The Los Angeles Times announced winners of their annual book awards this past weekend. The top title in the Mystery/Thriller category went to Megan Abbott for The Turnout. Other finalists included Alison Gaylin for The Collective; Michael Connelly for The Dark Hours; S.A. Cosby for Razorblade Tears; and Silvia Moreno-Garcia for Velvet Was the Night.
Mystery Writers of America will announce the 2022 Edgar Award winners tonight at 8:30pm ET at a gala banquet in New York City. But if you can't make it to the gala, MWA will be live-streaming the awards via their YouTube channel.
Jacqueline West was awarded the 2022 Minnesota Book Award for Middle Grade Literature for her atmospheric and eerie mystery, Long Lost. Although a romantic comedy won the Best Genre Novel award, the finalists included three crime novels, Insurrection by Tom Combs; Lightning Strike: A Novel by William Kent Krueger; and The Stolen Hours by Allen Eskens.
In addition to the recently announced Dagger longlists from the Crime Writers Association, the list of ten books for the 2022 Debut Dagger 2022 has been announced. The Debut Dagger is a competition for the opening of a crime novel by a writer who isn’t represented by an agent by the time the competition closes, and who has never had a traditional contract for any novel of any length, or who has never self-published any novel of any length in the last five years. Last year's winner was Hannah Redding for Deception.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine has also announced the winners of their annual Readers Awards. Taking the top spot this year is Karen Harrington with her story, "Boo Radley College Prep."
The 10th anniversary of Scotland's Crime & Thrillers Weekend from the Cromarty Arts Trust is back in person after recent cancellations due to Covid. The event will be held May 6-8, with talks, booksignings, Q&A sessions, writing workshops, and gala entertainment. The panels and discussion will be led by Ian Rankin, Elly Griffiths, Alex Walters, Nicola White, Mary Paulson-Ellis, Matt Johnson, and Jonathan Whitelaw.
The full program was announced for this year's Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival set for July 21-24. Curated by Festival Chair and award-winning crime writer Denise Mina, the 2022 program features familiar faces including Rev. Richard Coles, Frankie Boyle, Bella Mackie, Charlie Higson, and Rosemary Shrager - alongside crime fiction titans such as Ann Cleeves, Lynda La Plante, Adele Parks, Michael Connolly, Val McDermid, Mick Herron, Sophie Hannah, and Abir Mukherjee among others. This year’s lineup will also feature two author dinners attended by popular crime and thriller writers.
Walter Mosley will be the speaker for the Knox College 2022 Commencement on Sunday, June 5. Mosley is the author of more than sixty critically acclaimed books including his acclaimed series of novels featuring the detective Easy Rawlins. "I am absolutely delighted that Walter Mosley has agreed to speak at Commencement for the Knox College Class of 2022 and to receive an honorary degree. I congratulate him, and our other two honorary degree recipients; all three all have done truly extraordinary work in their fields of expertise to drive inclusivity and equity in our world," said Knox College President C. Andrew McGadney.
CrimeReads held an online roundtable with this year's Edgar Award nominees on the state of the novel and how the pandemic has changed their writing lives. You can read part one of that discussion here, and part two is here.
In April 2015, B.K. Stevens debuted the blog series "The First Two Pages," hosting craft essays by short story writers and novelists analyzing the openings of their own work. Art Taylor took over the torch after B.K.'s passing, and the latest guests are Denver Noir contributors Francelia Belton and Mario Acevedo, and editor Cynthia Swanson.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 weekly is "Red on Silver" by Harris Coverley.
In the Q&A roundup, Author Interviews welcomed Bonnar Spring, who writes eclectic and stylish mystery-suspense novels with an international flavor; E. B. Davis spoke with Carol J. Perry about ‘Til Death, Carol J. Perry’s twelfth book in the Witch City Mystery series; Anne Trager, founder of Le French Books, talked with international bestselling author Frédérique Molay, who won France’s most prestigious crime fiction award; South Dakota Public Broadcasting chatted with Winter Counts author David Heska Wanbli Weiden; Michael Connelly spoke with California Book Club host John Freeman about his career and writing; and Don Winslow, currently on a book tour, had several interviews including one with Rolling Stone magazine and another with Parade Magazine about his new mob thriller, City on Fire.
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