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December 5, 2016
Media Murder for Monday
AWARDS
The Los Angeles Film Critics Awards were handed out last night. Among crime drama nods, The Best Actress winner was Isabelle Huppert for her role in Elle, playing a successful businesswoman who gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.
The New York Film Critics Circle had previously announced their choices for the best films/performances on December 1, with Isabelle Huppert again a big winner. Best non-fiction film (documentary) was also won by O.J.: Made in America, which previously won four Critics’ Choice documentary awards for feature, limited doc series, director, and sports doc.
The 22nd annual Critics' Choice Awards were announced late last week by The Broadcast Film Critics Association. Among the multiple-nominated films were the crime dramas Hell or High Water and Jason Bourne. For a complete listing, check out this link via Hollywood Reporter.
MOVIES
Jodie Foster has signed on to star in Drew Pearce's directorial debut, Hotel Artemis, which is based on an original script by Pearce (Iron Man 3 and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation). The project is being produced by Ink Factory, the London-based production company that most recently worked on The Night Manager, the critically acclaimed miniseries based on John le Carré’s novel. Although few details have been released about the plot of Hotel Artemis, the thriller is set in the near-future and creates “its own distinctive crime universe," with Foster taking on the role of "The Nurse."
Sons Of Anarchy actor Tommy Flanagan is reuniting with his co-star Charlie Hunnam in the upcoming Michael Noer-directed remake of Papillon, based on the classic 1973 film that starred Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen. Written by Aaron Guzikowski, the film (which also stars Rami Malek) is a modern retelling of the original that was based on the memoirs of convicted felon and fugitive Henri Charriere. Tommy will play a mysterious figure with a dark past that Papillon encounters on his journey.
The Sundance film festival lineup was announced for 2017. The slate includes Crown Heights, based on the true story of a man who devotes his life to proving his best friend innocent of murder; I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, about a depressed woman and her obnoxious neighbor who get in over their heads when trying to avenge a burglary and butting heads with a pack of degenerate criminals; Casting JonBenet, a documentary based on the unsolved murder case of the child beauty queen; The Force, a cinema verite´ look at the long-troubled Oakland Police Department; The Nile Hilton Incident, where Police Detective Noredin is handed the case of a murdered singer and realizes the investigation concerns the power elite close to the President’s inner circle, and more.
TELEVISION
Salzman and Canada's Thunderbird Films are bringing Faye Kellerman's best-selling Decker-Lazarus crime fiction series to the small screen. The production house optioned Kellerman's debut novel, The Ritual Bath, which is set in the world of Orthodox Judaism in the California hills and features LAPD detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, a widowed mother who witnesses a brutal crime and helps solve it.
NBC has put in development an hourlong procedural drama from Mike Daniels (Sons of Anarchy), described as "a character-driven police procedural with an emotional spin." The untitled drama explores the complex personal life of a former cop and mother who returns to the force to solve the murder of her detective husband.
Grimm executive producers Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner had previously announced they were working on another drama project at NBC and Universal TV, the network and studio behind the supernatural cop drama starring David Giuntoli. They've since announced that Giuntoli will also star in the action adventure mystery that's centered around a group of D.C. grad students who accidentally uncover a 40-year-old secret that leads them to attempt to unravel an unsolved murder, find hidden blood money, and avoid being killed by an assassin from the past.
Sex And The City and White Collar alum Willie Garson is set to co-star in and co-executive produce an hourlong untitled drama at NBC that's based on a story by Garson. It centers on an idealistic young former foster child who now works as a paralegal while advocating for those in need from all walks of life.
Daniel Brühl (Rush, Inglorious Bastards) and Luke Evans (The Girl on The Train, The Hobbit trilogy) have been cast in key roles in The Alienist, TNT’s upcoming straight-to-series drama based on the international best-selling novel by Caleb Carr. The psychological thriller is set in the Gilded Age of New York City in 1896 when a series of haunting, gruesome murders of boy prostitutes leads newly appointed Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt to call upon criminal psychologist (aka alienist) Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Brühl) and newspaper reporter John Moore (Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret.
