Crime Fiction Links of the Week for September 14, 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 season 2 of Sherwood, season 4 of Slow Horses, season 4 of Only Murders in the Building, tributes to James Earl Jones and Kenneth Cope, the debate about AI generated writing and art and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.  
• Molly Odintz shares the most anticipated crime, mystery and horror novels for fall 2024.
  
• Alison Gaylin shares her favourite female fictional detectives.
  
• Steve Hamilton talks about empathy and crime fiction.
• Megan Taylor shares seven eerie crime novels. 
• Caroline Woods explains why Minnesota is the perfect setting for crime fiction. 
• Amber and Danielle Brown shares five great psychological thrillers about reunions and old secrets
  
• Libby Cudmore talks about her crime fiction influences from her teen years in the 1990s.
  
• Betsy Hartman talks about discussing the US opoid crisis in thriller form. 
• Kelsea Yu explains how she integrated food into her crime fiction. 
• Olivia Rutigliano shares the funniest things Doroth L. Sayers wroten about (and in) detective fiction.
  
• Mystery writer and Sherlock Holmes scholar David Stuart Davies has died.
  

  

Film and TV: 

• Benjamin Lee calls Relay a throwback to the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s. 
• Peter Bradshaw praises the performance of Ian McKellan in the 1930s set crime drama The Critic.
  
• Leslie Felperin calls Kill a suspenseful forest thriller
• Jason Gorber calls The Order a taut thriller.
  
• Lucy Mangan calls Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter a staggering, mesmerising true-crime tale 
  
• Samantha Nelson declares that season 2 of  The Old Man takes too long to get going
• Trish Matson shares her thoughts on Batman: Caped Crusader.
  
• Rebecca Nicholson shares her thoughts on the documentary Ross Kemp: Mafia and Britain 
• Tim Lowery shares his thoughts on the documentary Wise Guy: David Chase And The Sopranos 
• Jim Vejvoda interviews Todd Phillips and Scott Silver, director and writer of Joker: Folie à Deux.
  
• Kathryn Porter notes that even as more and more so-called prestige TV shows fail, the old standby genres such as police procedurals, medical dramas and sitcoms continue to thrive. 
  
• Paul Hirons reports that Bosch: Legacy will end after season 3.
• Vanessa Armstrong reports that a new Inspector Maigret TV series is in production. 
• British actor, writer and film producer Robert Sidaway, who appeared in Doctor Who, The Avengers and Out of the Unknown among many others, has died aged 82. 
  

 

Comments on series 2 of Sherwood:

• Michael Hogan shares his thoughts on episode 5 of series 2 of Sherwood.
• Michael Hogan shares his thoughts on the series 2 finale of Sherwood.
• Stuart Heritage declares that series 2 of Sherwood was so good the tension gave you a stomach ache
  

Comments on season 4 of Slow Horses: 

• Stuart Heritage shares his appreciation for Slow Horses as someone who has only just started watching the series. 
• Diana Keng shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Slow Horses.
  
• Alex Faccibene shares five spy novels for fans of Slow Horses.
  

 Comments on season 4 of Only Murders in the Building: 

• Saloni Gajjar shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Only Murders in the Building. 
• Melody McCune shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Only Murders in the Building. 
  
• Yohana Desta interviews Selena Gomez, who plays Mabel Mora in Only Murders in the Building.
  

 

Tributes to James Earl Jones:

• Actor James Earl Jones, best known for voicing Darth Vader in multiple Star Wars movies, playing Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian and voicing Mufasa in The Lion King, has died aged 93.
• Lenny Henry and Don Warrington share their tributes to James Earl Jones.
  
• Peter Bradshaw remembers James Earl Jones.
  
• James Whitbrook remembers James Earl Jones.
• Erik Pedersen remembers James Earl Jones. 
• Steve Vertlieb remembers James Earl Jones. 
• Diana Keng remembers James Earl Jones.
  
• Denise Petski shares tributes to James Earl Jones from co-stars and directors. 
• Alfie Peckham shares tributes by readers of the Guardian to James Earl Jones. 
• The AV-Club share their eight favourite performances by James Earl Jones.
  
• Greg Whitmore shares photos from James Earl Jones' lengthy career.
  

 

Tributes to Kenneth Cope: 

• British actor Kenneth Cope, star of Coronation Street, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Bill and many others, has died aged 93. 
• Tom Ambrose and Amelia Hill remembers Kenneth Cope. 
• Michael Coveney shares an obituary for Kenneth Cope.

 

Awards:

•  The winners of the 2024 Davitt Awards have been announced.
• The longlist for the 2024 Petrona Award has been announced. 
• Ella Creamer reports that the Canadian Scotiabank Giller Prize has dropped the name Scotiabank, but not the sponsor, in response to the usual complaints by Pro-Palestinian protestors about Scotiabank doing business with Israel. 
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion: 

• Sharon Bowring explains how she transformed her hometown into a fictional world.
  
