• “All The Devils Are Here” by Louise Penny

    The 2021 Agatha Award for the Best Contemporary Novel went to “All The Devils Are Here” (Minotaur) by Louise Penny. “All The Devils Are Here” is the sixteenth book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series.

    August 26, 2021
  • 2021 Killer Nashville Awards

    The 2021 Killer Nashville awards were announced this past Saturday. They seek to find and honor the best books of 2020 that incorporate the elements of mystery, thriller, and suspense.

    August 24, 2021
  • The Development of Spy Novels

    The themes of the spy novel are similar to the adventure novels, thrillers, and politico-military thrillers.

    August 12, 2021
  • Tess Gerritsen

    Terry (Tess) Gerritsen knew she wanted to write when she was a little girl growing up in San Diego, California. With a Chinese immigrant and a Chinese-American seafood chef as parents, she dreamed of writing her own Nancy Drew stories. According to an interview in the July 15, 2021, New York Times, Tess thought Nancy…

    August 5, 2021
  • 2021 Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion Award Nominees.

    On July 30, Clay Stafford announced the Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion Award nominees. The Silver Falchion Awards are handed out at the Killer Nashville Conference to recognize and honor the Best Book published in the previous year. The books are chosen by  how they incorporate the elements of mystery, thriller, and suspense. The awards will…

    August 2, 2021
  • The 2021 Agatha Awards Winners

    On July 17, the 2021 Agatha Awards were announced July 17 at the More Than Malice, the Virtual Malice Domestic Festival.

    July 22, 2021
  • Rex Stout’s Writing Career

    The creator of the characters of Nero Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, Rex Todhunter Stout was one of the most popular and prolific crime fiction writers of all times.

    June 29, 2021
  • Keith Roysdon’s History of True Crime

    Over on the CrimeReads blog, Keith Roysdon wrote a very interesting post entitled “A Brief History of the Rise—And Evolution—Of True Crime Books.”

    June 15, 2021
  • The 2021 Shamus Awards Finalists

    Guy Toltl Kinman, Chairperson for the Shamus Awards, released the finalists for the 2021 awards. Categories include Best PI Novel, Best Original PI Paperback, Best PI Short Story, and Best First PI Novel. The Private Eye Writers of America award the Shamus Awards for the best detective fiction genre novels and short stories of the…

    June 9, 2021
  • Michael Connelly’s The Law of Innocence

    Michael Connelly has become of the most successful current authors by selling over thirty novels and more than eighty million books. As a former newspaper reporter, he worked the crime beat at the L. A. Times and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Connelly shot out of the gates in 1992, when his first novel, The Black…

    May 19, 2021
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