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|  | News & Reviews |  | Another week, another dollar, as some hardboiled ‘tec would say, or, in our case, another week, another dozen murders (at least)....
Two sad losses this week, I fear: Dutch crime author Janwillem van de Wetering, creator of the unforgettable Amsterdam cops series (soon to be reissued), after a long illness and an old friend better known for his SF & horror books, Thomas M. Disch (although he co-authored BLACK ALICE with the also missed John Sladek). Both major writers, regardless of genre.
Due in to sign books in coming weeks, we have Christopher Fowler, Chelsea Cain, Thomas H. Cook, Colin Cotterell and Peter Robinson. Reserve your books now.
And, of course, the winners from this year’s CWA Daggers. Might I blow my own trumpet a little, as for the 2nd year in a row the winning short story comes from my BEST BRITISH MYSTERIES series (and, in fact this is 6 years out of 10 that it has been given to stories from books I’ve edited...).
Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award : Blood from Stone, by Frances Fyfield (Little, Brown)
Also nominated: The Tin Roof Blowdown , by James Lee Burke (Orion); The Coroner’s Lunch, by Colin Cotterill (Quercus); Night Work, by Steve Hamilton (Orion); What the Dead Know , by Laura Lippman (Orion); and A Vengeful Longing , by R.N. Morris (Faber & Faber)
Duncan Lawrie International Dagger : Lorraine Connection, by Dominique Manotti, translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz (EuroCrime, Arcadia Books)
Also nominated: The Patience of the Spider, by Andrea Camilleri , translated by Stephen Sartarelli (Picador, Macmillan); The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland (MacLehose Press, Quercus); A Deal with the Devil, by Martin Suter, translated by Peter Millar (EuroCrime, Arcadia Books); and This Night’s Foul Work, by Fred Vargas, translated by Sîan Reynolds (Harvill Secker, Random House)
CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger : Child 44 , by Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster)
Highly recommended (basically, second place): The Echelon Vendetta , by David Stone (Penguin)
Also nominated: Ritual, by Mo Hayder (Transworld); I See You (aka The Crime Writer), by Gregg Hurwitz (Little, Brown); and Shatter, by Michael Robotham (Sphere/Little, Brown)
CWA Gold Dagger for Non-fiction : Nationality: Wog--The Hounding of David Oluwale, by Kester Aspden ( Jonathan Cape , Random House)
Also nominated: The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi, by Francisco Goldman (Atlantic Books); Violation, by David Rose (HarperPress); The Lost Boy, by Duncan Staff (Bantam Press); The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, or The Murder at Road Hill House, by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury); and Into the Darkness, by Peter Zimonjic (Vintage Books, Random House)
CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger : The Bethlehem Murders (American title: The Collaborator of Bethlehem), by Matt (Beynon) Rees (Atlantic Books)
Also nominated: The Night of the Mi’raj (American title: Finding Nouf), by Zoë Ferraris (Little, Brown); Die with Me , by Elena Forbes (Quercus); Absolution, by Caro Ramsay (Michael Joseph, Penguin); and Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster)
CWA Dagger in the Library (awarded each year to “the author of crime fiction whose work is currently giving the greatest enjoyment to library users”): Craig Russell
Highly commended: C.J. Sansom
Also nominated: Elizabeth Corley, Andrew Martin, Denise Mina, and Chris Simms
CWA Short Story Dagger : “The Bookbinder’s Apprentice,” by Martin Edwards (from The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries, edited by Maxim Jakubowski ; Constable Robinson)
Highly commended: “Glazed,” by Danuta Reah (from Getting Even: Revenge Stories, edited by Mitzi Szereto; Serpent’s Tail)
Also nominated: “Provenance,” by Robert Barnard (from The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries); “One Dollar Jackpot,” by Michael Connelly (from Dead Man’s Hand, edited by Otto Penzler; Quercus); and “One True Love,” by Laura Lippman (from Best American Mystery Stories 2007, edited by Otto Penzler and Carl Hiaasen; Quercus)
CWA Debut Dagger (for unpublished work): Western Fringes, by Amer Anwar (UK)
Highly commended: Blacklands, by Belinda Bauer (UK)
Also nominated: Desert Storm, by Russell Colman (Canada); The Eclipse of Lilith, by Peter Dewar (UK); Nite Lite, by Bill Harrison (Canada); The Stench of Lilies, by Alison Marlow (UK); The Book of Souls, by James Oswald (UK); Wearing the Spider, by Susan Schaab (USA); Devils and Disciples, by Ian Simpson (UK); and All the Wrong People, by P.J. Watson (USA)
On with the new:
Cody McFadyen/THE DARKER SIDE £17.99, 3rd in hardboiled series featuring female FBI agent Smoky Barrett in the hunt for a Texas serial killer.
Rebecca Tope/BLOOD IN THE COTSWOLDS £19.99, traditional British rural crime series, now on its fifth instalment. Villages and mysteries.
Kerry Greenwood/HEAVENLY PLEASURES £18..50, a Corrina Chapman mystery from the Australian author; Amiable Melbourne amateur sleuth.