Michael Mosley has signed on for a regular role in the 10-episode Netflix crime drama Seven Seconds, the new project from The Killing creator Veena Sud. Based on the 2013 Russian action movie The Major, the story follows tensions between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City after a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop. Mosley will play Joe "Fish" Rinaldi, a seasoned New Jersey detective assigned to work with prosecutor KJ Harper (still to be cast). Patrick Murney will portray Gary Wilcox, a cop working with Diangelo (David Lyons), Osorio (Raul Castillo), and newcomer Peter Jablonski (Beau Knapp) on the Narcotics squad in Jersey City.
BBC One recently aired a new documentary titled Serial Killers: The Women Who Write Crime Fiction. The show featured prominent crime writers Val McDermid, Patricia Cornwell, Martina Cole, husband-and-wife author team Nicci French, Sarah Phelps, and Paula Hawkins in interview with presenter Alan Yentob. The program also explored why readers of crime are mostly women and more often than not, the writers are too. No information yet on a possible PBS or BBC America broadcast date.
Quantico is moving from its Sunday slot to Mondays starting in January as part of ABC's midseason schedule, taking over the time slot currently occupied by freshman drama Conviction that ends its run after 13 episodes. Meanwhile, Quantico cast members explained the midseason finale's twist and cliffhanger to the Hollywood Reporter.
CBS announced its scheduling plans for winter and spring 2017, with Ransom, a hostage negotiator procedural, kicking off the network's new midseason lineup on Sunday, Jan. 1 before moving to its regular time on Saturday, Jan. 7. Training Day, a reboot of the Oscar-winning corrupt cop drama, premieres Thursday, Feb. 2, with Bill Paxton taking on the Denzel Washington role as the crooked veteran detective and Justin Cornwell in the Ethan Hawke role as his idealistic young partner. Katherine Heigl's new show Doubt will premiere Wednesday, Feb. 15, with the former Grey's Anatomy star playing an attorney who starts to fall for her client, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend 24 years prior.
A trailer was released for the upcoming true-crime documentary Beware the Slenderman (premiering Jan. 23), which tells the tale of the notorious 2014 stabbing of a 12-year-old Wisconsin girl by two of her classmates. The accused girls told authorities they did it to appease the Slender Man, a fictional ghoul taken from a popular horror-story collective online.
The Hollywood Reporter put together a slide show of all known TV shows that are ending in 2017.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
The newest Crime and Science Radio podcast featured "Naming The Unidentified, Finding The Missing" : An Interview With J. Todd Matthews, Director of Case Management and Communications for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.
Steve Cavanagh and Luca Veste, hosts of the podcast Two Crime Writers and a Microphone, recently welcomed Ayo Onatade from Shots Magazine and UK crime author Mark Billingham.
A Stab in the Dark host Mark Billingham is joined in the studio by The Poison Tree and Broadchurch author Erin Kelly and creator of Death In Paradise Robert Thorogood to discuss the art of adaptation. Paul Hirons also spoke with writer and producer Adam Hamdy who explained the top 5 tips he uses to adapt crime fiction.
Author Debbi Mack interviewed crime fiction author Simon Wood on the Crime Cafe podcast.
The Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense Radio Show featured guest author Linda Davis.
On BBC Radio online, you can listen to the first episode of "The Cinderella Killer," based on Simon Brett's novel. Bill Nighy stars as Brett's protagonist Charles Paris, a charming alcoholic actor who often takes on detection by assuming a variety of roles.
Hat tip to Elizabeth Foxwell for posting Professor Bruce Campbell's William & Mary Tack Faculty Lecture on "The Detective Is (Not) a Nazi: German Pulp Fiction."
In EQMM’s April 1947 issue, Harry Kemelman, creator of the best-selling Rabbi David Small series, saw print for the first time as the winner of a special prize for best first story in EQMM’s second annual worldwide short-story contest. His story "The Nine Mile Walk,' is featured in the monthly EQMM podcast series, read by another author whose first story appeared in EQMM, book reviewer Steve Steinbock.
The Invisible Event blog paid tribute to John Dickson Carr on the 110th anniversary of the author's birth and noted that you can listen to the first 10 episodes of "Murder by Experts," a radio drama project Carr was involved with, for free at Archive.org.
