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The Story Behind the Story: “Time Will Break the World,” by Aaron Jacobs(Editor’s note: This is the 96th entry in The Rap Sheet’s “ Story Behind the Story ” series. It comes from Aaron Jacobs , who lives mostly in...
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Preliminary ResultsThe social cataloguing site Goodreads is up with its list of “ Readers’ Top New Mysteries from the First Half of 2023 .” It includes works by...
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Ms. Allen, Meet Mr. HammettAtlanta, Georgia, author Samantha Jayne Allen’s first novel, Pay Dirt Road (Minotaur), has been announced as the winner of the 2023 Hammett...
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A Few Tidbits to Share• Today brings the official release of Lawrence Block’s The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder (LB Productions), plus an interview with the...
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Harts in the GameSisters in Crime (SinC) has announced that Nicole Prewitt of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will be given the 2023 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction...
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PaperBack: “Wild and Wicked”Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider . Wild and Wicked , by “Laura Duchamp,” aka Sally Singer...
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Speaking PartsI haven’t spent as much time recently as I used to collecting and posting about author interviews of probable interest to fans of crime, mystery,...
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Revue of Reviewers: 6-19-23Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more....
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Boynton Gets the RopeTwenty-nine-year-old British actress Lucy Boynton , who stood out so smartly in the small-screen flicks The Ipcress File and Why Didn't They...
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Bullet Points: Father’s Day Edition• Mystery Fanfare reminds us that tonight will bring the U.S. broadcast, on PBS-TV, of the first episode (of three) in the very last season of...
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So Much Crime for the SummertimePhilip Marlowe is heading back to Los Angeles’ mean streets. Over the more than half a dozen decades since Raymond Chandler released...
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Bloody Well DeservingThis year’s Bloody Scotland crime-writing festival, which is slated to take place in Stirling, Scotland, from September 15 to 17, has announced...
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Dangerous Dads and Perfidious PapasThis coming Sunday is Father’s Day here in the U.S. of A. Not surprisingly, Mystery Fanfare blogger Janet Rudolph has updated her annual list of...
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Saluting ScrivenorIn other news today of crime-fiction prizes, we hear from In Reference to Murder that winners have been selected in this year’s Lambda Literary...
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High Stakes at HarrogateThere are half a dozen works shortlisted for the 2023 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award, organized by Harrogate International...
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PaperBack: “Hunter at Large”Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider . Hunter at Large , by Thomas B. Dewey (Permabooks, 1963)....
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Don’t Mess with TextsAs The Spy Command’s Bill Koenig noted this week: The Washington Post , in an editorial, has come out against revisions to decades-old novels....
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Gratitude for GumshoesJohn Shepphird, chairperson of the Private Eye Writers of America, has announced the nominees for this year’s Shamus Awards. Best P.I....
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Cementing Lesser’s LegacyLeft: Pleasant Places , by Samuel A. Schreiner, Jr. (Fawcett Crest, 1978). Right: Bombshell , by G.G. Fickling (Pyramid, 1964)....
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Critical DecisionsToday brought word from The Strand Magazine of its nominees, in two different categories, for the 2023 Strand Magazine Critics Awards....
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Bullet Points: Smoky Skies Edition• London-based Goldsboro Books has announced its longlist of contenders for the 2023 Glass Bell Award, which “celebrates the best storytelling...
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The Story Behind the Story: The Nik Byron Investigations, by Mark Pawlosky(Editor’s note: This is the 95th entry in The Rap Sheet’s “ Story Behind the Story ” series. Its author is award-winning reporter, editor, and...
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Action! Suspense! Danger! Prizes!This evening’s concluding banquet at ThrillerFest XVIII in New York City brought an announcement of which books and authors have won the 2023...
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Block from the BeginningConsider this an early birthday present to Lawrence Block , the prolific New York crime fictionist and Mystery Writers of America Grand Master who...
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Egg All Over My FaceSo I was wrong when I confidently declared , this last November, that British author and clinical psychologist Frank Tallis would debut an eighth...
