Crime Fiction Links of the Week for January 7, 2023

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, Glass Onion, season 2 of Slow Horses, series 3 of Happy Valley, Three Pines, Stonehouse, Till, Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street, tributes to Fay Weldon, Jeremy Renner's snow-ploughing mishap and much more.

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Fiction Lover looks ahead at the most wanted crime novels of 2023.
• Ayo Onatade looks ahead at crime novels she is looking forward to in 2023.
  
• Molly Odintz shares ten crime novels to read this January.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Paul French explores crime fiction set in Karachi, Pakistan. 
• Carole Johnston explains how living in the Outer Hebrides influenced her crime writing.
  
• Will Thomas explains why he wrote a Victorian mystery. 
• Adele Parks wishes for more nuanced portrayals of sex workers in crime fiction.
  
• Michael Wiley explains how a dead body found in his neighbourhood influenced his fiction. 
• James Buckler shares the inspiration for his crime novel The Simple Truth.
  
• Bruce Riordan shares his appreciation for the Lincoln Lawyer series by Michael Connelly.
  
• Rick Rubin explains why people should read Sherlock Holmes before they're twenty-one. 
• Lucy Knight reports that British writer and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi suffered a serious spinal injury after an accident in Rome and may remain paralysed. 
   

Best of 2022:

• George Easter shares the most mentioned 2022 books from several year's best crime fiction lists.
  
• Garrick Webster shares his five favourite crime novels of 2022.
• Kathy Reel shares her favourite crime novels of 2022. 
• Criminal Element share their favourite crime novels of 2022.
  
• Crime by the Book shares their favourite crime novels of 2022. 
• Raven Crime Reads shares their favourite crime novels of 2022.
  
• Grab This Book shares their favourite crime novels of 2022. 
• Mystery Tribune shares their favourite crime novels, mysteries and thrillers of 2022.
  
• Jim Winters shares his favourite crime novels of 2022. 
  
• Lesa Holstine shares her favourite crime and other novels of 2022. 
• Bill Selnes shares his favourite crime novels of 2022. 
• Happiness is a Book shares their favourite crime novels of 2022.
  
• True Crime Fiction share their favourite crime novels of 2022. 
• Paromita Chakrabarti shares their favourite detective novels of 2022.
  
• Kirkus shares the best indie mysteries and thrillers of 2022. 
• Stop, You're Killing Me! share their favourite debut crime novels of 2022.
  
• Marlene Harris shares her favourite crime and SFF novels of 2022. 
• The Killing Times share their five favourite crime dramas of 2022. 
• True Crime Fiction shares their favourite true crime podcasts of 2022.
  

 

Tributes to Fay Weldon:

• British novelist and screenwriter Fay Weldon has died aged 91.
• Claire Armitstead shares an obituary for Fay Weldon. 
• Jenny Colgan remembers Fay Weldon. 
• Lara Feifel, Amanda Craig and Lisa Allardice remember Fay Weldon.
  
• Alex Clark remembers Fay Weldon.

 

 Film and TV:

• Paul Hirons looks ahead at crime dramas coming out in 2022. 
• Keith Roysdon shares seven crime movies that should have started a series.
  
• Andrew Nette praises the Australian-American noir hitman drama Mr. Inbetween.  
• Stuart Heritage calls Kaleidoscope a fun and gripping heist thriller whose episodes can be watched in any order. 
• Max Gao calls Will Trent a promising crime drama.
  
• Gianmaria Tammaro calls The Bad Guy a mafia drama that breaks with mafia show traditions. 
• Lucy Mangan calls The Light in the Hall a wintery thriller and praises the performance of Joanna Scanlan.
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls The Enforcer a by the numbers revenge thriller.
  
• Cath Clarke calls The Minute You Wake Up Dead a shonky mystery. 
• Jack Seale finds that Our Flag Means Death wastes the talents of some of the best comedians in the world. 
  
• 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. 
• Steve Rose interviews S.S. Rajamouli, director of RRR.  
• Larry Beinhart revisits the 1997 political satire Wag the Dog.
  
