Killer Swell, the premiere installment of Jeff Shelby’s series featuring San Diego, California, surfer-cum-sleuth Noah Braddock, has been nominated in the Popular Fiction category for a 2006 Colorado Book Award. (This makes sense when you realize that Shelby lives in Castle Rock, Colorado, not Southern California.) Vying for the same award are two other works of crime fiction (Eye of the Wolf, by Margaret Coel, and Missing Persons, by Stephen White) as well as a fantasy novel (Daughter of Ancients, by Carol Berg). If you read my short review of Killer Swell last summer, you know that I had some reservations about that book. But it certainly marked a promising start to a series, and the new, sophomore installment, Wicked Break--which I’ve almost finished reading--is the rare second novel that’s actually an improvement on the first.
Winners of this year’s Colorado Book Awards are scheduled to be announced on October 18.
(Hat tip to David Terrenoire.)
Thursday, September 07, 2006
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