Crime Fiction Links of the Week for April 15, 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 Death in Paradise and Beyond Paradise, season 2 of Yellowjackets, Beef, tributes to Anne Perry and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Laura Wilson offers a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
  
• Molly Odintz shares the best psychological thrillers coming out in April 2023. 
• Erin Britton shares five recent cozy mysteries to enjoy. 
• The L.A. Times shares the ultimate Los Angeles crime fiction bookshelf.
• Michelle Cruz talks about the inherent subversiveness of romantic suspense. 
• Chanel Cleeton shares seven historical novels with mysteries at their center. 
• Kim Sherwood shares her ten favourite spy novels centering the stories of women. 
• Azma Dar shares five thrillers about the dark side of marriage.
  
• Rebecca Keller shares seven crime novels featuring multiple generations involved with crimes and solving them. 
• Elizabeth Held shares eight crime novels featuring magicians and illusionists.
  
• Thomas Mullen shares eight novels that blur the line between crime and science fiction.  
• Steph Cha remembers how reading The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler changed her life.
  
• Margaret Mizushima explains how her life as the wife of a veterinarian has influenced her animal mysteries. 
• Chanel Cleeton explains how the mysteries surrounding the fatal fire aboard the SS Morro Castle in 1934 inspired her latest mystery. 
• Molly Templeton shares eleven ways to start a new reading adventure this spring. 
  
• Terrence E. Hanley remembers John Jakes. 
• Fashion designer Mary Quant, credited with inventing the miniskirt, has died aged 93.  

 

Tributes to Anne Perry:

• Crime fiction writer Anne Perry has died aged 84. 
• J. Kingston Pierce remembers Anne Perry and actually focusses on her writing.  
• George Easter remembers Anne Perry and also focusses on her writing.
• Locus remembers Anne Perry and also mostly focusses on her writing.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Matt Schimkovitz shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Perry Mason.
  
• Chris Jenkins shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Astrid: Murder in Paris. 
• Ellen E. Jones caalls The Last Thing He Told Me a wooden thriller with a total lack of entertainment.
  
• Ian Spelling calls Mafia Mama a mildly funny mob comedy and praises the performance of Toni Collette.
  
• Mike McCahill calls Assassin Club a trashy generic hitman thriller.  
• Lucy Mangan calls Obsession a woeful erotic thriller whose cast permanently look as if they need to go to the toilet.
  
• Leslie Felperin calls God's Petting You a shallow crime caper. 
• Qunci LaGardye calls season 2 of Blindspotting an insightful and uproarious return.
  
• Todd Lazarski calls the true crime drama Waco: The Aftermath the scariest show on television.
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls Loving Highsmith a documentary about Patricia Highsmith that ignores the writer's less pleasant sides. 
• Nico Chapin revisits the 1955 noir movie Kiss Me Deadly. 
  
• Michael Hogan interviews David Renwick, creator and writer, and Alan Davies, star of Jonathan Creek.  
• Meredith Hobbs Coons interviews Stephen Root, who appeared in Barry, The Book of Boba Fett, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Pushing Daisies, Get Out!, Masters of the Universe: Revelation, No Country For Old Men and many others.   
• Jimmy Kimmel interviews Jeremy Renner, who plays Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1980 boxing drama Raging Bull.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 2009 psychological thriller Cracks. 
• Stuart Heritage explains why people should stop spoiling TV shows.
• Simon Osborne reports about a secret cinema in the backroom of the shop Ümit & Sons in Clapton, London, UK.  
• Catherine Shoard reports that thirteen women have accused French actor Gérard Depardieu of sexually inappropriate behaviour.   
• Sian Cain reports that actors Matthew McConaughy and Woody Harrelson might be half-brothers.
  
• Ted Johnson and Jill Goldsmith report that several members of the US Congress have urged an investigation of the Warner Bros Discovery merger and particularly the many cancellations of Tv shows and movies in its wake. 
  
• Canadian actress Sharon Acker, who appeared in Point Blank, Perry Mason and the original Star Trek among many others, has died aged 87.  
• Actor Michael Lerner, who appeared in Barton Fink, Godzilla, Elf, X-Men: Days of Future Past and many others has died aged 81.

 

Comments on Death in Paradise and Beyond Paradise: 

• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel shares their thoughts on series 1 of Beyond Paradise.
• J. Kingston Pierce shares his thoughts on series 1 of Beyond Paradise.
  
