2018 Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing

Winner

November Road by Lou Berney (William Morrow)

Nominees:The Lonely Witness by William Boyle (Pegasus)
Paris in the Dark by Robert Olen Butler, (Mysterious Press)
Under My Skin by Lisa Unger, (Park Row)
Cut You Down by Sam Wiebe, (Random House Canada)

This years’s finalist judges: Gary Giddins, jazz critic and author Steven Beattie, editor of Quill and Quire,Kristen Bates, bookseller at McLean & Eakin 

Join IACW as they honor Mary Frisque and all the nominees as the Hammett is presented. 11 a.m., Friday, November 1, 2019 at Bouchercon in Dallas, Texas.

50th Year in Crime Writing - Peter Lovesey Update

As far back as 1969 I was announced as the winner of a first crime novel prize and I’m pleased to let you know that my fiftieth year of crime writing is marked with three new books.

The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown, from Crippen & Landru, is the first US publication of my 1994 short story collection, with a new introduction. Published February 28. See www.crippenlandru.com for details.

Bertie: The Complete Prince of Wales Mysteries is an omnibus edition from Soho Press of the three novels Bertie and the Tinman, Bertie and the Seven Bodies and Bertie and the Crime of Passion, published March 10, also with a new introduction from me. See https://sohopress for details.

The third book is the new novel in the Peter Diamond series.  Killing with Confetti will be published in July this year by my usual publishers, Sphere, in the UK and Soho Press, in the US. More information will follow at my website www.peterlovesey.com 

And finally, I’m to be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the world mystery convention, Bouchercon, in Dallas, Texas, in October/November, which also reaches its 50th year in the crime field.