Cartoon of the Day: Books

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LINE OF DUTY: Season 5 now on AcornTV

LINE OF DUTY’s record-setting Season 5 makes its premiere today, May 13, been added to Acorn TV. This season remains the highest rated UK program this year and the consolidated figures rose to a staggering 13.2 million UK viewers. Two-time BAFTA Award winner Anna Maxwell Martin (And Then There Were None, The Bletchley Circle, Bleak House) guest stars in the final two episodes as a top-ranking anti-corruption officer.

Acorn TV’s cop thriller LINE OF DUTY, Season 5 makes its U.S. Premiere today Monday, May 13 with all six episodes available to binge. 

FYI: AcornTV has Seasons 1 to 4 available to stream.

10 REASONS TO WATCH LINE OF DUTY, Season 5

1) The new season is the highest-rated UK show of 2019 with 13.2 million viewers (a huge number in the UK)
2) From Jed Mercurio, the creator/writer of global sensation BODYGUARD
3) LINE OF DUTY is even better reviewethan Bodyguard with an overall series Rotten Tomatoes score of a stellar 98%
4) I love the series and I’m biased, BUT it’s beloved by critics •The New York Times Watching calls the series, “Binge-inducing television at its best... best British police show since Prime Suspect... Suspensefully plotted and wickedly well-acted... Addictive... jaw-dropping reveals” •The Guardian calls the new season a“Masterpiece... Not a scene, line or beat is wasted... instantly addictive”•Digital Spy called it, “Bloody brilliant television”
5) PERFECT BINGEing a soon-to-be post-Game of Thrones and Endgame world: Just five or six episodes a season (at 23 episodes for the first four seasons, it’s less than one US network season)
6) Stellar season-long guest stars The Walking Dead’s Lennie James in Season 1, Bodyguard’s Keeley Hawes in Season 2 and Westworld’s Emmy winner Thandie Newton in Season 4
7) Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire’s Al Capone) joins as the Season 5 guest star and is just as intense as ever
8) Ratings increase every season with the new season being the highest yet
9) The series is the best cop thriller on television with constant surprises and cliffhangers
10) Frequently compared to HBO’s beloved The Wire and called the antidote to Downton Abbey (The New York Times)

CRIMEFEST 2019 AWARDS

CrimeFest announced their Award Winners tonight! Congratulations to all!

Audible Sounds of Crime Award:
Robert Galbraith for Lethal White, read by Robert Glenister (Hachette Audio)

eDunnit Award:
Laura Lippman for Sunburn (Faber and Faber)

Last Laugh Award:
Lynne Truss for A Shot in the Dark (Bloomsbury)

H.R.F. Keating Award:
James Sallis for Difficult Lives – Hitching Rides (No Exit Press)

Best Crime Novel for Children:
Lauren St. John for Kat Wolfe Investigates (Macmillan Children’s Books)

Best Crime Novel for Young Adults
Nikesh Shukla for Run, Riot (Hodder Children’s Books)

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The Petrona Award Winner was also announced:
The Kathrarina Code by Jorn Lier Horst, translated from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce, published by Michael Joseph

CWA Gold Dagger 2019 Longlists

CWA Dagger 2019 Longlists were announced last night at CrimeFest.

CWA Gold Dagger 2019 Longlists

Claire Askew All the Hidden Truths (Hodder & Stoughton)
Belinda Bauer Snap (Transworld –Bantam Press)
Ray Celestin The Mobster's Lament (Pan Macmillan –Mantle)
M W Craven The Puppet Show (Little, Brown –Constable)
John Harvey Body and Sou l(Cornerstone –William Heinemann)
Christobel Kent What We Did (Little, Brown –Sphere)
Donna Leon Unto Us a Son Is Given (William Heinemann)
John Lincoln Fade to Grey (No Exit Press)
David Mark Cold Bones (Hodder & Stoughton –Mulholland Books)
Derek B. Miller American By Day (Transworld –Doubleday)
Abir Mukherjee Smoke and Ashes (Harvill Secker)
William Shaw Salt Lane (Riverrun)
Peter Swanson Before She Knew Him (Faber & Faber)
Andrew Taylor The Fire Court (Harper Collins –Harper Fiction)
Benjamin Wood A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better (Simon & Schuster UK –Scribner)

CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2019 Longlist

Megan Abbott Give Me Your Hand Pan Macmillan –Picador
Steve Cavanagh Thirteen Orion –Orion Fiction
Dan Fesperman Safe Houses Head of Zeus
Elly Griffiths The Stranger Diaries Quercus Fiction
Luke Jennings No Tomorrow John Murray
Stephen Mack Jones Lives Laid Away Soho Press –Soho Crime
Niklas Natt och Dag The Wolf and the Watchman John Murray
Khurrum Rahman Homegrown Hero Harper Collins –HQ
Holly Watt To The Lions Bloomsbury –Raven Books
Tim Willocks Memo From Turner Jonathan Cape

CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2019 Longlist

G D Abson –Motherland (Mirror Books)
Claire Askew –All the Hidden Truths (Hodder & Stoughton)
Alex Dahl –The Boy at the Door (Head of Zeus)
Mark Griffin –When Darkness Calls (Little, Brown –Piatkus)
Chris Hammer –Scrublands (Headline –Wildfire)
Vicky Newham –Turn A Blind Eye (HQ)
Laura Shepherd-Robinson –Blood And Sugar (Pan Macmillan –Mantle)
Catherine Steadman –Something In The Water (Simon & Schuster)
Søren Sveistrup –The Chestnut Man (Penguin Random House –Michael Joseph)
Vanda Symon –Overkill (Orenda)

CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction 2019 Longlist

Sue Black All That Remains (Transworld –Doubleday)
Mikita Brottman An Unexplained Death (Canongate)
Rachael Brown Trace (Scribe UK)
Claire Harman Murder by the Book (Viking)
Kirk Johnson The Feather Thief(Hutchinson)
Helena Kennedy Eve Was Shamed (Chatto & Windus)
Sarah Longford In Your Defence (Transworld -Doubleday)
Ben Macintyre The Spy and the Traitor (Viking)
Hallie Rubenhold The Five (Transworld –Doubleday)
David Wilson My Life with Murderers (Little, Brown –Sphere)

CWA International Dagger 2019 Longlist

Dov Alfon: A Long Night in Paris, translator Daniella Zamir –Maclehose Press
Karin Brynard: Weeping Waters, translators Maya Fowler & Isobel Dixon –Europa–World Noir
Gianrico Carofiglio: The Cold Summer, translator Howard Curtis –Bitter Lemon Press
Keigo Higashino: Newcomer, translator Giles Murray –Little, Brown
Håkan Nesser: The Root of Evil, translator Sarah Death –Pan Macmillan–Mantle
Cay Rademacher: The Forger, translator Peter Millar –Arcadia Books
Andrea Camilleri: The Overnight Kidnapper, translator Stephen Sartarelli –Pan Macmillan–Mantle
Kjell Ola Dahl: The Courier, translator Don Bartlett –Orenda Books
Martin Holmén: Slugger, translator A A Prime –Pushkin Vertigo
Jørn Lier Horst: The Katherina Code, translator Anne Bruce –Penguin–Michael Joseph

CWA Sapere Historical Dagger 2019 Longlist

Laura Shepherd-RobinsonBlood & SugarPan Macmillan –Mantle
S G Maclean Destroying Angel Quercus Fiction
Martin Edwards Gallows Court Head of Zeus
Abir Mukherjee Smoke and Ashes Harvill Secker
C J Sansom Tombland Pan Macmillan –Mantle
S W Perry The Angel’s Mark Corvus
Alex Reeve The House on Half Moon Street Raven Books
Jim Kelly The Mathematical Bridge Allison & Busby
Ray Celestin The Mobster’s Lament Pan Macmillan –Mantle
Liam McIlvanney The Quaker Harper Fiction

The CWA Short Story Dagger 2019 Longlist

Room Number Twoby Andrea Camilleri in ‘Death at Sea’ by Andrea Camilleri, published by Mantle

Strangers in a Pub by Martin Edwards in ‘Ten Year Stretch’, edited by Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller, published by No Exit Press

How Many Cats Have You Killed? by Mick Herronin ‘Ten Year Stretch’, edited by Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller, published by No Exit Press

