The British Book Awards shortlists have been announced, including the honorees in the Crime & Thriller category: Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith; The Sentinel by Lee Child and Andrew Child; The Patient Man by Joy Ellis; The Guest List by Lucy Foley; The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman; and A Song for The Dark Times by Ian Rankin.
Deadly Pleasures Magazine announced the 2021 Barry Award nominations, with winners to be announced at the New Orleans Bouchercon opening ceremonies August 26. The Best Novel finalists include The Boy From The Woods by Harlan Coben; The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly; Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby; And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall; Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz, and All The Devils Are Here by Louise Penny. For the lists in all the other categories, check out this list from Shots Magazine.
The Audio Publishers Association announced the winners of this year's Audie Awards for excellence in audiobooks. The winner in the Mystery Category was Michael Connelly's Fair Warning, read by Peter Giles and Zach Villa (see the other finalists here); while the winner in the Thriller Category was When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole, read by Susan Dalian, and Jay Aaseng (click here for the other finalists).
Multiple award-winning crime fiction author, Elizabeth George is publishing Mastering the Process: From Idea to Novel, which goes on sale next month on April 6. The book is described as "A master class on fiction writing" in which George takes the reader through her entire process of researching, outlining, and writing book such as her Inspector Lynley novel, Careless in Red. George will be doing a handful of virtual workshops to support the paperback publication: April 7 at Barr Memorial Library in Fort Knox, KY; April 10 at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA; and April 14 at Books & Books in Miami, FL.
This year's virtual Malice Domestic convention, More Than Malice, has announced additional authors who will be part of the lineup, including Donna Andrews, Ann Cleeves, Martin Edwards, Rachel Howzell Hall, Charlaine Harris, Sheila Mitchell, and Katherine Hall Page. Malice took an enormous financial hit due to the ongoing pandemic and the cancellation of two in-person conventions and says they "truly appreciate the generous support of so many from the Malice Community and Family and look forward to bringing you a spectacular event featuring old friends and new ones." You can click here to register at the early-bird price for the festival, which takes place July 14th-17th.
Libraries, booksellers, publishers, and festivals are being invited to take part in the UK's National Crime Reading Month this June. The annual festival is held throughout the UK, and is hosted by the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA). Secretary of the CWA, Dea Parkin, added: “This summer, nobody knows if they will be able to escape abroad on holiday. One thing that is guaranteed is the option to escape through a good book. We hope National Crime Reading Month this June will lead the great escape we all desperately need after such a difficult year.”
Volume 39, no. 1 of Clues: A Journal of Detection is out, guest edited by Eva Burke and Clare Clarke. The theme for the issue is domestic noir, with essays on such topics as "At Home in Irish Crime Fiction"; "I Am Not the Girl I Used to Be": Remembering the Femme Fatale in The Girl on the Train; "Killing Bluebeard: Claiming Subversive Femininity in Agatha Christie’s "Philomel Cottage" and The Stranger, and much more, including interviews and reviews.
Crime and comic writer, Alex Segura, has teamed with fellow mystery novelist Elizabeth Little, artist David Hahn, colorist Ellie Wright, letterer Taylor Esposito and veteran editor Joseph Illidge to create a new type of superhero comic.
If you're a fan of spy fiction, Alma Katsu, author and retired intelligence professional, took a look at the "Best Spy Novels Written by Spies, According to a Spy."
This story is a lot of fun ... Sherlock Holmes and the Loch Ness Monster?
The latest crime poem at the 5-2 Weekly is "Justice for Jessica."
In the Q&A roundup, crime author Gerard Brennan spoke with The Irish News about the of writing his strong female-led new novel, Shot; Elly Griffiths chatted with Writer's Digest about what it was like to write her latest crime novel, The Postscript Murders, using multiple points of view; and Write 2 Be Me magazine welcomed former police detective turned author, Caroline Mitchell, shortlisted for the International Thriller Awards and Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards.
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