Today is Veteran's Day in the U.S., and Janet Rudolph has some resources for crime fiction related to veteran themes. (Note that she references an older post of mine on the topic, which you can find here.) Even more poignantly, today marks the 100th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
The An Post Irish Book Awards announced the 2021 shortlisted titles, including those in the running for Crime Fiction Book of the Year: 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard; All Her Fault by Andrea Mara; April in Spain by John Banville; The Dark Room by Sam Blake; The Devil’s Advocate by Steve Cavanagh; and The Killing Kind by Jane Casey.
Some of the UK’s top thriller, mystery and crime fiction authors have contributed to an anthology timed with World Kindness Day on November 13 to raise money for charity. All proceeds will go to Shelter, a charity that campaigns to end homelessness and support those affected. Everyday Kindness: A collection of uplifting tales to brighten your day, edited by LJ Ross, is being published via Dark Skies Publishing.
The Guardian profiled a new book by mortuary technician, Carla Valentine, which examines how advances in crime-fighting made their way into Agatha Christie’s novels.
CrimeReads held an online roundtable on the topic of class and social division in crime fiction, with participating authors Adrian McKinty, Laura McHugh, Angel Luis Colón, Julia Dahl, Joe Ide, and Lisa Levy.
The Wordsworth Edition website feautured the latest in an occasional series on profiles of classic crime authors, including detective fiction pioneer, Wilkie Collins, and Irish author, J.S. Le Fanu, who is credited with inventing the "locked-room mystery" with his story, "A Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess," published in 1838 (three years before Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"). (HT to The Bunburyist)
The Page 69 Test blog featured two crime fiction authors this week: Tara Laskowski, whose debut suspense novel, One Night Gone, won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and the Anthony Award and was a finalist for the Lefty, the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark, the Strand Critics, and the Library of VA Literary awards; and Alison Gaylin, an Edgar and Shamus Award winner. Laskowski's new novel is The Mother Next Door, while Gaylin's latest is The Collective.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is "State Prison, 1976" by Henry Stimpson.
In the Q&A roundup, Rachel Howzell Hall talked with CrimeReads about longhand, loves, office supplies, and one magical story about a lost manuscript; Deborah Kalb chatted with author Jean Hanff Korelitz about her new thriller novel, The Plot; Kalb also spoke with Gabrielle St. George about her new novel How to Murder a Marriage, the first in her Ex-Whisperer Files series; plus E. B. Davis interviewed Susan Van Kirk about The Witch’s Child, her fourth Endurance mystery, and chatted with V. M. Burns about Killer Words, her seventh Mystery Bookshop Mystery; and Crime Fiction Lover interviewed Tony J Forder about his latest novel, The Huntsmen.
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