The International Association of Crime Writers, North America announced this year's Hammett Prize nominees for best crime fiction title of the past year. The finalists include William Boyle, The Lonely Witness; Lisa Unger, Under My Skin; Sam Wiebe, Cut You Down; Lou Berney, November Road; and Robert Olen Butler, Paris in the Dark.
BYT Media announced programming for the New York City edition of Death Becomes Us - A True Crime Festival. The multi-day event is the second edition of the festival, which saw its inaugural program in Washington D.C. in 2018. The program features live podcasts, storytellers, screenings, and author talks, taking place across a variety of venues. It kicks off Tuesday, March 19 with An Evening of Women Who Kill including authors Cara Robertson (The Trial of Lizzie Borden) and Harold Schechter (Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men), with moderator Leah Carroll, author of Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder.
The International Thriller Writer's Sixth Annual Online Thriller School is set to begin March 25. In this eight-week program, instructors will teach an aspect of craft though a Facebook Live video, written materials that include further reading and study suggestions, and an entire week of on-line Q&A with the registered students. Authors expected to participate include Steve Berry, Grant Blackwood, F. Paul Wilson, Hank Phillippi Ryan, David Corbett, Gayle Lynds, James Scott Bell, and Kathleen Antrim. Registration is still open for the course, but attendance is limited.
The EuroNoir conference, to be held at Aalborg University in Denmark September 30 to October 2, has put out a call for papers on the top of the production, distribution, and reception of explicitly transnational European crime narratives. The deadline for submissions is April 15, and you can find out more details via this link at the International Crime Fiction blog.
The Winter Issue of Mystery Scene Magazine is out with a cover feature/interview by Oline Cogdill with author Laura Benedict about her latest suspense novel, The Stranger Inside; there's a profile of Daphne du Maurier's short stories, including the story that led to Alfred Hitchcock's film, The Birds; Michael Mallory has a case to make for Horace McCoy as one of the founding fathers of the hardboiled fiction genre; columnists and reviewers offered up a list of their "Fave Raves," and much more.
Writing for the BBC Online, Nasim Asl took a look at Tartan Noir, the name often given to Scottish crime fiction, trying to discover what makes Aberdeen a criminally good inspiration for writers.
Criminal Element is revisiting every Edgar Award winner for Best Novel with a new posting each Friday up until the Edgar banquet. They kicked things off with the very first winner, 1954's Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay, and will work their way up through the historic list (the Edgar Awards have been around since 1946, but 1954 marked the first time an award was given out for Best Novel).
The latest poem at the 5-2 crime poetry weekly is "Legacy" by Andrée Gendron.
In the Q&A roundup, the Sleuthsayers spoke with retired police officer and crime fiction author Frank Zafiro about his writing, including the River City novels and the Stefan Kopriva series and more; Off the Shelf Books welcomed Kate Rhodes to talk about her latest novel, Ruin Beach, and her Alice Quentin and Ben Kitto series; Hanan Daqqa of the Fairfax County Times interviewed Walter Mosley ahead of his appearance at the Alden Theater there; and Leslie Lindsay chatted with crime writer Cara Hunter about researching and writing her latest psychological thriller, In the Dark.
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