Crime Fiction Links of the Week for January 21, 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, season 2 of Mayor of Kingstown, Plane, Missing, Accused, the various Law and Order shows, Alice Darling, the saga of romance author Susan Meachem, who faked her own death, the impact of AI on writing and art, the HarperCollins strike, the legal consequences of the shooting of cinematorgrapher Halyne Hutchins on the set of Rust, tributes to Gina Lollobrigida and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
  
• Glen Davis shares his favourite crime novels and mysteries of 2022. 
• Crime Reads shares the best international crime novels for January.
  
• Crime Reads shares the best debut crime novels for January.
  
• Aubrey Hamilton offers a guide to the golden age of mystery.
• Stephen Amidon talks about the shadowy menace of American suburbs and why they make perfect settings for crime novels and thrillers. 
• Joe Thomas explains why he wrote a crime novel set in Hackney, London, UK.
  
• Samuel Martin shares his favourite North Atlantic noir novels. 
• Natalie Marlow discusses the portrayal of male characters in noir and hardboiled crime fiction.
  
• Douglas Skelton explains why he chose to write a historical crime novel. 
• Nick Kolakowski discusses writing a novella in the long-running multi-author Grifter's Song series.
  
• Anna Reyes talks about the art of stories within stories. 
• Molly Templeton notes that every book should be read at its right time. 
  
• Douglas A. Anderson profiles Arthur A. Nelson. 
• J.H. Markert recounts how reading Stephen King inspired him to write.
  
• Priya Sridhar weighs in on the case of Susan Meachem, the romance author who faked her own death.  
• Ellen Barry weighs in on the case of Susan Meachem, the romance author who faked her own death.  
   

 Film and TV:

• Sandra Mangan calls Three Pines an entertaining way to pass a winter evening. 
• Alexis Gunderson praises how Karen Pirie recreates the 1990s in its cold case flashbacks.
  
• Paul Levinson calls the first episode of season 2 of Your Honor brutal and wrenching. 
• Phil Hoad calls Everything Under Control an endearing crime comedy from Hongkong.
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls The Substitute a vehement and inspiring teacher thriller from Argentina.
  
• Phuong Le calls Hide and Seek a devastating and dazzling study of street crime in Italy. 
• Peter Bradshaw notes that the Iranian true crime thriller Holy Spider manages to make the real case it's based upon seem implausible.
  
• Phuong Le calls Radio Silence an intimate documentary about a Mexican investigative journalist in the face of danger. 
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 1 finale of Echo 3.
• Garrick Webster looks ahead at the Danish crime series Grow.
  
• Clayton Davis interviews Ram Charan Teja and N.T. Rama Rao Jr., stars of RRR. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1997 mystery TV-movie The Ice House.
  
• Bill Koenig recalls that The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and with it the fashion for spy shows ended in January 1968. 
• Andrew Liszewski shares the coolest vehicles from 1980s and 1990s TV shows. 
  
• Ben Child wonders whether popular movies like Everything Everywhere All At Once, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever or Top Gun Maverick will have a chance at Oscar glory. 
  
• Rob Bricken reports that legendary film composer John Williams is not retiring after all.  
• Felipe Rangel reports that Mark Hamill will not voice the Joker again, following the death of Kevin Conroy, who voiced Batman a.k.a. Bruce Wayne.   
• Ramon Antonio Vargas reports that actor Alec Baldwin and armourer Hannah Gutierrez Reed will be charged with involuntary manslaughter following the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust.  
• Richard Luscombe has more details about the charges brought against Alec Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed for the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins.
• Lois Beckett reports that British actor Julian Sands, who appeared in Boxing Helena, The Killing Fields, Naked Lunch, 24 and many others, has gone missing during a hike in California. 
  

 

Tributes to Gina Lollobrigida:

• Italian actress and photographer Gina Lollobrigida, who appeared in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beat the Devil, Solomon and Sheba, Fanfan Le Tulipe, Trapeze, Woman of Straw and many others, has died aged 95.
• John Francis Lane shares an obituary for Gina Lollobrigida.
• Carmel Dagan and Nick Vivarelli remember Gina Lollobrigida.
• Greg Whitmore shares photos from Gina Lollobrigida's career.
  

 

Comments on series 3 of Happy Valley:

• Michael Hogan shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Happy Valley.
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 2 of Happy Valley. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on episode 3 of Happy Valley. 
  

