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17 May ' 10:52
Donald Olson Dies It was found out that Donald Olson died on September 5, 2011 in Jamestown, New York. He wrote many short stories for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. "Screams and Echoes" (EQMM, August 1974) and "A Token of Appreciation" (AHMM, June 1981) were nominated for the short story Edgar, He was reported to published six novels including A DRAM OF EVIL (Award, 1967; as by D.J. Olson) and THE SKY CHILDREN (Avon, 1975; as by Donald J. Olson). He was 82. (May 16, 2012)Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and
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29 Apr ' 03:18
Margaret Maron Wins Agatha has announced the winners for the 2012 Agatha Awards as follows: Best Novel: THREE-DAY TOWN, by Best First Novel: LEARNING TO SWIM, by Best Historical Mystery: NAUGHTY IN NICE, by Rhys Bowen Best Nonfiction: BOOKS, CROOKS AND COUNSELORS, by Leslie Budewitz (Linden) Best Short Story: "Disarming," by Dana Cameron (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2011) Best Children's/Young Adult: THE BLACK HEART CRYPT, by Chris Grabenstein (Random House) The winners were announced at the Agatha Awards banquet on April 28 in Bethesda, Maryland. (April 29, 2012)Sara J. Henry (Crown)- 2012 Agatha Award Winners (April 29, 2012)
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27 Apr ' 01:53
Mo Hayder Wins Edgar announced the winners for the 2012 Edgar Awards on April 26 in New York City. The Edgar winners and the recipients of other awards are as follows: Best Novel: GONE, by Best First Novel: BENT ROAD, by Lori Roy Best Paperback Original: THE COMPANY MAN, by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit Books) Best Fact Crime: DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, by Candice Millard (Doubleday) Best Critical/Biographical: ON CONAN COYLE, by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press) Best Short Story: "The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train," by Peter Turnbull (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2011) Best Juvenile: ICEFALL, by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press) Best Young Adult: THE SILENCE OF MURDER, by Dandi Daley Mackall Best Play: "The Game's Afoot," by Ken Ludwig (Cleveland Playhouse) Best Television Episode Screenplay: "Pilot" (Homeland) by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, and Gideon Raff (Showtime) Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "A Good Man of Business," by David Ingram (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 2011) Grand Master: Martha Grimes Raven Award: M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Meteo, California Raven Award: Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries Ellery Queen Award: Joe Meyers, Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group Simon & Schuster/Mary Higgins Clark Award: LEARNING TO SWIM, by Sara J. Henry(April 27, 2012) (Dutton) (Crown) (Knopf)- 2012 Edgar Award Winners (April 27, 2012)
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24 Apr ' 09:41
Bill Granger Dies Bill Granger died on April 22 at the Manteno Veterans Home in Manteno, Illinois. The former newspaperman wrote THE NOVEMBER MAN (Gold Medal, 1979), an espionage novel featuring intelligence agent Devereaux, code name November Man. His second novel, PUBLIC MURDERS (Jove, 1980), a police procedural featuring Chicago detective Terry Flynn, won an Edgar Award in the paperback original novel. He wrote the second and third Terry Flynn novels -- PRIESTLY MURDERS (Holt 1984) and NEWSPAPER MURDERS (Holt, 1985) respectively -- under the Joe Gash pseudonym, but from the fouth Flynn novel, THE EL MURDERS (Holt, 1987) he returned to the Granger byline. He also authored three Jimmy Drover novels about a forcibly retired newspaperman starting DROVER (Morrow, 1991). He used the Bill Griffith pen-name to write TIME FOR FRANKIE COOLIN (Random, 1982). He was 70. (April 25, 2012)
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21 Apr ' 12:59
Stephen King Wins LAT Book Prize announced the winners for its 2012 Book Prizes on April 20 on the campus of the University of Sothern California. The winner in the mystery/thriller category is 11/22/63, by (Scribner). (April 22, 2012) -
20 Apr ' 14:40
Arthur Ellis Award Nominees Announced The Crime Writers of Canada has announced the nominees for the 2012 Arthur Ellis Awards. The nominees in the best crime novel category are as follows: (St. Martin's Press) BEFORE THE POISON, by Peter Robinson (McClelland and Stewart) I AM HALF-SICK OF SHADOWS, by Alan Bradley (Doubleday Canada) I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS, by William Deverell (McClelland and Stewart) THE GUILTY PLEA, by Robert Rotenberg (Simon&Schuster). The winners will be announced on May 31 in Toronto, Canada. (April, 20, 2012) died on March 29 at his home in New York City. He was an artist and cartoonist, who contribute the covert art for A TRICK OF THE LIGHT, by Louise Penny
To see the nominees in all the categories, click here- 2012 Arthur Ellis Award Nominees (April 20, 2012)
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16 Apr ' 03:30
Mark Gotbaum Dies Mark Gotbaum died on March 29 at his home in New York City. He was an artist, and cartoonist, who contribute the covert art for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in the 80's with an unproportionally big head of Hitch. Your can see his covers . He was 69. (April 16, 2012) died from complications of cancer in La Jolla, California on February 22. The former ad axecutive wrote his first novel, THE HEISTERS, in 1963 from Monarch Books, which was made into the 1967 film, "That Man George," starring George Hamilton and Claudette Auger. He wrote several other novels such as WINE OF THE GENERALS (Jove, 1978) and THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER (Jove, 1980) as well as nine short stories for here
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14 Apr ' 21:37
Roger Caron Dies Roger Caron, former bank robber, died on April 11 at a nursing home in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. He wrote G0-BOY!, a prison memoir, which became a national bestseller and won the Governor General's Award in 1977. After his parole in 1978, he wrote BINGO, about the 1971 riot at the Kinston Penitentiary, but it was not so successful as the first book. His Parkinson's disease and the pressure to write a better book drove him to snorting cocaine and to robbing banks again. He wrote two crime novels: JOJO (Stoddart, 1988), about a half-breed Indian who escapes from an American prison to Canada; and DREAMCAPER (Stoddart, 1992), set in the 70's Montreal. He was 73. (April 15, 2012) 2012 ThrillerMaster Recipient:
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05 Apr ' 00:04
ITW Thriller Award Nominees Announced The International Thriller Writers has announced the nominees for the 2012 Thriller Awards. The nominees in the best hardcover novel category are as follows: A HARD DEATH, by Jonathan Hayes (HarperCollins) THE RIDGE, by Michael Koryta THE TWO DEATHS OF DANIEL HAYES, by Marcus Sakey (Dutton) 2012 ThrillerMaster: Jack Higgins 2012 True Thriller Award Recipient: Ann Rule 2012 Silver Bullet Award Recipient: Richard North Patterson. The winners will be announced at ThrillerFest VI on July 14 at Grand Hyatt in New York City. (April 05, 2012) (Little, Brown) BURIED SECRETS, by Joseph Finder (St. Martin's) 11/22/63, by Stephen King
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To see the nominees in all the categories, click here- 2012 Thriller Award Nominees (April 05, 2012) NEW
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01 Apr ' 13:01
Left Coast Crime Award Winners Announced announced the winners for the four awards to give at LCC convention in Sacramento, California as follows:The Lefty Award At the same time, (IMBA) annouced the winner for the 2012 Dilys Winn Award for the mystery title which the member booksellers most enjoyed selling: S.J. Rozan(April 01, 2012)
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