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CONGRATULATIONS

Hank Phillippi Ryan Wins Mary Higgins Clark Award

Outliers instructor and USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan has won The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award for her novel All This Could Be Yours.

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CONGRATULATIONS

Michael Bracken Wins Derringer Award

Outliers Instructor Michael Bracken has won for the "Best Short Story (1,001 to 4,000 words)" from the Short Mystery Fiction Society.

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