The shortlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023, produced by Harrogate International Festivals, has been announced with six bestselling authors competing to win the UK’s most wanted crime writing prize. The public is now invited to vote for the winner via this link. The six novels shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023 are:
- The Botanist by M.W. Craven (Little, Brown Book Group; Constable)
- Into The Dark by Fiona Cummins (Pan Macmillan; Macmillan/Pan)
- The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths (Quercus)
- Black Hearts by Doug Johnstone (Orenda Books)
- Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister (Penguin Random House; Michael Joseph)
- The It Girl by Ruth Ware (Simon & Schuster)
Goldsboro Books, based in London, has announced its longlist of contenders for the 2023 Glass Bell Award, which "celebrates the best storytelling across contemporary fiction, regardless of genre." This year, the list of twelve finalists includes one crime novel, Notes on an Execution, by Danya Kukafka (winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel this year), although Metronome by Tom Watson is also technically a sci-fi suspense thriller. You can check out the full list of nominees via this link. A shortlist of candidates will be released on Thursday, July 27, with the winner to be revealed on September 28. The prize includes £2,000 and a handmade glass bell.
The 2023 Lambda Literary Award winners have been announced, including the winner of the Best LGBTQ+ Mystery, Dirt Creek: A Novel by Hayley Scrivenor. The other finalists in that category include: Dead Letters from Paradise by Ann McMan; A Death in Berlin by David C Dawson; And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling; and Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen.
The conference Crime Fiction and Democracy will be held at Paris Nanterre University, June 22-24. This multidisciplinary symposium will explore the complex and multifaceted relationship between the detective novel and democracy, from the end of the 19th century to the present day, and is organized by the Anglophone Research Center (Paris Nanterre University) and Queen’s University Belfast, in partnership with the Multidisciplinary Research Center (Paris Nanterre University).
Bruce Lisman is selling a trove of 18th and 19th-century American books and rarities via an auction at Christie's. His collection offers a rare look into the foundations of American literature, including rare and inscribed works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman. Edgar Allan Poe is also represented by such works as an inscribed Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque from 1840, with an estimated bidding range of $300,000-$500,000.
Adam Mitzner is a practicing attorney in a Manhattan law firm and the bestselling author of Dead Certain, Never Goodbye, and The Best Friend in the Broden Legal series as well as the stand-alone thrillers A Matter of Will, A Conflict of Interest, A Case of Redemption, Losing Faith, The Girl from Home, and The Perfect Marriage. Mitzner applied the Page 69 Test to his latest novel, Love Betrayal Murder.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 Weekly is "Bae" by Melodie Bolt.
In the Q&A roundup, Writers Who Kill's Grace Topping interviewed Linda Norlander about Death of a Fox, the latest book in A Cabin by the Lake Mystery Series; Crime Fiction Lover spoke with Danish crime fiction author, Michael Katz Krefeld, who can now be read in English with the recent translation of his novel, Darkness Calls, published in May 2023.
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