Crime Fiction Links of the Week for June 24, 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 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, season 6 of Black Mirror, the debate about AI writing and art programs, the Reddit blackout, tributes to Carol Higgins Clark and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• George Easter shares the best mystery, thriller and suspense novels of 2023 to date according to Amazon. 
• J. Kingston Pierce shares the best thrillers of 2023 according to Library Journal. 
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Laura Wilson shares the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
  
• Molly Odintz lists the best international crime novels coming out in June.
• Crime Reads shares the five best debut crime novels coming out in June.
  
• Kate Khavari shares historical mysteries to enjoy this summer.
• Rachel Cochran talks about Gulf Coast noir. 
• Kate Robards shares five thrillers set in isolated woodlands.
  
• Jon Bassoff talks about the intersection of westerns and gothic fiction. 
• Kim Sherwood shares her ten favourite adventure novels that women as well as men can enjoy.
• Rebecca McKanna talks about millennial nostalgia in thrillers.
  
• Crossexamining Crime shares their favourite mysteries featuring cats.
• Joe R. Lansdale writes about humor in crime fiction. 
• Nick Kolakowski explains how Cormac McCarthy used the tropes of crime fiction to make literary masterpieces.
  
• Bruce Borgos explains how the nuclear testsites in the Nevada desert inspired his hew spy thriller The Bitter Past. 
• Rob Rinder explains how his experience as a barrister influenced his legal thriller The Trial.
  
• Camestros Felapton shares some notes on genres and how they are defined. 
• Camestros Felapton talks about cognitive load, genre and tropes. 
• Molly Templeton points out that different forms of reading still count.

 

Tributes to Carold Higgins Clark:

• Crime fiction writer and actress Carol Higgins Clark has died aged 66.
• Brian Murphy remembers Carol Higgins Clark. 
• Neil Genzlinger remembers Carol Higgins Clark.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Saloni Gajjar calls Hijack a ridiculous but fun thriller.
  
• Luke Y. Thompson calls God Is a Bullet a misfiring revenge thriller.
  
• Ryan Gilbey points out that the French true crime thriller November is good PR for the French police. 
• Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on The Nest.
  
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Silo. 
  
• Leslie Felperin calls She Came From the Woods a jolly teen slasher romp. 
  
• Lucy Mangan shares her thoughts on the true crime documentary Crashed: $800m Festival Fail 
• Olivia Rutigliano lists the thirteen most suave detectives in film and TV. 
• Noah Ciubotaru wishes there were fewer antihero stories on TV.  
• Brian Davids interviews Sam Hargrave, director of Extraction 2. 
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1974 thriller The Driver's Seat a.k.a. Identikit.  
• Devin McGrath-Conwell revisits the 1999 mob comedy Analyze This and notes how similar its premise is to The Sopranos, which debuted the same year.
  
• Stuart Heritage recounts how Tom Cruise persuaded Hayley Atwell's grandmother to go on a helicopter trip with him, even though the elderly lady was afraid of helicopters. 
• Josef Adalian reports that fans of Turner Classic Movies are right to worry about the future.  
  
• Scott Huver explains why Turner Classic Movies matters more than ever.
  
• Catherine Shoard reports that the search for actor Julian Sands, who went missing during a hike in California this January, has been scaled back.  
• Adam Whitehead remembers Ray Stevenson.

 

Comments on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: 

• Christopher Heabey wonders what will become of Indiana Jones after Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, 
• Germain Lussier interviews James Mangold, director of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
  
• BBC Radio 1 interviews the cast of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. 
• Germain Lussier revisits the 2008 movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Cystal Skull. 
  
• Stuart Heritage wonders whether the world really needs a 4650 US-dollar Indiana Jones tie-in leather bag. 
• Watch a video of John Williams scoring Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, 
  

 

Comments on season 6 of Black Mirror:

• Kayleigh Dray calls season 6 of Black Mirror back on form. 
• Stuart Heritage calls season 6 of Black Mirror breathtaking and points out that it also trolls Netflix, the platform where the show is streaming. 
  