Kerry Greenwood/QUEEN OF THE FLOWERS £17.99, a Phryne Fisher mystery, sixteenth in the series. Australian cosy capers and fun stuff.
Aimee & David Thurlo/THE PRODIGAL NUN £18.50, a Sister Agatha mystery set in a small New Mexican town. A canny religious sleuth. |
| | Brent Ghelfi/VOLK’S SHADOW £17.99, 2nd book in a tough, fast moving and rather violent series set in contemporary Russia . The first book, VOLK’S GAME was a high octane success. |
| James Lee Burke/SWAN PEAK £18.99, the new Dave Robicheaux thriller sees our emotionally scarred hero on a visit to Montana , where trouble inevitably follows. A series that invariably delivers and more.
David Baldacci/THE WHOLE TRUTH £17.99, British edition for this bestselling author’s new blockbuster, a global thriller set in the murky corridors of power. |
| Mike Ripley/ANGELS UNAWARE £19.99, 15th volume in the light-hearted caper series featuring the outrageous Roy Angel; a series that began in the same year as Murder One ...
Tony Black/PAYING FOR IT £16.99, a booze-soaked British (well Scottish) hardboiled debut that hits you under the belt. Gus Dury, failed journalist and involuntary sleuth is a great addition to the sleuthing ranks.
Clare Curzon/OFF TRACK £18.99, traditional British procedural with Mike Yeadings of Thames Valley Serious Crime Squad at the hem.
Donna Andrews/COCKATIELS AT SEVEN £17.99, popular US series set in the world of birds with hardy sleuthette Meg Langslow.
John McFeltridge/EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE £18.99, impressive Canadian hardboiled debut with a couple of Toronto cops leading the merry chase. Good buzz on this one.
Stephen J. Cannell/AT FIRST SIGHT £18.99, slick Hollywood noir from the TV producer and writer of THE ROCKFORD FILES and others. Strong obsessive hardboiled tale.
Margaret Duffy/BLOOD SUBSTITUTE £18.99, the new Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley mystery. Veteran Brit author in a traditional procedural mould.
Elizabeth Darrell/DUTCH COURAGE £18.99, a Max Rydal military mystery. The ghost of British intervention in Afghanistan overshadows the investigation.
Stella Whitelaw/DEAD SLOW AHEAD £18.99, the new Casey Jones Cruise Ship mystery in which the entertainments director on the boat is pulled into an investigation while travelling the Mediterranean.
ROMANCE
Susan Mallery/SWEET TALK £6.99. Claire Keyes, a 28-year-old piano prodigy, has never had a real romance. Her music career has left little room for friends or family, which is part of the reason she's estranged from her two sisters. Now reconnecting with her sisters tops her to-do list, along with falling in love for the first time.
Gena Showalter/The Darkest Pleasure £6.99. Reyes is a man possessed. Bound by the demon of pain, he is forbidden to know pleasure. Yet he craves a mortal woman, Danika Ford, more than breath and will do anything to claim her--even defy the gods--in this third novel of Showalter's dark, sexy paranormal romance saga.
Brenda Novak/STOP ME £6.99. The second book of Novak's trilogy featuring The Last Stand support group. It's been 16 years since Jasmine and her younger sister Kimberly were kidnapped. Kimberly remains missing, and when Jasmine receives a package with Kimberly's bracelet, she hopes to finally find answers.
Joan Johnston/ HAWKS WAY GROOMS £6.99. This compelling volume contains two full-length novels in Johnston 's captivating saga. "The Virgin Groom" and "The Substitute Groom" are two intensely emotional stories featuring powerful, appealing men characterized by the spirit of the untamed West.
Carly Phillips/HOT PROPERTY £6.99. Once the darling of pro baseball, John Roper's lucky streak has run out. Now it's up to Hot Zone publicist Amy Stone to help Roper get his life back on track. Easier said than done. What with the constant intrusions by his nutty family, a crazed stalker, and Roper's refusal to put his own needs first, Amy has her work cut out for her.
Debbie Macomber, Susan Wiggs and Jill Barnett /THAT SUMMER PLACE £6.99. It's nothing special on the surface, merely a rambling old Victorian summerhouse on a secluded island, where the sky is blue and the water is clear. Yet after a month at the Rainshadow Lodge, people begin to change--and fall in love. How else can you account for what happens to the most mismatched, unlikely couples.
TRUE CRIME
Michelle McPhee/HEARTLESS £6.99. On a winter day in 2006, police came to the Entwistle home & found the decomposing bodies of 27-year-old Rachel & her 9-month old daughter Lillian Rose. Rachel had been shot in the head. Lillian in the stomach. Husband Neil was gone. Soon, authorities would begin a desperate search that would take them across the Atlantic to find Neil & bring him to trial.
Jon Wilson and Russell Findlay/THE ICEMAN £9.99. The elite police officers secretly launching Scotland 's biggest ever offensive against organized crime had only one target. His name was Jamie Stevenson. But he was known as the Iceman. Operation Folklore would span four years and lead detectives around the world and back again - to the biggest drugs trafficker the country has ever seen. Suspected of many murders - including the gangland assassination of his best friend - Stevenson's ten-year rise was built on strategic cunning and calculated, brutal violence. |
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