Crime Fiction Links of the Week for October 19, 2024
Crime fiction in general:
- Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.
- Laura Wilson shares a round-up of her favourite recent crime novels and thrillers.
- Crossexamining Crime shares their ten favourite mysteries from the 1930s.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel shares their ten favourite mysteries from the 1930s.
- Elly Griffiths shares her ten favourite SFF, horror and mystery short stories.
- Tom Ryan shares six suspense and horror novels featuring mysterious mansions.
- Hailey Piper shares coastal crime fiction for chilly autumn days,
- Paul French takes a look at crime fiction set in the Himalayas.
- J.D. Barker explains how he came to be a crime fiction writer.
- Ian Moore explains how he came to write about a French district attorney.
- Abi Walton talks about the evolving, living art of creating physical books.
- Olivia Rutigliano shares a quiz asking you to identify the final lines of classic mystery and crime novels.
Film and TV:
- Peter Bradshaw calls The Crime Is Mine is crowdpleasing 1930s set crime comedy.
- Peter Bradshaw calls Kathleen Is Here a thriller with a properly nailbiting ending
- Caroline Siede calls Enough a schlocky action thriller
- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky calls Brothers a crime comedy that tries to be wacky, but is only hacky
- Adrian Horton calls Jigra a Bollywood jailbreak thriller and praises the performance of Alia Bhatt.
- Katie Rife calls The Shadow Strays a messy action epic from Indonesia.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the first episode of Cleddau.
- Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on Joan.
- Jenna Scherer wonders whether Scamanda means that US TV has reached an overload of documentary series about scammers.
- Adrian Horton calls the documentary series Anatomy of Lies a stranger-than-fiction story about the uncommonly unlucky TV writer Elizabeth Finch who turned out to have made up all the terrible things that supposedly happened to her.
- Mark Lawson interviews the team behind the true crime drama Until I Kill You
- Al Pacino recalls how he was almost fired a week into filming The Godfather.
- Sandy Ferber revisits the 1971 suspense thriller See No Evil and the 1972 suspense thriller Endless Night
- Scott Tobias revisits the 1994 crime movie Pulp Fiction and declares that it still remains electric thirty years later.
- Emma Keates reports that Slow Horses has been renewed for season 6, making it the longest running show on Apple+ TV.
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Comments on Joker: Folie à Deux:
- Zack Sharf reports that screenwriter Paul Schrader has called Joker: Folie à Deux a really bad musical and that he couldn't tolerate more than ten minutes of the film.
- TMZ interviews Connor Storrie, the actor who plays an important role in the divisive ending of Joker: Folie à Deux.
- William Hughes reports that Joker: Folie À Deux has experienced the worst second weekend box office drop ever for a comic book movie.
- Rebecca Rubin reports that Joker: Folie à Deux is expected to lose 150 to 200 million US-dollar during its theatrical run.
- Andrew Pulver reports that Joker: Folie à Deux is on track for a catastrophic loss.
- Mary Kate Carr compares that financial disaster that is Joker: Folie à Deux with a scene of the Joker lighting stacks of money on fire in The Dark Knight.
- Phil Hoad wonders why Joker: Folie à Deux lost so much money and how on Earth it cost so much in the first place?
- Ben Dalton reports that Transformers One has dethroned Joker: Folie à Deux at the UK and Irish box office.
Comments on The Penguin:
Awards:
Writing, publishing and promotion:
- The authors shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize share their inspiration.
- Marybeth Mayhew Whalen talks about excavating your past through writing.
- Ellen Peirson-Hagger profiles writers who nearly gave up on writing.
- Sarah Manavis reports that bookstores have suddenly become cool again with young readers.
- Rachel Ulatowski reports that politicians and book banning activists in Utah have held a public celebration to celebrate the passing of a book banning law in Utah and that they have called for authors of banned books to repent.
- Rachel Ulatowski also reports that book banning activists in Utah are going after Little Free Libraries.
- Leonard Riggio, longtime head of Barnes & Noble, has died aged 83.
Interviews:
- The Guardian interviews Stephen King.
- Raven Brunner interviews Janet Evanovich,
- Suspense Magazine interviews Peter May.
- The Red Hot Chilli Writers interviews Shari Lapena.
- Nancie Clare interviews Margaret Mizushima
- John Valeri interviews Jenny Milchman.
- Suspense Magazine interviews Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman
- Lisa Haselton interviews Rhonda Lane.
Reviews:
- Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Blood Ties by Jo Nesbo, translated by Robert Ferguson
- Kevin Tipple reviews Ashes Never Lie by Lee Goldberg
- Mary Picken reviews Nobody’s Hero by M.W. Craven
- Aunt Agatha's reviews You Have Gone Too Far by Carlene O’Connor.
- Jen Lucas reviews Blood Orange by Mark L. Fowler
- Jen Lucas reviews Better The Blood by Michael Bennett
- Mandie Griffiths reviews The Blood Line by Will Shindler
- Lesa Holstine reviews Gathering Mist by Margaret Mizushima
- Blue Book Balloon reviews Lights Out by Louise Swanson
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Last Time We Met by Anna E. Wahlgren
- Jen Lucas reviews Past Echoes by Graham Smith
- Sandra Mangan reviews The Waiting by Michael Connelly
- John Valeri reviews The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel
- Paul Burke reviews The Last Days of Johnny Nunn by Nick Triplow
- Ali Karim reviews Leo by Deon Mayer.
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews A Quiet Teacher by Adam Oyebanji
- Marlene Harris reviews Rough Pages by Lev A.C. Rosen
- Kevin Tipple reviews It Happened One Knife by Jeffrey Cohen
- Aunt Agatha's reviews Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson.
- Sharon Richardson reviews The Corpse with the Pearly Smile by Cathy Ace
- Jen Lucas reviews The Burning Stones by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal and tries a recipe from the book.
- Crossexamining Crime reviews Mirror Lake by Juneau Black
- Crossexamining Crime reviews Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel by Agatha Christie and Bob Al-Greene
- Kevin Tipple reviews the August 2024 issue of Mystery Magazine.
Classics reviews:
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1944 mystery Fell Murder by E. C. R. Lorac
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1952 crime play Tell Tale Murder by Philip Weathers
- Doreen Sheridan revisits the 1957 Kosuke Kindaichi mystery The Little Sparrow Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
- Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1966 Mother Paul mystery Make-Up for Murder by June Wright
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1972 mystery The Players and the Game by Julian Symonds.
- Joe Kenney revisits the 1981 The Penetrator men's adventure novel Deep Cover Blast-Off by Lionel Derrick
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1987 Lomax crime novel Death on the Rocks by Michael Allegretto.
- Vicki Weisfeld revisits the 1988 Bizarre House mystery The Labyrinth House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, translated by Ho Ling Wong.
- Gwen Moffat revisits the 1988 Bizarre House mystery The Labyrinth House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, translated by Ho Ling Wong.
Con and event reports:
Research:
- Anthony Bourdain talks about the case of Mary Mallon a.k.a. Typhoid Mary and what her profession as a cook had to do with it.
- Todd
Feathers reports that parents in Massachusetts have sued their son's
high school after their son received a bad grade and detention for using
generative AI to write a paper.
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