tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79991326395324805342024-03-18T02:48:14.415-07:00Louise Phillips WriterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1270125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-15905194053022862502021-10-28T07:32:00.003-07:002021-10-28T09:22:52.084-07:00AN POST IRISH CRIME NOVEL of the YEAR 2021 Nominations are revealed!!!<p> <b style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; text-align: center;">The much-anticipated nominations for
AN POST IRISH CRIME NOVEL of the YEAR 2021 have been revealed!!</span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">And it's an abolute cracker of list,
but...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>WHO WILL WIN THE COVETED
TITLE??</strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>IN AUTHOR ALPHABETICAL ORDER,
THE NOMINATIONS ARE....</strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>April in Spain by John Banville</strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">John Banville previously published his crime novels under the pseudonym name
Benjamin Black, and <em>April in Spain</em> sees a change of direction in this.
Banville is well known for his series of crime novels based on the 1950’s
pathologist Quirke, which were also adapted for T.V., starring Gabriel Byrne.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><em>April in Spain</em> is set on the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, where
pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax - despite the beautiful beaches,
cafes, and the company of his wife. When he glimpses a familiar face, April
Latimer, at a bar, at first it’s hard for him to know whether his imagination
is running away with him, because April was murdered years before. The Irish
Independent who sponsors the Irish Crime Novel of the Year Award, describes the
novel as “a slow-burning mystery, a love story and a study of the corruption
and power of the Irish political elite – quite a lot to pack into one crime
novel. Banville has achieved it with grace and poise.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong> </strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>The Dark Room by Sam Blake</strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Sam Blake is the pseudonym for Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin, founder of the
writers’ resource website, <em>Writing.ie</em>, as well as <em>The Inkwell
Group</em> publishing consultancy, and is the tour-de- force behind <em>Murder
One</em>, Ireland’s premium crime-writing festival. She is also a board member
of the Society of Authors, fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of
the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, past chair of Irish PEN and convenor of
the Irish Chapter of the Crime Writers’ Association.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Sam Blake has achieved enormous success with her Garda Detective Cat
Connolly series and two other standalone mysteries, becoming a Number One
bestseller in Ireland. In <em>The Dark Room </em>we follow Rachel Lambert,
from London, and Caroline Kelly, from New York, to Hare’s Landing in West Cork.
The two women have their own reasons for coming to this remote spot but must
join forces in their investigations to uncover the truth about a 30-year-old
missing person’s case. The Irish Independent says of <em>The Dark Room</em>, “a
book which delivers a well-paced and layered plot that cleverly combines cold
cases with present day drama, resulting in and intriguing read with plenty of
twists and turns…Blake has a wonderful gift for description, ensuring the
reader can picture every scene…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong> </strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>The Killing Kind by Jane Casey</strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Jane Casey has been nominated several times for the Best Irish Crime Novel of
the Year Award, winning the award in both 2015 and 2019. Well known for her
fantastic London-based Maeve Kerrigan series of police procedurals, in 2015,
she won the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award at the Edgars for her novel <em>The
Stranger You Know</em>. A graduate of Oxford she also has received a M. Phil
from Trinity College, Dublin. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">In <em>The Killing Kind</em>, a standalone novel, lawyer Ingrid finds her
life under threat and needs to call on the help of the person who had
previously stalked her. The Irish Independent review describes <em>The
Killing Kind</em> as “that just-right blend of serpentine plot, believable
characters and a hero we want to root for, plus a thriller tension that’s
ratcheted so tightly at times, you almost need to put the book aside and take a
breather.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Could this be Jane’s third time as a winner?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong> </strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>The Devil’s Advocate by Steve Cavanagh</strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Steve Cavanagh was nominated for Best Irish Crime Novel of the Year in 2019
for <em>Twisted</em>, and last year, 2020, for <em>Fifty-Fifty</em>. In <em>The
Devil’s Advocate</em>, he continues his popular Eddie Flynn series, sending
Eddie into America’s Deep South. Steve has achieved great success with his
novels, becoming an International Award-Winning & Bestselling Author. His
debut novel, <em>The Defense</em>, was nominated for the Ian Fleming Steel
Dagger Award for Thriller of the Year, and <em>The Plea </em>won the
Prix Polar Award for Best International Novel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Steve is a practicing lawyer and co-hosts the chart-topping podcast Two Crime
Writers And A Microphone. The Irish Independent review of <em>The Devil’s
Advocate</em> says, “Cavanagh has outdone himself with <em>The Devil’s
Advocate</em>. Intense and intoxicating, it gets to the heart of a remote town,
rife with racism and corruption. The compelling plot is expertly crafted with
plenty of unexpected twists, while the evocative writing places the reader
right in the middle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>All Her Fault by Andrea Mara</strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Andrea’s debut novel, <em>The Other Side of the Wall</em>, was an
instant hit with readers, followed by <em>One Click</em>, which was shortlisted
for the Irish Crime Novel of the Year in 2018. This is Andrea Mara’s second
time in contention for the award.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><em>All Her Fault</em> takes place in a quiet Dublin suburb, as Marissa
Irvine goes to pick up son Milo from a play date with a boy at his new school,
but the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She isn't the
nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">In the Irish Independent’s review of <em>All Her Fault</em>, it says, “If
you’re a parent, there’s no way to read the opening chapter of <strong>All Her
Fault</strong> without thinking ‘That could be me!’. In a few short
pages Andrea Mara manages to take the soothingly – boringly! –
normal and turn it into something terrifying. In just a few
lines she dismantles the web of trust, the assumption of security, that
surrounds so much of what we do with our children and shows how very
fragile both those things are. The result is a story that is chilling and
compelling.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard</strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Catherine Ryan Howard has previously been shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel
of the Year three times, initially for <em>Distress Signals,</em> then <em>Rewind</em>,
which is being currently being developed for television, and in 2020, for <em>The
Nothing Man</em>. Her second novel, <em>The Liar’s Girl</em>, was also a
finalist for the prestigious 2019 Edgar Award for Best Novel, and she has also
been shortlisted for the John Creasey Blood Dagger Award, as well as being
included in the <em>Guardian</em>’s list of 50 Great Thrillers by Women
Written Since 1945.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><em>56 Days</em> will be her fourth nomination for Irish Crime Novel of the
Year. The Irish Independent describes <em>56 Days</em> as “a tricky,
brilliantly entertaining — and very timely — thriller about Oliver and Ciara,
who meet and hit it off just days before the first Covid lockdown was announced
in March 2020. They decide to see out the curfew in the throes of a passionate
affair — but one, or both, of them is hiding some very dark secrets…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">YOU CAN VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE NOVEL
<a href="https://www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/"><strong>HERE</strong></a></span><span face=""Calibri Light",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-7182870864337943212021-09-21T08:27:00.000-07:002021-09-21T08:27:05.421-07:00Yay...copy edits are in!!!<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqzYyW9nNx01zNT0eTEptiUzhsXjXPM_3vzSDxmsPWlD_TX_UGLRQ0FrI57Mawjs700HCzu7dsSjedUj8jYCEtwwcsCNuFO6e_OOkGSK-d5akV_vRoSvvZbTLWjaHEm4a7VuVUVP5njKk/s653/happy+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #cccccc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="653" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqzYyW9nNx01zNT0eTEptiUzhsXjXPM_3vzSDxmsPWlD_TX_UGLRQ0FrI57Mawjs700HCzu7dsSjedUj8jYCEtwwcsCNuFO6e_OOkGSK-d5akV_vRoSvvZbTLWjaHEm4a7VuVUVP5njKk/s320/happy+3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><br /><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">YAY - Copy edits are in, and yes, I'm about THIS happy.....lovely feedback too from copy editor....so I may just treat myself to a chocolate donut!! </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Another stupendous novel….and what a tangled web of lies and deceit Louise has woven, and indeed, what a marvellous and talented storyteller she is - Gripping, compelling, absorbing, and so much more."</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phew!</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-43591260812795651002021-08-23T08:04:00.002-07:002021-08-23T08:04:24.421-07:00THE HIDING GAME - GREAT NEWS!!!<p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">A few months back I mentioned I had some Good News......Well today I can let you know, 'THE HIDING GAME', is currently under Option/In Development with a Major US Film & T.V. Production Company!! </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">(Let's out low scream of excitement!!)</span></span></p><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="rvos" data-offset-key="ahc4s-0-0" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ahc4s-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ahc4s-0-0" style="background-color: #cccccc;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSp_j8PEGL2-Xqtl4amgtIsMYBhBIJ8MtM4lhzVDbMveVJaNvucC9vXowhxo5toBKc0TnWDD9YGMuOvls6N2RU62tlHcuLD9QLqqarvaQFoLPrQERQjPa7gZjf_GlnxGSsRIqXDsqVsiQ/s259/Option.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSp_j8PEGL2-Xqtl4amgtIsMYBhBIJ8MtM4lhzVDbMveVJaNvucC9vXowhxo5toBKc0TnWDD9YGMuOvls6N2RU62tlHcuLD9QLqqarvaQFoLPrQERQjPa7gZjf_GlnxGSsRIqXDsqVsiQ/s0/Option.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="rvos" data-offset-key="b7j2u-0-0" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b7j2u-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="b7j2u-0-0" style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">A long way to go yet, but keep your fingers crossed! </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="rvos" data-offset-key="flsvp-0-0" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="flsvp-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span data-offset-key="flsvp-0-0" style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="rvos" data-offset-key="6218v-0-0" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6218v-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: trebuchet;"><span class="diy96o5h" end="14" start="0">#thehidinggame</span><span data-offset-key="6218v-1-0"> </span><span class="diy96o5h" end="24" start="15">#goodnews</span><span data-offset-key="6218v-3-0"> </span><span class="diy96o5h" end="30" start="25">#film</span><span data-offset-key="6218v-5-0"> </span><span class="diy96o5h" end="34" start="31">#tv</span><span data-offset-key="6218v-7-0"> </span><span class="diy96o5h" end="48" start="35">#crimefiction</span><span data-offset-key="6218v-9-0"> </span><span class="diy96o5h" end="67" start="49">#irishcrimefiction</span><span data-offset-key="6218v-11-0"> </span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-31571333428210095952021-06-18T05:25:00.002-07:002021-06-18T05:25:50.712-07:00'In the Event of Contact' by Ethel Rohan is now published in Ireland & the U.K.<p> "In the Event of Contact" by Irish writer Ethel Rohan has been published in Ireland and the UK this month!! I'm very familiar with Ethel's brilliant work, so I can't wait to get my hands on a copy!! This series of short stories has already received some amazing reviews, some of which are listed below.</p><p>You can order this delight online <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/in-the-event-of-contact/ethel-rohan//9781950539260">HERE</a> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFJgChbpz5Noitza5drEliW8Yv03TX5epwySW9YomjUcP-Qu0zHe_4NHOmuSqnbmM3Yt4FN2pG381KoAWwG7IZwbdqMIHrpU9en6eRUMn8wEkmpMGMk4JF8HFTGGIkH8TLxjR8nZ4FqLE/s2000/In+the+Event+of+Contact+by+Ethel+Rohan+Final+Cover++%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #cccccc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1294" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFJgChbpz5Noitza5drEliW8Yv03TX5epwySW9YomjUcP-Qu0zHe_4NHOmuSqnbmM3Yt4FN2pG381KoAWwG7IZwbdqMIHrpU9en6eRUMn8wEkmpMGMk4JF8HFTGGIkH8TLxjR8nZ4FqLE/s320/In+the+Event+of+Contact+by+Ethel+Rohan+Final+Cover++%25281%2529.png" /></a></div><br /><o:p style="background-color: #cccccc;"><br /></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><u><b>ABOUT THE BOOK</b></u></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">In the Event of Contact</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"> contains fourteen gripping stories set in
Ireland, England, and America. Stories from a singular survivor voice that
chronicle crises of contact, various forms of injury, and characters making
surprising bids for recovery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Among them, a scrappy teen vies to be
the next Sherlock Holmes; an immigrant daughter must defend her decision to
remain childless; a guilt-ridden woman is haunted by the disappearance of her
childhood friend; a cantankerous crossing guard celebrates getting run over by
a truck; an embattled priest with dementia determines to perform a heroic,
redemptive act, if he can only remember how; and an aspirational, angst-ridden
mother captains the skies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Amid backgrounds of trespass,
absence, and necessity, the indelible characters of <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In the Event of Contact</span></i> seek renewed belief in
humanity and the remains of wonder. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><u><b>REVIEWS</b></u></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">“Terrific, insightful stories…through
subtly wrought metaphors and similes, Rohan draws us beyond the accommodations
[injured characters] have made in order to survive, and into the heart of their
trauma…compelling this reader to marvel at how doggedly so many of us recreate
