The 25th Annual Colorado Independent Book Publishers Association EVVY Awards Banquet took place in Denver, Colorado. 1st Place Mystery/Crime/Detective Fiction went to To Paint A Murder by E.J. Gandolfo; the Merit Award for Mystery/Crime/Detective Fiction was won by And Come Day’s End by Gabriel F.W. Koch; and the Merit Award for Suspense/Thrillers Fiction was awarded to The Paymaster by Adeed Dawisha.
Tomorrow night, an Oxford Crime Evening will feature authors Cara Hunter, JP Delaney, and Mick Herron at the The Cherwell Boathouse in Oxford, UK. Hunter is the author of a bestselling series featuring DI Adam Fawley and his Oxford-based police team; Delaney's The Girl Before is being adapted for film by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment; and Herron's various novels have won or been a finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger,CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger, and Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.
The New York Writers Workshop in NYC is presenting an Evening of Crime hosted by Christina Chiu on October 3 from 7-9 p.m. Authors scheduled to participate include Charles Salzberg, Puja Guha, Ed Lin, and Nish Amaranth. Charles Salzberg is author of the Shamus Award nominated Swann series and teaches writing the New York Writers Workshop; Puja Guha is the author of The Ahriman Legacy series; Ed Lin writes the Robert Chow crime series and is the recipient of win three Asian American Literary Awards; Nish Amarnath's crime thriller, Victims for Sale, was nominated for the Bombay Film Festival Awards.
There's still time to catch an art exhibition based on Hitchcock films that will be on view at San Diego's Subterranean Coffee Boutique until September 6. (HT to The Bunburyist)
Heads up to folks near Hillsborough, North Carolina: Noir at the Bar is heading to Yonder: Southern Cocktails & Brew on September 26. Hosted by Tracey Reynolds, authors scheduled to appear and read from their works include Judy Marie, James Maxey, Eryk Pruitt, Nesha Maren, JG Hetherton, Suzanne Adair, Thomas Fenske, and Philip Kimbrough.
There's a call for papers for a special issue of The Journal of Popular Culture, "Place, Space, and the Detective Narrative." Articles may come from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary practice on topics such as Detectives, Borders, and Migrations, Settings in Crime Narrative, Locked-Room Mysteries, and more. Abstracts of no more than 250 words are due no later than Jan 1, 2020, with selected manuscripts (of 5,000-7,500 words) expected by June 1, 2020. (HT to Shots Magazine)
In October 2019, Dean Street Press will continue their series of great golden age crime fiction, this time in the form of Brian Flynn's first ten Anthony Bathurst mysteries. Originally published in the late twenties and early thirties, they have not been reissued for over sixty years. All the ingeniously plotted novels are in the classic mold of English country house mysteries with titles like The Billiard Room Mystery and The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye. Each edition installment will feature new artwork and new introductions by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
Writing for Crime Reads, the Rap Sheet's J. Kingston Pierce took a look at the rise of "regional" noir during the 1970s and how other regional cities became the new capitals of crime fiction.
Rob Hart also took a stab at answering the question "what is a crime book, anyway?" as he compiled a listing of "10 great books that defy all genre labels."
Have women always enjoyed reading thrillers? Book Riot investigates.
Fans of the iconic Clue board game take note: the game is getting a makeover and you can help choose the design. Hasbro is renovating the Clue mansion for the first time since the murder mystery game’s 1949 release, and fans have until September 9 to cast their vote for the winning design.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is "Thread Bare" by Rena J. Worley.
In the Q&A roundup, Tami Hoag dicussed her new book, The Boy, her writing process, and why she has set so many of her books in Louisiana; and David Lagercrantz, the author who continued Stieg Larsson's "Millennium" book series following Larsson's death, chatted with Deutsche Welle about exiting that series as well as his new projects.
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