CrimeFest 2017 announced the winners of its six award categories at the convention’s recent annual gala dinner. The Audible Sounds of Crime Award winner was Clare Mackintosh for I See You, read by Rachel Atkins; eDunnit Award winner was Laura Lippman for Wilde Lake; the H.R.F. Keating Award winner was Barry Forshaw for Brit Noir; the Last Laugh Award winner was Mick Herron for Real Tigers; the Best Crime Novel for Children (8 – 12) winner was Robin Stevens for Murder Most Unladylike: Mistletoe and Murder; and the Best Crime Novel for Young Adults (12 – 16) winner was Simon Mason for Kid Got Shot.
Also revealed at CrimeFest was news that Sam Hepburn won the CWA Margery Allingham Short Story Competition with "Box Clever." Also shortlisted for this honor were Bruce Gaston ("The Case of the Unrepentant Killer"), Ryan Bruce ("Division"), Sam Cunningham ("The Silenced Witness"), and Chris Curran ("The Thought of You"). (HT to the Rap Sheet.)
The 2017 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year, announced this past Saturday, was won by Where Roses Never Die by Gunnar Staalesen tr. Don Bartlett (Orenda Books, Norway). The other finalists included The Exiled by Kati Hiekkapelto tr. David Hackston (Orenda Books; Finland); The Dying Detective by Leif G.W. Persson tr. Neil Smith (Doubleday; Sweden); The Bird Tribunal by Agnes Ravatn tr. Rosie Hedger (Orenda Books, Norway); Why Did You Lie? by Yrsa Sigurđardóttir tr. Victoria Cribb (Hodder & Stoughton, Iceland); and The Wednesday Club by Kjell Westö tr. Neil Smith (MacLehose Press, Finland).
The Crime Writers Association of the UK announced the longlists for its annual CWA Dagger Awards in various categories including the Gold Dagger for best crime novel, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, the International Dagger, Non-Fiction Dagger, Short Story Dagger, Debut Dagger, Endeavour Historical Dagger, and the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger. Shortlists will come later, with the winners ultimately announced at a gala dinner in the fall. (HT Shots Magazine)
The shortlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year for 2016 include: Black Widow by Chris Brookmyre; After You Die by Eva Dolan; Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant; Real Tigers by Mick Herron; Out of Bounds by Val McDermid; and Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner. The winner will be announced July 20 at the annual Harrogate Crime Festival.
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance (MWPA) released its list of finalists for the 2017 Maine Literary Awards, including nods in the Crime Fiction category: Straw Man by Gerry Boyle; Solo Act by Richard J. Cass; and Led Astray by Kate Flora.
Mike Pettit's novel Key West Flashpoint was named the winner of the 2017 Mystery Writers Whodunit Award, to be presented at the 4th Annual Mystery Fest Key West, set for June 16-18 in Key West, Florida.
Crime Fiction/Mystery programming at Queens Book Festival will include Scott Adlerberg moderating an all-star panel of MWA-New York members to discuss the craft of mystery writing, with panelists including Hilary Davidson, Lyndsay Faye, Adam Sternbergh, Dave White, and Alex Segura. Later on, two Queens-based authors, Radha Vatsal and Alex Segura, will talk about their respective mystery series; and at 5 p.m., a Noir at the Bar caps off the day with a stellar lineup of readers, including Sarah Weinman, Jen Conley, Writer Thomas Pluck, Cathi Stoler Author, S.A. Solomon, SJ Rozan, Nick Kolakowski and Scott Adlerberg.
Atlas Obscura has a nice profile of Otto Penzler, the owner of the Mysterious Bookshop (founded 1979) as well as The Mysterious Press.
The Westminster Detective Library has been working to catalog and make available online all the short fiction dealing with detectives and detection published in the United States before 1891. With the help of undergraduate assistants, they've compiled 1,300 such stories from 800 to 10,000 words in length, as well as several poems about detectives. They've even come across detective stories written by Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain and Walter Whitman.
For fans of podcasts like Serial and shows like The Making of a Murderer, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich compiled a listing of "The 10 Best True Crime Books" for Publishers Weekly.
The Spectator investigated Mike Ripley's new book on the world of the modern spy thriller where he describes how stiff Edwardian heroics soon gave way to the lurid antics of James Bond.
Speaking of James Bond, RIP Roger Moore, the suave actor who took on the role of the iconic spy in seven feature films.
Australia’s annual list of most borrowed books was revealed - and crime thrillers dominated.
One of the oldest and most enduring mysteries continues.
Another mystery: why do readers send authors their bad reviews?
If you've ever wondered how forensic artists do their thing, here are "15 secrets of forensic artists" to help enlighten you.
This week, the featured crime poem at the 5-2 is "Righteous Among the Nations" by Charles Rammelkamp.
In the Q&A roundup, the American Booksellers Association spoke with Anthony Horowitz, author of the ABA's #1 Indie Next List Pick for June, Magpie Murders; the Mystery People chatted with David Swinson about his Frank Marr trilogy; the MPs also sat down for a Q&A with Ausma Zehanat-Khan about the latest book in her series featuring a Canadian police duo; Kings River Life queried Dana Cameron about how one of her books, Site Unseen, is being turned into a movie on the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Channel; Crime Fiction Lover welcomed Bill Beverly, whose debut novel Dodgers last year won the Gold Dagger at the CWA awards; and Steve Hamilton joined the Mystery People for a discussion of his latest Nick Mason thriller, the follow-up to The Second Life Of Nick Mason.
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