Crime Fiction Links of the Week for April 27, 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 Boy Kills World, Dead  Boy Detectives, Spy x Family: Code White, Civil War, The Sympathizer, Humane, Baby Reindeer, tributes to Terry Carter and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
  
• Laura Wilson shares her favourite recent crime novels and thrillers.
• Crime Reads shares the best reviewed crime novels of April 2024.
  
• Samantha Jayne Allen shares her favourite crime novels set in small towns.  
• Michelle Prak explains why Australia is the perfect setting for thrillers.
  
• Elly Griffiths shares ten great crime novels about books. 
• Keith Roysdon talks about the heyday of pulp fiction.  
• Sally Hepworth shares crime novels featuring evil mothers.
  
• Trish Lundy talks about domestic violence in young adult thrillers. 
• Cole Rush shares five SFF mysteries he couldn't put down.   
• Andrew DeYoung hosts a roundtable with the finalists in the genre fiction section of the 2024 Minnesota Book Awards. 
• Crossexamining Crime compares Leo Bruce's Sergeant Beef and Carolus Deene mystery series.
  
• Kim Sherwood shares her appreciation for the many formidable women in the James Bond novels and movies. 
• Nicholas Meyer explains why he writes Sherlock Holmes pastiches., 
• Olivia Rutigliano talks about the creation of Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering detective character Auguste Dupin. 
  
• Tina Payne explains how her work as a store detective, court bailiff and police officer inspired her crime fiction.
  
• Peter Blauner talks about the incident that inspired his novel The Intruder.
  

Film and TV:

• Leah Schnelbach shares an unexpected ode to the new Road House
  
• Saloni Gajjar calls The Veil a nothingburger disguised as a timely thriller
  
• Leslie Felperin calls Jericho Ridge a tense siege thriller with old-timey charm
  
• Lucy Mangan calls Red Eye an airplane thriller that wishes it were Hijack
• Cath Clarke calls ISS a moderately tense thriller in space and praises the performance of Ariana DeBose.
• Michael Hogan shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Blue Lights.
• Chris Jenkins shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Astrid: Murder in Paris. 
• Meredith Hobbs Coons shares her thoughts on the season 1 finale of Shogun.
  
• Leila Latif notes that part 2 of The Jinx offers even more bombshells from a serial killer who just won't shut up. 
• Garrick Webster looks ahead at season 2 of the Belgian crime drama The Twelve.
  
• Angela Garbes praises the realistic and nuanced portrayal of middle aged female detectives in British crime dramas.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1965 Agatha Christie adaptation The Alphabet Murders,
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 2005 thriller A History of Violence.
  
• Daniel Bessner talks about the threats facing film and TV writers. 
  
• Amelia Tait reports how tax breaks and grants have fuelled a boom of international film and TV productions in rural parts of the UK. 
  
• Dalya Alberge reports that The Magic Eye: The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick by Neil Hornick, a non-fiction book whose publication Kubrick blocked for decades, will finally be published. 
• Dani Anguino reports that actor Chris Pratt, best known for playing Star Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy, and his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger, daughter of Arnold, have demolished a historic mid century house in Los Angeles, California, to build yet another McMansion.  
• Denise Petski shares the reaction of actors Donnie Wahlberg and Bridget Moynahan to the cancellation of Blue Bloods after fourteen seasons.
  
• Catherine Bray that the bestselling crime novel The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman is about to get a star-studded adaptation. 
• Gloria Oladipo reports that the rape conviction of film producer Harvey Weinstein has been overturned by a court in New York, though his rape conviction in Los Angeles still stands. 
• Benjamin Lee shares responses from various of Weinstein's accusers to the overturning of his rape conviction.
   

Tributes to Terry Carter:

• Actor Terry Carter, who played Colonel Tigh in the original Battlestar Galactica and also appeared in McCloud, Foxy Brown, Sergeant Bilko and many others, has died aged 95.
• Mike Barnes remembers Terry Carter.

