Crime Fiction Links of the Week for January 14, 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 series 3 of Happy Valley, The Pale Blue Eye, Welcome to Chippendales, the Friday the 13th movies and much more.

Crime fiction in general:  

• Molly Odintz shares her most anticipated crime novels of 2023.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Jeff Meyerson shares his favourite crime books of 2022.
  
• Fiona Noble shares a round-up of some recent YA crime and mystery novels.
• Lisa Levy shares five psychological thrillers to read this January.
  
• Tracy Clark shares ten books by crime writers of colour to enjoy.
  
• John Harper talks about the new wave of crime fiction set in Los Angeles, California. 
• Jay A. Gertzman talks about wilderness and civilisation in rural noir. 
• Jennifer Herrera wonders why so many women are murdered in crime novels, even though in the real world men are far more likely to be victims of violent crimes.
  
• Leah Conen shares five thrillers about secrets between couples. 
• Heather Darwent explains why campus thrillers are so enduringly popular. 
• Maria Dono talks about writing a mystery that defies rationality. 
• Christoffer Carlsson explains how he came to be a crime writer.
  
• Amanda Pellegrino discusses how to avoid exploitation when fictionalising true crime. 
• Janice Hallett chronicles how true crime writers can fall victim to tragedy.
  
• Linda Reilly tells book lover to stop feeling guilty about the size of the TBR pile. 
  
• Molly Templeton goes in search of new reading rituals. 
  
• The Obelisk takes a look at Robert E. Howard's occult investigators Professor John Kirowan and John Conrad. 
  
• Ryan Harvey takes a look at Robert E. Howard's weird menace pulp stories.  
• A.J. Willingham reports about the saga of romance author Stephanie Meacham who faked her own suicide.  
  
• J. Kingston Pierce shares a list of notable people in the crime fiction community who died in 2022.
   

 Film and TV:

• Paul Levinson calls Treason a top-notch spy series. 
• Paul Levinson compares the non-linear heist thriller Kaleidoscope to the works of Martin Scorsese and Akira Kurosawa. 
• Manuel Betancourt finds season 2 of Mayor of Kingstown even bleaker than season 1.
  
• David Cote calls Stonehouse an amusing true crime series and praises the performance of Matthew Macfadyen.
  
• Calvin McMillan calls Decision to Leave a noir romantic comedy. 
• Rebecca Nicholson calls The Reunion a ludicrous and unexpectedly gruesome TV thriller.
  
• Jordan Hoffman calls Plane a run-of-the-mill action film. 
• Murtada Elfadi calls Saint Omer an empathetic portrayal of a woman accused of infanticide.  
  
• Adrian Horton calls Sick an efficient pandemic horror slasher.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Echo 3.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 2 finale of The Mosquito Coast. 
• William Hughes shares his thoughts on the revival of Night Court.
  
• John Copenhaver criticises that Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story equates gayness with monstrosity. 
• Lucy Mangan calls In the Footsteps of Killers a disrepectful true crime show that will make your soul recoil.
  
• Leila Latif calls the documentary Spector a complex portrait of legendary music producer Phil Spector, who created the "wall of sound" effect and murdered actress Lana Clarkson.  
• Phil Hoad profiles David Lynch, director of Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Dune and many others. 
  
• Ann Lee interviews Kathleen Turner, star of Body Heat and Romancing the Stone.  
• Jesse Hassenger praises Joe Pesci, supporting actor in many crime movies.
• Scott Adlerberg compares the 1980 crime movie Gloria and the 2008 crime movie Julia. 
• Ben Kenigsberg explains why some movies get restored and others languish. 
• Russell T. Davies discusses his love for soap operas. 
• Katie Kilkenny and Winston Cho wonder what impact AI writing programs like ChatGP will have on Hollywood screenwriters. 
  
• Si Litvinoff, producer of A Clockwork Orange, The Man Who Fell to Earth and Walkabout, has died aged 93.
• Actor Earl Boen who played psychologist Dr. Peter Silberman in the first three Terminator movies and who also appeared in Battle Beyond the Stars, The Man With Two Brains, Alien Nation, The Naked Gun and Scarecrow and Mrs. King, has died aged 81.
  

