Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 5, 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, Lyra, The Peripheral and much more.

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Crime Reads shares the best crime novels and thrillers coming out this November.
  
• Alison Flood shares a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.  
• Crime by the Book shares the most anticipated crime novels for November.
  
• Emma Teitel talks about the resurgence of the cozy mystery genre. 
• Criminal Element shares some recent cozy mysteries to enjoy.
  
• Charlotte Northedge reports about the growing popularity of domestic horror, gothic and noir fiction. 
• Laura Griffin wonders why crime fiction writers are attracted to the wilderness.
  
• Jacqueline Bublitz shares four crime fiction writers from New Zealand to check out. 
• Kate Belli shares her favourite crime novels about art theft.
  
• Amber Camp shares mysteries about animal rescues.
  
• Jennifer Lynn Alvarez discusses how thrillers portray immorality.
  
• S.K. Golden shares mystery recommendations based on favourite childhood books. 
• Molly Templeton talks about books to read, when the days get shorter. 
  
• S.A. Cosby reflects on his remarkable career. 
• Gregory Galloway talks about Georges Simenon's sojourn in the US directly after World War II.
  
• Ann Claire shares seven entertaining non-fiction books about Agatha Christie.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Lucy Mangan calls The Devil's Hour a chilling supernatural crime drama and praises the performance of Peter Capaldi. 
  
• Rebecca Nicholson calls SAS: Rogue Heroes a big and brash adventure drama. 
• Leslie Felperin calls Hunt a stunt-filled 1980s set spy film from South Korea. 
• Mike McCahill calls Watcher a Hitchcock style thriller from Romania. 
  
• Luke Buckmaster calls the horror thriller Sissy a deranged pleasure to watch. 
  
• Leslie Felperin calls Cette Maison an unsettling experimental crime drama. 
• Lucy Mangan calls Killer Sally a warped true crime tale.
  
• J. Kingston Pierce revisits the 1964 historical adventure film The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. 
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1992 romantic thriller The Bodyguard for its thirtieth anniversary. 
  
• Chase Hutchinson revisits the 2002 serial killer thriller Red Dragon. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 2017 dystopian thriller The Circle.
  
• Simon Hattenstone interviews Damian Lewis, star of Life, Homeland, A Spy Among Friends and many others.
• Rich Pelley interviews Don Warrington, one of the stars of Death in Paradise.
• Adam Richardson interviews Matthew Gentile, writer and director of American Murderer. 
• Andrew Lawrence interviews Elvis Mitchell, director of the documentary about black cinema Is That Black Enough For You?
  
• Emily Longeretta reports about Evan Peters' preparation for the titular role in Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. 
• Stuart Heritage reports that a drunken man in Durham, UK, claimed he was Jasoon Bourne from the eponymous action movie series, when arrested by the police. 
  

 

Comments on Enola Holmes 2:

• Benjamin Lee calls Enola Holmes 2 a charming and spirited mystery sequel for teens.
• Matthew Huff calls Enola Holmes 2 a plusky romp around Victorian London.
  
• 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 Lyra:

• Peter Bradshaw calls Lyra an admirable documentary about Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot by the New IRA in 2019.
• Rory Carroll calls Lyra an intimate documentary about a remarkable woman.
  

 

Comments on The Peripheral:

• Marion Deeds shares her thoughts on The Peripheral. 
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Peripheral.

 

Awards:

• The longlist for the 2022 Petrona Award has been announced.
• The winner of the 2022 British Academy Book Prize has been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2021 Shirley Jackson Awards have been announced.

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Ann Langley draws some Tarot cards as advice for writers.
• Sofia Slater talks about writing the kind of book you want to read.
  
• Andrew Albanese reports about an online panel discussing the surge in book bans targeting LGBTQ writers in the US. 
• Andrew Albanese reports that a court of blocked the proposed merger of publishers Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster.
  
• Locus reports about Barnes & Noble ordering fewer hardcovers, because hardcovers sell poorly.
  
• Sarah McGee reports that the No. 10 crime and mystery bookshop in Clitheroe, UK, is closing down. 
• Bill Selnes reports about the reopening of the Uncle Hugo's and Uncle Edgar's bookstores in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after they were burned down during the riots in May 2020.

 

Interviews: 

• John A. Hoda interviews Catriona McPherson. 
• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Claire McGowan and David Beckler. 
• Lily Meyer interviews Graeme Macrae Burnet.
  
• Debbi Mack interviews Sherry Knowlton.
• Robert Lee Brewer interviews Robert Crais.
  
• Shane Whaley interviews Nigel West. 
• Runalong the Shelves interviews Gavin G. Smith.  
• John Henley interviews Katrín Jakobsdóttir.

