Crime Fiction Links of the Week for May 18, 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 The Fall Guy, Bodkin, Sugar, The Strangers: Chapter 1, Baby Reindeer, tributes to Roger Corman and Brandon Lee and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
• Alison Flood shares her favourite crime novels and thrillers of the month.
  
• Kate Weston shares five mysteries and thrillers that will make you laugh. 
• Tom Straw talks about humour in thrillers and mysteries.
  
• Tess Sharpe shares six of her favourite queer mysteries. 
• Molly Odintz shares recent gothic thrillers.  
• Alana B. Lyle shares her favourite novels about destructive women. 
  
• Amdromeda Romano-Lax shares thrillers about the worst nightmares of mothers. 
• Michael Gonzales profiles Ronald F. Flair. 
• Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died aged 92.  
• Journalist and crime fiction writer Maureen O'Connor a.k.a. Patricia Hall has died aged 84.
  

 

Film and TV:

• Catherine Bray calls Bermondsey Tales: Fall of the Roman Empire a less than convincing story of a London crime lord and his associates 
• Steve Rose calls Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In a frenetic action film from Hongkong.
  
• Lucy Mangan calls The Gathering an elite gymnastics thriller that feels like somersaulting off a cliff 
• Peter Bradshaw calls The Girl With the Needle a horrific true crime drama based on a 1921 baby farming and murdering case in Denmark.
  
• Michael Hogan shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Blue Lights. 
• Lara Rosales shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. 
• Lara Rosales shares her thoughts on the latest episode of The Equalizer.
  
• Tom Philip shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Sympathizer. 
• Chris Jenkins shares his thoughts on Spy/Master.
  
• Michael Segalov interviews several stunt performers.
• Nicola Solvinic lists famous serial killers on screen.
  
• Olivia Rutigliano revisits the 1951 crime comedy The Lavender Hill Mob
• Judith Tarr revisits the 1997 The X-Files episode “El Mundo Gira” 
• Kali Wallace revisits the 1997 virtual reality thriller Open Your Eyes.
   

Comments on The Fall Guy: 

• Alasdair Stuart shares his thoughts on The Fall Guy.
  
• Tommy Lethbridge talks about The Fall Guy underperforming at the box office and what this says about Ryan Gosling's career.
  

 

Comments on Bodkin: 

• Dais Johnston declares that Bodkin takes the true-crime satire to surreal new heights
• Brian D. Bradley explains what to expect from Bodkin.
  

 

Comments on Sugar: 

• Wesley Stenzel shares his thoughts on the season 1 finale of Sugar.
• Saloni Gajjar argues that the big twist in Sugar ruined the whole damn show   
• Wesley Stenzel interviews Colin Farrell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste, stars of Sugar.
  

 

Comments on The Strangers, Chapter 1: 

• Benjamin Lee calls The Strangers: Chapter 1 an unnecessary horror retread 
• Matt Schimkowitz finds The Strangers: Chapter 1 a little too familiar

 

Comments on Baby Reindeer:

• Callum Murray lists seven times Baby Reindeer made for uncomfortable viewing.
  
• Chris Gardner interviews Richard Gadd, writer, director and star of Baby Reindeer, about the controversy caused by the stalking drama.
  

 

Tributes to Roger Corman:

• Celebrated B-movie writer, director and producer Roger Corman has died aged 98. 
• Richard Natale and Jim Gray share an obituary for Roger Corman.  
• Ronald Bergan shares an obituary for Roger Corman.
  
• Peter Bradshaw shares a tribute to Roger Corman.
  
• Justin Carter remember Rogar Corman. 
• Steve Vertlieb remembers Roger Corman.
  
• Greg Whitmore shares photos from Roger Corman's lengthy career.
  

 

 Tributes to Brandon Lee:

• David Smith recalls the night that Brandon Lee was fatally shot on the ste of The Crow in 1994.
• Ann Lee interviews Shannon Lee, daughter of Bruce Lee and sister of Brandon Lee, about losing her father and brother at such an early age.
  

 

Awards:

• The shortlists for the 2024 CWA Dagger Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2024 CrimeFest Awards have been announced. 
• The winners of the 2024 British Book Awards have been announced. 
• The winner of the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize has been announced. 
  
• The winners of the 2024 Bafta TV Awards have been announced. 
  
• The winners of the 2024 Peabody Awards have been announced.

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Terry Wolverton talks about craft, fiction and identity
• Elle Marr talks about mining personal experiences for writing inspiration
• Ella Creamer offers an overview of the online book world.

 

Interviews: 

• Nancie Clare interviews Tom Straw.
• Charlie Kondek interviews Judy Penz Sheluk. 
• Marshal Zeringue interviews Kate White.
  