and repeat our trauma…[an] extremely fine collection.” <b><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">The Irish Times</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: #cccccc; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><i style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">In the Event of Contact </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: trebuchet;">is a timely read about the importance of connecting
with other people on our own terms.” <a href="https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/bitchreads-may-2021-selections"><b><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #40798c; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">BITCH</span></i></b><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #40798c; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> <i>Magazine</i> Selected
Feminist Reads for 2021 </span></b></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: trebuchet;">“Through her brilliant storytelling,
Rohan explores the deep desire for human relationships, and the physical or
psychological distances that affect them.” </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> <i>Booklist</i></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333;"><o:p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">“Social distancing marked the lonely
horror that was this year; paradoxically a demonstration of how affection and
empathy for our fellow humans required us to retreat into ourselves, connection
now defined by the absence of contact. Ethel Rohan’s book of short stories
examines something similar in its evocation of what connection or its lack can
do to us. <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In the Event of Contact</span></i> is a
loving homage to humanity in all its complexity.” <a href="https://themillions.com/2021/05/may-preview-the-millions-most-anticipated-this-month-3.html"><b><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #40798c; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">The Millions</span></i></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">“A striking collection about
loners.” <a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-950539-26-0"><b><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #40798c; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Publisher’s Weekly</span></i></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333;"><o:p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">“The stories straddle the faultlines
of the lives of their characters and as a collection quietly and subtly
accumulate a potency that by the end leaves the reader breathless.” <a href="https://www.westmeathindependent.ie/2021/03/15/making-connections-as-the-queen-of-uncomfortable-stories/"><b><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #40798c; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">The Westmeath Independent</span></i></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333;"><o:p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333;"><o:p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333; font-family: trebuchet;">“A taut and melancholy meditation on
human (dis)connection in overlooked places and among underseen people.” </span><a href="https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/review-gripping-story-collection-takes-on-survival-and-intimacy-in-their-many-forms" style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: trebuchet;"><b><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #40798c; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">San Francisco Chronicle</span></i></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333;"><o:p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333; font-family: trebuchet;">“Rohan excels in the movement of
characters, positioning them as efficiently as a stage manager. She knows at
precisely which scene the Peters and the Dohertys of the world should enter,
and she understands the limited space she is working with. This control ensures
that her stories are never at a loss for momentum…Rohan captures the emigrant
experience for what it is, a process of becoming an alien in two countries —
and as glad as her characters might be that they left, they understand that
everywhere has become, in some way, a separate world, in which there will still
also be men.”</span><a href="http://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/IntheEventofContact" style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #40798c; padding: 0cm;"> <i>Necessary Fiction</i></span></b></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-13022434624278171332021-06-09T03:30:00.000-07:002021-06-09T03:30:20.464-07:00An Introduction to Crime Fiction Writing with Louise Phillips!!!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6FKPwOGmM_4X6FgNMHnz3Va03X6LUeXQp12Xz8IVntrD4fS24lTOZreXKodvaPzxNjlvHvYtp8mEKuB2XA_FXhEZ_GBopzH3-ZpE9Dl9zx2ybZqQJ-_0MgmAwIhZKk_wuyWLj8SgFNbE/s800/https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_135014631_31369664221_1_original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6FKPwOGmM_4X6FgNMHnz3Va03X6LUeXQp12Xz8IVntrD4fS24lTOZreXKodvaPzxNjlvHvYtp8mEKuB2XA_FXhEZ_GBopzH3-ZpE9Dl9zx2ybZqQJ-_0MgmAwIhZKk_wuyWLj8SgFNbE/s320/https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_135014631_31369664221_1_original.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">THIS IS GOING TO BOOK UP VERY FAST....so if
interested click on the link below and register for this FREE ONLINE CRIME
FICTION WORKSHOP happening next Monday and Tuesday evening!!!....<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">An Introduction to Crime Writing with Louise
Phillips<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Join one of Ireland’s most successful crime writers
for this two part introduction to crime writing. This is an adult event,
participants must be 18+ years. Louise Phillips is the author of four
bestselling psychological crime thrillers. Her debut novel Red Ribbons and her
subsequent novels, The Doll’s House, Last Kiss and The Game Changer, were each
nominated for Best Irish Crime Novel of the Year. She won the award in 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">These classes will take place through Zoom. You
must be able to attend both sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">You can book your place <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/an-introduction-to-crime-writing-tickets-154401054711?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&fbclid=IwAR2jMIgXTgptkH_hX_TKVllMRmVJpC6Balw_BQp0JF35oskt3DYwhbLsJjo">HERE</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p style="background-color: #cccccc;"> </o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-73561975572624294592021-04-15T05:11:00.001-07:002021-04-15T05:11:30.714-07:00CWA Dagger Awards Longlists Announced!!!<p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><strong>The CWA </strong><strong>Dagger Awards Longlists has been announced, and HUGE CONGRATS to all the authors including IRISH AUTHORS, CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD - THE NOTHING MAN, MICHAEL RUSSELL - THE CITY UNDER SIEGE, JAX MILLER - HELL IN THE HEARTLAND, and JOHN BANVILLE - SNOW!!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigS6Osx-_x1gSKMxtSCvhGkDAC9as-ZQLvt-v3K0Rgma0ci-5FKrdtATxOFZCPirgK_YUQhf5krV3y-5hlY5vWLFGPId5rLXED11mduCIl9y-GIhprNo7X-m1GJ3vxY03XqWGC5B0vkoU/s679/CWA+Longlist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="437" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigS6Osx-_x1gSKMxtSCvhGkDAC9as-ZQLvt-v3K0Rgma0ci-5FKrdtATxOFZCPirgK_YUQhf5krV3y-5hlY5vWLFGPId5rLXED11mduCIl9y-GIhprNo7X-m1GJ3vxY03XqWGC5B0vkoU/w237-h368/CWA+Longlist.jpg" width="237" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">The world-famous Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre, and have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Past winners of the prestigious Gold Dagger, which is awarded for the crime novel of the year, include Ian Rankin, John le Carré, Reginald Hill and Ruth Rendell. This year sees 2019’s winner of the Gold Dagger, M W Craven, return with <em>The Curator</em>. The former probation officer credited the CWA Debut Dagger competition in 2013 for opening the door to his career as an author.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Amer Anwar, who won the Debut Dagger competition in 2008, makes the list with <em>Stone Cold Trouble</em>. Anwar is up against the mighty JK Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith, alongside multi-award-winning authors including Nicci French, Elly Griffiths and Antonia Hodgson.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger is famed for showcasing blockbuster thrillers – past winners include Gillian Flynn and Robert Harris. Robert Galbraith is once more in the running, along with Ian Rankin, Stuart Turton, Catherine Ryan Howard, Ruth Ware and Michael Robotham, last year’s Gold winner.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Holly Watt, who won the Fleming Dagger in 2019, also returns to the longlist with <em>The Dead Line</em>. Another to watch on the Fleming longlist is Chris Whitaker; his book<em> Tall Oaks</em> won the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger in 2017. Whitaker is long-listed for his latest novel <em>We Begin At The End, </em>which was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month and has sold in 17 territories, with screen rights snapped up by Disney.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Linda Stratmann, Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, said: “The CWA Dagger awards are unparalleled for their reputation and longevity. The longlists showcase authors – established and new – at the top of their game. It’s not surprising that sales of crime fiction have been so strong during Covid-19. Both fiction and non-fiction have proven to be a great escape for many as we have been stuck at home. As our longlists show, these stories and insights take readers all over the world and through time, from Bombay of the 1950s to ancient Athens to modern-day California and many points between. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">“Crime books can be thrilling mysteries, but they can also provide social commentary, insights into true crime, or explore big questions in life. The vast and diverse talent in these longlists show why it’s the UK’s most popular and enduring genre. We are proud to provide a platform for debut, emerging and established authors, and to honour the very best in crime writing.”</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">The much-anticipated John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger highlights the best debut novels. Among the rising stars of 2021 is Susan Allot with her Australian-set debut, <em>The Silence</em>, praised by the Wall Street Journal as ‘emotionally wrenching’.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">New writing duo Chris Rickaby and Barney Thompson, writing under the pseudonym Ben Creed, also feature with their debut, <em>City of Ghosts</em>, a tense historical novel set in 1951 Russia. The global theme continues with Stephanie Scott’s accomplished debut, <em>What’s Left of Me Is Yours</em>, set in modern day Japan, exploring romantic and familial love, duty and murder.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Booker prize winner John Banville is a heavyweight contender on the Sapere Books Historical Dagger longlist. The prizewinning novelist and literary polymath, considered Ireland’s greatest living novelist, is in the running for <em>Snow</em>, his first murder mystery published under his real name rather than his nom de plume, Benjamin Black.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">This Sapere Books Historical Dagger longlist also includes Nicola Upson, who was shortlisted for the award in 2018, and S J Parris, whose Giordano Bruno books, <em>Heresy, Sacrilege</em> and <em>Treachery</em> have all been previously shortlisted. Vaseem Khan also features on the list as he swaps his contemporary light-hearted Baby Ganesh Agency series with his historical crime novel <em>Midnight at Malabar House,</em> set in 1950s Bombay.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">The Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger sees the bestselling Jo Nesbo on the list with his stand-alone thriller, <em>The Kingdom</em>, translated by Robert Ferguson. Joining the Norwegian is Swedish writer Mikael Niemi with his sumptuous blend of historical fact with fictional intrigue, <em>To Cook a Bear</em>, centred around the Laestadian revivalist movement of the 1850s, translated by Sarah Death.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">From one of Israel’s most beloved writers is <em>Three</em> by D A Mishani, translated by Jessica Cohen, and from South Korea, Yun Ko-eun’s original and inventive thriller <em>The Disaster Tourist</em> makes the longlist, with translator Lizzie Buehler.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">The CWA Daggers are one of the few high-profile awards that honour the short story. Christopher Fowler, the award-winning author of the Bryant & May mystery novels, has written over 50 novels and short story collections. Fowler, who won the CWA Dagger in the Library in 2015, is longlisted for his short story, <em>Head Count</em>. The list also features acclaimed authors Clare Mackintosh and Stuart Turton. Founding member of the North East Noir crime writers’ group, Robert Scragg, also dominates the category as an editor and writer of short stories.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">The ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction features the 2020 CWA Diamond Dagger winner, Martin Edwards, with <em>Howdunit</em>. A renowned editor, prolific novelist, and leading authority on crime fiction, <em>Howdunit</em> offers a masterclass in crime writing by leading exponents of the genre.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Dan Smith also features with <em>The Peer and the Gangster </em>which tells the incredible story of one of the largest-scale political cover-ups in British history – the 1964 scandal of an alleged homosexual affair between Lord Boothby, a well-known member of the House of Lords, and London’s most notorious mobster Ronnie Kray.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">The Dagger in the Library is voted on exclusively by librarians, chosen for the author’s body of work and support of libraries. This year sees firm favourites from the genre including Nicci French, Lisa Jewell, Margaret Murphy, Erin Kelly, Peter May and Denise Mina on the longlist.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">The Best Crime and Mystery Publisher of the Year Dagger, which celebrates publishers and imprints demonstrating excellence and diversity in crime writing, pits big publishing houses Harper Fiction and Faber & Faber against independent publishers such as No Exit Press. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">The CWA Dagger shortlist will be announced in May with the awards ceremony taking place at the start of July. The 2021 Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement, the highest honour in British crime writing, has already been announced, awarded to Martina Cole.