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December 4, 2016
Your Sunday Music Treat
If you watched certain tearjerker scenes from the movies Platoon and The Elephant Man, you are quite familiar with the "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber, which was arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11 and has been called "the saddest piece of music ever written." However, Barber also later arranged the work in what may be my favorite version, the a cappella setting using the Latin text "Agnus Dei." You can read the New York times on this piece "for the ages" here. And here's the work performed by the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge:
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December 2, 2016
FFB: A Country Kind of Death
Mary McMullen (1920-1986), a/k/a Mary Reilly Wilson, had an interesting writing pedigree. Her mother was the distinguished and prolific mystery writer, Helen Reilly, which brings up interesting comparisons between them and the mother/daughter duo, Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark, although I daresay the Clarks are more successful financially. Mary McMullen, however, also had a sister, Ursula Curtiss, who was a suspense author, and her uncle James Kieran wrote mystery fiction (yet another family member, John F. Kieran, was a sportswriter and long-time panelist on the1940s radio program Information Please).
McMullen had early success in 1952 when she received the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Stranglehold. But she didn't publish another novel for over two decades until 1974, and then, in a flurry of activity, cranked out 18 additional mysteries in just 12 years.
Her stories often drew on the advertising and fashion worlds she was familiar with and her settings included sleepy hamlets, but her writing was neither cozy nor noir, a hybrid which reviewer Steve Lewis called "domestic malice" with a lot of bite. A Country Kind of Death from 1975 starts out as an idyllic summer for the young daughters of the Keane family who pass the two months their mother is off in Europe inventing murder stories, not surprising since their father is a crime writer. But when the stories become all too real, everyone including the police wants to believe a mysterious death was an accident, since the alternative is an unthinkable crime committed by someone in their midst.
McMullen's writing is filled with details that evoke a distinctive sense of place and she also possessed a wry, ironic humor and enjoyed poking fun at pretentious people. The Keane family is a semi-Bohemian clan and neighbors to the unfortunate Mrs. Mint, who
"did not allow the Keanes or her stepchildren or any but the most honored visitors to use the front way, as the door opened directly into her living room, a perfect marvel of cleanliness, cretonne, tautly pinned-on antimacassars, rubber plants so dusted and oiled as to seem artificial, china figurines, tapestry-covered footstools, and fat hard upholstered furniture. There were no books, no magazines, newspapers, or ashtrays in the room and it was always kept dark, the cretonne curtains drawn, the shades down, so that the sun couldn't fade its splendors."
Patrick Keane, brother of the crime-writer father and a successful playwright, plays a crucial role in the denouement and has his own wry observations about the literary and entertainment circles the Keanes run in:
"The dinner party had gone predictably, from the shrimp dip to the cold sliced ham and turkey to Elaine Bonner attacking him fiercely with hot gray eyes and half-bared breasts whenever her husband's back was turned, to the local bon vivant who probably told the same long anecdotes at every Bedford party to the three women who told him they adored his plays to Johnny Coe, urged finally to the piano, and singing, 'Oh Oh Oriole' and 'Pray Forget Me,' this last bringing tears and a meaning look at Patrick to Elaine's eyes."
The strength of this particular novel by McMullen is less in the whodunnit and police procedural aspects which are minimized and more in the characterizations and how human failings and foibles knit closely together to create tragedy.
All of McMullen's books are out of print, although several of her works were included in The Detective Book Club subscription series of 3-in-1 (and some 2-in-1 and singles) reprinted novels by various authors distributed from the early forties onward by publisher Walter J. Black.
December 1, 2016
Mystery Melange
The Mystery Writers of America named Max Allan Collins and Ellen Hart as the 2017 Grand Masters, an honor that celebrates "the pinnacle of achievement in mystery writing and was established to acknowledge important contributions to this genre, as well as for a body of work that is both significant and of consistent high quality." MWA also announced the winner of the Raven Award for "outstanding achievement in the mystery field outside the realm of creative writing," which will be presented to Dru Ann, as well as the winner of the Ellery Queen Award for "outstanding writing teams and outstanding people in the mystery-publishing industry" to be given to Neil Nyren, Editor-in-Chief of G.P. Putnam's Sons. They will be honored at the 71st annual Edgar Awards Banquet in New York City on April 27.
