2013 Nero Award Goes to Chris Knopf for Dead Anyway

Chris Knopf's Dead Anyway has won the 2013 Nero Award, given by the Nero Wolfe Society for literary excellence in the mystery genre. He will receive the award at the annual Black Orchid Banquet on December 7th, 2013.

We've read most of Chris Knopf's work and have yet to be disappointed by anything this outstanding author has written. In our review of Dead Anyway, we called the book "an intricately crafted, superbly plotted novel. It's hard — probably impossible — to say much more than what's been said [in the publisher's synopsis] without giving away too much of what happens, so suffice it to say this is a most entertaining storyline. Too, the author is a master at wordsmithing, both in dialog and narrative."