• Cheryl Eddy revisits the 1999 X-Files episode "Millennium".  
• Sian Cain reports that actor Jeremy Renner, best known for playing Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as well as for his roles in Mayor of Kingstown and The Town, has been hospitalised following a serious accident while snow-ploughing.  
• Sian Cain shares more information about Jeremy Renner's snow-ploughing accident.  
• Sian Cain also shares Jeremy Renner's first statement after his accident.  
• The Guardian shares some video footage of Jeremy Renner in hospital. 
  
• Fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood has died aged 81.

 

Comments on Glass Onion: 

• Leah Schnelbach calls Glass Onion a multifaceted mystery.
  
• Comic Book Nation call Glass Onion one of the best movies of 2022.
• Sara Eslami shares her thoughts on Glass Onion. 
• Yang-Yi Goh interviews Dave Bautista, star of Guardians of the Galaxy, Dune and Glass Onion. 
  
• Therapist Clay Cockrell says that Glass Onion's protrayal of the ultra-wealthy is not as far-fetched as it may seem.
  

 

Comments on season 2 of Slow Horses: 

• Tom Philip shares his thoughts on the season 2 finale of Slow Horses.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the sason 2 finale of Slow Horses.
  

 

Comments on series 3 of Happy Valley:

• Lucy Mangan calls series 3 of Happy Valley a masterpiece and as excellent as ever.
• Michael Hogan calls the first episode of series 3 of Happy Valley a sweary return for one of TV's most unforgettable characters. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 1 of series 3 of Happy Valley.
   

Comments on Three Pines:

• Paul Levinson calls Three Pines a unique and wonderful crime drama.
• Bill Selnes shares his thoughts on season 1 of Three Pines.

 

Comments on Stonehouse: 

• Rebecca Nicholson calls Stonehouse a fun, death-faking romp and praises the performance of Matthew Macfadyen.
• Harriet Sherwood reports that the true 1974 case upon which Stonehouse is based was even more fascinating than the TV drama.
  

 

Comments on Till: 

• Peter Bradshaw calls Till a powerful portrait of courage in the face of barbaric racism.
• Ellen E. Jones interviews Chinonye Chukwu, director of Till.
  
• Dalya Alberge chronicles the difficultier producer Barbara Broccoli had in getting Till made. 
  

 

 Comments on Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street:

• Chitra Ramaswamy finds Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street haw-dropping from start to finish.
  
• David Smith shares his thoughts on the true crime documentary Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street.

 

Comments on Jeremy Renner's snow-ploughing accident: 

• Sian Cain reports that actor Jeremy Renner, best known for playing Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has been hospitalised following a serious accident while snow-ploughing. 
• Sian Cain shares more information about Jeremy Renner's snow-ploughing accident. 
• Sian Cain also shares Jeremy Renner's first statement after his accident. 
• The Guardian shares some video footage of Jeremy Renner in hospital.

 

Awards:

• The winner of the 2022 Reprint of the Year Award has been announced. 
• The winner of the 2022 Deutscher Krimipreis has been announced.
• Alexander McCall Smith has won the 2022 Saltire Society Lifetime Achievement Award.
• The winner of the 2022 Darth Vader Parenthood Award for Outstandingly Horrible Fictional Parents has been announced.
• The winner of the 2022 Jonathan and Martha Kent Fictional Parent of the Year Award has been announced.

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• David Steffen explains how to read a short story contract.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about social media for authors.
  
• Mark Piesing claims that AI audiobook narration is inevitable.
  
• Brandon Sanderson criticises the business practices of Audible. 
• Ted Gioia explains how James Daunt turned Barnes & Noble around.
  
• Phoenix Tso and Mike Roe report that a new bookstore in Pasadena, California, will be named after Octavia E. Butler. 
• Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter report that Filippo Bernadini has plead guilty to stealing several unpublished manuscripts.

 

Interviews: 

• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Jane Harper.
• All About Agatha interviews Maureen Johnson. 
• The Guardian interviews Alex Wheatle.
  

Reviews:

• Anthony Cummins reviews Sugar Street by Jonathan Dee.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews The Killer in the Snow by Alex Pine. 
• Mandie Griffiths reviews Cold As the Grave by James Oswald.
  
