We are happy to announce that Ron Currie will be awarded this year's CrimeMaster Award and will talk about his accomplished career at the Maine Crime Wave on May 30th.

Currie’s most recent book, The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne, is an INDIE NEXT pick, Amazon Editors’ pick, and Apple Books Editors’ pick. It was named a best book of 2025 by The Guardian, NPR, Real Simple, Vulture, Barnes and Noble, The Times of London, Bookpage, Publishers Weekly, and the Wall Street Journal and will be available in paperback on February 27th.

Of Babs, Bookpage notes, “With a top-notch blend of gritty mystery and bighearted drama, it’s Dennis Lehane meets Ann Patchett. ”

Currie is the author of four novels and one collection of short stories. He has won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Library Association’s Alex Award, and the Pushcart Prize. His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and his short fiction and nonfiction have received recognition in Best American anthologies. As a screenwriter he worked most recently on the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations and has developed projects with AMC Studios, Amblin Television, and ITV America. He lives in Portland, Maine and teaches in the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA program.

Previous CrimeMasters have included Douglas Preston, Katherine Hall Page, Lisa Gardner, Tess Gerritsen, Carla Neggars, Michael Koryta, and Paul Doiron.