Karys Frank's Stone Cold Truth has won the 2023 Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction. The literary prize, now in its fifth year, aims to celebrate the outstanding crime and thriller storytelling of those who are from, or whose work celebrates, the North East England. Frank's winning thriller novel tell the story of a daughter who flees her narcissistic mother’s suffocating love, only to run into her mother’s net from which she can’t escape. As the winner of the prize, Karys will receive a £2,500 cash prize to support the development of her work, alongside funding for membership of the Society of Authors (SoA) and the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi).
The Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers announced the 2023 Colorado Gold Rush Winners, including the Mystery/Thriller Category, which was won by What Survives the Fire by Maria St Louis Sanchez. The other finalists were Speaking in Tongues by D Gonzales Montano and Killing Every Alice by JV Reed.
Six books have been chosen as Richard and Judy (Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan) picks for the autumn Book Club in the UK, including three crime fiction titles. Mystery writer Janice Hallett’s The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels features on the list, a book that Finnegan describes as "creepy and complicated" and lays out a new story in the author’s "inimitable cosy style of dossiers, emails, texts and recorded phone calls." Also chosen was the thriller, The Traitor, by former crime reporter and civil servant, Ava Glass, and Gregg Hurwitz's thriller, The Last Orphan, marking the author's third time on the list. (HT to Shots Magazine)
Elaine's in Alexandria, Virginia, will host its inaugural Noir at the Bar this evening, September 21, at 7:00 pm. Authors schedule to read from their writing include E.A. Aymar, S.A. Cosby, Adam Meyer, Eliza Nellums, Kathryn O'Sullivan/Paul Awad, Josh Pachter, and Stacy Woodson.
And yet more authors are suing ChapGPT. In a grievance filed with the Authors Guild, the authors accuse the A.I. company of infringing on authors’ copyrights, claiming it used their books to train its ChatGPT chatbot. Some of the high-profile crime fiction authors involved with the Authors Guild suit include Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, Douglas Preston, and John Grisham.
Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation by Bruce Dorsey was featured at the Page 99 Test. About the book, from the publisher: a master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America's first "crime of the century," from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial, and its aftermath.
Jessica would be proud. A "Murder, She Wrote" picket from the WGA is planned for Fox today, which actually makes a lot of sense considering Jessica Fletcher was a professional writer. It’s the brainchild of strike captain Tyler Ruggeri, who surveyed his followers on Twitter about the possibility before making it a reality. He’s also asking members to wear their best J-Fletch outfits to walk the line.
In the Q&A roundup, mystery novelist Nancy M Bell chatted with Lisa Haselton about her new historical novel, Discarded, set in Winnepeg in the 1800s; over at the Writers Who Kill blog, E. B. Davis interviewed author Kait Carson about Death Dive, the third book in the Hayden Kent mystery series set in the Florida Keys; and Lou Berney spoke with The Orange County Register about his new thriller, Dark Ride, which centers around a theme park scare actor and cannabis-consuming twentysomething underachiever named Hardy “Hardly” Reed.
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