</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;">The Longlists in Full:</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;">GOLD DAGGER</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Amer Anwar: Stone Cold Trouble (Dialogue Books, Little, Brown Book Group)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">S A Cosby: Blacktop Wasteland (Headline, Headline Publishing Group)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">M W Craven: The Curator (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Ben Creed: City of Ghosts (Welbeck Fiction, Welbeck Publishing Group)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Garry Disher: Peace (Viper, Profile Books)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Mick Finlay: Arrowood and the Thames Corpses (HQ, HarperCollins)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Nicci French: House of Correction (Simon & Schuster)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Robert Galbraith: Troubled Blood (Sphere, Little, Brown Book Group)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Elly Griffiths: The Postscript Murders (Quercus)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Antonia Hodgson: The Silver Collar (Hodder & Stoughton)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">S G Maclean: The House of Lamentations (Quercus Fiction, Quercus)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">C D Major: The Other Girl (Thomas & Mercer)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Thomas Mullen: Midnight Atlanta (Little, Brown, Little, Brown Book Group)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">S J Parris: Execution (Harper Fiction, HarperCollins)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Tade Thompson: Making Wolf (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Nicola Upson: The Dead of Winter (Faber)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Chris Whitaker: We Begin at the End (Zaffre, Bonnier)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Rebecca Whitney: The Hidden Girls (Mantle, Pan Macmillan)</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;"> </strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;">IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Charles Cumming: Box 88 (HarperFiction, HarperCollins)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Robert Galbraith: Troubled Blood (Sphere, Little, Brown Book Group)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Ryan Gattis: The System (Picador, Pan Macmillan)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Ian Rankin: Song for the Dark Times (Orion Fiction, The Orion Publishing Group)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Rod Reynolds: Blood Red City (Orenda Books)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Craig Robertson: Watch Him Die (Simon & Schuster)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Michael Robotham: When She Was Good (Sphere, Little, Brown Book Group)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Catherine Ryan Howard: The Nothing Man (Atlantic Books)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Stuart Turton: The Devil and the Dark Water (Raven Books, Bloomsbury Publishing)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Ruth Ware: One by One (Harvill Secker, Vintage)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Holly Watt: The Dead Line (Raven Books, Bloomsbury Publishing)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Chris Whitaker: We Begin at the End (Zaffre, Bonnier Books UK)<strong> </strong></span></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;"> </strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;">JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Eva Björg Ægisdóttir: The Creak on the Stairs (Orenda)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Susan Allott: The Silence (Borough, HarperCollins)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Emma Christie: The Silent Daughter (Welbeck Publishing )</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Catherine Cooper: The Chalet (Harper Fiction, HarperCollins)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Ben Creed: City of Ghosts (Welbeck Publishing) </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Judi Daykin: Under Violent Skies (Joffe Books) </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Egan Hughes: The One That Got Away (Little Brown, Sphere)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">S W Kane: The Bone Jar (Thomas & Mercer) </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Rob McInroy: Cuddies Strip (Ringwood Press) </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Stephanie Scott: What's Left of Me Is Yours (Orion, Weidenfeld)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Stephen Spotswood: Fortune Favours the Dead (Headline, Wildfire)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">John Vercher: Three Fifths (Pushkin Press) </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">S R White: Hermit (Headline)</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;"> </strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;">SAPERE BOOKS HISTORICAL DAGGER</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">J M Alvey: Justice for Athena (Canelo Digital Publishing Limited)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">John Banville: Snow (Faber)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Vaseem Khan: Midnight at Malabar House (Hodder & Stoughton)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Laurie King: Riviera Gold (Allison & Busby)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Chris Lloyd: The Unwanted Dead (Orion Fiction, The Orion Publishing Group)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">S J Parris: Execution (HarperFiction, HarperCollins)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Ben Pastor: The Night of Shooting Stars (Bitter Lemon Press)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Michael Russell: The City Under Siege (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">David S. Stafford: Skelton’s Guide to Domestic Poisons (Allison & Busby)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">A D Swanston: Chaos (Bantam Press, Transworld)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Nicola Upson: The Dead of Winter (Faber)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Ovidia Yu: The Mimosa Tree Mystery (Constable, Little, Brown Book Group)</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;"> </strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;">CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Fredrik Backman: Anxious People, translated by Neil Smith (Michael Joseph, Penguin)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Roxanne Bouchard: The Coral Bride, translated by David Warriner (Orenda Books)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Marc Elsberg: Greed, translated by Simon Pare (Black Swan, Penguin)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Yun Ko-eun: The Disaster Tourist, translated by Lizzie Buehler (Serpent's Tail)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Volker Kutscher: The March Fallen, translated by Niall Sellar (Sandstone Press)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">D A Mishani: Three, translated by Jessica Cohen (Riverrun, Hachette Book Group)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Jo Nesbo: The Kingdom, translated by Robert Ferguson (Harvill Secker, Penguin)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Håkan Nesser: The Secret Life of Mr Roos, translated by Sarah Death (Mantle, Pan Macmillan)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Mikael Niemi: To Cook a Bear, translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner (Maclehose Press, Quercus)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Agnes Ravatn: The Seven Doors, translated by Rosie Hedger (Orenda Books)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Maike Wetzel: Elly, translated by Lyn Marven (Scribe UK)</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;"> </strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;">SHORT STORY DAGGER</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Robert Scragg: ‘A Dog is for Life, Not Just for Christmas’ in <em>Afraid of the Christmas Lights</em>, edited by Robert Scragg (Robert Scragg)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Elle Croft: ‘Deathbed’ in <em>Afraid of the Light</em>, edited by Robert Scragg (Robert Scragg)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Dominic Nolan: ‘Daddy Dearest’ in <em>Afraid of the Light</em>, edited by Robert Scragg (Robert Scragg)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Adam Southward: ‘Especially at Christmas’ in <em>Afraid of the Christmas Lights</em>, edited by Robert Scragg (Robert Scragg)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Christopher Fowler: ‘Head Count’ in <em>First Edition: Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books</em> (The Dome Press)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Victoria Selman: ‘Hunted’ in <em>Afraid of the Christmas Lights</em>, edited by Robert Scragg (Robert Scragg)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Clare Mackintosh: ‘Monsters’ in <em>First Edition: Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books</em> (The Dome Press)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Stuart Turton: ‘Murder Most Vial’ in <em>First Edition: Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books</em> (The Dome Press)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Livia Llewelyn: ‘One of These Nights’ in <em>Cutting Edge: Noir Stories by Women</em>, edited by Joyce Carol Oates (Pushkin Press, Pushkin Vertigo)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">James Delargy: ‘Planting Nan<em>’</em> in <em>Afraid of the Light</em>, edited by Robert Scragg (Robert Scragg)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Simpson Grears: ‘The Foot of the Walk Murders’ in <em>The Foot of the Walk Murders</em>, edited by Simpson Grears (Rymour Books)</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;"> </strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;">ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Sue Black: Written in Bone (Doubleday, Penguin)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Amanda Brown: The Prison Doctor; Women Inside (HQ, HarperCollins)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Becky Cooper: We Keep the Dead Close (William Heinemann, Penguin)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Martin Edwards: Howdunit (Collins Crime Club, HarperCollins)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Andrew Harding: These Are Not Gentle People (MacLehose, Quercus)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Debora Harding: Dancing with the Octopus (Profile Books Limited)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Nick Hayes: The Book of Trespass (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Ben MacIntyre: Agent Sonya (Viking, Penguin)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Jax Miller: Hell in the Heartland (HarperCollins)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Daniel Smith: The Peer and the Gangster (The History Press)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Ravi Somaiya: Operation Morthor (Viking, Penguin)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Kate Summerscale: The Haunting of Alma Fielding (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Mark Townsend: No Return (Guardian, Faber & Faber)</span></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;"> </strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: #cccccc;">DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Lin Anderson</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Nicci French</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Lisa Jewell</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Erin Kelly</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Peter May</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Denise Mina</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Margaret Murphy</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">James Oswald</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">L J Ross</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">C L Taylor</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-55024571687225267692021-04-05T05:31:00.003-07:002021-04-05T05:31:31.801-07:006 Weeks Crime Writing Course with Louise Phillips!!!<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; 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BARTLETT AND KATE BENDELOW<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Learn
with the Crime Experts<br />
22 April 7.30pm</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Tickets:</span></b> <a href="http://bit.ly/SecureTheScene"><span style="color: #990000;">http://bit.ly/SecureTheScene</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The CWA minds behind February’s Blending Fact and Fiction have put
together a thrilling three-part series: <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Walking Through A Crime Scene.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 13.7pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Accuracy
underpins plausibility in any novel, and in crime fiction, it’s imperative not
to make any mistakes. The CWA’s bestselling author Sam Blake and Crime
Fiction PhD student Luke Deckard are bringing an ex-senior police officer, a
CSI officer, a forensic expert and a pathologist to a screen near you to
describe their role and answer your questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 13.7pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Wherever
you are in your writing career, discover up-to-the-minute techniques that will
inspire and guide you in this fascinating series. Research is crucial to
writing believable crime, and in this series, the CWA bring you the experts who
can help make that easier.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 13.7pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">At this
open discussion and Q&A you will learn who’s involved, who’s responsible
for what, and crucially, what can go wrong at a crime scene!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Graham Bartlett and Kate Bendelow join forces to show you exactly what
happens at a crime scene, who is involved, who is responsible for what, and the
series of events that transpire from that 999 call and the first officer
arriving on the scene. Who does what when? And crucially, what can go wrong?<br />
<b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br />
Graham Bartlett</span></b> was a UK police officer in Sussex for thirty
years. He mainly policed the city of Brighton and Hove, rising to become its
police commander. On the way, he was a homicide senior investigating officer
and led on managing dangerous offenders, sexual offences, domestic violence,
child protection and hate crime. He was a qualified strategic firearms and
public order commander, leading the policing of many armed operations, large
scale protests and sporting events.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Since retiring, he has become a police procedural and crime advisor
helping scores of authors and TV writers (including Peter James, Mark
Billingham, Elly Griffiths and Dorothy Koomson) achieve authenticity alongside
their drama. He works flexibly with authors at all stages of their writing
career and adopts an ethos of ‘creativity with credibility.’ Graham runs a
series of hugely popular online courses and workshops under the banner of
‘Crime Writing: Making it Real’. He is also a best-selling crime writer, with
two non-fiction books – Death Comes Knocking and Babes in the Wood – to his
name, and a crime novel in the pipeline.<br />
<b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><br />
Kate Bendelow</span></b> is a serving Crime Scene Investigator with 18
years of experience. She has worked on thousands of crime scenes including
rapes, robberies and murders. Kate can provide you with an insight into what
really goes on behind the crime scene tape. She can tell you who is allowed
access, how evidence types are recovered and how long DNA, fingerprints and
toxicology samples take to be analysed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 13.7pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Kate
can share what it is really like to work with death and come face to face with
some of the most heinous criminals – from the practical to the emotive. She is
also a writer and the author of The Real CSI: A Forensic Handbook for Crime
Writers and has a novel out in May 2021.<br />