• Patrick J. O'Donnell interviews Deborah Levison, T. M. Dunn, and Wendy Whitman
• Lillian Perlmutter interviews Cristina Rivera Garza
  
  

Reviews:

• Mary Picken reviews Hunted by Abir Mukherjee. 
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Hunted by Abir Mukherjee. 
• The Quick and the Read reviews Hunted by Abir Mukherjee. 
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen, translated by Megan Turney 
• Mary Picken reviews Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen, translated by Megan Turney  
• Kevin Tipple reviews Northwoods by Amy Pease  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Blood Red Summer by Eryk Pruitt
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Murder under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist, translated by Quentin Bates  
• The Quick and the Read reviews The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley 
  
• Joy Kluver reviews Bad Apple by Alice Hunter. 
• Mary Picken reviews Toxic by Helga Flatland, translated by Matt Bagguley 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews She Left by Stacie Grey
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Here And Gone by Haylen Beck   
• Sharon Richarsdson reviews Halfway House by Helen FitzGerald 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Killer On The Wall by Emma Kavanagh 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Quiet Man by James Carol
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Squeaky Clean by Callum McSorley
• Ali Karim reviews A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson 
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews A Game Of Lies by Clare Mackintosh
  
• Joy Kluver reviews Estellas Revenge by Barbara Havelocke 
• Aunt Agatha's reviews Locked in Pursuit by Ashley Weaver. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee  
• Mike Ripley reviews The Venus of Salò by Ben Pastor 
  
• Aunt Agatha's reviews Death on the Lusitania by R.L. Graham.   
• Aunt Agatha's reviews Every Time I Go on Vacation, Some One Dies by Catherine Mack. 
• Jen Lucas reviews Death Of A Bookseller by Alice Slater
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Patchwork Quilt Murder by Leslie Meier 
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Five Furry Familiars by Lynn Cahoon and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Last to Pie by Misha Popp
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Dark Deeds Down Under 2, edited by Craig Sisterson 
• Crossexamining Crime reviews The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold   
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Martin Edwards revisits the 1934 mystery The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer.
  
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1934 Bobby Owen mystery Crossword Mystery by E. R. Punshon
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1948 mystery Crime Wave at Little Cornford by Herbert Adams.  
• Cora Buhlert revisits the 1969 thriller Zero Cool by John Lange a.k.a. Michael Crichton and Joe Martin revisits the 1969 technothriller The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton.  
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1971 gothic thriller Message from a Ghost by Marilyn Ross a.k.a. William Ross.  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1975 suspense novel My Brother’s Killer by Jean Potts.  
  
• Sonja van der Westhuizen revisits the 1988 Hannibal Lecter thriller The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. 
• Peter Handel revisits the 1989 Sarah Fortune mystery Shadows on the Mirror by Frances Fyfield
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 2006 Mr. Monk mystery Mr Monk Goes To Hawaii by Lee Goldberg
   
  

Con and event reports:

• Martin Edwards shares his experiences at the 2024 CrimeFest in Bristol, UK.
  
• Joy Kluver looks ahead at the panel The Anatomy of a Crime: From Crime to Conviction at Capital Crime in London, UK.
• Joy Kluver also looks ahead at an interview with Terry Hayes and Tammy Cohen, the writing duo behins Elly Conway, the mysterious author of Argylle, at Capital Crime.
• Ayo Onatade lists the line-up for the 2024 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
• Martin Edwards reports about an exhibition dedicated to E.C.R. Lorac in Bolton-Le-Sands, Lancashire.
  

 

Research: 

• Helen Fitzgerald talks about the surprising joys of working in a halfway house for ex-offenders. 
• Peter Nichols explains how he almost became a cop as a middle-aged writer.
  
• Linda Moore talks about art theft in Latin America. 
• Steven Johnson talks about dynamite and its connection to the anarchist movement.
  
• Kaitlin Palmieri talks about her incredibly bad luck at losing first her boyfriend and then her fiancé to sudden deaths at a young age and finally finding out that her fiancé had cheated on her shortly before their wedding date.
  
• Edward Helmore reports that US presidential candidate Donald Trump praised Hannibal Lecter, apparently unaware that Lecter was a) fictional and b) a cannibalistic serial killer, during a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "The Other Side of Town" by Russell Thayer in Punk Noir Magazine. 
• "Ask a Policeman" by Paul Burke in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Shades of Gray" by Karen Grose in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Clean" by Ted Flanagan in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "None of That Jazz" by Brian Beatty in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Never Again" by Jen Hartzell in Punk Noir Magazine  
• "The Run" by Sam Wiebe in Shotgun Honey.
• "Cow-Tippers" by David Rachels in Guilty.