CrimeReads Brief: Week of October 21, 2018

THIS WEEK:THIS WEEK: In 1920, Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather, is born.

• The Boom in Boston Noir is 15 years old now and it’s time we decide once and for all who did the worst Boston accent in the history of crime movies. | CrimeReads
• Elmore Leonard’s archives have sold for over $1 million to the University of South Carolina, and Leonard’s ex-wife wants her cut of the proceeds. | Detroit News
• Calling all Halloweenies, horror wimps, and those who like to sleep comfortably through the night: Finally, a list of horror books for you! | Vulture
• We all know what money laundering is, but what about “boodle”? Merriam Webster looks at the origins and usage of the language of vice. | Merriam Webster
• Lawless families, 1920s prosecutors, and library crimes: five true crime books out this October that take us into the complexities of the American criminal(ized) landscape. | CrimeReads
• On Isidore Zimmerman, who spent 24 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, then sued the state of New York. Nathan Ward reports. | CrimeReads
• “The North is a dark place.” Sharon Bolton recommends 10 novels that feature the menacing crags and haunted moors of Northern England. | CrimeReads
• From The Haunting of Hill House to “That Book with the Scary Clown on the Cover that My Mother Tore Off,” Laird Hunt on the classics that got him hooked on horror. | CrimeReads
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in conversation with fellow Sherlockian Lyndsay Faye, on Mycroft Holmes, the multi-dimensional Sherlock, and the power of historical fiction. | CrimeReads
• “We all went in and said, ‘There’s quite a lot of dystopia around isn’t there?'” Val McDermid on judging the Man Booker Prize. | The New York Times
•  “A million dollars and an expensive car…I mean, people have been killed for less.” The tragicomic tale of the porn star who turned to blackmail. | Narratively
• A conversation with writers Megan Abbott, Amelia Gray, and Charles Yu, who write for the TV shows The Deuce,Maniac, and West World, respectively, on what it’s like to write for TV as a novelist. | Vanity Fair
• Karin Slaughter talks feminist thrillers, the art of the twist, crafting complicated family relationships, and taking inspiration from Southern Gothic storytelling traditions. | CrimeReads
• Who is the true villain of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca? Lisa Gabriele on the 2016 election, the misogynist overtones of historical dramas, and a new reading of du Maurier’s classic. | CrimeReads
• From post-war Red Vienna, to 1930s Tokyo, to early-aughts Copenhagen, all the best international crime fiction coming out this October. | CrimeReads
•  “Each detective, alone in the woods, must take her clues, and solve her mysteries for herself.” A look at the incendiary prose of iconic crime writer Sara Gran, from Lisa Levy. | CrimeReads
• William Brodrick, author of the Father Anselm mystery series, on the clergy abuse scandal and the part fiction plays in memorializing and processing trauma. |CrimeReads
•  From Eric Ambler’s Cause for Alarm to Phillip Knightley’s The Second Oldest Profession, Charles Glass recommends five espionage classics ready for a re-read. | CrimeReads
• Maritime historian Eric Jay Dolin on the beginning of the end of piracy in America, and the many creative strategies used by the British to deter piracy in the 18th century. | CrimeReads

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