MALTESE FALCON AWARD (Japan) 2025

S.A. Cosby was awarded the Falcon for best crime novel for All The Sinners Bleed by The Maltese Falcon Society of Japan. Congratulations, Shawn!

And, The Rap Sheet tells us that Netflix is adapting All the Sinners Bleed into a 9-episode TV series. Filming begins in November for a 2027 debut. 

Photo: S. A. Cosby with the award which is a hand carved falcon. (Photo from S. A. Cosby Facebook page)

JAPANESE MALTESE FALCON AWARD

S.J. ROZAN has won the Japanese Maltese Falcon Award for Paper Son. The award is given by the members of the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan for the best hardboiled novel published in Japan. Paper Son came out in 2019 in the U.S., but came out in Japan in 2022.