Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 12, 2022
Crime fiction in general:
- Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
- Lisa Levy shares the best psychological thrillers coming out this November.
- Crime Reads hosts a roundtable discussion about Christmas mysteries.
- Paul French talks about crime fiction set in the Maledives.
- Alan G. Jamieson shares a brief history of shipwrecks in literature.
- Lisa Unger shares five crime novels about dysfunctional families.
- Alia Trabucco Zerán explains why she writes about women who kill.
- Ausma Zehanat Khan talks about writing crime fiction in the age of Black Lives Matter.
- Lauren Nossett explains how she went from professor of literature to writer of crime fiction.
- Mary Robinette Kowal explains how she borrowed the structure and characters of The Thin Man and put them into space for The Spare Man.
- Molly Templeton talks about the anxiety of the To-Be-Read pile or shelf.
- Sarah
Shaffi reports that twenty percent of children's books in the UK now
feature characters of colour, but that these character are often
stereotyped or badly handled.
- Sarah Shaffi reports that Swedish crime writer Karin Smirnoff will pen the next novel in the Millennium series started by the late Stieg Larsson.
Film and TV:
- Vanessa Thorpe talks about the boom of filmic murder mysteries triggered by Knives Out.
- Rebecca Nicholson calls Black Sands a slow and meaty crime drama from Iceland.
- Paul Levinson declares that the crime drama Inside Man is like nothing he has ever seen before.
- Annie Berke calls Fleishman Is In Trouble a thriller for people who are more interested in emotions than plot twists.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 2 premiere of The Mosquito Coast.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Peripheral.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Is That Black Enough For You?!? a tremendous study of black American cinema.
- Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the documentary Spector about Phil Spector.
- Jesse Pasternack revisits the 1936 crime movie The Story of a Cheat.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1947 noir film Crossfire.
- Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1978 neo-noir movie The Driver.
- Hattie Lindert revisits the 2007 crime movie No Country For Old Men.
- Tony Nourmand shares still photos from noir movies of the 1940s and 1950s.
- Michael Hann talks about the power of music in the films of John Hughes.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that Netflix is planning to make Monster an anthology series about serial killers, based on the success of Monster - Dahmer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
- Francis Ford Coppola, Steve McQueen and Woody Allen celebrate director Martin Scorsese for his eightieth birthday.
- Writer and director Douglas McGrath, best known for Bullets Over Broadway and several literature adaptations, has died aged 62.
Tributes to Kevin Conroy:
- Actor Kevin Conroy, who portrayed Batman in several animated as well as live action series and also voiced Mer-Man and Hordak in Masters of the Universe and appeared in Dynasty and Tour of Duty, has died aged 66.
- James Whitbrook remembers Kevin Conroy.
- B.J. Colangelo discusses the parallels between Kevin Conroy's life as a gay man in a homophobic world and Batman as explored in the "Finding Batman" comic written by Kevin Conroy.
Tributes to Leslie Phillips:
- British actor Leslie Phillips, best known for his roles in the Carry On movies, the Doctor movies, The Day of the Jackal, Empire of the Sun, Midsomer Murders, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and for voicing the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter movies, has died aged 98.
- Michael Coveney shares an obituary for Leslie Phillips.
- Peter Bradshaw remembers Leslie Phillips.
- Greg Whitmore shares photos from Leslie Phillips' lengthy career.
Comments on Enola Holmes 2:
- Hector DeJean calls Enola Holmes 2 a standout sequel.
- Bilge Ebiri declares thaat Enola Holmes 2 thrives on Millie Bobby Brown's charm.
- Renaldo Matadeen shares the biggest plotholes and unanswered questions in Enola Holmes 2.
- Renaldo Matadeen discusses how Enola Holmes 2 reimagines Moriarty.
- Shannen Michaelsen discusses the post-credits scene of Enola Holmes 2.
Comments on Tulsa King:
- Brian Lowry calls Tulsa King an overly obvious fish out of water mobster story that clearly was designed as a vehicle for Sylvester Stallone.
- Todd Lazarski calls Tulsa King an undercooked fish out of water mob story.
- Austin Considine declares that Sylvester Stallone tries something new in Tulsa King.
Awards:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Haruki Murakami talks about writing and finding your voice.
- Meet the Thriller Author shares writing advice from famous authors.
- Camestros Felapton shares blogging advice for writers in a two-part post.
- Lynne Reeves explains how her hypervigilance helps her to write fiction.
- James Wade talks about how he grapples with writing violent fiction.
- Sarah Miller discusses how to handle violence in historical non-fiction for YA audiences.
- Amy Wallen explains how baking pie helped her beat writer's block.
- Sorayya Khan talks about revising her work.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about how writers tend to blame outside factors for their lack of sales.
- CBS Los Angeles reports that the Iliad Bookshop in North Hollywood, California, was damaged by fire and is temporarily closed.
