Julia Spencer-Fleming novels of faith and murder for readers of literary suspense

News: April, 2008

All Mortal Flesh

All Mortal Flesh has been nominated for the coveted Anthony Award as Best Mystery, together with powerhouse bestsellers by Jan Burke, Laura Lippman, Denise Mina and Nancy Pickard! Thank you, mystery readers everywhere, for including All Mortal Flesh in this tremendous company.

All Mortal Flesh has been nominated for a Nero Award for Best Mystery Novel! Presented to an author for literary excellence in the mystery genre in honor of Rex Stout's eternally brilliant, irascible, and corpulent private detective Nero Wolfe, a lover of food, beer, and orchids, the annual award is sponsored by The Wolfe Pack. Learn more about this terrific crime fiction organization at www.nerowolfe.org . Fellow Minotaur author Steve Hamilton has also been nominated for A Stolen Season. The winner will be announced at the Black Orchid banquet in December.

All Mortal Flesh has also been nominated for a Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel by the readers of Mystery Readers International, the largest mystery fan/reader organization in the world! The winner will be announced at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, in September. Learn more about MRI, and it's fabulous founder, Janet Rudolph, at www.mysteryreaders.org.

Finally, All Mortal Flesh has been awarded the Gumshoe Award for Best Mystery I had better check the soles of my flats right away...Mystery Ink, the Gumshoe's sponsor, has long been one of the strongest and most inclusive voices in the crime fiction community.

All Mortal Flesh All Mortal Flesh (ISBN: 0-312-31264-4), was a Minotaur lead title in October, 2006.

Read an excerpt of Chapter Two

ALL MORTAL FLESH has received starred reviews from each of Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and Kirkus. That's a trifecta for all you Dick Francis fans!

Mystery Ink, popular internet destination for readers of mysteries and thrillers, announced Gumshoe Award nominees, given to recognize the best in the world of crime fiction. Winners to be announced May 1, 2007. Best Mystery nominees: Ace Atkins - White Shadow, Ariana Franklin - City of Shadows, George Pelecanos - The Night Gardener, Julia Spencer-Fleming - All Mortal Flesh, and Joseph Wambaugh - Hollywood Station.

All Mortal Flesh has been named a ROMANTIC TIMES 2006 Reviewers' Choice Award finalist in the Best Amateur Sleuth category! What a humbling honor to be included with the likes of the remarkable Charlaine Harris, Meg Cabot, Susan Conant and Barbara Allan.


Recent crimespree Magazine columns by Julia Spencer-Fleming

To Darkness and to Death, together with Judgment of the Grave written by fellow Minotauran, New Englander and gal pal Sarah Stewart Taylor has been selected for the August 2005 Book Sense Picks and Notables!

The BookPage Fiction Review: Whodunit? has a neat feature on Women in Mystery, including TDTD and comadre Denise Hamilton's (www.denisehamilton.com) sensational Savage Garden!

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Wow: A Fountain Filled With Blood has been nominated for a Barry Award for Best Mystery Novel by Deadly Pleasures Magazine!

Just to be included on the same slate as Dennis Lehane, Laurie R. King, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen and Dan Fesperman is a rare honor. To say I'm pleased doesn't begin to cover it...

A Fountain Filled With Blood ( now out in paperback!) debuted at #28 on the ABA BookSense National Bestseller List (Mass Market) the week ending 4/25! A Fountain Filled With Blood also debuted at # 8 on the New England Booksellers Association Bestseller List (mass market) the week ending 4/25!

Out of the Deep I Cry appeared in the Amazon.com Top 25 (thrillers/mysteries) during April!

The Millers Kill series is being published in Germany by Droemer Verlag, in Japan by Sony Magazine and in Denmark by Readers' Digest Danish Editions. In the Bleak Midwinter has already appeared in the Finnish Readers' Digest Condensed Books as Keskella Kylmaa Talvea. (Sorry, Finnish-reading fans, but my keyboard couldn't supply the little dots that should be over the first three As.) Stay tuned to find out where the series pops up next.

