Crime Fiction Links of the Week for April 29, 2023
Crime fiction in general:
- Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
- Molly Odintz hosts a roundtable with the 2023 Edgar Award finalists on the state of the crime novel in two parts.
- Tim Sullivan discusses the difference between police procedurals and whodunnits.
- Samantha Jayne Allen shares six crime novels that feature natural disasters.
- Zhanna Slor shares thrillers featuring dangerous affairs.
- Joshilyn Jackson shares five suspense novels set in the entertainment world.
- Ellery Adams shares cozy mysteries set in bookstores.
- Ginger Bolton shares flower themed cozy mysteries.
- David Bordwell shares his appreciation for Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.
- Jenn Fisher and Doc Wyatt share their thirteen favourite Nancy Drew stories.
- Randee Dawn shares seven stories about fictional writers who need a reality check.
- Patricia Ward explains how her troubled childhood influenced her crime writing.
- Margaret Fenton explains how her job as a social worker has inspired her crime writing.
- Vanessa Cuti shares five great crime novels inspired by real world crimes.
- Alice Slater shares true crime books which get the ethical balance right.
- Stephanie Kane talks about writing a true crime book about a case in which her family was involved.
Film and TV:
- Jack Seale calls series 3 of Guilt a thrilling finale for the crime drama.
- Michael Hogan calls Black Ops a hilarious cop show and the funniest new comedy on British TV.
- Martin Edwards calls I Came By a fresh take on a standard crime drama trope.
- Manuel Betancourt calls Love + Death a reheated true crime drama, but praises the performance of Elizabeth Olsen.
- Matt Schimkovitz shares his thoughts on the season 2 finale of Perry Mason.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Blue Lights.
- Chris Jenkinss shares his thoughts on the season 2 premiere of Dalgliesh.
- Matt Schimkovitz shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Barry.
- Manuel Betancourt shares his thoughts on the new mini-series version of Fatal Attraction.
- Kayla Harrington discusses a scandal involving a member of the cast of the revenge drama Beef.
- Phuong Le calls The Artifice Girl a talky drama about the ethics of using AI to entrap pedophiles online.
- Cath Clarke calls Love According to Dalva an intense and raw drama about sexual child abuse.
- Paul Hirons shares the most shocking and surprising deaths in TV crime dramas.
- Zack Budryk revisits the 2014 noir thriller A Most Violent Year.
- Robert DeSalvo explains why 1983 was the worst year for movie sequels.
- Johnny Dodd interviews Kevin Smith, director of Clerks, Mall Rats, Dogma and others and showrunner of Masters of the Universe: Revelation about his mental health issues.
- Benjamin Lee reports that Steven Spielberg has said that no movie should be revised based on modern sensitivities.
- Andrew Pulver reports that director David Lynch is worried about the impending death of cinema.
- Kim Willsher reports about a controversry regarding the French film La Retour and the behaviour of director Catherine Corsini on set.
- Catherine
Shoard reports that Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been allowed to
leave his home country for the first time in fourteen years.
- Edward Helmore reports about the strange fight between the Walt Disney Company and Florida governor Ron DeSantis over LGBTQ+ rights.
- The Guardian reports that the Walt Disney Company is cutting thousands of jobs.
- US talkshow host Jerry Springer has died aged 79.
Tributes to Harry Belafonte:
Tributes to Barry Humphries a.k.a. Dame Edna Everage:
- Australian comedian Barry Humphries, best known for his performance as Dame Edna Everage, has died aged 89.
- The BBC profiles Barry Humphries, the man behind Dame Edna.
- Peter Coleman shares an obituary for Barry Humphries.
- Brian Logan remembers Barry Humphries.
- Miranda Bryant and Hamish Mackay share tributes to Barry Humphries from around the web.
- The BBC shares photos from Barry Humphries' lengthy career.
Comments on Citadel:
- Joel Golby calls Citadel a rip-roaring non-stop action fest.
- Lucy Mangan calls Citadel an absurdly fun and addictive spy thriller.
- Saloni Gajjar calls Citadel a bland spy show that wastes its stars and a whole lot of money.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw calls Citadel a dull, incompetent and badly written spy show.
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw also points out that Citadel is clearly inspired by The Bourne Identity, but fails to understand what made The Bourne Identity great.
Comments on Ghosted:
- Rachel Leishman calls Ghosted a fun action romantic comedy.
