Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 25, 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 One Night, Boat Story, Killers of the Flower Moon,  the debate about AI generated art and writing and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads share their 2023 holiday gift guide.
• Crime Reads shares five crime novels coming out this week. 
• Molly Odintz shares the best psychological thrillers coming out this November. 
• Molly Odintz shares the best international cirme novels coming out this fall.
  
• Sherry Lynn shares new cozy holiday mysteries to enjoy. 
• Dead Good shares eight cozy holiday mysteries to enjoy.
  
• Lee Matthew Goldberg shares a list of Jewish crime thrillers. 
• Nalini Singh talks about New Zealand noir.
  
• Christina Romeril talks about romance and love triangles in cozy mysteries. 
• Katherine A. Olson shares five crime novels featuring righteous female rage.
• Christina Henry shares her favourite novels about brave women finding themselves in mysterious and dangerous situations. 
• Crossexamining Crime hosts a roundtable on the importance of non-fiction crime writing.
  
• H.N. Hirsch explains how he went from academic to crime fiction writer. 
• Amy Hagstrom explains how her work in a search and rescue unit influenced her wilderness thrillers.
  
• Sarah Lyall profiles Mick Herron. 
• Bridget McGovern declares that audio books have taken over her life and that she loves it. 
  

 

Best of 2023: 

• Crime Time FM share their favourite crime novels of 2023.
• NPR share their favourite mysteries and thrillers of 2023.
  
• The New York Public Library shares its favourite crime novels, mysteries and thrillers of 2023.
  
• Dead Good share their favourite crime novels of 2023. 
• Dead Good share their favourite psychological thrillers of 2023.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Alex Wallace calls Freelance an enjoyable action thriller. 
• Meredith Hobbs Coons calls The Artful Dodger a sharp, enjoyable Oliver Twist spinoff 
• Melody McCune declares that May December broaches uncomfortable territory with quiet intensity and dark humor. 
  
• Ryan Gilbey calls The Kill Room a lifeless art world caper, but notes that Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman at least seem to be enjoying themselves. 
• Manuel Betancourt declares that The Curse is unlike anything else on TV right now.  
• Alasdair Stuart shares his thoughts on the science fiction crime drama Bodies. 
  
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the final episode of series 2 of Time. 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the first two episodes of Scrublands. 
• Tom Philip shares his thoughts on the season 5 premiere of Fargo. 
• Matt Schimkovitz shares his thoughts on the latest episode of  A Murder At The End Of The World
• Martin Edwards revisits the 2015 psychological thriller The Ones Below.
  
• Brian Davids interviews Daisy Ridley, star of The March King's Daughter and the Star Wars sequel trilogy. 
  
• Stuart Heritage notes that durector Ridley Scott is one of the best people to interview.  
• Zach Schonfeld talks about the conflict between Nicholas Cage and his uncle Francis Ford Coppola.  
• Nadia Khomani reports that according to a recent survey, most members of TV and film crews feel that their safety has been put at risk on some occasions. 
  
• Lynette Rice reports that actor Jeffrey Donovan is leaving Law and Order. 
• Nellie Andreeva reports that the police family drama Blue Bloods will end with season 14.
  
• Joss Ackland, star of The House That Dripped Blood, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Lethal Weapon 2, The Hunt for Red October, Villain and many others, has died aged 95.
• Suzanne Shepherd, who appeared in The Sopranos, Goodfellas and many others, has died aged 89. 
  

 

Comments on One Night:

• Lucy Mangan calls One Night an Australian version of Big Little Lies and praises the performance of Jodie Whittaker.
• Morgan Cormack interviews Jodie Whittaker, star of Doctor Who, Time, Broadchurch, Attack the Block and One Night.

 

Comments on Boat Story:

• Lucy Mangan calls Boat Story a hilariously dark crime drama worthy of Tarantino or the Coen brothers
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the first episode of Boat Story.
  

 

Comments on Killers of the Flower Moon:

• Kimberly Pierce shares her thoughts on Killers of the Flower Moon.
• Selome Hailu interviews Lily Gladstone, star of Killers of the Flower Moon.
  
• Paul Morton finds some parallels in the publicity campaign for Killers of the Flower Moon and the publicity campaign for the 1950 western Broken Arrow, which enlisted indigenous educator Rosebud Yellow Robe to promote the movie.
  

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2023 An Post Irish Book Awards have been announced.
• The winners of the 2023 HWA Crown Awards have been announced.
  
• Christopher Ruz announces the creation of the Rando Awards. 
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Tim Maleeny asks writers to let dialogue drive their story. 
• Steven Radecki wonders how indie authors can measure their success.
  
• Camestros Felapton asks if outrage marketing works.
  
• Scott Edelman talks about the effect leaving Twitter has had on his podcast Eating the Fantastic.
  
• Jim Milliot shares the results of the 2023 Publishers Weekly publishing industry salary survey.
  
• Gina Cherelus asks if reading makes it easier for people to find romantic partners. 
• Brian Keene and Mary SanGovanni explain why they are opening a bookstore.
  
• Patt Morrison notes that Los Angeles, California, has always been a bookstore boom town.
  

 

Comments on the AI controversy:

• Blake Montgomery and Dani Anguiano reports that OpenAI has fired co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to the company board
• Dan Milmo and Blake Montgomery report that OpenAI employees are threatening to quit en masse unless Sam Altman is reinstated.
• Maxwell Zeff reports that Sam Altman was reinstated as CEO after a few days.
  
• Joe Blistein wonders what the hell is happening at OpenAI. 
• Winston Cho reports that a US Federal judge has thrown out much of Sarah Silverman's lawsuit against Meta's AI.

 

Interviews: 

• Emine Saner interviews Patricia Cornwell. 
• It was a Dark and Stormy Book Club interviews Lee Goldberg. 
• Polly Stewart interviews Alex Finlay.
  
• Debbi Mack interviews Kathleen Kaska. 
• E.B. Davis interviews Annette Dashofy. 
• Lisa Haselton interviews Catherine Dilts. 
• The Crime Book Girl interviews Nick Triplow.
  
• Kevin Canfield interviews Max Marshall.
• Tim Shipman interviews David McCloskey. 
• Criminal Element interviews Steve Urszenyi
  

 

Reviews:

• Gayle Surrette reviews Payback in Death by J.D. Robb 
• Marlene Harris reviews Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty 
  
• Paul Burke reviews Committed by Chris Merritt
• Sandra Mangan reviews Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly
• The Crime Book Girl reviews Unmarked Graves by Neil Broadfoot.
  
• Paul Burke reviews His Favourite Graves by Paul Cleave
  
• Mandie Griffiths reviews To Die For by Lisa Gray 
• Jen Lucas reviews If I Die Before I Wake by Emily Koch
  
• Mandie Griffiths reviews The Devil’s Table by Kate Rhodes 
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Watchmaker’s Hand by Jeffery Deaver 
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Watchmaker’s Hand by Jeffery Deaver 
• Carol Westron reviews The Corpse With the Opal Fingers by Cathy Ace 
  
• Tzer Island reviews The Edge by David Baldacci. 
• Kirkus reviews After Dark by Minka Kent.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews The Ideal Couple by Anna Willett
  
• BOLO Books reviews Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon 
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews American Girl by Wendy Walker
• Paul Burke reviews The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok
  
• Jen Lucas reviews The Maid by Nita Prose  
• Ray Palen reviews The Manor House by Gilly Macmillan. 
• Kevin Tipple reviews Face of Greed by James L’Etoile 
  
• Adam Colclough reviews The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes. 
• Jeff Popple reviews The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes. 
• BOLO Books reviews I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died by Amanda Flower. 
  
• Mary Picken reviews Gaslight by Femi Kayode. 
• Matt Pechey reviews Gaslight by Femi Kayode. 
• The Real Book Spy reviews Perfect Shot by Steve Urszenyi   
  
• Beth Kanell reviews The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak.
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews An Unforgiving Place by Claire Kells
  
• Mary Picken reviews The Last Line by Stephen Ronson 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Last Night At The Hollywood Canteen by Sarah James
• Marlene Harris reviews Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas
  
• Gayle Surrette reviews Jane and the Final Mystery by Stephanie Barron
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate by Adam Roberts  
• Marilyn Brooks reviews The Murder of Andrew Johnson by Burt Solomon
  
• Janet Webb reviews Murder Most Royal by S.J. Bennett
• Crossexamining Crime reviews Murder Most Cold by Victoria Dowd 
  
• Grab This Book reviews Murder at Holly House by Denzil Meyrick 
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Murder on the Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict 
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Murder on the Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict   
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett 
• Kevin Tipple reviews The Perp Wore Pumpkin, edited by J. Alan Hartman 
• Ben Boulden reviews The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023, edited by Lisa Unger and Steph Cha. 
• Nell Darby reviews Private Inquiries by Caitlin Davies 
• Rebecca Nicholson reviews Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television by Peter Biskind 
• Crossexamining Crime reviews Homicide on Hydra: George Johnston’s Crime Novels by Derham Groves 
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1938 hardboiled novella "Punk" by Cleve F. Adams. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1952 hardboiled crime novel Little Sister by Lee Roberts a.k.a. Robert Martin.
  
• The Crime Segments revisits the 1958 crime novel Too Young to Die and the 1960 crime novel The Time of Terror by Lionel White 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1958 Inspector Duffy mystery The Student Body by Nigel FitzGerald.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1959 Chief Superintendent William Austen mystery Poisoned Chalice by Anne Hocking.
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1968 Calleshire Chronicles mystery Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1984 thriller Winter Chill by Joanne Fluke.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1993 suspense novel The Echoing Stones by Celia Fremlin.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Steve Vertlieb reports about the conference "The JFK Assassination At 60: New Frontiers In Scientific, Medical, Legal And Historical Research" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  

 

Research: 

• Deanne Stillman talks about the relationship between alleged Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and his mother. 
• Eric Lipton reports about the international debate about AI-controlled killer drones.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Idiotic American Boys" by Jamey Gallagher in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "Respecting Pigs" by Marie Anderson in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "It's Only Fair" by Jane Limprecht in Kings River Life.
  
• "The Thanksgiving After" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

 

Trailer and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Fast Charlie.
• Watch a trailer for Role Play.