Crime Fiction Links of the Week for September 16, 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 2023 Bouchercon, season 3 of Only Murders in the Building, A Haunting in Venice, Wilderness, The Other Black Girl, season 3 of Reservation Dogs, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the debate about AI-generated writing and art and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Laura Wilson shares a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
  
• Lauren Muñoz recounts how the puzzle mysteries of the golden age are influencing contemporary writers of YA mysteries.
• Alice Bell talks about millennial crime fiction.
  
• Robert Swartwood shares seven crime novels set in Las Vegas, Nevada. 
• Tori Eldridge shares five action thrillers with international settings. 
• Anna Porter shares thrillers set in remote island locations. 
• L.V. Matthews talks about the lure of water in crime fiction.
  
• Yasmin Angoe talks about morally grey action thrillers and assassins with a code. 
• Lee Kelley talks about domestic survival thrillers. 
• Holly Seddon explains why crime fiction loves to play with memory.
  
• Marta McDowell shares her appreciation for detectives who garden.
  
• Holly Danvers talks about cozy mysteries featuring furry sidekicks.
  
• Alyssa Maxwell talks about writing mysteries set during the so-called gilded age.
• Justine Barron explains what happens when the central case at the heart of the true crime story is a police brutality case. 
• Ben Okri discusses what the concept of crime says about a nation, culture or society.
• Sarah Weinman profiles Richard Osman.
  
• Curtis Evans profiles Eden Phillpotts. 
• Luisa Colón profiles Lois Duncan. 
• James Reich profiles Ira Levin. 
  
• Jeneva Rose explains how she wrote her first thriller. 
• Nick Caistor shares an obituary for the late translator Edith Grossman. 
  
• Crime fiction writer Les Edgerton has died aged 80.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Benjamin Lee calls Woman of the Hour an unsettling thriller. 
• Saloni Gajjar calls The Gold a heist drama that fails to shine. 
• Cath Clarke calls Rotting in the Sun a self-mocking whodunnit with a jawdropping twist
• Martin Edwards calls The Winter Lake a slow burn suspense movie set in Ireland. 
• Leslie Felperin calls Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance a brisk addition to the British gangster franchise that dials down the misogyny and ups the dramatic stakes
  
• Peter Bradshaw calls The Dead Don't Hurt a beautifully shot and sombre western.
• Peter Bradshaw declares that The Pigeon Tunnel proves that the simple spectacle of clever people talking on camera can be as gripping as any thriller. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of DNA. 
• Garrick Webster shares his thoughts on the Italian crime drama La Porta Rossa a.k.a. The Red Door. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the final season of Top Boy.
  
• Luke Holland celebrates the tenth anniversary of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 
• Mark Lawson interviews cast and crew of the true crime drama The Long Shadow.
  
• Rich Pelley interviews Shane Meadows, director and writer of This Is England.
  
• Tom Phillips interviews Marcus Baldini, director of The Hijacking of Flight 375.
• Chris Campion profiles Ron and June Ormond, producers of exploitation films and religious movies. 
• Keith Roysdon revisits the 1957 media satire A Face in the Crowd. 
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1974 adaptation of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
  
• Sam Barsanti revisits the 1996 The X-Files episode “Musings Of A Cigarette Smoking Man”.  
• Catherine Shoard reports that a movie version of Murder She Wrote is on the way.
   

Comments on season 3 of Only Murders in the Building: 

• Saloni Gajjar shares her thoughts on "CoBro", the latest episode of Only Murders in the Building.
• Melody McCune shares her thoughts on "CoBro".
  

 

Comments on A Haunting in Venice: 

• Murtada Elfadi declares that the biggest mystery about A Haunting in Venice is why it's so dull.
• Peter Bradshaw calls A Haunting in Venice an Agatha Christie adaptation, which wastes its atmospheric setting and stellar cast
• Olivia Rutigliano calls A Haunting in Venice the best of the Kenneth Branagh Hercule Poirot films.
  
• Inspired by A Haunting in Venice, Cindy White ranks filmic Agatha Christie adaptations.
  

 

Comments on The Other Black Girl: 

• Christina Izzo declares that the everyday workplace racism in The Other Black Girl is scarier than the horror and thriller elements. 
• Gloria Oladipo calls The Other Black Girl a blunt but entertaining workplace thriller.
  

 

Comments on Wilderness:

• Lucy Mangan calls Wilderness a fun revenge thriller.
  
• Saloni Gajjar calls Wilderness a pulpy thriller with wasted potential

 

Comments on Reservation Dogs: 

• Noetta Harjo shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Reservation Dogs.
• Manuel Betancourt shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Reservation Dogs.
  

