Crime Fiction Links of the Week for November 23, 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 best crime books of 2024, Cross, Cleddau, Based on a True Story, Red One, The Penguin and much more:

Crime fiction in general:  

• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week.  
• Raquel V. Reyes shares a list of crime novels set in Miami, Florida.
• Lucy Connelly shares her favourite original and offbeat murder methods in mystery fiction. 
• Maddie Day talks about creating distinctive settings for cozy mysteries. 
• Clara McKenna talks about researching the settings of historical mysteries.
  
• J.K. Markert talks about dissociative identity disorder in fiction. 
• Michael Idov talks about realism in spy fiction.
  
• Mel Harrison explains how his career as a US diplomat inspires his crime fiction. 
• Hannah Martian explains how she went from sports journalist to thriller author.
  
• Sarah Yost explains why art experts make great fictional detectives. 
• Olivia Rutigliano talks about the popularity of Victorian lady detectives.
  
• Molly Templeton shares some ideas how readers can support books and the literary community. 
  

  

Best of 2024:

• Jake Kerridge shares his favourite crime novels and thrillers of 2024.
• Karen MacPherson shares her favourite mystery novel of 2024. 
• Stephanie Merry shares her favourite thrillers of 2024.
  
• The Chicago Public Library shares its favourite mysteries and thrillers of 2024.
• Audible shares their favourite mysteries and thrillers of 2024.
  

 

Film and TV: 

• Whitney Friedlander calls Get Millie Black is HBO’s latest hyper-specific whodunit
  
• Ann Michelle Harris calls Time Cut a weirdly addictive slasher, murder mystery, time travel homage to old-school Disney Channel movie storytelling  
• Keith Roysdon calls the TV series Outer Banks a Hardy Boys for a new generation.
  
• Lucy Mangan calls The Listeners a nuanced thriller and delicate drama. 
• Cath Clarke calls Pimpinero: Blood and Oil a slow-paced road thriller about South American border smugglers 
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the Irish language crime drama Crá.
  
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on season 5 of Fargo.
  
• Lara Rosales shares her thoughts on the latest episode of The Equalizer.
• Diana Keng shares her appreciation for the character of Madeline Matlock in the Matlock reboot.
  
• Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne share their favourite caper movies.
• Bonnie Kistler revisits the 1944 suspense film Gaslight and its cultural impact. 
• Leah Blaine revisits the 1979 action thriller The Warriors and praises its female characters. 
  
• Chloe Walker revisits the 1995 neo-noir film  Devil in a Blue Dress and the 2003 neo-noir film Out of Time.
• Germain Lussier interviews Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald, and Hayden Schlossberg, creators of Cobra Kai. 
• Lisa O'Carroll reports that Michael McConville, son of Jean McConville who was abducted and murdered by the IRA in 1972, is infuriated by the portrayal of his mother's murder in Say Nothing.
  
• Matt Schimkowitz reports that PBS writers in several US cities have voted to authorise a strike. 
  

 

Comments on Cross: 

• Laura Miller declares that Cross nails the one thing that James Patterson got right
• Manuel Betancourt declares that "the Fanboy", the serial killer from Cross, is absurd even by the standards of serial killer dramas and a wasted opportunity to say something interesting. 
• Diana Keng shares her thoughts on episode 5 of Cross. 
• Diana Keng shares her thoughts on episode 6 of Cross. 
• Diana Keng shares her thoughts on episode 7 of Cross.  
• Emily Longeretta interviews Ryan Eggold who plays the serial killer "the Fanboy" in Cross.
  

 

Comments on Cleddau: 

• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the penultimate episode of series 1 of Cleddau.
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the final episode of series 1 of Cleddau.
  

 

Comments on Based on a True Story: 

•  Saloni Gajjar calls Based On A True Story a true-crime satire that chooses shock value over substance. 
• Melody McCune shares episode by episode reviews of season 2 of Based on a True Story.
  

 

Comments on Red One:

• Jarrod Jones declares that Red One stuffs its stocking with hot air and little else 
• Leah Schnelbach declares that there’s not enough coal in the world for Red One
  
• Jordan Moreau interviews Kristofer Hivju, who plays Krampus in Red One.  
• Rebecca Rubin reports that Red One underperformed at the box office.
  

 

Comments on The Penguin: 

• Chris Jenkins shares his thoughts on season 1 of The Penguin. 
• C.T. Phipps shares his thoughts on season 1 of The Penguin. 
  
• Elijah Gonzales declares that The Penguin’s populist rhetoric hits a little too close to home
• Nadira Goffe explains why Joker: Folie à Deux bombed, while The Penguin was a massive hit. 
• Sam Adams interviews Lauren LeFranc, showrunner of The Penguin. 

  

Writing, publishing and promotion: 

• Adrian Tomine talks about building a creative career.
  
• Victoria Strauss notes that scammers are impersonating Writer Beware.
• Ella Creamer reports that Harper Collins will allow some books published by them to be used to train AI systems, though they at least ask the authors for permission and compensate them.
  
