Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 15, 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 Peter Robinson, Angela Lansbury and Robbie Coltrane, Bad Sisters, Shantaram, Decision to Leave, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Halloween Ends and much more.

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels and mysteries coming out this week. 
• Laura Wilson shares a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
  
• Barnes & Noble share their favourite mysteries of 2022.
• Criminal Element shares four suspenseful thrillers to keep you up at night. 
  
• Crime Reads shares a list of recent and upcoming crime novels by indigenous authors. 
• Christopher David Rosales shares his favourite works of Latinx crime fiction. 
• Roger A. Canaff talks about writing thrillers set in the five boroughs of New York City.
  
• Deborah E. Kennedy shares seven mysteries set in the midwestern winter. 
  
• Adam Hamby explains how crime novels use POV to create suspense as well as hide and reveal mysteries. 
• Karen Odden wonders whether historical mysteries are pure escapism or whether they can be more than that.
  
• Wendy Church shares her favourite antiheroines from crime fiction. 
• Bradeigh Godfrey lists thrillers featuring characters with memory disorders.
  
• Ann Dávila Cardinal shares five magical realist novels that are also murder mysteries.  
• Mur Lafferty shares her favourite Agatha Christie mysteries.
  
• G.W. Thomas shares his appreciation for the Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant occult detective stories by Manly Wade Wellman. 
• Jon Land looks back on his career as a writer of so-called airport thrillers.
  
• Natalie Lund explains how mysteries and crime novels helped her come to terms with the death of her mother. 
• Laura Mechling profiles bestselling romance writer Colleen Hoover.
  

 

Tributes to Peter Robinson:

• British-Canadian crime fiction author Peter Robinson, creator of Inspector Banks, has died aged 72.
• Ayo Onatade remembers Peter Robinson.
• Martin Edwards remembers Peter Robinson.
• J. Kingston Pierce remembers Peter Robinson.
• Lauren Brown remembers Peter Robinson.
• The BBC shares reactions to the death of Peter Robinson.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Luke Buckmaster calls Muru an action thriller from New Zealand about police violence.
  
• Leigh Monson calls Old Man a disappointing cat and mouse thriller. 
• Martin Tsai calls Stars At Noon a John Le Carré inspired thriller by Claire Denis.
  
• Paul Levinson calls The Outfit a brilliant mafia movie.
  
• Olivia Rutigliano calls Amsterdam an overstuffed, inchoate whodunnit. 
• Lucy Mangan calls Candy a mesmerising true crime drama. 
• Stuart Heritage calls The Watcher a forgettable true crime series with an excellent cast.
  
• Lucy Mangan calls Maxine a true crime drama that's both dangerous and pointless.
  
• Joel Golby calls Wreck a campy comedy caper about a killer duck on a cruise ship that's probably a lot of fun when you're a teenager. 
• Cheryl Eddy declares that Dark Glasses is not quite the triumphant comeback for Dario Argento that fans have been hoping for.  
• Cath Clarke calls the Pakistani movie The Legend of Maula Jatt Game of Thrones meets Gladiator.  
• Phil Hoad calls Summit Fever a dizzying mountain climbing drama.
  
• Chris Jenkins shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Karen Pirie.
  
• Clare Thorp calls the legal drama The Good Fight the show that sums up our times. 
• William Hughes shares his thoughts on the season finale of Archer. 
• Adrian Horton calls She Said a stirring drama about the fall of Harvey Weinstein.
  
• Murtada Elfadi declares that Till brings a tragic chapter of American history to vivid life.
  
• Samanth Subramanian explains what happened when the Hindu right came for Bollywood.  
• Sandy Ferber shares five giallo movies from the 1970s.
• Olivia Rutigliano praises the ten best hats in crime movies.
  
• Cheryl Eddy interviews Terry Dunn Meurer, co-creator of Unsolved Mysteries.   
• Hadley Freeman interviews Aubrey Plaza, star of Emily the Criminal.
  

