The Irish books of the year were announced yesterday, including Crime Fiction Book of the Year, which was awarded to 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard. The other finalists in that category include All Her Fault by Andrea Mara; April in Spain by John Banville; The Dark Room by Sam Blake; The Devil’s Advocate by Steve Cavanagh; and The Killing Kind by Jane Casey.
Another award, however, doesn't have similar good news to share as word comes that the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction has been put on indefinite hold. The honor, sponsored by the University of Alabama School of Law, was created in 2010 and had been "awarded annually to a published work of fiction that best illuminates the role of lawyers in society and their power to effect change." (HT to The Rap Sheet)
D.C. Noir at the Bar returns on December 5 in a virtual event online hosted by E.A. Aymar. Authors scheduled to participate with readings from their books include Yasin Angoe, Amy Grech, Silvio Moreno-Garcia, Glen Erik Hamilton, Eliza Nellums, with music via Sara Jones and a custom cocktail from Chantal Tseng. The event is in support of partner store, One More Page Books.
Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, the National Centre for the Written Word in South Shields, England, is offering an online version of its exhibition, "Investigating Detectives," (which will be on display until March 2022). The virtual exhibit investigates the greatest fictional detectives and their authors, profiles the best known on-screen detectives, studies crime-busting techniques, and examines the enduring appeal of literary and on-screen detective stories. Some of the sleuths included are Inspector Bucket, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Miss Marple. Also included are children's mysteries, subgenres such as hardboiled and Nordic noir, and forensic history. (HT to The Bunburyist)
The Winter Issue #170 of Mystery Scene Magazine is out with Kevin Burton Smith's annual "Mystery Scene Gift Guide"; a cover feature of Patricia Cornwell, whose debut Postmortem first appeared in 1990; Craig Sisterson makes the case that the origins of the current gritty Golden Age of television started before The Sopranos with NYPD Blue; John B. Valeri talks to Rhys Bowen about her historical mysteries; Jon L. Breen takes a look at an unlikely sleuth: Edna Ferber, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Showboat and Giant among other works, who's been reimagined by author Ed Ifkovic as solver of mysteries; and Oline Cogdill interviews writer-director Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and many more).
The Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast has a bonus Thanksgiving mystery short story, "The Chicken Pot Pie Fiasco," written by Sandra Murphy and read by actor Duncan Hoge.
Kings River Life has some food mysteries for your Thanksgiving feast and a chance to enter to win a copy of all 5 books.
Janet Rudolph's Mystery Fanfare blog has an updated list of crime fiction with a Thanksgiving theme.
The writers over at the Mystery Lovers Kitchen blog have shared some Thanksgiving recipe ideas for you including No-Churn Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream, courtesy of Peg Cochran; Libby Dodd's Fresh Cranberry Relish; Cornish Hen via Maya Corrigan; and much more.
This is something law enforcement are probably thankful about this year: a hire-a-hitman website that isn't exactly what it seems.
And I would be personally astonished, if not grateful, to discover a secret passageway in a 500-year-old house, like Freddy Goodall of Brighton, England did recently.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is "The Devil Has Gone Home" by Sharon Waller Knutson.
In the Q&A roundup, Author Interviews spoke with Joy Castro, the award-winning author of the post-Katrina New Orleans literary thriller, Hell or High Water, which received the Nebraska Book Award; Indie Crime Scene interviewed Bobby Nash, author of the SNOW series and more; and NPR's Fresh Air spoke with Ryan Busse, a former gun industry insider who explains why he left to fight for the other side, in his new book, Gunfight.
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