Wednesday, February 22, 2023

L.A. Mystery Prize Hopefuls Revealed

The finalists have been announced for this year’s Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Of particular interest to Rap Sheet readers will be the five titles competing in the Mystery/Thriller category:

We Lie Here, by Rachel Howzell Hall (Thomas & Mercer)
Back to the Garden, by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
All That’s Left Unsaid, by Tracey Lien (Morrow)
Secret Identity, by Alex Segura (Flatiron)
The Cartographers, by Peng Shepherd (Morrow)

Also made known, reports Mystery Fanfare, were the 2023 recipients of three special commendations: “James Ellroy will receive the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement; the American Library [Association]’s Freedom to Read Foundation will receive the Innovator’s Award; and Javier Zamora will be presented with the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose.”

The remaining winners of this year’s Times Book Prizes will be declared during a ceremony at the University of Southern California’s Bovard Auditorium, in Los Angeles, to be held on Friday, April 21. That’s the evening before the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is scheduled to commence.

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