Crime Fiction Links of the Week for September 17, 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 tributes to Javier Marias and Jean-Luc Godard, series 7 of Shetland, series 2 of The Capture, season 5 of Cobra Kai, See How They Run, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Do Revenge, the new American Gigolo, Loving Highsmith and much more.

Crime fiction in general:  

• Laura Wilson shares a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Crime Reads shares the best psychological thrillers coming out in September.
  
• B.R. Myers shares ten quietly effective suspense novels. 
• Kayte Nunn discusses the importance of setting in crime fiction.
  
• Paul French talks about crime fiction set in the Lake District.  
• Michael Gonzales talks about Brooklyn as a setting for crime fiction and a place to live. 
• Mark Stevens shares five mystery novels that prioritise character, style and insight.
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares five SFF stories featuring spies, secrets and intrigues. 
• Charlie Lovett discusses how to make history relevant in a contemporary thriller.  
• Barbara Graham discusses writing a reincarnation murder mystery.
  
• Rijula Das talks about the language of brutality. 
• Molly Templeton points out that you can procrastinate anything, if you have enough books.  
• Adam Gropnik shares his appreciation for the Inspector Maigret novels by Georges Simenon.
  
• Neil Nyren shares his apprecation for the work of Kate Atkinson.
  
• Paperback Warrior profiles crime and adventure fiction writer Howard Hunt. 
• Emma Straub remembers her late father Peter Straub.  
• Mystery writer Elizabeth Gunn has died aged 95.
  

 

Tributes to Javier Marías: 

• Javier Marías, Spanish translator and writer of literary thrillers and magical realism, has died aged 70. 
• Alberto Manguel remembers Javier Marías. 
• Sam Leith explains why everybody should read Javier Marías.

 

Film and TV:

• Benjamin Lee calls Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery an entertaining, if less potent sequel.
• Brian Collins calls Confess, Fletch an awkward revival of Gregory McDonald's beloved character, but praises the performance of Jon Hamm. 
• Benjamin Lee calls The Wonder an eerie historical thriller and praises the performance of Florence Pugh. 
  
• Tim Grierson calls Don't Worry, Darling a dystopian thriller that is more style over substance.  
• Mark Keizer calls Jane a high school thriller that barely earny a passing grade.
  
• Garrick Webster shares his thoughts on the Australian crime drama Troppo. 
• Michaele Jordan shares her thoughts on the South Korean legal drama Extraordinary Attorney Woo.
  
• Jack Smart calls God's Country a lyrical, riveting thriller.
  
• Max Gao calls Monarch a soapy series that's part country music drama, part murder mystery. 
• Julia Sirmons unravels the tangled cinematic history of Irma Vep. 
• Rebecca Nicholson calls Sins of Our Mother a true crime series that gets more shocking with every episode.
  
• Stuart Jeffries calls Munich Games a tense thriller. 
• Flora Carr looks ahead at season 2 of Professor T.
  
• Garrick Webster looks ahead at the Icelandic crime drama Sisterhood. 
• Devan Coggan looks ahead at Enola Holmes 2.
  
• Nick Kolakowski shares five ways to break up according to Michael Mann films.
  
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1997 crime thriller Jackie Brown for its twenty-fifth anniversary.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 2015 gothic thriller Crimson Peak. 
  
• Italian artist Renato Casaro picks his ten favourites of the many film posters he created.  
• Xan Brooks interviews Romain Gavras, director of Athena. 
• Rob Beschizza reports that George Lazenby, who played James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, has been fired from the Music of James Bond touring event after several offensive statements. 
  
• Manori Ravindran reports that The People's Joker, a parody by Vera Drew set in the Batman universe, has been pulled from the Toronto film festival line-up after a single screening after Warner Bros complained about copyright and trademark infringement. 
• Greek actress Irene Papas, star of Electra, The Trojan Women, The Guns of Navarone, Z and many others has died aged 96.  
• American actor William Reynolds, who played Special Agent Tom Colby in The FBI, has died aged 91. 
  

 

Tributes to Jean-Luc Godard:

• French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, director of Breathless, Alphaville and many others, has died aged 91.
• Peter Bradshaw remembers Jean-Luc Godard.
• Todd Gilchrist remembers Jean-Luc Godard. 
• Olivia Rutigliano remembers Jean-Luc Godard.
  
