My new novel, The Night Gate, found its roots in the Coronavirus pandemic which has swept the world. I had planned to write a book set on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, in the Arctic Circle. My story was well-developed, the research done, and my trip to research the location booked for last May. Then…
Cast Iron by Peter May is the latest Enzo Macleod Investigation in the Enzo Files (available January 12, 2017). In the 1980s, a murderer dumped the body of much cherished twenty-year-old Lucie Martin, only daughter of a well-known judge, into a lake in the West of France. To her family she disappeared without trace, leaving…
My attention is drawn by the books that line the shelves in the bookcase below the map. I stand stiffly and go to take a look. There are reference books. An Oxford English dictionary, a thesaurus, a large encyclopaedia. A dictionary of quotations. Then rows of cheap paperbacks, crime and romance, vegetarian cooking, recipes from…
Awards season continues apace, with a new slate of nominees for the 2015 Macavity Awards from Mystery Readers International. “MRI is the largest mystery fan/reader organization in the world, is open to all readers, fans, critics, editors, publishers, and writers. Started by Janet A. Rudolph in Berkeley, California, it now has members in all…
The upcoming CrimeFest convention (May 15-18th, Bristol, U.K.) and the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Awards (June 5th, Toronto) have both announced their nominees, and we're thrilled to share these shortlists! (Also, once you get to the bottom of all these wonderful titles and authors, you'll see the an extra reason for our beaming,…
Not only Bouchercon's own Anthony Awards, but Mystery Readers International's Macavity Awards, Deadly Pleasures Magazine's Barry Awards, and the Private Eye Writers of America's Shamus Awards were given during Bouchercon. So far we've only gotten to the Anthonys (for shame), so here are more of these recently-announced worthies to add to your TBR pile: …
CrimeFest bills itself as “a convention for people who like to read an occasional crime novel as well as for die-hard fanatics.” In other words, a convention for everyone in the world. And since CrimeFest 2013, held as it is every year in Bristol, England, included a panel discussion with the creators of BBC’s Sherlock,…
What is a gathering of Scottish crime writers known as “Bloody Scotland?” Well, you were in Stirling, an hour’s drive from Scotland’s capital city Edinburgh, home of the larger-than-life William Wallace and gateway to the Highlands. No Australian accents, a la Mel Gibson, were in attendance, but there were American, Icelandic, Scottish (not surprisingly), and…
