Left Coast Crime Awards Nominations Announced!

Left Coast Crime 2013 "Where Murder is the Last Resort" will take place in Colorado Springs March 21st to 24th. 

There will be four awards this year. Winners will be voted on by convention attendees, and announced at the awards banquet on Saturday, March 23rd. Congratulations to all the nominees!

Clicking on underlined titles will link to my review.  Obviously, I still have a great deal of reading to do.


The Lefty (Best Humorous Mystery Novel)

Mike Befeler, Cruising in Your Eighties Is Murder (Five Star)
Laura DiSilverio, Swift Run (Minotaur)
Jess Lourey, December Dread (Midnight Ink)
Lisa Lutz, Trail of the Spellmans (Simon & Schuster)
Brad Parks, The Girl Next Door (Minotaur)
Nancy Glass West, Fit To Be Dead (Southwest Publications)
    

The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery (Best historical mystery novel covering events before 1960)

Rhys Bowen, The Twelve Clues of Christmas (Berkley Prime Crime)
Rebecca Cantrell, A City of Broken Glass (Forge)
Dennis Lehane, Live by Night (William Morrow)
Catronia McPherson, Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder (Minotaur)
Jacqueline Winspear, Elegy for Eddie (HarperCollins)


The Rocky (Best mystery novel set in the Left Coast Crime Geographical Region)

Margaret Coel, Buffalo Bill’s Dead Now (Berkley Prime Crime)
Chuck Greaves, Hush Money (Minotaur)
Beth Groundwater, Wicked Eddies (Midnight Ink)
Darrell James, Sonora Crossing (Midnight Ink)
Craig Johnson, As the Crow Flies (Viking)


The Watson (Best sidekick in a mystery)

Juliet Blackwell, In a Witch’s Wardrobe (Obsidian)
Robert Crais, Taken (Putnam)
Chris Grabenstein, Fun House (Pegasus)
L.C. Hayden, When the Past Haunts You (CreateSpace)
Rochelle Staab, Brouja Brouhaha (Berkley Prime Crime) 

 

2013 Edgar Awards Nominees

BEST NOVEL

The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishers)

Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Sunset by Al Lamanda (Gale Cengage Learning – Five Star)

Live by Night by Dennis Lehane (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley (Penguin Group USA – Riverhead Books)



BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay (Random House Publishing– Ballantine)

Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman (Minotaur Books - Thomas Dunne Books)

Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal (Random House Publishing– Bantam Books)

The Expats by Chris Pavone (Crown Publishers)

The 500 by Matthew Quirk (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company – Reagan Arthur)

Black Fridays by Michael Sears (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)



BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

Complication by Isaac Adamson (Soft Skull Press)

Whiplash River by Lou Berney (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow Paperbacks)

Bloodland by Alan Glynn (Picador)

Blessed are the Dead by Malla Nunn (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books - Emily Bestler Books)

The Last Policeman: A Novel by Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books)


BEST FACT CRIME

Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French (Penguin Group USA – Penguin Books)

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper)

More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers' Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered by D.P. Lyle, MD (Medallion Press)

Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre (Crown Publishers)

The People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo – and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry (Farrar Straus & Giroux Originals)



BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed by John Paul Athanasourelis (McFarland and Company)

Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books – Emily Bestler Books)

The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics by James O’Brien (Oxford University Press)

In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero edited by Otto Penzler (Smart Pop)


BEST SHORT STORY

"Iphigenia in Aulis"  by Mike Carey in An Apple for the Creature  (Penguin Group USA – Ace Books)

"Hot Sugar Blues" by Steve Lisko in Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company – Mulholland Books)

"The Void it Often Brings With It” by Tom Piccirilli in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine  (Dell Magazines)

"The Unremarkable Heart" by Karin Slaughter in Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company – Mulholland Books)

"Still Life No. 41" by Teresa Solana in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (Dell Magazines)


BEST JUVENILE

Fake Mustache: Or, How Jodie O’Rodeo and Her Wonder Horse (and Some Nerdy Kid) Saved the U.S. Presidential Election from a Mad Genius Criminal Mastermind by Tom Angleberger (Abrams – Amulet Books)

13 Hangmen by Art Corriveau (Abrams – Amulet Books)

The Quick Fix by Jack D. Ferraiolo (Abrams – Amulet Books)

Spy School by Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (Penguin Young Readers Group – Dial Books for Young Readers)



BEST YOUNG ADULT

Emily’s Dress and Other Missing Things by Kathryn Burak (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group – Roaring Brook Press)

The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George (Penguin Young Readers Group – Viking

Crusher by Niall Leonard (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte BFYR)

Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone* by Kat Rosenfield (Penguin Young Readers Group – Dutton Children’s Books)

Code Name Verity* by Elizabeth Wein (Disney Publishing Worldwide - Hyperion)


BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

 Longmire - “Pilot”  Teleplay by Hunt Baldwin & John Coveny (A&E/Warner Horizon Television)

elemeNtarY - “Child Predator” Teleplay by Peter Blake (CBS Productions)

Justified - “Slaughterhouse”  Teleplay by Fred Golan (Sony Pictures Television/FX Productions)

Sherlock -  “A Scandal in Belgravia” Teleplay by Steven Moffat (BBC/Masterpiece)

Homeland - “New Car Smell”  Teleplay by Meredith Stiehm (Showtime/Fox21)


ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

"When They Are Done With Us" by Patricia Smith in Staten Island Noir  (Akashic Books)


GRAND MASTER

Ken Follett
Margaret Maron



RAVEN AWARDS

Oline Cogdill
Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, San Diego & Redondo Beach, CA


ELLERY QUEEN AWARD

Akashic Books



THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
(Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, May 1, 2013)

Dead Scared by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)

A City of Broken Glass* by Rebecca Cantrell (Forge Books)

The Reckoning by Jane Casey (Minotaur Books)

The Other Woman* by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge Books)

Sleepwalker by Wendy Corsi Staub (HarperCollins Publishers - Harper)




*Clicking on these titles will link to my review.

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More Bouchercon Awards!

The Anthony Awards were presented on Saturday night at Bouchercon in Cleveland.  Congratulations to the winners!


Best Novel 

A Trick of the Light - Louise Penny

Best First Novel

Learning to Swim - Sara J. Henry 

Best Paperback Original

Buffalo West Wing - July Hyzy

Best Short Story

Disarming - Dana Cameron

Best Critical Non-Fiction Work

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion - Charlaine Harris, ed.

Bouchercon Award Winners

The Macavity and Barry Awards were presented on Thursday evening at Bouchercon 2012 in Cleveland.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Barry Awards
( Nominated by and voted on by subscribers to Deadly Pleasures Magazine)

Best Novel:  The Keeper of Lost Causes -  by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Best First Novel:  The Informationist -Taylor Stevens

Best British Novel:  Dead Man’s Grip - Peter James

Best Paperback Original: Death of the Mantis -  Michael Stanley

Best Thriller: The Informant - Thomas Perry

Best Short Story: The Gun Also Rises - Jeffrey Cohen (AHMM)

Macavity Awards

(Nominated and voted for by members of Mystery Readers International)

Best Mystery Novel: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead - Sara Gran 

Best First Mystery Novel:  All Cry Chaos - Leonard Rosen 

Best Mystery-Related Non-fiction: The Sookie Stackhouse Companion - Charlaine Harris, ed.

Best Mystery Short Story: Disarming - Dana Cameron (EQMM)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award: Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains - Catriona McPherson