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· 2011 · Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter - Tom Franklin [William Morrow] Faithful Place - Tana French [Viking] The Lock Artist - Steve Hamilton [Minotaur Books] I'd Know You Anywhere - Laura Lippman [William Morrow] >Bury Your Dead - Louise Penny [Minotaur Books] BEST FIRST NOVEL >Damage Done - Hilary Davidson [Forge Books] Rogue Island - Bruce DeSilva [Forge Books] The Poacher's Son - Paul Doiron [Minotaur Books] The Sherlockian - Graham Moore [Twelve] Snow Angels - James Thompson [Putnam] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Long Time Coming - Robert Goddard [Bantam] The Hanging Tree - Bryan Gruley [Touchstone] Drive Time - Hank Phillippi Ryan [Mira] >Expiration Date - Duane Swierczynski [Minotaur Books] Vienna Secrets - Frank Tallis [Random House] BEST SHORT STORY "The Scent of Lilacs" - Doug Allyn, EQMM Sep/Oct'10 >"Swing Shift" - Dana Cameron, Crimes By Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side [Berkley] "The Hitter" - Chris F. Holm, Needle: A Magazine of Noir Summer'10 "So Much in Common" - Mary Jane Maffini, EQMM Sep/Oct'10 "Homeless" - Patricia L. Morin, Mystery Montage: A Collection of Short Story Mystery Genres [Top] "The Frame Maker" - Simon Wood, The Back Alley Webzine Vol III No.3 BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL Scalped Vol 6: The Gnawing - Jason Aaron [Vertigo] Richard Stark's Parker, Vol 2: The Outfit - Darwyn Cooke [IDW Press] Tumor - Joshua Hale Fialkov, Noel Tuazon [Archaia Studios Press] Sickness in the Family - Denise Mina [Vertigo] Beasts of Burden - Jill Thompson, Evan Dorkin [Dark Horse] >The Chill - Jason Starr [Vertigo] BEST CRITICAL/NONFICTION The Wire: Truth Be Told - Rafael Alvarez [Grove Press] >Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks - John Curran [Harper Collins] Sherlock Holmes for Dummies - Steven Doyle, David A. Crowder [For Dummies] Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History - Yunte Huang [W W Norton] Thrillers: 100 Must Reads - David Morrell [Oceanview] BEST WEBSITE/BLOG Jen's Book Thoughts - Jen Forbus [www.jensbookthoughts.com] The Rap Sheet - J. Kingston Pierce [therapsheet.blogspot.com] Sirens of Suspense - Chantelle Aimée Osman [www.sirensofsuspense.com] Spinetingler - Sandra Ruttan [www.spinetinglermag.com] >Stop, You're Killing Me! - Lucinda Surber, Stan Ulrich [www.stopyourekillingme.com] · 2010 · The Last Child - John Hart [Minotaur Books] The Mystic Arts Of Erasing All Signs Of Death - Charlie Huston [Ballantine Books] The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland [Quercus/Knopf] >The Brutal Telling - Louise Penny [Minotaur Books] The Shanghai Moon - S.J. Rozan [Minotaur Books] BEST FIRST NOVEL The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie - Alan Bradley [Delacorte Press] Starvation Lake - Bryan Gruley [Touchstone] >A Bad Day For Sorry - Sophie Littlefield [Minotaur Books] The Twelve/The Ghosts Of Belfast - Stuart Neville [Harvill Secker/Soho Press] In The Shadow Of Gotham - Stefanie Pintoff [Minotaur Books] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Bury Me Deep - Megan Abbott [Simon & Schuster] Tower - Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman [Busted Flush Press] Quarry In The Middle - Max Allan Collins [Hard Case Crime] >Starvation Lake - Bryan Gruley [Touchstone] Death And The Lit Chick - G.M. Malliet [Midnight Ink] Air Time - Hank Phillippi Ryan [Mira] BEST SHORT STORY "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" - Ace Atkins, Crossroad Blues, pp.1-20 follow Afterword [Busted Flush Press] "Femme Sole" - Dana Cameron, Boston Noir, pp.95-115 [Akashic Books] "Animal Rescue" - Dennis Lehane, Boston Noir, pp.38-64 [Akashic Books] >"On the House" - Hank Phillippi Ryan, Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers, book's 5th story [Level Best Books] "Amapola" - Luis Alberto Urrea, Phoenix Noir, pp.103-125 [Akashic Books] BEST CRITICAL NONFICTION WORK >Talking About Detective Fiction - P.D. James [Bodleian Library/Knopf] The Line Up: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives - Otto Penzler, ed. [Little, Brown and Co] Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King - Lisa Rogak [Thomas Dunne Books] Dame Agatha's Shorts: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion - Elena Santangelo [Bella Rosa Books] The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith - Joan Schenkar [St. Martin's Press] · 2009 · Trigger City - Sean