At the ceremony revealing the winners of 2022's An Post Irish Book Awards, it was announced the Crime Fiction Book of the Year was won by Breaking Point by Edel Coffey. The other finalists in the category include Remember My Name by Sam Blake; Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard; The Accomplice by Steve Cavanagh; The Interview by Gill Perdue; and Hide and Seek by Andrea Mara.
British author, Stuart Turton, was awarded Germany’s 2022 Viktor Crime Award for The Devil and Dark Water. Other shortlisted authors/titles included Kazltes Herz (Cold Heart) by Henri Faber and Horvath und die verschwundenen Schüler (Horvath and the Missing Students) by Marc Hofmann. The award has been handed out since 2018 and was announced at Mord am Hellweg, which has been dubbed "Europe’s largest international crime film festival.”
Icelandic crime novelist Ragnar Jónasson's novel, Snjóblinda (Snow Blind), was voted the best crime novel published in France in the last 50 years, by French book aficionados. Ragnar accepted the award last Wednesday in Paris. The French publisher, Points, which specializes in paperbacks, and the periodical, Le Point, decided to present special literary awards to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the magazine. In the literary works category, the winner was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.
Voting continues for the final round of the Goodreads Choice Awards competition, which includes ten titles in the Best Mystery & Thriller category. Readers can vote through December 4, with winners announced Thursday, December 8.
Submissions to the 2023 Louie Award competition, sponsored by the Australian Crime Writers Association, will be accepted through Friday, December 30. The Louie prize celebrates microfiction of less than 500 words that is focused on a specific theme, which this year is "Locked." ACWA members can entry for the chance to win a $750 cash prize. Last year's award was won by Hayley Young for her crime story, "I’m Not Telling." (HT to the Rap Sheet)
Mechanicsburg Mystery Bookshop will host a virtual cozy mystery event via Zoom on Sunday, December 4th, 2022, at 2:00 pm Eastern. Authors scheduled to participate include Marilyn Levison, Heather Weidner, Jackie Layton, Sarah E. Burr, and Alice Adler. This is a free event although reservations are required so that each person receives the code to sign in.
Kirkus Reviews released its Best Mysteries and Thrillers list for 2022. You can check out all ten titles via this link.
The multidisciplinary conference, Crime Fiction and Democracy, intends to explore the complex, multifaceted relationship between crime fiction and democracy from the late 19th century to the present. It's being organized by the Centre de Recherches Anglophones (Université Paris Nanterre) and Queen’s University Belfast, and will be held Université Paris Nanterre June 22-23, 2023. Conference organizers are inviting proposals for 20-minute papers, either in English or French, focusing on the multiple connections between democracy and crime fiction throughout the world, and seeking, if possible, a broad analytical approach rather than the analysis of single works. (HT to Shots Magazine)
Congrats to Elizabeth Foxwell, whose The Bunburyist blog passed its 1 millionth view since its debut in 2005. You can check out her top ten most-read blog entries, counting to #1, "The dozen best detective short stories ever written," as selected by author-critics such as Anthony Boucher, John Dickson Carr, August Derleth, Howard Haycraft, Ellery Queen, James Sandoe, and Vincent Starrett.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 Weekly is "After Party" by Katherine Heil.
In the Q&A roundup, Lisa Haselton chatted with Mystery author Jessica Stilling about her new literary fiction, Between Before and After. Haselton also interviewed author Jennifer Juvenelle about her new psychological thriller, Daughter of Belial.
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