Hosted by <a href="https://thecra.co.uk/find-an-author/blake-sam/"><span style="color: #990000;">Sam Blake</span></a> and <a href="https://thecra.co.uk/find-an-author/deckard-luke/"><span style="color: #990000;">Luke Deckard</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Tickets
£5.00 per session.</span></b> (Spaces are limited)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 13.7pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">CWA
members are entitled to free tickets. For your promo code, see details in News
& Events in the members section or contact Admin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 13.7pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Next
events in the series are 20 May & 24 June<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Part
2 – <i>Murder Under the Microscope with Dr Jim Fraser</i></span></b><br />
20 May 7.30pm – Tickets: <a href="http://bit.ly/MurderUnderMicroscope"><span style="color: #990000;">http://bit.ly/MurderUnderMicroscope</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.6pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Part
3 – <i>Pathology Opened Up with Dr Marie Cassidy</i></span></b><br />
24 June 7.30pm – Tickets: <a href="http://bit.ly/pathologyopenedup"><span style="color: #990000;">http://bit.ly/pathologyopenedup</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.0pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 10.0pt; mso-outline-level: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-3618023836425728902021-03-03T07:52:00.001-08:002021-03-03T07:52:32.158-08:00International Women's Day Event<p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghO0viB-0YlNIH9nPwIFkNaVRxVfXCC0_O03w6m5-vHH2wlG9imoo2Slh_kY2sw6l3gjDYSJWFTHkVQS2ASZH_DLSued9Lshk5cCg9ChjaTeH_khYa6_l9jpsCLy8BOaJZZBV666ggAt0/s563/South+Dublin+Event.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="329" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghO0viB-0YlNIH9nPwIFkNaVRxVfXCC0_O03w6m5-vHH2wlG9imoo2Slh_kY2sw6l3gjDYSJWFTHkVQS2ASZH_DLSued9Lshk5cCg9ChjaTeH_khYa6_l9jpsCLy8BOaJZZBV666ggAt0/s320/South+Dublin+Event.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">If anyone is interested in signing up for this FREE event on the 8th March see link below for booking....</span></span></p><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8u0f2" data-offset-key="3fmgi-0-0" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3fmgi-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3fmgi-0-0" style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="8u0f2" data-offset-key="8cnin-0-0" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8cnin-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span class="py34i1dx" style="background-color: #cccccc; color: var(--blue-link); font-family: inherit;">https://www.sdcc.ie/en/events/library-events/popular-library-events/an-evening-with-louise-phillips.html</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-76827443324389146402021-02-25T11:08:00.001-08:002021-02-25T11:18:37.489-08:00Ireland Reads Day!!!<p> </p><p><span data-offset-key="cdjcd-0-0" style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #0f1419; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiItBGsJMcY7fFtdoNvIiIVOSK30k3UV5mzeisD4kYVlip5qlNICI1pgXFUJ1BJlZozTwXQ4IolH0NL6_-llmAPgZCiQnMmmhcBZubrAbjwVGjjvCmB7MWbqE92KiIf7RX9VWZhjd7c-OE/s2048/IMG_20210225_185133.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1492" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiItBGsJMcY7fFtdoNvIiIVOSK30k3UV5mzeisD4kYVlip5qlNICI1pgXFUJ1BJlZozTwXQ4IolH0NL6_-llmAPgZCiQnMmmhcBZubrAbjwVGjjvCmB7MWbqE92KiIf7RX9VWZhjd7c-OE/s320/IMG_20210225_185133.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span data-text="true"><br /></span><p></p><p><span data-offset-key="cdjcd-0-0" style="color: #0f1419; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="background-color: #cccccc;">My read or rather re-read for Ireland Read Day is TATTY by Christine Dwyer Hickey - Being a Dublin girl it's one of my all time favourites...plus it was Dublin's One City One Book Choice 2020 so for perfect for today</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #1b95e0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="cdjcd-1-0" style="background-color: #cccccc;">#irelandreads</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #1b95e0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="cdjcd-3-0" style="background-color: #cccccc;">#irelandreadsday</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #1b95e0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="cdjcd-5-0" style="background-color: #cccccc;">#Dublin</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #1b95e0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="cdjcd-7-0" style="background-color: #cccccc;">#reading</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #1b95e0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="cdjcd-9-0" style="background-color: #cccccc;">#tatty</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-22497992145079583812021-02-23T08:16:00.001-08:002021-02-23T08:16:24.093-08:00Martina Cole Wins CWA Diamond Dagger Award!!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0_0Rl9WmLm2B9AaEc7ifccaCJqJvPQJPHRVK-zhr65fuDNMJouQFpvVrPvnxMXeGDUK6DMLJ7F7qO-_RPDYcQGzBOVyDQWfvwR9P45JCAfc599Sbl7DeyThcCClutLTIyCc_52MUzinc/s360/Martina+Cole+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0_0Rl9WmLm2B9AaEc7ifccaCJqJvPQJPHRVK-zhr65fuDNMJouQFpvVrPvnxMXeGDUK6DMLJ7F7qO-_RPDYcQGzBOVyDQWfvwR9P45JCAfc599Sbl7DeyThcCClutLTIyCc_52MUzinc/s320/Martina+Cole+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Martina Cole is the recipient of the highest honour in British crime writing, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The long-reigning Queen of Crime Drama is a publishing powerhouse. Martina has written 25 novels, all published by Headline, seventeen of which reached No.1 and her books have collectively spent over 4 years in the bestseller charts. Total sales stand at over 17 million copies, making her Britain’s bestselling female crime writer and with <em>The Faithless</em> she became the first British female adult audience novelist to break the £50 million sales mark since Nielsen Bookscan records began. Her books have been translated into 31 languages and adapted for multiple stage plays and television series. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Martina’s own story is as remarkable as any bestseller plot. Martina grew up on an Essex council estate and Ronnie and Reggie Kray once visited her family’s home when she was a child.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The youngest of five children in a large, poor, Irish Catholic family, she attended a convent school, where her struggle against authority started; this culminated in two expulsions. She finished school at 15 with no qualifications; was married at 16, divorced at 17 and pregnant at 18. A single mum, she struggled to bring up her son, Chris, taking on waitressing jobs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Aged 21, she lost both her parents and started to write her iconic debut novel, <em>Dangerous Lady, </em>but it wasn’t until she was 30 that she gave up her job and decided to devote herself seriously to writing and finished the manuscript. <em>Dangerous Lady </em>caused a sensation when it was published in 1992 – and the rest is history.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Martina is a passionate advocate for prisoner rehabilitation and visits prisons to give writing classes. She often quips to her classes: ‘there’s one thing you’ve got that all writers want – time’. It’s therefore no surprise her books are the most requested in Her Majesty’s prison libraries, and the most stolen from bookshops.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The Diamond Dagger award recognises authors whose crime-writing careers have been marked by sustained excellence, and who have made a significant contribution to crime fiction writing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The CWA Diamond Dagger is selected from nominations provided by CWA members. Martina Cole joins icons of the genre who have been recognised with the accolade, including Ruth Rendell, Lee Child, Ann Cleeves, Ian Rankin, PD James, Colin Dexter, Reginald Hill, Lindsey Davies, Peter Lovesey, and John Le Carré.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Martina said: “It means so much to me to be receiving this prestigious award from my peers at the CWA. I can’t believe it’s nearly thirty years since <em>Dangerous Lady</em> was published - some people dismissed me as an Essex girl and a one-book wonder – but as one of my favourite songs goes: ‘I’m still here’!”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Linda Stratmann, Chair of the CWA, said:<em> “</em>We are delighted to award the Diamond Dagger to a crime-writing legend.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Maxim Jakubowski, Hon CWA Vice Chair, said: “A much-overdue reward for a major crime author who has often been badly overlooked by the critical establishment. Martina has single-handedly created a new crime genre and brought so many new readers on board, and has always been a vocal supporter of her fellow writers in word and deed.”</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-91536301590526977042021-02-18T02:24:00.000-08:002021-02-18T02:24:16.004-08:00WHO KILLED EDEN MULLIGAN?<p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">A MASSIVE CONGRATS to Sharon Dempsey whose novel 'WHO TOOK EDEN MULLIGAN' is out today! It's been getting great reviews and I for one can't wait to get reading, especially with the amazing blurb below.....</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRHYHZ4QB1m2oY_Lv_zzXN_6CbollNXXKrpL6fw09p46zDvVD99lvZAgtdcjFdADFA8ZBsdVAhOObJItpLFrSphHQUTYvijv2Rb-WRYPni7I_92hnfyqK8HOUmRzpx156V-4Kj6lQZIpU/s613/Who+Took+Eden+Mulligan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: #cccccc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRHYHZ4QB1m2oY_Lv_zzXN_6CbollNXXKrpL6fw09p46zDvVD99lvZAgtdcjFdADFA8ZBsdVAhOObJItpLFrSphHQUTYvijv2Rb-WRYPni7I_92hnfyqK8HOUmRzpx156V-4Kj6lQZIpU/s320/Who+Took+Eden+Mulligan.jpg" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><br /></span><p><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"> <span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">‘A dark, disturbing and gripping read ... Sharon Dempsey will be one to watch!’ Claire Allan, USA Today bestselling author</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">‘They’re dead. They’re all dead. It’s my fault. I killed them.’</span></span><p style="color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: trebuchet;">Those are the words of Iona Gardener, who stands bloodied and staring as she confesses to the murder of four people in a run-down cottage outside of Belfast.</span></p><p style="color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: trebuchet;">Outside the cottage, five old dolls are hanging from a tree. Inside the cottage, the words “WHO TOOK EDEN MULLIGAN?” are graffitied on the wall, connecting the murder scene with the famous cold case of Eden Mulligan, a mother-of-five who went missing during The Troubles.</span></p><p style="color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: trebuchet;">But this case is different. Right from the start.</span></p><p style="color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: trebuchet;">Because no one in the community is willing to tell the truth, and the only thing DI Danny Stowe and forensic psychologist Rose Lainey can be certain of is that Iona Gardener’s confession is false....</span></p><p style="color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: trebuchet;">A creepy, gritty and very compelling crime novel, perfect for fans of Patricia Gibney, Angela Marsons and Jane Casey.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-39097636949055741942021-01-27T06:35:00.001-08:002021-01-27T06:35:30.133-08:00Mystery Writers of America Announces 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominations!<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>Mystery Writers of America</strong>, as they celebrate the 212<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, announce the nominees for the 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honouring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2020.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The 75<sup>th</sup> Annual Edgar® Award Winners will be celebrated on April 29, 2021.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">And of course I'm delighted to see "<strong>Guilt Rules All" - Irish Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction </strong>by Elizabeth Mannion & Brian Cliff being on the shortlist for Best Critical/Biographical, in which Rosemary Johnsen has written a critical piece on my fictional character Dr. Kate Pearson.</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Congrats to all the nominees!</span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.writing.ie/?attachment_id=74903" rel="attachment wp-att-74903"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-74903" height="228" src="https://www.writing.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MWA-620x293.jpg" width="483" /></span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">M.W.A. SHORTLIST</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>BEST NOVEL</strong><br /><br /><strong>Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line</strong> by Deepa Anappara<br /><strong>Before She Was Helen</strong> by Caroline B. Cooney<br /><strong>Thursday Murder Club</strong> by Richard Osman<br /><strong>These Women</strong> by Ivy Pochoda<br /><strong>The Missing American</strong> by Kwei Quartey<br /><strong>The Distant Dead</strong> by Heather Young</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /><strong>BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR</strong><br /> <br /><strong>Murder in Old Bombay</strong> by Nev March<br /><strong>Please See Us </strong>by Caitlin Mullen<br /><strong>Catherine House</strong> by Elisabeth Thomas<br /><strong>Winter Counts </strong>by David Heska Wanbli Weiden<br /><strong>Darling Rose Gold</strong> by Stephanie Wrobel<br /><br /><br /><strong>BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL</strong><br /> <br /><strong>When No One is Watching</strong> by Alyssa Cole<br /><strong>The Deep, Deep Snow</strong> by Brian Freeman<br /><strong>Unspeakable Things</strong> by Jess Lourey<br /><strong>The Keeper </strong>by Jessica Moor<br /><strong>East of Hounslow</strong> by Khurrum Rahman</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>BEST FACT CRIME</strong><br /><br /><strong>Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America </strong>by Mark A. Bradley</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia </strong>by Emma Copley Eisenberg</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic </strong>by Eric Eyre</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country </strong>by Sierra Crane Murdoch</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife </strong>by Ariel Sabar<br /> <br /><br /><strong>BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL<br /></strong> <br /><strong>Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club </strong>edited by Martin Edwards<br /><strong>Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock </strong>by Christina Lane<br /><strong>Ian Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery & Fiction </strong>by Erin E. MacDonald<br /><strong>Guilt Rules All: Irish Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction </strong>by Elizabeth Mannion & Brian Cliff <br /><strong>This Time Next Year We'll be Laughing </strong>by Jacqueline Winspear<br /> <br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>BEST SHORT STORY</strong><br /><br /><strong>"The Summer Uncle Cat Came to