The 2024 recipient of the George N. Dove Award for contributions to the serious study of mystery, detective, and crime fiction is British author, editor of Crime Time magazine, essayist, journalist, and commentator Barry Forshaw. The Dove Award, named for mystery fiction scholar George N. Dove, is presented by the Detective/Mystery Caucus of the Popular Culture Association. Past Dove recipients include Frankie Y. Bailey, Martin Edwards, Douglas G. Greene, P. D. James, Christine Jackson, H. R. F. Keating, Maureen Reddy, Janet Rudolph, J. K. Van Dover, and Elizabeth Foxwell. (HT to Foxwell's The Bunburyist blog)
Lambda Liberary announced the finalists in 26 categories for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards, the "Lammys." The finalists were selected by more than 70 avid readers, critics, and literary professionals from more than 1,300 submissions and represent outstanding LGBTQ+ literature from 2023. Those finalists in the Mystery Category include: Calculated Risk by Cari Hunter (Bold Strokes Books); Don't Forget the Girl by Rebecca McKanna (Sourcebooks Landmark); The Good Ones by Polly Stewart (HarperCollins Publishers); Transitory by J. M. Redmann (Bold Strokes Books); and Where the Dead Sleep by Joshua Moehling (Poisoned Pen Press). The 2024 Lammy Awards ceremony will be held the evening of June 11, 2024 at New York City’s Sony Hall.
Mystery Writers of America is making the 2024 Symposium Panels featuring the 2024 Edgar Nominees available via ZOOM. All panels are also live-streamed via the MWA YouTube channel and will be archived there. The 78th Annual Edgar® Awards banquet with the announcement of winners will be celebrated on May 1, 2024, at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City.
Janet Rudolph has posted her updated annual listing of Easter Crime Fiction, along with some Good Friday mysteries. And Mystery Lovers Kitchen has shared some Easter recipes and reads, including Fancy Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows by Libby Klein; Armenian Sweet Bread via Tina Kashian.
Iceland has its Jólabókaflóð or "Christmas book flood," in which publishers release new titles in time for the holidays so people can give books as gifts and spend Christmas Eve reading. Not to be outdone, Norway has its own book tradition of celebrating crime fiction books over the Easter holiday. As Science Norway explains, to understand why, we need to go back to the 1920s.
The Guardian reviewed The Russian Detective by Carol Adlam, a new "exquisitely illustrated celebration of early crime fiction." The project results from work that Adlam, an associate professor in the Nottingham School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University, and Claire Whitehead, a reader in modern languages at the University of St Andrew’s, have been doing together on the Lost Detective Project: a collaboration that draws on the work of long-forgotten writers of crime fiction who were contemporaries of Dostoevsky.
The latest Mystery Readers Journal features Southern California Mysteries, with articles, reviews, and author essays on the topic, as well as the usual columns and other mystery related material. The issue is now available for purchase, and you can catch some samples via the online features, "Los Angeles Ninja Lily Wong" by Tori Eldridge, "Los Angeles: City of Dreams" by Lee Goldberg, and "Through a Lens Brightly" by Gary Phillips.
In the Q&A roundup, Paul Burke welcomed Neil Lancaster to Crime Time to discuss The Devil You Know, the third Max Cragie installment of the gritty police procedural series set in Scotland; Author Interviews chatted with Heather Gudenkauf, the Edgar Award nominated author of ten novels including Everyone Is Watching; and Lisa Haselton spoke with thriller author Matt Cost about the new installment in his Clay Wolfe/Port Essex Mysteries series, Pirate Trap.
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