Death Becomes Her by Syd Moore in ‘The Strange Casebook’ by Syd Moore, published by Point Blank Books

The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing by Danuta Reah in ‘The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing and other Fantastic Female Fables’, published by Fantastic Books

I Detest Mozart by Teresa Solana in ‘The First Historic Serial Killers’ by Teresa Solana, published by Bitter Lemon Press

Paradise Gained by TeresaSolana in ‘The First Historic Serial Killers’ by Teresa Solana, published by Bitter Lemon Press

Bag Manby Lavie Tidhar in ‘The Outcast Hours’, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin, published by Solaris 9/10CWA

Dagger In The Library 2019
Longlist Selected by nominations from libraries.

M C Beaton
Simon Beckett
Mark Billingham
Christopher Brookmyre
John Connolly
Kate Ellis
Sophie Hannah
Graham Masterton
Denise Mina
C J Sansom
Cath Staincliffe
Jacqueline Winspear

CWA Debut Dagger 2019 Longlist
For the opening of a crime novel from a writer without a traditional publishing contract.

Shelley BurrWake
Mairi Campbell-Jack  Self-Help for Serial Killers: Let Your Creativity Bloom
Jerry Crause
The Mourning Light
Michael Fleming The Fruits of Rashness
Carol Glaser Down the Well
Catherine Hendricks Hardways
Anna Maloney The Right Man
David Smith The Firefly
Fran Smith A Thin Sharp Blade
Matthew Smith A Wolf’s Clothing

Shortlists for the Daggers will be announced in the summer and the winners will be announced at the Dagger Awards dinner in London on 24 October.

Visit www.thecwa.co.uk for more information.

Winner of the 2019 Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement: Robert Goddard

Cartoon of the Day: Mother's Day

MOTHER'S DAY MYSTERIES/ MOTHER'S DAY CRIME FICTION

Mother's Day: So many Mothers in Mysteries, but the following is a sampling with emphasis on the Mother's Day Holiday. If I listed all the mysteries and crime fiction with famous and infamous mothers, the list would be way too long. This is an updated list, so let me know if I've missed any titles. Be sure and scroll down to view the Psycho Trailer with one of the most famous (infamous) 'mystery' mothers!

MOTHER'S DAY MYSTERIES

Angel at Troublesome Creek by Mignon F. Ballard
The Mother's Day by Peter Bartram
Mother's Day by Frankie Bow
How to Murder Your Mother-in-Law, Mum's the Word by Dorothy Cannell
Mother's Day Mayhem by Lynn Cahoon
Mother's Day Murder by Wensley Clarkson
A Holiday Sampler by Christine E. Collier
A Catered Mother's Day by Isis Crawford 
A Darkly Hidden Truth by Donna Fletcher Crow
Motherhood is Murder (Short Stories) by Mary Daheim, Carolyn Hart, Shirley Rousseau Murphy and Jane Isenberg
The Mother's Day Mishap by Kathi Daley
Murder Can Upset Your Mother by Selma Eichler
A Mother's Day Murder by Dee Ernst
Bon Bon Voyage by Nancy Fairbanks
Murder for Mother: Short Story collection, edited by Martin S. Greenberg
Murder Superior by Jane Haddam
A Gift for Mother's Day by K.C. Hardy
The Mother’s Day Murder by Lee Harris
"Pull my Paw"(short story) by Sue Ann Jaffarian
Mother's Day: A Short Story by Renée Knight  (short story)
Every Day is Mother's Day by Hilary Mantel (not exactly a mystery, but a good read)
Mother’s Day by Patricia MacDonald
Mother's Day Out by Karen MacInerney
Mother's Day by Dennis McDougal
Mother’s Day Murder by Leslie Meier
Mom, Apple Pie & Murder: A collection of New Mysteries for Mother’s Day, edited by Nancy Pickard
Mother's Day, Muffins, and Murder by Sara Rosett
Mother’s Day by Joshua Quittner and Michelle Slatalla
A Mother's Day Murder by Genevieve Scholl
Comfort Me by Debbie Viguie
Mother's Day by Ron Vincent

True Crime: 
The Mother's Day Murder by Wensley Clarkson

Who's your favorite Mother in Crime Fiction?