NGAIO MARSH AWARDS FINALISTS

2025 Ngaio Marsh Awards Finalists

The finalists for the 2025 Ngaio Marsh Awards were announced in three categories: Best Novel, Best First Novel, and Best Non-Fiction. 

The Awards celebrate excellence in mystery, thriller, crime, and suspense writing by New Zealand authors. 

The winners will be announced as part of a special event in conjunction with WORD Christchurch and the Court Theatre on Thursday, 25 September. 

Thanks, Craig Sisterson, for all you do for New Zealand crime writers, as well as for the entire mystery community. 

BEST NOVEL

• Return To Blood by Michael Bennett (Simon & Schuster)
• A Divine Fury by DV Bishop (Macmillan)
• Woman, Missing by Sherryl Clark (HarperCollins)
• Home Truths by Charity Norman (Allen & Unwin)
• 17 Years Later by JP Pomare (Hachette)
• The Call by Gavin Strawhan (Allen & Unwin)
• Prey by Vanda Symon (Orenda Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL

• Dark Sky by Marie Connolly (Quentin Wilson Publishing)
• Lie Down With Dogs by Syd Knight (Rusty Hills)
• A Fly Under The Radar by William McCartney 
• The Defiance Of Frances Dickinson by Wendy Parkins (Affirm Press)
• The Call by Gavin Strawhan (Allen & Unwin)
• Kiss Of Death by Stephen Tester (Heritage Press)

BEST NONFICTION

• The Trials Of Nurse Kerr by Scott Bainbridge (Bateman Books)
• The Survivors by Steve Braunias (HarperCollins)
• The Crewe Murders by Kirsty Johnstone & James Hollings (Massey Uni Press)
• The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour & Jude Dobson (Allen & Unwin)
• Gangster’s Paradise by Jared Savage (HarperCollins)
• Far North by David White & Angus Gillies (Upstart Press)

Ned Kelly Awards Shortlists: Australian Crime Writers Association

The Australian Crime Writers Association announced three new shortlists for the 2025 Ned Kelly Awards. 

Best True Crime Nominees

They’ll Never Hold Me, by Michael Adams (Affirm Press)
A Thousand Miles from Care, by Steve Johnson (William Collins)
The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop, by Neil Mercer (Allen & Unwin)
Meadow’s Law, by Quentin McDermott (HarperCollins)
The Lasting Harm, by Lucia Osborne-Crowley (HarperCollins)

Best International Crime Fiction Nominees

Return to Blood, by Michael Bennett (Simon & Schuster UK)
Leave the Girls Behind, by Jacqueline Bublitz (Allen & Unwin)
The Waiting, by Michael Connelly (Allen & Unwin)
A Case of Matricide, by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Text)
Moscow X, by David McCloskey (Swift Press)
Home Truths, by Charity Norman (Allen & Unwin)

Best Crime Fiction Nominees

Shadow City, by Natalie Conner

Sanctuary, by Garry Disher

Unbury the Dead, by Fiona Hardy

The Creeper, by Margaret Hickey

Cold Truth, by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

Highway 13, by Fiona McFarlane

17 Years Later, by J.P. Pomare

Storm Child, by Michael Robotham

The winners, along with Best Debut Crime Fiction, will be awarded in September.

British CWA Dagger Awards

The British Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) announced the winners of the 2025 Dagger Awards. Congratulations to all!

Gold Dagger:
The Book of Secrets, by Anna Mazzola (Orion)

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger:
Dark Ride, by Lou Berney (Hemlock Press)

ILP John Creasey Dagger (New Blood):
All Us Sinners, by Katy Massey (Sphere)

Historical Dagger:
The Betrayal of Thomas True, by A.J. West (Orenda)

Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger:
The Night of Baby Yaga, by Akira Otani, translated by Sam Bett (Faber & Faber)

ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction:
The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place, by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury Circus)

Short Story Dagger:
 “A Date on Yarmouth Pier,” by J.C. Berthal (from Midsummer Mysteries)

