Crime Fiction Links of the Week for February 4, 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, Poker Face, Criminal Minds: Evolution, Saint Omer, tributes to Annie Wershing, Lisa Loring and Cindy Williams and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Read shares ten new crime novels to read this February.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Sandie Herron shares her favourite crime novels and mysteries of 2022. 
  
• Paul French talks about crime novels set in Cork, Ireland. 
• Jessie Keane explains how running away from home to Soho as a teenager inspired her Annie Carter thrillers.
  
• Lea O'Harra explains why both small town American and small town Japan make great crime fiction settings.
  
• Valona Jones talks about getting the investigative details right in cozy mysteries. 
• Elle Cosimano wonders how much sex is too much in mystery fiction. 
• Elliot Sweeney explains why including social themes and issues into crime novel makes for rich stories.
  
• Hank Philippi Ryan explains why house guests are such a great subject for mysteries and thrillers. 
• Neil Nyren shares his appreciation for the hardboiled detective novels of Marcia Muller. 
  
• Pamela Paul revisits the controversy surrounding American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. 
• Dana Snitzky also revisits the American Dirt controversy.
  
• David Barnett discusses how young readers are embracing Jane Austen. 
• Molly Templeton points out that there is nothing wrong with anybody's personal library. 
  

 

Film and TV:

• Dwyer Murphy lists crime shows to watch this February. 
• Martin Edwards calls Stowaway a perfectly watchable thriller with an unimaginative title.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Your Honor. 
• Garrick Webster looks ahead at the Irish crime drama North Sea Connection. 
• Meredith Hobbs Coons calls Murder in Big Horn a ture crime series about the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women.
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls You Resemble Me a potent docu-drama about a female supposed suicide bomber who turned out to be a victim.
  
• Emine Saner calls Emily Attack: Asking for It a sickening documentary about online sexual harrassment. 
• Gabrielle Sanchez points out that there has never been a better time to watch Columbo, considering the resurgence of whodunnits in film and TV.
  
• Mark Lawson recounts how terrified British politicians and religious leaders were of television and how they tried to limit broadcasting times. 
  
• Paul Burke interviews Matthew Gentile, director of American Murderer.
  
• Elle Hunt interviews Sarah Michelle Gellar, star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Wolf Pack, Masters of the Universe Revelation, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scooby Doo and many others.
  
• Tim Lewis interviews Helena Bonham-Carter, star of the Harry Potter movies, Ocean's 8, Enola Holmes, Sweeney Todd, Fight Club and many others.  
• The Guardian reports that Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been released from prison after a hunger strike. 
  
• Ronald Bergan shares an obituary for Sylvia Syms.
• Actress Cindy Williams, star of Laverne and Shirley, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Gas-s-s-s, The Killing Kind, UFOria and many others, has died aged 75. 
  

 

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 the latest episode of Happy Valley. 
• Stuart Heritage declares that it's small details like graffiti, grammar and farts that make Happy Valley so great.
  
• Readers of the Guardian share their fan theories on how Happy Valley will end.
  

 

Comments on Poker Face: 

• Saloni Gajjar declares that episode 3 and 4 of Poker Face fulfil the promise of the two-part premiere.
• Saloni Gajjar shares her thoughts on episode 5 of Poker Face.
  
• Olivia Rutigliano declares that Poker Face is a crackling, groovy, heirloom PI show.
  

 

Comments on Criminal Minds: Evolution: 

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the second to latest episode of Criminal Minds: Evolution and finds the show better than ever. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Criminal Minds: Evolution and particularly the character of David Rossi.

 

Comments on Saint Omer: 

• Peter Bradshaw calls Saint Omer an extraordinary courtroom drama based on a real life case.
• Jonathan Romney interviews Alice Diop, director of Saint Omer.  
  

 

Tributes to Annie Wershing and Lisa Loring: 

• Actress Annie Wershing, who appeared in Star Trek Picard, Runaway, Bosch, Timeless, The Rookie and 24 among others, has died aged only 45.
• Stuart Heritage shares a tribute to Annie Wershing.
  
• Actress Lisa Loring, who played Wednesday Addams in the 1964 version of The Addams Family and also appeared in The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and As the World Turns, has died aged 64. 
• Chloe Kim remembers Lisa Loring.
  
• Leila Latif declares that Lisa Loring's performance defined the character of Wednesday Addams and made her an icon for goth girls everywhere.

 

Awards:

• The shortlists for the 2023 Romantic Novel Awards have been announced.
• The finalists for the 2023 Writers Guild Awards have been announced.
   

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch notes that the problems in your writing are the problems in your life.
  
• Penguin UK shares the best places to write. 
  
• Lincoln Michel notes that fairy tales break all so-called rules of writing and that they serve as an antidote to received creative writing wisdom.
  
• Jean-Paul Garnier shares some microphone tips for live readings and recordings.
  
• Michael Murphy-Burton conducts a survey of author websites. 
• Lara Feigel reports how illness affects writers and their work, inspired by the recent fall of Hanif Kureishi, which left him paralysed.
  
• Olivia McGiff shares some insight into the strike of the HarperCollins union from the POV of one of the strikers.
  