The Mystery People's Scott Montgomery and Molly Odintz will join other community voices for the panel discussion "Social Justice in Crime Fiction" at a KAZI Book Review event on December 3 at Huston-Tilletson University in Austin, Texas.
The Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore in Delray Beach, Florida, is getting ready to celebrate its tenth anniversary with a grand celebration on Friday, January 8, 2017, from 6-9 p.m. The party will feature appearances by authors Hank Phillippi Ryan, Charles Todd, and PJ Parrish, and the public is invited to "chat with your favorite authors, have some wine and munchies, and get an autograph or two or ten."
The American Literature Association Symposium "Criminal America: Reading, Studying and Teaching American Crime Fiction" has announced a call for papers on the topic. The event will take place March 3-4 in Chicago and feature as Keynote Speaker author and professor Charles Rzepka of Boston University (read more about one of his works here). The organizers also hope to produce an edited volume made up of the best work presented at the conference.
It's not too early to be planning your crime fiction conference schedule for next year, and St. Hilda's College Mystery and Crime Conference 2017 announced the lineup for the UK conference scheduled for August 18-20. Natasha Cooper will take the Chair with featured conference speakers including Val McDermid, Andrew Taylor, and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, "Queen of Nordic Noir." (HT to Shots Magazine.)
The holiday issue of Mystery Scene Magazine features Oline Cogdill's interview of Lee Child; a profile of cozy mystery author Joanne Fluke; an essay by Lawrence Block who considers the series character; a look at a new radio dramatization of the entire Sherlock Holmes canon, and much more.
Rap Sheet blogger J. Kingston Pierce chose his list of the "10 year's finest criminous tales" for Kirkus Reviews.
The North Carolina Literary Awards included the Sir Walter Raleigh Award won by Terry Robers' That Bright Land, a novel described as a "Southern Gothic thriller" following the hunt for a serial killer in the North Carolina mountains after the Civil War. Established in 1952, the award has gone to such writers as Reynolds Price, Fred Chappell, Lee Smith, Doris Betts, Charles Frazier, Kay Gibbons and John Ehle.
If you're an unpublished Canadian crime fiction author, here's an opportunity for you to gain a publication credit: the Mesdames of Mayhem are planning their third collection of crime fiction stories, which will be released next fall, with one spot reserved for a story by a Canadian writer who has never been published in the crime fiction genre. For more information and submission deadlines, check out this link.
A newly-discovered HG Wells ghost story is to be published for first time in The Strand magazine. "The Haunted Ceiling," a macabre story of strange goings-on in an old house, is thought to have been written in the mid-1890s.
Fans of the TV crime thriller The Blacklist may be happy to know that the first graphic novel based on the series has been released. Penned by Steve Piziks, the graphic novel story reveals a new Blacklister known as The Bodysnatcher, who "brings abduction to a whole new level and into an art form."
A website founded by the author of the most authoritative book on D.B. Cooper, Geoffrey Gray, is releasing hundreds of FBI investigative documents related to the case. The Cooper case is one of America's most enduring mysteries — the only unsolved hijacking of a commercial airliner in the country's history by a man known as "D.B. Cooper."
If you're a devotee of the reading challenges that pop up toward the end of each calendar year, check out this vintage mystery scavenger hunt for something a little bit different.
A recording of one of the world’s earliest audiobooks has been discovered by a Canadian collector. The 1935 recording of an audio version of the novella "Typhoon" by Joseph Conrad was the world’s first audiobook of a long general fiction work, although a Bible recording and one of an Agatha Christie mystery novel had already been released.
Mystery author Sandra Balzo is the latest "victim" to take the Page 69 Test, sharing an excerpt from her new novel To The Last Drop.
A new bookstore themed hostel awaits your visit to Japan: Book and Bed has branches in Tokyo and Kyoto and features "5,000 books for guests to read, a special bar stocked with local beers, and bunks inside the shelves to sleep in."
This week's featured crime poem at the 5-2 is "Detached Member" by Bonnie Stanard.