Reviews:

• Jen Lucas reviews Silent Victim by Michael Wood.
• The Real Book Spy reviews The Boys From Biloxi by John Grisham.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews The Winter Killer by Alex Pine.
• Valerie J. Brooks reviews Hidden Pieces by Mary Keliikoa.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan. 
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Dark Rivers To Cross by Lynne Reeves. 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Brutal Tide by Kate Rhodes.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Red As Blood by Lilja Sigurdardóttir, tranlateds by Quentin Bates.
• Paul Burke reviews Racing the Light by Robert Crais. 
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Deceit by Jónína Leósdóttir, translated by Sylvia and Quentin Bates.
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews Hide by Kiersten White.  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Keep It In the Family by John Marrs. 
• Kirkus reviews No Strangers Here by Carlene O'Connor.
  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews It's News To Me by R.G. Belsky. 
• Kirkus reviews A Quiet Teacher by Adam Oyebanji. 
• John Slayton reviews The Innocent One by Lisa Ballantyne.
  
• Marlene Harris reviews Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Cloisters by Katy Hays. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews Blue Water by Leonora Nattrass.  
• Aunt Agatha's reviews A Trace of Poison by Colleen Cambridge.
  
• Rebecca Nesvet reviews The Poison Machine by Robert J. Lloyd. 
• Carol Westron reviews A Mansion for Murder by Frances Brody.
  
• Colleen Mondor reviews These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall. 
• Gayle Surrette reviews Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Amanda Flower. 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Death on a Winter Stroll by Francine Matthews.
• Kathy Reel reviews Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews The Devil's Blaze by Robert J. Harris.
  
• Georgia McInnes reviews What Child Is This? by Bonnie MacBird. 
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Secret Lives by Mark de Castrique. 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery reviews The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman.
  
• A Bookworm's World reviews Murder at Balmoral by Chris McGeorge.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder Spills the Tea by Vicki Delany and tries a recipe from the book.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder by Valerie Burns and tries a recipe from the book. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Santa's Little Yelpers by David Rosenfelt. 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews And Justice for Mall by E.J. Copperman.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Original Sin by Gavin Smith. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Perfect Crime: 22 Crime Stories from Diverse Cultures Around the World, edited by Vassem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski. 

Classics reviews:

• Heather Redmond revisits the 1794 proto crime novel Things as They are, or Caleb Williams by William Godwin, father of Mary Shelley.
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1927 legal mystery The Bellamy Trial by Frances Noyes Hart.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1934 holiday mystery The Murder of Father Christmas by Pierre Véry, translated by Alan Grimes. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1937 mystery These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1947 Anthony Bathurst mystery The Sharp Quillet by Brian Flynn.
• Leslie S. Klinger revisits the 1957 hardboiled detective novel Room to Swing by Ed Lacy. 
• James Reasoner revisits the 1960 noir novel The Hot Beat by Stan Vincent a.k.a. Robert Silverberg. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1960 Hedley Nicholson detective novel The Spoilt Kill by Mary Kelly.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1961 George Smiley spy novel Call for the Dead by John Le Carré. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1976 mystery Don't Whistle Macbeth by David Fletcher.
  
• Tara Cheesman revisits the 1997 mystery Lady Joker by Kaoru Takamura.
  

Con and event reports:

• Joy Kluver reports about the "WW2 Home and Away" event featuring Amanda Lees and David Young at the West Barnes Library in New Malden, UK.
• Trent Jonas reports about the largest Sherlock Holmes collection in the world at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• SFF writer R.S.A. Garcia needs help with medical expenses. 
  
• SFF writer James A. Moore needs help with medical and other expenses.
• SFF writer Ryk E. Spoor needs help with medical and other expenses.

 

Research:

• Hollie Richardson reports about the still unsolved Bible John killings in Glasgow, Scotland, in the late 1960s.
  
• J.L. Zagorsky reports that the number of bank robberies and heists is dropping to a fifty year low.
• Gabriel Valjan and Jan Brogan talks about the murder of Harvard University football player Andy Puopolo in Boston in 1976.
  
• H.W. Brand recounts how grief and rveenge turned Geronino into the legendary Apache war chief as whom he is still remembered today.
  

 

Free online fiction:

• "The Man Who Disappeared" by Rachel Sterling in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Initiation at Blackout Beach" by Gabriel Hart in Shotgun Honey. 
  
• "Gas Station" by Margot Stillings in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Boating Day" by M.E. Proctor in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "All Saints, Part 3" by Alen Ten-Hoeve in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Rats" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 
• "Aldebaran: Ghost" by S.B. Watson in The Five-Two.
  

 

Trailer and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for The Pale Blue Eye.