• The Guardian shares tributes to Jean-Luc Godard from fellow filmmakers.
  
• Angelique Chrisafis reports that Jean-Luc Godard chose to end his life via assisted suicide, which is legal in Switzerland, where Godard lived.
  

 

Comments on series 2 of The Capture: 

• Michael Hogan calls The Capture the most wildly compelling TV show of the year. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 5 of series 2 of The Capture. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the final episode of series 2 of The Capture.
  

Comments on series 7 of Shetland:

• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 5 of series 7  of Shetland. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 6 of series 7 of Shetland. 
  

 

Comments on season 5 of Cobra Kai: 

• Germain Lussier shares seven things he loved and four things he didn't about season 5 of Cobra Kai.
• Germain Lussier interviews Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, creators of Cobra Kai.
• Germain Lussier interviews Sean Kanan who plays Mike Barnes in Cobra Kai. 
  

 

Comments on See How They Run: 

• Leigh Monson calls See How They Run a meta-spoof that highlights the conventions of whodunnits. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel calls See How They Run a classic whodunnit that everybody can enjoy.
  

 

Comments on the new American Gigolo: 

• Manuel Betancourt reports that the new American Gigolo does not live up to the 1980 original. 
  
• Joel Golby calls the new American Gigolo the most pointless TV show of the year, but finds Jon Bernthal sexy

 

Comments on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in general: 

• Molly Templeton shares her thoughts on "Mean, Green, and Straight Poured Into These Jeans", the latest episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
• Mary Cate Karr shares her thoughts on "Mean, Green and Straight Poured Into These Jeans". 
• Germain Lussier shares his thoughts on "Mean, Green and Straight Poured Into These Jeans".  

 

Comments on Do Revenge: 

• Adrian Horton calls Do Revenge a biting teen comedy that's also an updated version of Strangers on a Train. 
• Courtney Howard calls Do Revenge a fun but messy revenge comedy.
  

 

Comments on Loving Highsmith: 

• Alison Stewart interviews Eva Vitija, director of the documentary Loving Highsmith.
• Debbi Mack interviews Eva Vitija.
  

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2022 Anthony Awards have been announced.
• The winners of the 2022 Barry Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2022 McIlvanney Prize and the 2022 Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel of the Year have been announced. 
  
• The winners of the 2022 Ngaio Marsh Awards have been announced. 
• The longlist for the 2022 National Book Awards has been announced and includes one crime novel.
  
• The winners of the 2022 Emmy Awards have been announced with little love for genre TV. 
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Kate Elliott explains how she converts the scenes in her head into words on the page. 
• Tracey Lien explains how using journalistic techniques and tricks helped her complete her novel. 
• The SFWA shares safety resources for writers. 
• Camestros Felapton analyses the use of fonts on book covers according to genre in a two part post.
  
• Andrew Albanese shares an update on the court case against the Internet Archive for making scanned copyrighted texts available without restrictions. 
• Locus shares an update on the antitrust lawsuit against the planned merger of Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster.
  
• David Schuman reports about the reopening of the Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's bookstores in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after both stores burned down during the riots in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd due to police brutality in 2020.
• Shelf Awareness also reports about the reopening of Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's. 

 

Interviews: 

• Nancie Clare interviews Deanna Raybourn. 
• Dalya Alberge interviews Peter James.
  
• Rich Pelley interviews Rev. Richard Coles.
• Dr. Jacky Collins reviews S.K. Tremayne. 
• Runalong the Shelves interviews Daniel Scanlan.
  
• Craig Sisterson interviews David Lagercrantz. 
• Book Time interviews Judy Penz Sheluk.
  
• Alan Petersen interviews Troy Lambert. 
• Marshal Zeringue interviews Annelise Ryan. 
• Lisa Haselton interviews Gillespie Lamb.
  
• John A. Hoda interviews Dave Zeltserman. 
• Kevin Canfield interviews Joe Pompeo. 
• Sisters in Crime interviews Kristopher Zgorski.
  

Reviews:

• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Marsh Queen by Virginia Hartman. 
• Anthony Quinn reviews Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson.
  