In the Q&A roundup,the latest 9MM Interview over at Crime Watch showcased Neil Broadfoot chatting about his series featuring journalist Doug McGregor; Erik Arenson took Paul D. Brazill's "Short, Sharp Interview" challenge to discuss his new collection The Throes of Crime; the eBook Nerd Reviews blog snagged author Caytlyn Brooke to talk about her new YA thriller that follows two girls as they fight for their freedom during a high-stakes adventure in the Louisiana swamps; and Alison Gaylin stopped by Shots Magazine to discuss her latest work, What Remains of Me.
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November 28, 2016
Media Murder for Monday
It's a "light" news week due to the Thanksgiving holiday, but here's some of the latest crime drama action making headlines:
MOVIES
Centropolis Entertainment picked up film rights to the spec script Scarletville from screenwriter Jason Young. Described as a thriller in the vein of Blood Simple or Red Rock West, the project centers on a deadly criminal who shows up in the deceptively-quiet, small town of Scarletville, leading a diner owner named Hank to spin a series of dark and twisted stories in order to delay the felon long enough for the law to arrive.
Enrique Murciano is the latest to join the cast of Netflix’s David Ayer-directed film Bright, playing a gang leader named Poison. Will Smith, Joel Egerton and Noomi Rapace also star along with Edgar Ramirez, Lucy Fry and Ike Barinholtz. The project was written by Max Landis and is styled as a "fantasy cop thriller set in a world where human and mythical creatures co-exist."
Sylvester Stallone has walked away from the action film Godforsaken less than two weeks before production was set to begin. He was to play an ex-con who learns that his estranged son has been killed and sets out on a mission to protect his remaining family while also seeking vengeance against his son’s killers.
The sequel to the 2015 surprise box office hit Kingsman: The Secret Service has had a bit of a delay in release date. The Golden Circle was originally supposed to be released on June 16, 2017, but Fox announced it will be delayed until October 6, giving it a spot in the fall schedule away from all the other highly-anticipated blockbusters hitting theaters in the summer.
TELEVISION
ABC has bought the thriller drama Salamander, which is based on the 2012 Belgian series. Salamander centers on a brilliant but misanthropic engineer "who recruits a skeptical female FBI therapist to help him track a mysterious bank robber whose theft of 66 specific safety deposit boxes, belonging to the rich and powerful, sets in motion a series of blackmails that may be linked to a greater conspiracy."
Michael Milligan (SiREN) has booked a recurring role on Fox’s 24: Legacy, the real-time limited series that chronicles a race against the clock to stop a terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Milligan will play Theo Sterling, a new programmer at CTU headquarters described as a strange combination of computer geek and Fifth Avenue chic.
The third season of Gotham will be adding another new face in the form of Dexter alum James Remar, who has signed on to play Frank Gordon when Gotham returns from winter hiatus in 2017. Frank is the long-absent uncle of Jim Gordon who left Gotham after the death of his brother.
Penelope Ann Miller is set to star in Lifetime network’s latest ripped-from-the-headlines TV movie, Prison Break: The Joyce Mitchell Story. The project is inspired by the infamous 2015 jailbreak in upstate New York pulled off by convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat that launched a 21-day manhunt for the pair. Matt was found and killed in the attempt to apprehend him, and Sweat eventually was found and taken into custody.
Ahead of the Season 1 finale on December 10, BBC America has ordered a 10-episode second season of the original scripted series Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency for premiere in 2017. The order will be an increase of two episodes from the freshman year's eight total.
A first look at Uncle Sherlock, perhaps? In a teaser photo released from Season 4 of the Benedict Cumberbatch/Martin Freeman drama Sherlock, the crime-fighting partners are seen with John Watson's wife Mary (Amanda Abbington) and a baby strapped to John's chest. Mary’s pregnancy was announced in the Season 3 finale so the appearance of the baby seems to indicate Season 4 will jump ahead in time a few months.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Noir on the Radio host Greg Barth welcomed crime viction author Elka Ray, a UK/Canadian author and illustrator based in Hoi An, Vietnam.
The Guardian Books podcast investigated Nordic noir with Kati Hiekkapelto and Antti Tuomainen, two of Finland’s rising literary stars.
