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Prime Cases of Scandi CrimeDrawing from what is described as a “significantly increased number of entries,” organizers of the annual Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian...
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Hammer’s Silver Screen Return?Mickey Spillane’s New York City private eye Mike Hammer has featured in multiple films over the years, both on the big screen and on television....
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The Neddies Are ComingThe Australian Crime Writers Association today announced its shortlist of contenders for the 2023 Ned Kelly Awards (aka “Neddies”). Best True...
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Bullet Points: No Indictments Here EditionI’m sorry this blog has offered nothing but crickets over the last week, but several things in my personal life demanded attention. With those now...
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Revue of Reviewers: 7-28-23Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more....
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Aussie Women at Center StageSisters in Crime Australia has revealed its shortlist of nominees for the 2023 Davitt Awards. Those prizes, which are supposed to identify the...
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Voices CarryI’m not a great collector of Web-based interviews with crime, mystery, and thriller novelists. Much better at that enterprise are the folks behind...
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PaperBack: “Brain Guy”Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider . Brain Guy , by Benjamin Appel (Lion Library, 1957)....
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And Did I Happen to Mention …?• British author Kim Sherwood has announced the title of her second Double O novel, the sequel to last year’s Double or Nothing . It will be...
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Silver SpecialsOrganizers of this year’s Killer Nashville convention, set to take place in Franklin, Tennessee, from August 17 to 20, have released their lists...
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Bullet Points: Changes and Chan Edition• The Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America will soon begin accepting entries to its 7th annual Six-Word Mystery Contest. The idea...
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Craven Picks Up Peculier PrizeWord reaches us this morning that M.W. Craven has scored the 2023 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award for his book The Botanist...
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Macavitys Seek Their Proper HomesToday brings an announcement of the 2023 Macavity Award nominees, in five categories. Winners will be chosen by a vote among members of Mystery...
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Coming First to British ScreensVienna Blood , the British-Austrian psychological crime drama based on a popular series of novels by Frank Tallis, has been commissioned for a...
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Just One More to GoBritish critic-raconteur Mike Ripley, who announced earlier this year that he is retiring his long-running Shots column, “Getting Away with...
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Revue of Reviewers: 7-14-23Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more....
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Courting Favor in BlightyWhile I was taking an early summer break away from my desk last week, the British Crime Writers’ Association announced the winners of its 2023...
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PaperBack: “The Rich Crowd”Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider . The Rich Crowd , by Alexander Fedoroff (Fawcett Crest, 1972)....
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Rozan Takes Japanese HonorJapan’s Maltese Falcon Society has selected New York architect/writer S.J. Rozan as the 2023 recipient of its Falcon Award for her novel Paper...
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Playing HookyJust a quick note here, to let readers know that I shall be taking a brief break from blogging in order to enjoy some summer sunshine and the...
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Send Your Dampness and Darkness HereAs we mentioned just recently, Western Washington writer and sometime Rap Sheet contributor Jim Thomsen has been enlisted to edit an anthology of...
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Can You Ever Have Too Many Books?It’s the beginning of a new month—time to take another look at The Rap Sheet’s extensive list of crime, mystery, and thriller novels debuting this...
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Revue of Reviewers: 7-1-23Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more....
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Applauded in AotearoaOrganizers of New Zealand’s Ngaio Marsh Awards have announced their longlist of 14 nominees for the 2023 Best Novel prize: • Too Far from...
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Initial AttractionsBook lists are so popular, it’s no wonder that we have already seen two curated collections of the “best crime, mystery, and thriller books of 2023...