• Paul Hirons reports that Beyond Paradise has been renewed for a second series.
  
• The Guardian interviews Ardal O'Hanlon who played DI Jack Mooney in Death in Paradise. 

 

Comments on Beef: 

• Alex Abad-Santos calls Beef the best Netflix show in recent memory.
  
• Tiffany Kelley declares that Beef taps into our collective rage and unhappiness, which makes it one of the best shows of the year.
  

 

Comments on season 2 of Yellowjackets:

• Hattie Lindert shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Yellowjackets.
• Tyler Foggatt talks about the portrayal of cannibalism in Yellowjackets.

 

Awards:

• The longlist for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has been announced.
  
• Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discuss the finalists for the 2023 Edgar Awards.
   

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Charlie Jane Anders explains why you shouldn't say that characters lack agency.  
• Jonathan Fredrick discusses how writers insert truth into fiction.
  
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch explains how success can destroy writing careers.
  
• Maggie Tokuda-Hall shares how the publisher Scholastic wanted her to edit the author's note of her children's book Love in the Library to remove any references to racism or Japanese internment camps in WWII.  
• Natalie op de Beek reports about the case of Scholastic trying to force Maggie Tokuda-Hall to remove references to racism from her books.
  
• Harlan Coben shares tips for book tours.
  
• Lincoln Michel responds to the idiotic claim that not reviewing an ARC one has received is theft.
  
• Deuce Richardson points out that Edgar Rice Burroughs was a self-publishing pioneer. 
• Kate Ly Johnston reports that the Missouri House of Representatives has voted to defund all public libraries in the entire state for fear that they might carry LGBTQ books.
  
• Literary agent Valerie Smith has died aged 70.

 

Interviews: 

• Robert Lang interviews Craig Johnson. 
• The Guardian interviews Colson Whitehead.
  
• Pat Carty interviews Harlan Coben. 
• Art Taylor and Alice K. Boatwright interview Martin Edwards.
  
• Luca Veste interviews S.J.I. Holliday. 
• Criminal Element interviews Jennifer Hillier.
  
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club interviews Fleur Bradley and Korina Moss.
  
• Adrian Florido interviews Leta McCollough Seletzky
  

Reviews:

• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Games For Dead Girls by Jen Williams. 
• Book Reviews To Ponder reviews Her Deadly Game by Robert Dugoni. 
• Jeff Ayers reviews Her Deadly Game by Robert Dugoni.
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews The Darkest Game by Joseph Schneider.
  
• Grab This Book reviews No More Games by Gordon J. Brown. 
• Mary Picken reviews The Messenger by Megan Davis. 
• Fabienne Schwizer reviews You Know Her by Meagan Jennett. 
• Paul Burke reviews The Birthday Girl by Sarah Ward.
  
• Mandie Griffiths reviews The Other Guest by Heidi Perks. 
• J. Kingston Pierce reviews Standing in the Shadows by Peter Robinson.
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews Hide by Tracy Clark. 
• Pam Guynn reviews Those Empty Eyes by Charlie Donlea. 
• Jen Lucas reviews Blood Runs Cold by Neil Lancaster.
  
• Lynne Patrick reviews The Ugly Truth by L.C. North. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews A Truth for a Truth by Carol Wyer
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Tell Me Lies by Teresa Driscoll. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews I Will Find You Again by Sarah Lyu
  
• John Valeri reviews How I’ll Kill You by Ren DeStefano
  
• Adam Colclough reviews The Fall by Gilly Macmillan.
  
• Wiley Reiver reviews Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor. 
• Tzer Island reviews City Walls by Loren D. Estleman. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Death Under a Little Sky by Stig Abell.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews The Lazarus Solution by Kjell Ola Dahl, translated by Don Bartlett
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Dark Angel by John Sandford.
• Kevin Tipple reviews Dark Angel by John Sandford. 
• Mandie Griffiths reviews Bamburgh by L.J. Ross. 
• The Strawberry Post reviews The Company by J.M. Varese.
  
• Publishers Weekly reviews Never Sleep by Fred Van Lente.
  
• The Quick and the Dead reviews A Bitter Remedy by Alis Hawkins. 
• Marlene Harris reviews One Extra Corpse by Barbara Hambly.
  
