The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (Doubleday; Vintage paperback) 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."
"Double Take" by T.M. Bradshaw (to be published in the July 2025 issue of 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 Peter Hoppock's "Precipice," Andrew Kass's "Deadline," Jenny Ramaley's "Workplace Rules for a Fire-Breathing Dragon," and Ella Rutledge's "Murder at the Y.T.D."