Cosby Now Owns Double Raptors

Japanese crime-fiction critic and writer Jiro Kimura reports in The Gumshoe Site that S.A. Cosby has won the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan’s 2024 Maltese Falcon Award for All the Sinners Bleed (Flatiron, 2023). This is the Virginia novelist’s second Falcon victory; his 2021 work, Razorblade Tears, picked up the Falcon last year.

The Falcon prize is “a wood-crafted Falcon statuette,” a copy of which is given annually to “the best hard-boiled/private eye novel published in Japan in the previous year.” Previous recipients include S.J. Rozan, Walter Mosley, Don Winslow, Dennis Lehane, and Michael Connelly.