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Site title: The Rap Sheet

Publisher:  jpwrites
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Tags: noircrime fictiondetectivesmystery fictionprivate eyesespionage fictionspiesTV crime dramascrime filmsauthor profiles

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Yap Seizes the Bland Prize
A cozy, Manila-set young-adult mystery titled “Isabelle Gomez Is Innocent, She Swears!” has won the 2026 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color award. Its author is Jackie Yap, who calls herself a “neurodivergent Austr...

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Prevailing Canucks
We now know which authors and books have won the 2026 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing.


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Cutting Down the Daggers

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Revue of Reviewers: 5-24-26
Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more.


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Particularly Promising Premieres
I spent the better part of this week entertaining a friend who’d flown in from Minneapolis, so I wasn’t exactly on top of the crime-fiction news. That meant I missed alerting readers to the half-dozen nominees for the 2026 McDermid Debut Award. They are:

• A Bad, Bad Place, by Frances Crawford (Penguin Random House)
• The Exes, by Leodora...

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