The results of the judges' Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Top Picks are in for the 2024 Silver Falchion Awards for published novels and the Claymore Award for unpublished manuscripts. The announcement of the finalists in each category will be announced soon, with winners revealed at the Killer Nashville Awards Dinner on August 23, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Framingham and Ashland Public Libraries are presenting the panel, "When the Mysteries Aren't Cozy: The Intersection of Horror and Crime Fiction," on July 17 from 6:30-8:30pm in Framingham, Massachusetts. Errick Nunnally will oversee the panel, featuring participating authors V. Castro (Bram Stoker award nominated writer), Margot Douaihy (Scorched Grace, named a Best Crime Novel of 2023 by The New York Times), and Gabino Iglesias (author of the Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning novel, The Devil Takes You Home). The authors will also be available for a book sale and signing following the panel.
Marcy McCreary (The Disappearance of Trudy Solomon), Tracy Sierra (Nightwatching), and Vanessa Lillie (Blood Sisters) will participate in a "Women in Crime Fiction" panel discussion, Q&A, and book signing on Saturday, July 20th at 3:00 at the Hingham, MA, Barnes & Noble. Journalist Marisa Olsen will be moderating the panel for a discussion of what inspires the authors to create stories with compelling female protagonists, the women writers they admire, and some of their favorite female characters in the mystery/thriller/suspense genre.
Heading Downunder, the Woollahra Library at Double Bay will host "Writers & Readers: Wine & Crime Panel" on July 24, featuring a panel discussion with crime authors Candice Fox (winner of the Ned Kelly Award and a collaborator with James Patterson), Dinuka McKenzie (author of the Detective Kate Miles crime series), and Petronella McGovern (The Last Trace), hosted by Claudine Tinellis.
Left Coast Crime announced that the 2026 conference will be held in San Francisco, California from February 26 to March 1, returning to the city for the first time since Left Coast Crime #1 and #2 were held there in 1991 and 1992. The 36th annual convention will be held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on the Embarcadero, complete with San Francisco Cable Car stops and the Presidio Go Shuttle, which provides free trips to the historic Presidio (a National Park Site). From the nearby Port of San Francisco, you can catch a ferry to Alcatraz, Angel Island, Treasure Island, Jack London Square in Oakland, and many other destinations. More information about the convention's schedule will appear on the LCC 2026 website this fall.
Janet Rudolph has updated her list of crime fiction titles themed around The Fourth of July (Independence Day), with a little something for everyone's taste.
In the Q&A roundup, Rachel Howzell Hall, a two-time Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist as well as an Anthony, Edgar, International Thriller Writers, and Lefty Award nominee, applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, What Fire Brings; Kellye Garrett spoke with Crime Fiction Lover during the recent Capital Crime Festival in London about her latest novel, Missing White Woman, and her journey as a crime author; and Writers Who Kill's E. B. Davis interviewed Susan Van Kirk about Death in a Ghostly Hue, her third book in the Art Center Mystery series.
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