THE WOLFE PACK AWARDS 2024: Nero Award and Black Orchid Novella Award

The Wolfe Pack announced the Nero Award for the best American Mystery written in the tradition of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories: 

Ariel Lawhon: The Frozen River. 

The Black Orchid Novella Award, presented jointly by The Wolfe Pack and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, celebrates the novella format popularized by Stout:

T. M. Bradshaw: "Double Take." It will be published in the July 2025 issue of AHMM. 

Honorable mentions for the Black Orchid Novella Award include Peter Hoppock's "Precipice"; Andrew Kass's "Deadline"; Jenny Ramaley's "Workplace Rules for a Fire-Breathing Dragon"; and Ella Rutledge's "Murder at the Y.T.D."

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