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4/22/08
»› The
April/May 2008 issue of Mystery News is being mailed on April
23, 2008. The cover interview, by Lynn Kaczmarek is of Katherine Hall Page,
the author of The Body in the Gallery, seventeenth in the Faith Fairchild
series, featuring the New England caterer who finds bodies in the most interesting
places. Marv Lachman tell us of Helen Reilly, whose series featuring Inspector
Christopher McKee of the Manhattan Homicide Division predates the subgenre
of police procedurals. Steve Miller writes about Leighton Gage, whose Blood
of the Wicked takes us into the land wars and liberation theology of Brazil.
W.E. Reinka gives us a warmly heartfelt tribute to Edward D. Hoch, master
of the mystery short story who died in January of this year. Virginia R. Knight
talks to Ariana Franklin, whose Mistress of the Art of Death won the
2007 Ellis Peters Award. Roger
M. Sobin's Real to Reel column brings us back to the heyday of the 007 films
with From Russia, With Love. Dave Magayna's The Sound of Mystery
features a review of the audio version of J.A. Konrath's Dirty Martini.
We've got a mini-feature of some more of our reviewers' 5 favorite books read
in 2007.
And, of course, our usual columns, reviews, previews and calendar. Updated
the Back Issues and Calendar
page.
2/23/08
»› The
February/March 2008 issue of Mystery News was mailed on February
19, 2008. The cover interview, by Lynn Kaczmarek is of Steve Hockensmith,
whose series featuring the Amlingmeyer brothers, Old Red and Big Red, puts
a western spin on the historical and detective mystery. Marv Lachman covers
Stuart Palmer, perhaps best known as the author of the Hildegard Withers series,
and also a prolific screensriter. Steve Miller introduces us to Craig McDonald,
whose debut work, Head Games, takes a gamble or two along the way.
We've got a cool conversation in which veteran writer Ken Bruen talks to relative
newcomer Marcus Sakey about pleasure-delaying and the algebra of story. Roger
M. Sobin's Real to Reel column focuses on The Petrified Forest,
and the author of the play on which is is based, Robert E. Sherwood. Dave
Magayna is back with The Sound of Mystery, featuring reviews of the audio
versions of Matthew Klein's Con Ed and Greg Rucka's Patriot Acts.
This is the issue in which our reviewers tell us their 5 (or so) favorite
books read in 2007.
And, of course, our usual columns, reviews, previews and calendar. Updated
the Back Issues, Authors,
and Calendar pages.
»›
The Mystery Writers of America have announced the nominees
for the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which will be presented at a banquet at the
Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York on May 1.
Christine
Falls by Benjamin Black (Henry Holt)
Priest by Ken Bruen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman (Bleak House Books)
Down River by John Hart (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Best First Novel
by an American Author:
Missing
Witness by Gordon Campbell (William Morrow)
In the Woods by Tana French (Viking)
Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard (Rookery Press)
Head Games by Craig McDonald (Bleak House Books)
Pyres by Derek Nikitas (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Queenpin
by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
Blood of Paradise by David Corbett (Random House/Mortalis)
Cruel Poetry by Vicki Hendricks (Serpent's Tail)
Robbie's Wife by Russell Hill (Hard Case Crime)
Who is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall (Simon & Schuster)
The
Birthday Party by Stanley Alpert (Putnam)
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
by Vincent Bugliosi (Norton)
Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death
Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit by Kerry Max Cook (William Morrow)
Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor
Who Wouldn't Quit by Kevin Flynn (Putnam)
Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind
by Bruce Watson (Viking)
Best Critical/Biographical:
The
Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular
Fiction by Patrick Anderson (Random House)
A Counter-History of Crime Fiction: Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational
by Maurizio Ascari (Palgrave Macmillan)
Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction by Christiana Gregoriou (Palgrave
Macmillan)
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower
and Charles Foley (Penguin Press)
Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy
by Jean Gould O'Connell (McFarland & Company)
"The
Catch" by Mark Ammons (in Still Waters, edited by Kate
Flora, Ruth McCarty & Susan Oleksiw; Level Best Books)
"Blue Note" by Stuart M. Kaminsky (in Chicago
Blues, edited by Libby Fischer Hellman; Bleak House Books)
"Hardly Knew Her" by Laura Lippman (in Dead Man's
Hand, edited by Otto Penzler; Harcourt)
"The Golden Gopher" by Susan Straight (in Los
Angeles Noir, edited by Denise Hamilton; Akashic Books)
"Uncle" by Daniel Woodrell (in A Hell Of A Woman,
edited by Megan Abbott; Busted Flush Press)
The
Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch (Little, Brown)
Shadows on Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman (American Girl Publications)
Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion Books)
The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (Hyperion)
Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen (Knopf)
Rat
Life by Tedd Arnold (Dial)
Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney (Delacorte Press)
Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin (Atheneum Books)
Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin (Delacorte Press)
Fragments by Jeffry W. Johnston (Simon Pulse)
If/Then
by David Foley (International Mystery Writers' Festival)
Panic by Joseph Goodrich (International Mystery Writers' Festival)
Books by Stuart M. Kaminsky (International Mystery Writers'
Festival)
Best Television Episode
teleplay:
"It's
Alive" - Dexter, teleplay by Daniel Cerone (Showtime)
"Yahrzeit" - Waking the Dead, teleplay by Declan
Croghan & Barbara Machin (BBC America)
"Pie-Lette" - Pushing Daisies, teleplay by Bryan
Fuller (ABC/Warner Bros Television)
"Senseless" - Law & Order: Criminal Intent,
teleplay by Julie Martin & Siobhan Byrne O'Connor (Wolf Films/NBC Universal)
"Pilot" - Burn Notice, teleplay by Matt Nix (USA
Network/Fox Television Studios)
Best Motion Picture
Screenplay:
Eastern
Promises, screenplay by Steven Knight (Focus Features)
The Lookout, screenplay by Scott Frank (Miramax)
Michael Clayton, screenplay by Tony Gilroy (Warner Bros. Pictures)
No Country for Old Men, screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan
Coen, based on the book by Cormac McCarthy (Miramax)
Zodiac, screenplay by James Vanderbilt, based on the book
by Robert Graysmith (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Robert L. Fish Memorial
Award:
"The
Catch" by Mark Ammons (in Still Waters, edited by Kate Flora,
Ruth McCarty & Susan Oleksiw; Level Best Books)
Bill
Pronzini
Center for the Book
in the Library of Congress
Kate's Mystery Books (Kate Mattes, owner)
The Simon &
Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award:
In Cold Pursuit
by Sarah Andrews (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Wild Indigo by Sandi Ault (Penguin Group/Berkley Prime Crime)
Inferno by Karen Harper (Harlequin/MIRA Books)
The First Stone by Judith Kelman (Penguin Group/Berkley Prime Crime)
Deadman's Switch by Barbara Seranella (St. Martin's Minotaur)