 

Tributes to Angela Lansbury:

• Dame Angela Lansbury, star of Murder She Wrote, The Beauty and the Beast, The Manchurian Candidate, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Gaslight, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Court Jester and many others, has died aged 96.
• Mark Lawson shares a tribute to Angela Lansbury.
• Daniel Lewis shares an obituary for Angela Lansbury.
  
• Sabina Graves shares a tribute to Angela Lansbury.
• Neil Jordan remembers Angela Lansbury.
• J. Kingston Pierce remembers Angela Lansbury.
• Scott Huver remembers Angela Lansbury's most memorable roles.
  

 

Tributes to Robbie Coltrane:

• Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane,star of Cracker, Mona Lisa, From Hell, several James Bond movies and the Harry Potter movies, has died aged 72.
• The BBC shares an obituary for Robbie Coltrane. 
• Jordan Moreau shares an obituary for Robbie Coltrane.
  
• Andrew Pulver and Nadia Khomani remember Robbie Coltrane. 
• Peter Bradshaw remembers Robbie Coltrane. 
• Rob Bricken remembers Robbie Coltrane.
  
• The Guardian shares photos from Robbie Coltrane's lengthy career.
  

 

Comments on Bad Sisters:

• Rebecca Nicholson declares that Bad Sisters is about to give the viewers the most satisfying TV finale of the year. 
• Saloni Gajjar interviews Sharon Horgan, creator and star of Bad Sisters.
  

 

Comments on Shantaram: 

• Rebecca Nicholson calls Shantaram a disappointing thriller. 
• Saloni Gajjar calls Shantaram misguided, monotonous and overlong.
  

 

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

• Molly Templeton shares her thoughts on "Whose Show Is This?", the latest episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. 
• Mary Kate Carr shares her thoughts on "Whose Show Is This?" 
• James Whitbrook shates his thoughts on "Whose Show Is This?"
  
• Michaele Jordan shares her thoughts on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.

 

Comments on Decision to Leave: 

• Mark Keizer calls Decision to Leave a crime drama about unfulfilled passion from South Korea.
• Eric Kohn interviews Park Chan-wook, director of Decision to Leave.
  

 

Comments on Halloween Ends and the Halloween series in general:

• Xan Brooks interviews Jamie Lee Curtis, star of the Halloween series.
• Peter Scobel also interviews Jamie Lee Curtis. 
• William Hughes interviews John Carpenter, director, composer and executive producer of the Halloween movies and many others. 
• The AV-Club rank their favourite performances by Jamie Lee Curtis.

 

Awards:

• The 2022 Crime Fiction Lover Awards are open for nominations.
• The winner of the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize has been announced.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• The finalists for the 2022 Booker Prize talk abotu their writing process.
  
• Amy Christine Parker explains how she uses fear to fuel her fiction.
• Reine Arcache Melvin talks about writing sex and violence. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about writers quitting.
  
• Victoria Strauss talks about the implosion of BBB Publishings and the paid box set and anthology market in general. 
• Melanie Walsh wonders why it's so difficult to get reliable data on book sales figures. 
• Andrew Albanese shares an update on the lawsuit filed by several publishers against the Internet Archive.

 

Interviews: 

• Victoria Selman interviews Charlotte Philby and Luke Jennings.
  
• Robert Justice interviews Gary Phillips. 
• E.B. Davis interviews Alicia Beckman a.k.a. Leslie Budewitz.
  
• John Self interviews Shehan Karunatilaka.
• Punk Noir Magazine interviews Keely O'Shaughnessy. 
• John A. Hoda interviews Paula Munier. 
• All About Agatha interviews David Brawn.
  

