Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 26, 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 Glass Onion, Echo 3, The Menu, Bones and All, Nanny, She Said and much more.

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out this week.
• NPR share their favourite mysteries and thrillers of 2022. 
  
• Janet Rudolph shares a list of Thanksgiving themed mysteries.
  
• Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski host a roundtable discussion on the growing diversity in crime writing. 
• Zac Bissonnette profiles mystery writer Dick Francis and his mystery writing family business. 
• Fletcher Vredenburgh shares his appreciation for the work of Manly Wade Wellman. 
  

 

 Film and TV:

• Tara Lush discusses how Only Murders in the Building is leading a cozy mystery renaissance. 
• Max Gao declares that Criminal Minds: Evolution breathes new life into a once popular series.
  
• Paul Hirons calls Black Bird a serial killer drama with a difference. 
• Leslie Felperin calls The Fence a likeable crime drama about the mean streets of Bristol in the 1980s.
  
• Anthony Beeever praises SAS Rogue Heroes. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Nanny an eerie and evocative horror thriller.
• Paul Hirons calls Candy an impressive true crime drama. 
• Manuel Betancourt declares that the true crime drama Welcome to Chippendales had a near perfect premiere. 
• Lucy Mangan calls The Ice Cream Wars a respectful true crime documentary about a 1984 arson attack. 
• Jack Seale calls The Confession a true crime documentary that will have you scrutinising every second of it.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Peripheral. 
• Dwyer Murphy shares his favourite lesser known John Le Carré adaptations. 
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1952 historical crime movie Casque d'Or.
  
• Martin Edwards rewatches the 1967 heist movie Robbery.
• Francesca Carington revisits the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day and finds it better than its reputation. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 2013 heist movie Trance.
  
• Criminal Element interviews Louise Dougty, screenwriter of Crossfire. 
• Hadley Freeman interviews Susan Seidelman, director of the 1985 crime comedy Desperately Seeking Susan. 
• Sian Cain and Steph Harmon explain the phenomenon of Goncharov, a 1973 Martin Scorsese gangster film that never existed and the internet phenomenon that sprang up around it.
  
• Olivia Rutigliano remembers that singer Taylor Swift once played a corpse in a 2009 episode of CSI. 
• Paul Hirons reports that actress Ashley Jensen will take over the lead role in the Scottish crime drama Shetland following the departure of Douglas Henshall. 
  

 

Comments on Glass Onion: 

• Todd Gilchrist calls Glass Onion even sharper than Knives Out.
• Peter Bradshaw calls Glass Onion and ingenious whodunnit. 
• Olivia Rutigliano calls Glass Onion a lavish and wildly satirical mystery.
  
• Isaac Chotiner interviews Rian Johnson, director of The Last Jedi, Knives Out and Glass Onion.
• Mickey O'Connell interviews Rian Johnson, director of The Last Jedi, Knives Out and Glass Onion.  

 

Comments on Echo 3: 

• Max Gao calls Echo 3 an action film short on characterisation. 
• Stuart Jeffries calls Echo 3 a hostage drama that's like Band of Brothers meets EastEnders.
  

 

Comments on Blood and All: 

• Olivia Rutigliano calls Bones and All rich, sad and all-consuming. 
• Brett Bukalew calls Bones and All a cannibal romance that will devour your heart.
  
• Inspired by Blood and All, Alex Hess wonders why movies about cannibals are so popular.

 

Comments on The Menu: 

• The AV-Club interviews the cast of The Menu.
• Jack Smart interviews the cast of The Menu.
  
• Inspired by The Menu, Charles Bramesco wonders why cinema is so suspicious of haute cuisine.

 

Comments on She Said:

• Peter Bradshaw calls She Said an admirably straightforward drama.
  
• Claire Armitstead interviews Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan, stars of She Said.
• Sam Adams explains why Harvey Weinstein's face is never seen in She Said. 
  
• Brent Lang reports that She Said underperformed at the box office and wonders why audiences are no longer watching Oscar bait movies.
  

 

Comments on Nanny: 

• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Nanny an eerie and evocative horror thriller. 
• Cheryl Eddy calls Nanny a powerful folk horror tale.
  
• Matthew Jackson calls Nanny a last minuted contender for the best horror film of the year. 
• Cath Clarke interviews Nikyatu Jusu, director of the psychological horror thriller Nanny.

 

Awards:

• The winner of the Publishers Weekly Superstar Prize has been announced. 

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Alice Henderson talks about how to address real world issues in your fiction and maybe even inspire activism.
• Ann Langley offers her monthly tarot draw for writers. 
• William Christie shares the key to writing realistic historical fiction. 
• Claire Kells explains how listening to true crime podcasts made her a better crime writer.
  
• Linda Codega shares an introduction to fanfiction.
  
• Jason Sanford discusses what Twitter meant to writers and what writers can do if/when it shuts down. 
  
• Jason Pargin talks about book bans.
  
• Jim Milliot reports that the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster is likely dead.
  
• Maham Javaid reports about the takedown of the book piracy site Z-library.
• Claire Kirch profiles Redbery Books, an independent bookstore in Cable, Wisconsin. 

 

Interviews: 

• Nancie Clare interviews Elly Griffiths. 
• Jenna Gordon interviews Georgina Clarke. 
• Garrick Webster interviews John Winn Miller. 
• Elizabeth Tabler interviews James J. Butcher. 
  
• D.M. Ritzlin interviews M.C. Tuggle.

