Verena Rose interview

Dark and Stormy Book Club

As we wrap another Malice Domestic under our belts, we announce the winners of this year;s Agatha Awards:
Best Contemporary Novel
A World of Curiosities, Louise Penny (Minotaur)
Best Historical Novel
Because I Could Not Stop for Death, Amanda Flower (Berkley)
Best First Novel
Cheddar Off Dead, Korina Moss (St. Martin’s)
Best Short Story
"Beauty and the Beyotch," Barb Goffman (Sherlock Holmes Magazine, Feb. 2022)
Best Non-Fiction
Promophobia: Taking the Mystery Out of Promoting Crime Fiction, Diane Vallere
Ed. (Sisters in Crime)
Best Children/Young Adult Novel
Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade, Nancy Springer (Wednesday Books)
We sincerely congratulate each of the winners and also the nominees. We look forward to next year's Malice
We talked with Verena Rose, Chair of the Board of Directors of Malice Domestic. She is a fount of knowledge
about the history of Malice.
Verena is a short story writer, an editor and co-publisher at Level Best Books. She has been the chair of the
Board of Directors of Malice for 17 years.
TRIVIA
Last week's question was:
Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil spent how many weeks on the NY Times Best Seller list?
a. 52
b. 100
c. 150
d. 216
The answer is d. 216 weeks. John Berendt published Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in 1994 and it
became an overnight success; The book spent a record-breaking 216 weeks on the New York
Times bestseller list[2] — still, to this day, the longest standing best seller of the Times.
This week's question is:
Jeffrey Deaver was ahead of his time in 2001 when he?
a. He had characters in space
b. He had characters use social media
c. He had characters use small sized cell phones
d. He had characters cured of cancer
Tune in next week for the answer and to hear from some of the authors who attended Malice this year.