Awards
…And a Year Later: Edgar!
Part of February’s month-long celebration of A Grave Talent, my Edgar-winning first novel. ** A year after A Grave Talent was published, my first venture into publishing took me to the annual Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards banquet, when it was nominated in the Best First Novel category. I went with my daughter (then…
Read MoreLefty nom for Island of the Mad!
Thanks to everyone who nominated Island of the Mad for a Lefty Award! Left Coast Crime is such a fun conference, I’m looking forward to zipping north to Vancouver, BC in March. And you? See the rest of the great nominees here.
Read MoreBEEKEEPER among the greats!
I was greatly honored to find that The Beekeeper’s Apprentice has been given a place among the Goodreads 100 Top Mysteries, here. Looking at all those other names–Christie and Conan Doyle among them–both makes me think, Yeah there’s some mistake there and makes me very proud and happy. How many of the books have you read?
Read MoreLove for Lockdown
My friends at Deadly Pleasures Magazine have given Lockdown a lovely long review. I hope they don’t mind, but I think I’ll post the whole thing here–and, they named it one of their Best Novels of 2017. Thank you, Deadly Pleasures! Readers would be justified in thinking that with a title like Lockdown, the new…
Read MoreEdgars symposium
If you’re interested in crime, or writing, or crime writing—and especially if you’re anywhere near New York the end of this month—you should seriously consider the MWA Edgar symposium. This year is a particularly strong set of offerings, including Jeff Deaver, Alafair Burke, Megan Abbott, Reed Farrell Coleman, Lyndsay Faye, Charles Todd–oh, and that Laurie…
Read MoreEchoes of Sherlock Holmes
Something with my name on the cover has just appeared in the Publisher’s Weekly list of Top Ten Mysteries for the Fall Back in 2009, Les Klinger was in charge of the Left Coast Crime Sherlock Holmes panel. And being Les, he did not go just for the usual suspects (ie, me) but for guests of…
Read MoreMe & Edgar & Agatha & friends
That shriek that rattled the country just before 10:00 pm EST was me reacting to the sound of my name from the podium at the Agatha Awards: Malice Domestic’s choice of Best Historical Mystery is Dreaming Spies, by Laurie R. King! I was nominated for an Agatha once before (for The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, in 1995) and…
Read MoreAgatha and me
The list of nominees for this year’s Agatha awards is now up on the Malice Domestic web site. Malice, which takes place in Bethesda the first weekend in May, celebrates “the traditional mystery,” and Dreaming Spies is one of the attendees’ top choices for “Best Historical Mystery.” This is a great honor–I mean, just look…
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