Chercover [William Morrow] >The Brass Verdict - Michael Connelly [Little, Brown] Red Knife - William Kent Krueger [Atria] The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson [Knopf] The Cruelest Month - Louise Penny [Minotaur] BEST FIRST NOVEL Pushing Up Daisies - Rosemary Harris [Minotaur] Stalking Susan - Julie Kramer [Doubleday] >The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson [Knopf] Death Of A Cozy Writer - G.M. Malliet [Midnight Ink] Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith [Grand Central] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL The First Quarry - Max Allan Collins [Hard Case Crime] Money Shot - Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime] >State Of The Onion - Julie Hyzy [Berkley] In A Dark Season - Vicki Lane [Dell] South Of Hell - P.J. Parrish [Pocket Star] BEST SHORT STORY "The Night Things Changed" - Dana Cameron, Wolfsbane And Mistletoe, pp.32-59 [Ace] >"A Sleep Not Unlike Death" - Sean Chercover, Hardcore Hardboiled, pp.58-68 [Kensington] "Killing Time" - Jane K. Cleland, AHMM Nov'08, pp.4-21 "Skull and Cross-Examinations" - Toni L. P. Kelner, EQMM Feb'08, pp.32-53 "Scratch a Woman" - Laura Lippman, Hardly Knew Her, pp.237-290 [William Morrow] "The Secret Lives of Cats" - Kristine Kathryn Rusch, EQMM Jul'08, pp.2-20 BEST CRITICAL NONFICTION WORK African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study - Frankie Y. Bailey [McFarland] How To Write Killer Historical Mysteries - Kathy Lynn Emerson [Perseverance Press] >Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography - Jeffrey Marks [McFarland] The Suspicions Of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective - Kate Summerscale [Walker] BEST CHILDREN'S / YOUNG ADULT NOVEL >The Crossroads - Chris Grabenstein [Random House] Paper Towns - John Green [Dutton Juvenile] Kiss Me, Kill Me - Lauren Henderson [Delacorte] The Mysterious Benedict Society And The Perilous Journey - Trenton Lee Stewart [Little, Brown] Sammy Keyes And The Cold Hard Cash - Wendelin Van Draanen [Knopf] BEST COVER ART Death Was The Other Woman (Linda L. Richards) - David Rotstein [Minotaur] Death Will Get You Sober (Elizabeth Zelvin) - David Rotstein [Minotaur] The Fault Tree (Louise Ure) - David Rotstein [Minotaur] >The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson) - Peter Mendelsund [Knopf] Money Shot (Christa Faust) - Steve Cooley [Hard Case Crime] SPECIAL SERVICE AWARD >Jon and Ruth Jordan Ali Karim David Montgomery Gary Warren Niebuhr Sarah Weinman · 2008 · Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke [Simon and Schuster] Bad Luck And Trouble - Lee Child [Delacorte] The Watchman - Robert Crais [Simon and Schuster] Thunder Bay - William Kent Krueger [Atria] >What The Dead Know - Laura Lippman [William Morrow] BEST FIRST NOVEL Big City, Bad Blood - Sean Chercover [William Morrow] >In The Woods - Tana French [Viking Adult] The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz [Simon and Schuster] Head Games - Craig McDonald [Bleak House] The Blade Itself - Marcus Sakey [St. Martin Minotaur] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Queenpin - Megan Abbott [Simon and Schuster] Slide - Ken Bruen and Jason Starr [Hard Case Crime] Blood of Paradise - David Corbett [Ballantine] Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues - Robert Fate [Capital Crime] >A Thousand Bones - P.J. Parrish [Pocket] SHORT STORY "Please Watch Your Step" - Rhys Bowen, The Strand Magazine, Issue XXI Feb-May'07, pp.3-8 "Dear Dr. Watson" - Steve Hockensmith, EQMM Feb'07, pp.70-84 "How Stella Got Her Grave Back" - Toni L. P. Kelner, Many Bloody Returns: Tales of Birthdays with Bite, pp.318-355 [Ace] >"Hardly Knew Her" - Laura Lippman, Dead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table, pp.327-342 [Harcourt] "Uncle" - Daniel Woodrell, A Hell of A Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, pp.282-287 [Busted Flush] CRITICAL WORK >Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters - Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Charles Foley [Penguin] The Essential Mystery Lists - Roger Sobin [Poisoned Pen] The Triumph Of The Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction - Patrick Anderson [Random House] Deviance In Contemporary Crime Fiction - Christiana Gregoriou [Palgrave MacMillan] SPECIAL SERVICES >Jon and Ruth Jordan - Crime Spree Magazine Ali Karim - Shotz Magazine Maddy Van Hertbruggen - 4MA Sarah Weinman - Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind Judy Bobalik - for being one of the best friends and supporters of mystery writers WEB SITE Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind - Sarah Weinman [www.sarahweinman.com] Rap sheet/January Magazine - J. Kingston Pierce [therapsheet.blogspot.com] Murderati - A Writer's Blog [www.murderati.com] >Stop, You're Killing Me! - Stan Ulrich, Lucinda Surber [www.stopyourekillingme.com] Crime Fiction Dossier - David Montgomery [www.crimefictionblog.com] · 2007 · Kidnapped - Jan Burke [Simon & Schuster] >No Good Deeds - Laura Lippman [Harper] The Dead Hour - Denise Mina [Little, Brown and Co] The Virgin Of Small Plains - Nancy Pickard [Ballantine] All Mortal Flesh - Julia Spencer-Fleming [St. Martins] BEST FIRST NOVEL The King Of Lies - John Hart [St. Martins] Holmes On The Range - Steve Hockensmith [St. Martins] >Still Life - Louise Penny [St. Martins] A Field Of Darkness - Cornelia Read [Mysterious] The Harrowing - Alexandra Sokoloff [St. Martins] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL >Ashes And Bones - Dana Cameron [Avon] 47 Rules Of Highly Effective Bank Robbers - Troy Cook [Capital Crime] The Cleanup - Sean Doolittle [Dell] Baby Shark - Robert Fate [Capital Crime] Shotgun Opera - Victor Gischler [Dell] Snakeskin Shamisen - Naomi Hirahara [Bantam Dell - Delta] A Dangerous Man - Charlie Huston [Ballantine] BEST SHORT STORY "Policy" - Megan Abbott, Damn Near Dead: Old, Bold, Uncontrolled, pp.60-68 [Busted Flush] "The Lords of Misrule" - Dana Cameron, Sugarplums And Scandal: A feast of passion and suspense for the holidays!, pp.47-90 [Avon] "Cranked" - Bill Crider, Damn Near Dead: Old, Bold, Uncontrolled, pp.336-347 [Busted Flush] "Sleeping with the Plush" - Toni L.P. Kelner, AHMM May'06, pp.4-18 "After the Fall" - Elaine Viets, AHMM Jan/Feb'06, pp.200-212 >"My Father’s Secret" - Simon Wood, Working Stiffs, pp.16-28 [Blue Cubicle]/Crimespree Magazine Bcon'06 Special Ed, pp.20-22 BEST CRITICAL NONFICTION >Mystery Muses - Jim Huang, Austin Lugar, eds. [Crum Creek] Read 'Em Their Writes - Gary Warren Niebuhr [Libraries Unlimited] Don't Murder Your Mystery - Chris Roerden [Bella Rosa] The Beautiful Cigar Girl - Daniel Stashower [Dutton] The Science Of Sherlock Holmes - E.J. Wagner [John Wiley & Sons] SPECIAL SERVICES AWARD Charles Ardai - Hard Case Crime George Easter - Deadly Pleasures >Jim Huang - Crum Creek Press and The Mystery Company Jon and Ruth Jordan - Crimespree Magazine Lynn Kaczmarek, Chris Aldrich - Mystery News Ali Karim - Shots Magazine Barbara Franchi, Sharon Wheeler - ReviewingTheEvidence.com Maddy Van Hertbruggen - 4 Mystery Addicts BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL Due to a lack of nominations, no award was given. · 2006 · Bloodlines - Jan Burke [Simon & Schuster] The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly [Little, Brown and Co] Red Leaves - Thomas H. Cook [Harcourt] >Mercy Falls - William Kent Krueger [Atria] To The Power Of Three - Laura Lippman [HarperCollins] BEST FIRST MYSTERY Die A Little - Megan Abbot [Simon & Schuster] Immoral - Brian Freeman [St. Martin's Minotaur] >Tilt-A-Whirl - Chris Grabenstein [Carroll & Graf] The Baby Game - Randall Hicks [Wordslinger Press] Office Down - Theresa Schwegel [St. Martin's Minotaur] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL >The James Deans - Reed Farrel Coleman [Plume] Kiss Her Goodbye - Allan Guthrie [Hard Case Crime] Six Bad Things - Charlie Huston [Ballantine] Good Girl's Guide To Murder - Susan McBride [Avon] A Killing Rain - P.J. Parrish [Pinnacle] BEST SHORT STORY "House Rules" - Libby Fischer Hellmann, Murder In Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation, pp.111-124 [Forge] "There is No Crime on Easter Island" - Nancy Pickard, EQMM Sep/Oct'05, pp.10-27 >"Misdirection" - Barbara Seranella, Greatest Hits: Original Stories of Assassins, Hit Men and Hired Guns, pp.81-101 [Carroll & Graff] "Driven to Distraction" - Marcia Talley, Chesapeake Crimes II: 15 Tales of Mystery, Mayhem, and Murder, pp.132-143 [Quiet Storm] "Killer Blonde: A Dead-End Job Mystery" - Elaine Viets, Drop-Dead Blonde, pp.93-157 [Signet] BEST CRITICAL / NONFICTION Writing And Selling Your Mystery Novel - Hallie Ephron [Writer's Digest] Behind The Mystery - Stuart Kaminsky [Hot House] New Annotated Sherlock Holmes - Leslie Klinger [W.W. Norton] >Heirs Of Anthony Boucher - Marv Lachman [Poison Pen] Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her - Melanie Rehak [Harcourt] BEST FAN PUBLICATION >Crimespree Magazine - Jon