• Cheryl Eddy shares eight things she liked and two things she didn't like about season 6 of Black Mirror.
• Cheryl Eddy shares her thoughts on the Black Mirror episode "Loch Henry" and notes that it criticises the true crime genre.
  
• The Media Show interviews Charlie Brooker, creator and Black Mirror.
• Jeff Glor interviews Charlie Brooker.
  
• Daisy Jones interviews Aaron Paul, star of Breaking Bad and the Black Mirror episode "Beyond the Sea". 
• Saloni Gajjar lists the ten bleakest episodes of Black Mirror. 
• Michael Hogan shares a quiz about whether something happened in real life or an episode of Black Mirror.

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2023 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award have been announced.
• Stuart Heritage explains why there should be an Oscar for the best stunt. 
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Claudia Craven explains what writers of historical fiction can learn from costume designers. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about niche marketing.
  
• SFWA shares safety tips for signings and small author events.
  
• Noble Brigham reports that Rediscovered Books in Caldwell, Idaho, is closing. 
  
• Influential editor Robert Gottlieb has died aged 92.
  

 

Comments on the AI controversy: 

•  Lisa O'Carroll reports that the European parliament is debating the world's first law regulating AI.
• Johana Bhuiyan and Nick Robins-Early bemoan that the US is still playing catch-up with regard to AI laws. 
• Simon Winchester wonders if AI will make us stupid. 
• Michael Capobianco talks about copyright, contracts and AI-generated writing and art. 
• Tatiana Siegel reports that Warner Bros has signed a deal for employing an AI-driven film management system.

 

Interviews: 

• The Guardian interviews Attica Locke.
  
• Steve Powell interviews Andrew Nette.
• Eli Cranor interviews Wanda Morris.
  
• John Valeri interviews Charles Salzberg. 
  
• Paul Burke interviews Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter.
• Garrick Webster interviews R.A. Cramblitt.
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club interviews Tove Alsterdal.
• Kate Brody interviews Clémence Michallon, 
• E.B. Davis interviews Krista Davis.
  
• Don Gonyea interviews Barbara Butcher.
• Lorraine Savage interviews Lavie Tidhar. 

Reviews:

• John Valeri reviews All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
  
• Maud Lavin reviews Code of the Hills by Chris Offutt. 
• Karen Chisholm review Orphan Road by Andrew Nette.
  
• Beth Kanell reviews Killing Moon by Jo Nesbo.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor.
• James Fleming reviews Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor.
• Kevin Tipple reviews Snakebit by Paul Doiron. 
• Kirkus reviews Flesh and Blood by David Mark. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews A Stolen Child by Sarah Stewart Taylor
  
• BOLO Books reviews Missing in the Snow by Ann Cleeves. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Missing in the Snow by Ann Cleeves.   
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Sing Her Down by Ivy Pochoda
• Sharon Richardson reviews The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding
  
• BOLO Books reviews With a Kiss We Die by L.R. Dorn. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Malibu Burning by Lee Goldberg.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Red House by Roz Watkins. 
• Jen Lucas reviews Scarlet Ribbons by Mark L. Fowler. 
• Jen Lucas reviews Let Me In by Claire McGowan.
  
• Mary Picken reviews A Blind Eye by Marion Todd
• Brittany Shields reviews A Killer's Game by Isabella Maldonado.
• Paperback Warrior reviews One by One by Freida McFadden. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Rule of Three by Sam Ripley. 
  
• Publishers Weekly reviews The Get by Dietrich Kalteis 
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop. 
• The Library Ladies review Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum. 
• Adam Colclough reviews The People Watcher by Sam Lloyd.
  
• Grab This Book reviews The Doctor by Annie Payne. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Killing Me by Michelle Gagnon
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews The Trial by Rob Rinder. 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Bastard Verdict by James McCrone.
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Independence Square by Martin Cruz Smith
  
• Jeff Ayers reviews Inside Threat by Matthew Quirk
• Tzer Island reviews The Siberia Job by Josh Haven. 
  
• Mary Picken reviews The Dead Don't Speak by Clare Askew. 
• Louise Fairbairn reviews Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry. 
  
