The shortlist for the Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year was announced and includes:
Can You Keep A Secret?, Karen Perry
Here and Gone, Haylen Beck
Let the Dead Speak, Jane Casey
One Bad Turn, Sinéad Crowley
There was a Crooked Man, Cat Hogan
The Therapy House, Julie Parsons
On November 18 at the Waterstone's bookstore in Manchester, UK, a Crime Fiction Masterclass will offer advice and tutorials from crime experts including novelist, TV writer, and creative writing tutor, Erin Kelly; senior police officer, writer, and adviser to author Peter James, Graham Bartlett; Crime Scene Investigator and author of The Real CSI, Kate Bendelow; forensic pathologist and adviser to TV's Silent Witness and Midsomer Murders, Dr Stuart Hamilton; and novelist and practicing criminal lawyer, Neil White.
Indies First Small Business Saturday will be held on Saturday, November 25, and authors and local celebrities will volunteer at events in bookstores across the U.S., with publishers also offering special terms on books and exclusives. To find events close to you and help support independent bookstores, head on over to this interactive map.
The Tampa Bay Times asked bestselling crime fiction writers Ace Atkins, Tim Dorsey, and Lisa Unger what true crime they would write about if they wrote a nonfiction true crime book. All three authors will be part of the upcoming Times Festival of Reading November 11 at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.
As the Sisters in Crime organization continues to celebrate its 30th anniversary, founder Sara Paretsky spoke with the Chicago Review of Books about the group's origins, obstacles, and offerings for women - and even men - who write and read crime fiction.
Author, editor, and blogger Martin Edwards notes some of the upcoming releases from the British Library's Classic Crime series that are worth keeping on your radar.
Our digital devices are proving to be a boon to modern police detection, but they may also pose a security threat to innocent users.
Amazon-owned audiobook platform Audible is offering up a freebie when you sign up for a 30-day trial: Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection narrated by the inestimable, all 71 hours and 58 minutes of it. In addition to narrating duties, Fry also provides introductions to each of the four novels and the five sets of short stories.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is "Confidence Man" by Peter M. Gordon. And, as Kevin Tipple notes on his blog, 5-2 editor Gerald So is actively seeking new poem submissions for December and beyond.
In the Q&A roundup, the Sons of Spade blog welcomed Ed Robinson, author of the Trawler Trash series featuring Meade Breeze; Criminal Element chatted with Linda Fairstein, author of the Alexandra Cooper novels and the Devlin Quick Mystery series for children, and C.E. also sat down with Ellen Crosby, author of the recently-published The Vineyard Victims; Omnioracious snagged Lee Child to talks about opioids, Jack Reacher, and The Midnight Line; Crime by the Book spoke with Pierre Lemaitre, the author behind the psychological thriller, Blood Wedding and the newly-released Three Days and a Life; and Omni Mystery News had a Q&A with Sheila Lowe, whose seventh mystery in her Claudia Rose Forensic Handwriting series, Written Off, is hot off the press.
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