Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 7, 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 3 of Only Murders in the Building, The Burial, season 2 of Our Flag Means Death, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the debate about AI-generated writing and art, tributes to Michael Gambon and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Time Magazine shares the one hundred best mysteries and thrillers of all time.
  
• 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.
  
• James Davis Nicoll shares five enduring reasons to love mass market paperbacks. 
• Julia Kelly explains how writing a mystery helped her rediscover her love for golden age detective novels. 
• P.J. McIlvaine shares five crime novels about invading the sanctuary of home.
  
• Paul French shares crime novels set in Hamburg, Germany. 
• Paul Vidich talks about the best hotels and hotel bars in spy fiction.
  
• Cody Goodfellow talks about writing an urban exploration thriller. 
• Melanie Golding shares her favourite novels featuring circusses. 
• Daniel Sweren-Becker reminds everybody that true crime deals with real people and their tragedies. 
• Marissa Lingen urges everybody not to save books for later, but read them now, if you want to read them. 
• Molly Templeton talks about dead dogs and other reading dealbreakers. 
• Amanda Craig shares her appreciation for Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey for his 100th anniversary.
  
• Peter Handel profiles Paul Vidich. 
• Julia Kelly explains how a visit to the Cabinet War Rooms in London, UK, inspired her latest mystery. 
  
• Mary Whitfill Roeloffs reports that two copies of The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie and The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle from the collection of Rolling Stones member Charlie Watts have become the most expensive books ever sold.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Leila Latif declares that season 3 of Lupin is the boldest and bloodiest yet.
  
• Max Gao calls Found a deliciously unhinged crime drama with a juicy twist. 
• Lucy Mangan calls Payback a pacy crime drama with a stellar cast. 
• Paul Levinson declares that Reptile feels like a season of True Detective packed into a movie. 
• Phuong Le calls The Latent Image a standard slasher movie brightened by the sizzling chemistry between its leads.
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Long Shadow. 
• Melody McCune shares her thoughts on the latest episode of The Continental.
• Lucy Mangan calls the documentary Jailed: Inside Maghaberry Prison a gripping look at the UK’s most dangerous jail. 
• Cath Clarke shares her thoughts on the documentary The Rev. 
  
• Lucy Mangan shares her thoughts on the documentary The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool
  
• Cindy Fazzi shares her ten favourite movies about bounty hunters. 
  
• Writers of the Guardian remember the toughest scenes of filmic violence they've ever watched.  
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1958 crime movie The Snorkel. 
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1963 suspense thriller The Maniac. 
• Sandy Ferber revisits the 1965 suspense thriller Hysteria.
  
• Scott Tobias revisits the 1973 gangster film Mean Streets for its fiftieth anniversary. 
• Todd Lazarski revisits the 2002 Sopranos episode "Christopher", often considered the worst of the entire series.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 2015 thriller Return to Sender.
  
• P.J. Grisar interviews actress and documentary filmmaker Lee Grant, who appeared in In the Heat of the Night, Detective Story, Shampoo, Peyton Place, Marooned, Mission Impossible and many others.
• Mark Kermode shares his appreciation for the works of filmmaker Nicholas Roeg. 
• Alexandra Topping reports that actor and political commentator Laurence Fox, best known for his role in Lewis, has been arrested after threatening to damage the cameras used by the news channel GB News, after he they fired him for misogynist remarks. 
• Elizabeth Wagmeister reports that actress Julia Ormond has sued Harvey Weinstein for sexual assault and the Walt Disney Company as well as her agency for aiding and abetting him.
   

Comments on season 3 of Only Murders in the Building: 

• Saloni Gajjar shares her thoughts on "Opening Night", the season 3 finale of Only Murders in the Building.
• Melody McCune shares her thoughts on "Opening Night". 
• Melody McCune shares five questions she would like to see answered in season 4 of Only Murders in the Building.
  

 

Comments on season 2 of Our Flag Means Death:

•  Jenna Scherer shares her thoughts on the season 2 premeire of Our Flag Means Death.
• Leah Schnelbach interviews Maggie Phillips, music supervisor for Our Flag Means Death. 

 

Comments on The Burial: 

• Benjamin Lee calls The Burial a crowd-pleasing courtroom drama. 
• Timothy Cogshell calls The Burial a David vs. Goliath courtroom drama based on a real-life legal battle in the deep South
  

 

Tributes to Michael Gambon: 

• Variety shares an obituary for Michael Gambon.
• Michael Billington shares an obituary for Michael Gambon.
  
• Paul Hirons revisits Michael Gambon's greatest role in The Singing Detective. 
• Catherine Shoard shares tributes by other actors and directors to Michael Gambon.
  

 

Comments on the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike:

• Kathleen Sharp wonders what the lessons from the WGA strike are.
  
• Alex Winter points out that the AI clauses in the WGA deal put a lot of faith in the studios to do the right thing.
• Linda Codega notes that even though the WGA strike may have finished, the battle over AI is far from over. 
• William Hughes reports that several writers are refusing to continue to work on The Drew Barrymore Show, after the daytime talk show attempted to film in spite of the WGA strike.
  
• James Whitbrook reports that the visual effects artists working at Walt Disney Pictures have voted to unionise.

