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CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award
The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger is an annual award given by the British Crime Writers' Association for best thriller of the year. The award is sponsored by the estate of Ian Fleming. It is given to a title that fits the broadest definition of the thriller novel; these can be set in any period and include, but are not limited to, spy fiction and/or action/ adventure stories. Ian Fleming said there was one essential criterion for a good thriller – that “one simply has to turn the pages”; this is one of the main characteristics that the judges will be looking for. Winners 2020s ;2021 *Winner: Michael Robotham, ''When She Was Good'' ** Robert Galbraith, '' Troubled Blood'' ** Catherine Ryan Howard, ''The Nothing Man'' ** Stuart Turton, ''The Devil and the Dark Water'' ** Ruth Ware, ''One by One'' ** Chris Whitaker, ''We Begin at the End'' ;2020 * Winner: Lou Berney, ''November Road'' ** Tom Chatfield, ''This is Gomorrah{{Cite web, last=, first=, date=, title=The Ian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Writers' Association
The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) is a specialist authors’ organisation in the United Kingdom, most notable for its Dagger awards for the best crime writing of the year, and the Diamond Dagger awarded to an author for lifetime achievement. The Association also promotes crime writing of fiction and non-fiction by holding annual competitions, publicising literary festivals and establishing links with libraries, booksellers and other writer organisations, both in the UK such as the Society of Authors, and overseas. The CWA enables members to network at its annual conference and through its regional chapters as well as through dedicated social media channels and private website. Members' events and general news items are published on the CWA website which also features Find An Author where CWA members are listed and information provided about themselves, their books and their awards. The CWA publishes a monthly magazine exclusively for members called ''Red Herrings'', edited by M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluebird, Bluebird
''Bluebird, Bluebird'' is a 2017 novel by Attica Locke. Its main character is an African-American Texas Ranger, Darren Matthews, from the eastern part of the state. He investigates the death of another African-American, a Chicago lawyer named Michael Wright, in the town of Lark. The novel has the subtitle "A Highway 59 Novel" as the story takes place around that route; Locke herself in real life had family members living in communities along that road. Neely Tucker of ''The Washington Post'' wrote that the setting "feels stuck in a sepia-toned time warp." Esi Edugyan of ''The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...'' wrote that the work is "a narrative of exhilarating immediacy" which has "hallmarks of modern crime fiction" with some of its own character. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Mackay (writer)
Malcolm Mackay (born 1 September 1981, Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...) is a Scottish crime writer. In 2013 he won the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year for his novel ''How a Gunman Says Goodbye''. Publications Novels *The Glasgow Trilogy **''The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter'' (2013) **''How A Gunman Says Goodbye'' (2013) **''The Sudden Arrival of Violence'' (2014) *Darian Ross Novels **''In the Cage Where Your Saviours Hide'' (2018) **''A Line of Forgotten Blood'' (2019) *Stand Alone Novels *''The Night the Rich Men Burned'' (2014) *''Every Night I Dream of Hell'' (2015) *''For Those Who Know the Ending'' (2016) Short stories *''Anatomy of a Hit'' (2013) References External links Malcolm Mackayat Rogers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Slaughter
Karin Slaughter (born January 6, 1971) is an American Crime fiction, crime writer. She has written 21 novels, which have sold more than 40 million copies and have been published in 120 countries. Her first novel, ''Blindsighted'' (2001), was published in 27 languages and made the Crime Writers' Association's Dagger Award shortlist for "Best Thriller (genre), Thriller Debut" of 2001. Slaughter also won the 2015 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award for her novel ''Cop Town''. Her 2018 novel, ''Pieces of Her'', was adapted into an eight-episode Pieces of Her (TV series), television series of the same name, released in March 2022 on Netflix. Philanthropy Slaughter is a library advocate and founded Save the Libraries, a non-profit organization that campaigns to support US public Library, libraries. The Save the Libraries fund has provided more than $300,000 to the DeKalb County Public Library in Atlanta, Georgia. Publishing history Characters from Slaughter's two main series, Grant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Silva (novelist)
Daniel Silva (born 1960) is an American journalist and author of thriller and spy novels. Early life Silva was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. When Silva was seven years old, his family moved to Merced, California. He was raised as a Catholic. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Fresno and began a graduate program in international relations at San Francisco State University, but left when offered employment as a journalist at United Press International (UPI). Career Journalist Silva began his writing career as a journalist with a temporary position at UPI in 1984. His assignment was to cover the Democratic National Convention. UPI made Silva's position permanent and, a year later transferred him to the Washington, D.C. headquarters. After two more years, he was appointed as UPI's Middle East correspondent and moved to Cairo. Silva returned to Washington, D.C., for a position with Cable News Network's Washington bureau. He worked as a produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian McKinty