 

Comments on The Pale Blue Eye: 

• Paul Levinson calls The Pale Blue Eye a splendid secret history mystery.
• Patrick Hayes explains why The Pale Blue Eye got such negative critical reactions.
• Tim Molloy explains how The Pale Blue Eye reverse-engineers the works of Edgar Allen Poe.
  
• Chase Hutchinson explains the end of The Pale Blue Eye. 
  

 

Comments on Mayor of Kingstown: 

• Manuel Betancourt finds season 2 of Mayor of Kingstown even bleaker than season 1. 
  
• Lynette Rice interviews Hugh Dillon, creator of Mayor of Kingstown,
  
• Erum Salam reports that actor Jeremy Renner, star of Hawkeye and Mayor of Kingstown, has been released from hospital, following his snow ploughing accident.

 

 Comments on Plane: 

• Jordan Hoffman calls Plane a run-of-the-mill action film. 
  
• Benjamin Lee calls Plane a rickety thriller that never takes off. 
• Nick Allen declares that the dumb title is the best thing about Plane.
  

 

Comments on Accused:

• Max Gao calls Accused a fresh courtroom drama anthology series.
  
• Cristina Escobar calls Accused an emotionally manipulative void. 

 

Comments on Missing: 

• Leigh Monson calls Missing a twisty technothriller.
• Benjamin Lee calls Missing an inventive, if overly sentimental thriller sequel. 
  

 

Comments on the various Law and Order shows: 

• Thomas West declares that the reason the revival of the original Law and Order is so successful is Sam Waterston, who plays district attorney Jack McCoy.
• Lukas Shayo reports that the rumours of a feud between Law and Order stars Christopher Meloni and Ice-T are false.
  

 

Comments on Alice, Darling: 

• Luke Y. Thompson calls Alice, Darling an affecting portrait of emotional abuse. 
  
• Peter Bradshaw praises Anna Kendrick's performance in Alice, Darling.
  

 

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2023 Edgar Awards have been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2023 Lefty Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2023 Joffe Books Prize for Crime Writers of Colour have been announced.
• The finalists for the 2023 Writers Guild Television Awards have been announced with some of love for crime TV.   
• The finalists for the 2023 Producers Guild Awards have been announced with some love for crime film and TV. 
  
• The finalists for the 2023 VES Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2023 Bafta Film Awards have been announced with little love for crime film.  
• The finalists for the 2023 Bafta Rising Star Awards have been announced.  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Benjamin Stevenson talks about the rules of writing crime fiction and when to break them. 
• Mark Ellis asks if historical accuracy matters in fiction.
  
• Brian Keene talks about AI generated writing and how it threatens writers' jobs.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch weighs in on the rise of AI in writing, art and audio narration.
  
• Katie Kilkenny and Winston Cho wonder what impact AI writing programs like ChatGP will have on Hollywood screenwriters.  
• Camestros Felapton talks about the arms race between writing AIs and systems to detect AI writing.
• Susan Stitt reports about some troublesome changes to Amazon's Author Central pages. 
• Emell Derra Adolphus shares an update about the ongoing strike of the HarperCollins union.
• Jim Milliot shares an update about the ongoing strike of the HarperCollins union.
• Dan Kois discusses the HarperCollins strike from the POV of a debut author at HarperCollins.
  
• Locus reports that Gina Centrello, president of the Random House Publishing Group, is retiring.
• Sarah Shaffi reports that after the Arabic bookshop Al Saqi Books in London, UK, closed at the end of 2022, a former staff member is fundraising to open a new Arabic bookstore called Maqam Books & Community.
  
• Hilary Danailova lists Jewish-owned bookstore in the US.

 

Interviews: 

• Victoria Selman interviews Steve Cavanagh and Imran Mahmood. 
• Garrick Webster interviews Katja Ivar.
  
• Anthony Cummins interviews Bret Easton Ellis.
• Lisa Haselton interviews M.H.R. Greer. 
• Grace Topping interviews Kait Carson.
  

Reviews:

• Mandie Griffiths reviews Blowback by Peter May.
• Mandie Griffiths reviews A Winter Grave by Peter May. 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Drift by C.J. Tudor.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews The Night Watch by Neil Lancaster. 
• Mary Picken reviews Dead Man's Creek by Chris Hammer. 
• Jeff Popple reviews Devil's Way by Robert Bryndza.
  
• BOLO Books reviews The Blue Bar by Damyanti Biswas.
• Marlene Harris reviews City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita.
  
