At the recent Maine Literary Awards presentation, bestselling author Tess Gerritsen (author of the Rizzoli & Isles series) received an award for distinguished achievement for "exceptional and steadfast contributions to the Maine literary arts." Katherine Hall Page also won the Crime Fiction category for her novel, The Body in the Web. The other finalists in that same category included Barbara Burt for Dissonance: A Novel of Music & Murder; and Bryan Wiggins (with Lee Thibodeau) for The Corpse Bloom.
On June 8, both in-person and online, the Friends of the Ferguson Library and the Mystery Writers of America's New York Chapter are sponsoring CrimeCONN, Connecticut's annual mystery writer and mystery fan conference. This year's theme is History, Headlines and Heroes, and Reed Farrel Coleman will start off the proceedings with a writing workshop and also appear later in the day in a conversation with Megan Abbott. In addition to other writing panels, forensic scientist Michelle Clark and Detective Tammy Murray will explain how real-life cold cases are tracked down and solved. Follow this link for more information and registration.
Goldsboro Books is launching a crime-themed subscription service, the Goldsboro Crime Collective, in September. The London-based shop, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, said of its latest subscription box: "Goldsboro Crime Collective introduces an original concept, offering subscribers meticulously curated selections of beautifully designed, signed first-edition crime novels." Priced at £20 a month, members will receive exclusive access to upcoming releases, chapter previews, giveaways, and a discount on crime fiction books at Goldsboro. Each monthly pick, chosen by the store’s team of booksellers, will also be accompanied by exclusive author content.
As posted on CrimeReads, Curtis Evans, who wrote the introduction to S.S. Murder by Q. Patrick (American Mystery Classics), profiled one of the great, underappreciated writers of the Golden Age, "Q. Patrick," who was not just one author, but four. The pen name was launched in 1931 by thirty-year-old Philadelphia pharmaceutical executive Richard “Rickie” Wilson Webb, who also partnered with Hugh Wheeler to write under three pseudonyms, Q. Patrick, Patrick Quentin and Jonathan Stagge, producing "some of mystery fiction’s finest crime novels."
In Sarah Weinman's latest crime fiction column for The New York Times, she made note of two legendary fictional detectives taking their final cases, with Jacqueline Winspear retiring Maisie Dobbs, and Susan Elia MacNeal bidding farewell to Maggie Hope. The Comfort of Ghosts is the 18th outing for Dobbs, the "plucky and resourceful British investigator and psychologist" whom Jacqueline Winspear introduced in 2003, and The Last Hope is the 11th installment for Maggie Hope, once Winston Churchill’s secretary and now "a capable and shrewd spy." Winspear also paid tribute to her literary creation in her newsletter on her website.
In the Q&A roundup, Catriona McPherson, author of the Dandy Gilver historical detective stories, the Last Ditch mysteries, and more, applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Deep Beneath Us; Deborah Kalb interviewed author Lori Roy about her new novel, Lake County; Jill Amadio chatted with Michael Finkel, author of True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa; debut crime fiction author Angela van Breemen spoke with Lisa Haselton about her new paranormal novel, Past Life’s Revenge, the first book in the David Harris and Emma Jackson mystery series; Crime Time interviewed Mark Billingham about leaving Tom Thorne behind – albeit temporarily – and starting a new series; and crime writer Paul Cleave chatted with the New Zealand Herald about taking part in Cunard’s inaugural Literature Festival at Sea voyage.
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