Adrian McKinty is a Northern Irish writer of crime and mystery novels and young adult fiction, best known for his 2020 award-winning thriller, ''The Chain'', and the Sean Duffy novels set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. He is a winner of the Edgar Award, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, the Macavity Award, the Ned Kelly Award, the Barry Award, the Audie Award, the Anthony Award and the International Thriller Writers Award. He has been shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. Biography Early life McKinty was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1968. The fourth of five children, he grew up in the Victoria area of Carrickfergus, County Antrim. His father was a welder and boilermaker at the Harland and Wolff shipyard before becoming a merchant seaman. He grew up reading science fiction and crime novels by the likes of Ursula Le Guin, J G Ballard and Jim Thompson. He studied law at the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Child
James Dover Grant (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his ''Jack Reacher'' novel series. The books follow the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States. His first novel, '' Killing Floor'' (1997), won both the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best First Novel. Early life and education Grant was born in Coventry. His Northern Irish father, who was born in Belfast, was a civil servant who lived in the house where the singer Van Morrison was later born. He is the second of four sons; his younger brother, Andrew Grant, is also a thriller novelist. Grant's family relocated to Handsworth Wood in Birmingham when he was four years old so that the boys could receive a better education. Grant attended Cherry Orchard Primary School in Handsworth Wood until the age of 11. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham. In 1974, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Grant
''Days of Our Lives'' is an American television soap opera that was first broadcast on November 8, 1965. The following is a list of characters that first appear in the show during the 2020s, by order of first appearance. All characters were introduced by show's executive producer, Ken Corday and co-executive producer, Albert Alarr. Greg Meng was subsequently credited as co-executive producer from January to September 2020. Amanda Raynor (Victoria Platt), an OB/GYN at Salem University hospital is introduced in January 2020 The next character to be introduced is mechanic Jake Lambert ( Brandon Barash) in April 2020, when Ben Weston ( Robert Scott Wilson) meets him for a job interview. The next character to be introduced is Gwen Rizczech ( Emily O'Brien) a mental patient who befriends Claire Brady (Olivia Rose Keegan). In July 2020, Allie Horton (Lindsay Arnold) gives birth to her son Henry (Delaney and Parker Evans). Charlie Dale ( Mike Manning) joined the soap in October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J S Carol
J, or j, is the tenth Letter (alphabet), letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its usual name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''jay'' (pronounced ), with a now-uncommon variant ''jy'' ."J", ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989) When used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the palatal approximant, ''y'' sound, it may be called ''yod'' or ''jod'' (pronounced or ). History The letter ''J'' used to be used as the swash (typography), swash letter ''I'', used for the letter I at the end of Roman numerals when following another I, as in XXIIJ or xxiij instead of XXIII or xxiii for the Roman numeral twenty-three. A distinctive usage emerged in Middle High German. Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478–1550) was the first to explicitly distinguish I and J as representing separate sounds, in his ''Ɛpistola del Trissino de le lettere nuω ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hart (author)
John Hart (born 1965) is an American author of thriller novels. His books take place in North Carolina, where he was born and once lived. He presently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a 1988 graduate of Davidson College. His work has been compared to that of Scott Turow and John Grisham. Hart has won two Edgar Allan Poe Awards for Best Novel, one in 2008 for ''Down River'', and the second in 2010 for ''The Last Child''. He is the only author in history to win the best novel Edgar Award for consecutive novels. He also won the Barry Award (2010; novel) for ''The Last Child'', the SIBA Book Award (2012; fiction) for ''Iron House'', and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2009) for ''The Last Child''. Bibliography *2006 ''The King of Lies'' *2007 ''Down River'' *2009 ''The Last Child ''The Last Child'' is a suspense thriller by American novelist John Hart. It was first published in 2009 by Minotaur Books. Awards and distinctions *2010 Edgar Award winner for Best Novel *201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ryan (writer)
William Ryan may refer to: * William D. Ryan (1861–1949), American labor unionist *William Fitts Ryan (1922–1972), congressman from New York * William H. Ryan (1860–1939), U.S. Representative from New York and Abbeyland * William H. Ryan Jr., former Delaware County District Attorney and acting Pennsylvania Attorney General *William Ryan (53rd Congress) (1840–1925), represented New York's 16th District in the Fifty-third United States Congress * William Ryan (Irish politician) (1921–1994), Irish Fianna Fáil politician, senator 1961–1989 *William Ryan (film director), director of ''Reach the Rock'' and ''Flubber'' *William Ryan (geologist), proponent of the Black Sea deluge theory * William Ryan (psychologist) (c. 1924–2002), author of the 1971 book ''Blaming the Victim'' *William Ryan (sailor) (born 1988), Australian sailor * William Ryan (Canadian politician) (1887–1938), Canadian Member of Parliament *William Ryan (footballer), English professional footballer wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Winslow
Don Winslow (born October 31, 1953) is an American retired author best known for his award-winning and internationally bestselling crime novels, including '' Savages'', ''The Force'' and the Cartel Trilogy. Early life Winslow was born on October 31, 1953, in New York City."Hi. My name is Don Winslow, and I'm a writing addict" , by John Wilkens, '''', June 8, 2008. Retrieved July 07, 2010. He grew up in Perryville, a beach town near the village of |
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