Stay," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine </strong>by Leslie Elman<br /><strong>"Dust, Ash, Flight," Addis Ababa Noir </strong>by Maaza Mengiste<br /><strong>"Fearless," California Schemin' </strong>by Walter Mosley<br /><strong>"Etta at the End of the World," Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine </strong>by Joseph S. Walker <br /><strong>"The Twenty-Five Year Engagement," In League with Sherlock Holmes </strong>by James W. Ziskin</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>BEST JUVENILE</strong><br /><br /><strong>Premeditated Myrtle</strong> by Elizabeth C. Bunce<br /><strong>Me and Banksy </strong>by Tanya Lloyd Kyi<br /><strong>From the Desk of Zoe Washington</strong> by Janae Marks<br /><strong>Ikenga</strong> by Nnedi Okorafor<br /><strong>Nessie Quest</strong> by Melissa Savage</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>Coop Knows the Scoop</strong> by Taryn Souders<br /> <br /> <br /><strong>BEST YOUNG ADULT</strong><br /> <br /><strong>The Companion </strong>by Katie Alender<br /><strong>The Inheritance Games</strong> by Jennifer Lynn Barnes<br /><strong>They Went Left</strong> by Monica Hesse<br /><strong>Silence of Bones </strong>by June Hur<br /><strong>The Cousins</strong> by Karen M. McManus<br /><br /><strong>BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY</strong><br /><br /><strong>"Episode 1, The Stranger" – Harlan Coben's The Stranger</strong><br /><strong>"Episode 1, Open Water" – The Sounds</strong><br /><strong>"Episode 1, Photochemistry" – Dead Still</strong><br /><strong>"Episode 1" - Des</strong><br /><strong>"What I Know" – The Boys</strong><br /> <br /> <strong>ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD<br /><br /></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>"The Bite," Tampa Bay Noir </strong>by Colette Bancroft</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD</strong> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /><strong>Death of an American Beauty</strong> by Mariah Fredericks</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne </strong>by Elsa Hart<br /><strong>The Lucky One</strong> by Lori Rader-Day<br /><strong>The First to Lie</strong> by Hank Phillippi Ryan<br /><strong>Cold Wind</strong> by Paige Shelton</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>THE G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD</strong><br /> <br /><strong>The Burn </strong>by Kathleen Kent<br /><strong>Riviera Gold </strong>by Laurie R. King<br /><strong>Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery</strong> by Rosalie Knecht<br /><strong>Dead Land</strong> by Sara Paretsky<br /><strong>The Sleeping Nymph</strong> by Ilaria Tuti<br /><strong>Turn to Stone</strong> by James W. Ziskin</span></p><p><strong><u><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">SPECIAL AWARDS</span></u></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>GRAND MASTER<br /></strong>Jeffery Deaver<br />Charlaine Harris</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><strong>ELLERY QUEEN AWARD<br /></strong>Reagan Arthur, Publisher – Alfred A. Knopf</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The Edgar Awards, or "Edgars," as they are commonly known, are named after MWA's patron saint Edgar Allan Poe and are presented to authors of distinguished work in various categories. The organization encompasses some 3,000 members including authors of fiction and non-fiction books, screen and television writers, as well as publishers, editors, and literary agents.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-67444351363195125332020-12-04T05:50:00.000-08:002020-12-04T05:50:16.993-08:00GUILT RULES ALL!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIJ7ADyShrWNVPS0OaTrblzsdiLnYgu6l_RTaU1qGVDb8ObcH0cYBu6a1HUAovlC3OB-oFbw_EZXC5FJgd93teTuO4c1xwEiiaxLFlN-UWfh0HUiJJ8Hgq5skFytrgN5oNP0133sCJTEI/s2048/IMG_20201204_130456.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1436" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIJ7ADyShrWNVPS0OaTrblzsdiLnYgu6l_RTaU1qGVDb8ObcH0cYBu6a1HUAovlC3OB-oFbw_EZXC5FJgd93teTuO4c1xwEiiaxLFlN-UWfh0HUiJJ8Hgq5skFytrgN5oNP0133sCJTEI/s320/IMG_20201204_130456.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Some of you may have noticed my lack of posting for a wee while. It's hasn't been because I've disappeared off the planet, more a twist and turn of life, so please forgive me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">However, today I'm delighted to share this Irish Crime Fiction gem with you. Edited by Elizabeth Mannion and Brian Cliff 'GUILT RULES ALL 'explores and celebrates Irish Crime Fiction. I feel honoured to be one of the writers featured in this work which conveys the breadth of the genre.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Within a piece by Rosemary Erickson Johnson on the Kate Pearson series, she says, "Phillips's series offers insight into contemporary Irish society, with a particular reference to women's lives and feminist issues, and helps us to define the parameters of domestic noir in the face of sometimes-competing demands of series fiction." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Well, that will do me!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Hope you are all surviving these rather testing times!</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-89162377064428247632020-07-24T00:08:00.000-07:002020-07-24T00:08:07.389-07:00IRISH WRITER ADRIAN MCKINTY WINS CRIME WRITING’S PREMIERE AWARD FOR HIS ‘LIFE-CHANGING’ THRILLER THE CHAIN <br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #222222;">“I am gobsmacked and delig!!hted to win this
award. Two years ago, I had given up on writing altogether and was working in a
bar and driving an uber, and so to go from that to this is just amazing. People
think that you write a book and it will be an immediate bestseller. For twelve
books, my experience was quite the opposite, but then I started this one. It
was deliberately high concept, deliberately different to everything else I had
written - and I was still convinced it wouldn’t go anywhere… but now look at
this. It has been completely life changing.”</span></i><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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McKinty has been awarded the UK’s most prestigious accolade in crime writing,
the <i>Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year,</i> for his best-selling
thriller, <i>The Chain,</i></span><i><span style="color: #ed7d31;"> </span></i><span style="color: #222222;">that sees parents forced to abduct children to save the lives of
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This phenomenal success comes after Adrian’s family were evicted
from their home, forcing him to put down his pen and find work as an Uber
driver and bar tender to make ends meet. Persuaded to give his dream one last
go, Adrian began writing what would become his smash hit sensation <i>The
Chain</i>, now a bestseller in over 20 countries with move rights snapped up by
Universal in a seven figure deal to bring this chilling masterpiece to life on
screen.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Described by Don Winslow as ‘nothing short of <i>Jaws </i>for
parents’, <i>The Chain </i>was chosen by public vote and the prize
Judges, triumphing<i> </i>against a tremendously strong shortlist –
including books from Oyinkan Braithwaite, Helen Fitzgerald, Jane Harper, Mick
Herron and Abir Mukherjee – at a time when the UK is experiencing a boom in
crime fiction, with the genre exploding in popularity during lockdown and sales
soaring since bookshops have reopened.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The news was revealed in a virtual awards ceremony on what would
have been the opening night of Harrogate’s legendary Theakston Old Peculier
Crime Writing Festival, which was cancelled due to the pandemic. Instead, the
announcement of this coveted trophy has marked the launch of the <b>HIF
Weekender</b>, Harrogate International Festival’s free virtual festival
bringing world-class culture to everyone at home, featuring performances and
interviews with internationally acclaimed musicians, best-selling authors and
innovative thinkers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Adrian McKinty – who was previously nominated in 2011, 2014 and
2016 for his Sean Duffy series – will now receive £3,000 and an engraved oak
beer cask, hand-carved by one of Britain’s last coopers from Theakstons
Brewery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Executive director of T&R Theakston,
Simon Theakston, said</span></b><span style="color: #222222;">: <i>“Looking at the titles in contention for the Theakston
Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2020, it is clear to see why crime fiction
remains the UK’s genre of choice. Adrian McKinty is a writer of astonishing
talent and tenacity, and we could not be more grateful that he was persuaded to
give his literary career one last shot because The Chain is a truly deserving
winner. Whilst we might be awarding this year’s trophy in slightly different,
digital circumstances, we raise a virtual glass of Theakston Old Peculier to
Adrian’s success – with the hope that we can do so in person before too long,
and welcome everyone back to Harrogate next year for a crime writing
celebration like no other.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-72282414704247036182020-06-18T06:26:00.000-07:002020-06-18T06:27:49.020-07:00NEW BLOOD 2020 – VAL MCDERMID TIPS CRIME FICTION’S RISING STARS!<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">DEEPA ANAPPARA | ELIZABETH KAY | JESSICA MOOR | TREVOR WOOD</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The undisputed ‘Queen of Crime’ Val McDermid has unveiled the hotly tipped ‘New Blood’ authors for 2020, showcasing the year’s best breakout crime writing talent:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- <strong>Deepa Anappara</strong> – <em>Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line</em> (Chatto & Windus)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- <strong>Elizabeth Kay</strong> – <em>Seven Lies</em> (Sphere)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- <strong>Jessica Moor</strong> – <em>Keeper</em> (Penguin)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- <strong>Trevor Wood</strong> – <em>The Man on the Street</em> (Quercus)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since 2004, the best-selling Scottish author of the Tony Hill & Carol Jordan series has curated an annual celebration of the most formidable debuts taking the crime and thriller genre by storm, with an invitation to join the line-up of the world’s largest and most prestigious crime fiction festival: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This year, <strong>Deepa Anappara</strong> has been selected for her part coming-of-age, part detective mystery <strong><em>Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line</em></strong>, a heart-breaking and thought-provoking social commentary of modern India’s slums that has been recognised for the Women’s Prize. <strong>Elizabeth Kay</strong> is on the list for her explosive <strong><em>Seven Lies</em></strong>, taking domestic noir to a whole new level in a deliciously dark blurring of truth and lies, and <strong>Jessica Moore </strong>is recognised for her brutal and beautiful <em>Keeper, </em>the addictive literary thriller that has had everyone talking. Concluding this year’s New Blood contingent is <strong>Trevor Wood</strong> and his debut <em>The Man on the Street</em>, a gritty thriller set on the streets of Newcastle.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>Val McDermid </strong>said: <em>“I have been hosting the New Blood showcase since the festival began in 2003 and, in my book, discovering and sharing new talent with an eager audience is the best job in crime fiction. I know exactly what I’m looking for on my quest: fresh and distinctive voices, a well-told, convincing story and the almost indefinable sense that these authors all have much more to say. Deepa, Elizabeth, Jessica and Trevor tick all of these boxes and more, and if this year’s debuts share a theme, it is the irresistible and devastating way in which crime fiction shines a light on our times: homelessness, domestic violence, child trafficking and mental health are all dissected with an unflinching gaze. Whilst we can’t gather en masse at the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate this year, I hope that readers will enjoy our virtual introduction to these brilliant new writers.”</em></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The unveiling of McDermid’s selection has become one of the most anticipated moments of the publishing calendar, with readers on the lookout to uncover their new favourite author and add the ‘next big thing’ to their bookshelves.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Former ‘New Blood’ alumni include Clare Mackintosh, SJ Watson, Stuart MacBride, Liam McIlvanney and Belinda Bauer, as well as three authors on this year’s shortlist for the UK’s most prestigious crime writing award – Theakston Old Peculier: Abir Mukherjee, Jane Harper and Oyinkan Braithwaite, who was chosen just last year for her Booker longlisted <em>My Sister, the Serial Killer</em>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>Trevor Wood</strong> said: <em>“As a kid I dreamt of playing in the cup final. I’m a fraction older now but being chosen for Harrogate’s New Blood panel feels exactly like that did.”</em></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>Jessica Moor </strong>said: <em>"To have been chosen for this panel, which has included some of my favourite new authors of the last decade, and to have been chosen by the legendary Val McDermid, is a such an honour."</em></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>Deepa Anappara</strong> said: <em>“I am thrilled and honoured to be picked for the New Blood panel, and grateful to Val McDermid for her immense generosity and support of debut novelists.”</em></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>Elizabeth Kay </strong>said: <em>“I’m absolutely thrilled to have been selected for such a prestigious event. The ‘New Blood’ panel has an incredible history, and I’m delighted to be participating this year alongside three really exciting other authors.”</em></span><br />
