The finalists for the 44th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced last week, including those titles in the Mystery/Thriller category: Lou Berney, Dark Ride; S. A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed; Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows; Cheryl A. Head, Time’s Undoing; and Ivy Pochoda, Sing Her Down. The awards ceremony will take place April 19 at USC’s Bovard Auditorium on the eve of the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
The 2024 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Longlist was announced, and among the contenders for the £25,000 prize are a few crime fiction titles: Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein, a sweeping mystery story of two families colliding in 1940s Trinidad; My Father’s House (The Rome Escape Line Trilogy Book 1) by Joseph O’Connor, inspired by the extraordinary true story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who risked his life to smuggle Jews and escaped Allied prisoners out of Italy right under the nose of the Nazis; The Fraud by Zadie Smith, set against an infamous legal trial that divided Victorian England; and Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson, about a woman traumatized by the Highland Clearances, where a significant number of tenants in the Scottish Highlands and Islands were forcibly evicted from 1750 to 1860.
PulpFest 2024, "Spice, Spies, Shaw," is scheduled for August 1-4 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh in Mars, PA. This year's event will include a celebration of Joe Shaw, editor of Black Mask magazine beginning in 1926, who oversaw the focus on the hardboiled style featuring the prose of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Raoul Whitfield, George Harmon Coxe, Roger Torrey, Forrest Rosaire, Paul Cain, Lester Dent, and others. PulpFest will also have a dealers' room featuring pulps, vintage paperbacks and hardcovers, original art, and more, plus an auction on Saturday night featuring more of the same.
Mystery Readers Journal: Murder Takes a Holiday! is seeking articles, reviews, and author essays about mysteries that take place on vacation: Resorts, Family Reunions, Cruises, etc. Author essays are first person, about yourself, your books, and the "Murder Takes a Holiday" connection. Author Essays: 500-100 words. Treat this as if you're chatting with friends and other writers in the bar or cafe (or on zoom) about your work and the "Vacation" setting in your mysteries. Be sure and cite specific titles, as well as how you use Murder Takes a Holiday in your books. For more information, follow this link.
This year, independent publisher Crippen and Landru celebrates its 30th anniversary. It was founded in 1994 by Douglas Greene, author of the Edgar–nominated biography, John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles, and the editor of several anthologies of short stories. The company specializes in story collections including current authors and "classics" of uncollected stories by great mystery and detective writers of the past. Jeffrey Marks took over as publisher when Greene retired from that role in 2018, although Doug continues as Senior Editor where he works on new Edward Hoch collections and an upcoming Carr collection. (HT to Lesa Holstine and Martin Edwards)
In the Q&A roundup, Steve Weddle, former newspaper editor, cofounder of the crime fiction collective Do Some Damage, and co-creator of the noir magazine Needle, was featured on Writer Interviews discussing The County Line, an Amazon First Reads selection; Criminal Element interviewed Christina Estes about her mystery debut, Off the Air; and Jeffrey Siger applied the Page 69 Test to his latest Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis mystery thriller, At Any Cost.
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