Crime Fiction Links of the Week for April 1, 2023
Crime fiction in general:
- Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
- Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss their favourite recent noir novels.
- Harini Nagendra shares her favourite historical mysteries.
- Lina Chern talks about the joy of bad decisions in crime fiction.
- Paul French lists crime novels set in Cyprus.
- Daryl Wood Gerber shares her favourite cozy mystery series featuring tea.
- Gary Born explains how his career in international law influenced his spy thrillers.
- L.S. Stratton talks about subverting the white saviour trope.
- Jacqueline Winspear praises cross genre novels.
- Molly Templeton attempts to define fluid novels.
- Craig Simpson reports that Agatha Christie's novels will also be edited to remove terms now deemed offensive.
- Locus remembers Eric Brown.
- Deuce Richardson remembers John Jakes.
- Screenwriter and mystery writer Rita Lakin has died aged 93.
Film and TV:
- Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on the final series of Endeavour and saying goodbye to Inspector Morse.
- Lucy Mangan isn't sure that we need yet another adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, but praises the performance of Olivia Coleman as Miss Havisham.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Law of Tehran a ferocious, Michael Mann style thriller from Iran.
- Leslie Felperin calls Kill Boksoon an intense assassin thriller from South Korea.
- Phil Hoad calls Ip Man: The Awakening a clunky martial arts origin story
- Peter Bradshaw calls Please, Baby, Please an oversaturated oddball thriller.
- Paul Levinson thoroughly enjoyed The Night Agent.
- Matt Schimkowitz shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Perry Mason.
- Adam-Troy Castro shares his thoughts on The Menu.
- Cath Clarke calls The Thief Collector an entertaining true crime documentary.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Riotsville, USA a disquieting documentary.
- Olivia Rutigliano lists the scruffiest detectives in film and TV.
- Matt Mills ranks the ten most terrifying moments from Alfred Hitchcock movies.
- Louis
Chilton reports that a third of all LGBTQ characters will disappear
from TV screens this year due to shows being cancelled or ending.
- Ian Spelling wonders why movies are so damned long these days.
- Peter Bradshaw remarks that a proposed remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Vertigo starring Robert Downey Jr. might not be as a terrible an idea as it sounds like.
Comments on series 3 of Grace:
Comments on Blue Lights:
- Rebecca Nichsolson calls Blue Lights a fantastically tense cop show set in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- Ellen E. Jones declares that the Northern Irish crime drama Blue Lights captures the changes in Northern Ireland after the Good Friday Agreement.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the first episode of Blue Lights.
- BBC Writers Room interviews Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn, writers of Blue Lights.
Comments on series 4 of Unforgotten:
Comments on John Wick Chapter 4 (spoilers):
- Alex Brown calls John Wick Chapter 4 one of the best in the series.
- Grimdark Magazine calls John Wick Chapter 4 a great entry in the series.
- Douglas Laman praises the use of humour in John Wick Chapter 4.
- Gabrielle Sanchez calls the John Wick series masculine camp at its best.
- Germain Lussier calls the John Wick movies a unicorn, the rare example of an entirely original Hollywood film series that's not based on any previous material.
- Steve Weintraub interviews Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski, star and director of John Wick Chapter 4.
- io9 interviews Chad Stahelski.
- Ethan Alter interviews Scott Adkins who plays Killa in John Wick Chapter 4.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw finds the fatsuit worn by Scott Adkins the one problem with John Wick Chapter 4.
- Germain Lussier reports about the end credits scene of John Wick Chapter 4.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw hopes that John Wick Chapter 5 will happen, even though it doesn't look like it at the moment.
Comments on Murder Mystery 2:
- Benjamin Lee declares that Murder Mystery 2 needs more murder and more mystery.
- Luke Y. Thompson declares that the only mystery about Murder Mystery 2 is why the film isn't better.
