There are 37 titles on the longlist for the 2020 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. The award honors books in translation published in English in the UK during the preceding calendar year that are written by a Scandinavian-born author or feature a Scandinavian setting. The winner of the Award will be announced at CrimeFest in June.
Lee Child is passing the baton of his Jack Reacher novels over to his younger brother, with the first book in the new partnership, The Sentinel, to be published October 29. Publisher Transworld announced a new four-book deal in the series, to be co-authored by Lee and Andrew Child, who writes thrillers under his birth name Andrew Grant, with Grant set to take over the series thereafter. Lee Child said he has been searching for a way to kill off the title character, portrayed on film by Tom Cruise, for years but has ultimately decided his fans deserve to see him live on in books.
From February 21-23, CrimeCon will host CrowdSolve: Chicago at the Hilton Palmer House in Chicago, Illinois. Citizen sleuths and true crime enthusiasts will gather to delve into a real-life cold case alongside industry experts and seasoned investigators in hopes of reaching a breakthrough. Now in its second year, CrimeCon CrowdSolve selects a special cold case for each event, which this year will focus on two open cases from Thurston County, Washington.
J. Kingston Pierce shared the work of the late cover artist Tom Adams (March 29, 1926 – December 17, 2019), who painted the covers for many Agatha Christie and Sue Grafton mysteries.
Speaking of book covers, do you ever think you're having déjà vu? Maybe not.
Writing for Crimereads, M.L.Huie discussed the shadowy noir of the postwar thriller, from 1945 to the Cuban missile crisis, and how crime fiction is the perfect space to ponder the long aftermath of the Second World War.
You think that you have a tough job? Crimereads focused on the "Hostile Work Environment: Women in Today's Thrillers."
Dutch art detective Arthur Brand, lauded as the Indiana Jones of the art world, has done it again: he solved another major case, recovering an ancient manuscript known as the Diwan of Hafez. Featuring the collected works (or diwan) of the 14th-century Persian lyrical poet Hafez, the handwritten and gold leaf-embellished book was stolen in 2007 and is worth €1 million ($1.1 million), according to German authorities
In yet another plot straight out of a mystery novel, two men were accused of stealing and reselling more than $500,000 worth of rare books, maps and other artifacts from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
Speaking of libraries and librarians, they have to put up with a lot, including this.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is "Smoking in Jail" by Richard Spillman.
In the Q&A roundup, Sophie Hannah (The Monogram Murders) spoke with the Cambridge Independent about how "People can do pretty damaging stuff behind closed doors"; Chip Scanlan asked author Bryan Gruley (the Starvation Lake mystery series) three questions about his writing; Richie Narvaez stopped by the Verge Le Noir blog to chat about crime short stories and his novel, Hipster Death Rattle; and Fiona Mcvie interviewed Scottish crime author, Craig Russell, about his gothic psychological thriller set in 1930s Czechoslovakia, The Devil Aspect, the film rights of which have been bought by Columbia Pictures in Hollywood.
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