Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 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 The Horror of Dolores Roach, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, season 2 of The Afterparty, Quicksand, Sound of Freedom, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the debate about AI writing and art programs and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
• Alison Flood shares a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers. 
• Laura Wilson offers a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
  
• Molly Odintz shares fourteen YA horror novels and thrillers to enjoy this summer.
  
• Ripley Jones lists six iconic female detectives. 
• Dwyer Murphy talks about New England noir.
  
• Sarah Hilary talks about coastal noir. 
• Tasha Sylva talks about psychological thrillers and the concept of home. 
• Megan Collins lists seven thrillers about friendships and the threats they face. 
• Alex Hay shares five stories featuring villains you love to root for.
  
• Tom Mead talks about murder mysteries set in theatres. 
• Philip Fracassi shares ten thrillers with supernatural elements. 
  
• Scott Adlerberg shares five novels that sit in the borderland between horror, thriller and mystery.
  
• Chuck Tingle talks about art in defiance of the endless cosmic nothing. 
  
• Ebs Burnough takes a look at the difficult writing process of Truman Capote's seminal true crime novel In Cold Blood. 
• Amnon Kabatchik notes that the sixteenth century play Arden of Faversham is the first surviving true crime drama.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Saloni Gajjar calls Justified: City Primeval a riveting sequel.
  
• Rebecca Nicholson declares that the British thriller Then You Run is just like Derry Girls, but with a lot more murder and heroin
• Manuel Betancourt calls Full Circle a thriller miniseries that plays to Steven Soderbergh's strengths. 
• Cath Clarke calls A Kind of Kidnapping a pitch-black cime comedy. 
• Leslie Felperin calls Lost in the Stars a Chinese thriller that offers a dizzying display of double takes and plot pivots
  
• Chris Jenkins shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Beck.
  
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the first and second episode of Crime.
  
• Charlotte Edwards interviews Cillian Murphy, star of Peaky Blinders. 
• Geoffrey Macnab interviews John McTiernan, director of Die Hard, Predator and The Hunt for Red October
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1952 thriller TV miniseries Operation Diplomat.
  
• Scott von Doviak remembers the so-called Hixploitation movies, B-movies about young men in fast cars in the US South, of the 1970s 
• Steve Rose looks back on the legacy of Bruce Lee fifty years after his death. 
  
• Justin Carter celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the so-called Wilhelm scream, a popular Hollywood sound effect.  
• Peter White reports that High Desert has been cancelled after only one season. 
  

 

Comments on The Horror of Dolores Roach:

• Joel Golby calls The Horror of Dolores Roach a hugely fun drama about turning dead people into empanadas
• Saloni Gajjar calls The Horror Of Dolores Roach a bloody good cannibal dramedy
  
• Jack Seale calls The Horror of Dolores Roach a sloppy serial killer drama.

 

Comments on Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1:

• Clem Bastow explains why they believe that the Mission Impossible series are the best action movies. 
• A.A. Dowd explains why he believes that Mission Impossible is the best franchise in Hollywood. 
• Sabina Graves interviews Chris McQuarrie, director of Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1. 
• Catherine Shoard reports that Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 has beaten the box office record of its own series.
  
• Scott Huver tries and fails to find a link between the classic 1960s spy show Mission Impossible and the eponymous series of Tom Cruise action films.
  

 

Comments on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (spoilers): 

• Carolyn Giardina interviews Andrew Whitehurst and Robert Weaver, special affects supervisors for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
• James Hibberd ranks all five Indiana Jones movies.

 

Comments on season 2 of The Afterparty:

• Saloni Gajjar declares that season 2 of the crime comedy The Afterparty lacks humor. 
• Jordan Williams offers a rundown of all the suspects in season 2 of The Afterparty.
  

 

Comments on Quicksand: 

• Phil Hoad calls Quicksand an overly serious B-movie survival horror thriller. 
• Cheryl Eddy finds Quicksand somehow both predictable and tense as hell 
  

 

Comments on Sound of Freedom: 

• Rebecca Rubin reports that the religious thriller Sound of Freedom is a surprising box office success in the US due to catering to far right audiences and encouraging people to buy tickets on bulk to give away. 
• Zack Sharf reports that a conspiracy theory that the US cinema chain AMC is trying to keep people from watching Sound of Freedom has been denounced by both AMC and the studio.
  

 

Comments on the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike:

• Dominic Patten reports that studio executives refuse to talk with WGA, but plan to let the writers' strike continue until WGA members are exhausted and impoverished enough to accept any conditions.
• Lois Beckett reports that SAG-AFTRA has announced the first Hollywood actors strike in sixty years. 
• Linda Codega also reports about the SAG-AFTRA strike.
  
• Ellise Shafer reports that Disney CEO Bob Iger believes that the WGA and SAG-AFTRA demands are not realistic.
  
• Cynthia Littleton reports about a surprise reunion of the writers and cast of Bones during the ongoing WGA strike.
  
• David Robb reports what that the actors' union SAG-AFTRA has agreed to federal meditation with the studios, but will not extend the strike deadline.
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw shares some updates about the ongoing WGA and impending SAG-AFTRA strike. 
• Stuart Heritage finds some parallels between the Black Mirror episode "Joan Is Awful" and the SAG-AFTRA strike
  
• Deadline reports what will happen in Hollywood and beyond, when SAG-AFTRA goes on strike as well.
• Andrew Pulver also reports about the consequences of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

 

Awards:

• The nominations for the 2023 Emmy Awards have been announced with some love for crime TV. 
  
• The finalists for the 2023 Munsey Awards have been announced. 
• The shortlist for the 2023 Alberta Book Publishing Awards has been announced.  
• The finalists for the 2023 Scribe Awards have been announced. 
  