and Ruth Jordan Deadly Pleasures - George Easter Mystery News - Lynn Kaczmarek and Chris Aldrich Mystery Readers Journal - Janet Rudolph Mystery Scene Magazine - Brian Skupin and Kate Stine SPECIAL SERVICE TO THE FIELD George Easter - Deadly Pleasures >Janet Rudolph - Mystery Readers International Maddy Van Hertbruggen - 4 Mystery Addicts Sarah Weinman - Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind · 2005 · The Killing Of The Tinkers - Ken Bruen [St. Martins Minotaur] The Madman's Tale - John Katzenbach [Ballantine] >Blood Hollow - William Kent Krueger [Atria] By A Spider's Thread - Laura Lippman [HarperCollins] California Girl - T. Jefferson Parker [HarperCollins] Out Of The Deep I Cry - Julia Spencer-Fleming [St. Martins] BEST FIRST NOVEL Uncommon Grounds - Sandra Balzo [Five Star] Until the Cows Come Home - Judy Clemens [Poisoned Pen] Retribution - Jilliane P. Hoffman [Putnam] Whiskey Sour - J.A. Konrath [Hyperion] >Dating Dead Men - Harley Jane Kozak [Doubleday] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Cold Case - Robin Burcell [Avon] Putt To Death - Roberta Isleib [Berkley] Blue Blood - Susan McBride [Avon] The Halo Effect - M.J. Rose [Mira] >Twisted City - Jason Starr [Vintage Crime] BEST SHORT STORY "Voodoo" - Rhys Bowen, AHMM Nov'04, pp.35-51 "The Widow of Slane" - Terence Faherty, EQMM Mar/Apr'04, pp.56-77 "It's Crackers to Slip a Rozzer the Dropsey in Snide" - Ted Hertel, Jr., Small Crimes, pp.61-68 [Betancourt] "Hunter/Trapper" - Arthur Nersesian, Brooklyn Noir, pp.139-157 [Akashic] >"Wedding Knife" - Elaine Viets, Chesapeake Crimes, pp.182-191 [Quiet Storm] BEST NONFICTION Famous American Crimes & Trials - Frankie Bailey, Steven Chermak [Greenwood Publishing] >Men's Adventure Magazines - Max Allan Collins, et al [Taschen] Blue Blood - Edward Conlon [Penguin] The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes - Leslie S. Klinger, ed. [Norton] The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber - Julian Rubinstein [Little, Brown] BEST COVER ART >Brooklyn Noir (Tim McLoughlin, ed) - Sohrab Habibion [Akashic] Fade to Blonde (Max Phillips) - Gregory Manchess [Hard Case Crime] Whiskey Sour (J.A. Konrath) - Sal Barracca/Bradford Foltz Design [Hyperion] Good Morning, Darkness (Ruth Francisco) - Robert Santora [Mysterious] Monkology (Gary Phillips) - Michael Kellner [Dennis McMillan] · 2004 · The Delicate Storm - Giles Blunt [Random House, Canada; Harper Collins, UK; Putnam] Blood Is The Sky - Steve Hamilton [Thomas Dunne] Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane [William Morrow; Bantam, UK] >Every Secret Thing - Laura Lippman [William Morrow; Orion, UK] The Summer That Never Was/Close To Home - Peter Robinson [McClelland & Stewart, Canada; Pan MacMillan, UK; William Morrow] BEST FIRST NOVEL Haunted Ground - Erin Hart [Simon & Schuster, UK; Scribner] Death Of A Nationalist - Rebecca Pawel [Soho] >Monkeewrench/Want To Play? - P.J. Tracy [Putnam; Michael Joseph, UK] Wiley's Lament - Lono Waiwaiole [St. Martin's Minotaur] Maisie Dobbs - Jacqueline Winspear [Soho; John Murray, UK] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL >Deadly Legacy - Robin Burcell [Avon] Dealing In Murder - Elaine Flinn [Avon] Thicker Than Water - P.J. Parrish [Pinnacle] Tough Luck - Jason Starr [Vintage/Black Lizard] Find Me Again - Sylvia Maultash Warsh [Dundurn] BEST SHORT STORY "The Grass Is Always Greener" - Sandy Balzo, EQMM Mar'03, pp.63-75 "Munchies" - Jack Bludis, Hardbroiled, pp.67-80 [Betancourt] >"Doppelganger" - Rhys Bowen, Blood On Their Hands, pp.241-251 [Berkley Prime Crime] "Wanda Wilcox Is "Trapped!"" - Eddie Muller, Plots With Guns Sep/Oct'03 (published online, now gone; check web archive; also see Plots With Guns, Anthony Neil Smith, ed. pp.23-38 [Dennis McMillan, 2005]) "Red Meat" - Elaine Viets, Blood On Their Hands, pp.103-118 [Berkley Prime Crime] BEST YOUNG ADULT MYSTERY Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Eoin Colfer [Puffin, UK; Hyperion] Feast Of Fools - Bridget Crowley [Margaret K. McElderry] Seventh Knot - Kathleen Karr [Marshall Cavendish] No Escape - Norah McClintock [Scholastic] >Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix - J.K. Rowling [Raincoast Books, Canada; Bloomsbury, UK; Scholastic] BEST HISTORICAL MYSTERY >For The Love Of Mike - Rhys Bowen [St. Martin's Minotaur] Let Loose The Dogs - Maureen Jennings [St. Martin's Minotaur; Thomas Dunne, Canada] The Bridge Of Sighs - Olen Steinhauer [St. Martin's Minotaur] Find Me Again - Sylvia Maultash