 

Comments on Boy Kills World: 

•  Lauren Coates calls Boy Kills World a derivative action film that can't find its own voice
• Catherine Bray praises the performance of Bill Skarsgård in Boy Kills World, but is not impressed with the film as a whole. 
  

 

Comments on Dead Boy Detectives: 

• Joel Golby calls Dead Boy Detectives silly, spooky and wicked fun
• Lucy Mangan calls Dead Boy Detectives a fun paranormal romp that will make you feel young again
• Saloni Gajjar calls Dead Boy Detectives a sweet and silly supernatural drama
  
• Melody McCune shares episode by episode reviews of Dead Boy Detectives.

 

Comments on Civil War: 

• Haley Zapal calls Civil War an absolutely brutal depiction of photojournalism in the midst of an underexplored conflict
  
•  io9 interviews Wagner Moura, one of the stars of Civil War.

 

Comments on The Sympathizer:

• Tom Philip shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Sympathizer. 
• Brooks Vernon points out that The Sympathizer is a stealth continuation of Park Chan-Wook's Vengeance trilogy.
  

 

Comments on Spy x Family: Code White:

• Phuong Le declares that the anime Spy x Family Code: White features ingenious espionage antics with a super-powered family 
• Ann Michelle Harris declares that Spy x Family: Code White is lighter in tone than the regular anime.
  

 

Comments on Humane: 

• Brent Simon calls Humane a dystopian film that mostly hits the right social satire notes
  
• Brent Simon interviews Caitlin Cronenberg and Jay Baruchel, director and star of Humane.

 

Comments on Baby Reindeer:

• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on Baby Reindeer.
• Saloni Gajjar calls Baby Reindder a disturbing and trenchant tell-all series
  
• Stuart Heritage reports that the success of Baby Reindeer in the UK has led to speculations about the real life persons the story is based upon. 
  
• Max Goldbart interviews Jessica Gunning who plays Martha in Baby Reindeer.
  

 

Awards:

• The longlist for the 2024 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year has been announced.
  
• The longlist for the 2024 CWA Dagger Awards had been announced,
• The shortlist for the 2024 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing has been announced.
  
• The winner of the 2024 Pinckley Prizes for Crime Fiction have been announced.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Sasha Vasilyuk talks about writing in English as a second language.
  
• Charlie Jane Anders explains how to build your online brand without burning out. 
• Ellen Datlow, Joe Monti and Deanna Hoak discuss the role of editors in publishing in a two-part post.
  
• Elle Griffin claims that no one buys books. 
• Lincoln Michel counters Elle Griffin and points out that yes, people do buy books.
  
• Claire Kirch and Nathalie op de Beeck report about a new generation of independent bookstores.
  
• Constance Grady chronicles how Amazon became flooded with scammy trash e-books.
• Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz and Maggie Tokuda-Hall discuss book bans and fascism.
  
• Jonathan Hamilt, organiser of the controversial Drag Queen Story Hours in libraries, talks about receiving threats and shares safety tips.

 

Interviews: 

• Lesa Holstine interviews Kim Hays.
• Paul Burke interviews Julie Anderson.
• Alan Petersen interviews Brian J. Mora. 
• Amanda Ramirez interviews Stacey Lee. 
• Lisa Haselton interviews Kirsten Weiss. 
  
• Rick Pullen interviews I.S. Berry
  
• Debbi Mack interviews Len Joy.
• E.B. Davis interviews James M. Jackson.
• Stephen J. Golds interviews Aubri Kaufman.
  