- Benjamin Lee calls Ghosted a dreadful action romantic comedy that deserves to be ignored.
- Jess Bacon finds Ghosted not romantic, but highly problematic, since it features a man who won't take "no" for an answer.
- Zac Ntim interviews Dexter Fletcher, director of Ghosted.
- Anthony D'Alessandro reports that in spite of lukewarm reviews, Ghosted is breaking viewing records on the Apple+ streaming service.
Comments on season 2 of Astrid: Murder in Paris:
Comments on season 2 of Yellowjackets:
Comments on Dead Ringers:
Comments on Rodeo:
Awards:
- The winners of the 2023 Edgar Awards have been announced.
- The longlist for 2023 Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year has been announced.
- The longlist for the 2023 CWA Dagger Awards has been announced.
- The longlist for the 2023 Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition has been announced.
- The winners of the 2022 Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Readers Awards have been announced.
- The winners of the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes have been announced.
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Joe R. Lansdale shares writing tips.
- David Robson wonders whether writing can make you healthier.
- May Haddad offers some tips for writing fantastic noir.
- Cyndi MacMillan talks about the unexpected power of dream sequences.
- Elly Griffiths discusses how and when to end a long running series.
- Jason Sanford shares his latest Genre Grapevine column.
- Lincoln Michel explains how to calculate when your book will earn out.
- Victoria Strauss shares the anatomy of a fake literary agency scam.
- The Bookseller reports that according to a survey, the majority of debut authors struggle with lack of support.
- Jim Milliot reports that the starting salaries at various big US publishers are increasing.
- Joe Zymeri reports that works of P.G. Wodehouse have been edited to remove words deemed offensive and that a disclaimer regarding outdated language has been added as well.
- Alyssa Shotwell reports that children's book author Kelly Yang has asked publisher Scholastic to be brave and not preemptively cave to censorship attempts as in the case of Maggie Tokuda-Hall's book Love in the Library.
- E. Tommy Kim reports about attacks on public libraries and supposedly controversial books in Flathead county, Montana.
- Sarah Shaffi reports that the calls for book bans have reached the highest level ever recorded in the US.
- Andrew Albanese shares a list of the most challenged books in US libraries in 2022.
Interviews:
- Scott Simon interviews Dennis Lehane.
- Dwyer Murphy interviews Dennis Lehane.
- Luca Veste interviews Stuart Neville.
- Debbi Mack interviews Kim Sherwood.
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club interviews Jennifer Chow, Rob Osler and Harini Nagendra.
- Kyle Decker and Dennis Weizmann interview each other.
- E.B. Davis interviews Annette Dashofy.
- Molly Odintz interviews Lindsay Hunter.
- Sam Briger interviews David Grann.
- Jill Dearman interviews Erik Rebain.
Reviews:
- Gayle Surette reviews Storm Watch by C.J. Box.
- Lesa Holstine reviews Hard Rain by Samantha Jayne Allen.
- Aunt Agatha's reviews Hard Rain by Samantha Jayne Allen.
- James Davis Nicoll reviews Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
- Blue Book Balloon reviews The Acapulco by Simone Buchholz, translated by Rachel Ward
- Jen Lucas reviews The Acapulco by Simone Buchholz, translated by Rachel Ward
- Beth Kanell reviews Man on the Run by Charles Salzberg.
- Janet Webb reviews Standing in the Shadows by Peter Robinson
- Grab This Book reviews Blood Runs Cold by Neil Lancaster.
- The Quick and the Dead reviews End Game by Liz Mistry.
- Mike Parker reviews Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor.
- Beth Kanell reviews Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor.
- John Valeri reviews Hollow Beasts by Alisa Lynn Valdés.
- Blu Gilliand reviews Scratching the Flint by Vern Smith.
- Mary Picken reviews Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward.
- Garrick Webster reviews Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward.
- Sarah Moss reviews The North Shore by Ben Tufnell.
- Dave Bradley reviews Unnatural History by Jonathan Kellerman.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Into the Light by Mark Oshiro.
- Paul Burke reviews The Monk by Tim Sullivan.
- Runalong the Shelves reviews The Monk by Tim Sullivan.
- Mary Picken reviews Dark Angel by John Sandford.
- Andrew Nette reviews City of Dreams by Don Winslow.