Comments on Rabbit Hole:
Comments on season 2 of Yellowjackets:
Comments on Tetris:
- Linda Codega calls Tetris a spy thriller that understands the impact of videogames.
- Benjamin Lee calls Tetris a mostly entertaining and compelling spy drama.
- Matthew Jackson finds that Tetris can't quite juggle its political, cultural and thriller elements.
- Danny Leigh wonders about the trend for what he calls corporate nostalgia movies like Tetris, Air and Flamin' Hot.
Comments on The Night of the 12th:
Comments on the assault and abuse allegations against Jonathan Majors:
- Germain Lussier reports that Jonathan Majors, who play Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and also appeared in Lovecraft Country and Creed III, has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares more on the abuse allegations against Jonathan Majors.
- Jessica Washington shares a round-up of what is known about the allegations against Jonathan Majors.
- Rebecca Rubin reports that Jonathan Majors has been charged with abuse and harrassment following his arrest.
- The Guardian reports that US Army recruiting ads featuring Jonathan Majors have been pulled following his arrest.
Awards:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Charlie Jane Anders explains why you shouldn't talk about character agency.
- Lincoln Michel attempts to explain the concept of invisible prose.
- Victoria Strauss shares yet more scams targeting writers.
- Katherine Marsh blames the decline in children's love of reading on bad teaching methods in the US.
- Hillel Italie reports that book ban attempts have hit an all-time high in 2022.
- Sarah Shaffi reports that six libraries in Aberdeen, Scotland, mostly in poor neighbourhoods, will be closed in spit of efforts to save them.
- Mike Glyer reports about the damage to the MIT Science Fiction Society's library following a flooding.
- Jireh Deng profiles the bookstore Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena, California.
- Sarah Shaffi reports that a book vending machine has been installed in St. Davids Station in Exeter, Devon, UK.
- Sarah Shaffi reports that Filippo Bernadini, who stole several unpublished manuscripts, will not go to prison, but will have to pay a hefty fine and will be deported from the US.
- Lucy Knight reports about the SALT project that aims to promote South Asian literature in translation.
- Mike Glyer reports that the judge in the lawsuit of four publishing conglomerates against the Internet Archive has decided against the Internet Archive.
- The Internet Archive announced that they will appeal the decision.
- British children's book publisher Peter Usborne has died aged 85.
Interviews:
- Sarah Weinman and Alex Mar interview each other.
- Ayo Onatade interviews Gregg Hurwitz.
- E.B. Davis interviews Ellen Byron a.k.a. Maria DiRico.
- Molly Odintz interviews Rhys Bowen.
- Alex Segura interviews crime fiction and comics writer Benjamin Percy.
- All About Agatha interviews Kitty Murphy.
- The Hard Word interviews Craig McDonald.
- Paul Burke interviews Alis Hawkins.
Reviews:
- Blue Book Balloon reviews The Space Between Us by Doug Johnstone.
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves.
- Adam Colclough reviews #Panic by Luke Jennings.
- Jen Lucas reviews Pure Evil by Lynda La Plante.
- Larry A. Egan reviews 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister by Joyce Carol Oates.
- Ray Palen reviews I Will Find You by Harlan Coben.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones.
- Lynne Patrick reviews You Can Run by Trevor Wood.
- Pam Guynn reviews How I'll Kill You by Ren DeStefano.
- The Book Decoder reviews The Kill by Evie Hunter.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Never Name the Dead by D.M. Rowell.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Standing Dead by Margaret Mizushima.
- Janet Webb reviews What Have We Done by Alex Finlay.
- Joy Kluver reviews All Of Us Are Broken by Fiona Cummins.
- Tzer Island reviews A Flaw in the Design by Nathan Oates.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Time's Undoing by Cheryl A. Head.
- Jen Lucas reviews Eleven Liars by Robert Gold.
- Elena Hartwell reviews I Love It When You Lie by Kristen Bird.
- Jen Lucas reviews The Half Burnt House by Alex North.
