Morten Hesseldahl's thriller, Mørket under isen (The Darkness Under the Ice), has won this year's Harald Mogensen Prize, a Danish literary award for detective novels awarded by the Danish Criminal Academy (Det danske Kriminalakademi, or DKA). The prize was founded in 2006, first awarded in 2007, and is named after Danish author, editor, journalist, and critic Harald Mogensen, who was awarded The Danish Criminal Academy diploma in 1993.
The Horror Writers Association (HWA), the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy, announced this year’s Bram Stoker Awards winners at its first in-person ceremony since before the pandemic. Stephen Graham Jones won the award for Superior Achievement in a Novel for My Heart is a Chainsaw, a story of murder in small-town America where a broken young girl uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life. The title was also named named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR. Check out all of this year's Bram Stoker winners here.
In celebration of Pride, hosts Jeffrey Round and Hope Thompson will present Queer Noir at the Bar, an evening of queer crime fiction readings on June 8 in Toronto. Authors include Nairne Holtz, Jared Mitchell, Caro Soles, Felice Picano, Doug Schmidt, and a reading by actor Greg Campbell of Greg Kramer’s bestselling mystery novel, The Pursemonger of Fugu. Books will also be available for purchase and signing.
Kate Mosse, Richard Osman, and Dorothy Koomson are among authors appearing at the UK's Capital Crime Festival from September 29th to October 1st in Battersea Park. The program launched this week at Goldsboro Books, and was co-organized by bookshop owner and agent David Headley. Also confirmed to appear are Peter James, Mark Billingham, Robert Harris, S A Cosby, Jeffrey Archer, Anthony Horowitz, Charlie Higson, Jeffery Deaver, Lucy Foley, Bella Mackie, Ragnar Jónasson, Paula Hawkins, Reverend Richard Coles, Mark Edwards, Claire McGowan, Ben Aaronovitch, and former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Judge Lady Hale, in conversation with Harriet Tyce. A full schedule of panel talks will be announced later in the summer. As part of the event, the Fingerprint Awards – which recognizes the best titles in the genre, voted for by readers – will be announced, with nine awards presented.
International Literary Properties (ILP) has acquired three new literary estates including majority interests in the estates of Dame Ngaio Marsh and Ann Rule. Marsh was one of the four original "Queens of Crime" writers who dominated the genre in the 1920s and 30s (along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers) and is best known for her series with Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard. Rule was a true crime writer known for her bestselling debut book on serial killer Ted Bundy, The Stranger Beside Me, published in 1980, the year of his conviction. ILP works with managers of literary estates and individual heirs to help realize the value from book and play-based intellectual property, working closely with award-winning TV, film and stage producers across the world.
The Summer issue of Mystery Scene is out, with a cover feature on Deon Meyer, often called the King of South African Crime Writing; Oline Cogdill provided a guide to mystery-themed cookbooks, as well as a tasting menu of ten delicious new culinary crime novels; Hank Phillippi Ryan assembled a panel of authors, screenwriters, agents, and showrunners to give insights into the fascinating Hollywood process of how an adaptation successfully goes from the page to the screen; Craig Sisterson interviewed author Tara Moss about her historical WWII-era novels, as well as her work as an award-winning human rights and disability advocate; plus Ellen Byron, Susan Van Kirk, Kathleen Kaska, and Gary Lovisi offered "My Book" essays on their new work.
The May edition of Mike Ripley’s Shots column, "Getting Away with Murder," profiled new releases from Tom Bradby (Yesterday’s Spy); Anthony Horowitz (With a Mind to Kill); Peter Morfoot (Essence Of Murder); Chris Pavon (Two Nights In Lisbon); William Shaw a/k/a G.W. Shaw (Dead Rich); and Jo Spain (The Last to Disappear). He also focused a spotlight on his current televisual binge watch, "an utterly delightful, thoughtful and light-hearted crime drama set in sun-drenched Sicily," about a Palermo family in 1979 who come to realize, mostly through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy, just how much of a grip the local mafia has on all aspects of everyday life.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 weekly is "Conversion" by Pamela Hobart Carter.
In the Q&A roundup, Indie Crime Scene interviewed Michael D. Graves, author of the Pete Stone Private Investigator series; Crime Fiction Lover spoke with David Adams Cleveland about his historical espionage novel, Gods of Deception, which has the judge in the notorious Alger Hiss case asking his grandson years later to help him figure out if Hiss was really guilty or innocent; and Nicola Upson, author of Dear Little Corpses, shared seven things she'd like her readers to know with Female First magazine.
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