 

Comments on the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike:

• Justin Carter reports that the studios are finally willing to negotiate with the WGA in earnest.
• Matt Webb Mitovich reports that the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes need to be settled by October 1 in order to salvage the 2023/24 TV season.
  
• Matt Donnelly reports that Greg Berlanti, producer of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl and many other shows, has donated 800000 US-dollars to a strike relief fund for film and TV industry workers affected by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. 
• Mandalit Del Barco reports that several Star Trek actors were spotted on the WGA and SAG-AFTRA picket lines. 
• Gavia Baker-Whitelaw reports that Drew Barrymore will restart her daytime talkshow in spite of the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, which attracted a lot of criticism. 
• Mary Kate Carr also reports about the backlash against Drew Barrymore for restarting her daytime talkshow amidst the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike. 
• Kalia Richardson reports that the filming of the Drew Barrymore Show has been plunged into chaos by picketers and guests cancelling. 
• Caitlin Huston reports that two audience members were kicked out of the recording of the Drew Barrymore Show for wearing pins supporting the WGA strike.
  
• Paul Glynn reports that Drew Barrymore has been dropped as host of the US National Book Awards following the backlash against her talkshow resuming production amidst the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike.
  
• Linda Codega reports that with writers and actors on strike, Hollywood is increasingly turning to robots to promote its science fiction projects. 
• Stewart Heritage reports about a unique auction organised by WGA and SAG.AFTRA to raise money for film crews affected by the strikes. 
• Jordan Moreau reports that the visual effects workers at Marvel Studios have voted to unionise.

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2023 Ned Kelly Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2023 Davitt Awards have been announced.
• The finalists for the 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Price have been announced with some love for genre fiction. 
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Rosemary Kaye talks about the importance of creativity and making art.
  
• Alan Moore tells writers to read terrible books. 
• R.J. Jacobs explains when a character's dishonesty is justified.
  
• Mark Wightman talks about researching historical fiction. 
• Lincoln Michel tells writers to write for their best rather than for their worst readers.
  
• Jeffrey Eugenides explains how he came to write The Virgin Suicides. 
• Camestros Felapton talks about low hostility reviews.
  
• Vikrant Shaurya explains why book covers are becoming more important again. 
• Carter Dougherty and Andrew Park explain what the private-equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts purchasing Simon and Schuster may mean for the publishing company.
  
• Andrew Albanese reports that the Internet Archive has filed an appeal in the copyright infringement case brought against them by the Big Five publishers.
  
• Rachel Ulatowski reports that the LGBTQ+ focusses small press Levine Querido is holding an auction, because their continued existence is threatened by the increase of book bans in the US.
  
• Tim Chan reports that Stephen King's new novel Holly is topping the US bestseller list within days of publication.
  

 

Comments on the AI controversy: 

• Lauren Panepinto notes that much of the AI debate is driven by the envy of non-creatives and people who gave up their creative pursuits.
• Steven Levy shares a fawning profile of the people behind Open AI. 
• Ella Creamer reports that Amazon now requires everybody publishing their work via the KDP platform to disclose whether the work was AI-generated.
  
• Xan Brooks claims that AI need not necessarily mean the death of film. 
• John Naughton reports how chip manufacturer Nvidia is profiting from the AI goldrush. 
• Winston Cho reports that several authors, including Michael Chabon have sued Meta and OpenAI for copyright infringement.
  
• Sharon Goldman notes that the copyright issues generated by using copyrighted work to train AIs with out permission may well lead to a US Supreme Court case.

 

Interviews: 

• Deborah Kalb interviews Lee Goldberg.
• Ali Karim interviews Gareth Rubin.
  
• Paul Burke interviews Sarah Moorhead. 
• Grace Topping interviews Frances Brody.
  

Reviews:

• Kevin Tipple reviews All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
  
• Marlene Harris reviews Payback in Death by J.D. Robb 
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews A Time to Scatter Stones by Lawrence Block
  
• Mary Picken reviews The Devil Stone by Caro Ramsay
• Nicholas Wroe reviews The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Burning Time by Peter Hanington 
• Jonathan Cowie reviews Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. 
  
• Sharon Richardson reviews The Opposite of Lonely by Doug Johnstone
• Mary Picken reviews The Opposite of Lonely by Doug Johnstone 
• Grab This Book reviews The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Hunt by Kelly J. Ford 
• Garrick Webster reviews The Detective Up Late by Adrian McKinty
• Daniel Dern reviews The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown by Lawrence Block.
  
