The UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced its shortlists of nominees for nine 2016 Dagger Awards categories, including the list for The Gold Dagger, awarded to the best crime novel of the year:
- Black Widow, by Christopher Brookmyre
- Blood Salt Water, by Denise Mina
- Dodgers, by Bill Beverly
- Real Tigers, by Mick Herron
For lists of all of the nominees, click on over to the official CWA website.
Last week, the finalists for the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel and Best First Novel were announced. The award has been handed out annually since 2010 to honor excellence in crime fiction by New Zealand authors. Competing for Best Crime Novel are:
- Inside The Black Horse by Ray Berard
- Made To Kill by Adam Christpher
- Trust No One by Paul Cleave
- The Legend Of Winstone Blackhat by Tanya Mir
- American Blood by Ben Sanders
Craig Sisterson has a list of all the honorees on his Crime Watch blog.
This year's Bloody Scotland conference is dedicated to the late, great William "Willie" McIlvanney, who started the Tartan Noir revolution long before Ian Rankin's Rebus or Glenn Chandler's Taggart. Writing for the Daily Record, Jane Hamilton explains how McIlvanney set the agenda for Scottish crime fiction and inspired a generation of writers.
In preparation for the Iceland Noir crime festival to be held in November, Crime Fiction Lover offered up an "Iceland Noir Reading List."
Trouble Is Our Business, a new anthology of short stories by leading Irish crime writers, will be published by New Island Books this September. Selected and edited by the crime writer, journalist and blogger Declan Burke, it has a foreword by Lee Child and includes short fiction from: Alex Barclay, Colin Bateman, Ken Bruen, Jane Casey, Paul Charles, Eoin Colfer, John Connolly, Sinead Crowley, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Alan Glynn, Cora Harrison, Declan Hughes, Arlene Hunt, Gene Kerrigan, Brian McGilloway, Patrick McGinley, Adrian McKinty, Eoin McNamee, Stuart Neville, Liz Nugent, Niamh O'Connor, Julie Parsons, Louise Phillips and William Ryan. (HT to Crime Fiction Ireland)
Crime fiction scholar Rosemary Erickson Johnsen penned an essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books on how there's more to Swedish crime fiction than internationally best-selling author Stieg Larsson. As example, she offers up the often overlooked feminist voices of Liza Marklund, Camilla Läckberg, and Helene Tursten who have been "squeezed out of the limelight" by the Larsson juggernaut.
Writing for The Strand Magazine, Maxim Jakubowski compiled a listing of "10 Overlooked Modern Crime Novels."
The featured crime poem at the 5-2 this week is "On the Internet" by David Spicer.
In the Q&A roundup, the Mystery People welcomed Bill Loehfelm to talk about Let The Devil Out, his fourth book featuring New Orleans policewoman Maureen Coughlin; the MP's also chatted with Alison Gaylin about What Remains Of Me, a book they call "one the year’s best novels"; Susan Van Kirk interviewed Judy Penz Sheluk about her new book, Skeletons in the Attic; and Omnimystery News sat down with Jennifer David Hesse about her new legal crime series and its first installment, Midsummer Night's Mischief.
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