• BOLO Books reviews Blaze Me a Sun by Christoffer Carlsson.
• Kirkus reviews Reef Road by Deborah Goodrich Royce. 
• Paul Burke reviews The Simple Truth by James Buckler.
  
• The Civilian Reader reviews Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper.
• Crime by the Book reviews All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews That Dangerous Energy by Aya de León.  
• Bitter Tea and Mystery reviews Death in the Off Season by Francine Matthews.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell. 
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews So Pretty by Ronnie Turner. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Villa by Rachel Hawkins.
  
• Mark Yon reviews The Cloisters by Katy Hays.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews The Sanctuary by Emma Haughton. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews The Last Resort by Michael Kaufman.
  
• Kirkus reviws River of Fallen Angels by Laura Joh Rowland. 
• Aunt Agatha's reviews Picture in the Sand by Peter Blauner. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews City of Fortune by Victoria Thompson. 
• Paperback Warrior reviews Five Decembers by James Kestrel
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Trouble by Katja Ivar. 
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Motion Picture Teller by Colin Cotterill 
• George Hajjar reviews The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody by Ahmed Taibaoui, translated by Jonathan Wright  
• Marion Deeds reviews The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal. 
  
• Erin Britton reviews The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett
  
• BOLO Books reviews Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Magic, Pies and Deadly Lies by Misha Propp. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Class Reunions Are Murder by Libby Klein and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Death in Heels by Kitty Murphy. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Vinyl Resting Place by Olivia Blacke.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Book Club to Die For by Dorothy St. James. 
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Rum and Choke by Sherry Harris.
  
• Lis Carey reviews Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch. 
  
• Lis Carey reviews The Early Conundrums: A Spade/Paladin Collection by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 
• Lis Carey reviews Ten Little Fen by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 
• Martin Edwards reviews Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and The Poetics of Murder by David Bordwell.
   

Classics reviews:

• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1905 Raffles crime fiction collection A Thief in the Night by E.W. Hornung.
  
• Odin Halverson revisits the 1912 mystery collection The Master of Mysteries by Gelett Burgess
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1933 Inspector Arnold mystery Tragedy at the Thirteenth Hole by Miles Burton,
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1934 mystery Murder at the Bookstall by Henry Holt.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1945 mystery The Birthday Murder by Lange Lewis. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1949 noir novel The Devil's Daughter by Peter Marsh a.k.a. Alan Williams.
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1951 suspense novel A Gentle Murderer by Dorothy Salisbury Davis.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the January 1951 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1952 Abercrombie Lewker mystery The Corpse in the Crevasse by Glyn Carr. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1953 mystery Murder Most Familiar by Marjorie Bremner. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1954 Dr. Priestley mystery The Dovebury Murders by John Rhode.
  
• The Crime Segments revisits the 1955 crime novel Awake and Die by Robert Ames.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1961 adventure novel South Pacific Affair by Ed Lacy a.k.a. Leonard Zinberg.  
• The SFFAudio Podcast revisits the 1972 technothriller Binary by John Lange a.k.a. Michael Crichton.  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1988 MIA Hunter men's adventure novel Miami Warzone by Jack Buchanan a.k.a. Bill Crider.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 2002 historical mystery The Ruffler's Child by John Pilkington.
  

Con and event reports:

• Associated Press shares the program for the 2023 California International Antiquarian Book Fair in Pasadena, California. 
  
• David Smith reports about hard times on Broadway with many highly acclaimed shows closing early.

 

Crowdfunding:

• Fat Jack's comic shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, needs some help to recover from the financial impact of covid closures.
• Maqam Books & Community in London, UK, is looking for funding to open a new bookshop focussed on Arabic literature after Al Saqi Books closed at the end of 2022.

 

Research:

• Kenneth Hite explains what it feels like to get shot.
• Victoria Houston explains how the art world and the crime world are entangled with each other. 
• Lorenzo Tondo reports that Italian police has found a secret bunker used by Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "The Last Gumshoe" by Aaron Sommers in Mystery Tribune. 
  
• "Helpless" by Eleanor Sharman in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "Sycorax, Ohio" by Robert Pope in Mystery Tribune.
• "So Sue Me" by Robert Bagnell in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Sunflowers" by Cristian Cantir in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Owl Be Damned" by Nikki Knight in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
• "The Monster in Our Midst" by Kris Nelscott a.k.a. Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 
• "George Santos, Republican Representative-Elect From New York's Third Congressional District" by Robert Cooperman.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for Marlowe.
  
• Watch a trailer for Gotham Knights. 
• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Yellowjackets.