• Grab This Book reviews The Silent Man by David Fennell 
• Mary Picken reviews The Silent Man by David Fennell
• Jen Lucas reviews The Murmurs by Michael J. Malone
  
• Jen Lucas reviews The Traitor by Ava Glass
• Sandra Mangan reviews Vengeance by J.K. Flynn
  
• Tony R. Cox reviews Who She Was by Tony Parsons 
  
• Mary Picken reviews Trust in Me by Luca Veste.
  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews A Twisted Love Story by Samantha Downing
  
• Paperback Warrior reviews Calico by Lee Goldberg. 
• Mike Parker reviews The Siberia Job by Josh Haven
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Nigerian Mafia: Mumbai by Onyeka Nwelue
• Jen Lucas reviews The Short Straw by Holly Seddon
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews Styx & Stone by James W. Ziskin 
  
• Ali Karim reviews The Turnglass by Gareth Rubin 
• Mary Picken reviews Harlem After Midnight by Louise Hare
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Murder at the Residence by Stella Blómkvist, translated by Quentin Bates 
• Jen Lucas reviews Murder at the Residence by Stella Blómkvist, translated by Quentin Bates 
• Crossexamining Crime reviews Three Card Murder by J. L. Blackhurst  
• Janet Webb reviews The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Death By a Thousand Sips by Gretchen Rue
• Alex Brown reviews The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu 
• Camestros Felapton reviews Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk  
• Gary K. Wolfe reviews Bridge by Lauren Beukes 
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews Fast Women and Neon Lights: Eighties-Inspired Neon Noir, edited by Michael Pool.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1932 mystery Mystery in Kensington Gore by Martin Porlock a.k.a. Philip Macdonald. 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1933 Dr. Priestley mytsery The Venner Crime by John Rhode. 
• Laura Picklesimer revisits the 1947 noir novel In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1951 Gervase Fen mystery The Long Divorce a.k.a. A Noose for Her by Edmund Crispin,
  
• Adam Colclough revisits the 1955 Inspector Maigret mystery Maigret and the Headless Corpse by Georges Simenon.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1956 suspense novel The Man in the Net by Patrick Quentin a.k.a. Hugh Callingham Wheeler. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1964 Lew Archer detective novel The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1982 Marshal Guarnaccia mystery Death of a Dutchman by Magdalen Nabb.
• Kevin Tipple revisits the 1995 Eve Dallas science fiction romantic suspense novel Naked in Death by J.D. Robb.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 2000 Libertus historical mystery A Pattern Of Blood by Rosemary Rowe
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 2003 Brother Athelstan historical mystery The House of Shadows by Paul Doherty. 
  

Con and event reports:

• J. Kingston Pierce shares his experiences at the 2023 Bouchercon in San Diego, California.
• George Kelley shares his experiences at the 2023 Bouchercon in San Diego, California. 
• Criminal Element reports about the 2023 Bouchercon in San Diego, California. 
• The Nordic Noir Blog pick their favourite programming items at the 2023 Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling, Scotland. 
• Mary Picken reports how the Bloody Scotland festival supports new writers.
  
• Kiki Dy reports about a visit to Agatha's Coffee and Tea House, an Agatha Christie themed café in Savannah, Georgia. 
• Ella Creamer reports that a statue of Agatha Christie has been unveiled in her former hometown of Wallingham, Oxfordshire, UK.
  

 

Research: 

• Anita Chaudhuri reports about Suzanne Richards, who lost her father, her brother and one of her two sons in a terrorist attack in Tunisia in 2015.
  
• Lang Leav talks about growing up as a Cambodian refugee kid in a crime-ridden neighbourhood in Cabramatta, Australia.
• Senay Boztas reports how an early Van Gogh painting stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam was eventually recovered.
  
• Christine Wells lists some conspiracy theory surrounding the royal house of Windsor. 
• Mack DeGeurin reports that Massachusetts wants to ban robots with mounted weapons. 
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Arsenic and the Shepherd" by Nev March in Criminal Element.
• "The Auctioneer" by Libby Cudmore in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Breakdown" by B.G. Austin in Mystery Tribune.
• "Harborville" by Robert Lopresti in Tough.
  

 

Trailer and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for The Burial. 
• Watch a trailer for Payback.
  
• Watch a trailer for Pain Hustlers.
• Watch a trailer for Finestkind. 
• Watch a trailer for Killers of the Flower Moon.
  
• Watch a trailer for Totally Killer.
• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Our Flag Means Death.