Mystery Writers of America (MWA) has released the Grandmaster Award list for 2018. The Grandmaster Award is given to authors recognized for their invaluable contribution to the crime, mystery genre, who have a constant high-quality writing. The three Grandmasters chosen for 2018 are Jane Langton, William Link, and Peter Lovesey. They will receive their awards on April…
The Davitt Awards are presented each year to women crime writers in Australia. This year the judges had their hands full reading nearly 100 novels, some of which have been written by debut authors. That’s quite a huge number for a monumental task! The 2017 awards have been presented by Hilary Bonney, a true crime writer, barrister, and…
Here are the winners of the Dead Good Reader Awards 2017 announced this July. The event took place at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate. The ceremony was presented by Mark Lawson and Kathy Reichs, who put in a guest appearance. Six lucky authors were named best in class based on votes given by…
This year the Edgar® Awards were presented to the winners at the 71st Gala Banquet, April 27, 2017 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. Here are the winners in each category: Best Novel Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (Hachette Book Group – Grand Central Publishing) Best First Novel by an American Author…
It’s that time of the year again when book related websites and magazines have the best books voted on or listed for the year. As usual Goodreads once again asks for readers to vote for the best book of the year, and for the mystery and thriller category these are the books considered top 15:…
The 2016 McIlvanney Prize Award longlist for Scottish crime mystery books for 2016 has just been released at the Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing festival. This year’s festival is the first one since the death of the popular Scottish author, also known as the father of Scottish mystery genre called “Tartan Noir”. The author died in 2015…
The winners of the popular Edgar Allan Poe Awards are finally out for 2016. The ceremony took place yesterday, April 28 in New York at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. Hundreds of people attended as the awards seeked to honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and TV, all published in 2015. Here are the winners…
With today’s celebration of Edgar Allan Poe’s 207th birthday, Mystery Writers of America has announced its 2016’s nominees for the Edgar Awards. The awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction as well as TV that was produced in 2015. The winners of the awards will be revealed April 28 this year, at the 70th Gala Banquet at…
On October 4 this year the whodunit and who-won-it will be revealed at an entertaining event at The Court Theatre organized by Ngaio Marsh Award, WORD Christchurch and The Press. This year’s event which will begin at 5 pm will include the following interesting activities: an improvised murder mystery on the spot by The Court Jesters,…
Stephen King, the prolific thriller/horror novelist will receive this year the 2014 National Medal of Arts award, presented to him by the US president Barack Obama September 10. He is indeed one of the biggest novelists of the century, and this award is a tribute to his excellent writing and storytelling skills. He is cited to be…