Sunset and Jericho Shortlisted for the 2024 Peter Robinson Award for Best Crime Novel
BC and bestselling author Sam Wiebe has been nominated for the 2024 Peter Robinson Award for Best Crime Novel for his work Sunset and Jericho (Harbour Publishing, 2023). The Peter Robinson Award, sponsored by Rakuten Kobo, is hosted by the Crime Writers of Canada under their annual Awards of Excellence. The CWC was founded in 1984 to recognize the best in mystery, crime, suspense fiction, and crime nonfiction by Canadian authors. Winners will be announced May 29, 2024 on the Crime Writers of Canada website.
Sunset and Jericho is the fourth installment of the Wakeland detective series, which explores the depths of Vancouver’s criminal underworld. The mayor’s brother is missing. A transit cop lies beaten and blinded, her service weapon stolen. A new series of graffiti tags are appearing, linked to an underground group calling themselves the Death of Kings. Class warfare has broken out on the streets of Vancouver, and PI Dave Wakeland finds himself on the front lines—but unsure which side he’s on. The book follows Wakeland through flophouses to city hall, a clinic in West Vancouver and a mega-mansion in the British Properties while he searches for the missing gun, and crosses the ethical lines he’s drawn for himself.
Sam Wiebe is acclaimed for the Wakeland novels, of which Sunset and Jericho was a BC bestseller for over 10 weeks and Hell and Gone (Harbour Publishing, 2021,) won a silver medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. His work has also won the Crime Writers of Canada award and the Kobo Emerging Writers prize, and has been shortlisted for the Edgar, Hammett, Shamus and City of Vancouver book prizes. His most recent book is Ocean Drive (Harbour Publishing, 2024) and he lives in New Westminster, BC.
The Peter Robinson Award was renamed beginning in 2024 to honour the late Peter Robinson, bestselling author of the Inspector Banks series and prolific Canadian crime writer. The award will maintain this name for five years as announced by the CWC chair Hyacinthe Miller on May 18, 2023, and has a prize of $1,000.