Japanese literary award for Michael Connelly

Over at Jiro Kimura’s The Gumshoe site comes the news that “Michael Connelly won the Maltese Falcon Award from The Maltese Falcon Society Japan for LOST LIGHT (Little Brown, 2003) as the best hardboiled/private eye novel published in Japan in the previous year.” Connelly also won the Falcon Award, the first being for THE BLACK ICE (1993).