• Paul Burke and Victoria Selman discuss the 2023 CWA Dagger winners.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Greg Mosse talks about inspiration and writing routine.
  
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch shares a few general strategies for niche marketing.
  
• Linda Codega reports how the fantasy novel Leigh Howard and the Ghosts of Simmons-Pierce Manor by Shawn M. Warner went viral on TikTok, after a TikTokker chanced to interview the author, who was handselling his books. 
• Del Sandeen takes a stand against the plague of book bans in the US.
  
• Ella Creamer and Anna Davidson report that English libraries generate at least 3.4 billion pounds of value every year.
  

 

Comments on the AI controversy: 

• Charlie Nash reports that an error-riddled AI-generated article was posted on io9, without the knowledge or consent of io9's human writers and editors.
• Game Thinking TV interviews Douglas Hofstadter about the state of AI today.

 

Interviews: 

• Ona Russell interviews Ivy Pochoda.
  
• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Ambrose Parry. 
• Dr. Jacky Collins interviews Kate Griffin,
  
• Nancie Clare interviews Alison Gaylin. 
• Debbi Mack interviews Clay Stafford. 
• Ayo Onatade interviews Robet Goddard.
  
• John Valeri interviews Reed Farrel Coleman. 
• Marshall Zeringue interviews Reed Farrel Coleman. 
  
• Deborah Kalb interviews Siena Sterling. 
• Deborah Kalb interviews L.R. Dorn a.k.a. Matt Dorff and Suzanne Dunn.
  
• David Shariatmadari interviews Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
  

Reviews:

• Lesa Holstine reviews An Evil Heart by Linda Castillo.
  
• Marlene Harris reviews The Third to Die by Allison Brennan.
  
• Mary Picken reviews Children of the Mist by Douglas Skelton. 
• Jen Lucas reviews Black Thorn by Sarah Hilary. 
  
• Mary Picken reviews Black Thorn by Sarah Hilary.
  
• Becky LeJeune reviews Lowbridge by Lucy Campbell. 
• Paperback Warrior reviews The Dark Hour by K.J. Young. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits Black Eye by Tony Masero.
  
• Gabino Iglesias reviews The Donut Legion by Joe R. Lansdale
• Jen Lucas reviews The Ungrateful Dead by Adam Simcox
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Fear the Silence by Robert Bryndza  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh. 
• Jake Arnott reviews Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
  
• Bidisha Mamta reviews Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Mandie Griffiths reviews The Murder List by Jackie Kabler.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos review I Know What You Did by Cayce Osborne
• Janet Webb reviews A Stolen Child by Sarah Stewart Taylor
  
• Michelle Carpenter reviews Girls and Their Horses by Eliza Jane Brazier 
• Mandie Griffiths reviews The Girl’s Last Cry by Alison Belsham
  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Her, Too by Bonnie Kistler
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Her Father's Daughter by T.M. Dunn
• The Quick and the Dead reviews Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter. 
• Kieran Goddard reviews Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Incident at San Miguel by A.J. Sidransky
• Jen Lucas reviews One by Eve Smith. 
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews Pesticide by Kim Hays.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews A Thief’s Justice by Douglas Skelton
  
• Lis Carey reviews James Moriarty, Consulting Criminal by Andy Weir 
• Cary Davis reviews  My Men by Victoria Kielland
  
• Marlene Harris reviews The Housekeepers by Alex Hay. 
  
• BOLO Books reviews The Housekeepers by Alex Hay. 
• Marlene Harris reviews The Last Drop of Hemlock by Katharine Schellman
• Lesa Holstine reviews A Cryptic Clue by Victoria Gilbert
• Jen Lucas reviews The Bleeding by Johanna Gustawsson , translated by David Warriner
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Night in Question by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood 
• Erin Britton reviews  A Death in the Parish by Richard Coles
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder Is a Piece of Cake by Valerie Burns and tries a recipe from the book.
• Erin Britton reviews How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Martin Edwards revisits the 1933 Tony Rillington mystery Driven Death by Nigel Orde-Powlett.
  
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1937 Inspector Treadgold mystery Tempt Me Not by Anthony Weymouth.
  
• Lesa Holstine revisits the 1953 mystery Crook o’Lune by E.C.R. Lorac.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1976 action thriller Killer Blizzard by Dan Jorgensen. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1991 DCI Webb mystery I'll Sing you Two-O by Anthea Fraeser.

Con and event reports:

• Runalong the Shelves reports about the 2023 Edge-Lit festival in Derby, UK. 
• Nell Frizzell reports about the 2023 Nudefest, a nudist literary festival in Thorney Lakes, UK.   
• Robert J. Parsons reports about a visit to the Sherlock Holmes museum in Lucens, Switzerland.
  
• Tonya Fitzpatrick shares the best travel destinations for crime and thriller fans.
  

 

Research: 

• The New York Times reports that a suspect has been arrested in the serial killings in Gilgo Beach, New York.
  
• Jamie Grierson reports that the Scottish man whose mother-on-law wore the black and blue/white and gold dress that went viral on the internet a few years ago, has been charged with trying to kill his wife after thirteen years of domestic violence.
• Steven Morris reports that the wife of a disabled man and a care worker have been jailed for enslaving and abusing the man.
  
  

Free online fiction: 

• "The Devil's Plus-One" by April Kelly in Tough. 
• "Something Sweet, Something Special" by Ambrielle Butler in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "K9" by Jamey Gallagher in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Get a Grip" by S.T. Schorey in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "The Simulcast" by Art Stanton in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "An Incursion of Mice" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
• "Bar Fight" by Adam Stemple in The Five-Two.
  

 

Trailer and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for The Sixth Commandment,
• Watch a trailer for Killers of the Flower Moon. 
• Watch a trailer for Forensic Psychologist.