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Thank you very much for your visit. Okay, this is my 30th year of managing The Gumshoe Site. Do you believe it? I still don't believe it! I moved to another place in November 2022 and I am still arranging my boxes of books and books and books. This moving results in my being way behind my schedule of managing this same old site. I am still wondering if I should continue keeping this old site. I have not made a decision yet. Despite of this mumblings, I hope you enjoy this site. Thank you for your warm support. I am now living a modest, slow and lazy life for my own safety. If you want to know what I was doing last year, I wrote something about thie site for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's blog site, "A Mystery Website -- Easy to Launch, But So Hard to Keep Fresh", which was commissioned by Janet Hutchings before she retired as EQMM's Editor at the end of last September. Please stay safe and healthy in this unpredictable world!! (January 15, 2025)
Warning to bloggers! -- When you re-use my info, please do not copy-and-paste it word for word, but quote it or paraphrase it, at least. My wording is so awkwardly distinct or so distinctly awkward, I can easily spot copy-and-paste non-artists, and so can smart blog-readers.
2025 ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEES ANNOUNCED
Bouchercon 2025 has announced the winners for the 2025 Anthony awards. The nominees in the hardcover novel category are as follows:
MISSING WHITE WOMAN, by Kellye Garrett (Mulholland)
THE GOD OF THE WOODS, by Liz Moore (Riverhead)
THE GREY WOLF, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
ALTER EGO, by Alex Segura (Flatiron)
CALIFORNIA BEAR, by Duane Swiercynski (Mulholland)
To see the other nominees in all the other categories, click here. The winners will be announced on Saturday, September 06 during Bouchercon 2025 to be held in New Orlean, Louisiana from September 03 through September 07. (May 10, 2025)
2025 CrimeFest Award Shortlists Announced
CrimeFest has announced the shortlists for the 2025 CrimeFest Awards. The six shortlistees in the eDunnit category (for the best crime fiction ebook first published in both hardcopy and in electronic format) are as follows:
HAMLOCK BAY, by Martin Edwards (Head of Zeus)
THE LANTERN'S DANCE, by Laurie R. King (Allison & Busby)
THE SEQUEL, by Jean Hanff Korelitz (Faber & Faber)
WHAT A WAY TO GO, by Bella Mackie (The Borough Press)
THE GOD OF THE WOODS, by Liz Moore (The Borough Press)
A TALENT FOR MURDER, by Peter Swanson (Faber)
To see the other shortlists in all the other categories, click here. The winners will be announced on Saturday, May 17 during the Gala Awards Dinner of this year's CrimeFest to be held in Bristol, England from May 15 thru 18. This will be the final CrimeFest Awards as organizers announced that "his year CrimeFest will come to an end." (May 03, 2025)
Charlotte Vassell Wins Edgar
Mystery Writers of America announced the winners for the 2025 Edgar Awards as follows:
Best Novel: THE IN CROWD, by Charlotte Vassell (Doubleday)
Best First Novel: HOLY CITY, by Henry Wise (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Best Paperback Original: THE PARIS WINDOW, by Kimberly Belle (Harlequin/ Park Row Books)
Best Fact Crime: THE INFERNAL MACHINE, by Steven Johonson (Crown)
Best Critical/ Biographical: JAMES SALLIS, by Nathan Ashman (McFarland Publishing)
Best Short Story: "Eat My Moose," by Erika Krouse ( Conjunction 82, Bard College)
Best Juvenile: THE STOLEN KEY, by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Quill Tree Books)
Best Young Adult: 49 MILES ALONE, by Natalie D. Richards (Sourcebooks Fire)
Best Tlevision Episode Teleplay: "Episode One - MONSIEUR SPADE," written by Tom Fontana & Scott Frank (AMC)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "The Jews on Elm Street," by Anna Stolley Persky (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September-October 2024)
Mary Higgins Clark Award: THE MYSTERY WRITER, by Sulari Gentill (Poisoned Pen Press)
Sue Grafton Memorial Award: THE COMFORT OF GHOSTS, by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Crime)
Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award: THE MURDER IN GREAT DIDDLING, by Katarina Bivald (Poisoned Pen Press)
TWO Grand Master Award Recipients: Laura Lippman and John Sanford
Raven Award Recipient: Face in a Book, Bookstore & Gifts, in El Dorad Hills, California
Ellery Queen Award Peter Wolverton, Executive Editor and Vice President at St. Martin's Press