  

Reviews:

• Aunt Agatha's reviews The Last Word by Elly Griffiths.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill
• Runalong the Shelves reviews One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole
  
• Mandie Griffiths reviews  The Opposite of Lonely by Doug Johnstone
  
• John Parker reviews The Instruments of Darkness by John Connolly 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Stars Turned Inside Out by Nova Jacobs
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews The Kitchen by Simone Buchholz, translated by Rachel Ward
• Grab This Book reviews The Kitchen by Simone Buchholz, translated by Rachel Ward   
• Mary Picken reviews Last Witness by Lucie Whitehouse
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Two Deaths Of Ruth Lyle by Nick Louth 
  
• Mary Picken reviews Back from the Dead by Heidi Amsinck   
• Mandie Griffiths reviews A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Lost Hours by Paige Shelton
• Jen Lucas reviews The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse 
  
• Mary Picken reviews The Estate by Denzil Meyrick
• Lesa Holstine reviews At the Edge of the Woods by Victoria Houston
  
• Mary Picken reviews Earth by John Boyne
• Janet Webb reviews The Wedding Party by L. R. Jones
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Truth About the Devlins by Lisa Scottoline
  
• Jen Lucas reviews The Four by Ellie Keel
  
• Aunt Agatha's reviews Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth,
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews Pierce by Patrick B. Simpson 
• Janet Webb reviews  Murder by Lamplight by Patrice McDonough
  
• Marlene Harris reviews The Murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and S.J. Rozan 
• Erin Britton reviews The Case of the Bereaved Butler by Cathy Ace
  
• Marlene Harris reviews What Cannot Be Said by C.S. Harris 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Under the Paper Moon by Shaina Steinberg
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Mayfair Dagger by Ava January
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Last Supper by Rosemary Shrager 
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Seams Deadly by Maggie Bailey
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Good, The Bad, And The Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews  Four-Alarm Homicide by Diane Kelly and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Crossexamining Crime reviews Bodies from the Library 5, edited by Tony Medawar 
  
• Shahidba Bari reviews The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud
  
  

Classics reviews:

• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1948 mystery play Where Do We Go from Here? by Dorothy L. Sayers 
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1956 Perry Mason mystery The Case of the Terrified Typist by Erle Stanley Gardner 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1957 mystery Little Brother Fate.by Mary Carter Roberts.  
• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1960 Hedley Nicholson mystery The Spoilt Kill by Mary Kelly. 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1967 mystery Now Lying Dead by Olive Norton 
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1981 Dirty Harry men's adventure novel Duel For Cannons by Dane Hartman a.k.a. Ric Meyers.
   
  

Con and event reports:

• John Maher reports that PEN America has cancelled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony due to yet more uproar about the war in Gaza.
• Coral Murphy Marcos also reports about the cancellation of the 2024 PEN America Literary Awards.

 

Research: 

• Karen Rose talks about the ripple effect of crimes. 
• Victoria Houston explains how her experiences as a journalist inspired her fiction.
  
• Vince Houghton and Eric Driggs recount how a single CIA agent manning the office in Miami, Florida, in 1959 became the focal point of a plot to spy in newly Communist Cuba and kill Fidel Castro.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "The Lost Mustang" by Darrell J. Wiens in Mystery Tribune.
• "Pink Is For Blondes" by Alan Kroeber in Mystery Tribune.
• "For Now" by M.B. McDonough in Mystery Tribune.
• "The Devil’s Payback" by Jon Park in Punk Noir Magazine 
  
• "Young Man’s Game" by Jamie Simpson in Punk Noir Magazine  
• "The Rejuvenation Business" by Mathew Gostelow in Punk Noir Magazine
  
• "Tower Trophies" by J.D. Clapp in Punk Noir Magazine 
• "Sad Story After Party by Paige Johnson in Punk Noir Magazine
  
• "Rent Party" by P.M. Raymond in Punk Noir Magazine  
• "Bottom Dwellers" by Fiona Clark in Punk Noir Magazine 
• "The Acquisition" by Jacko Pook in Punk Noir Magazine 
• "Honey" by Chris Lee in Punk Noir Magazine 
• "The Big Snip" by Michael Bracken in Tough.
  

 

Trailers and videos:

• Watch a trailer for season 9 of Grantchester.