Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 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 The Turkish Detective, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F., Sing Sing, Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer, Twisters, Longlegs, MaXXXine, Sunny, tributes to Jon Landau and Shelley Duval 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. 
• Molly Odintz shares her favourite new psychological thrillers coming out this July.
  
• Nekesa Afia explains why Paris is the perfect setting for a queer historical mystery.
• Vi Keeland shares her favourite thrillers with a side order of romance.
  
• Laura Essay explains why true crime stories make for good novels. 
• Preston L. Allen talks about humour in serial killer novels 
  
• Andrew DeYoung lists psychological thrillers that ask "Who the fuck did I marry?" 
• S.B. Caves shares six novels about stalking and obsession.
  
• Olivia Rutigliano shares a Choose Your Own Adventure Whodunnit. 
• Mike Glyer reports that mystery and science fiction author Brendan DuBois has been arrested for possession of child pornography. 
  

 

Film and TV: 

• Saloni Gajjar calls Unprisoned a delightful comedy about a man released from prison after seventeen years.
  
• Garrick Webster shares his thoughts on the Swedish crime drama End of Summer.
• The Guardian wonders whether Midsomer Murders really needs a trigger warning about violent content. 
• Peter Bradshaw calls Sleep an elegant and intimate horror film from South Korea. 
• Mark Kermode profiles Kathryn Bigelow, director of Near Dark, Strange Days, Point Break, Blue Steel, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty and many others.  
• Sian Cain talks about sequel fatigue. 
• Michael Rubinstein revisits the 1974 neo-noir movie Chinatown.
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 2015 thriller The Gift.
  

 

Comments on The Turkish Detective: 

• Rachel Aroesti calls The Turkish Detective downright ridiculous, in a good way 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the first episode of The Turkish Detective.
  

 

Comments on Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F:

• Robert Daniels declares that Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. struggles to revive the moribund action-comedy franchise.
• David Marchese interviews Eddie Murphy who plays Axel Foley in the Beverly Hills Cop movies.
  

 

Comments on Sing Sing: 

• Radheyan Simonpillai calls Sing Sing a powerful and inspirational drama about a theatre group in prison. 
• Natalia Keogan calls Sing Sing a well-acted yet declawed survey of the potential for prison reform
  
• Adrian Horton reports about the prison theatre program that inspired Sing Sing.
  

 

Comments on Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer: 

• Todd Lazarski calls Mastermind: To Think Like A Killer an evocative spin on true-crime
• David Smith shares his thoughts on the true crime documentary Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer
  

 

Comments on Twisters: 

• Peter Bradshaw praises the romance subplot of Twisters.
• Brian Davids interviews Jan de Bont, director of the original Twister. 

 

Comments on Longlegs:

• Matthew Jackson calls Longlegs a masterfully unsettling horror movie.
• Kyle Anderson calls Longlegs very weird, very upsetting and thoroughly captivating 
• Benjamin Lee calls Longlegs a stylish yet progressively silly horror film and praises the performance of Nicholas Cage.
• Cheryl Eddy interviews Osgood Perkins, director of Longlegs. 
  

 

Comments on MaXXXine:

•  Matt Schimkowitz calls MaXXXine a giallo-tinged All About Eve
• Shaad D'Souza interviews Ti West, director of X, Pearl and MaXXXine.   

 

Comments on Sunny: 

• Saloni Gajjar calls Sunny an addictive mystery series that feels like an overlong episode of Black Mirror. 
  
• Lucy Mangan calls Sunny a robot-fuelled comedy thriller sounds crap, but is actually excellent

 

Tributes to Jon Landau:

• Film producer Jon Landau, who produced Avatar, Speed, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Titanic, Dick Tracy, True Lies and many others, has died aged 63. 
• Ryan Gilbey shares an obituary for Jon Landau. 
• Carly Thomas shares tributes to Jon Landau from actors and directors.
  

 

Tributes to Shelley Duval:

• Actress Shelley Duval, star of The Shining, Popeye, Time Bandits, Thieves Like Us, Brewster McCloud, Nashville and many others, has died aged 75.
• Peter Bradshaw remembers Shelley Duval.
• Anne Billson lists Shelley Duval's twenty greatest films. 
• The Guardian shares photos from Shelley Duval's career.

 

Awards:

• The longlist for the 2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards has been announced.
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Eugen Bacon shares novel writing tips for short story writers. 
• Stacy D'Erasmo talks about the many ways artists sustain their creative practice.
  
• Kate Quinn explains how to turn surprising historical facts into compelling historical fiction  
• Caro Carver talks about researching setting and writing on location.
  
• Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas explains what she learned about reading slush
  
• Victoria Strauss talks about a link building scam from one Fullers Library.
• Ella Creamer reports that more than five hundred authors have signed a petition asking Waterstones to rehire bookseller Tilly Fitzgerald, who was fired following a tweet criticising author Christina Dalcher for transphobic comments.

