National Book Critics Circle Winners Announced; Chaz McGee
I think I blogged about the NBCC earlier and now it’s time for the celebrations to begin. On Critical Mass, their blog, the winners were announced. And the winners are: http://bookcritics.org/awards/
Then I was browsing around and found this interesting website from the National Book Foundation, 60 Years of the National Book Awards- 79 Fiction Winners. Click on the book jackets and it leads you to all kinds of information about each title. Very nicely done.
All this talk about book awards should whet your appetite for Young Bill’s next entry. (teaser)
I’m reading Angel Interrupted (A Dead Detective Mystery) by Chaz McGee right now.
From the looks of the cover, you might think it ‘s a “cozy” but not so. The main character detective is dead, but plays it very straight as he works his dead person tricks to get his partner a step up in crime solving. Detective Kevin Fahey wasn’t such a great guy before he found himself in this afterlife limbo. He’s trying to make up for his failings by helping out his parter Maggie Gunn, since she’s now stuck with a bummer of a new partner.
They’re both trying to find out who killed the nurse and who stole the little boy from across the street from her house. Are the crimes connected? Did the kidnapper just use the homicide drama as a diversion for childnapping? Chaz McGee has invented a very interesting crime fighter.
This book was on my library new bookshelf, and I think now I’m going to have to find the first book in the series, Desolate Angel.
Also, just found out Chaz is really Katy Munger. Now I’ll have to try some of her other books, the Casey Jones series looks really promising.
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a national book award winner of particular note for oklahoma is http://www.nbafictionblog.org/nba-winning-books-blog/2009/7/9/1953.html
I think Reggie’s got this one right. When I read an author writing under different names it seems I always like one better than the other. Sometimes alot better and sometimes not so much.
And I said Maggie was Det. Fahey’s old partner but actually she was his replacement, after his death. I went back and re-read the beginning and oops I told it wrong.
It’s always either frustrating or a great find when you discover that authors write under different names.
When I found out Anne Rice wrote under two other names (Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure), I thought I needed to check them out. Blech!!! Now I know why she changed her name: to protect her reputation!
Then there’s Joanne Carl’s Chocoholic mysteries. How many people know she also wrote under her real name, Eve Sandstrom, and that she won an Oklahoma Book Award under that name? And books under both names are fine and dandy!
So, sometimes you find other works you like by the same author/different name, and sometimes you find just drivel!
To each his own…