Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 29, 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 Enola Holmes 2, Run Sweetheart Run, The Peripheral and much more.

Crime fiction in general:  

• Publishers Weekly share their favourite mysteries and thrillers of 2022.
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Crime Reads shares the best reviewed crime novels of October 2022.
  
• The Colin McEnroe Show attempts to explain why people are drawn to crime fiction. 
• Christin Brecher shares the best cozy mysteries to enjoy this fall. 
• Christina Romeril shares cozy mysteries with older sleuths.
  
• Matt Lubbers-Moore shares a list of LGBTQ mysteries coming out in November. 
• Lev A.C. Rosen talks about hardboiled crime fiction and gay culture. 
• Jesse Young discusses China's quest to produce the great Chinese crime novel.
  
• Robert Lloyd explains why he chose to set his historical thrillers in Restoration era London.
  
• Richard B. Woodward shares memories of his friendship with Cormac McCarthy. 
• Alexandra Alter profiles bestselling romance writer Colleen Hoover. 
• Mayi H.S. Hughes reports how she felt ashamed for reading Colleen Hoover at Harvard University. 
  
• Sam Jones reports that author Salman Rushdie has lost the sight in one eye and the use of one hand after the brutal attack on him in August. 
  

 

Film and TV:

• Dwyer Murphy shares the best new crime dramas coming out this November.
  
• Sam Stone calls Shantaram a meditative crime film. 
• Lucy Mangan calls The Devil's Hour a chilling supernatural crime drama and praises the performance of Peter Capaldi. 
  
• Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on the thriller comedy Last Looks. 
• Stuart Heritage traces how television overtook film as a creative force. 
  
• Jesse Hassenger revisits the 1962 thriller The Manchurian Candidate for its sixtieth anniversary. 
  
• Scott Tobias revisits the 1982 action thriller First Blood, which unleashed John Rambo upon the world, for its fortieth anniversary.
• Charles Bramesco revisits the 1992 crime movie Reservoir Dogs for its thirtieth anniversary. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1996 crime film Natural Enemy. 
• Saloni Gajjar interviews Joel Fields and Joe Weinberg, co-creators of The Patient. 
• Todd Gilchrist interviews Eddie Redmayne, star of The Good Nurse. 
• Ryan Gilbey interviews Sir Derek Jacobi, star of I, Claudius, Cadfael, Gosford Park, The Day of the Jackal, Murder on the Orient Express, Doctor Who and many others. 
• Maureen Dowd interviews Ralph Fiennes, star of the James Bond movies, the Harry Potter movies, the King's Man series and many others.  
• Actor Leslie Johnson, best known for his roles in Will and Grace, American Horror Story and many others, has died aged 67. 
  

 

Comments on Enola Holmes 2:

• Benjamin Lee calls Enola Holmes 2 a charming and spirited mystery sequel for teens.
• Arezou Amin calls Enola Holmes 2 a charming sequel. 
• Molly Freeman calls Enola Holmes 2 charming, law-stakes fun. 
• Kate Erbland calls Enola Holmes 2 a bloated sequel.
  

 

Comments on Run, Sweetheart, Run:

• Matt Schimkovitz calls Run, Sweetheart, Run a timely and stylish horror thriller.  
• Benjamin Lee calls Run, Sweetheart, Run a goofy B-movie thriller about a first date from hell.
  

 

Comments on The Peripheral:

• Cheryl Eddy declares that The Peripheral attempts to fill the void left behind by Westworld. 
  
• Lucy Mangan calls The Peripheral brilliant science fiction, if you can actually understand it.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the first two episodes of The Peripheral. 
• Cheryl Eddy interviews Scott Smith, creator of The Peripheral. 
• Jenna Scherer interviews Chloe Grace Moretz, star of The Peripheral.

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2022 Saturn Awards have been announced.

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Martha Wells shares some tips for getting unstuck, when you're stuck on a story. 
• James Scott Bell shares writing lessons from Sidney Sheldon.
  
• Anthony W. Eichenlaub talks about publishing a series as an indie author.
  
• Lincoln Michel points out that more data about book sales will not save art. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about thinking big.
  
• Locus reports that writer Nora Roberts a.k.a. J.D. Robb has donated 50000 US-dollar to a fundraiser to benefit the public library of Jamestown, Michigan, which was defunded by the town council after refusing to remove LGBTQ themed titles from its shelves. 
• Sarah Shaffi nreports that the public library in Petersborough, UK, has offered an amnesty on late return fines in order to recover more than twenty thousand missing books. 
• Sarah Shaffi reports that book prices in the UK will rise due to rising costs for raw materials and energy.
  
• Sarah Shaffi reports that 2022 Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka has urged people not to pirate his book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
• Haroon Siddique reports that Anna Pasternak, descendent of Bois Pasternak, has lost a copyright infringement case against Lara Prescott.

 

Interviews: 

• Crime Reads interviews Lee and Andrew Child.
• Garrick Webster interviews Joe R. Lansdale.
  
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club interviews Bruce Robert Coffin.
  