Warsh [Dundurn] Maisie Dobbs - Jacqueline Winspear [Soho Press; John Murray, UK] BEST CRITICAL / NON-FICTION WORK Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters In Mystery Fiction, Vol III - Colleen Barnett [Poisoned Pen] The Story Of Jane Doe: A Book About Rape - Jane Doe [Random House] Interrogations - Jon Jordan [Mystery One] >Make Mine A Mystery: A Reader's Guide To Mystery and Detective Fiction - Gary Warren Niebuhr [Libraries Unlimited] Beautiful Shadow: A Life Of Patricia Highsmith - Andrew Wilson [Bloomsbury] BEST FAN PUBLICATIONS Deadly Pleasures - George Easter, ed. The Drood Review - Jim Huang, ed. Mystery News - Lynn Kaczmarek, Chris Aldrich, eds. Mystery Readers Journal - Janet A. Rudolph, ed. >Mystery Scene Magazine - Kate Stine, ed. · 2003 · Murder In The Sentier - Cara Black [Soho] >City Of Bones - Michael Connelly [Little, Brown] North Of Nowhere - Steve Hamilton [St. Martin's Minotaur] Hell To Pay - George P. Pelecanos [Little, Brown] Winter And Night - S.J. Rozan [St. Martin's Minotaur] BEST FIRST NOVEL The Devil's Redhead - David Corbett [Ballantine] An Eye For Murder - Libby Fischer Hellman [Poisoned Pen] The Blue Edge Of Midnight - Jonathon King [Dutton] The Distance - Eddie Muller [Scribner] >In The Bleak Midwinter - Julia Spencer-Fleming [St. Martin's Minotaur] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Black Jack Point - Jeff Abbott [NAL/Onyx] >Fatal Truth - Robin Burcell [Avon] Six Strokes Under - Roberta Isleib [Berkley Prime Crime] Paint It Black - P.J. Parrish [Pinnacle/Kensington] A Killing Sky - Andy Straka [Signet] BEST SHORT STORY "Murder in the Land of Wawat" - Lauren Haney, The Mammoth Book Of Egyptian Whodunnits: Mystery and murder from the sands of time, pp.165-181 [Carroll & Graf] "To Live and Die in Midland, Texas" - Clark Howard, EQMM Sep/Oct'02, pp.4-26 "Bible Belt" - Toni Kelner, EQMM Jun'02, pp.98-114 >"Too Many Cooks" - Marcia Talley, Much Ado About Murder: ...Shakespeare-Inspired..., pp.121-141 [Berkley Prime Crime] "A Man Called Ready" - Bob Truluck, Measures Of Poison, pp.281-325 [Dennis McMillan] BEST CRITICAL WORK The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction - Mike Ashley, ed. [Carroll & Graf] >They Died In Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels - Jim Huang, ed. [Crum Creek] Intent To Sell: Marking the Genre Novel - Jeffrey Marks [Deadly Alibi] BEST COVER ART The Eye Of Cybele (Daniel Chavarria) - Jennifer Harris, painting; Melissa Farris, design [Akashic] >Measures Of Poison (Dennis McMillan, ed) - Michael Kellner [Dennis McMillan] Murder In The Sentier (Cara Black) - Cheryl L. Cipriani [Soho] Paradise Salvage (John Fusco) - Larry Rostant, photo [Overlook] The Terra-Cotta Dog (Andrea Camilleri) - Paul Buckley [Viking] · 2002 · Flight - Jan Burke [Simon & Schuster] Tell No One - Harlan Coben [Delacorte] >Mystic River - Dennis Lehane [Morrow] The Devil Went Down to Austin - Rick Riordan [Bantam] Reflecting the Sky - S.J. Rozan [St. Martin's Minotaur] BEST FIRST NOVEL >Open Season - C.J. Box [Putnam] Third Person Singular - K.J. Erickson [St. Martin's Minotaur] Austin City Blue - Jan Grape [Five Star] The Jasmine Trade - Denise Hamilton [Scribner] A Witness Above - Andy Straka [Signet] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A Kiss Gone Bad - Jeff Abbott [Onyx] Dim Sum Dead - Jerrilyn Farmer [Avon] >Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris [Ace] Dead of Winter - P.J. Parrish [Pinnacle] The Houdini Specter - Daniel Stashower [Avon] BEST SHORT FICTION >"Chocolate Moose" - Bill and Judy Crider, Death Dines at 8:30, pp.115-131 [Berkley Prime Crime] "My Bonnie Lies..." - Ted Hertel Jr., The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, pp.384-390 [Carroll & Graf] "Bitter Waters" - Rochelle Krich, Criminal Kabbalah: An Intriguing Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction, pp.141-157 [Jewish Lights] "Virgo in Sapphires" - Margaret Maron, EQMM Dec'01, pp.32-41 "Double-Crossing Delancy" - S.J. Rozan, Mystery Street, pp.278-310 [Signet] BEST NONFICTION / CRITICAL WORK The History Of Mystery - Max Allan Collins [Collector's] Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers - Jo Hammett [Carroll & Graf] Writing The Mystery: A Start to Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional - G. Miki Hayden [Intrigue] >Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir - Tony Hillerman [HarperCollins] Who Was That Lady? Craig Rice: The Queen of Screwball Mystery - Jeffrey Marks [Delphi] BEST