The Edgar Award winners were announced at the Edgar Awards Ceremony held on Thursday, May 01 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City. (May 02, 2025)
Gigi Pandian Wins Agatha
Malice Domestic 37 has announced the winners for the 2025 Agatha Awards as follows:
Best Contemporary Novel: A MIDNIGHT PUZZLE, by Gigi Pandian (Minotaur Books)
Best Historicaol Novel: TO SLIP THE BONDS OF EARTH, by Amanda Flower (Kensington Books)
Best First Novel: YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID, by K.T. Nyuye (Dutton)
Best Short Story: "The Postman Always Flirts Twice," by Barb Goffman (in AGATHA AND DERRINGER GET COZY, edited by Gay toltl Kinman & Andrew McAlear; Down & Out Books)
Best Non-fiction: WRITING THE COZY MYSTERY, edited by Phyllis M. Bet (McFarland)
Best Children's /YA Mystery: SASQUATCH OF HARRIMAN LAKE, by K.B. Jackson (Reycraft Books)
Lifetime Achievment Recipient: Donna Andrews
Poirot Award Recipient: Lucy Worsley (not attending), the television presenter of Agatha Chiristie: Lucy Worsley on the Mysery Queen on BBC Two
The winners were announced on Saturday, April 26 at the Malice Banquet held in Bethesda, Maryland. (April 27, 2025; Revised twice, April 29)
2025 CWC AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE SHORTLISTS
The Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) announced the shortlists for the 2025 CWC Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing (formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards) and the recipient for the 2025 Derrick Murdoch Award. The five shortlistees in the best crime novel category are as follows:
WILD HOUSES, by Colin Barrett (McClelland & Stewart)
THE SPECIMEN, by Jaima Fixsen (Poisoned Pen Press)
PRAIRIE EDGE, by Conor Kerr (Strange Light/Penguin Random House Canada)
MR. GOOD-EVENING, by John MacLachlan (Douglas & McIntyre)
THE GREY WOLF, by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
To see the other shortlists in the other categories and the Derrick Murdoch Award recipient, click here. The winners will be announced on Friday, May 30, 2025. (April 28, 2025)
Danielle Trussoni Wins LATimes Book Prize
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books announced the winners for the 2025 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, and the winner in the mystery/thriller category is:
THE PUZZLE BOX, by Danielle Trussoni (Random House)
The prize winners in all the categories were announced on Friday, April 25 at the Bovard Campus of the University of Southern California, one day before the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
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The other nominees in the mystery/thriller category were:
HAVOC, by Christopher Bollen (Harper); THE WAITING, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown); GUIDE ME HOME, by Attica Locke (Mulholland); and THE GOD OF THE WOODS, by Liz Moore (Riverhead). (April 27, 2025)
2025 Theakston Crime Award Longlist Announced
Harrogate International Festivals announced the longlist for the 2025 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award as follows:
The Cracked Mirror, by Chris Brookmyre (Little Brown/Sphere)
Our Holiday, by Louise Candlish (HarperCollins/HQ)
A Stranger in the Family, by Jane Casey (Harper Fiction/Hemlock Press)
The Mercy Chair, by M.W. Craven (Little Brown/Constable)
The Wrong Sister, by Claire Douglas (Penguin/Michael Joseph)
The Last Word, by Elly Griffiths (Quercus Fction)
EstellaĠs Revenge, by Barbara Havelocke (Hera Books)
Redemption, by Jack Jordan (Simon & Schuster UK)
The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby, by Ellery Lloyd (Macmillan/Pan)
Finding Sophie, by Imran Mahmood (Bloomsbury/Raven)
The Woman on the Ledge, by Ruth Mancini (Cornerstone/Century)
The Kill List, by Nadine Matheson (HarperCollins/HQ)
Hunted, by Abir Mukherjee (Vintage/Harvill Secker)
Blood Like Mine, by Stuart Neville (Simon & Schuster UK)
To Die in June, by Alan Parks (Canongate)
Deadly Animals, by Marie Tierney (Bonnier/Zaffre)
The Last Murder at the End of the World, by Stuart Turton (Bloomsbury/Raven)
All the Colours of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker (Orion Fiction)
These 18 titles are full-length crime novels published in paperback between May 01, 2024 and April 30, 2025. The reading public are invited to help create a shortlist of six titles starting on April 24 and closing on May 15. The shortlist will be announced on June 05 and the winner will be revealed on July 17 at The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival to be held Harrogate, UK. (April 26,2025)