• Paul Burke reviews The Deal Goes Down by Larry Beinhart.
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews All the Broken Girls by Linda Hurtado Bond.
• BOLO Books reviews Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik.
  
• BOLO Books reviews The Best Friend by Jessica Fellowes.
  
• Sandra Mangan reviews A Perfect Family by Sarah Sheridan. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews Grave Issue by Julia Vaughan.
  
• Kathy Reel reviews Things We Do In the Dark by Jennifer Hillier. 
• Grab This Book reviews Harm by Sólveig Pálsdóttir.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Summer Birdcage by L.C. Tyler.  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Five Moves of Doom by A.J. Devlin.
  
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson.  
• Janet Webb reviews Murder at Beacon Rock by Alyssa Maxwell.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Murder on the Vine by Camilla Trinchieri. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Good Dog's Guide to Murder by Krista Davis and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Beth Kanell reviews Last But Not Leashed by Eileen Brady. 
• Michelle Carpenter reviews Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade by Nancy Springer. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Hyde: The Classified Dossier Vol. 2 by Christian Klaver.
  
• C.T. Phipps reviews Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle.   
• Lesa Holstine reviews Gideon and the Young Toughs and Other Stories by J.J. Marric a.k.a. John Creasey, edited by Martin Edwards. 
• Happiness is a Book reviews Gideon and the Young Toughs and Other Stories by J.J. Marric a.k.a. John Creasey, edited by Martin Edwards.
• Raven Crime Reads reviews The Newlyweds by Mansi Choksi. 
• Crossexamining Crime reviews Sleuthing Miss Marple: Gender, Genre, and Agency in Agatha Christie’s Crime Fiction by Desirée Prideaux

Classics reviews:

• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1932 Miss Marple mystery The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1938 mystery The Devil and the CID by E.C.R. Lorac.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1947 crime novel The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1950 mystery Through a Glass Darkly by Helen McCloy.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1956 war novel The Guns of Navarone by Alistair McLean.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1969 spy novel Operation Destruct by Christopher Nicole. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1987 supernatural thriller Night Hunter a.k.a. The Starlking by Robert Faulcon a.k.a. Robert Holdstock. 
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1990 Super Able Team men's adventure novel Hostile Fire by Dick Stovers a.k.a. Ken Rose. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 2002 Elvis mystery Blue Suede Clues by Daniel Klein.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 2010 thriller Layover in Dubai by Dan Fesperman.
  

Con and event reports:

• George Easter reports about the 2022 Bouchercon in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  
• Sarah Shaffi reports about the impressive guest list of the Lviv Book Forum in Lviv, Ukraine, which for obvious reasons will be virtual this year. 
  
• Arifa Akbar calls the play Who Killed My Father? by Ivo van Hove, which is being performed in London, UK, a powerful study of class, cruelty and kin.
• Mark Fisher calls The Maggie Wall by Martin McCormick, currently being performed in Pitlochry, Scotland, a vivid play about a woman burned for witchcraft.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Secrets and Scents, a cozy mystery by Lyn Perry, is looking for funding.
  

 

Research:

• Joe Pompeo reports about the scandalous double murder of prominent minister Edward Hall and church choir member Eleanor Mills in New Jersey in 1922.
• Michael Mayo profiles Prohibition era mobster Arnold Rothstein.
  
• Former IRA member John Crawley talks about the entanglements between the IRA and the Irish mob in Boston, Massachussetts. 
• Ellen Marie Wiseman reports about the dark legacy of the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York.
  
• Vanessa Riley explains how to get away with murder in the Regency era. 
• Kevin Hurler reports that a food delivery robot crashed through a crime scene in Los Angeles, California. 
• Cian Kelly discusses his experience as a trauma and crime scene cleaner.
  

 

Free online fiction:

• "Mezcalero" by Anthony Neil Smith in Tough.
  
• "Not My First Rodeo" by Bret Jones in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Fiction Podcast.
• "Other People" by Stephen D. Rogers in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Head on a Swivel" by M.B. McDonough in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Bluebottle" by Sean Melrose-Aukema in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "Blue Water" by Hollis Miller in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Incident at Lonely Rocks" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 
• "Diese Zeit" by Suzanne Ondrus in The Five-Two.
  

 

Trailer and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Copenhagen Cowboy.