• Mary Picken reviews Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry. 
• Mandie Griffiths reviews Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry. 
  
• Moonraker reviews Killingly by Katharine Beutner.
  
• Mandy Griffiths reviews The Lost Man Of Bombay by Vaseem Khan
• Aunt Agatha's reviews A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao. 
• Erin Britton reviews A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao. 
  
• Carolyn Scott reviews A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality by Kate Khavari
  
• The Lily Café reviews The Last Drop of Hemlock by Katharine Schellman. 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Fascination by Essie Fox. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Late Mrs. Willoughby by Claudia Gray
• Lis Carey reviews Remember, Remember by Anna Elliott and Charles Veley
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder on Mustang Beach by Alicia Bessette 
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews A Most Efficient Murder by Anthony Slayton  
• Erica Dirk reviews My Murder by Katie Williams.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Death in Fine Condition by Andrew Cartmel 
• Crossexamining Crime reviews The Cornish Wedding Murder by Fiona Leitch
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews An American in Scotland by Lucy Connelly.
  
• Lis Carey reviews A Song of Comfortable Chairs by Alexander McCall Smith.
• Jen Lucas reviews The Moose Paradox by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Give Fudge a Chance by Nancy Coco and tries a recipe from the book 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Witch Upon a Star by Angela M. Sanders
  
• Ah Sweet Mystery! reviews How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Martin Edwards revisits the 1928 mystery The Brazen Confession by Cecil Freeman Gregg.
  
• Runalong the Shelves revisits the 1930 Miss Marple mystery The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie.
• Polly Stewart, Lynne Constantine and Valerie Rees revisit the 1932 mystery The Man Who Knew How by Dorothy Sayers.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1939 action thriller Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household. 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1939 Luke Bradley mystery Cancelled in Red by Hugh Pentecost. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1960 crime novel Home is the Prisoner by Jean Potts.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1984 Carl Heller crime novel The Oil Rig by Frank Roderus.
  

Con and event reports:

• Martin Edwards reports about the Shetland Noir festival in Lerwick, Scotland.
  
• Joy Kluver reports about the Crime Authors Fair at the West Barnes Library in Merton, UK.
• Mike Glyer shares some new aquisitions made by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Brightside, a spy adventure comic by Stu Perrins and Nico Queme, is looking for funding.

 

Research: 

• Jonathan H. Smith talks about the neuroscience of fear. 
  
• Jonny Thomson shares the military's five step method for falling asleep anytime anywhere. 
• Brooklyn Reece discusses a serial killer who operated undetected in New York City for fifteen years, but was ignored because he targeted sex workers.
  
• Erin Marquis reports about hundreds of radioisotope thermoelectric generators distributed all over the former Soviet Union with little to no protection in spite of being dangerously radioactive.
• William Kaz talks about the rise of the oligarchs in the former Soviet Union. 
• Jesse Pasternack wonders why people continue to be fascinated with union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who vanished without a trace in 1975.
  
• J. Kingston Pierce talks about Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in the UK in 1955. 
  
  

Comments on the Reddit blackout:

• Jay Peters and Mila Sato report that Reddit sent threatening messages to the moderators of subreddits participating in the blackout protest.
  
• Kevin Hurler reports that several big subreddits are retreating from the blackout protest.
• Scharon Harding notes that community trust is the true casualty of the Reddit wars. 
• Jay Peters interviews Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit.

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Carolyn's Eyes" by James Patrick Focarile in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Bottom Girl" by Michael Bracken in Tough.
  
• "Bassackward Santa" by Jessica Ramer in Mystery Tribune.
• "End Times" by Tim Frank in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "How To Dress For An Insurrection" by David Hagerty in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Always an Angel, Never a God" by Danila Botha in in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Etienne" by Nathan Pettigrew in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "When It Is" by Casey Stegman in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "File 489" by April Kelly in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Blind Item #33" by Richard Barr in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Our Opera Singer" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 
• "Jealous Guy" by Charles Rammelkamp in The Five-Two.
  

 

Trailer and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Heart of Stone.
• Watch a trailer for Mob Land.