Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year Shortlist

THEAKSTONS CRIME NOVEL AWARD SHORTLIST

The Red Road - Denise Mina

The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter - Malcolm Mackay

The Chessmen - Peter May

Rubbernecker - Belinda Bauer

Dying Fall - Elly Griffiths

Eleven Days - Stav Sherez

The award is open to British and Irish authors whose novels were published in paperback in the last year.

The winner will be decided by a panel, chaired by writer Steve Mosby, which includes Simon Theakston, the executive director of Theakston; Radio Times' Alison Graham and Dave Swillman, head of fiction at WH Smith. A public vote will also be included in the final decision.

The Award will be presented on opening night at Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate on July 17. The winner will receive a £3,000 cash prize - as well as a handmade, engraved beer barrel. Also on the night, Lynda La Plante will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award.

HT:  Karen Meek at EuroCrime

CWA Dagger Awards

The CWA Dagger Awards were announced tonight! Thanks to all those who tweeted during the award ceremony. Wish I had been there!

The CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger
• Devil in the Marshalsea, by Antonia Hodgson (Hodder & Stoughton)

The CWA Non-Fiction Dagger
 • The Seige, by Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark (Viking)

The CWA International Dagger
 • The Siege, by Arturo Perez-Reverte; translated by Frank Wynne (Weidenfeld)

The CWA Short Story Dagger
• “Fedora,” by John Harvey (from Deadly Pleasures, edited by Martin Edwards; Severn House)

The CWA Debut Dagger
• The Movement, by Jody Sabral

Simon Brett was awarded the Diamond Dagger

Cartoon of the Day: Apostrophe Man

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San Francisco Noir: NYT Travel

Don't miss this great article in the travel section of the NYT about San Francisco Noir: Hammett, Herron & Muller.. Haunts, Dives, and places to see.

San Francisco is well known for its transformations, the most recent one fueled by tech money that has seemingly scrubbed much of the city clean. Evidence of it tends to be easy to mock: the $4 artisanal toast, theshuttle buses carrying workers from the city interior to Silicon Valley, the preponderance of reclaimed wood. But for almost a century, the city has been indelibly linked with an enigmatic genre that might be considered an antidote to all of that: noir. 

 Like the characters that populate it, noir can be tough to put your finger on: a fog rolling in from the bay and coating city streets; a lonely sort of glamour perched on a bar rail; a sense of menace just over your shoulder. It is a genre that revels in ambiguity.

Read more here.

2014 Nero Award Finalists

2014 NERO AWARD FINALISTS

The Wolfe Pack announced the Nero Award Finalits. The "Nero" is an annual award presented to an author for literary excellence in the mystery genre. The award is presented at the Black Orchid Banquet, which is traditionally held on the first Saturday in December in New York City; this year the banquet will be on Saturday, December 6, 2014.

The 2014 finalists:
Ask Not, Max Allan Collins, Tor & Forge Books
Three Can Keep a Secret, Archer Mayor, St. Martins Press
Murder as a Fine Art, David Morrell, Little, Brown & Company
A Study in Revenge, Kieran Shields, Crown Publishing Group
A Question of Honor, Charles Todd, William Morrow/Harper Collins

This year's nominees join a procession of fine writers including Lee Child, Walter Mosley, and Linda Fairstein, all of whom have been honored with the prestigious "Nero."

2013 IndieFab Award Winners

The Foreword Reviews’ IndieFab Book of the Year Awards, judged by a select group of librarians and booksellers from around the country, were announced last night at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Las Vegas. Representing hundreds of independent and university presses of all sizes, IndieFab winners were selected after months of editorial deliberation over more than 1500 entries in 60 categories. Following are the Awards in Mystery and Thriller & Suspense.

MYSTERY

2013 GOLD Winner for Mystery
As She Left It by Catriona McPherson

2013 SILVER Winner for Mystery
Deadly Misfortune by Dianne Greenlay

2013 BRONZE Winner for Mystery
The Silence of the Wave by Gianrico Carofiglio (Howard Curtis -translator)

2013 HONORABLE Mention for Mystery
Noah's Rainy Day by Sandra Brannan

THRILLER & SUSPENSE (Adult Fiction)

2013 GOLD Winner for Thriller & Suspense

Utopia, Texas by Michael E Glasscock II

2013 SILVER Winner for Thriller & Suspense
Cartilage and Skin by Michael James Rizza

2013 BRONZE Winner for Thriller & Suspense
Happy Utopia Day, Joe McCarthy by J.T. Lundy

2013 HONORABLE Mention for Thriller & Suspense
The Price of Innocence by Bryan Devore

List of Winners in all categories.