The Day He Left by Frederick Weisel (Poisoned Pen Press) has won the Nero Award, sponsored by the Wolfe Pack, the official Nero Wolfe Literary Society, and honoring "the best American Mystery written in the tradition of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories."
"Alibi in Ice" by Libby Cudmore (to be published in July in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine) has won the Black Orchid Novella Award, sponsored by the Wolfe Pack and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine to celebrate the novella format popularized by Rex Stout.
Black Orchid Novella honorable mentions were Paul A. Barra's "Death of a Papist," Lawrence Coates's "Jimtown," and Tom Larsen's "El Cazador."
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Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive by Amy Edmondson (published in the U.S. by Atria) has won the £30,000 (about $37,900) 2023 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award, honoring the book that offers the "most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues."
Financial Times editor Roula Khalaf said, "Amy Edmondson lays out a powerful framework for how to learn from failure and deal with risk. Right Kind of Wrong is a highly readable and relevant book, with important lessons for leaders and managers everywhere."