Crime Fiction Links of the Week for December 10, 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 the best mysteries and crime novels of 2022, season 2 of Slow Horses, Three Pines, A Spy Among Friends, Violent Night, The Peripheral and much more.

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
• Darynda Jones shares ten complete mystery series to enjoy right now.
  
• Sarah Fox shares cozy mysteries perfect for fall and winter. 
• Andrew Shaffer explains how he learned to write a cozy mystery.
  
• Terri Parlato explains why New England is the perfect setting for crime fiction. 
• Hannah Morrissey explains why the American Midwest makes a great setting for crime fiction.
  
• Tessa Wegert shares four atmopsheric thrillers with unexpected settings. 
• Laura Bates talks about the popularity of feminist survival thrillers. 
• Joel Dicker shares his favourite character-driven crime novels by European authors.
  
• Elyse Friedman shares her favourite crime novels that inspired her to try writing one of her own. 
• Molly Odintz shares crime and mystery related coffee table books that are perfect holiday gifts. 
• Molly Templeton points out that everything counts as reading. 
  

 

Best of 2022:

• Sarah Weinman shares her favourite crime novels of 2022. 
• Crime Reads share their favourite crime novels of 2022.
  
• Laura Wilson shares her favourite crime novels and thrillers of 2022.
• Sarah Lyall shares her favourite thrillers of 2022. 
• The Real Book Spy shares his favourite thrillers of 2022. 
• Runalong the Shelves shares his favourite thrillers of 2022.
  
• Margaret Cannon shares her favourite mystery novels of 2022.
  
• Aunt Agatha's share their favourite mysteries and crime novels of 2022.
  
• Aunt Agatha's share their favourite historical mysteries of 2022. 
• Aunt Agatha's share their favourite cozy mysteries of 2022.  
• Crime Reads share their favourite spy novels of 2022.
  
• Barry Didcock shares his favourite Scottish crime novels of 2022.
  
• AudioFile share their favourite mystery and suspense audiobooks of 2022. 
• Rachel Ulatowski shares her ten favourite thriller movies of 2022.
  

 

 Film and TV:

• Stuart Jeffries calls Granite Harbour a gloomy crime drama featuring the best-dressed cops in British TV.
  
• Julia Glassman calls Inside Man a masterclass in how not to write a plot.
  
• Leslie Felperin calls Savage Justice a delightfully campy revenge thriller.
• Paul Levinson calls Spiderhead a science fiction take on the Milgram experiment.  
• Chris Jenkins shares their thoughts on season 1 of Astrid: Murder in Paris. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Echo 3.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Mosquito Coast.
• Manuel Betancourt shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Welcome to Chippendales. 
• Beverly Gage traces how Hollywood turned J. Edgar Hoover's FBI into nigh-mythical G-Men. 
• Inspired by She Said, Xandra Ellin wonders why women are allowing Hollywood to codify the #MeToo movement. 
  
• Hollie Richardson interviews Sara Collins and Karla Simone-Spence, writer and star of historical crime drama The Confessions of Frannie Langton. 
• Ethan Alter and Brittany Jones-Cooper interview Pam Grier, star of Foxy Brown, Jackie Brown, Friday Foster and many others. 
• Zoe Williams interviews Natalia Tena, star of Vardy v. Rooney: A Courtroom Drama.
• Emily Longeretta explains how actress Kelli Giddish was written out of Law & Order: SVU. 
• Ethan Alter reports about the reunion of Harrison Ford and Ke Huy Quan, who played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. 
  

 

Comments on season 2 of Slow Horses:

• Jack Seale calls season 2 of Slow Horses a cut above the average spy thriller.
  
• Tom Philip calls the season 2 premiere of Slow Horses fun, if a bit flimsy.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 2 premiere of Slow Horses. 
• Tom Philip shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Slow Horses.
  
• K.J. Yossman interviews Chrisopher Chung who plays Roddy Ho in Slow Horses.
  

