It is a busy time for Canadian crime fiction awards.
The shortlist for the Bony Blithe Award is:
Ian Bradley - The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
Vicki Delaney - A Scandal in Scarlet
Elizabeth J. Duncan - The Marmalade Murders
Mike Martin - Darkest Before the Dawn
Auralee Wallace - Haunted Hayride with Murder
On the website it states:
The Bloody Words Light Mystery Award is an annual juried
literary prize for a "book that makes us smile".
It further states that light mysteries "include everything from laugh-out-loud to gentle humour to good old fashioned stories with little violence or gore".
More information is available at http://bonyblithe.com/submission-rules/
The winner will be announced at the Bloody Words Mini-Con on May 24 in Toronto.
Tomorrow evening is the series of presentations of the shortlists for the Arthur Ellis Awards. I will have a post on those shortlists.
Not too much I'm familiar with, I'll have to do some digging. I do like some lighter fayre on occasions!
ReplyDeleteCol: Thanks for the comment. Glad to hear some "light" penetrates the "noir".
DeleteThanks for sharing this, Bill. I'm always so impressed with the way Vicki Delany can write in different sub-genres. All of the finalists' titles look great, and I'm sure the committee will have a tough time choosing a winner...
ReplyDeleteMargot: Thanks for the comment. Vicki is an agile mind and great imagination. She is the winner of the Derrick Murdoch (President's Award) from the CWC. The blurb said she has published 34 books.
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