YOUNG ADULT MYSTERY The Viking Claw - Michael Dahl [Simon & Schuster] Death On Sacred Ground - Harriet R. Feder [Lerner] Ghost Sitter - Peni Griffin [Dutton] Matthew's Web - Jeri Fink, Donna Paltrowitz [Bookweb] >The Mystery Of The Haunted Caves - Penny Warner [Meadowbrook] BEST COVER ART Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) - Glenn Harrington [Forge] Grape Noir (Kit Sloane) - Annie Sperling [Deadly Alibi] >Reflecting The Sky (S.J. Rozan) - Josef Beck/FPG, photo; Michael Storrings, design [St. Martin's Minotaur] The Tainted Snuff Box (Rosemary Stevens) - Teresa Fasolino [Berkley Prime Crime] Under the Color of Law (Michael McGarrity) - John Warden/Index Stock Imagery, photo; Anthony Ramondo, design [Dutton] Special Award for Service to the Mystery Community Doris Ann Norris · 2001 · Deep South - Nevada Barr [Putnam] The Bottoms - Joe R. Lansdale [Mysterious] >A Place Of Execution - Val McDermid [St. Martin's Minotaur] Listen To The Silence - Marcia Muller [Mysterious] He Shall Thunder In The Sky - Elizabeth Peters [William Morrow] Legacy Of The Dead - Charles Todd [Bantam Books] BEST FIRST MYSTERY Black Dog - Stephen Booth [Scribner] A Conspiracy Of Paper - David Liss [Random House] The Ice Harvest - Scott Phillips [Ballantine] >Death Of A Red Heroine - Qiu Xiaolong [Soho] Street Level - Bob Truluck [St. Martin's Minotaur] Run - Douglas E. Winter [Knopf] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL >Death Dances To A Reggae Beat - Kate Grilley [Berkley] Bad To The Bone - Katy Munger [Avon] The Floating Lady Murder - Daniel Stashower [Avon] Killing Kin - Chassie L. West [Avon)] A Little Death - Laura A. Wilson [Bantam] The Kidnapping Of Rosie Dawn - Eric Wright [Perseverance/John Daniel] BEST SHORT STORY "The Seal of the Confessional" - Rhys Bowen, Unholy Orders: Mystery Stories with a Religious Twist, pp.117-125 [Columbine] >"The Problem of the Potting Shed" - Edward D. Hoch, EQMM Jul'00, pp.67-82 "Widow's Peak" - Rochelle Krich, Unholy Orders: Mystery Stories with a Religious Twist, pp.13-25 [Columbine] "Don't Go Upstairs" - Donald Olson, EQMM Aug'00, pp.103-111 "Missing In Action" - Peter Robinson, EQMM Nov'00, pp.86-102 BEST ANTHOLOGY / SHORT STORY COLLECTION >Master's Choice, II - Lawrence Block, ed. [Berkley] Malice Domestic 9 - Joan Hess, ed. [Avon] Magnolias And Mayhem - Jeffrey Marks, ed. [Overmountain/Silver Dagger] Unholy Orders - Serita Stevens, ed. [Intrigue] Tales Out Of School - Carolyn Wheat [Crippen & Landru] BEST NON-FICTION / CRITICAL WORK The Complete Christie: An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia - Matthew Bunson [Pocket] Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists - Martha Hailey DuBose [St. Martin's Minotaur] >100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century - Jim Huang, ed. [Crum Creek] The American Regional Mystery - Marvin Lachman [Crossover] Hard-Boiled: Working Class Readers and Pulp Magazines - Erin A. Smith [Temple University] BEST FAN PUBLICATION Deadly Pleasures - George Easter, ed. The Drood Review of Mystery - Jim Huang, ed. Murder: Past Tense - Sue Feder, ed. >Mystery News - Chris Aldrich & Lynn Kaczmarek, eds. Mystery Readers Journal - Janet Rudolph, ed. · 2000 · River of Darkness - Rennie Airth Bones - Jan Burke L.A. Requiem - Robert Crais High Five - Janet Evanovich >In A Dry Season - Peter Robinson [William Morrow] BEST FIRST NOVEL >Murder, With Peacocks - Donna Andrews [St. Martin's] Murder In The Marais - Cara Black Circles Of Confusion - April Henry Revenge Of The Gypsy Queen - Kris Neri Inner City Blues - Paula Woods BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Every Move She Makes - Robin Burcell Lucky Man - Tony Dunbar The Outcast - Jose Latour >In Big Trouble - Laura Lippman [Avon] An Antidote for Avarice - Caroline Roe BEST SHORT STORY "A Bit of a Treat" - Barry Baldwin, AHMM Sep'99, pp.17-23 >"Noir Lite" - Meg Chittenden, EQMM Jan'99, pp.119-122 "At the Hop" - Judy and Bill Crider, Till Death Do us Part: ...stories of love, marriage, and murder, pp.270-294 [Berkley; ISBN: 0425171973] "Triangle" - Jeffrey Deaver, EQMM Mar'99, pp.128-142 "Paleta Man" - Laurie R. King, Irreconciable Differences, pp.131-148 [HarperCollins] BEST CRITICAL / BIOGRAPHICAL WORK The Mystery Review Magazine - Barbara Davey, ed. Deadly Pleasures Magazine - George Easter, ed. >Detecting Women, 3rd Edition - Willetta L. Heising [Purple Moon] Ross MacDonald - Tom Nolan Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle - Daniel