Twisted Dagger (for psychological and suspense thrillers):
Nightwatching, by Tracy Sierra (Penguin)

Whodunnit Dagger (for cosy crime, traditional mysteries, and Golden Age crime stories):

The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl, by Lisa Hall (Canelo Hera)

Dagger in the Library (for a body of work by an established crime writer that has long been popular with borrowers from libraries):

Richard Osman

Publishers’ Dagger (Best Crime and Mystery Publisher of the Year):
Orenda Books

Emerging Author Dagger (for the opening of a crime novel by an unpublished writer):

Joe Eurell

Nick Herron previously received the CWA Diamond Dagger.

Silver Falchion Award Nominees: Killer Nashville

Founder Clay Stafford of the Killer Nashville International Writers' Conference  announced this year's Silver Falchion Award Finalists. The Silver Falchion Award is given for the Best Book in each category for the previous year (2024). Winners in each category will be announced at the annual Killer Nashville Awards Dinner taking place on August 23rd in Franklin, TN. 

For the complete category and nominee lists, go Here.

Best Action Adventure 
 
JERICHO BURNING  by T.G. Brown
 
THE GENERAL’S GOLD by Bruce Robert Coffin and LynDee Walker
 
DESPERATE MEASURES by Ley Esses
 
WHERE LOVE MEANS NOTHING by Howard Gimple 
 
THE NORTH LINE  by Matt Riordan 
 
Best Comedy

THE PRINCESS SHOPPE 
Kerry Blaisdell
 
SWIPED by L.M. Chilton
 
GET GRIBNITZ by Howard Gimple 
 
MODEL GHOST  by TK Sheffield 
 
SORRY, KNOT SORRY by Lois Winston 
 
Best Cozy

BEESWAX BEWITCHMENT  by S.E. Babin 
 
ELIZABETH SAILS by Kristin Owens 
 
STUDY GUIDE FOR MURDER by Lori Robbins 
 
FRAMED FOR MURDER  by Marla White 
 
WHEELING AND DEALING  by Becki Willis 
 
Best Historical 
 
EMPOWERED BY THE DREAM: A JOURNEY OF RESILIENCE
Gladys A. Barrio 
 
THE PARIS MISTRESSb y Mally Becker 
 
A KILLING ON THE HILL  by Robert Dugoni 
 
FIND YOUR WAY TO MY GRAVE by Chris Keefer 
 
WHAT ONCE WAS PROMISED by Louis Trubiano 
 
Best Investigator
 
THE THINGS THAT CANNOT BE FORGOTTEN  by Peter W.J. Hayes
 
LAST DOG OUT  by Candace Irving 
 
BLACK & WHITE  by Justin M. Kiska 
 
TIGER CLAW by Michael Allan Mallory 
 
MURDER OUTSIDE THE BOX by Saralyn Richard 
 
Best Juvenile / Y.A.
 
BEYOND THE CEMETERY GATE: THE SECRET KEEPER’S DAUGHTER by Valerie Biel 
 
DEAD GIRL  by Kerrie Faye 
 
STEALING TIME  by Norman Birnbach and Tilia Klebenov Jacobs 
 
SNOWED by Twist Phelan 
 
STAR BROTHER by Maxine Rose Schur 
 
 
Best Mystery 
 
DROP DEAD SISTERS by Amelia Diane Coombs 
 
OBEY ALL LAWS by Cindy Goyette 
 
AT FIRST I WAS AFRAID  by Marty Ludlum 
 
A WORLD OF HURT  by Mindy Mejia 
 
SCORCHED: BURN ME ONCE…by Cam Torrens 
 
 
Best Short Story Collection / Anthology

NEVER TELL COLLECTION, edited by Kjiersti Egerdahl
 
DAY, edited by Patrick Kitson (author)
 
DEEDS OF DARKNESS, William Burton McCormick (author)
 
6-LANE HIGHWAY, Sean Mitchell (author)
 
LARCENY & LAST CHANCES: 22 STORIES OF MYSTERY & SUSPENSE, edited by Judy Penz Sheluk
 
