Organizers of this year’s Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival (September 20-22) announced the books nominated for two 2019 McIlvanney Prizes. There are 13 works vying for the main McIlvanney Prize and five shortlisted for the inaugural Debut Prize (two titles, by Claire Askew and M.R. Mackenzie, are on both lists). Three years ago the Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award was renamed the McIlvanney Prize in memory of William McIlvanney who is often described as the Godfather of Tartan Noir.
There will be a Murder Mystery Panel at Hooray 4 Books in Alexandria, Virginia, on Saturday, July 6 from 2-3:00 p.m. Four mystery authors, including Maya Corrigan (Five-Ingredient Mystery series), Sherry Harris (Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery series), Con Lehane (42nd Street Library Mystery series), and G.M. Malliet (Max Tudor Mystery series) will discuss what makes a compelling mystery and also sign their books.
Janet Rudolph has compiled a listing of Fourth of July crime fiction just in time for the holiday.
Stuck inside for the Fourth? TV Guide has options for broadcast marathons, including a few crime dramas.
Writing for CrimeReads, Michael Gonzales compiled a "brief history of the heroes of black pulp."
Also on CrimeReads, a look at how "Charles Dickens Was Obsessed with Detectives, Too."
And as Camille Leblanc points out, this year marks the single greatest arrival of works into the public domain since before the start of the digital age, including "an injection of classic mysteries."
Over at the Do Some Damage blog, David Nemeth assembled a group of authors, including Jason Beech, author of City of Forts; Beau Johnson, author of The Big Machine Eats; and Tom Leins, Repetition Kills You, to discuss the indie crime scene with a focus on noir.
The Live and Deadly blog had an impassioned defense of crime fiction after a recent newspaper writeup that disssed the genre and took the Edinburgh Book Festival to task for including too many crime fiction events (or any at all, apparently).
Writing for the Washington Post, Radley Balko asked the question, "We need to fix forensics. But how?" This after the National Academy of Sciences and other scientific studies have found that expert witnesses had been vastly overstating the significance and certainty of their analyses.
The much-loved and much-parodied mystery board game, Clue, is turning seventy, and Mental Floss compiled ten facts you might not know about Clue.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is "America" by Thom Young.
In the Q&A roundup, Ed Brubaker and Megan Abbott discussed comic conventions and criminals and Hollywood for Paste; the Mystery People chatted with Denise Mina about her new novel, Conviction, which is something of a departure for the author; and the Los Angeles Review of Books spoke with Tim Hennessey, editor of the upcoming Milwaukee Noir anthology.
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