• Emell Derra Adolphus reports that HarperCollins and the HarperCollins Union will engage an independent mediator to try to resolve their conflict.

 

Interviews: 

• Craig Sisterson interviews Jane Harper.
  
• Paul Burke interviews Louise Candlish.
  
• Molly Odintz interviews Natasha Lester.
• Debbi Mack interviews Michael Hearns.
  

Reviews:

• Doreen Sheridan reviews Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths.
  
• Marlene Harris reviews Don't Open the Door by Allison Brennan.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews The Night Man by Jörn Lier Horst.
• Grab This Book reviews The Echo Man by Sam Holland.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews A Stranger on Board by Cameron Ward. 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Only Suspect by Louise Candlish. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Five Survive by Holly Jackson 
• Adam Colclough reviews The Rule of Three by Sam Ripley.
  
• Kirsty McLuckie reviews A Winter Grave by Peter May. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes.
  
• Cara DiConstanzo reviews The Drift by C.J. Tudor. 
• Mary Picken reviews Dirt by Sarah Sultoon.
  
• Sharon Mensing reviews The Blackhouse by Carole Johnstone.
  
• Publishers Weekly reviews The Big Bundle by Max Allan Collins.
  
• Kathy Reel reviews Murder in All Fury by Anne Cleeland. 
• Marlene Harris reviews Sentinel Security: Steel by Anna Hackett. 
• The Book Decoder reviews Trust Only Me by McGarvey Black.
  
• Maureen Carlyle reviews The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell. 
• Mandie Griffiths reviews The Girl in the Photo by Catherine Hokin.
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews So Pretty by Ronnie Turner. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Picture in the Sand by Peter Blauner.
  
• His Futile Preoccupations reviews Exiles by Jane Harper. 
• Jen Lucas reviews Exiles by Jane Harper.
  
• Miriam Balanescu reviews Brutes by Dizz Tate. 
• Madeleine Feeny reviews Brutes by Dizz Tate. 
• Gwen Moffat reviews The Interview by Gill Perdue.
  
• H.C. Newton reviews Killer Story by Matt Witten.
  
• Seattle Book Mama reviews Murder Book by Thomas Perry. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Murder Game by Tom Hindle.
  
• Kirkus reviews Just Murdered by Katherine Kovacic. 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Greenleaf Murders by R.J. Koreto.
  
• Aunt Agatha's reviews The Motion Picture Teller by Colin Cotterill.
• L.J. Hurst reviews Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead.
  
• The Book Decoder reviews Bayou Book Thief by Ellen Byron. 
• Jen Lucas reviews A Village Fete Murder by Katie Gayle.
  
• Mandie Griffiths reviews The Moose Paradox by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston
• Kevin Tipple reviews The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022, edited by Jess Walter and Steph Cha. 
• James Davis Nicoll reviews Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire 
   

Classics reviews:

• Runalong the Shelves revisits the 1882 adventure novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1934 noir novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1936 mystery Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac.
  
• The Book Decoder revisits the 1944 Superintendent Battle mystery Towards Zero by Agatha Christie.
• Lesa Holstine revisits the 1945 mystery Murder by Matchlight by E.C.R. Lorac.  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1950 mystery R in the Month by Nancy Spain. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1951 crime novel The Far Cry by Fredric Brown. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1957 Inspector Littlejohn mystery Death in High Provence by George Bellairs.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1962 crime novel Object of Lust by Mark West a.k.a. Charles Runyon.
  
• David James Keaton revisits the 1975 thriller Black Sunday by Thomas Harris. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1979 gothic suspense novel Charles and Elizabeth by W.J. Buckley.
  
• Polly Stewart and Ace Atkins revisit the 1996 crime novel Father and Son by Larry Brown.
  

Con and event reports:

• J. Kingston Pierce reports that he plans to attend the 2023 Bouchercon in San Diego, California.
• Mike Glyer shares the autograph schedule of the 2023 Vintage Paperback Collectors Show and Sale in Glendale, California.  
• Chris Wiegand reports that the Oldham Coliseum in Oldham, UK, will shut down in March after losing one hundred percent of its Arts Council funding.  
• Ella Braidwood reports that British theatres are staging a wave of protest plays about the closures and staff shortages facing British theatres as well as the cost of living crisis in the UK in general. 
  
• Chris Wiegand calls The Trial of Josie K., which is currently playing in London, UK, a bold adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic.
  

 

Research:

• Chad Boudreaux talks about the lure of declassified government secrets.
• Curtis Evans reports about the 1934 Smith family massacre of Demopolis, Alabama, and how it reappeared in crime fiction.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Beatlemania" by Paul Kindlon in Mystery Tribune.
• "Amongst the Stacks" by D.J. Tyrer in Mystery Tribune. 
• "The Path" by Peter Riva in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast. 
• "Itch" by Jessica Hwang in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Dragon Slayer" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
• "The Toll-Skippers" by Shirley J. Brewer in The Five-Two. 
  

 

Trailers and videos:

•  Watch a trailer for North Sea Connection.