Lee Child returns to Dublin November 16th at the O’Reilly Theatre in conversation with Paul Whittington of the Irish Independent. The event marks the publication of his latest novel, The Midnight Line (the 22nd in the Jack Reacher series). (HT to Crime Always Pays)
Book Week Scotland is launching its first virtual festival this year, with the First Minister and crime writer Val McDermid among those taking part. The festival will feature free digital events between November 27 and December 3, beginning with Crime Writers Play Cluedo on Monday November 27, where bestselling authors McDermid, Stuart MacBride and Doug Johnstone will pit their knowledge of the criminal mind against each other and discuss their own plots and favorite whodunits.
The annual St. Martin's Minotaur/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition (for unpublished manuscripts) is open for submissions, with the winner to receive a publishing contract and advance. You can find all the details via this link, but note that the deadline is January 12, 2018.
Mystery Writers of America NorCal chapter will be hosting an all-day workshop for the indie writer at Rockridge Public Library in Oakland, California on January 27. From research to cover art and promotion, the Indie writer runs a one-person business, and this one-day NorCal academy will covers the nuts and bolts of getting your Indie career moving. It's free and open to the public, albeit with limited seating and priority will given to MWA members.
Public Radio is one of the few places where you can still find book reviews and features about authors. Capital Public Radio, based in Sacramento, CA, also has a series they call Cap Radio Reads, and on January 29, they're featuring attorney-turned-author Alafair Burke, talking about her latest domestic thriller, The Wife.
More "Best of the Year" lists have been released including Amazon's Best Mystery/Thriller titles, with the top nod going for Jane Harper for The Dry. You can check out all Amazon's "best" books here. Also, Kirkus Reviews published their list of the fourteen Best Mysteries and Thrillers for 2017.
Registration is open for the postgraduate MA program, Crime and Gothic Fictions, to be taught at Bath Spa University in the UK. The international and interdisciplinary program will feature texts from Britain, Europe and the Americas, as well as investigating cutting-edge research and relevant theory. There are also optional field trips to exhibitions, film screenings, and other events relevant to the program, and placement opportunities may be available during the annual Captivating Criminality Conference, held at Corsham Court, and at International Gothic Association symposia in the UK. (Hat tip to Shots Magazine)
It appears that everything old really is new again. As The Guardian reports, a lost story by Raymond Chandler, written almost at the end of his life, has the author taking on a different sort of villain to the hardboiled criminals of his iconic Philip Marlowe stories: the US healthcare system.
If you have teen readers in your family who are looking for some fun reads, check out this list from Barnes & Noble about upcoming YA books featuring sleuthing teens.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is "Squares" by Gerard Sarnat.
In the Q&A roundup, Crime Fiction Lover interviewed Icelandic author Lilja Sigurdardottir about the third crime novel in Icelandic, and the first to appear in English, Snare; Criminal Element chatted with Wendy Tyson, author of the bestselling Greenhouse Mystery series featuring former lawyer-turned-farmer Megan Sawyer; Mike Craven, author of the DI Avison Fluke series and the new Washington Poe series, took Paul D. Brazill's "Short, Sharp Interivew"; and the Mystery People welcomed David Hansard to discuss How The Dark Gets In, his second novel featuring Porter Hall.
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