Reviews:

• BOLO Books reviews 1989 by Val McDermid.
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Hatchet Island by Paul Doiron. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Sinister Graves by Marcie R. Rendon. 
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews The Enigma of Room 622 by Joel Dicker, translated by Robert Bononno.
  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Harm by Sólveig Pálsdóttir, translated by Quentin Bates.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Hold by Amy S. Peele. 
• The Quick and the Read reviews Dying Breath by Liz Mistry. 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Narrator by K.L. Slater.
  
• John Valeri reviews The Fall Girl by Marcia Clark.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Fall Guy by Archer Mayor. 
• Lindesay Irvine reviews Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham. 
  
• Grab This Book reviews Silverweed Road by Simon Crook. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Treachery on Tenth Street by Kate Belli.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Socialite's Guide to Murder by S.K. Golden. 
• Judith Sullivan reviews The Conjuror's Apprentice by G.J. Williams. 
  
• Beth Kanell reviews The Storyteller's Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Storyteller's Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews We Spread by Iain Reid.
• Bitter Tea and Mystery reviews Head On by John Scalzi.  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews The Moose Paradox by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Plot and the Pendulum by Jenn McKinley. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder at the Blueberry Festival by Darci Hannah and tries a recipe from the book.
  

Classics reviews:

• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1928 mystery The Passing of Mr. Quinn by G. Roy McRae.
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1931 mystery The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen Leigh, great-great-niece of Jane Austen.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1935 Gideon Fell mystery Death Watch by John Dickson Carr. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1938 mystery The Port of London Murders by Josephine Bell.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1946 mystery Death in the Thirteenth Dose by Belton Cobb.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1947 Kosuke Kindaichi mystery Death on Gokumon Island by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Louise Heal Kawai.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1974 legal thriller One Just Man by James Mills.
  

Con and event reports:

• Joy Kluver reports about the 2022 Capital Crime festival in London, UK.
  
• Locus reports about the 2022 SerlingFest in Binghampton, New York. 
• Sarah Crompton calls the performance of Kenneth MacMillan's ballet Mayerling in London, UK, astounding from beginning to end.
  

 

 Crowdfunding:

• Michael, Lynne and Caitlin Thomas, editors of Uncanny Magazine and their 19-year-old daughter, need some help with medical expenses for Caitlin's end-of-life treatment.
• Nigerian author, editor and World Fantasy Award finalist Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is looking for funding to be able to attend the 2022 World Fantasy Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

 

Research:

• Aaron Gell reports that a new book claims to have discovered the identity of the so-called "Zodiac Killer" as SFF fan Paul Doerr.  
• Deborah Holt Larkin talks about the 1958 murder of Olga Duncan and how the mastermind behind the murder, her mother-in-law Elizabeth Duncan, hired two amateur hitmen, leaving behind a notable trail.
  
• Jody Feldman offers a tour of the criminal underbelly of Rome, Italy. 
• Lady Unchained shares her experiences in prison.
• Andy Davidson discusses the so-called Dodge land wars in Georgia at the turn of the 20th century.
  
• The AV Club reports that the prosecutors have dropped all charges against Adnan Syed after 22 years in prison. 
  

 

Free online fiction:

• "The Light on the Lagoon" by Elizabeth Elwood in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Fiction Podcast. 
• "Trouble Down Mexico Way" by Nancy Nau Sullivan in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast. 
• "Taxi Man" by Noah Alvarez in Shotgun Honey. 
• "The Implicated" by Suphil Lee Park in Tough.
  
• "Director's Cut" by Stef Donati in Mystery Tribune.
• "The Kurdaitcha Man" by Alpheus Williams in Mystery Tribune. 
• "The Two Legs of the Roving Tripod Got Stood Up With a Swing and a Miss" by Mark Parsons in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "All Saints, Part 1" and "Part 2" by Alan Ten Hoeve in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Dead to Rights" by Tony Dawson in The Five Two.
  

 

Trailer and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Enola Holmes 2.  
  
• Watch a trailer for Wreck. 
• Watch a trailer for The Peripheral.