Goldsboro Books announced the longlist for the 2025 Glass Bell Award, celebrating the very best storytelling across all genres of contemporary fiction. Now in its ninth year, the Glass Bell Award "continues to champion compelling narratives, vivid settings, and unforgettable characters, regardless of where they sit on the shelf." The longlist contains a few crime fiction-related titles such as Hunted by Abir Mukherjee, The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet, All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker, and The List of Suspicious Things, by Jennie Godfrey. A shortlist is expected later this summer, with the winner to be announced in September. (HT to The Rap Sheet)
The MOTIVE Crime & Mystery Festival returns to the University of Toronto this Friday, June 27, through Sunday, June 29. Special guests include Gregg Hurwitz (the Orphan X series, Lisa Unger (Close Your Eyes and Count to Ten), Uzma Jalaluddin (Detective Aunty), Jonathan Whitelaw (The Garden Club Murders), and Linwood Barclay (Whistle). There will also be other talks and panels, including some on the craft of writing crime fiction and also forensic science; Toronto Crime Tours; and an immersive murder mystery featuring live music and a full bar.
The Toledo, Ohio Public Library, which hosts the Jennifer Fisher Nancy Drew Collection, posted videos from the April 2025 Nancy Drew 95th Anniversary Convention, including such presentations as "Collecting Nancy Drew" and a talk by Stacia Deutsch, who has written under the Nancy Drew pseudonym Carolyn Keene. (HT to The Bunburyist)
It seems that almost week, there's a news story making the headlines of a woman who's gone missing and the huge manhunt to find her. What those headlines don't reveal is that those individuals are almost always white. Yet, according to the FBI, in 2020, 40% of all women and girls reported missing were people of color (Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous), despite making up just 19% of the population. This week, Via Bantam profiled six novels for CrimeReads that draw attention to the ongoing epidemic of missing women of color.
If you're a fan of MC Beaton, Hachette is offering a summer sweepstakes where you can enter for a chance to win a bundle of the first three Hamish Macbeth books plus a tote bag. There will be three prize winners in all.
On the Mystery Fanfare blog, Janet Rudolph posted a list of summer crime fiction that exudes the heat and accompanying crime of summertime (omitting most Fourth of July and Labor Day Mysteries from this list because she'll update those specific lists later thiis summer).
This week's crime poem up at the 5-2 is "Trump Rehires Fired Federal Workers: The Voice of Truth" by Robert Cooperman.
In the Q&A roundup, Karin Slaughter (of the Will Trent series) spoke with The Express about the real life murders that helped inspire her thrilling new crime novel, We Are All Guilty Here; also in The Express, Mark Billingham revealed the George Floyd moment that forced him to reassess his approach to the cops in his new book... and the twist that will astonish readers; in an interview with People Magazine, Laura Lippman and Megan Abbott discussed their documentary obsessions, writing about money in crime fiction, and how much of their characters come from real life; and Writers Who Kill chatted with Molly MacRae about There’ll Be Shell To Pay, the second book in MacRae’s Haunted Shell Shop mystery series.
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