Crime Fiction Links of the Week for July 6, 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 What Remains, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F., Kill, the 2024 Dagger Awards, tributes to Robert Towne and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Criminal Element share their most anticipated crime novels for July 2024.
  
• Paul French takes a look at crime fiction set in Uruguay.
• Elizabeth Heider shares books exploring secret ecosystems and shadow economies 
• Ram Murali shares his ten favorite Agatha Christie short stories
  
• Randal S. Brandt profiles mystery writer Dana Wilson who wound up marrying James Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli. 
• Olivia Rutigliano shares a Choose Your Own Noir Adventure game.
  

 

Film and TV: 

• Lucy Mangan calls A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder a very modern Nancy Drew that is a hoot 
• Paul Hirons calls Under the Bridge an intense, moving and ambitious true crime drama.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of the new Presumed Innocent. 
• Jesse Hassenger takes a look at the Indiana Jones series. 
  
•  Ben Child notes that the best solution to deal with the problematic idea of masculinity portrayed in the James Bond movies would be to make them period pieces set in the 1960s.
  
• Aria Bendix talks about the phenomenon of feeling grief, when a favourite TV series ends. 
• Rich Pelley interviews David Duchovny, best known for playing Fox Mulder in The X-Files. 
  
• Steve Rose interviews stuntman Kiran Shah, who appeared in Return of the Jedi, Lord of the Rings, Superman, Titanic and many others. 
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1974 crime movie The Conversation. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1998 historical crime drama The Cater Street Hangman
  
• Peter Bradshaw revisits the 1999 adventure movie The Mummy.  
• Marah Eakin wonders what the impact of AI on TV programming will be.  
• Aja Romano explains why the streaming age of TV seems so chaotic.  
• Bruce Haring reports that Paramount Global has purged the online archives of Comedy Central, MTV News, CMT and TVLand going back more than twenty years.
• Sharon Knolle reports about the reactions of various MTV News staffers to their hard work being purged.

 

Comments on What Remains: 

• Leslie Felperin calls What Remains a weirdly hallucinatory murder mystery
  
• Zoe Williams interviews Stellan Skarsgård, star of Thor, The Avengers, What Remains, Nightwatch, Dune and many others. 

 

Comments on Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F:

• Peter Bradshaw declared that Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F chases past glories
• Jarrod Jones calls Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F an uncomplicated throwback 
• Nick Schrager calls Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. funnier than it has any right to be.
  
• Stereo Williams notes that the legacy of the Beverly Hills Cop movies is more problematic than most people remember.
  

 

Comments on Kill: 

• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky calls Kill a cartoonishly violent action film from India. 
• Catherine Bray calls Kill an ultraviolent Indian train thriller
  

 

Tributes to Robert Towne:

• Screenwriter and director Robert Towne, who worked on Chinatown, Mission Impossible, Days of Thunder, The Firm, Marathon Man and many others, has died aged 89.  
• Erik Pedersen and Peter Bart shares an obituary for Robert Towne.

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2024 CWA Dagger Awards have been announced.
  
• The finalists for the 2024 Silver Falchion and Claymore Awards have been announced.  
• The finalists for the 2024 Munsey Awards have been announced. 
  
• The longlist for the 2024 Glass Bell Awards has been announced. 
• The shortlist for the 2024 TikTok Book Awards has been announced.

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Vanessa Chakour explains how to reconnect with nature through writing.
  
• Daniel Sellers explains what makes twists work. 
• Peter Swanson talks about the importance of empathy when writing thrillers.
  
• Robyn Harding talks about the power and the pitfalls of basing characters on real people.
  
• George Sandison talks about submissions from the POV of an editor.
  
• Victoria Strauss shares some tips for writers who have been swindled.
• John Scalzi shares his annoyance that the cover for the Italian edition of Starter Villain features AI generated art.
  
• Ashley Belanger shares an update on the lawsuit of the so-called Big Five publishers against the Internet Archive.

 

Interviews: 

• Rick Pullen interviews Heather Graham. 
• Ayo Onatade interviews Doug Johnstone.
  
• Alan Petersen interviews Ace Atkins. 
• Sharon Richardson interviews Kellye Garrett. 
• Brian D. Bradley interviews Blake Crouch. 
  
• Ayo Onatade interviews Jake Lamar.
• Debbi Mack interviews Clay Stafford.
  