 

Interviews: 

• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Karin Slaughter. 
• Chris McGinley interviews Chris Offutt.
  
• Anthony Cummins interviews Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Ryan Britt interviews Kim Sherwood.  
• Ayo Onatade interviews Lucie Whitehouse. 
• Garrick Webster interviews Joachim B. Schmidt.
  
• Paul Burke interviews Laura Sims. 
• Ayo Onatade interviews David Whittle.
  
• John Valeri interviews Laura Essay. 
• Kevin Canfield interviews Margalit Fox. 
• J. Kingston Pierce interviews Dean Jobb.
  
  

Reviews:

• Mary Picken reviews The Mercy Chair by M. W. Craven
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Burning by Linda Castillo 
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Last Dance by Mark Billingham 
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Vanishing Act by Sarah Ward 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Middle of the Night by Riley Sager
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews Pitch Dark by Paul Doiron
• Sandra Mangan reviews Sharp Glass by Sarah Hilary
• Jen Lucas reviews Sharp Glass by Sarah Hilary
  
• Mary Picken reviews The Chamber by Will Dean.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews Forget Me Not by M. J. Arlidge 
• Mary Picken reviews Forget Me Not by M. J. Arlidge  
• Mandie Griffiths reviews Marked for Death by Tony Kent 
  
• Jen Lucas reviews While You Sleep by Stephanie Merritt
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Rewind by Joy Kluver
  
• Marlene Harris reviews Guard the East Flank by M.L. Buchman
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Bodies to Die For by Lori Brand
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Broiler by Elli Cranor
• Judtih Sullivan reviews Honeycomb by S. B. Caves  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon 
  
• Sana Goyal reviews Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi 
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Bitter Past by Bruce Borgos
• Janet Webb reviews The Last Twelve Miles by Erika Robuck
  
• Aunt Agatha's reviews Mortal Radiance by Kathryn Lasky 
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Briar Club by Kate Quinn 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Bedlam Cadaver by Robert J. Lloyd
  
• Crossexamining Crime reviews The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine by P. J. Fitzsimmons 
  
• Aunt Agatha's reviews It’s Elementary by Elise Bryant. 
• Sue Lord reviews The Fan Who Knew Too Much by Nev Fountain 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Dead Friend Project by Joanna Wallace
  
• Aunt Agatha's reviews A Very Woodsy Murder by Ellen Byron.
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Come Shell or High Water by Molly MacRae and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Tobias Jones reviews The Umbrella Murder: The Hunt for the Cold War’s Most Notorious Killer by Ulrik Skotte 
   
  

Classics reviews:

• James Davis Nicoll revisists the 1932 Charlie Chan mystery Keeper of the Keys by Earl Derr Biggers  
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1936 Inspector Threadgold mystery Hard Liver by Anthony Weymouth 
  
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1939 Gideon Fell mystery The Black Spectacles by John Dickson Carr.
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1943 mystery Leave and Bequeath by Winifred E. Watson
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1951 mystery Come, Thick Night by Margot Neville 
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1960 crime novel The Other Woman by Charles Burgess. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1960 mystery A Wreath for the Bride by Maria Lang, translated by Joan Tate
  
• Mary Picken revisits the 1979 historical mystery The Meiji Guillotine Murders: Intriguing Crimes in Historical Japan by Fūtarō Yamada, translated by Bryan Karetnyk 
• Alissa Burger revisits the 1980 YA mystery When No One Was Looking by Rosemary Wells and the 1994 YA horror novel Win, Lose or Die by Diane Hoh.   
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1980 Butler men's adventure novel Killer Satellites by Philip Kirk a.k.a. Len Levinson.
  
• Neil Gaiman revisits the 1984 surrealist crime novel The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. 
  
• Lesa Holstine revisits the 1994 Sheriff Dan Rhodes mystey Murder Most Fowl by Bill Crider. 
• Peter Handel revisits the 2003 hardboiled crime novel The Hit by Jere Hoar.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 2011 Mr. Monk mystery Mr Monk on the Couch by Lee Goldberg  
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Kate Wyver calls the play Bindweed by Martha Loader, which is currently playing in London, UK, a complex account of the scale of violence against women
• Hannah Al-Othman reports that the historic Oldham Caliseum theatre in Oldham, UK, has been saved from closing. 
  

 

Research: 

• Margalit Fox profiles Fredericka Mandelbaum, who headed a criminal syndicate in nineteenth century New York City.
• Alyssa Palombo talks about espionage in the Venetian republic.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "The First Person You Deceive is Yourself" by Ted Flanagan in Punk Noir Magazine
• "Over and Over" by Michel Lee Garrett in Punk Noir Magazine 
  
• "The Place Between Two Others" by Nathan Pettigrew in Punk Noir Magazine 
• "In A Goddamned Wheat Field" by Casey Stegman in Punk Noir Magazine.
  
• "Copping to a Crime" by David Boop in Gumshoe Review.
• "Jury Duty" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.  
  

 

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Gladiator II.