Alex Dolan, host of The Thrillseekers podcast, chatted with Laura McHugh, the author of The Weight of Blood and Arrowood and winner of the International Thriller Writers Thriller Award and also the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for Best First Novel.
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November 27, 2016
Your Sunday Music Treat
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the birth of Anton Rubenstein. Rubenstein was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (his older brother, Nikolai, founded the Moscow Conservatory). Although best remembered as a pianist and educator, including being the composition teacher of Tchaikovsky, Rubinstein was also a prolific composer, tossing off pieces like this "perpetual motion" Great Etude in C - Op. 23, no. 2 for piano, played here by Michael Ponti:
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Mystery Melange, Thanksgiving Edition
Janet Rudolph has compiled her latest list of Thanksgiving mysteries and crime fiction on her blog Mystery Fanfare. You can also check out last year's list link here.
The Mystery Lovers Kitchen group has posted several Thanksgiving recipes for you to try, from pumpkin crunch cake to Irish cranberry bread to leek pepper biscuits, paleo autumn quiche, and more.
Kings River Life published a couple of Thanksgiving short stories online, "Holiday Summons" by KM Rockwood and "Felony at Farquhar Farms" by Andrew MacRae.
The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards were announced last week, including the winner of the Crime Fiction Book of the Year, The Trespasser by Tana French. Also among the winners, The Ryan Tubridy’s Listener’s Choice went to Liz Nugent for her psychological thriller, Lying In Wait.
Congratulations also to Ann Cleves, who was announced the winner of Iceland Noir's first-ever Honorary Award for Services to the Art of Crime Fiction.
The Washington Post editors chose their "best mystery books and thrillers of 2016," with ten titles in all.
Amazon announced its choice for the "top ten books of 2016," with the year's most-buzzed book The Underground Railroad by Colson Whithead taking the top spot. But also on the list are the thriller titles The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis and Before the Fall by Noah Hawley.
One sad note this week: as many of you may have heard by now, 28-year-old crime fiction author Roger Hobbs, author of the thrillers Ghostman and Vanishing Games, died of an overdose on November 14 in Portland, Oregon. Hobbs was an up-and-coming bright light, becoming the youngest person ever to win a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, in 2013. In 2014 he won the Strand Critics award and was also nominated for the Edgar, Barry, and Anthony awards. In 2015, he became the youngest person ever to win the Maltese Falcon award. Needless to say, our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.
By way of celebrating the Scottish Book Trust's Book Week Scotland taking place from 21 to 27 November, Ion Magazine delved into Scottish crime fiction, a/k/a "targan noir," by taking a look at places and landscapes that inspired them via an interactive map.
Speaking of Scotland, the new book festival Granite Noir, which will take place over two days from February 24, will feature famous literary guests including Denise Mina, Christopher Brookmyre, and Stuart MacBride. As well as Scottish authors, the event will invite Scandinavian crime writers to talk to audiences about their novels and working methods. Visitors will also be able to attend film screenings, workshops.
A lot has been made lately about print vs. ebooks in terms of popularity and where publishing is headed, but as an article on JStor points out, the future of books may be won by ... audio.
Speaking of the future and technology, The Atlantic took a look at the computational tools being used to analyze books’ emotional arcs but so far, the data is unclear as to what they can really find out about literature.
Neil S. Plakcy penned a guest post for Criminal Element, discussing the history of homosexuality in crime fiction and how the trailblazers in the genre inspired his own writing.
Mashable investigated "Film noir, Nancy Drew and the evolution of the aesthetics of mystery."
Bustle rounded up a list of "10 terrifying thrillers for winter guaranteed to keep you up all night."
In the Q&A roundup, Ominimystery News welcomed authors Carl Schmidt to discuss his private eye series and Joe Cosentino to talk about his Jana Lane series; Ian Rankin chatted with the Vancouver Sun about mortality, Rebus, and Scottish crime; The Clarion Ledger welcomed author Beverly Lowry to discuss her new book, Who Killed These Girls? Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders, based on the still unsolved 1991 case of the deaths of four Austin, Texas, girls that has left the families and community without answers for 25 years.
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