At the 3rd annual Murder and Mayhem in Chicago event this past weekend, The Paretsky Award, which honors mysteries set in the Midwest, was handed out to bestselling author Scott Turow. Turow is the author of eleven legal thrillers, including Presumed Innocent, made into a 1990 film starring Harrison Ford. The award is named after Sara Paretsky, the award-winning author of the V.I. Warshawski series. (HT to Mystery Fanfare)
The finalists for the 2019 British Book Award were announced this past weekend. The nods in the Crime & Thriller category include:
Our House by Louise Candlish
The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Close to Home by Cara Hunter
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo
In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
Mystery Fest Key West has announced a call for entries for the 2019 Whodunit Mystery Writing Competition. The winner will claim a book-publishing contract with Absolutely Amazing eBooks, free Mystery Fest Key West 2019 registration, airfare, hotel accommodations for two nights and a Whodunit Award trophy to be presented at the 6th Annual Mystery Fest Key West, set for June 28-30 in Key West, Florida. The deadline for entries of the first three pages (maximum 750 words) of a finished, but unpublished manuscript, is April 15, 2019.
The Left Coast Crime is being held this weekend in Vancouver, and as part of that event, there's a Noir at the Bar open to the general public scheduled for this evening from 7:30-9:30 at the Hyatt Regency. The authors scheduled to attend and read from their writing include Blake Crouch, Kellye Garrett, Rob Hart, Vicki Delany, Deitrich Kalteis, Robin Burcell, Thomas Pluck, Hilary Davidson, Sam Wiebe, Lisa Brackmann, Frank Zafiro, and S.J. Rozan.
Noir at the Bar also returns to Philadelphia at the Misconduct Tavern on April 14. The event will be hosted by Jon McGoran, with the author lineup to include Bill Lashner, Jen Conley, Merry Deedee Jones, Don Lafferty, Erik Arneson, Kelly Simmons, Jane Kelly, Lanny Larcinese, Tony Knighton, Matty Dalrymple, and Dennis Tafoya.
Tuesday April 16, a special Brighton Crime Wave event at the Brighton Waterstones will celebrate the launch of four crime author's new releases, including The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths, the latest in her Ruth Galloway series; William Shaw’s Deadland, the second in his acclaimed DI Alex Cupidi series; The Playground Murders, the latest in Susan Wilkin's series with cleaner and sleuth Stella Darnell; and the debut of DC Jo Boden in Should Have Been Me by DC Jo Boden.
Also over in the UK, on Saturday June 8th, fifteen crime writers will descend upon Cambridge for a murderously good day of panel discussions and book signings. Authors scheduled to appear include Fiona Barton, Simon Brett, Julia Chapman, Rory Clements, Mick Finlay, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, Mick Herron, Lisa Jewell, Gytha Lodge, Alex Michaelides, Anthony Quinn, William Shaw, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, and L C Tyler.
Blockchain technology is all over the new these days, and Publishers Weekly took a look at how it could be used in publishing applications.
More places to put on your bibliophile bucket list: "The 25 Most Beautiful Libraries in America."
The latest poem at the 5-2 crime poetry weekly is "Murder at the Monastery" by Gregory Cioffi.
In the Q&A roundup, Deborah Kalb interviewed Samantha Downing, the New Orleans-based author who just released the new thriller, My Lovely Wife; E. B. Davis chatted with author Sarah Graves for the Writers Who Kill Blog, talking about Death by Chocolate Malted Milkshake, the second book in Graves's Death by Chocolate cozy mystery series; and the Sleuthsayers welcomed Glen Erik Hamilton to discuss his Van Shaw books set in and around Seattle.
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