• Karen Salyer McElmurray talks about the search for the perfect writing space.
  

 

Comments on the debate about AI generated writing and art: 

• Meghan Herbst reports about the uproar caused when the NaNoWriMo organisation called criticisms of AI generated writing ableist and classist.
• Sarah Gailey shares her thoughts on the NaNoWriMon uproar. 
  
• Su Lin Blodgett reports that AU Large Language Models produce racist output when prompted in African American English

 

Interviews: 

• Nancie Clare interviews Silvia Moreno-Garcia. 
• Brittany Frederik interviews Michael Connelly. 
• Elizabeth Harris interviews Liane Moriarty.
  
• Lesa Holstine interviews Laura Jensen Walker
• Lisa Haselton interviews Matthew D. Saeman 
• The Self-Publishing Review interviews Karl Wegener. 
  
• Crossexamining Crime interviews Mark Aldridge.
  

 

Reviews:

• Marlene Harris reviews Passions in Death by J.D. Robb 
  
• Mary Picken reviews Prey by Vanda Symon
• Sharon Richardson reviews Guide Me Home by Attica Locke
  
• Raven Crime Reads reviews The Opposite of Lonely by Doug Johnstone.
• Raven Crime Reads reviews Living Is A Problem by Doug Johnstone
• Sharon Richardson reviews Living Is A Problem by Doug Johnstone
  
• Doreen Sheridan reviews What Have You Done? by Shari Lapena
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Isolation Island by Louise Minchin 
  
• Jeff Ayers reviews Red River Road by Anna Downes
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews Echo Road by Kendra Elliot and Melinda Leigh
• Mary Picken reviews The Murmurs by Michael J. Malone  
• Scott Cumming reviews City of Margins by William Boyle 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews House Of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Strangers on a Bridge by Louise Mangos 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews A Killer Of Influence by J.D. Kirk
  
• Jen Lucas reviews For The Missing by Lina Bengtsdotter
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Sick to Death by Andrew Welsh-Huggins 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Medici Heist by Caitlin Schneiderhan
  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Cannonball Tree by Ovidia Yu
  
• Alison Flood reviews We Solve Murders by Richard Osman 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews People Will Talk by Kieran Scott
  
• Aunt Agatha's reviews Death at the Sanitorium by Ragnar Jonasson, translated by Victoria Cribb 
• Mary Picken reviews Death at the Sanitorium by Ragnar Jonasson, translated by Victoria Cribb 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Death At Morning House by Maureen Johnson
  
• Jen Lucas reviews Murder on a Country Walk by Katie Gayle
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Smoke And Murders by J L Blackhurst  
• Lesa Holstine reviews The Grim Steeper by Gretchen Rue
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews Furever After by Sofie Kelly  
• Paul Burke reviews Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness by Mark Aldridge
• Crossexamining Crime reviews Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness by Mark Aldridge
   
  

Classics reviews:

• B.V. Lawson revisits the 1910 Inspector Hanaud mystery Murder at the Villa Rose by A.E.W. Mason.
  
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1946 David Calder mystery The Shadowy Third by Marco Page
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1947 Arthur Cook mystery Death in the Wrong Room by Anthony Gilbert 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1949 mystery Silence for the Murderer by Freeman Wills Crofts.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1961 sleaze crime novel A Matter of Adultery by Don Lee. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1966 Joe Bain mystery The Fox Valley Murders by John Holbrook Vance a.k.a. Jack Vance.  
• Steven Nester revisits the 1973 crime novel The Digger’s Game by George V. Higgins 
  
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1974 The Iceman blaxploitation novel Spinning Target by Joseph Nazel. 
• Joe Kenney revisits the 1980 hardboiled crime novel Port Wine Stain by Jerry Oster
  

 

Con and event reports:

•  Jen Lucas looks ahead at the 2024 Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival in Stirling, Scotland.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• The audio drama True Noir: The Assassination of Anton Cermak by Max Allan Collins is looking for funding.

 

Research: 

•  Benj Edwards reports that the FBI has uncovered an elaborate music streaming scam involving AI-generated music being sstreamed by fake AI-generated accounts. 
• Michael Benson and Craig Singer recoun how the mob infiltrated Hollywood unions in the 1930s. 
  
• Susan Stokes-Chapman talks about the 18th century Hellfire Club and other secret societies. 
  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Second Fiddle" by S.T. Gillard in Shotgun Honey
  
• "Family Game Night" by Brandon Doughty in Punk Noir Magazine
  

 

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
• Watch another trailer for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story