• Ayo Onatade interviews John Marrs.
• Victoria Selman interviews Zoe Sharp and David Penny. 
• John A. Hoda interviews Lori Duffy Foster. 
• E.B. Davis interviews Carol J. Perry. 
• Marshal Zeringue interviews Jason Mosberg. 
• Bill Selnes interviews A.J. Devlin.
  

Reviews:

• Kathy Reel reviews Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths.
• Sandra Mangan reviews A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Vanishing Hour by Laura Griffin.
• Paul Burke reviews No Plan B by Lee and Andrew Child. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews No Strangers Here by Carlene O'Connor. 
• John Valeri reviews Livid by Patricia Cornwell.
  
• BOLO Books reviews Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris. 
• BOLO Books reviews Hide by Kiersten White 
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews The Winter Killer by Alex Pine.
  
• Beth Kanell reviews Desert Star by Michael Connelly. 
  
• BOLO Books reviews The Last King of California by Jordan Harper. 
  
• Beth Kanell reviews The Furies by John Connolly.
  
• Mark Yon reviews Widowland by C.J. Carey. 
• BOLO Books reviews The Quarry Girls by Jess Lourey.
• John Self reviews Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
• Rob Doyle reviews The Passenger and Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy.
• Xan Brooks reviews The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy.
• Paperback Warrior reviews Zorro and the Outward Journey by Susan Kite.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle.
• Bill Selnes reviews The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Sáenz, translated by Nick Caistor.
• Lesa Holstine reviews Swann's War by Michael Oren. 
• Randy Money reviews The Book of the Most Precious Substance by Sara Gran.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews What Child Is This? by Bonnie MacBird.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Moose Paradox by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston. 
• The Book Decoder reviews Murder at the Doctor's Office by Tanya R. Taylor. 
• The Book Decoder reviews Murder in Tuscany by T.A. Williams.
  
• Cynthia Chow reviews The Ghost and the Stolen Tears by Cleo Coyle.
  
• Grab This Book reviews The Dying Squad by Adam Simcox. 
• Lis Carey reviews The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch. 
  
• Eric Ballein reviews The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison.  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty.  
• Blake Morrison reviews A Private Spy, The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020, edited by Tim Cornwell.

Classics reviews:

• James Reasoner revisits the December 1935 issue of Thrilling Mystery. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1935 mystery Death of an Author by E.C.R. Lorac. 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery reviews the 1938 suspense novel The Listening House by Mabel Seeley.
  
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1941 Beagle Sisters mystery Our Second Murder by Torrey Chanslor a.k.a. Marjorie Torrey.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1945 Dan Turner Hollywood Detective story "The Book of the Phantom Bullet" by Robert Leslie Bellem.  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1948 mystery Death of a Jezebel by Christianna Brand. 
• Alan Brown revisits the 1949 science fiction mystery Needle by Hal Clement.  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1951 mystery Murder on the Matterhorn by Glyn Carr.
  
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1981 The Penetrator men's adventure novel Hell's Hostages by Lionel Derrick a.k.a. Mark Roberts.
  
• G.W. Thomas revisits the October 1981 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine.
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1992 Inspector Bill Slider mystery Death Watch by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.
  

Con and event reports:

• Debbie Burke shares her experiences at the Montana Book Festival in Missoula, Montana.
  
• Imogen West-Knights shares her experiences at a Gone Girl themed cruise.
• Chris Wiegand declares that the stage adaptation of the 1951 crime comedy The Lavender Hill Mob, which is currently being performed in Cheltenham, UK, had its moments, but is not as good as the film. 
• Ieuan Williams reports that the Beath High School in Cowdenbeath, Scotland, has named its English faculty after crime fiction writer Ian Rankin, who attended the school.
  

 

Research:

• W. Scott Poole recounts how the FBI persecuted actor Bela Lugosi, best known for playing Dracula, as a supposed Communist.
  
• John Wood Sweet talks about the first documented American rape trial in 1793.
• Sam Roberts reports about the death of Elma Sands in New York City in 1799.  
• Alex Joske reports about the Chinese Ministry of State Security and its covert intelligence operations.
  

 

Free online fiction:

• "The Artists of Chartres Street" by Ellen Byron in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
• "The Man in the Long Dark Coat" by Pat Black in Alfred Hitckcock's Mystery Magazine Podcast. 
  
• "This Is How It Begins" by Ben Orlando in Mystery Tribune. 
• "The Tarot Card Reading" by Albert Katz in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "X-Ray Spies" by David Boob in Gumshoe Review.
• "When a Prank Goes Bad" by John R. Clark in Kings River Life. 
• "Just Desserts" by S. Phillip Lenski in Kings River Life.
  
• "Forever Yours" by James Patrick Focarile in Kings River Life. 
• "Lockdown" by James Patrick Focarile in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Tallahassee Plucker" by Caleb Coy in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Dixie's Dry Gulch" by Ed Kurtz in Tough. 
• "Aldebaran Killer" by S.B. Watson in The Five-Two.
  
• "DNF" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

 

Trailer and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Poker Face. 
• Watch a trailer for Gangs of London.
  
• Watch a trailer for Tulsa King. 
• Watch a trailer for Echo 3.
  
• Watch a trailer for The English.
  
• Watch a trailer for Welcome to Chippendales.
• Watch a trailer for Rogue Heroes.