Best Suspense
 
A FRIEND IN THE DARK by Samantha M. Bailey
 
IF YOU TELL A LIE by Lucinda Berry
 
THE NEXT MRS. PARRISH  by Liv Constantine
 
LOST TO DUNE ROAD by Kara Thomas
 
THE LAST PARTY by AR Torre
 
Best Thriller
 
RICH JUSTICE by Robert Bailey
 
THE DREDGE by Brendan Flaherty
 
THE MECHANICS OF MEMORY  by Audrey Lee
 
A FORGOTTEN KILL by Isabella Maldonado
 
THE ASCENT  by Adam Plantinga
 

 

MACAVITY AWARD NOMINATIONS 2025

The Macavity Award Nominations 2025
(for works published in 2024)

The Macavity Award is named after Macavity: The Mystery Cat, in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats! Scroll down to read the poem. 

The Macavity Awards are nominated and voted on by members of Mystery Readers International, subscribers to Mystery Readers Journal, and friends of MRI. Congratulations to all!

Ballots will be sent out next week to members of MRI, subscribers to MRJ, and to friends of MRI. Look for it in your email. Winners will be announced in September.

Want to be a member/subscriber, go here. Mystery Readers Journal themes for 2025: London Mysteries II; Retail Murder; Northern California Mysteries; Cross-Genre Mysteries. MRJ is available in print copy (mailed) and PDF download. 

Macavity Award Nominations 2025

For works published in 2024

Best Mystery Novel

Hall of Mirrors by John Copenhaver (Pegasus Crime)

Served Cold by James L’Etoile (Level Best Books)

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead)

California Bear by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland)

The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell (Doubleday)

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Crown)

Best First Mystery

Outraged by Brian Copeland (Dutton)

A Reluctant Spy by David Goodman (Headline)

Ghosts of Waikiki by Jennifer K. Morita (Crooked Lane)

You Know What You Did by K.T. Nguyen (Dutton)

The Expat by Hansen Shi (Pegasus Crime)

Holy City by Henry Wise (Atlantic Monthly Press)

Best Mystery Short Story

“Home Game” by Craig Faustus Buck (in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, July/August 2024)

“The Postman Always Flirts Twice” by Barb Goffman (in Agatha and Derringer Get Cozy)

“Curse of the Supertaster” by Leslie Karst (in Black Cat Weekly, Feb 23, 2024)

“Two for One” by Art Taylor (in Murder, Neat)

“Satan’s Spit” by Gabriel Valjan (in Tales of Music, Murder, and Mayhem)

“Reynisfjara” by Kristopher Zgorski (in Mystery Most International)

Best Historical Mystery

The Wharton Plot by Mariah Fredericks (Minotaur)

An Art Lover’s Guide to Paris and Murder by Dianne Freeman (Kensington)

Fog City by Claire Johnson (Level Best Books)

The Murder of Mr. Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and S.J. Rozan (Soho Crime)

The Bootlegger’s Daughter by Nadine Nettmann (Lake Union)

A Grave Robbery by Deanna Raybourn (Berkley)

Best Nonfiction/Critical

Writing the Cozy Mystery: Authors’ Perspectives on Their Craft edited by Phyllis M. Betz (McFarland)

Some of My Best Friends Are Murderers: Critiquing the Columbo Killers by Chris Chan (Level Best Books)

Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice by Alex Hortis (Pegasus Crime)

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson  (Crown)

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett by Ashley Lawson  (Ohio State University Press)

Abingdon’s Boardinghouse Murder by Greg Lilly (History Press)

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Macavity: The Mystery Cat by T.S. Eliot

Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw—
For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law.
He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair:
For when they reach the scene of crime—Macavity’s not there!

Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
And when you reach the scene of crime—Macavity’s not there!
You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air—
But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!

Macavity’s a ginger cat, he’s very tall and thin;
You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken in.
His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly domed;
His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed.
He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake;
And when you think he’s half asleep, he’s always wide awake.

Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
For he’s a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity.
You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square—
But when a crime’s discovered, then Macavity’s not there!

He’s outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.)
And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard’s.
And when the larder’s looted, or the jewel-case is rifled,
Or when the milk is missing, or another Peke’s been stifled,
Or the greenhouse glass is broken, and the trellis past repair—
Ay, there’s the wonder of the thing! Macavity’s not there!

And when the Foreign Office find a Treaty’s gone astray,
Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way,
There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair—
But it’s useless to investigate—Macavity’s not there!
And when the loss has been disclosed, the Secret Service say:
‘It must have been Macavity!’—but he’s a mile away.
You’ll be sure to find him resting, or a-licking of his thumbs;
Or engaged in doing complicated long division sums.

Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.
He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:
At whatever time the deed took place—MACAVITY WASN’T THERE!
And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known
(I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone)
Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time
Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!

SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEES 2025: Private Eye Writers of America

The Private Eye Writers of America announced the nominees for the coveted Shamus Awards. Winners will be announced at the 2025 Bouchercon Opening Ceremonies, Thursday, September 4 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

BEST PI HARDCOVER

• Kingpin by Mike Lawson 

• The Hollow Tree by Phillip Miller

• Farewell, Amethystine by Walter Mosley

• Trouble in Queenstown by Delia Pitts 

• Death and Glory by Will Thomas 

BEST ORGINAL PAPERBACK P.I. NOVEL

• Geisha Confidential by Mark Coggins 

• Quarry’s Return by Max Allan Collins 

• Not Born of Woman by Teel James Glenn

• Bless Our Sleep by Neil S. Plakcy 

• Call of the Void by J.T. Siemens 

• The Big Lie by Gabriel Valjan 

BEST FIRST P.I. NOVEL

• Twice the Trouble by Ash Clifton 

• The Devil’s Daughter by Gordon Greisman 

• Fog City by Claire M. Johnson

• The Road to Heaven by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson

• Holy City by Henry Wise 

BEST P.I. SHORT STORY

• “Deadhead” by Tom Andes (Fall 2024, Cowboy Jamboree Magazine)

• “Alibi in Ice” by Libby Cudmore (July/August 2024, AHMM)

• “Drop Dead Gorgeous” by M.E. Proctor (Janie’s Got a Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Aerosmith)

• “Under Hard Rock” by Ed Teja (October 2024, Black Cat Weekly #164)

• “The Five Cent Detective” by S.B. Watson (November 2024, Crimeucopia)

HT: Kevin Burton Smith, Thrilling Detective 

What’s Bred in the Bone: Guest Post by Michael Robotham

When people ask me why I write crime, I tell them that it’s in my blood.

Five generation ago, my forefather George Robotham, was transported from England to Tasmania for stealing a watch. He married a fellow convict, an Irishwoman, who had stolen a shawl – a harsh punishment for trying to stay warm.

My mother was horrified by these criminal links and refused to let anyone research our family tree in case her shame became public, but I was never worried about being a bad seed. Instead, have always leaned into it.

At eighteen, I became a cadet reporter on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, a tabloid red-top that sold at every bus stop and train station to commuters on their way home from work. Sensation and titillation was the bread and butter of The Sydney Sun. There were page-three girls, newspaper bingo, horse racing guides, sport analysis and a daily diet of crime stories and celebrity gossip.
           

My very first front page read: CARAVAN KISS - BRIDE MURDER CHARGE and reported that a husband had punched his new bride of three weeks after seeing her kiss another man in a caravan. Forty-six years on and little has changed when it comes to men killing their partners. 

As a cadet reporter I had to work in the radio room, monitoring the police, fire and ambulance radios. I learned the call-signs and codes. I knew which police division operated in which areas, and when an officer was in trouble, or a prisoner had escaped, or a child was missing, or a suspect was being chased. 
I spent more than a year working the graveyard shift for The Sun. The Red-Light district became my regular haunt because it was the only place to get a coffee or something to eat at three in the morning. I befriended pimps, prostitutes, dealers, junkies, coppers, strippers, transvestites, tramps, and ‘colourful local identities’ – a euphemism for gangsters and nightclub owners.

