Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 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 season 10 of Beck, The Horror of Dolores Roach, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, season 1 of Silo, the debate about AI writing and art programs and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Lesa Holstine shares her favourite mysteries and crime novels of 2023 to date. 
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels and mysteries coming out this week. 
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels to read in July.
  
• Criminal Element share their most anticipated crime novels and mysteries of 2023. 
• Molly Odintz shares ten psychological thrillers coming out this July.
  
• Debra Sennefelder points out that the amateur sleuths of cozy mystery are more than just nosy busybodies. 
• Alex Hay explains why heist stories are so much fun.
  
• Mark Billingham explains why comedy and crime novels are a perfect match. 
• Jill Johnson explains why crime writers love writing poison murders.
  
• Beatriz Williams talks about the renaissance of the Cold War thriller. 
• Bonnie Kistler shares novels about women getting revenge. 
• Michael Gonzeles talks about infidelity in the noir novels of James M. Cain.
  
• Sarah Weinman talks about the Atlanta child murders, James Baldwin and the evolution of true crime writing. 
• Aaron Jacobs discusses the difference between crime novels based on and inspired by true events.
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares five reasons to finish a book you don't love.  
• Molly Templeton talks about loving books no one else has heard of. 
  
• Anna Arthur talks about the latters her father-in-law David Cornwell a.k.a. John Le Carré wrote to her late husband Tim Cornwell, son of John Le Carré and brother of Nick Cornwell a.k.a. Nick Harkaway.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Dwyer Murphy shares the best new crime shows coming out in July 2023. 
  
• Leslie Felperin calls Door Mouse a strip club thriller that’s Raymond Chandler by way of Tank Girl 
  
• Leslie Felperin calls 97 minutes a twisty thriller. 
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls Prisoner's Daughter a hammy ex-con drama that falls flat on its face. 
• Stuart Jeffries calls Blindspot a plodding and cliché-ridden police procedural.
  
• Lucy Mangan calls The King Who Never Was a gripping true crime documentary.
  
• Olivia Rutigliano shares crime movies set on Fourth of July. 
• David Masciotra revisits the 1990 neo-noir film The Hot Spot.
  
• Ben Travis interviews Chad Stahelski, director of the John Wick series. 
• Rich Pelley interviews Britt Ekland, star of Get Carter, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Wicker Man, The Night They Raided Minsky's and many others.  
• Gwilym Mumford wonders whether the TV streaming movel is broken.
  
• Stuart Heritage explains why TV stars increasingly film their scenes alone in front of a green screen rather than with their co-stars on set. 
• Linda Codega reports that the actors union SAG-AFTRA is preparing to strike. 
  

 

Comments on season 10 of Beck: 

• Garrick Webster shares his thoughts on season 10 of Beck.
  
• Chris Jenkins shares his thoughts on episode 1 of season 10 of Beck.

 

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:

• Steve Rose calls Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 the most uncannily topical film of the series so far.
• Murtada Elfadi declares that Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part 1 delivers what viewers are expecting.
  
• Peter Bradshaw declaqres that Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 shows no signs that the Mission Impossible series is running out of steam. 
• Germain Lussier reports that Tom Cruise intends to keep making Mission Impossible movies for decades to come. 
• Ben Child wonders whether Tom Cruise's plan to continue making action movies into his eighties is even physically possible.
  
• Stuart Heritage wonders if Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 is the most Tom Cruisiest movie Tom Cruise has ever made. 
• Germain Lussier ranks all Mission Impossible movies to date.
  

 

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

• Leonard Maltin did not have high expectations for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and still came away disappointed. 
• Olivia Rutigliano calls Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny a rousing and genuinely entertaining return.
  
• Steve Vertlieb shares his thoughts on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, 
• Germain Lussier breaks down the ending of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (spoilers). 
• Germain Lussier praises how Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny uses a scene of children watching a puppet show to set up its finale. 
  
• Mary McNamara profiles Harrison Ford, star of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
• Brian Davids interviews James Mangold, director of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. 
• Lauren Huff also interviews James Mangold.
  
• Elizabeth Wagmeister interviews Shaunette Renée Wilson who plays Agent Mason in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
• Pamela McClintock reports that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny performed only middling at the box office. 
• Andrew Pulver also reports about the struggles of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny at the US and international box office.
  

 

Comments on season 1 of Silo:

• Aaron Jones calls Silo a must-see dystopian series.
  
• Haley Zapal shares her thoughts on season 1 of Silo.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Silo.

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2023 CWA Dagger Awards have been announced.
  
• The shortlist for the 2023 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year has been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2023 Fingerprint Awards have been announced and are open for voting.
  
• The longlist for the 2023 Davitt Awards has been announced.
  
• The winner of the 2023 Maltese Falcon Award has been announced.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Mark Billingham talks about the challenges of starting a brand-new series. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch discusses some benefits of niche marketing.
  
• Martin Edwards interviews bookseller Stephen Conway.
  
• The US Federal Trade Commission has announced that they will ban fake reviews.
• Literary agent Frances Collin has died aged 87.
  

