Sisters in Crime Australia announced the winners of this year's Davitt Awards at the annual awards dinner this past weekend. Best Adult Crime Novel was won by And Fire Came Down by Emma Viskic; the Readers' Choice winner was Force of Nature by Jane Harper; Best Debut, The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey; Best Non-fiction Book, Whiteley on Trial by Gabriella Coslovich; Best Young Adult, Ballad for a Mad Girl by Vikki Wakefield; and Best Children’s Novel, The Turnkey by Allison Rushby. The awards are named after Ellen Davitt, author of Australia’s first mystery novel Force and Fraud (1865) and as of 2018, are sponsored by Swinburne University of Technology.
Poe Baltimore, in partnership with La Cité Development, will host the first International Edgar Allan Poe Festival and Awards on Oct. 6-7. It's hoped the free two-day festival at the Poe House and Museum will help inaugurate the redevelopment of the Poppleton neighborhood where Edgar Allan Poe once lived. Events will include live performances, poetry readings, vendors, booksellers, and food. Although not much information is available regarding the "award" part of the festival title, it's said to honor the next generation of writers and artists continuing Poe's legacy.
The Detroit Free Press has an emotional profile of Aunt Agathas Mystery Bookstore, which is saying its final goodbyes as it closes after 26 years.
On his blog The Rap Sheet, J. Kingston Pierce reviewed Mickey Spillane's early Mike Hammer thriller Killing Town, which was only recently rediscovered and published.
In the Guardian, Nicci Gerrard and her husband, Sean French, who write psychological thrillers as Nicci French, share tips about writing with a partner with the "new pseudonym on the block," Ambrose Parry – composed of crime writer Chris Brookmyre and his wife, Dr. Marisa Haetzman.
You may not be able to make it in person, but you can take a brief online tour of Agatha Christie’s House in Devon, UK, courtesy of Bookriot.
If you'd like something of a primer on international crime fiction, the New York Times posted a listing of books organized by continents and countries.
The latest poem at the 5-2 crime poetry weekly is "My Way" by Caz Potterton.
In the Q&A roundup, Louise Candlish stopped by the Criminal Element to chat about new novel, Our House; Publishers Weekly spoke with Lou Berney about his new thriller November Road in which a woman determined to start over, links up in late 1963 with a mob fixer who’s involved in the JFK assassination; NPR chatted with David Joy about his new novel The Line That Held Us, described as "noir in Appalachia" that begins with a terrible accident; and the Columbus Dispatch interviewed Lisa Scottoline about her writing and books, which include novels centered on the all-female firm in her Rosato and DiNunzio crime series.
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