Working in police rounds, my job was to report on crime. This meant befriending detectives, pathologists and paramedics, anyone who could tip me off about some new development in an ongoing investigation. I drank in the same pubs as the police. I bought them drinks. I attended barbecues. I was invited to weddings and attended christenings. 

Sometimes, I ‘looked the other way’ when I saw evidence of police corruption because I didn’t want to burn a long-time contact who would later give me a more important story. It was a case weighing up the public good, letting a small fish escape the net, in the hope of catching a bigger one.

Ultimately, I became an investigative journalist working for ten years in London for a national newspaper. This brought me in contact with criminals both big and small. I tracked down rogue solicitors, paedophile judges, and East End gangsters who had fled to the Costa del Sol in Spain, (otherwise known as the Costa del Crime).

Sometimes it was dangerous. I once investigated an Irish gambler in Dublin who was notorious private. Local racing journalists had told me to drop the story but I carried on for one more day, knocking on doors and asking questions. That night in Dublin, I was visited by three men wearing balaclavas who bounced me around my hotel room and drove me to airport.

I phoned my editor from the departure lounge and said, ‘This gambler launders money for the IRA.’
‘Give it twenty minutes and go back,’ he said. ‘They’ll have gone by then.’

I got on the flight. I might have been Australian and therefore ‘expendable’ but I wasn’t stupid.

On another investigation, I helped expose the UK’s booming telephone sex-line industry, where customers paid up to US$5 a minute to ‘talk dirty’ with no limits on age, time or the content discussed. Many of the sex-line operators had links with organised crime and the porn industry in Britain and abroad.

Our newspaper exposes so much pressure on the Government to regulate the industry, that the operators organised a crisis meeting at a hotel in Manchester. We gate-crashed the event, bursting through the doors, taking photographs and asking questions. The operators covered their faces and yelled threats and chased us out of the hotel. The revolving front door of that hotel is spinning today because I hit it with such speed.

The following day, we handed UK police photographic evidence that linked known crime figures to the sex-line services. Within weeks the laws had changed.

My latest novel, The White Crow, draws on experiences like this. It features a young, ambitious police officer, Philomena McCarthy, who has defied the odds to follow her dream, because she comes from a notorious family of East End gangsters.

It is a novel that has taken me back to my roots – to those days as a reporter and investigative journalist, when I befriended prostitutes, pimps, paramedics, police, and the colourful milieu of characters who inhabited the night. 

These were my people and I’m still telling their stories.

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The White Crow by Michael Robotham will be published by Scribner on July 1, 2025. It's available for pre-order.

Michael Robotham is a former investigative journalist whose bestselling psychological thrillers have been translated into twenty-five languages. He has twice won a Ned Kelly Award for Australia’s best crime novel, for Lost in 2005 and Shatter in 2008. His recent novels include When She Was Good, winner of the UK’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller; The Secrets She Keeps; Good Girl, Bad Girl; When You Are Mine; Lying Beside You; Storm Child; and The White Crow. After living and writing all over the world, Robotham settled his family in Sydney, Australia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INFORMATION ON THE MACAVITY NOMINATING BALLOT

Just an FYI: 

If you're a member of Mystery Readers International, subscriber to Mystery Readers Journal, or a Friend of Mystery Readers, you should have received a Macavity Nominating ballot. Check your spam filter, or send me a note, if you'd like to nominate. 

The coveted Macavity is awarded in five categories. 

Check out the past winners and nominees.

Thanks to Gabriel Valjan for this great 'reminder' graphic! One more category not lists: Best Non-Fiction/Critical.

And, Best Non-Fiction Critical

CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger 2025

The British Crime Writers’ Association awarded the 2025 Cartier Diamond Dagger to Mick Herron. Congratulations, Mick!

