Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 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 The Jetty, Presumed Innocent, Cobra Kai, Twisters, Longlegs and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.  
• Michael Glitz shares his favourite mysteries, thriller and crime books of 2024 to date.
  
• Luke Deckard talks about noir fiction. 
• Robert Justice talks about crime novels set in Denver, Colorado. 
• Molly Odintz talks about thrillers set in gated communities. 
  
• Joshua Perry would like to see more crime fiction written by defense attorneys.
  
• Sarah Easter Collins talks about memory, subjectivity and the Rashomon effect
• Sara Driscoll shares her favourite books with unreliable narrators.
  
• Ace Atkins explains how blues music influenced his noir thrillers. 
• Michael Seidlinger shares novel about obsession, addiction, and disease 
  
• James Walsh shares his five favourite books about conspiracy theories. 
• Heather Chavez lists six crime and horror novel with unusual narrators.  
• Lisa Kusel talks about writing a metafictional thriller.
  
• Peng Shepard talks about writing a choose your own adventure speculative mystery.  
• Stuart Hamilton wonders why Donald Trump is so obsessed with Hannibal Lecter and keeps mentioning the fictional serial killer in his speeches. 
• Olivia Rutigliano reports about the feud between Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini
  
• Curtis Evans chronicles how Welsh writer and book reviewer Howard Spring enraged the Detection Club, when he spoiled an Agatha Christie novel in his review column in 1938.
  
• Dean Jobb reports about Agatha Christie's country house Greenway in Devon.
  

 

Film and TV: 

• Lucy Mangan calls Elsbeth a tedious spin-off of The Good Wife and a charmless Columbo, with brighter clothes
  
• Lucy Mangan calls the British police comedy Piglets so weak that you wonder why the UK police bothered to complain about it
• Leila Latif calls the documentary Britain Behind Bars: A Secret History an inside story of a broken, brutal prison system 
• Rebecca Nicholson declares that the documentary Surviving the Post Office offers fresh details about the appalling scandal that will make you even more angry 
• Lara Rosales shares her appreciation for the character of Penelope Garcia from Criminal Minds.
  
• Ben Lindberg and Rob Arthur wonder whether franchises can save or doom Hollywood.
• Cindy White ranks her ten favourite natural disaster movies. 
  
• Anne Billson ranks her favourite Arnold Schwarzenegger movies  
  
• Nick Romano interviews Matt Reeves, writer and director of The Batman and The Penguin.
• Charles Bramesco revisits the 1974 thriller Death Wish for its fiftieth anniversary and finds it a reactionary and repugnant revenge thriller 
• Catherine Shoard reports that Australian actor George Lazenby, best known for playing James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, is retiring from acting at age 84. 
• Lucas Shaw reports that Apple+ TV will spend less money on their streaming shows due to the streaming failing to make a profit.  

 

Comments on The Jetty:

• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the third episode of The Jetty.
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the fourth and final episode of The Jetty.

 

Comments on Presumed Innocent: 

• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the seventh episode of the new Presumed Innocent.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season 1 finale of the new Presumed Innocent.
  

 

Comments on Cobra Kai: 

• Christina Izzo shares her thoughts on season 6 of Cobra Kai.
  
• Dhruv Sharma notes that the villains in season 6 of Cobra Kai are a lot more one-dimensional than is common for that series.
  

 

Comments on Twisters: 

• Adrian Horton declares that Twisters has everything a blockbuster movie needs - except for the kiss between the leads. 
• William Hughes wonders why Twisters keeps referencing Frankenstein.
  
• Guy Lodge profiles Glen Powell, one of the stars of Twisters.
• Steve Weintraub interviews Twisters stars Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos
  
• Inspired by Twisters, David Smith wonders why Hollywood movies are so reluctant to tackle climate change. 
• Pamela McClintock and Aaron Couch report that Twisters is set to have a very good opening weekend. 
• Rebecca Rubin reports that Twisters' opening weekend was even better than expected.
  

 

Comments on Longlegs:

• Haley Zapal calls Longlegs the scariest movie of the year.
  
• Jordan Moreau interviews Osgood Perkins, director of Longlegs.
  

 

Awards:

• The finalists for the 2024 Strand Magazine Critics Award have been announced.
• The finalists for the 2024 Silver Falchion Awards have been announced. 
• The shortlist for the 2024 Davitt Awards has been annoucned,
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Sharmaine Lovegrove, Elizabeth Day, Nelle Andrew and Sara Collins share writing tips. 
• Connie Berry discusses how to use history in your fiction.
  
• Dave Dobson shares his experiences with a BookBub free featured deal.
• William Meikle reports about problems with the small press horror publisher Dark Regions Press.
  
• Courtney Shapiro reports about a new TikTok craze for sprayed and decorated book edges.
• Ashley Stimpson reports about the problem of toxic dyes used in vintage book covers.
  
• Ella Creamer reports that more than a third of all adults in the UK have given up reading for pleasure.
• Locus reports that romance writer Christine DeMaio a.k.a. C.D. Reiss has launched a class action lawsuit against Amazon due to their nigh monopoly on audiobook sales.

 

Interviews: 

• Ayo Onatade interviews Mark Billingham.
  
• Lesa Holstine interviews Ellen Byron.
• John Valeri interviews Meg Gardiner. 
• Trevor Wood interviews Sarah Moorhead. 
• Ayo Onatade interviews Erin Kelly.
  
• The Red Hot Chilli Writers interview Jack Jordan.
• E.B. Davis interviews Valerie Burns. 
• John Valeri interviews Juliet Grames.
  