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<em><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In a basti on the outskirts of a sprawling Indian city, nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows in the house he shares with his family. Jai thinks he’s smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss than his hardworking friend Faiz (even though he has a job). When their classmate from school goes missing, the Djinn Patrol ventures out, wielding their detective skills into the bustling city to investigate; through the rattle-tattle energy and mouth-watering smells of the bazaar, to the dangerous rubbish ground and as far as the railway station at the end of the Purple Line. But children continue to vanish, and the trio must confront terrified parents, an unsympathetic police force and soul-snatching djinns in order to uncover the truth. As the disappearances edge ever closer to home, the lives of Jai and his friends will be altered forever.</span></em><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>Deepa Anappara</strong> grew up in Kerala, southern India, and worked as a journalist in cities including Mumbai and Delhi. Her reports on the impact of poverty and religious violence on the education of children won the Developing Asia Journalism Awards, the Every Human has Rights Media Awards, and the Sanskriti-Prabha Dutt fellowship in Journalism. A partial of her debut novel, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, the Bridport/Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award and the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and is currently studying for a PhD on a CHASE doctoral fellowship. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line will be publised in America, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain and Sweden. <a href="http://deepa-anappara.com/">deepa-anappara.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Only you know the <span style="text-decoration-line: line-through;">truth</span>: Jane and Marnie have been inseparable since they were eleven years old. In their twenties, they both married handsome young men. Years later, Jane and Marnie are still best friends – and both men are dead. But if Jane had been honest from the start – if she hadn’t told that first little white lie – then perhaps the person she loves most would still love her too. Perhaps everything would be different. This is Jane’s opportunity to tell the real story – if you can believe her. As Jane narrates hers and Marnie’s shared history and unpicks each of seven increasingly catastrophic lies, she reveals the pockets of darkness that have infiltrated their friendship; the toxic secrets still bubbling beneath; and a tale of obsession, of grief, and the real meaning of truth.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>Elizabeth Kay</strong> (@AnyOtherLizzy) started her career as an assistant at Penguin Random House. She is now a commissioning editor and is simultaneously pursuing her passion for writing. Her debut novel, Seven Lies, will be published in 2020. Elizabeth lives in London with her husband. @AnyOtherLizzy</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He's been looking in the windows again. Messing with cameras. Leaving notes. Supposed to be a refuge. But death got inside. When Katie Straw's body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police decide it's an open-and-shut case. A standard-issue female suicide. But the residents of Widringham women's refuge where Katie worked don't agree. They say it's murder. Will you listen to them?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>Jessica Moor (@jessicammoor)</strong> studied English at Cambridge before completing a Creative Writing MA at Manchester University. Prior to this she spent a year working in the violence against women and girls’ sector and this experience inspired her first novel, KEEPER.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Man on the Street</span></strong><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It started with a splash. Jimmy, a homeless veteran grappling with PTSD, did his best to pretend he hadn’t heard it – the sound of something heavy falling into the Tyne at the height of an argument between two men on the riverbank. Not his fight. Maybe it was another of his vivid nightmares? Since he found himself living on the streets, avoiding other people’s fights has helped him to survive. Trouble finds him easily enough without looking for it. Then a newspaper headline catches his eye: GIRL IN MISSING DAD PLEA. The girl, Carrie, reminds him of someone he lost. This makes his mind up: it’s time to stop hiding from his past. But telling Carrie, what he heard - or thought he heard - turns out to be just the beginning of the story. The police don’t believe him. Who believes a homeless man? But Carrie is adamant that something awful has happened to her dad and Jimmy agrees to help her, putting himself at risk from enemies old and new. But Jimmy has one big advantage: when you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>Trevor Wood (@TrevorWoodWrite)</strong> has lived in Newcastle for twenty-five years and considers himself an adopted Geordie. He’s a successful playwright who has also worked as a journalist and spin-doctor for the City Council. Prior to that he served in the Royal Navy for sixteen years. Trevor holds an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) from UEA. The Man on the Street is his first novel.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">About Harrogate International Festivals</span></strong><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">‘Harrogate International Festivals’ is a charitable organisation with a mission to present a diverse year-long programme of live events that bring immersive and moving cultural experiences to as many people as possible. Delivering artistic work of national importance, the Festival curates and produces over 300 unique and surprising performances each year, celebrating world-renowned artists and championing new and up-coming talent across music, literature, science, philosophy and psychology. The HIF+ ongoing education outreach programme engages schools, young people and the local community with workshops, talks, projects and inspiring activities, ensuring everyone can experience the Festival’s world class programme and the transformative power of the arts.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Established in 1966, Harrogate International Festivals are an artistic force to be reckoned with and a key cultural provider for the North of England.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong>Find out more at: </strong><a href="http://www.harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/"><strong>www.harrogateinternationalfestivals.com</strong></a><strong> | Facebook: </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/HarrogateInternationalFestivals/"><strong>@HarrogateInternationalFestivals</strong></a><strong> | Twitter: </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/HarrogateFest"><strong>@HarrogateFest</strong></a><strong> | </strong><strong>Instagram: </strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/harrogatefestivals/"><strong>@harrogatefestivals</strong></a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-29722726928555431582020-06-04T08:53:00.001-07:002020-06-04T08:53:48.330-07:00Small Paperback of THE HIDING GAME about to hit the shelves!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been very quiet of late, but the last couple of months have been awash with two bouts of shingles for myself, a family member with Covid, and a hubby with a double dose of vertigo! (I'm just saying!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyhow, we have all survived and the small paperback version of THE HIDING GAME will be hitting the shelves next week!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The evidence - and the media - is against her, but Abby Jones swears she is innocent.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Defence attorney Heather Baxter believes Abby is telling the truth, but convincing a jury will not be easy. And she knows that in a place like Corham, where her own mother's murder remains unsolved, justice isn't always served.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As the lawyer starts to dig deeper into Abby's case, Heather soon realises there may be a link to the shadows of her own past -- and those involved will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried ...</span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'Intriguing and compelling ... will enthral you to the end'<b> Liz Nugent</b></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The awards were due to be presented at a Gala Dinner during the convention at the Bristol Grand Mercure Hotel this June, but in light of Covid-19, the winners will be announced online at <a href="http://www.crimefest.com/">www.crimefest.com</a> and via its social media pages on Tuesday 7 July.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">CrimeFest was created following the hugely successful one-off visit to Bristol in 2006 of the American Left Coast Crime convention. It was established over ten years ago in 2008. It follows the egalitarian format of most US conventions, making it open to all authors and readers alike.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The convention has grown to become not only one of the biggest crime fiction events in Europe, but also one of the most popular dates in the international crime fiction calendar, with circa 60 panel events and 150 authors over four days.</span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Shortlists</span></u></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">SPECSAVERS DEBUT CRIME NOVEL AWARD</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Fiona Erskine for <a href="https://amzn.to/3e7zyyO"><em>The Chemical Detective</em></a> (Point Blank)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Katja Ivar for <a href="https://amzn.to/2WPRlVt"><em>Evil Things</em></a> (Bitter Lemon Press)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Carolyn Kirby for <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZqZLo2"><em>The Conviction of Cora Burns</em></a> (No Exit Press)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Alex Michaelides for <a href="https://amzn.to/3g8jxup"><em>The Silent Patient</em></a> (Orion Fiction)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Laura Shepherd-Robinson for <a href="https://amzn.to/2ToMIiY"><em>Blood & Sugar</em></a> (Mantle)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Holly Watt for <a href="https://amzn.to/2WR9oKV"><em>To The Lions</em></a> (Raven Books)<br /></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME AWARD</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Kate Atkinson for <a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Big-Sky-Audiobook/B07L3YJ3W6?qid=1590671064&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=B1N4Z593FK1HB7FKS9HA"><em>Big Sky</em></a> narrated by Jason Isaacs (Penguin Random House Audio)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Oyinkan Braithwaite for <a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/My-Sister-the-Serial-Killer-Audiobook/B07FPPYHXK?qid=1590671121&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=4K0G309JCJEK7CW28NWV"><em>My Sister, the Serial Killer</em></a> narrated by Weruche Opia (W F Howes)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Alex Callister for <a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Winter-Dark-Audiobook/B07NYTNTV4?qid=1590671154&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=1H2TN70KFRCC02FK1MJ3"><em>Winter Dark</em></a> narrated by Ell Potter (Audible Studios)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Lee Child for <a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Blue-Moon-Audiobook/1473565251?qid=1590671221&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=893RMPYA80CV94PW99Q9"><em>Blue Moon</em></a> narrated by Jeff Harding (Penguin Random House Audio)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Lisa Jewell for <a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Family-Upstairs-Audiobook/B07KRML8Z3?qid=1590671251&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=D4WJSF0CK0PWAQ3AFBMB"><em>The Family Upstairs</em></a> narrated by Tamaryn Payne, Bea Holland, Dominic Thorburn (Penguin Random House Audio)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- T.M. Logan for <a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Holiday-Audiobook/1785769553?qid=1590671286&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=QR75N2T3Y2GC58XHJPKK"><em>The Holiday</em></a> narrated by Laura Kirman (Zaffre)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Peter May for <a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Man-with-No-Face-Audiobook/1787472612?qid=1590671318&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=2G90YKE198XCT8RB47GJ"><em>The Man with No Face</em></a> narrated by Peter Forbes (Quercus, Fiction)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Alex Michaelides for <a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Silent-Patient-Audiobook/1409181650?qid=1590671343&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=F92Q0BXR6Q32MY3ST2F4"><em>The Silent Patient</em></a> narrated by Louise Brealey, Jack Hawkins (Orion)<br /></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">H.R.F. KEATING AWARD</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Ursula Buchan for <a href="https://amzn.to/2Xl1jxh"><em>Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps</em></a> (Bloomsbury Publishing)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- John Curran for <a href="https://amzn.to/2zi6w0O"><em>The Hooded Gunman</em></a> (HarperCollins Crime Club)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Barry Forshaw for <a href="https://amzn.to/3eaSRHt"><em>Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide</em></a> (No Exit Press)<br /></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">LAST LAUGH AWARD</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- William Boyle for <a href="https://amzn.to/2WT3Gsd"><em>A Friend is a Gift you Give Yourself</em></a> (No Exit Press)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Hannah Dennison for <a href="https://amzn.to/36pJVeP"><em>Tidings of Death at Honeychurch Hall</em></a> (Constable)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Helen FitzGerald for <a href="https://amzn.to/2LO1prK"><em>Worst Case Scenario</em></a> (Orenda Books)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Christopher Fowler for <a href="https://amzn.to/2WPSoVz"><em>Bryant & May - The Lonely Hour</em></a> (Transworld)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Antti Tuomainen for <a href="https://amzn.to/2WRi0By"><em>Little Siberia</em></a> (Orenda Books)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- L.C. Tyler for <a href="https://amzn.to/2zWGYWW"><em>The Maltese Herring</em></a> (Allison & Busby)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><strong>eDUNNIT AWARD</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Helen FitzGerald for <em><a href="http://worst%20case%20scenario/">Worst Case Scenario</a></em> (Orenda Books)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Sarah Hilary for <em><a href="https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/never-be-broken-d-i-marnie-rome-6">Never Be Broken</a></em> (Headline)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Andrew Taylor for <em><a href="https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-king-s-evil-james-marwood-cat-lovett-book-3-1">The King's Evil</a></em> (HarperFiction)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- L.C. Tyler for <em><a href="https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-maltese-herring">The Maltese Herring</a></em> (Allison & Busby)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Holly Watt for <em><a href="https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/to-the-lions-2">To The Lions</a></em> (Raven Books)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Don Winslow for <em><a href="https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/search?query=The+Border">The Border</a></em> (HarperFiction)</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BEST CRIME FICTION NOVEL FOR CHILDREN <em>(ages 8-12)</em></span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- P.G. Bell for <a href="https://amzn.to/3cRGW0Z"><em>The Great Brain Robbery</em></a> (Usborne Publishing)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Vivian French for <a href="https://amzn.to/36lP9Il"><em>The Steam Whistle Theatre Company</em></a> (Walker Books)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Sophie Green for <a href="https://amzn.to/2LM7Prp"><em>Potkin and Stubbs</em></a> (Bonnier Books)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- A.M. Howell for <a href="https://amzn.to/2XgJ8c2"><em>The Garden of Lost Secrets</em></a> (Usborne Publishing)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Simon Lelic for <a href="https://amzn.to/2TsbNK6"><em>The Haven</em></a> (Hodder Children's Books)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Thomas Taylor for <a href="https://amzn.to/3cThDvx"><em>Malamander</em></a> (Walker Books)<br /></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BEST CRIME FICTION NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS <em>(ages 12-16)</em></span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Kathryn Evans for <a href="https://amzn.to/2WQI3bS"><em>Beauty Sleep</em></a> (Usborne Publishing)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- John Grisham for <a href="https://amzn.to/36i1lKt"><em>Theodore Boone: The Accomplice</em></a> (Hodder & Stoughton)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Samuel J. Halpin for <a href="https://amzn.to/2WOBR4b"><em>The Peculiar Peggs of Riddling Woods</em></a> (Usborne Publishing)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Simon Mason for <a href="https://amzn.to/2A0v0fa"><em>Hey Sherlock!</em></a> (David Fickling Books)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Tom Pollock for <a href="https://amzn.to/2TqNCf0"><em>Heartstream</em></a> (Walker Books)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Nikesh Shukla for <a href="https://amzn.to/2WO2Xs5"><em>The Boxer</em></a> (Hodder Children's Books)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-5950342712881206072020-05-14T05:25:00.001-07:002020-05-14T05:25:58.725-07:00LONGLIST REVEALED FOR THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2020!<br />