• BOLO Books reviews Hide by Tracy Clark. 
• John Valeri reviews All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham.
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews What His Wife Knew by Jo Jakeman. 
• Paperback Warrior reviews Say It Was Murder by Stephen Mertz. 
• Jen Lucas reviews In Too Deep by Simon McCleave. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Other Sister by Peter Mohlin and Peter Nystrӧm
  
• Michelle Carpenter reviews The Break by Katie Sise. 
• Sara Townsend reviews The Launch Party by Lauren Forry,
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Crow 27 by Matt Johnson. 
• Paul Burke reviews Emperor by John Fullerton.
  
• Sandra Mangan reviews Dancing With Dusty Fossils by Karen Charlton.
• Sara Townsend reviews Begars Abbey by V.L. Valentine.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood. 
• Erin Britton reviews Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood.  
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Mysterious Case Of The Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett.
  
• Beth Kanell reviews Showstopper by Peter Lovesey. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Fatal Fascinator by Jenn McKinlay.
  
• Beth Kanell reviews On Spine of Death by Tamara Berry.
• Lis Carey reviews The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal.  
• Adrienne Martini reviews Among Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch 
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Three Pint Problems by Melvin Small.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Private Beijing by James Patterson and Adam Hamdy. 
• Adrian Collins reviews The Fade Out: The Complete Collection by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.
   

Classics reviews:

• Lesa Holstine revisits the 1912 mystery collection The Master of Mysteries by Gelett Burgess.
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1933 mystery Fatality in Fleet Street by Christopher St. John Sprigg.
  
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1944 mystery Murder After Christmas by Rupert Latimer. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1947 Anthony Bathurst mystery Exit Sir John by Brian Flynn. 
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1947 mystery He Died of Murder by Shelley Smith.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1947 mystery Heir to Lucifer by Miles Burton.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1956 mystery The Lord Have Mercy a.k.a. The Shrew is Dead by Shelley Smith.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1959 Montgomary Nash spy novel The Bloody Medallion by Richard Telfair a.k.a. Richard Jessup. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1967 mystery Murder Fantastical by Patricia Moyes. 
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1974 Black Samurai men's adventure novel Killer Warrior by Marc Olden.
  
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1985 SOBs men's adventure novel River of Flesh by Jack Hild a.k.a. Robin Hardy. 
• C.T. Phipps revisits the 1987 Garrett P.I. fantasy mystery Sweet Silver Blues by Glenn Cook.
  
• W.A. Winter revisits the 1988 crime novel Paris Trout by Pete Dexter.
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1988 mystery Tangle by Meg Elizabeth Atkins.
  

Con and event reports:

• Rich Lynch reports about a visit to the "Entertainment Nation" exhibition at the National Museum of American History in Washington DC.
• Dalya Alberge reports that many castles, museums and theatres in the UK are forced to close because of rising energy prices. 
• Michael Billington reports about a new production of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams in London, UK, and wonders why the play remains so perennially popular.
  

 

Research:

• Camestros Felapton wonders why there seem to be fewer serial killers than there used to be.
• Ramon Antonio Vargas reports that the murder of four students of the University of Idaho has been solved,when the killer's DNA was found in a genealogy database.
  
• Gwen Florio talks about the murder of Johnny Joe Belmarez in Missoula, Montana, in 2010 and why it took so long for the killers to be brought to justice.
• Kady Ruth Ashcraft reports about the case of romance author Susan Meacham who faked her own suicide in 2020, only to reappear alive in 2022.
  
• Beezy Marsh reports about Alice Diamond and her all-women gang of thieves who operated in London in the early twentieth century. 

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Dark Side of the Moon" by Robert Weibezahl in Mystery Tribune.
• "Bedtime Stories" by Andrew Robinson in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Ricochet" by Trelana Daniel in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "Term Life" by Kevin Egan in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine's Podcast 
• "Naruoma, the Cow Detective of the Millennium" by Rešoketšwe Manenzhe in Omenana.
  
• "Where Donald J. Trump Has Been Jumping the Shark" by Clay Thistleton in The Five-Two.
   

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Poker Face. 
• Watch a trailer for Sick.