 

Comments on the AI controversy: 

• Jason Sanford explains why it is problematic to call machine learning programs like ChatGPT, DALL-E or MidJourney artificial intelligences, because they are not intelligent. 
• Evgeny Morozov shares what he consideres the true threat of artificial intelligence.
  
• Winston Cho reports that authors have launched a new class action lawsuit against OpenAI for using copyrighted works without permission or compensation as training data for its large language model.
• Ella Creamer reports that authors Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright violations.

 

Interviews: 

• Paul Burke interviews M.W. Craven. 
• Alex Segura interviews Ed Brubaker.
  
• Ayo Onatade interviews Winnie Li. 
• Molly Odintz interviews Heather Levy.
  
• Kevin Canfield interviews Mark O'Connell.
  

Reviews:

• Linda M. Castellito reviews Zero Days by Ruth Ware. 
• Jen Lucas reviews Zero Kill by M.K. Hill.
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Children of the Mist by Douglas Skelton.
  
• Marlene Harris reviews Whispers at Dusk by Heather Graham.
• Toni V. Sweeney reviews The Last Sinner by Lisa Jackson.  
• Mandie Griffiths reviews The Blood of Others by Graham Hurley
  
• Dave Bradley reviews Conviction by Jack Jordan.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Bitter Past by Bruce Borgos
• Mary Picken reviews Coming to Find You by Jane Corry.
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding
  
• The Book Decoder reviews The Water Tower by Amy Young.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews The Hotel by Louise Mumford. 
• Tzer Island reviews The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding.
  
• BOLO Books reviews The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Retribution by Robert McCaw. 
• Paperback Warrior reviews Black Eye by Tony Masero.
  
• Crossexamining Crime reviews The Birthday Girl by Sarah Ward. 
• Ruth Gilligan reviews Kala by Colin Walsh
  
• Hephzibah Anderson reviews Pet by Catherine Chidgey  
  
• Holly Williams reviews Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
  
• West Words reviews Bad Kids by Zijin Chen, translated by Michelle Deeter.
  
• Aunt Agatha's reviews A Stolen Child by Sarah Stewart Taylor. 
• Aunt Agatha's reviews A Fatal Illusion by Anna Lee Huber. 
  
• Mandie Griffiths reviews The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
• The Quick and the Read reviews Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry 
• Jen Lucas reviews Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry 
  
• Kirkus reviews The Devil's Playground by Craig Russell.
  
• Marissa Moss reviews Charlotte Illes Is Not a Detective by Katie Siegel. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Skeleton Paints a Picture by Leigh Perry 
• Erin Britton reviews Murdle by G.T. Karber.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Flop Dead Gorgeous by David Rosenfelt
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Flat White Fatality by Emmeline Duncan and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Mary Picken reviews One by Eve C. Smith.
• Jen Lucas reviews  No Ordinary Day : Espionage, betrayal, terrorism and corruption – the truth behind the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher by Matt Johnson and John Murray
  
• Andy West reviews Behind These Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival in Prison by Alex South 
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1923 Lord Peter Wimsey mystery Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1935 Hercule Poirot mystery Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1948 Dan Turner Hollywood Detective hardboiled mystery "Death Ends the Scene" by Robert Leslie Bellem. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the June 1951 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
  
• Brian Collins revisits the 1953 science fiction crime story "Watchbird" by Robert Sheckley.  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1958 Sir Abercrombie Lewker mystery The Ice Axe Murders by Glyn Carr.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1977 Duke Rhoades detective story "Finding Anne Farley" by John D. MacDonald. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1984 Detective Inspector Richard Patton mystery Face Value a.k.a. The Hanging Doll Murder by Roger Omerod. 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1995 crime novel Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside a.k.a. Lady Catherine Manning.
  

Con and event reports:

• Listening to the Dead reports about the 2023 Crime Con in London, UK.
  
• G.T. Karber talks about the Hollywood Mystery Theater, which stages live shows of murder mysteries.
  

 

Research: 

• Jacob Ward and Lora Kolodny report about the ongoing harrassment of science fiction author Patrick S. Tomlinson. 
• Nathan Ward talks about the mutiny aboard the British merchant vessel Leicester Castle in 1902 and its unusual aftermath.
  
• Alan Phillips shares a history of the Metropol Hotel in Moscow, Russia.
  
  

Free online fiction: 

• "SuperMAX" by Daniel H. Wilson in Uncanny Magazine.
  
• "Twos on That" by Pat Black in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's Fiction Podcast  
• "A Murdered Memory" by Patrick Kendrick in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "The Fifth Conspirator" by Robb T. White in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Decadent Heaven" by Bam Barrow in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Englisch Skeme"by T.F. Holland in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Osip" by Paul Hostovsky in The Five-Two.
  

 

Trailer and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Justified: Primeval. 
• Watch a trailer for season 2 of The Lincoln Lawyer.
  
• Watch a trailer for Full Circle.
• Watch a trailer for season 2 of The Afterparty.