- Locus reports that the HarperCollins Union has gone on strike,
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that the book piracy site Z-Library has been taken down and that users are blaming fans of Colleen Hoover.
Interviews:
- Victoria Selman interviews Lucy Foley and Elly Griffiths.
- Eli Cranor interviews Yasmin Angoe.
- Marshal Zeringue interviews Lisa Unger.
- Garrick Webster interviews Jónína Leosdóttir.
- The Guardian interviews Shehan Karunatilaka.
- Debbi Mack interviews Lynn Hightower.
- John A. Hoda interviews Sarah Burr.
- Deborah Kalb interviews D.M. Rowell.
- J.B. Stevens interviews R.J. Jacobs.
- Tobias Carroll interviews Tariq Goddard.
- Criminal Element interviews Elle Cosimano.
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club interviews Liz Decker.
- E.B. Davis interviews Christin Brecher.
Reviews:
- Grab This Book reviews Desperation in Death by J.D. Robb.
- Ali Karim reviews No Plan B by Lee and Andrew Child.
- The Quick and the Dead reviews Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths
- Sandra Mangan reviews Desert Star by Michael Connelly.
- Jen Lucas reviews The Gathering Dark by James Oswald.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Sinister Graves by Marcie R. Rendon.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Never Name the Dead by D.M. Rowell.
- Grab This Book reviews The Silent Dead by Marnie Riches.
- Lesa Holstine reviews A Quiet Teacher by Adam Ojebanji.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man by Emily J. Edwards.
- Mike Parker reviews The Last King of California by Jordan Harper.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews The Imposter by Leona Deakin.
- BOLO Books reviews There and Back by Eric Beetner.
- BOLO Books reviews Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger.
- Grab This Book reviews Urgent Matters by Paula Rodriguez.
- Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews One Woman's War by Christine Wells.
- Jen Lucas reviews Death in the Sunshine by Steph Broadribb.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Death on a Deadline by Joyce St. Anthony.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Death on a Winter Stroll by Francine Matthews.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews A Murder at the Castle a.k.a. Murder at Balmoral by Chris McGeorge.
- Jen Lucas reviews Ghosts in the Gloaming by Denzil Meyrick.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews A Doomful of Sugar by Catherine Bruns and tries a recipe from the book.
- Alex Brown reviews Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk.
- Paul Weimer reviews The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Witnesses for the Dead: Stories, edited by Gary Phillips and Gar Anthony Haywood.
- Sean O. Hagan reviews Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami.
Classics reviews:
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1934 holiday mystery The White Priory Murders by Carter Dickson a.k.a. John Dickson Carr.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1944 holiday mystery Murder After Christmas by Rupert Latimer.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1946 mystery Murder Among Friends a.k.a. Cheat the Hangman by Elizabeth Ferrars.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1946 mystery Suddenly At His Residence by Christianna Brand.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1948 mystery Death of a Jezebel by Christianna Brand.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1948 technothriller The Smuggled Atom Bomb by Philip Wylie.
- Vintage Pop Fictions revisits the 1952 crime novel Little Sister by Lee Roberts.
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1962 Adam Ludlow mystery Killed by Scandal by Simon Nash a.k.a. Raymond Chapman.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1972 The Executioner men's adventure novel Boston Blitz by Don Pendleton.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1973 The Assassin men's adventure novel Manhattan Massacre by Peter McCurtin.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1988 cyberpunk thriller Metrophage by Richard Kadrey.
Con and event reports:
- Arifa Akbar calls Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear an elegant stage adaptation, which is currently playing in Bracknell, UK, as well as online.
- Catherine Love declares that the new play Guy Fawkes by David Reed, which is currently playing in York, UK, flip-flops between the serious and the silly.
- Veronica Esposito reports about the 2022 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival in San Francisco, California.
- Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing offers a glimpse into the mysterious CIA Museum in Langley, Virginia.
Crowdfunding:
Research:
- Adam Oyebanji talks about counterterrorism finance.
- Dania
Rodrigues reports about the fight about the skull of nineteenth century
Italian bandit Giuseppe Villella, which was used by anthropologist
Cesare Lombroso to formulate his theory of how skull shapes influence
criminal behaviour.
- Roseanna Montillo reports about Truman Capote's relationship with Ann Woodward, a wealthy widow suspected of murdering her husband.
Free online fiction:
- "Rendezvous" by Lex Snowe in Mystery Tribune.
- "Black Tie for Murder" by Craig S. Bowlsby in Mystery Tribune.
- "Grist for the Mill" by Kaye George in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
- "A Ghost for Marcy's Garden" by W.W. Mauck in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Podcast.
- "Inquest" by Michael A. Black in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Podcast.
- "Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript" by Lavie Tidhar in Tor.com.
- "Aldebaran: Widow" by S.B. Watson in The Five-Two.
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