— Bath Haus, by P.J. Vernon (Doubleday)
— Finding the Vein, by Jennifer Hanlon Wilde (Ooligan Press)
— Lies With Man, by Michael Nava (Amble Press)
— Murder Under Her Skin, by Stephen Spotswood (Doubleday)
— The Savage Kind, by John Copenhaver (Pegasus)
The winners are to be announced during a virtual ceremony on Saturday, June 11, beginning at 11 a.m. PDT. Registration starts at $50. Tickets are available here.
• Two authors familiar for their crime fiction are among the recipients of this year’s Spur Awards given out by the Western Writers of America. A press release says David Heska Wanbli Weiden, author of 2020’s much-lauded novel Winter Counts, “is getting his fourth Spur Award in three years.” He has won in the Short Fiction category with “Skin,” a story published in Midnight Hour: A Chilling Anthology of Crime Fiction from 20 Authors of Color (Crooked Lane), edited by Abby L. Vandiver. Meanwhile, C.J. Box scored top honors in the Contemporary Fiction field with Dark Sky (Putnam), his 21st novel starring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.
• And it seems the Seattle shop at which I work a couple of days each week, Madison Books, is among the five finalists for this year’s Publishers Weekly Bookstore of the Year honors. The victor is to be announced during the U.S. Book Show, May 23-26.
• A trailer for Tokyo Vice, the soon-forthcoming HBO Max series “based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat,” can now be seen on YouTube (and above). As The Killing Times explains, this eight-part crime drama—scheduled to premiere in the States on April 7, is “set in the late 1990s, [when] American journalist Jake Adelstein relocates to Tokyo to join the staff of a major Japanese newspaper as their first foreign-born reporter. Taken under the wing of a veteran detective in the vice squad, he starts to explore the dark and dangerous world of the Japanese yakuza.” The show was created and written by J.T. Rogers. It stars Ken Watanabe and Ansel Elgort. Michael Mann, who brought us the 1980s drama Miami Vice, directed Tokyo Vice’s pilot.
• This TV news comes from In Reference to Murder:
Oscar winner Geena Davis has been tapped as the co-lead for a CBS untitled mother-son legal drama pilot from Scott Prendergast, who wrote the script and executive produces. In the drama, despite their opposing personalities, a talented but directionless P.I., who is the black sheep of his family, begrudgingly agrees to work as the in-house investigator for his overbearing mother (Davis), a successful attorney reeling from the recent dissolution of her marriage.• Waggish Shots columnist Mike Ripley is out with the mid-March edition of “Getting Away with Murder.” Included amongst its contents are notes about the unveiling of a statue of jockey-turned-author Dick Francis at England’s Aintree Racecourse; a day-long celebration of the work of Lee Child; vintage fiction by Pierre Boulle and Humphrey Slater; and new novels by Charlotte Philby, Tom Bradby, Gerald Seymour, Zoë Somerville, Robert Goddard, and others.
• Finally, with St. Patrick’s Day coming up on Thursday, Janet Rudolph has updated her list, in Mystery Fanfare, of St. Paddy’s-related mysteries. This year she’s added a compilation of crime films set around this festive annual occasion.
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