The shortlists for this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards were announced last week, including the Crime Fiction category. Those honorees include:
Rewind by Catherine Ryan Howard
Cruel Acts by Jane Casey
The Chain by Adrian McKinty
Twisted by Steve Cavanagh
The Wych Elm by Tana French
The Hiding Game by Louise Phillips
Publishers Weekly released its "best books" of the year lists, including a category for Best Mystery. For a slide show of all the top ten thrilling and chilling titles, click over to this link.
Janet Rudolph updated her list of Halloween Mysteries for the Mystery Fanfare blog. And it's quite a list!
Some might say true crime tales are far scarier than the fictional kind, knowing they're accounts of actual crime affecting real people. Marilyn Stasio, who usually reviews crime fiction for the New York Times, steps back to take a look at "Diamond Doris, the Bourbon King and Other Stars of True Crime."
The NYT also reported that Patricia Highsmith's diaries are going public. The author of psychological thrillers such as The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, once said that "No writer would ever betray his secret life...It would be like standing naked in public," but her estate has authorized Liveright Publishing to release her private writings in a single volume to be released in 2021. They are said to include her reflections on her creative aspirations, her tumultuous romantic relationships, and her fascination with the psychological underpinnings of violence.
Kings River Life has some Halloween stories for you, including "As Easy as Trick or Treating" and "The Case of the Caramelized Corpse." They also have some recipes to get you in the spirit of things such as Grilled Apple Crisps.
The Mystery Lovers Kitchen folks have several recipes that are perfect for Halloween, including Pumpkin Mousse from Krista Davis; Pumpkin Spice Doughnuts from Peg Cochran; and Pumpkin Spice Cookies from Leslie Budewitz. For those who aren't fans of pumpkin, there are also Vicki Delany's Cinnamon Apple Muffins and Lucy Burdett's Candy Corn Cookies. Or maybe, you'd prefer Essie Lang's Halloween Eyeballs Appetizer.
The Maine Crime Writers polled their bloggers for "Our Votes for Scariest Book."
Over at the Kill Zone blog, Sue Colleta has a tongue-in-cheek primer titled "Welcome to Murder 101: PG Halloween Edition."
Looking for a bookish Halloween costume? Here are a few, starting with Nancy Drew; and a few more ideas. Or, maybe you'd just prefer some Literary Halloween swag.
Staying in on Halloween and looking for something scary to scream stream? Here are some suggestions.
Ever wonder what the "worst" Halloween candy is?
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is "The Fuse is Burning" by David Cranmer.
In the Q&A roundup, The Dark Phantom blog talks craft with mystery author Susan McCormick; Pursuit Magazine chatted with thriller author Rea Frey about her psychological "whydunits"; Jacqueline Seewald interviewed author/editor Sandra Murphy about her writing and editing the new anthology, A Murder of Crows; and E.B. Davis chatted with Leigh Perry (a/k/ Toni L. P. Kelner) for the Writers Who Kill about her cozy paranormal series, The Family Skeleton mysteries.
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