Reviews:

• BOLO Books reviews Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths.
• The Real Book Spy reviews Desert Star by Michael Connelly.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man by Emily J. Edwards. 
• Kirkus reviews Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man by Emily J. Edwards. 
  
• Warner Holme reviews Paperback Jack by Loren D. Estleman.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Suicide Thursday by Will Carver. 
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Suicide Thursday by Will Carver. 
• Beth Kanell reviews Hunting Time by Jeffery Deaver. 
  
• Jen Lucas reviews The Murder Book by Mark Billingham. 
• Karen Rigby reviews Never Name the Dead by D.M. Rowell.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews The Moment Before by Rachel Amphlett. 
• Beth Kanell reviews The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh.
  
• Michelle Carpenter reviews Double Exposure by Ava Barry. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Prisoner by B.A. Paris.
  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Pain Tourist by Paul Cleave.
• Jen Lucas reviews The Pain Tourist by Paul Cleave. 
• Craig Sisterson reviews The Pain Tourist by Paul Cleave.
  
• Laury A. Egan reviews The Collector by Anne Mette Hancock.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews The Politician by Tim Sullivan. 
• Mike Parker reviews White Horse by Erika T. Wurth. 
  
• Pam Guynn reviews All the Blood We Share by Camilla Bruce.
  
• Rebecca Munro reviews The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Courting Dragons by Jeri Westerson.
  
• Beth Kanell reviews Murder at Black Oaks by Philip Margolin. 
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews The Secret of Matterdale Hall by Marianne Ratcliffe 
• Janet Webb reviews Murder at the Serpentine Bridge by Andrea Penrose
  
• Beth Kanell reviews Death on a Winter Stroll by Francine Mathews.
  
• Gayle Surrette reviews A Stranger Vanishes by Wendy Corsi Staub. 
• Kirkus reviews Holmes Coming by Kenneth Johnson.
  
• Aunt Agatha's reviews The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Attraction Distraction by Jenn McKinley. 
• Judith Reveal reviews Flight Risk by Cherie Priest. 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Dead and Gondola by Ann Claire. 
  
• Janet Webb reviews Dashing through the Snowbirds by Donna Andrews. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder in a Cape Cottage by Maddie Day and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Alexandra Pierce reviews Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty.  
• Rich Horton reviews Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty.
  
• Paul Burke reviews The Coming Darkness by Greg Mosse.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Black Is The Night - Stories Inspired by Cornell Woolrich, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.
• Erin Britton reviews Murder in the Falling Snow: Ten Classic Crime Stories, edited by Cecily Gayford.
  
• Alvaro Zinos-Amaro reviews Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life and Influences by Bev Vincent. 

Classics reviews:

• Cora Buhlert revisits the 1929 historical crime story "In a Dead Man's Shoes" by Harold Markham. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1934 mysetry The Mysterious Mr. Badman by W.F. Harvey,
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1936 mystery The Flyaway Highway by Norman Lindsay.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1944 Chief Inspector Macdonald mystery Fell Murder by E.C.R. Lorac.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1945 spy novel Traitor's Mountain by Showell Styles a.k.a. Glyn Carr. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1946 mystery Murder of Me by F. Addington Symonds.
• Vintage Pop Fictions revisits the 1950 crime novel Portrait in Smoke by Bill S. Ballinger. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1955 mystery A Corpse at Camp Two by Glyn Carr. 
• David Vineyard revisits the 1976 gothic novel The Curse of the Fleers by Basil Copper. 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1983 Andrew Basnett mystery Something Wicked by Elizabeth Ferrars.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1994 science fiction noir novel Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem. 
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 2007 horror thriller novella "The Gingerbread Girl" by Stephen King.
  

Con and event reports:

• Ayo Onatade shares a call for papers for the conference "Crime Fiction and Democracy" at the Université Paris Nanterre in Nanterre, France.
  
• Mark Fisher declares that Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood, a panto by Fine Time Fontayne and Chris Lawson currently playing in Oldham, UK, robs the folk hero of his outlaw action.

 

Crowdfunding:

• SFF writer Alex Jennings needs some financial help.

 

Research:

• Sylvester Brown chronicles how overzealous prosecution and racial bias lead to wrongful death sentences.
  
• Camilla Bruce talks about nineteenth century women serial killers and their poison of choice, arsenic.
  
• Tony Tetro and Giampiero Ambrosi talk about Tetro's career as an art forger.
• Braden Phillips talks about the mysterious and unsolved murder of Charles Francis Hall during an expedition to the North Pole in 1871. 
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Poison That Binds" by Dan E. Cardoza in Mystery Tribune.
• "In Chains" by M.E. Proctor in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Spirit of the Winter Woods" by Heather Ormsby in Mystery Tribune. 
• "They Shoot Pumpkins Don't They?" by Margaret S. Hamilton in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast
  
• "Decorations Not Included" by Anthony Kane Evans in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Where Palms Sway and the Surf Pounds" by Curtis Ippolito in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "The Knife Job" by Sean Jacques in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Carving Table" by Bobby Matthews in Shotgun Honey. 
  
• "Kitchen Peril" by Amy Ralston Seife in The Five-Two. 
   

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for The Fence.
• Watch a trailer for Händelser vid vatten a.k.a. Blackwater.
  

 

Odds and ends:

• Tom Gauld weighs in on the impending end of Twitter.
• Olivia Rutigliano shares a holiday gift guide for the mystery lover in your life. 
• Take a quiz about Japanese Honkaku mysteries.