The winner of the 2022 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year is Fatal Isles by Maria Adolfsson, translated from the Swedish by Agnes Broomé and published by Zaffre. Maria Adolfsson will receive a trophy, and both the author and translator will receive a cash prize. The other finalists include: Helene Flood - The Therapist (tr. Alison McCullough); Ruth Lillegraven - Everything is Mine (tr. Diane Oatley); Anders Roslund - Knock Knock (tr. Elizabeth Clark Wessel); Lilja Sigurðardóttir - Cold as Hell (tr. Quentin Bates); Antti Tuomainen - The Rabbit Factor (tr. David Hackston).
Although there hasn't been an official announcement yet following the recent Wolfe Pack Literary Society awards dinner on December 3, Michael Sears posted on Facebook that his novel, Tower of Babel, was named 2022 winner of the Society's annual Nero Wolfe Award. Jacqueline Freimor also posted that she won the Black Orchid Novella Award with "The Case of the Bogus Cinderellas," which will be published in the July/August issue of Alfred HItchcock's Mystery Magazine.
The UK-based Crime Fiction Lover site announced the winners of their second annual Crime Fiction Lover Awards across six categories. Best Novel Winner was The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths; Best Novel Editor’s Choice: The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee; Best Debut Winner: A Christmas Murder of Crows by DM Austin; Best Debut Editor’s Choice: Bad for Good by Graham Bartlett; Best in Translation Winner: The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer, translated by KL Seegers; Best in Translation Editor’s Choice: The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-Mo, translated by Chi-Young Kim; Best Indie Novel Winner: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill; Best Indie Novel Editor’s Choice: Five Moves of Doom by AJ Devlin; Best Author: Elly Griffiths; Best Author Editor’s Choice: Steve Cavanagh.
On Sunday, December 11th in Minneapolis, Michael Allan Mallory will serve as moderator for a panel of mystery writers following the 2 p.m. performance of Theater in the Round's production of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Members of the Twin Cities chapter of Sisters in Crime, including Julie Holmes, Christine Husom, and Sherry Roberts, will participate in the post-show panel about why we love mystery and the role of women in the creation of the genre.
Washington, DC.s Virtual Noir at the Bar is returning Sunday, December 11, at 7 pm ET. The event will be hosted by E.A. Aymar and feature readings from authors May Cobb, Kelly J. Ford, Jordan Harper, Wanda Morris, Raquel Reyes, and Johnny Shaw. Music will also be provided by local jazz star Sara Jones and a custom cocktail by celebrity mixologist Chantal Tseng. Even if you can't attend in person, you can register and watch via Crowdcast.
The New York Times released a list of its choices for Best Thrillers of 2022, including Janice Hallett’s The Appeal; J.M. Lee’s Broken Summer, which has been translated from the Korean by An Seon Je; Adam Hamdy's The Other Side of Night; Sascha Rothchild's Blood Sugar; Dervla McTiernan’s The Murder Rule; and Adrian McKinty’s The Island. Sarah Weinman also picked her best of the best among the mystery titles of 2022 for the NYT; The Guardian published its list of the Best Crime and Thriller Books of 2022; the SunSentinel's Oline Cogdill also chose her picks for the best mystery books of the year; and the Herald Scotland's reviewer, Barry Didcock, listed his pick of the best Scottish novels of 2022.
Kate Jackson a/k/a "The Armchair Sleuth" over at the Cross-Examining Crime blog is putting together a listing for the blog's Reprint of the Year awards, drawing from over 160 possible reprints to choose from that will be voted on by participating bloggers and blog readers. The winner(s) will be announced later this month. In the meantime, you can check out the blog link that includes a listing of all the available titles, including many classics and several titles I was unaware were being re-released this year.
Artificial Intelligence is getting more advanced all the time, but there are still hordes of moral and ethical challenges associated with these technologies. In a Mashable review of the new, and wildly popular online ChatGPT, it was noted that when other similar chat-bots were asked questions related to cold-case murder suspects, they seemed "all too eager to throw innocent people under the bus for such a crime without hesitation."
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 weekly is "Gulp" by Eric D. Goodman.
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