• The Quick and the Dead reviews Murder Under the Tuscan Sun by Rachel Rhys. 
• Grab This Book reviews Murder Under the Tuscan Sun by Rachel Rhys. 
• Aunt Agatha's reviews Murder Under a Red Moon by Harini Nagendra. 
• Beth Kanell reviews The Cuban Heiress by Chanel Cleeton. 
  
• BOLO Books reviews Bookworm by Robin Yeatman. 
• Aunt Agatha's reviews Fateful Words by Paige Shelton. 
• The Book Decoder reviews Murder in Postscript by Mary Winters.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Dead Men Don't Decorate by Cordy Abbott.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice For Murderers by Jesse Sutanto
  
• Kirkus reviews Eat, Drink and Drop Dead by T.C. LoTempio. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder at an Irish Bakery by Carlene O'Connor and tries a recipe from the book. 
• Elizabeth Fitzgerald reviews Death by Silver by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold 
  
• Mike Parker reviews Blind Spots by Thomas Mullen. 
  
• Mary Picken reviews Blind Spots by Thomas Mullen.   
• Tzer Island reviews Blind Spots by Thomas Mullen.  
• Publishers Weekly reviews Sunset Empire by Josh Weiss.
  
• Marion Deeds reviews The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older 
• Lesa Holstine reviews A Questionable Death and Other Historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries by Edith Maxwell.
• Beth Kanell reviews the graphic novel adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story The Final Problem by Hannes Binder. 

 

Classics reviews:

• Martha Waters revisits the 1817 gothic romance parody Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1922 mystery The Lyttleton Case by R.A.V. Morris.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1936 mystery A Pall for a Painter by E.C.R. Lorac.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1940 mystery Crime of the Crossword by James Garland.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1941 Hercule Poirot mystery Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1942 mystery The Sunday Pigeon Murders by Craig Rice.
• Kim Sherwood revisits the 1953 James Bond spy novel Casino Royal by Ian Fleming. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1969 Mission Impossible tie-in novel The Priceless Particle by Talmadge Powell. 
  
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1974 Jefferson Boone, Handyman men's adventure novel The Swiss Secret by Jon Messman.
  
• Polly Stewart and Kate White revisit the 1992 Inspector Wexford mystery Kissing the Gunner's Daughter by Ruth Rendell. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 2006 Mr. Monk mystery Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii by Lee Goldberg.
  

Con and event reports:

• Lisa Finn reports that a panel about the so-called Long Island serial killer was pulled from the schedule of the Hamptons Crime and Mystery Festival in East Hampton, New York, after families of the victims complained. 
• Sarah Shaffi looks ahead at the #Merky Books Literature Festival in London, UK. 
  
• Mark Fisher calls the play Stornoway, Quebec, by Calum L MacLeòid, which is currently playing in Edinburgh, Scotland, a Gaelic western.
• Mark Fsher notes that Isobel McArthur's stage adaption of Rober Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped, which is currently playing in Greenock, Scotland, offers an optimal mix of irreverence and affection.
• Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill reports that a performance of the stage version of the 1992 romantic suspense movie Bodyguard in Manchester, UK, had to be stopped due to disruptive audience members. 
• Rachael Healy reports that theatre audiences in the UK are getting steadily more disruptive. 
• Chloe Rabinowitz reports that David Dodge's 1952 heist novel To Catch a Thief will be adapted into a new musical by Kevin Purcell and Peter Sham. 
  

 

Research: 

• Gene Marks reports about a scam using deep fake voice impersonations of co-workers and family members to request money. 
• Emma Roth reports that the NYPD is returning Spot, the robot dog, to service after pulling him following backlash in 2021.  
• James Bartlett takes a look at the remarkable number of criminals aboard the Titanic on her ill-fated maiden voyage.
  
• Mark Bowden talks about gang violence in the Sandtown neighbourhood of Baltimore, Maryland. 
• Gabrielle Paluch recounts the story of a female militia leader and drug boss in Myamar.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Five Bullet Friday" by Mary Angela Honerman in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine's Podcast
  
• "Satan's Wild Ride" by Patrick Whitehurst in Mystery Tribune.
•  "Easter Spam" by John Weagly in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
• "Death Brings Dogs" by Olga Doi-Kollegger in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Murder Maybe" by Kenneth Pobo in The Five-Two.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for True Detective: Night Country.
  
• Watch a trailer for The Continental. 
  
• Watch a trailer for The Penguin.