• Frank Zafiro interviews Adam Plantinga. 
• E.B. Davis interviews Susan Van Kirk.
  
  

Reviews:

• Mandie Griffiths reviews Whole Life Sentence by Lynda La Plante
  
• Marilyn Brooks reviews Pitch Dark by Paul Doiron. 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Lost Victim by Robert Bryndza
  
• Matt Pechey reviews The Lost Victim by Robert Bryndza
• Ben Boulden reviews Man in the Water by David Housewright  
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Forget Me Not by M.J. Arlidge  
• Tzer Island reviews Trust Her by Flynn Berry
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Vengeance Is Mine by Michael Wood
  
• Matt Pechey reviews Shades of Mercy by Bruce Borgos 
• John Valeri reviews Holy City by Henry Wise
• Sharon Richardson reviews Broiler by Eli Cranor 
  
• She Treads Softly reviews The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley  
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews The Wreckage of Us by Dan Malakin
  
• Jane Simon Ammeson reviews The Unwedding by Ally Condie.
• C.C. Harrison reviews The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle. 
• Kirkus reviews The Paris Vendetta by Shan Serafin. 
• Jeff Ayers reviews Sentinel by Mark Greaney
  
• Cafe Thinking reviews Boys Who Hurt by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, translated by Victoria Cribb 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Missing Family by Tim Weaver
  
• Rebecca Nesvet reviews Sherlock Holmes and the Gentleman Burglar
  by Sam Siciliano 
• Crossexamining Crime reviews Helle & Death by Oskar Jensen  
• Jen Lucas reviews The Betrayal of Thomas True by A.J. West
  
• Erin Britton reviews The Venus of Salò by Ben Pastor
  
• Tony R. Cox reviews West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman 
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Ashram Assassin by Andrew Cartmel
• Marlene Harris reviews Requiem for a Mouse by Miranda James 
• Colleen Mondor reviews The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond 
  
• Liz Bourke reviews Lady Eve’s Last Con by Rebecca Fraimow
• James Reasoner reviews Casinos, Motels, Gators: Stories by Ben Boulden  
  
• Kevin Tipple reviews the June 2024 issue of Mystery Magazine.
   
  

Classics reviews:

• In Search of the Classic Mystery revisits the 1932 Anthony Gethryn mystery The Maze by Philip MacDonald
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1932 mystery Notice to Quit by James Qince.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1948 mystery The Voice of the Corpse by Max Murray   
• Beneath the Stains of Time revisits the 1949 mystery The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi  
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1951 Inspector Hazlerigg mystery Death Has Deep Roots by Michael Gilbert 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1958 crime novel Shakedown for Murder by Ed Lacy.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1967 gothic novel Dark Shadows:Victoria Winters by William Ross.  
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1983 Reid Bennett mystery Dead in the Water by Ted Wood. 
  
• Lesa Holstine revisits the 1992 Sheriff Dan Rhodes mystery Booked for a Hanging by Bill Crider 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 2011 Mr. Monk mystery Mr Monk on the Road by Lee Goldberg 
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Victoria Selman reports about the "The Ties That Bind" panel at the 2024 Capital Crime festival in London, UK.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Octavia's Bookshelf, a specialty bookshop in Pasadena, California, is looking for funding,

 

Research: 

• Dean Jobb talks about Arthur Barry, gentleman thief of the 1920s.
• Taina Tervonen talks about investigators who attempt to identify the remains of people killed during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. 
• April Henry looks back on the criminal history of her family. 
• Molly Macrae talks about the piratical history of Ocracoke Island off the coast of Carolina.
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "The Gang’s All Here" by Andrew Keahey in Punk Noir Magazine 
• "Waiting on Jimmy “The Peeler” Dugan" by J.D. Clapp in Punk Noir Magazine 
  
• "Man in the Middle" by P.W. Lewis in Punk Noir Magazine 
• "Last Rites" by J.J. Landry in Punk Noir Magazine 
  
• "Ringing a Bell" by Mark James McDonough in Mystery Tribune.
• "One of You" by Lorie Lewis Ham in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast.
• "Playing Possum" by Craig E. Sawyer in Shotgun Honey.
  
• "The Score" by Tobias McEvoy in Shotgun Honey.
  

 

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Trap. 
• Watch a trailer for The Jetty. 
  
• Watch a trailer for season 6 of Cobra Kai.