The Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance announced the finalists for the 2024 Maine Literary Awards, including those in the Crime Fiction category: Barbara Burt, Dissonance: A Novel of Music & Murder; Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Web; and Bryan Wiggins with Lee Thibodeau, The Corpse Bloom. The winners in all categories will be revealed on May 30.
Janet Rudolph of Mystery Fanfare alerted us to the passing of Camille Minichino. In addition to penning over twenty-five mystery novels, Camille was Past President and a member of NorCal Mystery Writers of America, NorCal Sisters in Crime, and the California Writers Club. She had originally received her Ph.D. in physics and served on the faculty of Golden Gate University, also working as a scientific editor in the Engineering Department of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her mysteries often had a science theme, such as the Periodic Table Mystery Series, but she also wrote the Miniature Mystery Series (as Margaret Grace), the Postmistress Mystery Series (as Jean Flowers), the Sophie Knowles Mystery Series (as Ada Madison), and the Alaskan Diner Mystery Series (as Elizabeth Logan).
The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, is presenting the exhibition "Mystery and Wonder: Highlights From The Illustration Collection" through June 16, 2024, drawing from the museum's permanent collection, which now holds almost 25,000 illustrations by prominent artists working across genres and time periods. Specific selections include Teresa Fasolino’s colorful, clue-filled mystery novel cover illustrations (e.g. the illustration for Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh); Thomas Woodruff’s ethereal book jacket art for best-selling novels by Anne Tyler and Gabriel García Márquez; steamy pulp illustrations by Everett Raymond Kinstler and Mort Kunstler; mystical three-dimensional illustrations for books and magazines by Joan Hall; fictional American histories by Julian Allen; a fun and engaging Rockwell Who-Dun-It; and a brand new Rockwell acquisition that offers mysteries of its own.
At the recent Malice Domestic conference in Bethesda, Maryland, the special guests for the 2025 event, April 26-28, were announced including: Lifetime Achievement Recipient, Elaine Viets; Guest of Honor, Sujata Massey; Toastmaster, Lori Rader-Day; Fan Guest of Honor, Joni Langevoort; and Amelia Honoree, Kristopher Zgorski (with a special remembrance of Tony Hillerman). Likewise, the Left Coast Crime Conference, to be held in Denver, Colorado, March 13-16, 2025, revealed its special guests, to include Guests of Honor, Sara Paretsky and Manuel Ramos; Fan of Honor, Grace Koshida; and Toastmaster, John Copenhaver. Be sure and mark your calendars with the dates.
In the Q&A roundup, Lisa Haselton chatted with Kevin R. Doyle, author of the Sam Quinton mystery series and several standalone crime and horror thrillers; Clea Simon, author or over three dozen mysteries, applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Bad Boy Beat, which kicks off a fast-paced amateur sleuth series starring Em Kelton, a Boston crime reporter with a nose for news; and E.B. Davis interviewed Annette Dashofy for the Writers Who Kill blog about her latest novel, What Comes Around.
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