Author S.A. Cosby has been presented with the Maltese Falcon Award for All the Sinners Bleed, after winning the award the previous year for his novel, Razorblade Tears. The award, presented by the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan, celebrates the best hard-boiled or private eye novel published in Japan in the previous year. Previous recipients have included Robert B. Parker, Lawrence Block, C.J. Box, Robert Crais, S.J. Rozan, Walter Mosley, Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly and Don Winslow, who was also a back-to-back winner in 2010 and 2011. (HT to the Gumshoe Site.)
The winners of the 2025 Colorado Book Awards were announced on July 26. Awards are presented in 16 categories by Colorado Humanities to celebrate the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers. The Best Mystery finalists include Death Valley Duel by Scott Graham (Torrey House Press); A Dream in the Dark by Robert Justice (Crooked Lane Books); and Play of Shadows by Barbara Nickless (Thomas & Mercer). The Best Thriller nods are: Anyone But Her by Cynthia Swanson (Columbine York); The Father She Went to Find by Carter Wilson (Sourcebooks); and If You Lie by Caleb Stephens (Thrillserscape Press).
The finalists were revealed for the 37th Lambda Literary Awards, celebrating outstanding LGBTQ+ voices in literature and storytelling. In the category of Best LGBTQ+ Mystery, the finalists include: Charlotte Illes is Not a Teacher by Katie Siegel (Kensington); One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole (William Morrow); Rough Pages by Lev AC Rosen (Tor Publishing Group); Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco (MCD); and The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani (Soho Crime). Winners will be announced at a ceremony held virtually on Saturday, October 4th as part of "Lammys Day" — an afternoon of virtual readings and panels featuring this year's finalists and special prize winners.
The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers announced this year's finalists and winners for the Scribe Awards, honoring excellence in the field of writing tie-in fiction for media franchises. Works can include novels, short stories, audio dramas, and graphic novels tied to licenses of movies, TV shows, video games, comics, songs, and book series. Some finalists of interest related to crime fiction readers include Star Cops – Blood Moon by James Swallow in the Audio Drama category; Alex Rider: Snakehead by Antony Johnston, which won the Graphic Novel category; plus A Bitter Taste: A Daidoji Shin Mystery by Josh Reynolds (winner) and Murder, She Wrote Murder Backstage by Terrie Farley Moran (finalist) in the category of Original Novel, General.
The Arthur Conan Doyle estate has struck a deal with the British production company Remarkable Entertainment to develop a reality competition show under the working title Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock: The Detective Academy. Not much it known about the project yet other than "it will "test players’ powers of deduction and logic as they attempt to solve puzzling crimes from the world of Sherlock Holmes." The move comes with big players tapping into well-known IP for the next generation of unscripted shows. Netflix, which made a hit game show based on its Squid Game smash, has also greenlit series based on the Monopoly game and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Janet Rudolph compiled a list of Summer Camp Crime Fiction for her Mystery Fanfare blog.
This week's crime poem up at the 5-2 Crime Poetry Weekly is "Orange Lies Matter" by Charles Rammelkamp.
In the Q&A roundup, E. B. Davis chatted with Valerie Burns at the Writers Who Kill blog about her Baker Street Mystery series; and Crime Watch's 9mm Series featured an interview with Chris Hammer, author of the Martin Scarsden novels, including Scrublands and Silver (both recently adapted into hit BBC dramas), along with a book series starring Aussie cops Ivan Lucic and Nell Buchanan.
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