 

Comments on Three Pines: 

• Elizabeth Held notes that both fans of Louise Penny Inspector Gamache series and newcomers will find a lot to love about the TV adaptation of Three Pines, the first novel in the series. 
• Paul Levinson calls Three Pines a wonderful treat. 
  
• L.J. Roberts shares their thoughts on Three Pines.
• Katherine Stinson answers some questions about Three Pines.
  

 

Comments on A Spy Among Friends: 

• Joel Golby calls A Spy Among Friends an extremely good period spy drama, provided you actually receive the service that is broadcasting it. 
• Rebecca Nicholson calls A Spy Among Friends a fabulous, if slightly stuffy spy thriller.
  

 

Comments on Violent Night: 

• io9 interviews David Harbour who plays Santa Claus in Violent Night.
• Brian Davids interviews Tommy Wirkola, director of Violent Night.

 

Comments on The Peripheral: 

• Cheryl Eddy finds the finale of The Peripheral too confusing to be satisfying.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 1 finale of The Peripheral. 
• The AV-Club interviews Jack Raynor, one of the stars of The Peripheral.

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2022 Crime Fiction Lover Awards have been announced. 
• The winner of the 2022 Petrona Award has been announced. 
• The winners of the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards have been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2023 Critics' Choice Awards have been announced with some love of crime TV.

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Andrew Mayne reports about his experiences using an AI chatbot to generate writing prompts.
• Geoff Weiss reports about fantasy writer Chelsea Banning whose tweets about a disastrous book signing went viral and attracted responses from several famous authors.
• Sarah Shaffi reports that writers' earnings have plummeted with women and writers of colour affected the most.
• Joanne Harris notes that the horribly low pay is pushing out authors and that yes, it matters. 
• Krsitine Kathryn Rusch wonders what counts as a bestseller these days.
  
• Striking HarperCollins staffer Rye White talks about the HarperCollins strike.
• HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray shares an open letter to authors and agents regarding the strike.
  
• Locus reports that editor Diana M. Pho has joined Erewhon Books.
  
• Rebecca Caraway reports about a new round of book bans of books about gender fluidity in the Keller Independent School District in Texas. 
• Mélissa Godin reports about Banca do Largo, a bookstore championing books by writers from the Amazon, in Manaus, Brazil.
  
• Sarah Shaffi reports that Al Saqi Books in London, UK, Europe's largest Middle Eastern bookseller, will close. 
• Paul Wells reports about a visit to the Rideau Centre Indigo Bookstore in Ottawa, Canada, which sells more tea and home furnishing products than books.

 

Interviews: 

• Victoria Selman interviews Vaseem Khan and Janice Hallett.
• Alison Flood interviews Louise Penny.
  
• CBS News interviews Louise Penny. 
• V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell interview Erika T. Wurth.
  
• Kaira Rouda and Kimberly Belle interview each other. 
• Jane Chiabattari interviews Jane Smiley.
  
• Criminal Element interviews Peter Blauner. 
• The Real Book Spy interviews Joe Goldberg.
  
• Shane Whaley interviews Alan Johnson.
  
• Lisa Levy interviews John Tresch.
• Carrie Johnson interviews Beverly Gage.
  

Reviews:

• Becky LeJeune reviews Dragonfly Summer by J.H. Moncrieff
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Hunting Time by Jeffery Deaver. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Winter's End by Paige Shelton. 
• Pam Guynn reviews Winter's End by Paige Shelton. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews Storm Watch by C.J. Box.
  
• Lorraine Berry reviews My Darkest Prayer by S.A. Cosby.
  
• Grab This Book reviews When the Lights Go Out by Chris Curran. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Fearsome Moonlight Black by David Putnam.
  
• Publishers Weekly reviews Blown by the Same Wind by John Straley. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Lies We Tell by Katie Zhao.
  
• The Book Decoder reviews The Viaduct Killings by Wes Markin.
  
