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The Maltese Falcon Society of Japan has named S.A. Cosby’s Razorblade Tears (first published by Flatiron Books in 2021) as the winner of its 2024 Maltese Falcon Award. The honor is bestowed upon the best hard-boiled/private eye novel published in Japan in the previous year. Cosby will receive a wood-crafted Falcon statuette. (HT to the Gumshoe Site by way of The Rap Sheet)

Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the shortlist for the 24th Davitt Awards for best crime and mystery books. Members of the organization are also able to vote on the Davitt Readers' Choice Award through the end of July. The Best Adult novel category include Bronwyn Hall, The Chasm (HQ Fiction); Amanda Hampson, The Tea Ladies (Penguin Random House); Marija Pericic, Exquisite Corpse (Ultimo Press); and also four debut novels, Christine Keighery, The Half Brother (Ultimo Press); Suzie Miller, Prima Facie (Pan Macmillan Australia); Darcy Tindale, The Fall Between (Penguin Random House); and Monica Vuu, When One of Us Hurts (Pan Macmillan Australia).

The BloodShed is a new, interactive crime fiction festival to be held in Swindon, UK, which will bring authors and readers together - with writing workshops led by published crime authors from across the UK. There will also be a variety of panel interviews, and the chance to show off your sleuthing ability against those who write mysteries for a living. More details will be forthcoming soon about this event, scheduled for October 18-20, 2024.

On the heels of Jo Callaghan winning the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024 for In the Blink of an Eye, T&R Theakston Limited announced it's extending its partnership with Harrogate International Festivals to continue sponsoring the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, a partnership that's been in place for 20 years. The festival has attracted internationally best-selling authors such as Val McDermid, Denise Mina, S A Cosby, P D James, Lee Child, John Grisham, Michael Connolly, Ian Rankin, and Harlan Coben.

It's always difficult to keep up with all the end-of-the-year "best" crime fiction lists, but Parade Magazine decided to get a head start with "The 29 Best Mystery, Thriller and True Crime Books of 2024…so Far."

In the Q&A roundup, Criminal Element's Lisa Pulitzer interviewed her A Hunger to Kill co-author, Detective Kim Mager, about Mager's writing experience as a first-time author, goals for sharing the previously unrevealed details behind breaking open the Shawn Grate case, as well as personal details about her life as a mom, wife, and female police detective; and at Writers Who Kill, E.B. Davis interviewed Valerie Burns about the third book in her Baker Street series, titled A Cup of Flour, A Pinch of Death.