetland. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the fourth episode of series 8 of Shetland. 

 

Comments on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: 

• Molly Templeton shares her thoughts on "The People vs. Emil Blonsky", the latest episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. 
• Jenna Scherer shares her thoughts on "The People vs. Emil Blonsky". 
• Germain Lussier shares his thoughts on "The People vs. Emil Blonsky". 
  
• Cora Buhlert shares her thoughts on the first episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
• Lauren Puckett-Pope interviews Tatiana Maslany, who plays Jennifer Walters in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. 

 

Comments on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me at thirty:

• Brent Simon revisits the 1992 Twin Peaks prequel Fire Walk With Me for its thirtieth anniversary.
• Oliver Macnaughton revisits Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and finds it an underrated masterpiece.
  

 

Awards:

• The shortlist for the 2022 Fingerprint Award has been announced.
• The finalists for the 2022 Ngaio Marsh Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2022 Davitt Awards have been announced.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Katrina Schroeder talks about setting writing goals. 
• Evan Puschak talks about writing a book without getting in your own way. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch points out that writers should never stop growing and learning.
  
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about business mindset.
  
• Kate Dwyer traces the publishing journey of author Jessamine Chang.
• Jim Milliot muses about the future of mass market paperbacks. 
  
• Tom Gauld takes a satirical look at bad publishing. 
• J. Kingston Pierce reports that Angry Robot is planning to move into crime fiction.
  
• Andrew Albanese reports that librarian Kathy Zappitello is running for office in Conneaut, Ohio, after her library came under fire for displaying LGBTQ themed books.
  
• Kelly Jensen reports that the obscenity charges against the books Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe and A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas in Virgina Beach, Virginia, have been dismissed.

 

Interviews: 

• Criminal Element interviews Alice Feeney.
  
• Alan Petersen interviews Catherine Coulter.
  
• Debbi Mack interviews Lee Matthew Goldberg.
• Brad Shreve interviews Neil Plakcy. 
• Molly Odintz interviews Karen Cleveland.
  
• Victoria Selman interviews Dominic Nolan.
  
• John A. Hoda interviews Deborah Lucy.
• E.B. Davis interviews Valerie Burns. 
• Deborah Kalb interviews Martin Edwards.
  
• All About Agatha interviews Lucy Worsley. 
  

Reviews:

• The Quick and the Read reviews The Cliff House by Chris Brookmyre. 
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews House of a Thousand Lies by Cody Luke Davis. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Serpent's Point by Kate Ellis. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Whisper of the Seals by Roxanne Bouchard, translated by David Warriner.
  
• Gayle Surrette reviews The It Girl by Ruth Ware. 
• BOLO Books reviews Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney.
  
• Kathy Reel reviews The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell. 
• BOLO Books reviews Complicit by Winnie M. Li. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews There Are No Happy Loves by Sergio Olguin, translated by Miranda France.
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews Better the Blood by Michael Bennett. 
• Mike Parker reviews Better the Blood by Michael Bennett.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard. 
• Paul Burke reviews What Follows by Dylan H. James.
  
• J. Kingston Pierce reviews Wake by Shelley Burr.
• Angie Barry reviews Wake by Shelley Burr.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Hacker by Daniel Scanlan. 
• Jake Kerridge reviews The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith a.k.a. J.K. Rowling.
  
• Alex Preston reviews Acts of Oblivion by Robert Harris.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews A Reluctant Saint by Tricia Fields.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Murder in the Cathedral by Cora Harrison.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Certain Darkness by Anna Lee Huber.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Blackstone Fall by Martin Edwards.
  
• Crossexamining Crime reviews A Book of Murder by Victoria Dowd. 
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Holy Chow by David Rosenfelt. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Midsummer Night's Fudge by Nancy Coco and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Murder by the Book, edited by Martin Edwards. 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Chesapeake Crimes: Magic is Murder, edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman and Marcia Talley.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds, edited by Kenneth Wishing and Chantelle Aimée Osman.
• Alex Clark reviews Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley. 

Classics reviews:

• Martin Edwards revisits the 1938 crime novel Count Azar by Vladimir Krymov.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1953 mystery Crook O' Lune by E.C.R. Lorac.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1953 Jerry Long police procedural Code Three a.k.a. Dead Shot by James M. Fox a.k.a. Johannes Matthijs Willem Knipsheer.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1955 adventure novel Blood Alley by A.S. Fleischman. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1958 mystery A Question of Time by Harry Carmichael. 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1959 mystery novel The Defence Does Not Rest by Edna Sherry.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1963 suspense novel Nightmare Honeymoon by Rae Foley. 
• Joe Kenney revisits The Silver Puma, a 1975 novel in the Cage men's adventure series by Alan Riefe. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1983 mystery collection Exeunt Murderers by Anthony Boucher.
  
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1987 novelisation of Robocop by Ed Naha. 
  

Con and event reports:

• Ayo Onatade shares the crime and mystery related programming items at the Durham Book Festival in Durham, UK.
• Abbey Bamford reports about the exhibition "Labyrinth: Tracing Harry Hole" at the National Library in Oslo, Norway.
• Sarah Shaffi reports that the Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, is partnering with the Lviv BookForum in Lviv, Ukraine, to protect freedom of expression and highlight the plight of Ukraine and its writers.
  

 

Research:

• Kathryn And traces what happened to Anne Boleyn's heart after her execution.
  

 

Free online fiction:

• "The Blonde on the Bridge" by Wendy Harrison in Shotgun Honey. 
  
• "Back to McGallagher's Farm" by Paul Finnigan in Over My Dead Body. 
• "Out of Gas" by Ron Capshaw in Yellow Mama. 
• "Happy Hour at the Grown Folks' Bar" by Pamela Ebel in Yellow Mama.
  
• "Slightly Murderous Intent" by Lida Sideris in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
• "Orange Julius" by Amy Grech in The Five-Two.
  

 

Trailer and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Reasonable Doubt.
• Watch a trailer for Fakes. 
• Watch a trailer for American Gigolo. 
• Watch a trailer for season 6 of The Good Fight.