Last week, the Australian Crime Writers Association announced the shortlist for the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards Best Debut Crime Fiction, and this week they continue the slow roll-out of award news with a revealing of the contenders for Best True Crime and Best International Crime Fiction. The True Crime finalists include: Crossing the Line: The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines by Nick McKenzie; Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr; The Murder Squad: How Australia's toughest cops hunted the monsters of the Great Depression by Michael Adams; Reckless by Marele Day; and The Teacher’s Pet by Hedley Thomas. The Best International Crime Fiction finalists are Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton; Dice by Claire Baylis; Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly; The Only Suspect by Louise Candlish; The Search Party by Hannah Richell; and Zero Days by Ruth Ware.
I somehow missed this one, but the Glass Key award, given annually to a crime novel by an author from the Nordic countries, named its 2024 winner back in June. Christoffer Carlsson won for his novel, Levende og døde (Living and Dead), which was also named Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year in 2023.
The recently announced 2024 longlist for the Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for a single work of fiction, contains two crime-related titles: Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses, which has been described as a "deftly told caper" by The Guardian, and Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, which "fuses a spy thriller with philosophical meditation" according to The Bookseller. They join other crime-themed books and authors from previous years such as Snap by Belinda Bauer, Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith, Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh, and and His Bloody Project by Graeme MaCrae Burnet, among others.
International Thriller Writers announced the 2025 honorees for ThrillerFest XX. The Thriller Masters are Janet Evanovich and John Grisham; the 2025 Silver Bullet Award honoree is James Patterson; the Spotlight Guests are Oyinkan Braithwaite and Jennifer Hillier; the 2025 Thriller Legend is Neil Nyren; and McKenna Jordan is the 2025 Thriller Fan. Registration is also now open for the event, which will take place June 17-21, 2025 at the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel in New York City.
Flatiron Books will launch a new imprint, Pine & Cedar Books, in summer 2025. Flatiron executive editor Christine Kopprasch has been named VP and publisher of the imprint, which will publish "compulsively readable, story-driven novels." Pine & Cedar’s inaugural list includes King of Ashes, the next novel from bestselling author S.A. Cosby, which Pine & Cedar bills as "a Black, Southern, Godfather-inspired crime epic," and is the first in a three-book deal. Also forthcoming from the imprint are We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough, marking the author's return to Flatiron, which published her 2017 bestseller Behind Her Eyes, and This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum, billed as "the rare novel that successfully combines a gripping, pace-driven thriller with the soul of an epic love story." The publisher said there is no set number of titles that it plans to publish annually.
In the Q&A roundup, Lisa Haselton chatted with novelist Manda Scott about her new mytho-political thriller, Any Human Power; Reed Farrel Coleman, whose new Nick Ryan novel is Blind to Midnight, stopped by Writers Read to talk about what he's currently reading; and Liz Alterman applied the Page 69 Test to her new domestic thriller, The House on Cold Creek Lane.
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