Crime Fiction Links of the Week for April 13, 2024

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 Ripley, 9-1-1, Civil War, The Regime, Shogun, Twin Peaks and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Crime Reads shares ten LGBTQ+ crime novels to check out this spring.
  
• Chanel Cleeton shares nine crime novels about great houses. 
• Seraphina Nova Glass shares thrillers about bad neighbours.
  
• Stacy Stokes shares five YA crime novels with supernatural elements.  
• Henriette Lazarides explains how she fell in love with mysteries.
  
• Philip Eil shares his favourite true crime books.
• Peter Swanson shares a guide to the worls of Patricia Highsmith.
  
• Mike Ripley profiles Walter Satterthwait 
  
• Nicholas Shakespeare recounts Ian Fleming's time as a special correspondent in Moscow, where he happened to witness a Soviet era show trial. 
• Lin Anderson explains how she came to create forensic scientist Dr. Rhona McLeod. 
• Bridget Walsh explains how the 1883 Victoria Hall disaster in Sunderland, UK, inspired her latest mystery The Innocents. 
  
• Karen E. Olson explains how her latest crime novel An Inconvenient Wife was inspired by Henry VIII and his six wives.
  
• Molly Templeton asks if a book can really be for everyone.  
• Postmodern writer John Barth died aged 93.
  

Film and TV:

• Alex Brown declares that Monkey Man seems like a straight revenge film, but is so much more.
  
• Rebecca Nicholson calls Baby Reindeer a brilliantly eerie, borderline horror film. 
• Tom Lowery calls Boat Story a very gory, very meta, very fun black comedy 
  
• Phil Hoad calls LaRoy, Texas a hyperactively fun crime farce. 
• Cath Clarke calls The Stolen Valley a Thelma and Louise-lite road western 
• Cath Clarke calls On Fire a smoke-filled disaster movie
• Andrew Lawrence calls Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead a worthwhile comedy remake
  
• Chris Jenkins shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Astrid: Murder in Paris. 
• Diana Keng shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Manhunt.
  
• Lucy Mangan calls Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo an astonishing true crime tale of brainwashing
• Garrick Webster looks ahead at season 3 of the Norwegian crime drama Wisting.
  
• Nick Kolakowski takes a look at the noir movies of Jake Gyllenhall. 
• Olivia Rutigliano ranks the 81 best, worst and strangest filmic portrayals of Dr. John Watson.
• Theo Alvarez shares a list of problematic and victim blaming episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. 
• Ben Child wonders whether Joker: Folie à Deux can avoid becoming like any other comic book movie.
  
• Louise A. Barlie interviews Susan Saint James, star of the 1970s crime drama McMillan and Wife. 
• Carlos Acevedo profiles Linda Blair, star of The Exrcist, Born Innocent, Chained Heat and others.
  
• The Spy Command revisits the 1965 Perry Mason episode “The Case of the Fugitive Fräulein” 
  
• Scott Tobias revisits the 1974 suspense thriller The Conversation.
• Paul Morton revisits the 1992 Batman: The Animated Series and praises how it handles Batman's rogues gallery. 
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1994 crime musical Bullets Over Broadway.
  
• Brandon O'Brien revisits the 2012 Sherlock Holmes TV show Elementary. 
• Caroline Reid attempts to explain why Disney is making huge losses with Disney Plus. 
  
• Edward Helmore reports that actor Alec Baldwin behaved erratically on the set of Rust before accidentally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.  
• Nellie Andreeva reports that Death and Other Details has been cancelled after only one season. 
• Paul Hirons reports that the popular British mystery series Death in Paradise will be getting another spin-off entitled Return to Paradise.
  
• Actor, American football player and suspected double murderer O.J. Simpson has died aged 76. 
   

Comments on Ripley: 

• Rebecca Nicholson calls Ripley devastatingly unhurried and yet utterly gripping.
  
• Peter Bradshaw explains why Tom Ripley is a sociopath for the social media age.
  

 

Comments on 9-1-1:

• Emily Longeretta interviews Angela Bassett who plays Sergeant Athena Grant-Nash in 9-1-1.
• Jennifer Maas interviews Oliver Stark, who plays Evan Buckley in 9-1-1, about his character coming out as gay on the show. 
• Bruce Haring shares Oliver Stark's response to audience reactions to his character's coming out.
  