 

Comments on series 3 of Happy Valley:

• Emma Brockes finds series 3 of Happy Valley better than ever. 
• Neela Debnath declares that Happy Valley is back with a bang for series 3.
  
• Michael Hogan shares his thoughts on the latest episode of series 3 of Happy Valley.
• Neela Debnath interviews Shane Zaza, who plays PC Shafiq Shah in Happy Valley.
• Abby Robinson profiles Mark Stanley, one of the stars of Happy Valley. 
  

 

Comments on The Pale Blue Eye: 

• Nick Romano interviews Harry Melling, who appeared in the Harry Potter movies as a child and now stars in The Pale Blue Eye as Edgar Allan Poe. 
• Scott Simon also interviews Harry Melling.

 

Comments on Welcome to Chippendales: 

• Joel Golby calls Welcome to Chippendales a tedious crime drama that should be a warning to the entire TV industry. 
• Lucy Mangan calls Welcome to Chippendales a superficial crime drama that does not do its subject justice.
  
• Ammar Kalia interviews Kumail Nanjiani, who appeared in Eternals, Obi-Wan Kenobi and stars in Welcome to Chippendales.  
  

 

 Comments on the Friday the 13th movies: 

• Cheryl Eddy ranks the Friday the 13th movies.
• Cheryl Eddy also ranks the most gruesome murders in the Friday the 13th movies.
  

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2023 MWA Grand Master, Raven and Ellery Queen Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2023 Golden Globes have been announced with little love for crime film and TV. 
• The nominations for the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced with quite a bit of love for crime film and TV.  
• The finalists for the 2023 Writers Guild Television Awards have been announced with quite a bit of love for crime TV. 
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Lincoln Michel talks about bad writing habits stemming from visual media and how to avoid them. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about selling books directly via your website.
  
• Porter Anderson reports that the revenues of US publishers have dropped by more than five percent last year.
  
• Locus offers an update on the ongoing strike of the HarperCollins Union. 
• The Guardian reports that Filippo Bernardini has pleaded guilty to stealing more than 1000 unpublished manuscripts.
  
• Leyland Cecco reports about Apple's controversial decision to offer AI-narrated audiobooks on its platform.
• Zoe Wood reports that the number of independent bookshops in the UK has hit a ten-year high in spite of other retail shops suffering in 2022. 
• Sarah Shaffi that independent bookstores in the UK fear for the future in spite of their numbers rising. 
• Bookseller Joyce Meskis, founder of the Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver, Colorado, has died aged 80.

 

Interviews: 

• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Lisa Jewell. 
• Eli Cranor interviews Jane Harper.
  
• Kevin Canfield interviews Iris Yamashita.
  
• Paul Burke interviews Robert Goddard.
  
• Debbi Mack interviews Lynn Slaughter. 
• Alex Segura interviews Kelly J. Ford.
  
• Molly Odintz interviews Eric LaRocca. 
• E.B. Davis interviews V.M. Burns.
  
• E.B. Davis interviews Sherry Harris. 
  
• Shane Whaley interviews Adam Brookes.
  

Reviews:

• Fabienne Schwizer reviews Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths.
• Paul Burke reviews The Drift by C.J. Tudor.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Dead Man's Creek by Chris Hammer. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews Dead Man's Creek by Chris Hammer.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Breakneck Point by T. Orr Munro. 
• Jen Lucas reviews Devil's Way by Robert Bryndza. 
  
• Beth Kanell reviews Blown by the Same Wind by John Straley.
• Marlene Harris reviews Sleep No More by Jayne Ann Krentz. 
• Jen Lucas reviews All Night Long by Rachel Amphlett. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita. 
• Gwen Moffat reviews A Death in Tokyo by Keigo Higashino, translated by Giles Murray. 
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Devil You Know by P.J. Tracy. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Doomed Legacy by Matt Coyle.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews No One Left to Come Looking for You by Sam Lipsyte
• Jen Lucas reviews Dirt by Sarah Sultoon. 
• Colin Grant reviews White Riot by Joe Thomas.
  