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is unveiled with literary legends and dynamic debuts in contention for the
Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now in its 16<sup>th</sup> year,
the most coveted prize in crime fiction, presented by Harrogate International
Festivals, received a record number of submissions and this highly anticipated
longlist of 18 titles – 10 of which by women – represents crime writing at its
best: celebrating four former winners, a Booker Prize contender, and the fresh
new voices taking the genre by storm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The line-up of
returning champions is led by Scottish supernova <b>Denise Mina</b>, vying
to become the first author to complete a hat trick with the deeply unsettling
thriller <i>Conviction</i>. Mina is joined by fellow Glaswegian bestseller <b>Chris
Brookmyre</b> and his psychological suspense <i>Fallen Angel</i>,
‘Queen of Crime’ <b>Val McDermid</b>’s latest masterful Tony Hill and
Carol Jordan investigation, <i>How the Dead Speak</i>, and <b>Lee
Child</b> CBE, with the final Jack Reacher, <i>Blue Moon</i>, before
sharing authorship with his brother Andrew.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The longlist
also features several previously nominated authors hoping to go one step
further and claim the trophy with <b>Mick Herron</b> securing a fifth
pick for his much-lauded <i>Slough House</i> series with <i>Joe
Country</i> and a nod for <b>Abir Mukherjee</b>’s new <i>Wyndham
& Banerjee</i> instalment, <i>Smoke and Ashes</i>, and fan
favourite <i>Vera </i>and <i>Shetland </i>author <b>Ann
Cleeves</b> returns with <i>The Long Call</i>, marking the launch of
a new North Devon series. Further Theakston alumni in the running include <b>Adrian
McKinty</b> with his electrifying thriller <i>The Chain, </i><b>Helen
Fitzgerald</b> and the darkly comic <i>Worst Case Scenario</i>,<i> </i>and
outback noir from <b>Jane Harper</b> in <i>The Lost Man</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rising stars of
the genre are celebrated with three debuts on the list. <b>Oyinkan
Braithwaite</b>, who was spotlighted in the Festival’s highly respected ‘New
Blood’ panel in 2019, has been recognised for her Booker longlisted <i>My
Sister the Serial Killer</i>. <b>Harriet Tyce</b> is in contention
for her electrifying domestic noir <i>Blood Orange </i>that draws on
her own experience as a criminal barrister, and <b>Laura Shepherd-Robinson</b> for
the deeply atmospheric <i>Blood & Sugar, </i>bringing the 1780s
Deptford Docks to life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Established
voices joining the Theakston ranks for the first time include <b>Jane
Casey </b>and her latest Maeve Kerrigan<b> </b>instalment <i>Cruel
Acts</i>, <b>Alex North</b><i> </i>with his chilling police
procedural <i>The Whisper Man</i>, <b>Louise Doughty</b><i>, </i>who
is longlisted for the eerily unnerving <i>Platform Seven</i>, <b>Will
Carver</b><i> </i>with the mesmerising thriller <i>Nothing Important
Happened Today; </i>and Val McDermid’s 2018 New Blood selection: <b>Will
Dean</b> and his eagerly awaited follow-up to <i>Dark Pines</i>, the
stunning Scandi noir <i>Red Snow</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">The full
longlist for the <i>Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year
2020 </i>is:</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Killer</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222;"> by <b>Oyinkan
Braithwaite</b> (Atlantic Books)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Brookmyre</b> (Little, Brown Book Group, Abacus)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Today</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222;"> by <b>Will
Carver</b> (Orenda Books)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Bantam)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Cleeves</b> (Pan Macmillan, Macmillan/Pan)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Point Blank)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Fitzgerald</b> (Orenda Books)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Harper</b> (Little, Brown Book Group, Little, Brown)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Herron</b> (John Murray Press)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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McDermid</b> (Little, Brown Book Group, Little, Brown)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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McKinty</b> (Orion Publishing Group, Orion Fiction)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Mina</b> (VINTAGE, Harvill Secker)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Mukherjee </b>(VINTAGE, Harvill Secker)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">-</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><b><i><span style="color: #222222;">The Whisper Man</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222;"> by <b>Alex
North</b> (Penguin Random House, Michael Joseph)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">-</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><b><i><span style="color: #222222;">Blood & Sugar</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222;"> by <b>Laura
Shepherd-Robinson</b> (Headline Publishing Group, Wildfire)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">-</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><b><i><span style="color: #222222;">Blood Orange</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222;"> by <b>Harriet
Tyce</b> (Pan Macmillan, Mantle/Pan)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Executive
director of T&R Theakston, Simon Theakston, said</span></b><span style="color: #222222;">: “Year on year, I’m
astounded and delighted by how this exceptional genre continues to excel – we
were deluged with record submissions and these 18 impressive titles demonstrate
the quality and power of contemporary crime fiction. From the familiar faces to
the new voices, we are immensely proud of this year's longlist <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/2/null" name="m_-6368471190081362228_m_-17479382044809">and raise a virtual glass of
Old Peculier to all the authors, and what will be another fierce contest for
this much-wanted award.”</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The award is
run by Harrogate International Festivals in partnership with T&R
Theakston Ltd, WHSmith and the Express, and is open to full length crime novels
published in paperback from 1 May 2018 to 30 April 2019 by UK and Irish
authors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The longlist
was selected by an academy of crime writing authors, agents, editors, reviewers,
members of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival Programming
Committee, and representatives from T&R Theakston Ltd, the Express, and
WHSmith.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The 18 titles
will be promoted in a dedicated online campaign from WHSmith, digital
promotional materials will be made available for independent bookstores, and
the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival’s online community – <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/youre-booked/&source=gmail&ust=1589544055086000&usg=AFQjCNHfAxvsRfaV7Ai2yeRx7E2_l_Y8kg" href="https://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/youre-booked/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">You’re Booked</span></i></a> – will raise a virtual
glass to the titles and authors through interviews, features and a variety of
further interactive content, as well as giving the opportunity to see a
selection of events from the Festival’s extensive archive. This forms part of
the Harrogate International Festival virtual season of events, which presents a
raft of live music, specially commissioned performances, literary events and
interviews to bring a free festival experience to your own digital
doorstep. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The public are
now invited to vote for a shortlist of six titles on <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com&source=gmail&ust=1589544055086000&usg=AFQjCNEmju8hIP_ppjkpYPEdm5Ci1tPTgg" href="http://www.harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.<wbr></wbr>harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.<wbr></wbr>com</span></a>,
which will be announced on 8<sup> </sup>June.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-66305824586920729932020-05-07T03:26:00.002-07:002020-05-07T03:26:34.838-07:00Announcing the 2020 Edgar Winners!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This year marks the 74th anniversary of the Mystery Writers of America’s gala celebrating the Edgar Awards—one of the crime fiction world’s highest honours. Under normal circumstances, the mystery community would be convening for a black-tie affair at a midtown Manhattan hotel, but this year—with a deadly pandemic still spreading and countries around the world on lockdown—the event has gone virtual. The winners have been announced on social media, and we’re following all the action here. Let’s take the day to celebrate these authors—and the weeks and months ahead to read their work.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here are your 2020 Edgar Award winners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BEST NOVEL</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.writing.ie/guest-blogs/announcing-the-2020-edgar-winners/attachment/edgar-1/" rel="attachment wp-att-67491"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="size-large wp-image-67491 aligncenter" height="121" src="https://www.writing.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/edgar-1-620x188.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781538759516">Fake Like Me</a> by Barbara Bourland (Grand Central Publishing)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9780358117865">The Stranger Diaries</a> by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9780525563532">The River</a> by Peter Heller (Alfred A. Knopf)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781643130149">Smoke and Ashes</a> by Abir Mukherjee (Pegasus Books)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781982103606">Good Girl, Bad Girl</a> by Michael Robotham (Scribner)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WINNER: THE STRANGER DIARIES, by Elly Griffiths</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.writing.ie/guest-blogs/announcing-the-2020-edgar-winners/attachment/edgar-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-67492"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-67492" height="95" src="https://www.writing.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/edgar-2-620x149.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9780451491732">My Lovely Wife</a> by Samantha Downing (Berkley)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9780374156022">Miracle Creek</a> by Angie Kim (Farrar Straus and Giroux)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9780525535546">The Good Detective</a> by John McMahon (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9780525656159">The Secrets We Kept</a> by Lara Prescott (Alfred A. Knopf)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781947993679">Three-Fifths</a> by John Vercher (Agora Books)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9780812988284">American Spy</a> by Lauren Wilkinson (Random House)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WINNER: <em>MIRACLE CREEK</em>, BY ANGIE KIM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781496705969">Dread of Winter</a> by Susan Alice Bickford (Kensington Publishing)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781503904460">Freedom Road</a> by William Lashner (Thomas & Mercer)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781328987815">Blood Relations</a> by Jonathan Moore (Mariner Books)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781609454944">February’s Son</a> by Alan Parks (Europa Editions)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781947793347">The Hotel Neversink</a> by Adam O’Fallon Price (Tin House Books)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781947627130">The Bird Boys</a> by Lisa Sandlin (Cinco Puntos Press)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WINNER: <em>THE HOTEL NEVERSINK</em>, by Adam O’Fallon Price</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BEST FACT CRIME</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.writing.ie/guest-blogs/announcing-the-2020-edgar-winners/attachment/edgar-4/" rel="attachment wp-att-67496"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-67496" height="121" src="https://www.writing.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/edgar-4-620x189.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9780451498625">The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America</a> by Karen Abbott (Crown)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781538730287">The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity</a> by Axton Betz-Hamilton (Grand Central Publishing)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9780525428640">American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century</a> by Maureen Callahan (Viking)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781640092129">Norco ’80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History</a> by Peter Houlahan (Counterpoint Press)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781640091894">Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall</a> by James Polchin (Counterpoint Press)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WINNER: <em>THE LESS PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT US</em>, by Axton Betz-Hamilton</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.writing.ie/guest-blogs/announcing-the-2020-edgar-winners/attachment/edgar-5/" rel="attachment wp-att-67497"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-67497" height="116" src="https://www.writing.