• Ella Creamer reports that lay people preferred poems written by AI to poems written by humans in a recent study.

 

Awards:

•  The shortlist for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals has been announced.
  

 

Interviews: 

• Deborah Kalb interviews Bonnie Kistler.
• Paula Gail Benson interviews Saul Golubcow
  

 

Reviews:

• Gayle Surrette reviews Passions in Death by J.D. Robb 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Rare Danger by Beverly Jenkins
• Pam Guynn reviews Tooth and Claw by Craig Johnson
• Mandie Griffiths reviews The Kitchen by Simone Buchholz, translated by Rachel Ward
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Death Rites by Sarah Ward  
• Jen Lucas reviews Revolver Road by Christi Daugherty
• Sandra Mangan reviews Murder Town by Shelley Burr 
  
• Ray Palen reviews Murder Town by Shelley Burr 
• Jode Millman reviews To Die For by David Baldacci. 
• Jen Lucas reviews The Night Gate by Peter May
  
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Night House by Jo Nesbo. 
  
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Lake of Lost Girls by Katherine Greene 
• Abbe Wiesenthal reviews Black Storms by Teresa Solana, translated by Peter Bush. 
• Martin Edwards reviews Against the Grain by Peter Lovesey
  
• Dave's Pulp and Mystery Reads reviews Quarry’s Return by Max Allan Collins 
• Matt Pechey reviews Safecracker by Jesse DeRoy
  
• Mary Picken reviews A Thief’s Blood by Douglas Skelton
  
• Cathy Akers-Jordan reviews We Three Queens by Rhys Bowen.
• Mary Picken reviews White City by Dominic Nolan 
• Tony R. Cox reviews Murder At Whitechapel Road Station by Jim Eldridge  
  
• Carol Westron reviews The Soho Murder by Mike Hollow  
  
• Robin Agnew reviews Murder in the Ranks by Kristi Jones. 
• Lesa Holstine reviews Murder in the Ranks by Kristi Jones. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews The Secret War Of Julia Child by Diana R. Chambers 
  
• Alexander Larman reviews The Enigma Girl by Henry Porter
  
• Robin Agnew reviews All’s Fair in Love and Treachery by Celeste Connally.
• Mary Picken reviews The Christmas Stocking Murders by Denzil Meyrick
• Carol Westron reviews A St Ives Christmas Mystery by Deborah Fowler 
• Jen Lucas reviews Yule Island by Johana Gustawsson, translated by David Warriner 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Blue Christmas Bones by Carolyn Haines 
• Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Jig is Up by Lisa Q. Mathews
• Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Going to the Dogs by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Pierre Wynne.
  
• Kate Ayers reviews The Author's Guide to Murder by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig and Karen White 
• The Mystery Review Crew reviews The Great Gatsby Murder Case by David Finkle  
• James Davis Nicoll reviews The Peacekeeper  by B. L. Blanchard 
  
• Marlene Harris reviews The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong 
  
• BOLO Books reviews Midsummer Mysteries, edited by Martin Edwards

 

Classics reviews:

• Martin Edwards revisits the 1928 Anthony Bathurst mystery The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye by Brian Flynn.
  
• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1932 Ronald Camberwell mystery Murder in the Squire’s Pew by J. S. Fletcher
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1941 mystery The Chuckling Fingers by Mabel Seeley
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1952 mystery The Missing Heiress by Bernice Carey 
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1952 Anthony Bathurst mystery The Ring Of Innocent by Brian Flynn 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1960 crime novel Satan's Mate by G.H. Smith.
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1973 gangster novel The Vendetta by Nick Quarry a.k.a. Marvin Albert.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1975 collection The Animal-Lover’s Book of Beastly Murder  by Patricia Highsmith 
• Megan Abbott and Polly Stewart revisit the 1983 noir novel Angels by Denis Johnson.
  
• Olivia Rutigliano revisits the 1984 noir novel Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer and its 1987 film adaptation.
  

 

Con and event reports:

• Lesa Holstine reports about an author event featuring Craig Johnston at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona.

 

Research: 

• Ajay Close talks about coming of age in Britain in the 1970s, when the Yorkshire Ripper roamed the streets and second wave feminism was taking off.
• Frederico Varese talks about encountering a Russian money-lending gang in the 1990s. 
• Graham Brown discusses how the criminal justice system might deal with artificial intelligences.
• Justin Jackson reports that a recent study reports that experiences designed to scare people such as haunted houses or ghost train rides may actually be beneficial to your health.  

 

Free online fiction: 

• "Here’s to Something" by Kenneth M. Gray in Punk Noir Magazine 
  
• "The Painting" by Nick Manchester in Punk Noir Magazine
• "Five Facts About My Twin Sister" by Nora Ray in Guilty.  
• "The Read" by Preston Lang in Tough. 
  

 

Trailers and videos: 

• Watch a trailer for series 3 of Dalgliesh.