In an email to Sisters in Crime members, SinC announced that the winner of the 2024 PRIDE Award for emerging LGBTQIA+ writers is Lori Potvin of Perth, Ontario, Canada. Potvin's winning novel-in-progress is a work of contemporary crime fiction. According to Potvin, "A Trail's Tears follows the stories of two women who are strangers to each other — youth wellness worker Grace, who's looking for Sonny, a missing Indigenous teen mom, and Anna, a street smart young woman caught in the trap of human trafficking and desperate to escape." Five runners-up were also chosen: Shelley Kinsman of Ashburn, Ontario; Erick Holmberg of Boston, Massachusetts; Emma Pacchiana of Norfolk, Virginia; Langston Prince of Los Angeles, California; and Shoney Sien of Aptos, California.
Amazon has already released its "best of" lists for the year, including those in the Amazon’s "Best Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense Books of 2024," which seems to be broken down into two categories, one for standalones and one for new or continuing series. I suspect the timing of these lists has as much to do with holiday book sales than anything, but you can check out those forty titles here. Washington Post critic Karen MacPherson also compiled a list of her fave top 10 mysteries for the year. Although it's behind a paywell, The Rap Sheet has broken down the details here.
Next year's CrimeFest in the UK, scheduled for May 15-18, will feature an exclusive John le Carré event featuring the author’s two sons: the eldest, film producer Simon Cornwell, who is the CEO and co-founder of the independent studio, The Ink Factory, currently executive producing The Night Manager for Amazon and the BBC, starring Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman; and Carré youngest son, Nick Harkaway, who recently brought back one of his father’s most famous literary creations, George Smiley, in the new novel, Karla's Choice. Also confirmed for 2025 is the Canadian mystery writer, Cathy Ace, whose Cait Morgan Mysteries have been optioned for TV by the production company, Free@Last TV, which is behind the hit series, Agatha Raisin. Vaseem Khan, chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and author of the Malabar House historical crime series set in Bombay, has also been confirmed as 2025’s Gala Dinner’s "Leader of Toasts" for the 2025 CrimeFest award.
In May 2025, Penguin Random House will publish a graphic novel version of Raymond Chandler's Trouble Is My Business (1939) as part of the Pantheon Graphic Library. The creative team behind the project includes writer Arvind Ethan David, illustrator Ilias Kyriazis, and colorist Cris Peter, with a Foreword by Ben H. Winters. In the novella, Philip Marlowe is hired by a female private detective to disentangle a gangster's moll from a rich man's son. (HT to The Bunburyist)
The First Two Pages over at Art Taylor's blog featured Vera Chan with an essay about her story in Tales of Music, Murder, and Mayhem: Bouchercon Anthology 2024.
In the Q&A roundup, Alex Kenna, whose debut novel, What Meets the Eye, was nominated for a Shamus Award for best first PI novel, applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Burn this Night; Deborah Kalb chatted with Bonnie Kistler, a former trial lawyer and author of the new psychological thriller, Shell Games; and Writers Who Kill's Paula Gail Benson interviewed Saul Golubcow about his new novel with detective Holocaust survivor Frank Wolf and the narrator, Frank’s lawyer grandson, Joel.
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