2025 CWA Gold Dagger Award Longlists Announced
The Crime Writers' Association of Britain (CWA) has announced the longlists for the 2024 Dagger Awards. The shortlist in the Gold Dagger (in crime fiction) category as follows:
GOLD DAGGER:(12)
A DIVINE FURY, by D.V. Bishop (Macmillan)
MAN OF BONES, by Ben Creed (Mountain Leopard Press)
THE BELL TOWER, by R.J. Ellory (Orion)
THE HUNTER, by Tana French (Penguin)
GUIDE ME HOME, by Attica Locke (Profile)
BOOK OF SECRETS, by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
I DIED AT FALLOW HALL, by Bonnie Burke-Patel (Bedford Square)
HOW TO SOLVE YOU OWN MURDER, by Kristen Perrin (Quercus)
NIGHTWATCHING, by Tracy Sierra (Penguin)
DEADLY ANIMALS, by Marie Tierney (Zaffre)
D IS FOR DEATH, by Harriet F. Townson (Hodder & Stoughton)
THE INNOCENTS, by Bridget Walsh (Pushkin Press)
To see the longlistees in other categories, click here. The shortlists will be announced on Thursday, May 29. The winners will be announced at the Dagger Awards Dinner, on Thursday, July 03 in London. (April 17, 2025)
2025 Fingerprint Award Shortlists Announced
Capital Crime Festival has announced eight shortlists for the 2025 Fingerprint Awards. The shortlist in the year's best crime book category is as follows:
1. MURDER ON LAKE GARDA, by Tom Hindle
2. ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK, by Chris Whitaker
3.3MIDNIGHT AND BLUE, by Ian Rankin
4. THE MERCY CHAIR, by MW Craven
5. NIGHTWATCHING, by Tracey Sierra
To see all the eight shortlists, click here. The winners will be announced on Thursday, June 12 during Capital Crime Festival to be held at Leonardo Royal Hotel in London (the CAPITAL city of UK). (April 02, 2025)
2025 Barry Award Nominees Announced
Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine has announced the nominees for the 2025 Barry Awards. The six nominees in the best mystery novel category are as:
THE WAITING, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
SPIRIT CROSSING, by William Kent Krueger (Atria)
THE GOD OF THE WOODS, by Liz Moore (Riverhead)
MIDNIGHT AND BLUE, by Ian Rankin (Mulholland)
CALIFORNIA BEAR, by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland)
ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK, by Chris Whitaker (Crown)
To see all the nominees in all the four categories, click here. The winners will be voted by Deadly Pleasures readers and announced on Thursday, September 04 during the opening ceremonies of 2025 Bouchercon to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana from September 03 through 07. (March 08, 2025)
2025 ITW Award Nominees Announced
The International Thriller Writers (ITW) announced the nominees for the 2025 Thriller Awards. The nominees in the standalone thriler novel category are as follows:
THE PARIS WIDOW, by Kimberly Belle (Harlequin/Park Row)
THE CHAMBER, by Will Dean (Emily Bestler Books)
WORST CASE SCENARIO, by T.J. Newman (Little, Brown)
THE LAST ONE AT THE WEDDING, by Jason Rekulak (Flatiron Books)
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DEVLINS, by Lisa Scottoline (Penguin/Putnam)
To see all the nominees in all the seven categories, click here. The winners will be announced on Saturday, June 21, 2025 during ThrillerFest XX to be held at the New York Hilton Midtown, New York City, New York City. (March 04, 2025)
Strand Critics Award Nominees Announced
The Strand Magazine announced the nominees for the 2024 Strand Magazine Critics Awards in as follows:
Best Mystery Novel: (7)
All the Sinners Bleed, by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron Books)
Everybody Knows, by Jordan Harper (Mulholland Books)
Small Mercies, by Dennis Lehane (Harper)
Resurrection Walk, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
Prom Mom, by Laura Lippman (William Morrow)
Timefs Undoing, by Cheryl A. Head (Dutton)
The Secret Hours, by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
Best Debut Mystery: (6)
Fadeaway Joe, by Hugh Lessig (Crooked Lane Books)
Mother-Daughter Murder Night, by Nina Simon (William Morrow)
The House in the Pines, by Ana Reyes (Dutton)
Donft Forget the Girl, by Rebecca McKanna (Sourcebooks Landmark)
Adrift, by Lisa Brideau (Sourcebooks Landmark)
The Peacock and the Sparrow, by I.S. Berry (Atria Books)
TWO Strand Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients:
Kathy Reichs and
Max Allan Collins
Strand Publisher of the Year Award Recipient:
Jonathan Karp of Simon and Schuster
(July, 19 2024)
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