Mick Herron is the author of the Slough House series and other mystery and thriller novels.

A CWA press release explains that this prize “recognises authors whose crime writing careers have been marked by sustained excellence, and who have made a significant contribution to the genre.” Herron is quoted as saying: “I’ve spent the best part of my life—not the majority of it; just the best part—in the crime writers’ community, and to receive this accolade from these friends and colleagues is both a career highlight and a personal joy. I’m touched and thrilled beyond measure, and will try to live up to the honour.” 

Past Diamond Dagger honorees include Ian Rankin, Lynda La Plante, Walter Mosley, Ann Cleeves, Andrew Taylor, Lindsey Davis, Michael Connelly, Val McDermid, and John le Carré.

HT: The Rap Sheet

Maureen Jennings: Appointee to the Order of Canada!

Congratulations, Maureen Jennings, New Appointee to the Order of Canada!!!

From the Crime Writers of Canada:

Maureen Jennings has been appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada. The announcement was made today (December 18, 2024) by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada. 

“Members of the Order of Canada are builders of hope for a better future. Each in their own way, they broaden the realm of possibilities and inspire others to continue pushing its boundaries. Thank you for your perseverance, fearless leadership and visionary spirit, and welcome to the Order of Canada.” 

Maureen is a talented writer with a keen eye for setting, character and dialogue. She has helped put historical crime fiction on the Canadian literary map. She has published four series of novels as well as nonfiction, short stories and stage plays. 

This year, the Crime Writers of Canada presented its 2024 Grand Master Award to Maureen. CWC established the Grand Master Award in 2014 to recognize a Canadian crime writer with a substantial body of work who has garnered national and international recognition. The award is presented biennially, and is selected by a jury chosen by the Chair of Crime Writers of Canada, with advice from the board. 

To quote the London Free Press, "Maureen Jennings is not only just about the best crime novelist in Canada, she’s among the best writers anywhere - a national and international treasure." 

Maureen is a prolific author of non-fiction, short stories and book series featuring Christine Morris, Detective Murdoch, and D.I. Tom Tyler. The Detective William Murdoch television series, set in Victorian era Toronto, was optioned in 2003 by Shaftesbury Films. The tv series, Murdoch Mysteries, is shown in over 120 countries and features innovative crime-solving techniques, social justice subplots and surprise guest appearances. 

Maureen also co-developed the television series Bomb Girls, based on the experiences of young women working in British munitions plants during the Second World War. The series first aired early in 2012 and very quickly rose to become the highest-rated new drama on Canadian television. 

In 2011, Maureen was awarded the Grant Allen award for her on-going contribution to Canadian crime writing. The award, honoring Canada's crime-writing pioneers, is given out annually at the Scene of the Crime Festival on Wolfe Island. 

Maureen has received eight Awards of Excellence (formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards) nominations from Crime Writers of Canada in the Best Novel and Short Story categories. In 2014, the 180th anniversary of the city of Toronto, the Toronto Star named her one of 180 people whose influence has raised the city’s profile. 

Maureen's latest project, The Paradise Café series, is set in Depression-era Toronto and features Private Investigator Charlotte Frayne. Maureen is an exceptional talent, a generous mentor and strong supporter of Canadian crime and mystery writers. Her prolific publishing history includes the following: 

Fiction 

Detective Murdoch Series (8 novels) John Wilson Murray, who was appointed as Ontario's first government detective in 1875, "was an important inspiration" for Jennings and led to the development of the character William Murdoch. Christine Morris Series (2 novels) Detective Inspector Tom Tyler Series (4 novels) Paradise Café Series (4 novels) 

Non-fiction 

The Map of Your Mind: Journeys Into Creative Expression (filled with common-sense advice and encouragement, intended as a guide into the creative self.)

IRISH INDEPENDENT CRIME FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

The winners of the An Post Irish Book Awards were announced yesterday. There are multiple categories, but of interest to mystery readers, here is the winner of the:

2024 Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year

A Stranger in the Family, by Jane Casey (Hemlock Press)