Publisher's Weekly gives starred reviews! :
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Out of the Deep I Cry
A Fountain Filled With Blood

In the Bleak Midwinter... * wins the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery! The Agatha Awards, named for Agatha Christie, are presented annually during the Malice Domestic Convention in Washington, DC. See all the winners.

* wins the 2003 Dilys Award, given by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA) to the book it members "most enjoyed selling throughout the year." The announcement was made by IMBA Director, Maryelizabeth Hart, at an awards presentation at the Left Coast Crime 2003 conference in Pasadena, California. Ms. Spencer-Fleming received a specially made glass art sculpture in recognition of this achievement.

* nominated for the Anthony Award for Best First Mystery! The Anthony Awards, named in honor of critic, writer and editor Anthony Boucher, are presented annually at the World Mystery Convention, Bouchercon. Bookreporter has a complete list of the other terrific authors nominated for outstanding achievement in the mystery field.

* nominated for the Macavity Award for Best First Novel. The Macavity awards are nominated and voted on by the members of Mystery Readers International, an organization dedicated to enriching the lives of mystery readers, and are presented annually at the World Mystery Convention. See a complete list of this year's nominations and the stellar work put forth by MRI's membership.

January: In the Bleak Midwinter nominated for Mystery Ink's Gumshoe Award for Best First Mystery of 2002. Take a look here for more information and the names of the other nominees (including some really wonderful books!)

In the Bleak Midwinter on 'Best of' Lists! No, not People Magazine's Best of 2002 list--darn. But I'm very happy to have been named as one of: Deadly Pleasures Magazine's Best Mysteries of 2002 Poisoned Pen's Top 20 First Mysteries and BookBitch's Reader's Favorites of 2002 And in the not-on-the-list-but-still-pretty-cool category, January Magazine's J. Kingston Pierce named me as one of three "first time authors deserving of greater attention," along with David Corbett, whose book, The Devil's Redhead, was written about me! Okay, that last part's not true. But the rest of it is.

Dorothy L Top Ten Favorite Reads, 2002 (In The Bleak Midwinter placed #3 in a readers poll of the highly regarded Dorothy L list)

In the Bleak Midwinter appears in condensed form in the January Reader's Digest Select Editions. So if you've put off reading it because you haven't had enough time, now's your chance...

December: In the Bleak Midwinter has been nominated for a Dilys Award, given by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association to the book it members "most enjoyed selling throughout the year."


2002

November: St. Martin's Minotaur will be pulling out, if not all the stops, then at least a good number of them for the April 2003 launch of A Fountain Filled With Blood. They will be sending out a huge number of Advance Reader Copies (ARCs) to reviewers and booksellers, and following up with an ad in the New York Times Book Review. (Anyone with spare copies please send them to my mother.) Fountain will be the Feature Book on the Minotaur website and best of all, they're sending me on a national tour! We'll be working out where I'll be appearing in the coming months, so if you have any suggestions, now's the time to email me.

September: A Fountain Filled With Blood, the second book in the series, will be released in April 2003, St. Martin's Minotaur lead title for that month.

August: In the Bleak Midwinter is in its fifth printing!

June: I signed a contract with St. Martin's for a third and fourth book in the series. The third is tentatively called Out of the Deep I Cry. Since my second novel was going to be titled Just As I Am until the SMP marketing folks told me that sounded like a self-affirmation book, I'm not guaranteeing anything. No. Three could wind up in bookstores titled Die! Die! Die!

May: In the Bleak Midwinter was nominated for a (cough-cough) prestigious Nevermore Award. Partners & Crime Mystery Booksellers awards--some might say inflicts upon--the Nevermore raven "...to real authors for inadvertent achievement in a variety of categories neither dreamt nor dared by MWA." My book was up for a “Coming AttractionsC4 award for the detecting couple most in need of, in the words of Partner Maggie Griffin, “getting their ashes hauled.” However, I ducked the bullet on this one--that is to say--I lost out to the talented and much-honored S.J. Rozan, who has kept Lydia Chin and Bill Smith apart for eight books at last count.

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