Stashower BEST SERIES OF THE THE CENTURY >Hercule Poirot – Agatha Christie 87th Precinct - Ed McBain Sharon McCone - Marcia Muller Lorder Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers Nero Wolfe - Rex Stout BEST WRITER OF THE CENTURY Raymond Chandler >Agatha Christie Dashiell Hammett Dorothy L. Sayers Rex Stout BEST NOVEL OF THE CENTURY The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler [Alfred A. Knopf, 1939] Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers [Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935] The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett [Alfred A. Knopf, 1930] The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie [William Collins & Sons (UK)/Dodd, Mead and Co (US), 1926] >Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier [Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938] · 1999 · Blind Descent - Nevada Barr [Putnam] >Blood Work - Michael Connelly [Little, Brown] On Beulah Height - Reginald Hill [Delacorte] Gone, Baby, Gone - Dennis Lehane [William Morrow] Framework For Death - Aileen Schumacher [Writeway] BEST FIRST NOVEL Sympathy For The Devil - Jerrilyn Farmer [Avon] Tiger's Palette - Jacqueline Fiedler [Pocket] A Cold Day In Paradise - Steve Hamilton [Dunne] Eleven Days - Donald Harstad [Doubleday] >Iron Lake - William Kent Krueger [Pocket] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL >Butcher's Hill - Laura Lippman [Avon] Zen Attitude - Sujata Massey [Harper] The Widower's Two-Step - Rick Riordan [Bantam] Remedy For Treason - Caroline Roe [Berkley] Murder Manual - Steven Womack [Ballantine] BEST SHORT STORY "Two Bits" - Jan Burke, EQMM May'98, pp.92-102 "A Simple Philosophy" - Harlan Coben, Malice Domestic 7 (Sharyn McCrumb presents) , pp.66-76 [Avon] >"Of Course You Know that Chocolate is a Vegetable" - Barbara D'Amato, EQMM Nov'98, pp.39-47 "A Small Silver Gun" - Rick Riordan, MHCMM Sum'98, pp.58-64 "The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage" - Peter Robinson, Not Safe After Dark, pp.180-194 [Crippen & Landru] (1st pub 1997, Malice Domestic 6, pp.238-255) BEST CRITICAL NON-FICTION WORK Mystery Reader's Walking Guide: Washington, D.C. - Alzina Stone Dale [Passport] >Deadly Pleasures Magazine - George Easter, ed. Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir - Eddie Muller [St. Martin's] Silk Stalkings: More Women Write of Murder - Victoria Nichols, Susan Thompson [Scarecrow] Mystery And Suspense writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage - Robin Winks, Maureen Corrigan, eds. [Scribner] · 1998 · Devil's Food - Anthony Bruno [Forge] Deception Pass - Earl Emerson [Ballantine] The Club Dumas - Arturo Pérez-Reverte [HMH] >No Colder Place - S.J. Rozan [St. Martin's] Eye of the Cricket - James Sallis [Walker] BEST FIRST NOVEL >Killing Floor - Lee Child [Putnam] If I Should Die - Grace Edwards [Doubleday] Except the Dying - Maureen Jennings [St. Martin's] Bird Dog - Philip Reed [Pocket] Skin Deep, Blood Red - Robert Skinner [Kensington] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Charm City - Laura Lippman [Avon] The Salaryman's Wife - Sujata Massey [Harper] >Big Red Tequila - Rick Riordan [Bantam] Time Release - Martin J. Smith [Jove] 23 Shades of Black - K.J.A. Wishnia [Imaginary] BEST SHORT STORY (tie) "Ways to Kill a Cat" - Simon Brett, Malice Domestic 6 (Anne Perry presents), pp.48-74 [Pocket] "A Fog of Many Colors" - James DeFilippi, New Mystery Sum'97 (v.5 no.1), pp.13-16 "Paper Boxes" - James S. Dorr, New Mystery Sum'97 (v.5 no.1), pp.35-38 >"A Front Row Seat" - Jan Grape, Vengeance Is Hers, pp.187-210 [Signet] >"One Bag Of Coconuts" - Edward D. Hoch, EQMM Nov'97, pp.85-98 BEST COVER ART The Bum's Rush (G.M. Ford) - Krystyna Skalski [Walker] Family Values (K.C. Constantine) - Doug Fraser [Mysterious] Fruitcake (Jane Rubino) - Gail Cross [Write Way] >Night Dogs (Kent Anderson) - Michael Kellner [Dennis McMillan] Virgin Heat (Laurence Shames) - Victor Weaver [Hyperion] · 1997 · Firestorm - Nevada Barr [Putnam] >The Poet - Michael Connelly [Little, Brown] Lethal Genes - Linda Grant [Scribner] Hearts and Bones - Margaret Lawrence [William Morrow] Multiple Wounds - Alan Russell [Simon & Schuster] BEST FIRST NOVEL (tie) >Death in Little Tokyo - Dale Furutani [St Martins] >Somebody Else's Child - Terris McMahan Grimes [Onyx] Tularosa - Michael McGarrity [W W Norton] A Test of Wills - Charles Todd [St Martin's] A Brother's Blood - Michael C. White [HarperCollins] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Fade