• Joe Otterson reports that 9-1-1 has been renewed for season 8.
  

 

Comments on Civil War: 

• Peter Bradshaw calls Civil War a delirious dive into a divided US society  
• Germain Lussier calls Civil War a powerful alternate reality war movie that's not what it seems
  
• Germain Lussier interviews Alex Garland, director of Civil War.
  

Comments on Shogun:

• Meredith Hobbs Coons shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Shogun. 
• Saloni Gajjar explains how the mesmerising action sequences in Shogun were made.
  
• James Whitbrook finds an unexpected Star Wars reference in Shogun.
  

 

Comments on The Regime: 

• Joel Golby calls The Regime a bizarre political drama and praises the performance of Kare Winslet.
• Lucy Mangan calls The Regime a mess of a satire that wastes the talents of Kate Winslet. 
• Manuel Betancourt shares his thoughts on the season 1 finale of The Regime. 
• Arturo Serrano shares his thoughts on season 1 of The Regime.

 

Comments on Twin Peaks:

• Brian Davids interviews Emily Alyn Lind who plays Melody in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.  
• Andreas Wiseman interviews David Lynch, director and creator of Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Dune, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and many others. 
  
• Todd Gilchrist interviews Mark Frost, co-creator of Twin Peaks. 
• Myles Burke interviews Mark Frost.

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2024 Pulp Factory Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2024 RNA Romantic Novel Awards have been announced. 
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Sarah Langan explains how she integrated her personal fears into her latest novel.
  
• Aidan Moher reports that publishers Angry Robot wanted to let AI evaluate submissions and then backtracked after massive protests. 
• Aidan Moher also interviews Angry Robot publisher Eleanor Teasdale about the controversial decision to use AI to evaluate submissions.
  
• Lorraine Wilson wonders if there is a book submissions arms race. 
• Lilith Saintcrow asks what the hell is wrong with traditional publishing.
  
• Victoria Strauss warns about a book licensing scam. 
• Ella Creamer reports that Meta discussed buying publisher Simon & Schuster to train its AI large language models.
  
• Maris Kreizman points out that people are always better at recommending books than algorithms. 
• The American Library Association lists the top ten most challenged books of 2023.
  
• Kelly Jensen reports that a bill in Louisiana would criminalize librarians and libraries who join the American Library Association 
• McKenna Jordan recounts how she came to run the mystery bookstore Murder By The Book in Houston, Texas,

 

Interviews: 

• Robin Agnew interviews Sara Paretsky.
  
• Nancie Clare interviews Don Winslow. 
• Susan Chenery interviews Garry Disher.
  
• Elise Cooper interviews Mary Kubica. 
• Murder by the Book interviews Robert Dugoni. 
• Rick Pullen interviews Hank Phillippi Ryan.
  
• Louise Fairbairn interviews Philip Miller. 
• Crime Spree interviews Philip Miller.
  
• Lesa Holstine interviews Terrie Farley Moran 
• Alan Petersen interviews Dana Perry.
  
• Paul Burke interviews Philip Gwynne Jones.
• Jill Amadio interviews Patricia Dunn.
  
• Lesa Holstine interviews Wendall Thomas.
• Kevin Canfield interviews Rena Pederson.
  
  

Reviews:

• The Quick and the Dead reviews Dark Rooms by Lynda La Plante
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Murder Road by Simone St. James 
• Books, Bones and Buffy reviews Murder Road by Simone St. James 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Cold to the Touch by Kerri Hakoda
  
• Kirkus reviews Don't Turn Around by Harry Dolan.
• She Treads Softly reviews Watch It Burn by Kristen Bird
• Mandie Griffiths reviews All Of Us Are Broken by Fiona Cummins
• Mandie Griffiths reviews Running on Empty by Guy Deacon
  
• Barbara Fisher reviews What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan.
• Kurt Anthony Krug reviews The Truth About the Devlins by Lisa Scottoline 
• The Quick and the Read reviews A Stranger in the Family by Jane Casey  
• Jen Lucas reviews The Intruders by Louise Jensen
  
• Mary Picken reviews The Hollow Tree by Philip Miller
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Hollow Tree by Philip Miller
• Crossexamining Crime reviews The Botanist by Anne Wedgwood
  
• Mary Picken reviews The House of Mirrors by Erin Kelly. 
• Mary Picken reviews The Four by Ellie Keel 
• Christobel Kent reviews The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas 
  
• Lynne Patrick reviews The Skeleton Army by Alis Hawkins
  
• Gayle Surette reviews Extinction by Douglas Preston
  
• Xan Brooks reviews Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan 
  
• Mary Picken reviews Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan
  
• Publishers Weekly reviews Ash Dark as Night by Gary Phillips 
• Marlene Harris reviews The Black Hand by Will Thomas 
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Black Wolf by Juan Gómez-Jurado, translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia 
  
• Karen Rigby reviews The Esmeralda Goodbye by Corey Lynn Fayman 
• Aunt Agatha's reviews Death in the Details by Katie Tietjen. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Death in the Details by Katie Tietjen. 
  
• Marlene Harris reviews A Body at the Dance Hall by Marty Wingate 
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and S.J. Rozan 
  
• BOLO Books reviews The Murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and S.J. Rozan 
  
• Beth Kanell reviews The Murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and S.J. Rozan 
• PhDiva reviews The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto 
• C.C. Harrison reviews Nosy Neighbors by Freya Sampson.
  
• Jay Snow reviews How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin 
• Aunt Agatha's reviews Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz. 
• In Search of the Classics Mystery Novel reviews Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz. 
• Jen Lucas reviews Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Molten Death by Leslie Karst and tries a recipe from the book. 
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Death Comes To St Ives by Jo Silva  
• Lesa Holstien reviews Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan   
• Jen Lucas reviews The Gathering by C.J. Tudor
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett    
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Negative Tilt by Bobby Mathews
• Crossexamining Crime reviews Women Who Murder: An International Collection of Deadly True Crime Tales, edited by Mitzi Szereto 
  

 

Classics reviews:

• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1946 mystery Five Passengers From Lisbon by Mignon G. Eberhart.
  
• William Blick revisits the 1953 crime novel Mrs. Homicide, the 1959 crime novel Naked Fury and the 1962 crime novel Murder on the Side by Day Keene.
• Dave's Pulp and Mystery Reads revisits the 1954 noir novel Heat Lightning by Wilene Shaw 
  
• Dave's Pulp and Mystery Reads revisits the 1959 heist novel Return to Vikki by John Tomerlin
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1961 Nigel Strangeways mystery The Worm of Death by Nicholas Blake 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1965 Carolus Deene mystery Death at Hallows End by Leo Bruce.
  
• Vintage Pop Fictions revisits the 1967 The Man from A.P.E. spy novel Operation T by Norman Daniels. 
  
• James Davis Nicoll revisits the 1968 science fiction mystery collection Asimov’s Mysteries by  Isaac Asimov.   
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1974 Earl Drake men's adventure novel Operation Deathmaker by Dan J. Marlowe. 
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1978 Virginia and Felix Freer mystery Last Will and Testament by Elizabeth Ferrars  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 2006 Mr. Monk mystery Mr Monk Goes to the Firehouse by Lee Goldberg  
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 2008 Mr. Monk mystery Mr Monk Goes to Germany by Lee Goldberg 
   
  

Con and event reports:

• The 2024 Left Coast Crime convention in Seattle, Washington, shares its program schedule. 
• The 2024 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival has announced that Peter James will be a special guest.
  
• Ella Creamer reports that the Edinburgh International Book Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, has announced a relaunch, following boycott threats because of a controversial sponsor.

 

Crowdfunding:

• The anthology Sherlock & Friends: Eldritch Investigations, edited by Lyndon Perry, is looking for funding.

 

Research: 

• Susanna Cassisa talks about the sensational 1924 murder of Bobby Franks by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb. 
  
• Rebecca Ratcliffe reports that Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan has been sentenced to death in a massive fraud case.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Black Powder Elegy or Murderous Lamentations for the Dead" by Ryan Michael Hines in Shotgun Honey. 
• "Winston Wouldn’t Like It" by Aimee Kluck in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "Schrödinger, Cat" by Anna Scotti in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's Fiction Podcast 
• "Got a Job at Hellton Towers" by Wil A. Emerson in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Nor Am I Out Of It" by Virginia Betts in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "White Flight" by Charlie Kondek in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Mine" by Eleanor Keisman in Tough.
  
• "The Case of the Stolen Memories" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for Shardlake.
  
• Watch a trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux
• Watch a trailer for Civil War.