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Mystery Awards: Last Gasp of 2022

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CRIME FICTION LOVER AWARDS 2022

The second annual Crime Fiction Lover Awards winners were announced on December 7, as voted by Crime Fiction Lover readers. (At the link, you’ll also find the parallel Editor’s Choice awards in these categories.)

BEST CRIME NOVEL

  • The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths

BEST DEBUT CRIME NOVEL

  • A Christmas Murder of Crows by DM Austin

BEST INDIE CRIME NOVEL

  • The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

BEST CRIME NOVEL IN TRANSLATION

  • The Dark Flood by Deon Meyer, translated by KL Seegers

BEST CRIME SHOW

  • Shetland

BEST CRIME AUTHOR

  • Elly Griffiths

2022 LITTLE BROWN’S UEA CRIME FICTION AWARD

The winner of the 2022 Little Brown’s UEA Crime Fiction Award was named on December 13.

  • Nina Bhadreshwar for The Day of the Roaring

The £3,000 annual award is given to the best book by a graduating student from UEA’s Creative Writing Crime Fiction MA.

2022 REPRINT OF THE YEAR AWARD

The 2022 Reprint of the Year Award  for crime and mystery reprints was announced on December 31. Voters from 25 countries took part in the poll.

  • Death on Gokumon Island by Seishi Yokomizo (Trans. Louise Heal Kawai)

[Thanks given to Cora Buhlert for these stories.]

Crime Fiction Awards Updates

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Here is another trio of crime fiction awards whose winners were revealed during December 2020.

WOLFE PACK

The winners of the  2020 Nero and Black Orchid Novella Awards were announced December 5. This is a crime fiction award given out by a Nero Wolfe fan group called The Wolfe Pack.

2020 NERO AWARD

The Nero Award is presented each year to an author for the best American Mystery written in the tradition of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe stories.

  • David Baldacci for One Good Deed (Hatchette Book Group, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing).

2020 BLACK ORCHID NOVELLA AWARD

The Black Orchid Novella Award is presented jointly by The Wolfe Pack and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine to celebrate the novella format popularized by Rex Stout.

  • Tom Larsen for El Cuerpo en el Barril (The Body in the Barrel) to be published in the July 2021 issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

THE REPRINT OF THE YEAR AWARD

A group of crime fiction bloggers picked the 2020 winner of the Reprint of the Year Award:

  • The Red Right Hand by Joel Townsley Rodgers (Otto Penzler Presents American Mystery Classics)

DEUTSCHER KRIMIPREIS 2020

The German crime fiction award Deutscher Krimipreis 2020 winners and runners up have been announced. Thanks to Cora Buhlert for the title translations.

National (i.e. for German books):

Winner: Paradise City by Zoe Beck, a thriller set in a dystopian future and therefore also SF

2nd place: Morduntersuchungskommission. Der Fall Melchior Nikoleit (Homicide Department: The Melchior Nikoleit Case) by Max Annas

3rd place: Verdammte Liebe Amsterdam (Damned Love Amsterdam) by Frank Göhre

International

Winner: Götter und Tiere (Gods and Beasts) by Denise Mina

2nd place: Hope Hill Drive by Garry Disher

3rd Place: Aufzeichnungen eines Serienmörders (Memoir of a Murderer) by Young-ha Kim

[Thanks to Cora Buhlert for the stories.]