Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 8, 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 A Friend of the Family, Amsterdam, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, James Bond at sixty and much more.

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this October.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Alison Flood shares a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers. 
• Crime Reads shares the best debut crime novels for October 2022.
  
• Elizabeth Brooks shares ten great crime novels with unreliable narrators.
  
• Stacy D'Erasmo shares literary mysteries that embrace the gray areas. 
• Mia P. Manansala shares her five favourite Christmas-themed mysteries.
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares eight works that blend mystery and detective fiction with fantasy and horror.  
• Mur Lafferty talks about writing a cozy mystery set in space. 
• Mark Alpert writes about environmental thrillers. 
• Molly Templeton talks about books that defy expectations. 
  
• Colin Fleming shares his appreciation for the Three Investigators series of YA mysteries by Robert Arthur Jr.
• Maxim Jakubowski shares his appreciation for the noir works of Cornell Woolrich. 
• Curtis Evans discusses the literary feud between Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald. 
• Curtis Evans shares his favourite mystery novels by Robert Barnard.
  
• Stephen King shares his love for the cuisine of Maine as well as a recipe.  
• M.L. Longworth explains why she set her mystery series in Aix-en-Provence, France. 
• Roger A. Canaff explains how surviving sexual abuse as a child as well as his work as a prosecurtor inform his crime writing. 
• Isaac Blum talks about writing a YA crime novel about antisemitic violence.
• Curtis Evans shares his favourite Agatha Christie cover art. 
  
• Crime fiction writer and bookseller Ralph Spurrier has died. 
• British-Canadian crime fiction writer Peter Robinson has died aged 72.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Adam Whitehead shares his thoughts on Better Call Saul. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Bloodlands. 
• Chris Jenkins shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Karen Pirie. 
• Max Gao notes that Fire Country is lacking the comradery that makes other firefighter dramas so compelling. 
  
• Leslie Felperin calls Shot in the Dark a disturbingly realistic, bloody thriller.
  
• Phil Hoad calls The Last Victim a modern dimestore western. 
• Cath Clarke calls Stalker a low budget trapped-in-a-lift horror thriller.  
  
• Paul Hirons shares five things to know about the Welsh crime drama Dal y Mellt. 
• William Hughes shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Archer.
• Alexa Donne shares her love for the long-running mystery TV series Murder, She Wrote. 
  
• Angie James explains how the TV show Reservation Dogs helped her to mourn the death of her father.
• Lucy Mangan calls The Walk-In an important and terrifying true crime drama about the rise of fascism in the UK.
  
• Adrian Horton calls Till a sensitive drama about the 1955 lynching murder of black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi. 
• Robert Brown, best remembered for his appearances in Here Comes the Brides, Primus and Star Trek, has died aged 95.
  

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

• Molly Templeton shares her thoughts on "Ribbit and Rip It", the latest episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. 
• Mary Kate Carr shares her thoughts on "Ribbit and Rip It". 
• Germain Lussier shares his thoughts on "Ribbit and Rip It".
  
• Ben Child notes that a lot of Marvel Cinematic Universe stars feel bewildered because so much of the films is shot in front of green screens that they can't see what they're doing.

 

Comments on Amsterdam: 

• Jordan Hoffman calls Amsterdam a shambolic historical political thriller. 
• The AV-Club interviews Christian Bale, one of the stars of Amsterdam.
  

 

Comments on A Friend of the Family: 

•  Lucy Mangan calls A Friend of the Family the most jaw-dropping true crime story there is.
• Saloni Gajjar calls A Friend of the Family a bizarre true crime story.
  

 

Comments on Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story:

• Malik Peay talks to various women of colour who criticise Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
• Hattie Lindert reports that production assistant Kim Alsup has called Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story the worst show she ever worked on.
  

 

Comments on James Bond at sixty: 

• Peter Bradshaw celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of the James Bond movie series. 
• The AV-Club ranks every James Bond film from Dr. No to No Time to Die. 
• Baz Bamigboye interviews James Bond producer Michael G. Wilson about the future of everybody's favourite secret agent.

 

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2021 Shirley Jackson Awards have been announced.
• The shortlist for the 2022 Books Are My Bag Readers Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2022 National Book Awards have been announced. 
• The winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature has been announced. 
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Lincoln Michel talks about understanding the reader without pandering to them. 
• Amanda Foody and C.L. Herman talk about co-authoring.
  
• Jess deCourcy Hinds explains how the Trapper Keeper notebook shaped a whole generation of writers.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about marketing advertising and connection. 
  
• Ted Johnson reports that several authors have signed an open letter to protest the lawsuit by several publishers against the Internet Archive.

 

Interviews: 

• Garrick Webster interviews Janice Hallett.
  
• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interviews Erin Kelly.
  
• Paul Burke interviews Trevor Wood.
  
• John A. Hoda interviews Marc Cameron.
• Lisa Haselton interviews Leah Cupps.
  
• Lisa Haselton interviews Charles Breakfield and Rox Burkey.
  
• Lisa Levy interviews Theo Wenner.
  

Reviews:

• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Shadow Murders by Jussi Adler-Olsen.
  
• Beth Kanell reviews Treasure State by C.J. Box.
• Garrick Webster reviews Five Moves of Doom by A.J. Devlin.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Hike by Susi Holliday.
• Mark Yon reviews Family Business by Jonathan Sims. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Only Child by Kayte Nunn.
  
