Happy Valentine's Day week to all! If you're in the mood for loving on some criminally good reading, check out Janet Rudolph's list of Valentine's Day Crime Fiction (and note that Janet also has another appropriate blog titled Dying for Chocolate).
Hardboiled Wonderland has been featuring a two-week series of "My Felonious Valentine" - crime movies with a touch of romance.
The Mystery Lovers Kitchen has a variety of recipes from the blog's authors, including a few Valentine's Day offerings: Cleo Coyle's Festive Valentine Side Dish and Valentine's Day Chocolate Heart Cookies from Ellie Alexander.
AudioFiles Magazine has a list for you of "Audiobooks for Valentine’s Day: Crime-Solving Couples."
This Saturday, February 15, Mystery Writers of America's Northern California branch will feature a panel on "The Why of Where: Crime Writers Talk About the Sense of Place in Crime Fiction." The event will include Nancy Tingley (moderator), Glenda Carroll, Priscilla Royal, Susan C. Shea, and Domenic Stansberry at the Petaluma Regional Library in Petaluma, CA. And coming up February 19, the chapter will present NorCal Noir: An Evening with Mystery Writers of America featuring Reece Hirsch (moderator), Michael Nava, Claire Ortalda, and Lisa Towles at the Oakland Public Library.
The Mystery Writers of America announced the schedule of Edgar Week activities coming up in New York City this spring. On April 29th, a symposium will feature several panels on various aspects of writing crime fiction with moderators Alex Segura, S.J. Rozan, Laurie R. King, Susan Breen, Nora McFarland, and James L’Etoile. And the evening includes Oline Cogdill (2013 Raven Award winner) interviewing the MWA 2020 Grand Master, Barbara Neely. Thursday, April 30 will see the annual Edgar Awards banquet at the Grand Hyatt Hotel emceed by current MWA president, Meg Gardiner. More information and tickets are available via the MWA website.
The stories of locked-room king Seishi Yokomizo, considered the master of ingenious plotting with a reputation in Japan to rival Agatha Christie’s, were long unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The first English version of The Honjin Murders was only published last year when Pushkin Vertigo released Louise Heal Kawai’s translation - 73 years after the original novel first appeared in Japan. And now, the indie press is also publishing Yumiko Yamazaki’s translation of Kindaichi’s second outing, The Inugami Curse. The Honjin Murders novel won Yokomizo the first Mystery Writers of Japan award in 1948, and its protagonist, the scruffy amateur sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi, went on to star in another 76 novels, selling more than 55 million books and appearing in numerous television and stage adaptations.
There's a call for abstracts for "Through a Glass Darkly: European History and Politics in Contemporary Crime Narratives." The publication seeks to uncover the ways in which the crime genre, in all of its multiple guises, has "investigated and interrogated the concealed histories and political underpinnings of national and supranational societies and institutions in Europe," particularly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. If you are interested in submitting a proposal to be considered for inclusion in this volume, send an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short biography to info@detect-project.eu by May 31, 2020.
Organizers of the upcoming Granite Noir conference in Aberdeen, to be held February 20 to 23, asked some of the authors who will be appearing, "why women matter in crime fiction," with a selection of their favorite female sleuths.
Via the Washington Times: "How Dashiell Hammett put true crime to paper." Hammett’s stories took on a feel of realism and authenticity thanks to his experiences as a Pinkerton detective which he used to craft his fictional stories - true crimes, nicknames, slang, dramatic situations, and characters based on people he met.
Elizabeth Foxwell pointed out a fun link: History Extra of BBC History Magazine looked at the history of Scotland Yard including Charles Frederick Field (the model for Dickens's Inspector Bucket in Bleak House). The article also covers fictional Yard representatives such as Wilkie Collins's Sergeant Cuff, John Creasey's George Gideon, Andrew J. Forrester Jr.'s Mrs. G, and P. D. James's Adam Dalgleish.
Robert Dugoni, bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series, the Charles Jenkins Series and the David Sloane series, took the Page 69 Test to his new Tracy Crosswhite novel, A Cold Trail. Not to be outdone, Hilary Davidson also took the challenge with her new standalone thriller, Don't Look Down.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is "Marks" by Peter M. Gordon.
In the Q&A roundup, Writers Who Kill blogger E. B. Davis Interviewed Rhys Bowen about Above The Bay of Angels, set in London and Nice during the last years of Queen Victoria’s reign; The Book People's Scott Montgomery welcomed Nick Petrie for a discussion of the author's new book, The Wild One, which features Peter Ash, a drifting marine vet who suffers from PTSD; Peter Burke chatted with Will Shindler, author of the debut crime novel, The Burning Men; the Dirty Books Blog had a Q&A with Daniel Vlasaty about his new book, Stay Ugly; and Liz Moore spoke with Libro.fm about her audiobook, Long Bright River.
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