- BOLO Books reviews Where Are the Children Now? by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke.
- Marilyn Brooks reviews Not the Ones Dead by Dana Stabenow.
- The Book Reporter reviews The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Girl Forgotten by April Henry.
- Jenny Maloney reviews You Know Her by Meagan Jennett
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The One Who Fell by Kerry Wilkinson.
- Jen Lucas reviews The Fall by Louise Jensen.
- Jen Lucas reviews Eighteen Seconds by Louise Beech.
- Jen Lucas reviews The Guilty Couple by C.L. Taylor.
- Publishers Weekly reviews Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman.
- The Quick and the Read reviews The Guest by Emma Cline.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Tip Line by Vanessa Cuti.
- Rebecca Munro reviews Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose.
- Mary Picken reviews Killing Jericho by William Hussey
- Erin Britton reviews Killing Jericho by William Hussey.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Killing Jericho by William Hussey.
- Tzer Island reviews Moscow Exile by John Lawton.
- M. John Harrison reviews August Blue by Deborah Levy.
- Marlene Harris reviews Who Cries for the Lost? by C.S. Harris.
- Kirkus reviews Heart of the Nile by Will Thomas.
- Marlene Harris reviews Three Debts Paid by Anne Perry.
- Lis Carey reviews The Last Moriarty by Charles Veley.
- Crossexamining Crime reviews The Case of the Counterfeit Codicil by P.J. Fitzsimmons.
- Mary Picken reviews Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Play the Fool by Lina Chern
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust by Mindy Quigley and tries a recipe from the book.
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews A Streetcar Named Murder by T.G Herren.
- Lis Carey reviews Unity Con by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- Ken McGoogan reviews The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann.
- Sean O'Hagan reviews Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt, and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll
- Tim Adams reviews Reasonable Cause to Suspect: A Mother’s Ordeal to Save Her Son from a Kurdish Prison by Sally Lane
- BOLO Books reviews Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction by Anjili Babbar
Classics reviews:
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1927 Arthur G. Crook mystery The Tragedy at Freyne by Anthony Gilbert a.k.a. Lucy Beatrice Malleson.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the April 1934 Hercule Poirot mystery Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1935 mystery Twice Around the Clock by Billie Houston.
- James Reasoner revisits the 1938 hardboiled crime novel Murders in Silk by Mike Teagle a.k.a. Asa Bordages.
- Kirkus revisits the 1944 mystery Green For Danger by Christianna Brand.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the April 1951 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
- James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1953 science fiction crime novel Hellflower by George O. Smith.
- Paperback Warrior revisits the 1959 heist novel Something for the Birds by Amber Dean.
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1965 Anthony Maitland mystery The Windy Side of the Law by Sara Woods.
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1971 Miss Marple mystery Nemesis by Agatha Christie.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1974 The Executioner men's adventure novel Texas Storm by Don Pendleton.
Con and event reports:
- Paul Burke reports about the 2023 Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival in Aberystwyth, Wales.
- Martin Edwards reports about the 2023 Crime Writers' Association annual conference in York, UK.
- Ayo Onatade reports that the 2023 Capital Crime Festival in London, UK, will be held in a new and bigger venue.
- Cass Morris shares some tips for giving a good panel.
- Sarah Shaffi shares some news from the 2023 London Book Fair in London, UK.
- Arifa Akbar calls Dixon and Daughters by Deborah Bruce, which is currently playing in London, UK, a domestic noir play that's both grim and funny.
Research:
- Sisi Jiang reports that Wizards of the Coast sicced Pinkerton agents on a YouTuber, because he had gotten his hands on a new Magic the Gathering card set early.
- Linda Codega reports that Wizards of the Coast has apparently hired Pinkerton agents to track down stolen Magic the Gathering cards several times before.
- Dean Jobs talks about nineteenth century con man Gaston Derohan and his coonection to US president James Garfield.
- Liz Hyder talks about the conflict between science and religion in the nineteenth century.
Free online fiction:
- "The Snug" by Keith Wright in Mystery Tribune.
- "Deep in the Count" by John Scheck in Mystery Tribune.
- "With a Twist" by Cathi Stoler in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
- "Midday Drinks" by T.L. States in Shotgun Honey.
- "The Young Shall See Visions and the Old Dream Dreams" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- "Petersborough Murder Mystery" by William Doreski in The Five-Two.
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