{"id":11780,"date":"2016-01-31T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11780"},"modified":"2016-01-30T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T19:26:04","slug":"2015-north-american-hammett-prize-nominees-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11780","title":{"rendered":"2015 North American Hammett Prize nominees announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian author <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/imageprocessor.websimages.com\/width\/251\/crop\/0,0,188x285\/www.mjmccann.com\/author%20photo%20%20for%20website%20BW.jpg\" alt=\"Hammett prize\" width=\"188\" height=\"285\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjmccann.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael J. McCann<\/a> is one of the nominees for the 2015 North American Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing by a Canadian or US author. McCann has been nominated for his latest novel, <i>Sorrow Lake<\/i>, which is set in eastern Ontario and is the first book in a new series featuring Ellie March and Kevin Walker of the Ontario Provincial Police. McCann is also the author of the Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel series set in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s winner of the Hammett Prize was Stephen King for <i>Mr. Mercedes<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>For the list of 2015 nominees, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimewritersna.org\/news\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.crimewritersna.org\/news\/index.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian author Michael J. McCann is one of the nominees for the 2015 North American Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing by a Canadian or US author. McCann has been nominated for his latest novel, Sorrow Lake, which is set in eastern Ontario and is the first book in a new series featuring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11780\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2015 North American Hammett Prize nominees announced<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,1128,1,1126,1127],"tags":[1131,1129,346,1130,228],"class_list":["post-11780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-writer","category-crime-writing","category-general","category-hammett-prize","category-michael-j-mccann","tag-crime-writing","tag-literary-awards","tag-michael-j-mccann","tag-nominee-list","tag-novels-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2015 North American Hammett Prize nominees announced - Celtic Connexions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11780\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2015 North American Hammett Prize nominees announced - Celtic Connexions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Canadian author Michael J. 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