Crime Fiction Links of the Week for April 8, 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 5 of Unforgotten, John Wick Chapter 4, season 2 of Yellowjackets, Beef, Leonor Will Never Die, Jury Duty and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares twelve new crime novels, mysteries and thrillers coming out in April.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Ren DeStefano shares six books that blur the line between romance and suspense. 
• Sally Hepworth shares psychological thrillers where the setting is as creepy as the story itself. 
• Ella Berman shares mysteries and thrillers that juxtapose violence and idyllic settings.
  
• Thomas Mullen talks about the impact of surveillance technology on the crime novel. 
• Amit Katwala shares five non-fiction books that mix true crime and history. 
• Suzanne Young wishes for more bloodthirsty women in horror and crime fiction.
  
• Disha Bose explains why she wants to see more complex characters of colour.   
• Sai Sankar delves into the history of the legendary crime and mystery pulp magazine Black Mask
  
• Molly Templeton explains how to get past a reading slump. 
  
• Stona Fitch talks about the inspiration for his latest crime novel.
• Elaine Viets talks about the inspiration for her latest mystery. 
• Jennifer Banash talks about the inspiration for her latest crime novel. 
• James A. McLaughlin talks about the inspiration for his latest thriller. 
  
• Don Herron remembers John Jakes.

 

Film and TV:

• Matt Schimkovitz shares his thoughts on the latest episode of the new Perry Mason.
  
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the series 3 finale of Grace. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Blue Lights.
  
• Chris Jenkins shares his thoughts on the season 2 premiere of Astrid: Murder in Paris.
• Saloni Gajjar asks if a certain gruesome sequence in Yellowjackets delivered what was teased. 
  
• Lucy Mangan calls A Very British Cult an unrelenting documentary about the worst of humanity. 
  
• Leila Latif calls Surviving R. Kelly Part III: The Final Chapter a history-making true crime documentary. 
• Dwyer Murphy shares the best new crime TV shows coming out in April.
  
• Paul Hirons shares his ten favourite French crime dramas of all time.
• Erica Ruth Neubauer lists seven spy movies filmed and set in Instanbul, Turkey.
  
• Tim Lowery and Alison Foreman share five burning questions they have before season 5 of Barry. 
  
• Rebecca Rubin interviews Natasha Lyonne, star of Poker Face and Russian Doll. 
• Angelica Jade Bastien discusses the portrayl of women in the 1981 crime movie Thief and the 2020 crime movie I'm Your Woman.
  
• The AV-Club reports that Sharon Stone was paid a fraction of what Michael Douglas made for the 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct. 
• The Guardian shares an update about the snow plough mishap of actor Jeremy Renner, best known for playing Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 
  
• Nadia Khomani reports that the UK's status as a cinematic powerhouse is at risk according to Oscar-winning producer David Putnam.  
• Canadian actress Sharon Acker, who appeared in Point Blank, Perry Mason and the original Star Trek among many others, has died aged 87.
  

 

Comments on series 5 of Unforgotten: 

• Michael Hogan shares his thoughts on the series 5 finale of Unforgotten.
• Deborah Shrewsbury shares her thoughts on the series 5 finale of Unforgotten. 
• Paul Hirons reports that Unforgotten has been renewed for series 6.
  

 

Comments on John Wick Chapter 4 (spoilers):

• Leah Schnelbach praises John Wick Chapter 4 for its treatment of pain.
• Linda Codega declares that the John Wick series is so good, because it has restraints. 
• Pamela McClintock reports that a fifth John Wick movie might be made, following the success of the fourth.
  

 

Comments on season 2 of Yellowjackets:

• NUTS4R2 share their thoughts on season 2 of Yellowjackets.
• Saloni Gajjar asks if a certain gruesome sequence in Yellowjackets delivered what was teased.

 

Comments on Beef: 

• Joel Golby calls Beef a riveting, rage-fuelled drama.
• Ellen E. Jones calls Beef a deliciously subversive dark existential thriller.
  
• Saloni Gajjar calls Beef one of the most exciting new TV shows of 2023.
  

 

Comments on Leonor Will Never Die: 

• Leslie Felperin calls Leonor Will Never Die a brilliantly meta comedy thriller from the Philippines.  
• Cath Clarke interviews Martika Ramirez Escobar, director of Leonor Will Never Die.

 

Comments on Jury Duty:

• Charles Bramesco calls Jury Duty an unusual mockumentary and comedy prank show with middling results.
• Kevin E.G. Perry interviews James Marsden, who plays himself in Jury Duty. 
  

 

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2023 Derringer Awards have been announced. 
  
• The winners of the 2023 Olivier Awards have been announced.
   

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Ayo Onatade reports that the Crime Writers' Association CWA celebrates its seventieth anniversary. 
• Lincoln Michel discusses the different between plot-forward and prose-forward writing. 
• Harper Kincaid shares tips for writing neurodivergent characters without resorting to harmful stereotypes.
  
• Neil Clarke weighs in on the flood of AI-generated spam submissions that hit Clarkesworld and possible countermeasures.
• Frances D'Emilio and Matt O'Brien report that ChatGPT has been blocked in Italy due to privacy concerns. 
• Greg Rosalsky reports that women now dominate the publishing business on all levels, but still lag behind in many other creative fields.  
• Lawrence Venuti talks about the shifting role of the translator.
  
• Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris wonder when the posthumous edits of classic literature to remove offensive language have gone too far. 
• Reggie Ugwu reports that readers were disturbed to find that their e-book editions of works by Roald Dahl, R.L. Stine, Ian Fleming or Agatha Christie changed while they were reading them.
  
• David Propper reports that James Patterson has complained about the bias of the New York Times bestseller list now one of his books has not made the list, though he feels it should have. 
• Lucy Knight reports that Amazon will close the British online book seller Book Depository, which they took over in 2011.
  
• Seanan McGuire weighs in on the Internet Archive ruling. 
• Sarah Shaffi and Sarah Butler report that children's book author Fay Evans has lost her copyright infringement lawsuit against the British department store chain John Lewis over their 2019 Christmas ad. 
  
• Emily Dugan reports that YA author Judy Blume has said that book bannings have become much worse than in the 1980s.
  
• CNN reports that a judge in Texas has ruled that twelve books removed from libraries in Llano County, Texas, must be returned to the shelves at once.

 

Interviews: 

• Dan Solomon interviews Attica Locke. 
• Molly Odintz interviews Jacqueline Winspear.
  
• Paul Burke interviews Sarah Sultoon, Ronnie Turner and Vanda Symon.
  
• Luca Veste interviews C.L. Taylor. 
• All About Agatha interviews Kitty Murphy.
  
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club interviews Joan Lang and M.A. Monin. 
• Lisa Haselton interviews Rhonda Parker Taylor.
  
• Garrick Webster interviews Ashley Kalagian Blunt. 
• Alex Segura interviews Fred Van Lente. 
  
• Garrick Webster interviews Stona Fitch.
• Debbi Mack interviews Lori Lewis Ham. 
• J. Kingston Pierce interviews Kate Stine.
  

Reviews:

• Raven Crime Reads reviews The Space Between Us by Doug Johnstone.
• John Valeri reviews The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson.
• Ali Karim reviews Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews All That Is Mine I Carry With Me by William Landay
  
• Mandie Griffiths reviews Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Birthday Girl by Sarah Ward. 
• Mandie Griffiths reviews Broken Girls by Joy Kluver. 
• Grab This Book reviews Her Deadly Game by Robert Dugoni. 
• Jen Lucas reviews A Truth for a Truth by Carol Wyer.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews A Cruel Light by Cindi MacMillan.
  
• Mary Picken reviews Cast a Cold Eye by Robbie Morrison. 
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews Grave Danger by Alice James. 
• Mike Parker reviews The Donut Legion by Joe R. Lansdale.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews The Last King of California by Jordan Harper. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Philanthropists by Rozlan Mohd Noor
  
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews A Death in Denmark by Amulya Malladi
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews An American in Scotland by Lucy Connelly. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews An American in Scotland by Lucy Connelly. 
• Jen Lucas reviews The House of Whispers by Anna Mazzola. 
  
• Marlene Harris reviews The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Love and Other Scams by Philip Ellis.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Eat, Drink and Drop Dead by T.C. LoTempio. 
• Lis Carey reviews The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch  
• Marion Deeds reviews The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
  
• Brad Hawley reviews Stumptown Volume One by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth.
• Fintan O'Toole reviews  Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll
  

 

Classics reviews:

• M. Porcius revisits the 1920 Tarzan adventure Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1949 mystery Up the Garden Path by John Rhode.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1953 Ellery Queen mystery The Scarlet Letters by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee.
• Vintage Pop Fictions revisits the 1956 noir novel Frantic a.k.a. Ascenseur pour ’échafaud by Noel Calef. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1957 mystery Method in Madness by Doris Miles Disney.
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1959 mystery Death in Zanzibar a.k.a. The House of Shade by M.M. Kaye.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1964 sleaze crime novel Gutter Road by Don Elliott a.k.a. Robert Silverberg. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1977 Soldiers of Fortune men's adventure novel Spoils of War by Peter McCurtain. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1980 Victorian mystery Sweet Adelaide by Julian Symons.
  

Con and event reports:

• The Red Hot Chilli Writers look ahead at the Gwyl Crime Cymru festival in Aberystwyth, Wales.
• The MWA shares the schedule for the virtual Edgar Awards Symposium. 
  
• Arifa Akbar declares that the stage adaptation of Hanya Yanighara's novel A Little Life, which is playing in London, UK, offers spurting blood, relentless sadism and not a little nudity.  
• Samuel MacGregor reports that a bronze statue of Agatha Christie will be unveiled in Wallingford, UK, in September.
  

 

Research: 

• Timothy Egan talks about the Klu Klux Klan's reign of terror in Indiana in the 1920s.
• Rory Carroll looks back at the IRA bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, UK, in 1984.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Overcommitted Murder" by Richard Prosch in Tough.
  
• "Lizzie Noel" by Charlotte Hinge in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's Fiction Podcast
  
• "Snow Day" by M.J. Spurr in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "Pinky" by Lily Tierney in Mystery Tribune.
• "Rhubarb Pie" by Max Jason Peterson in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Pale Walls: A Villanelle for a Villainess" by Hannah Mae Karau in The Five-Two. 
• "Paris Green" by Cora Buhlert 
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for Dalgliesh.
  
• Watch a trailer for Florida Man.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Nurse.
• Watch a trailer for The Good Mothers.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Last Thing He Told Me.
  
• Watch a trailer for Love + Death. 
• Watch a trailer for season 4 of Barry.
  
• Watch a trailer for the new Fatal Attraction.