Last night, at Malice Domestic have announced the winners for the  2015 Agatha Awards. Best Contemporary Novel: LONG UPON THE LAND, Margaret Maron (Grand Central Publishing) Other nominees: BURNED BRIDGES, Annette Dashofy (Henery Press) THE CHILD GARDEN, Catriona...

Thursday night, in New York City, The Mystery Writers of America handed out the 2016 Edgar Awards. Best Novel Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy (Penguin Random House - Dutton) Other nominees: The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter (Penguin Random House – G.P....

The folks behind Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival have released the longlist for the 2016 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Below is the press release in full: Giants of the genre are pitted against a clutch of new voices in one of the...

Saturday night, The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library announced the winners of the 28th annual  Minnesota Book Awards. In the Genre Fiction Category, Ellen Hart won for THE GRAVE SOUL. The other finalists were: THE DEVEREAUX DECISION by Steve McEllistrem...

The shortlist has been announced for the 2016 Bony Blithe Award The Bloody Words Light Mystery Award is an annual juried literary prize, presented at the Bloody Words Mystery Conference for a “book that makes us smile.” The book can be a print or an e-book,...

Saturday, at the Los Angeles Festival Of Books, The winners of the 2015 L.A. Times Book Prizes were announced, with Don Winslow being awarded the Mystery/Thriller Prize for THE CARTEL, his follow-up to 2005's POWER OF THE DOG. Other Finalists THE LONG AND FARAWAY...