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Macavity MagicThe finalists for the 2023 Macavity Awards were announced this morning by Mystery Readers Journal editor, Janet Rudolph. The honorees are...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books - I'll Sing You Two-OAnthea Mary Fraser (born 1930) was inspired by her novelist-mother to be a writer, but her own first published novel had to wait until 1970....
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Capital Crime's Fingerprint AwardsThe shortlist for the second Fingerprint Awards, the international book awards held as part of the Capital Crime festival, was revealed...
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Dazzling DaggersThe Crime Writers Association (CWA) announced the Dagger Awards Winners last night . The prestigious CWA...
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Theakston ShortlistA shortlist has been released for this year's Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, which "celebrates crime fiction at its...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: The Hanging Doll MurderIt's amazing that Roger Ormerod (1920-2005), a native of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, managed to end up as writer, given his...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: Gideon's FireTell most authors they must write 10,000 words a day — in longhand —toward the goal of creating some 600 books in their lifetime, and they...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: Home is the PrisonerJean Catherine Potts (1910-1999) started out writing mystery short stories, many of which appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine ,...
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Bloody GoodThis year’s Bloody Scotland crime-writing festival, which will take place in Stirling, Scotland, from September 15 to 17, announced the...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books - Voice Out of DarknessUrsula Reilly Curtiss (1923-1984) came into the world with fairly impressive crime-fiction genes. Her mother, Helen Reilly, her sister, Mary...
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Shamus SupremacyVia PWA Awards Chairperson John Shepphird, the Private Eye Writers of America announced the finalists for the 2023 Shamus Awards. The annual...
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The Strand's 2023 Best of the BestQuarterly crime-fiction and mystery magazine The Strand has announced its list of nominees for the annual Strand Magazine Critics Awards....
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: The Chinese Femme FataleThe term "femmes fatales" is from French for "fatal women," but its origins date back to the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Hindu cultures, and of...
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A Thrill a Minute (or Two)The winners of seven categories in the 2023 Thriller Awards were announced last night at the celebratory dinner at ThrillerFest XVIII...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books:Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire in 1947 but lived in Florence, Italy, from 1975 until her death in 2007. She wrote both children's...
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In Reference to ExcellenceI'd planned on compiling a list of the award-winning nonfiction/reference crime books from last year's awards cycle, oh, somewhere back in...
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Author R&R With Katie GraykowskiTexas writer, Katie Graykowski, is a #1 Amazon and international bestselling author of 20+novels, including several romance and young adult...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books - The Cape Cod MysteryAt this time of year, my thoughts turn to summer vacations that bubble up from my memories of bygone days. My family always managed to travel...
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Canadian AccoladesCrime Writers of Canada (CWC) announced the winners for the 2023 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing....
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Author R&R with Simon MarloweBritish author, Simon Marlowe, often uses the thriller genre to tell stories which combine realism with a blend of the surreal. He published...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books - Fool's GoldEdward John "Ted" Wood, was born in Sussex, England in 1931 and served in the RAF following the Second World War. In 1954 he emigrated to...
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Author R&R with Verlin DarrowVerlin Darrow is a psychotherapist who lives with his psychotherapist wife in the woods near the Monterey Bay in northern California. They...
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The Crème de la crème at CrimeFestThe winners of the 16th CrimeFest awards, honoring the best crime books released in the UK last year, were revealed at a...
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Dagger DelightsThe 2023 shortlists for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards were announced, honoring the very best in...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books - She Shall Have MurderDelano Ames (1906-1987) was born in Ohio to a newspaperman father. In 1929 Ames married Maysie Grieg, who later became a highly successful...