- Mandie Griffiths reviews The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury.
- The Real Book Spy reviews Wolf Trap by Connor Sullivan.
- Stephanie Merritt reviews Deep Down by Imogen West-Knights.
- Mary Picken reviews The Messenger by Megan Davis.
- Paul Burke reviews The Messenger by Megan Davis.
- Kirkus reviews Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado, translated by Nick Caistor.
- Lynne Patrick reviews The Wrong Mother by Charlotte Duckworth.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Mothered by Zoje Stage.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Protegé by Jody Gehrman.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Birthright by Charles Lambert.
- Mandie Griffiths reviews Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan.
- Mary Picken reviews Geiger by Gustaf Skördeman, translated by Ian Giles
- Marlene Harris reviews The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear.
- Mary Picken reviews Murder Under the Tuscan Sun by Rachel Rhys.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Portrait of a Murderer by Michael Jecks.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Confidence by Rafael Frumkin.
- Marlene Harris reviews The Raven Thief by Gigi Pandian.
- Erin Britton reviews Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Sutanto.
- Aunt Agatha's reviews Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Sutanto.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Murder in Postscript by Mary Winters.
- Crossexamining Crime reviews Death Knocks Twice by Robert Thorogood.
- Carol Westron reviews Barking Up the Right Tree by Leigh Russell.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews A Half-Baked Murder by Emily George and tries a recipe from the book.
- Publishers Weekly reviews The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring by Patti McCracken.
Classics reviews:
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1907 Asbjørn Krag mystery Through Three Rooms by Sven Elvestad, translated by Lucy Moffatt.
- Brian Collins revisits the 1937 science fiction horror crime story "Strange Orchids" by Dorothy Quick.
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1945 Sir Richard Cherrington mystery The Cambridge Murders by Dilwyn Rees a.k.a. Glyn Edmund Daniel.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1945 mystery Subject Murder by Clifford Witting.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the March 1951 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1955 heist novel The Gilded Hideaway by Peter Twist a.k.a. Charles Peter Hewitt.
- Vintage Pop Fictions revisits the 1959 Jake Barrow hardboiled detective novel The Girl With No Place To Hide by Nick Quarry a.k.a. Marvin H. Albert.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1975 Ms. Squad men's adventure novel On the Brink by Mercedes Endfield a.k.a. Bela von Block.
- Vintage Pop Fictions revisits the 1975 adventure thriller Valley of the Assassins by Ian MacAlister a.k.a. Marvin H. Albert.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1993 mystery The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte.
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 2006 mystery anthology Murder at the Foul Line, edited by Otto Penzler.
Con and event reports:
- Ayo Onatade lists the guests and panelists for the 2023 CrimeFest in Bristol, UK.
- Jen Lucas shares the program for the 2023 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
- Alexis Soloski calls the new production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler in New York City a dazzling Broadway revival
Research:
- Bill Schweigart shares five strange cases of crimes and mass hysteria
- David Barnett reports about a rare 1655 edition of Othello by William Shakespeare and its connection to the real life murder of actor William Montfort in 1692.
- Dean Jobs talks about the mysterious death of stunt pilot B.H. DeLay, while performing in Santa Monica, California, in 1923.
- Alan Pendergast talks about the evolution of the so-called Big Con in the 1920s.
- Frank Dimatteo and Michael Benson report how mob boss Carmine Galante blew up the tomb of his enemy Frank Costello after Costello was already dead.
Free online fiction:
- "Two Shots" by Robert Pettus in Mystery Tribune.
- "Two Holes Plus One" by A.J. Britz in Mystery Tribune.
- "In For a Penny" by J.M. Taylor in Mystery Tribune.
- "Death and Taxes" by Avram Lavinsky in Shotgun Honey.
- "Independence Day" by Chuck Brownman in Shotgun Honey.
- "Vanquished" by Rena J. Morley in The Five-Two.
- "Stomping Mad" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
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