The finalists were announced for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBTQ+ Mystery category, including: A Calculated Risk, by Cari Hunter (Bold Strokes); Don’t Forget the Girl, by Rebecca McKanna (Sourcebooks Landmark); The Good Ones, by Polly Stewart (HarperCollins); Transitory, by J.M. Redmann (Bold Strokes); and Where the Dead Sleep, by Joshua Moehling (Poisoned Pen Press). Winners will be revealed on June 11 during the Awards Ceremony at New York City’s Sony Hall.
The Joffe Books Prize is looking for a talented new crime fiction writer of color among UK residents and British citizens, and invites submissions from unagented authors with Black, Asian, Indigenous, or minority ethnic backgrounds. Entrants are invited to submit their full-length manuscript in a crime fiction genre, including psychological thrillers, cozy mysteries, police procedurals, suspense mysteries, domestic noir, etc., which are written in English. The contest judges, A.A. Chaudhuri, bestselling author of She’s Mine, and literary agent Gyamfia Osei from Andrew Nurnberg Associates, will choose the winner, to be offered a prize package consisting of a two-book publishing deal with Joffe Books, a £1,000 cash prize, and a £25,000 audiobook offer from Audible for the first book. The competition closes September 30, 2024. (HT to Shots Magazine)
As part of the Sydney, Australia Writers' Festival, there will be a session featuring bestselling crime fiction author Michael Connelly, creator of Harry Bosch, and local superstars Michael Robotham and Chris Hammer, with Benjamin Stevenson as moderator. The event will take place at the Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, on May 24, as 8pm. Connelly will also appear on his own May 25 at Sydney Town Hall.
When Dean Street Press founder Rupert Heath tragically passed away a little over a year ago, there were questions as to whether the book publisher would be able to continue, but I received an email from Director Victoria Eade (Rupert's sister) that Dean Street Press has now officially transitioned into Dean Street Press Limited. She added, "With 465 titles already in print, we are incredibly proud to continue our legacy of uncovering and revitalizing good books. While we cherish our past, we are equally enthusiastic about embracing the future with optimism." Dean Street Press was established to revive worthy books from the past and recent past, including many lesser-known Golden Age titles that were out of print by authors such as Patricia Wentworth, Christopher Bush, and Peter Cheyney.
Vol 42, no. 1 (2024) of Clues: A Journal of Detection has been published, including articles on John Dickson Carr; Agatha Christie; Arthur Conan Doyle in Dutch translation; Umberto Eco; a YA mystery series featuring Indigenous issues; island mysteries; Korean crime fiction; and noir’s relationship with works by William Faulkner, David Goodis, and John D. MacDonald. (HT to editor, Elizabeth Foxwell)
Janet Rudolph has compiled a listing of crime fiction titles themed around Memorial Day aka Decoration Day (which falls on May 27th this year), the annual day of remembrance in the U.S. for those men and women who died serving their country in the line of duty.
This year's Bouchercon committee provided links to all the nominated short stories by Barb Goffman, James DF Hannah, Curtis Ippolito, Dru Ann Love & Kristopher Zgorski, and Holly West. The winners of all the various Bouchercon awards will be revealed at the conference in Nashville to be held August 28-September 1.
In the Q&A roundup, Lisa Haselton spoke with mystery author Raemi A. Ray about her new novel, A Chain of Pearls (Martha’s Vineyard Murders, Book 1); and Deborah Kalb interviewed James H. Lewis about his new book, The Dead of Winter, where newly appointed Allegheny County detective Lydia Barnwell is assigned to investigate a seemingly accidental death, but soon realizes there is more to the case than meets the eye.
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