 

Awards:

• The winner of the 2023 Glass Bell Award has been announced. 
• The shortlist for the 2023 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has been announced.
  
• The shortlist for the 2023 National Book Awards has been announced.  
• The winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature has been announced. 
  
• The 2023 Crime Fiction Lover Awards are open for nominations.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Isle McElroy talks about writing sex scenes. 
• Jim Milliot reports that according to a survey of the Authors Guild, most writers make writing income below the poverty line. 
• Lucy Knight reports that Ian McEwan has spoken out against sensitivity readers.
  
• Ella Creamer reports that a surviving fragment of the first draft manuscript of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, which was torn up by the writer's dog Toby in 1936, has been put up for auction.
  

 

Comments on the AI controversy: 

• Timothy B. Lee and Sean Trott explain Large Language Models with a minimum of math and jargon
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about AI and copyright.

 

Interviews: 

• Karen MacPherson interviews Donna Leon.
  
• Eli Cranor interviews Lou Berney.
  
• Good Morning America interviews James Patterson and Mike Lupica.
  
• Gregory Daurer interviews Sean Howe.
• Good Morning America interviews Kayvion Lewis. 
• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Matthew Parker. 
• Lisa Haselton interviews Val Collins.
  

Reviews:

• Jen Lucas reviews All The Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
  
• Martin Edwards reviews The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves 
• Mandie Griffiths reviews Burnt Island by Kate Rhodes
  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews The Opposite of Lonely by Doug Johnstone.
• Randy Money reviews Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. 
• Mandie Griffiths reviews Hidden Killers by Lynda La Plante 
  
• Mary Picken reviews The Man Who Didn’t Burn by Ian Moore
  
• BOLO Books reviews The Interpreter by Brooke Robinson.
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews The American Boyfriend by Ivy Ngeow
• Randy Money reviews Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar.
  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Kill Show by Daniel Sweren-Becker
  
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews Valley of Refuge by John Teschner
• Tony R. Cox reviews His Favourite Graves by Paul Cleave
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Leaves Forget by Alan Baxter
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Where The Dead Sleep by Joshua Moehling
  
• Mary Picken reviews Below Ground by Michael Wood
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews Racing the Light by Robert Crais
• Jen Lucas reviews Geneva by Richard Armitage
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Judgment Prey by John Sandford
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews Hawke’s Prey by Reavis Z. Wortham 
• Jen Lucas reviews Jackdaw by Daniel Cole
• John Valeri reviews The Plinko Bounce by Martin Clark
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Mrs. Pargeter’s Patio by Simon Brett 
• Sue Lord reviews Mrs. Sidhu's Dead and Scone by Suk Pannu
  
• John Valeri reviews Nine Lives And Alibis by Cate Conte
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Case of the Bleus by Korina Moss and tries a recipe from the book. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Winter’s Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine
  
• Grab This Book reviews Girls of Little Hope by Sam Beckbessinger and Dale Halvorsen 
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Noir Burlesque by Enrico Marini  
• James Fleming reviews  Cleveland Noir, edited by Miesha Wilson Headen and Michael Ruhlman
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews The Shamus Sampler, edited by Jochem Vandersteen
  
• Anthony Cummins reviews Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare
• Andy West reviews Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – The Inside Stories by Chris Atkins
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1927 mystery The Black Wings by Moray Dalton
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1941 mystery Lady in Lilac by Susannah Shane.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1943 noir novel The Blackbirder by Dorothy B. Hughes. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1946 noir novel The Glass Heart by Marty Holland.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1946 mystery The Theft of the Iron Dogs by E.C.R. Lorac. 
  
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1956 Inspector Simon Manton mystery Death on Remand by Michael Underwood a.k.a. John Michael Evelyn. 
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1966 Cool and Lam mystery Widows Wear Weeds by A.A. Fair a.k.a. Erle Stanley Gardner.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1975 crime novel The Long Shadow by Celia Fremlin.
  

Con and event reports:

• Ed Nawotka reports about the 2023 Brooklyn Book Festival in Brooklyn, New York. 
• Susan De Vries also reports about the 2023 Brooklyn Book Festival 
  
• Arifa Akbar calls the play Imposter 22, which is currently playing in London, UK, a postmodern whodunnit that never quite comes together.
• The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions announces that they have withdrawn the decision to hold the 2024 World Library and Information Congress in Dubai, UAE.
  

 

Research: 

• Emma Keates reports that a suspect for the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur has been arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Ed Pilkington reports that the appeal of Robert Roberson, who was sentenced to death in Texas in 2003 based on discredited forensic science, has been denied.  
• Dean Jobs recounts how a dispute over the pronounciation of "Newfoundland" turned deadly in Castle Rock, Colorado, in 1876.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Secret Identity" by Alex Segura in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast
• "One Last Dance for Your Friend" by Meghan Leigh Paulk in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Footwork" by M.E. Proctor in Mystery Tribune.
• "The Bluff" by A.R. Bender in Guilty.
  
• "Thinkers" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

 

Trailer and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for True Detective: Night Country.
  
• Watch a trailer for Leave the World Behind.   
• Watch a trailer for The Reckoning.
  
• Watch a trailer for season 2 of Spy x Family.