• Mandie Griffiths reviews Red As Blood by Lilja Sigurdardóttir, translated by Quentin Bates.
• The Book Decoder reviews Hidden Pieces by Mary Keliikoa. 
• Rob Doyle reviews The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis.
  
• Gayle Surrette reviews The Cloisters by Katy Hays. 
• Alice Jolly reviews The Cloisters by Katy Hays. 
• Sandra Newman reviews Avalon by Nell Zink. 
  
• Marlene Harris reviews Breaking the Circle by M.J. Trow 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews An Honourable Thief by Douglas Skelton.
  
• Marlene Harris reviews Courting Dragons by Jeri Westerson. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Courting Dragons by Jeri Westerson.
  
• Beth Kanell reviews The Motion Picture Teller by Colin Cotterill. 
• Lis Carey reviews The Crown Jewel Mystery by Anna Elliott and Charles Veley. 
• Imogene Russell Williams reviews The Detention Detectives by Lis Jardine.
  
• The Book Decoder reviews Antique Tragedy by Victoria Tait. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Game is a Footnote by Vicki Delany. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Secrets Typed in Blood by Stephen Spotswood. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Of Mushrooms and Matrimony by Amy Patricia Meade. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Baked Off by Maya Corrigan.
  
• Crossexamining Crime reviews Murder on the Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict.
  
• The Book Decoder reviews Murder at First Pitch by Nicole Asselin. 
• Gary Younge reviews Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster.
  
• BOLO Books reviews Dark Deeds Down Under, edited by Craig Sisterson.
   

Classics reviews:

• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1905 Professor Van Dusen mystery The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle.
  
• Patricia Matson revisits the 1914 supernatural thriller The Thing in the Woods by Harper Williams. 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1919 mystery collection Snake-Bite and Other Mystery Tales of the Sahara by Robert S. Hichens.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1930 Dr. John Thorndyke mystery Mr. Pottermack's Oversight by R. Austin Freeman. 
  
• Vintage Pop Fiction revisits the 1942 crime novel Repeat Performance by William O'Farrell.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1949 mystery Villainy at Vespers by Joan Cockin.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1952 crime novel The Cheaters by Ledru S. Baker Jr.
  
• Curtis Evans revisits the 1960 crime novel Hall of Death by Nedra Tyre.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1961 noir novel Carnival Girl by Max Gareth a.k.a. Stuart James.
  
• Vintage Pop Fictions revisits the 1966 Peter Ward spy novel The Towers of Silence by David St. John a.k.a. E. Howard Hunt.
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1974 The Butcher men's adventure novel Valley of Death by Stuart Jason a.k.a. Lee Floren.
  

Con and event reports:

• The 2023 Crime Cymru Festival in Aberystwyth, Wales, shares its list of guests and some programming highlights.
• Rich Lynch reports about a visit to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York.
• Arifa Akbar reports about a new production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in London, UK. 
• Camestros Felapton reports about a new production of Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus in Sydney, Australia. 
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Horror and crime writer Laird Barron needs help with medical expenses. 

 

Research:

• Julie Miller explains how infamous jewel thief and folk hero Jack Murphy became a murderer.
  
• Erum Salam reports about the shooting of school teacher Abby Zwerner by a six-year-old student.
• Ian Parker discusses the murder of professional cyclist Moriah Wilson.
  
• Laura Joh Rowland shares a guide to Victorian death rites.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Brothers in Arms" by Bill Vernon in Mystery Tribune.
• "The Ride" by Ernest Sadashige in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "The Settlement" by Anthony Kane Evans in Mystery Tribune. 
• “From the Memoirs of Robert Franklin Bear, Jr.” by Brenda Seabrooke in Mystery Tribune.
• "To Whom It May Concern" by Serena Jayne in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Antsy" by Tachary Wilhide in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "What Kind of Criminal” by LaToya Jovena in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's Fiction Podcast
• "Getting Even and Getting Ahead" by Charles Rammelkamp in The Five-Two. 
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Yellowjackets.
  
• Watch a trailer for Velma.
• Watch a trailer for Sick.