Crime Fiction Links of the Week for April 7, 2018

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 Ordeal by Innocence, tributes to Steve Bochco, The Terror, Homeland and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Molly Odintz shares her appreciation for the Bernie Gunther novels by the late Philip Kerr. 
• Ayo Onatade remembers Mickey Spillane for his 100th birthday.
• Jamie Bernthal revisits Henry Carstairs' 1945 mystery novel Black Burying.
• Ananyo Bhattacharya revisits Philip K. Dick's 1968 science fiction mystery novel Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? for its fiftieth anniversary.  
• Gordon McAlpine talks about the curious relationship between Sherlock Holmes and gentleman thief Arsene Lupin.
• Sarah Weinman remembers Howard Haycraft, the first great critic of the mystery genre.
• Rebecca Romney shares some pulpy paperback covers of classic mystery novels.
• Steph Coelho shares fifteen truth that people who are obsessed with true crime will get.
  

Film and TV:

• Dwyer Murphy shares his essential crime TV shows of April 2018. 
• James Donaghy shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Homeland. 
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of Homeland.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Americans.
• Farid Ul-Haq shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Alienist.
• Garrick Webster looks ahead at the new season of the Belgian crime drama Salamander. 
• Karen Han declares that The Terror may be the scariest series on TV, but that it is not a classic horror show. 
• Hannah Jane Parkinson uses Steven Soderbergh's thriller Unsane as an example for how the portrayal of mental illness in films is slowly imporiving.
• Stuart Heritage wonders whether the true crime drama The Assasination of Gianni Versace has been a disappointment.
• Actor Bill Maynard, best known for his role in the long running British cozy crime drama Heartbeat, has died aged 89.

Comments on Ordeal by Innocence:

• Lucy Mangan calls Ordeal by Innocence a seamless adaptation of Agatha Christie's eponymous 1958 novel. 
• Rupert Hawksley declares that Hercule Poirot would be absolutely terrified by the latest TV adaptation of Ordeal by Innocence.
• Jeff Robson claims that the cast of Ordeal by Innocence is so vile that it is difficult to care who did it.
• Michael Hogan calls Ordeal by Innocence a gripping mystery that was well worth the wait.
• Maev Kennedy reports about the troubled production history of Ordeal by Innocence.
• Julia Hunt shares some viewer reactions to Ordeal by Innocence.
• Samuel Fishwick interviews Christian Cooke, one of the stars of Ordeal by Innocence. 
• Susan Swarbick interviews Anna Chancellor, one of the stars of Ordeal by Innocence.

 Tributes to Steve Bochco:

• Steve Bochco, creator of the TV crime dramas Hill Street Blues, LA Law and NYPD Blue, has died aged 74.
• Fred Barbach remembers Steve Bochco.
  

Awards:

• The winners of the 2018 Lefty Awards have been announced.
• The nominations for the 2018 Bafta TV Awards have been announced. 
• The finalists for the 2018 Hugo Awards have been announced.
• The finalists for the 1943 Retro Hugo Awards have been announced.
• The shortlist for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Awards has been announced. 
• 17-year-old Malachi Jones has won the prestigious Gold Medal Portfolio at the 2018 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
  

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Kameron Hurley declares that writing is hard and that's okay. 
• Lauren Sapala explains why writers are having so many problems getting non-writers to understand them. 
• Jheelam Dutta Roy talks about writing well, when English is not your first langage.
• Erik Hane discusses the flood of novels inspired by the election of Donald Trump that he has received and wonders what the definitive novels about the Trump era will look like.
  

Interviews:

• Molly Odintz interviews Eva Dolan.
• Tony R. Cox interviews Sarah Ward.
• Joy Kluver interviews Leigh Russell.
• The Quiet Knitter interviews Derek Farrell.
• Alex Segura and William Boyd interview each other.
  

Reviews:

• Jen Lucas reviews The Woman in the Woods by John Connolly.
• Liz Barnsley reviews Persons Unknown by Susie Steiner. 
• Catherine Turnbull reviews Class Murder by Leigh Russell. 
• Catherine Turnbull also reviews Panic Room by Robert Goddard.
• Hooked From Page One reviews Hangman by Daniel Cole. 
• Marina Sofia reviews Weeping Waters by Karen Brynard, translated by Maya Fowler and Isobel Dixon. 
• Cleo Bannister reviews Turn a Blind Eye by Vicky Newham. 
• Sandra Mangan also reviews Turn a Blind Eye by Vicky Newham.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews The Greek Wall by Nicolas Verdan, translated by W. Donald Wilson.
• Vicki Weisfeld reviews In Strangers' Houses by Elizabeth Mundy.
• Alexander Lahrman reviews Macbeth by Jo Nesbo.
  

Crowdfunding:

• Murdered by Clerks, a collection of in-depth looks at some of the most interesting cases found in the files of medieval coroners, is looking for funding.
  

Con reports:

• Jessica Santina reports about the Left Coast Crime convention in Reno, Nevada.
• Skulduggery in Stowmarket, a crime writing festival in Suffolk, UK, has announced its program.
  

Research:

• Eric Williamson maps the development of the death penalty in the US.
• Tori Telfer talks about the glasses worn by serial killers. 
• Eugenia Bone talks about the decomposition of corpses.
• Jocelyn Shears discusses the unexpected dangers posed by Victorian mourning veils.
• David Grossman reports that in China, traffic violators are identified via facial recognition software and fined by text message.
  

Free online fiction:

• Part 1 of "Devil in Disguise" by Nick Swain in Crimson Streets.
• "Dating Today" by Patrick Whitehurst in Shotgun Honey.
• "For the Birds" by Bruce Harris at Akashic Books.
  

Odds and ends:

• Watch a trailer for Traffik.
• Watch a trailer for Johnny English Strikes Again.