PJ McAvoy
@pjmthewiz
Dad, writer, Upstate NY'er. 2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Best Mystery award winner. MWA NY member. Rep'd by @books4kimberly📚 also at: http://pjmcavoy.bsky.social
Absolutely floored to pick up two awards tonight at the #killernashville ceremony: claymore for best mystery, and 1st runner up for best unpublished manuscript. Huge thank you to the judges and organizers!
10 out of 10 from the fantastic @lisaunger! Awesome summer read with tons of twists and interesting characters. Being of Azorian heritage I really enjoyed the setting.
Let’s make it happen
If this post gets 10k likes we'll bring back the 12 Meter Yachts can for America's 250th birthday next year. #USA #fourthofjuly #beer #narragansett #vintage #america
Loved PLAY THE FOOL and can’t wait to read the next installment!
Best answer yet on The Writer's Dossier Podcast? Lina Chern delivers. TRICKS OF FORTUNE is out today! linachern.com | thewritersdossier.com
🏆 the BEST!
Day 2 of our tenure as USA Today’s Best Independent Bookshop of the Year. Still feels pretty good
One of my favorite reads last year and yes, it has a crime story at the center!
with much love for @Waterstones
It’s here!!! Our editor @mollsotov89 has rounded up 80 titles we can’t wait for, this summer! crimereads.com/the-most-antic…
I'M BACK. And thrilled to let you know that my new book - THE FINAL SCORE - is out on September 16. You can order it today here: Amazon: amzn.to/4kgJpFk B&N: bit.ly/3EQLA2x IndieBound: bit.ly/4macvaF Apple: apple.co/4gZgB1x
Any day we get a new Mike Bowditch from @pauldoiron is a dang good day
Welcome new books! It's #PubDay for these gorgeous new titles: 💍 NO ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO DIE AT THIS WEDDING by Catherine Mack 🕵️ THE SILVERSMITH'S PUZZLE by Nev March 🦴 SKIN AND BONES by Paul Doiron Which are you adding to your shelf first? 📚
Huge congrats to @henrywise05 - well deserved recognition for a fantastic debut!
Congratulations to @henrywise05, winner of Best First Novel by an American Author for Holy City (Grove Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press). #Edgars2025
Wisdom 👇
Lewis and Tolkien had it exactly right: spend time in nature, go for long leisurely walks, read widely and often, gather a small circle of friends who will love and support you, pursue your niche creative projects and make your life a constant adventure of delight and learning.
Love to see it! Some of the best rural noir crime fiction writers today 👇
Went on the road with my good pal Robert Gipe. S.A. Cosby @blacklionking73 & I talked They All Fall the Same in Richmond, VA. Gipe & I did gigs in Asheville & Hillsborough, NC & Charleston, WV. Also hit Cullowhee, NC for the Spring Lit Fest & Lexington, KY’s Carnegie Ctr.
Just finished another of his excellent Jack Taylor books this weekend. RIP Ken
RIP Ken Bruen. One of the greats. Discovering his books back in the early-aughts was huge for me. I also found so many other writers I loved through him and his work. irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/0…
Ken Bruen’s writing is like triple distilled, light-your-stomach-and-lungs-on-fire poitín: all power, no fillers. Can’t wait for this one.
So many times I laughed aloud and said 'Oh, what a perfect line!' while reading Ken Bruen's latest. How this guy gets even better with each book -- when he's already awesome -- I'll never know, but boy, do I love it. @TheMysterious #books #kenbruen #galway #Ireland #MYSTERY
Congratulations to 518 author @SaratogaIsHere on the release of her debut SERIAL KILLER SUPPORT GROUP! What a cool concept. Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy 🔪 🩸 📚 timesunion.com/preview/articl…
Michael Connelly might be the best crime writer of the last 40 years. He’s created a whole universe of complex characters and captured a city in all its messiness and contradictions. Really love that he’s still got the fire and we’ve got more to come nytimes.com/2025/03/15/boo…
Great advice from a writer I admire - we often don’t see, from the outside, the years of hard work and rejection that goes into this work. Going through a rough patch? It’s all normal. Gotta keep going.
This is me in 2007 - the year I started writing what became my first published novel, INVISIBLE CITY. I’d already written one novel and couldn’t find an agent. But I refused to give up. Writing is how I make sense of the world. Writing is simply what I do. 1/4
📖 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Nick Kolakowski @nkolakowski with ‘Where the Bones Lie’!
NYC friends, don’t miss it! @TheMysterious has top shelf crime fiction author events, bringing in talent from around the globe
Huge fan of the Bowditch series and really looking forward to these shorts!
Thank you, @PublishersWkly! @MacmillanLib @MacmillanAudio @MinotaurBooks