• BOLO Books reviews Next of Kin by Kit Abdullah. 
• Laury A. Egan reviews Next In Line by Jeffrey Archer. 
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Sweet Dreams by Anders Roslund.
  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Green Monsters by Nicky Shearsby. 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Righteous Prey by John Sandford. 
• Paul Burke reviews Truth is a Flightless Bird by Akbar Hussain.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Murder at the Jubilee Rally by Terry Shames. 
• Kathy Reel reviews Murder at the Jubilee Rally by Terry Shames. 
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Cruz by Nicolas Ferraro, translated by Mallory N. Craig-Kuhn. 
• Civilian Reader reviews Double Exposure by Ava Barry.
  
• Tosh Berman reviews Skin Flick by Woody Haut. 
• L.J. Roberts reviews Fall Guy by Archer Mayor. 
• Hank Wagner reviews Imposter by Bradeigh Godfrey.
  
• Joe Kenney reviews Brute Force by Marc Cameron.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Blind Faith by Alicia Beckman.
  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Black Hearts by Doug Johnstone. 
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Merchant Murderers by Michael Jecks.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Funeral Train by Laurie Loewenstein.
• Kevin Tipple reviews Funeral Train by Laurie Loewenstein.
  
• John Valeri reviews From the Shadows by James R. Benn
  
• BOLO Books reviews Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Amanda Flower.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Amanda Flower.
  
• BOLO Books reviews The Deception by Kim Taylor Blakemore. 
• Aunt Agatha's reviews Secrets of the Nile by Tasha Alexander.
  
• Mary Picken reviews An Honourable Thief by Douglas Skelton. 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery reviews A Killer in King's Cove by Iona Wishaw.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Ghost and the Stolen Tears by Cleo Coyle. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Mrs. Claus and the Evil Elves by Liz Ireland. 
• The Bookwyrm's Hoard reviews Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty.   
• Publishers Weekly reviews The Mad, Mad Murders of Marigold Way by Raymond Benson.
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews Silverweed Road by Simon Crook. 
• James Tivendale reviews Silverweed Road by Simon Cook. 
  
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Black Lake Manor by Guy Morpuss. 
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Quarter Storm by Veronica G. Henry. 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala.
• Pam Guynn reviews Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Death a Sketch by Cheryl Hollon and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Publishers Weekly reviews Antiques Liquidation by Barbara Allan.
  
• Carol Westron reviews Vera Kelly Lost and Found by Rosalie Knecht.
  
• BOLO Books reviews By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Gone by Stephanie Kuehn. 
• Kirkus reviews Mr. Campion's Mosaic by Mike Ripley.
  
• Kirkus reviews South Central Noir, edited by Gary Phillips. 
• Steve Bloomfield reviews The Secret History of the Five Eyes by Richard Kerbaj.
• Duncan Campbell reviews Broken Yard: The Fall of the Metropolitan Police by Tom Harper.

Classics reviews:

• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1933 crime story "Pigeon Blood" by Paul Cain. 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1935 mystery Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1945 mystery The Black Stage by Anthony Gilbert.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1956 crime novel The Girl in 304 by Harold R. Daniels. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1975 crime novel A Respectable Woman by David Fletcher.
  
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1987 Julie Hayes mystery The Habit of Fear by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
  
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1996 Philip Fletcher crime novel Dead for a Ducat by Simon Shaw. 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery revisits the 2007 biography Agatha Christie - A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson.
  

Con and event reports:

• It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club reports about the 2022 Fright Reads Book Festival in Millersville, Maryland.
  
• Gareth Llyr Evans reports about a musical adaptation of Enid Blyton's Famous Five by Elinor Cook and Theo Jamieson, which is currently being performed at the Theatre Clwyd in Mold, Wales.
• Andrew Pulver reports that the Edinburgh Film Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, will shut down due to financial troubles.
• Mark Cousins points out that closure of the Edinburgh Film Festival is a significant loss for cinema culture.

 

Research:

• Kate Winkler Dawson writes about 1870s serial killer Edward Howard Rulloff and Ham Freeman, the journalist who reported about his trial and execution. 
• Karl Shaw talks about the murder of Lord George Sanger in 1911. 
  
• Christine Wells talks about the female spies of World War II.
  
• Dalya Alberge reports that the sarcophagus of Ptah-em-wia, head of the treasury of Pharaoh Ramses II, has been discovered in Saqqara, Egypt.
• Jennifer Givhan talks about brujeria and how it helped her overcome abuse. 
  

 

Free online fiction:

• "Firstborn of the Dead" by J. Timothy Floyd in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "Bad Luck Barrabas" by S.B. Watson in Mystery Tribune.
• "A Discovery Is Made" by George Mylonas in Mystery Tribune. 
• "PEN" by Mark Rogers in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Finger's As Good As a Toe" by T. Fox Dunham in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Disco Blisters" by Tom Leins in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Deliverables" by Andrew Welsh-Huggins in Tough. 
• "Feeding Bakari" by Robb T. White in Guilty. 
  
• "Little Miracles" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 
• "Insanity" by Teel James Glenn in The Five-Two.
  

 

Trailer and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Miss Scarlet and the Duke.
• Watch a trailer for Shotgun Wedding.
  
• Watch a trailer for Dal y Mellt.
  

 

Odds and ends:

•  Tom Gauld shares a cartoon about bank robbers negotiating a book deal.