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/edgar-5-620x181.png" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9780813177427">Hitchcock and the Censors</a> by John Billheimer (University Press of Kentucky)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781408870815">Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan</a> by Ursula Buchan (Bloomsbury Publishing)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9780008192358">The Hooded Gunman: An Illustrated History of Collins Crime Club</a> by John Curran (Collins Crime Club)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781476666716">Medieval Crime Fiction: A Critical Overview</a> by Anne McKendry (McFarland)<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/238/9781541644472">The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women</a> by Mo Moulton (Basic Books)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WINNER: HITCHCOCK AND THE CENSORS, by John Billheimer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BEST SHORT STORY</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Turistas,” from Paque Tu Lo Sepas by Hector Acosta (Down & Out Books)<br />“One of These Nights,” from Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers by Livia Llewellyn (Akashic Books)<br />“The Passenger,” from Sydney Noir by Kirsten Tranter (Akashic Books)<br />“Home at Last,” from Die Behind the Wheel: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Steely Dan by Sam Wiebe (Down & Out Books)<br />“Brother’s Keeper,” from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Dave Zeltserman (Dell Magazine)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WINNER: “ONE OF THESE NIGHTS,” by Livia Llewllyn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">___________________________________</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BEST JUVENILE</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Collected Works of Gretchen Oyster by Cary Fagan (Tundra Books)<br />Eventown by Corey Ann Haydu (Katherine Tegen Books)<br />The Whispers by Greg Howard (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BFYR)<br />All the Greys on Greene Street by Laura Tucker (Viking BFYR)<br />Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse by Susan Vaught (Paula Wiseman Books)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WINNER: ME AND SAM-SAM HANDLE THE APOCALYPSE, by Susan Vaught</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BEST YOUNG ADULT</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)<br />Killing November by Adriana Mather (Alfred A. Knopf BFYR)<br />Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay (Kokila)<br />The Deceivers by Kristen Simmons (Tor Teen)<br />Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas (Bloomsbury Publishing)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WINNER: CATFISHING ON CATNET, by Naomi Kritzer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER ADVERTISEMENT</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Season 5, Episode 3” – Line of Duty, Teleplay by Jed Mercurio (Acorn TV)<br />“Season 5, Episode 4” – Line of Duty, Teleplay by Jed Mercurio (Acorn TV)<br />“Episode 1” – Dublin Murders, Teleplay by Sarah Phelps (STARZ)<br />“Episode 1” – Manhunt, Teleplay by Ed Whitmore (Acorn TV)<br />“Episode 1” – The Wisting, Teleplay by Katherine Valen Zeiner & Trygve Allister Diesen (Sundance Now)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WINNER: “Season 5, Episode 4” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“There’s a Riot Goin’ On,” from Milwaukee Noir by Derrick Harriell (Akashic Books)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Night Visitors by Carol Goodman (William Morrow)<br />One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski (Graydon House)<br />Strangers at the Gate by Catriona McPherson (Minotaur Books)<br />Where the Missing Go by Emma Rowley (Kensington Publishing)<br />The Murder List by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge Books)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WINNER: THE NIGHT VISITORS, by Carol Goodman</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">THE G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shamed by Linda Castillo (Minotaur Books)<br />Borrowed Time by Tracy Clark (Kensington Publishing)<br />The Missing Ones by Edwin Hill (Kensington Publishing)<br />The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)<br />The Alchemist’s Illusion by Gigi Pandian (Midnight Ink)<br />Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon (Cincos Puntos Press)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WINNER: BORROWED TIME, by Tracy Clark</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-21878108634550926672020-04-27T03:54:00.000-07:002020-04-27T03:54:20.349-07:00National Crime Reading Month Goes Digital for May Lockdown!<br />
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sees the return of National Crime Reading Month (NCRM), a unique, UK-wide
literary festival, designed to connect authors and readers and promote the
crime genre. </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The festival, which
is a major annual initiative co-ordinated by the Crime Writers’ Association and
Crime Readers’ Association, normally promotes live author events up and down
the country. During lockdown, the initiative has moved online with crime
authors posting vlogs and blogs on the website </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.crimereadingmonth.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">crimereadingmonth.co.uk</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Linda Stratmann,
Chair of the CWA, explained: “We’ve – quite literally – created Crime Writers
in Residence by asking authors to post films from their homes while in
lockdown. It’s a kind of criminally-good <i>Through the Keyhole</i>!
Readers love the personal insights from meeting authors in person, and most
crime authors love to connect to their readers. With all the major crime
writing festivals, as well as author events in libraries and bookshops,
cancelled for spring and summer, we felt it was important to step in and offer
a digital alternative.”</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Festivals allow
readers to meet established writers and discover new authors to widen and
enrich their reading life. They also play an important role for aspiring authors,
as well as help forge new friendships. </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Linda said:
“Reading and writing are of course solitary acts but you’re never alone with a
book. There’s a real connection on the page that is passionately celebrated in
our festivals and author events. The crime genre is perhaps the most accessible
and democratic of all, which makes our community a very sociable and inclusive
one. We understand how important those connections are, so we’re encouraging
CWA members to join in and submit videos from their homes to reach out to
readers in lockdown.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Although May is the
official month for mayhem and murder with NCRM, the CWA began collating vlogs
in April in response to lockdown. </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Featured authors
include AJ Waines, a former psychotherapist who has gone on the write ten
thrillers selling half a million copies, with her latest psychological
thriller </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cut You Dead</i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> released this April.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Fiona Veitch Smith,
author of the Poppy Denby Investigates series, shortlisted for the CWA
Historical Dagger in 2016, also joins the video series to talk about her life
under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, alongside Holly Watt, who won the
CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger last year for <i>To The Lions</i>.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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“One thing I am finding weird about writing at the moment is that my characters
are meeting up with friends! And having dinner together! And getting on planes!
And all these things suddenly seem completely alien. It’s quite hard to write
several paragraphs without interjecting ‘and then he washed his hands while
singing Happy Birthday’.”</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">NCRM will also see
the launch of short stories that will be free to read on the Crime Readers’
Association website, to provide a public platform for CWA authors wishing to
showcase their work.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Readers and authors
can join in <i>#CrimeReadingMonth</i> online and subscribe to the
Crime Readers’ Association for free to receive the CRA Newsletter and
bi-monthly e-zine, Case Files.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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#CrimeReadingMonth on </span></i><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CrimeWritersAssociation" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">Facebook</span></i></a></span><i><span style="color: #222222;"> and
Twitter </span></i><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://twitter.com/The_CWA" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">@The_CWA</span></i></a></span><i><span style="color: #222222;"> or find out
more on the Crime Reading Month </span></i><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://crimereadingmonth.co.uk/blog/category/crime-writers-in-residence/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">website</span></i></a></span><i><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></i><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So it turned out my mother of all headaches over the weekend, and the rash that started, were not the result of hitting my head or gardening, but rather the early signs of Shingles. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am doing okay now, and thanks to my GP who gowned up with his PPE gear to examine me (the only patient who managed to get into the surgery in weeks - drama queen extraordinaire) I have the drugs I need to get better.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks for all the gorgeous messages, and wishing you all a lovely Easter whatever life is throwing at you right now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Remember to light a candle in the window tomorrow night for all those who are unwell and the wonderful health care workers to whom we all owe our gratitude.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Xxx Louise</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999132639532480534.post-44217745861419022442020-04-07T02:01:00.000-07:002020-04-07T02:01:16.494-07:00I don't have any wise words....<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Several weeks ago, as fears about Covid 19 gained pace, like
many other people I felt a lot of uncertainly. The first concerns were of
course around family, not being able to see our grandchildren for potentially a
very long time, alongside the roles some of our family members did on a daily
basis, which involved essential services. Small changes in our lives were made
at first. Our son whose girlfriend is a trainee nurse moved into the old part
of the house, as hubby and I, having turned 60 last year were technically in
the higher risk group. The second set of concerns turned to business, safety at
work, and how the fear of a potential shutdown would affect our livelihood. Every
day there seemed to be something different to deal with, and every day we tried
our best.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Two and a half weeks ago I developed a cough. It wasn’t anything too bad
and in other times I would have dismissed it completely. Very soon after that I
developed a temperature, and generally felt unwell. It happened over a weekend,
but immediately I self-isolated. When I rang the GP on Monday, he put me
forward for a test. I was to continue the self-isolation, and hubby had to
restrict his movements. We both stayed at home. I stayed isolated in my son’s
old bedroom. The following weekend they changed the criteria for the testing to
having a cough and a fever, which I had, and a requirement to have been in
contact with someone with a confirmed case of Covid 19, travelling back from
another country, or be in the extreme high risk group. The test was cancelled
but we were advised to continue isolating. That isolation ended yesterday. I
never had the shortness of breath, so perhaps I didn’t have Covid 19, and in a
way it didn’t matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">O</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">n Saturday last, I ventured out to the back garden. I
wanted to feel somewhat normal again. I did. It felt good. I felt I was getting
part of what was normal back again even though I still greatly missed seeing
our children and our grandchildren, and with the lockdown in place, business
concerns loomed too. I decided the garden like myself needed some TLC, and in
my stupidity while trimming back a low bush, I hit my head off a jagged branch.
It was really painful, but thankfully there was no tear. Sunday, I got the
mother of all headaches. It wouldn’t go away. I took paracetamol but it only
took the edge off it. I rang the GP again. Over the last few weeks, it’s probably
the most we have talked to each other in years. During the phone call we worked
out I didn’t have concussion, but I was to come back to him if things got worse.
Yesterday, I wanted to get back to writing, because I hadn’t written in four
weeks, but I couldn’t because my head wouldn’t allow me. I was put on stronger painkillers
and finally last night the pain eased.I had obviously damaged my head somehow,
and possibly had an allergic reaction too as small hive-like bumps began
appearing on my scalp, but like Covid 19, that too would soon pass.</span></div>
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morning the pain is a lot less than yesterday, and hopefully tomorrow it will
be better again. Over the last few weeks, I’ve felt all the normal fears most
people might have felt at this time, and sometimes, like others, I’ve seen both
the negative and the positive side of things. I know I am lucky. I know there
are people out there who have suffered badly and others who fear what the
future holds. I don’t have any wise words. I don’t think many of us have. All I
know is the buds are coming out on the trees, the daffodils are bright yellow,
and a robin has nested in a tree box outside my son’s bedroom window. These are
good things to cling onto, as is the love of the people we hold dear. We are
each doing our best. Tomorrow, after a month, hopefully, I will pick up my
unfinished manuscript. It will probably feel like an alien document, but I will
start again, no doubt badly at first, no doubt slow, but fingers crossed I will
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Learn the secrets of successful crime-fiction writing with bestselling and award-winning crime author, Louise Phillips.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On this course, participants will receive in-depth analysis of all aspects of great crime fiction, including the creation of memorable characters, planning, pace, dialogue, and narration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Louise Phillips</b> is the bestselling author of five psychological crime thrillers. All five novels have been nominated for Best Crime Novel of the Year in the prestigious Irish Book Awards. Her second novel, <em>The Doll's House</em>, won the award. Louise’s work has formed part of many literary anthologies, and she has won both the Jonathan Swift Award and the Irish Writers’ Centre Lonely Voice platform, along with being shortlisted for the Molly Keane Memorial Award, Bridport UK, and many others. In 2015, she was awarded a writing residency at Cill Rialaig Artist Retreat, and she was also a judge on the Irish panel for the EU Literary Award. In 2016, she was longlisted for the prestigious CWA Dagger in the Library Award in the UK, and her first two novels, <em>Red Ribbons</em> and <em>The Doll's House</em>, were published in the US. Her latest novel, <em>The Hiding Game</em>, was published in September 2019 to critical acclaim, and was nominated in the An Post Irish Book Awards for Best Crime Novel of the Year 2019. </span><br />
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