Away - Harlan Coben [Bantam] >Somebody Else's Child - Terris McMahan Grimes [Onyx] The Grass Widow - Teri Holbrook [Bantam] Walking Rain - Susan Wade [Fanfare] Chain of Fools - Steven Womack [Ballantine] BEST SHORT STORY "The Dark Snow" - Brendan DuBois, Playboy Nov'96, pp.74-75,80,82,158 "Luminarias Make It Christmas-y" - Janet LaPierre, EQMM Feb'96, pp.87-96 "Bugged" - Eve K. Sandstrom, Malice Domestic 5 (Phyllis A. Whitney presents), pp.209-227 [Pocket] >"Accidents Will Happen" - Carolyn Wheat, Malice Domestic 5 (Phyllis A. Whitney presents), pp.228-239 [Pocket] BEST CRITICAL / BIOGRAPHICAL >Detecting Women 2: Reader's Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Women – Willetta L. Heising [Purple Moon] Mystery!: A Celebration: Stalking Public Television's Greatest Sleuths - Ron Miller, Karen Sharpe, eds. [KQED Books] The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist - Barbara Reynolds, ed. [St. Martin's] By A Woman's Hand: A Guide to Mystery Fiction by Women, 2nd Ed. - Jean Swanson, Dean James, eds. [Berkley] BEST FANZINE >The Armchair Detective Deadly Pleasures Mystery & Detective Monthly Mystery Readers Journal Mystery Scene · 1996 · The Last Coyote - Michael Connelly [Little, Brown] Hard Christmas - Barbara D'Amato [Scribner] True Crime - Andrew Klavan [Crown] Blue Lonesome - Bill Pronzini [Walker] >Under The Beetle's Cellar - Mary Willis Walker [Doubleday] BEST FIRST NOVEL The Innocents - Richard Barre [Walker] Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? - G.M. Ford [Walker] Hammurabi's Code - Charles Kenney [Scribner] >Death In Bloodhound Red – Virginia Lanier [Pineapple] Murder In Scorpio - Martha C. Lawrence [St. Martin's] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL >Deal Breaker - Harlan Coben [Dell] Bad Medicine - Eileen Dreyer [HarperPaperbacks] A Far and Deadly Cry - Teri Holbrook [Bantam] Charged with Guilt - Gloria White [Dell] Closet - R.D. Zimmerman [Dell] BEST SHORT STORY "Rule of Law" - K.K. Beck, Malice Domestic 4 (Carolyn G Hart presents), pp.69-88 [Pocket] "The Judge's Boy" - Jean B. Cooper, EQMM Aug'95, pp.44-58 "How I Found a Cat, Lost True Love, and Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" - Bill Crider, Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation, pp.44-88 [Fine] >"And Pray Nobody Sees You" - Gar Anthony Haywood; Spooks, Spies, And Private Eyes, pp.158-171 [Doubleday] "The Dog Who Remembered Too Much" - Elizabeth Daniels Squire, Malice Domestic 4 (Carolyn G Hart presents), pp.192-206 [Pocket] BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION Cat Crimes Takes A Vacation - Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman, eds. [Donald I. Fine] Crimes Of The Heart - Carolyn G. Hart, ed. [Berkley] Malice Domestic 4 - Carolyn G. Hart, ed. [Pocket] >The McCone Files: The Complete Sharon McCone Stories - Marcia Muller [Crippen & Landru] Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes - Paula L. Woods, ed. [Doubleday] BEST TRUE CRIME Man Overboard: The Counterfeit Resurrection of Phil Champagne - Burl Barer [Northwest] Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit - John Douglas, Mark Olshaker [Scribner] Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town - Pete Earley [Bantam] Born to Kill: America's Most Notorious Vietnamese Gang, and the Changing Face of Organized Crime - T.J. English [William Morrow] >Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? - Ann Rule [Simon & Schuster] BEST CRITICAL WORK A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books - Nicholas A. Basbanes [Henry Holt] John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles - Douglas G. Greene [Otto Penzler] Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson - Robert Polito [Knopf] Ngaio Marsh: The Woman and Her Work - B.J. Rahn, ed. [Scarecrow] >The Armchair Detective Book of Lists, 2nd Ed - Kate Stine, ed. [Simon and Schuster] BEST MOVIE Copy Cat Devil With A Blue Dress Get Shorty Seven >The Usual Suspects BEST TV SHOW Homicide Law & Order Murder One NYPD Blue >The X-Files BEST MAGAZINE / DIGEST / REVIEW PUBLICATION >The Armchair Detective Deadly Pleasures Drood Review Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Mystery Scene BEST PUBLISHER Avon Mysterious Press >St. Martin's Press Scribner Walker BEST EDITOR Marjorie Braman [Delacorte/Dell] >Sara Ann Freed [Mysterious] Carolyn Marino [HarperCollins] Kate Miciak [Bantam] Michael Seidman [Walker] BEST COVER ART >The Body In The Transept (Jeanne Dams) - