— Wahala, by Nikki May (Doubleday)
— The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley, by Sean Lusk (Doubleday)
— Young Mungo, by Douglas Stuart (Picador)
— Metronome, by Tom Watson (Bloomsbury)
— Pandora, by Susan Stokes-Chapman (Vintage)
— Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
(Chatto & Windus)
— When We Were Birds, by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Hamish Hamilton)
— Notes on an Execution, by Danya Kukafka (Phoenix)
— Carrie Soto Is Back, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Hutchinson Heinemann)
— The Leviathan, by Rosie Andrews (Raven)
— Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Picador)
— The Final Strife, by Saara El-Arifi (HarperVoyager)
A shortlist of candidates will be released on Thursday, July 27, with the winner—set to “receive £2,000 and a beautiful, handmade glass bell,” according to a press bulletin—to be declared on September 28.
• I’m more than a little flabbergasted to learn that HBO-TV has cancelled its Perry Mason series after only two seasons. My understanding is that both runs of the show, which starred Matthew Rhys as the Los Angeles lawyer created by Erle Stanley Gardner, had scored favorable ratings and critical approval. The review aggregator Web site Rotten Tomatoes opined that Season 2 (which debuted in March) was “more cohesive and engaging than its woolly first installment …, a marked improvement driven by an urgent sense of purpose …” However, says Variety, the sophomore season “did not fare as well ratings wise.” Deadline suggests the cost of producing this drama, which was set during the Great Depression and functioned as a prequel to Raymond Burr’s classic 1957–1966 CBS-TV series, may have factored into HBO’s decisions to shut it down.
• Following his successes with the British TV series Death in Paradise and its more recently launched spin-off, Beyond Paradise starring Kris Marshall, author-screenwriter Robert Thorogood is adapting his 2021 mystery novel, The Marlow Murder Club, as a multi-part cozy TV drama starring Samantha Bond. The Killing Times says this new program will air on both sides of the Atlantic in 2024.
• This item comes from In Reference to Murder:
In honor of Pride Month, Sisters in Crime has opened applications for the 2023 Pride Award, a legacy project of past president Sherry Harris. According to Sherry, “Each past president is required to do a legacy project, something that they feel passionate about. When thinking about what I wanted to do, I kept two things in mind. First, why SinC was formed—to equal the disparity in how female crime fiction writers and male crime fiction writers were reviewed and won awards. Second, I love our Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for emerging crime writers of color. With those two thoughts in mind, I realized I wanted to start a similar award for the LGBTQIA+ community.” Authors can submit an unpublished work of crime fiction through July 31st ...The winning entry’s author will be given a $2,000 grant. For more information about entering this competition, click here.
• As a longtime fan of the 1977-1982 series Lou Grant, a spin-off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show that featured Ed Asner as a Los Angeles newspaper editor, I’m pleased to see it achieve new notice in CrimeReads. An older tribute to Lou Grant is available here.
• Finally, we must bid a sad sayonara to Barry Newman, the Boston-born stage, film, and TV actor who first won attention playing a jazz musician in the 1957 Herman Wouk-written comedy Nature’s Way. He subsequently appeared in the 1960 film Pretty Boy Floyd and the daytime-TV soap opera The Edge of Night, and is perhaps most broadly remembered for his starring role in the 1971 action film Vanishing Point. However, my earliest association with him was probably as the star of The Lawyer, a 1970 big-screen courtroom drama that inspired the excellent 1974-1976 NBC-TV series Petrocelli. The New York Times says Newman passed away on May 11 at age 92, adding: “While seeking treatment for back pain, … he came down with a lung infection that spread to his spine and heart.”
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