• Lisa Pultizer interviews Kim Mager. 
• Kevin Canfield interviews Peter Houlahan. 
  
  

Reviews:

• BOLO Books reviews The Burning by Linda Castillo. 
• The Quick and the Read reviews Whole Life Sentence by Lynda La Plante  
• Gwen Moffat reviews The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre 
  
• Joy Kluver reviews All The Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker  
• H.C. Newton reviews Shades of Mercy by Bruce Borgos 
• Judith Reveal reviews Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Shrouded by Sólveig Pálsdóttir, translated by Quentin Bates
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Shrouded by Sólveig Pálsdóttir, translated by Quentin Bates
• Jen Lucas reviews The Things You Didn’t See by Ruth Dugdall
  
• The Book Reporter reviews A Refiner's Fire by Donna Leon. 
• Paul Burke reviews The Trap by Ava Glass 
  
• Garrick Webster reviews Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B. Schmidt, translated by Jamie Lee Searle.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Dead Fall by A.K. Turner 
• Tzer Island reviews Desperation Reef by T. Jefferson Parker
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Man in the Water by David Housewright
  
• BOLO Books reviews Mud Season by Sarah Stewart Taylor. 
• Hephzibah Anderson reviews Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Wilderness Reform by Matt Query and Harrison Query  
• Janet Webb reviews May the Wolf Die by Elizabeth Heider
  
• Fiona Sturges reviews The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Love Letters To A Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell
  
• Paul Burke reviews The Silent Killer by Trevor Wood 
• Mandie Griffiths reviews The Pain Tourist by Paul Cleave 
  
• Ray Palen reviews A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson 
  
• Book Chatter reviews One Big Happy Family by Jamie Day 
• Sharon Richardson reviews I Will Ruin You by Linwood Barclay
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews Sharp Glass by Sarah Hilary
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews My Favorite Scar by Nicolas Ferraro, translated by Mallory Craig-Kuhn 
• Jen Lucas reviews Imposter Syndrome by Joseph Knox  
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani, translated by Sam Bett 
• Mandie Griffiths reviews The Turnglass by Gareth Rubin
  
• Rebecca Nesvet reviews The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd
  
• Aunt Agatha's reviews Murder at the White Palace by Allison Montclair.
• Marlene Harris reviews Murder at the White Palace by Allison Montclair. 
• Carol Westron reviews The Murderer Inside the Mirror by Sarah Rayne
• Raven Crime Reads reviews The Beaver Theory by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston 
• Mandie Griffiths reviews The Beaver Theory by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews A Very Woodsy Murder by Ellen Byron
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Trouble in Queenstown by Delia Pitts. 
  
• Marilyn Brooks reviews Trouble in Queenstown by Delia Pitts. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews There’s No Murder Like Show Murder by M.S. Greene 
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Peg and Rose Play The Ponies by Laurien Berenson 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Fan Who Knew Too Much by Nev Fountain 
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Last Line by Scott Lyerly
• Sasha Bonkowsky reviews In The Hour of Crows by Dana Elmendorf 
   
  

Classics reviews:

• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1942 Nero Wolfe mystery Black Orchids by Rex Stout
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1948 Arthur G. Crook mystery Lift Up the Lid by Anthony Gilbert
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1958 crime novel Come Back for More by Al Fray.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1965 David Grant spy novel Death's Foot Forward by George B. Mair.  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1967 suspense novel Prisoner’s Base by Celia Fremlin 
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1969 Sir Abercrombie Lewker mystery Fat Man’s Agony by Glyn Carr
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1971 psychological thriller Advisory Service by Martin Russell. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1980 nautical thriller Sea Trial by Frank De Felitta 
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisitsthe 2012 Hugh Corbett historical mystery The Magician’s Death by Paul Doherty
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Sandra Mangan reports about the 2024 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
  

 

Research: 

• Juliet Grames talks about the Calabrian crime syndicate ’Ndrangheta
  
• Mikita Brottman reports about Brian Winchester and Denise Williams who started an extramarital affair in 1997, but were unwilling to divorce due to their strict religious background and therefore turned to murder as a solution.
• Peter Houlahan talks about a 1985 case where a racist police control left one police officer dead and a second police officer and a civilian injured. 
• Simon Hattenstone talks about the Robertson family who were shipwrecked in the Pacific for 38 days in 1971. 
• Emine Saner interviews Gaynor Madgwick who survived the Aberfan disaster in Aberfan, Wales, in 1966 at the age of eight.
• John Otis reports that cocaine has been found in sharks off the coast of Brazil.  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Limbo Is a Liquor Store in Hell" by Laura Cooney in Punk Noir Magazine
• "Drowning in Sin" by Gavin Turner in Punk Noir Magazine  
• "Coppers to Arrive" by Mark Burrow in Punk Noir Magazine
  
• "Careful What You Say" by Stuart Watson in Punk Noir Magazine.
• "Whatever Happens, Happens" by Brooks Reeves in Punk Noir Magazine 
• "Uprooted" by J.P. Relph in Punk Noir Magazine 
• "Eyes On The Empty" by S.D.W. Hamilton in Punk Noir Magazine 
• "Release" by Fiona H. Evans in Punk Noir Magazine 
• "The Secret Lives of Cats" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 
  

 

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for The Killer.
• Watch a trailer for season 2 of The Old Man.
  
• Watch a trailer for Joker: Folie A Deux. 
• Watch a trailer for Citadel Diana.