Among those multiple divisions is Adult Mystery Fiction, which finds 11 different novels competing head to head, including Deadly Declarations, by Landis Wade (Lystra); Fifty-Four Pigs, by Philipp Schott (ECW Press); Line of Darkness, by Max Tomlinson (Oceanview); and The Mad, Mad Murders of Marigold Way, by Raymond Benson (Beaufort). In addition, there’s an Adult Thriller & Suspense Fiction category, which this year features 14 contenders ranging from Faye Snowden’s A Killing Rain (Flame Tree) and James R. Benn’s Bombay Monsoon (Oceanview) to Matt Coyle’s Doomed Legacy (Oceanview) and Michael J. Manz’s The Glass Tree (Endicott Street Press).Winners in each category, as well as Editor’s Choice Prize winners and Foreword’s Independent Publisher of the Year recipient, are to be declared on Thursday, June 15.
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In the news, as well, are 25 categories of nominees for the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the “Lammys”). Vying in that contest’s LGBTQ+ Mystery bracket are:• A Death in Berlin, by David C Dawson (Park Creek)
• And There He Kept Her, by Joshua Moehling (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Dead Letters from Paradise, by Ann McMan (Bywater)
• Dirt Creek, by Hayley Scrivenor (Flatiron)
• Lavender House, by Lev A.C. Rosen (Forge)
All of this year’s victors will be announced on Friday, June 9.
(Hat tip to In Reference to Murder.)
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