Weisel, Cudmore Share Wolfe Glory

Two morsels of news from Jiro Kimura’s The Gumshoe Site:

On December 2 at the Black Orchid Banquet held in New York City, the Wolfe Pack, the official Nero Wolfe literary society, announced that The Day He Left, by Frederick Weisel (Poisoned Pen Press, 2022), won the 2023 Nero Award. The winning novel was the second in the Santa Rosa Violent Crime Investigations Team Mystery.

On the same night, “Alibi in Ice,” by Libby Cudmore​, received the 2023 Black Orchid Novella Award. Banquet. The winning novella will be published in the July 2024 issue of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

Congratulations to both of this year’s recipients!