• Sandra Mangan reviews Dead Winner by Kevin G. Chapman. 
• Kirkus reviews The Kind to Kill by Tessa Wegert.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Angel Killer by Andrew Mayne. 
• Valerie J. Brooks reviews The Widow by Kaira Rouda. 
• Bitter Tea and Mystery reviews The Maid by Nita Prose.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Homecoming by Isabel Ashdown.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Blue Book by Tom Harley Campbell. 
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Break by Katie Sise. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews City of Fortune by Victoria Thompson. 
• Janet Webb reviews Death at the Falls by Rosemary Simpson. 
• Mark Stevens reviews Bombay Monsoon by James W. Ziskin.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Poison Machine by Robert J. Lloyd.
• JoAnn LoSavio reviews A History of Fear by Luke Dumas. 
  
• Grab This Book reviews Dashboard Elvis is Dead by David F. Ross. 
• Adam Colclough reviews The Murder Game by Tom Hindle. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Murder by Definition by Con Lehane. 
• Pechy's Ponderings reviews Murder by Definition by Con Lehane. 
  
• Kathy Reel reviews A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny. 
  
• Lesa Holstine revfiews Steeped in Secrets by Lauren Elliott.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews On Spine of Death by Tamara Berry.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Feel the Bern by Andrew Shaffer and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Kirkus reviews Scot in a Trap by Catriona McPherson. 
• Janet Webb reviews Bryant and May: Peculiar London by Christopher Fowler.
  
• George Easter reviews Dalziel and Pascoe Hunt the Christmas Killer and Other Stories by Reginald Hill.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Sliver of Darkness by C.J. Tudor.
  
• Martin Edwards reviews A Factotum in the Book Trade by Marius Kociejowski. 
  

Classics reviews:

• Martin Edwards revisits the 1932 suspense novel Murder in the Basement by Anthony Berkeley. 
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1936 Spider pulp thriller The Mayor Of Hell by Grant Stockbridge a.k.a. Norvell Page.
  
• Leeore Schnairsohn, Isaac Butler and Catherine Nichols revisit the 1943 prison psychological thriller Chess Story by Stefan Zweig.
  
• L.J. Hurst revisits the 1944 mystery Murder While You Work by Susan Scarlett.
• L.J. Hurst revisits the 1953 mystery Crook O' Lune by E.C.R. Lorac.  
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1955 mystery The Man Who Didn't Fly by Margot Bennett.
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1966 fantasy mystery Too Many Magicians by Randall Garrett. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1968 spy novel Strike Terror by Hy Steirman. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1975 mystery Possession by L.P. Davies.
  
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1984 Benny Cooperman detective novel The Suicide Murders by Howard Engel. 
  

Con and event reports:

• Joy Kluver reports about a Hodder Crime Fiction author event in London, UK.
• Martin Edwards reports about a lecture about the golden age of detective fiction which he gave in Cambridge, UK.
  
• Arifa Akbar calls Tunnels by Oliver Yellop, which is currently playing in London, UK, a claustrophobic play about trying the escape East Berlin.
  

 

Research:

• Edward Zuckerman talks about police corruption in Nigeria.
• Lenore Anderson talks about the political and racial dimension of drug convictions in the US and how whole communities are criminalised. 
• Daniel S. Medwed talks about flaws in the way courts use DNA evidence.
  
• Jody Serrano reports that the city of San Francisco has reversed its decision to allow its police department to use killer robots.   
• Mike Pearl reports that the AI chatbot ChatGPT and similar programs can be used to accuse random people of murder. 
  
• Elana Spivack notes that swear words in different languages all share one common trait.

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Book Lovers" by Hollis Seaman in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Fiction Podcast.
  
• "Lost and Found in Harlem" by Delia C. Pitts in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
  
• "Spine" by Michael W. Clark in Mystery Tribune.
• "The Ring" by Robert Petyo in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Sumpin Extra" by Carman C. Curton in Guilty.
  
• "Gulp" by Eric D. Goodman in The Five-Two. 
• "Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness" by S.L. Huang in Clarkesworld.
  
• "A Bullet for Father Christmas" by Cora Buhlert.
   

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for The Pale Blue Eye.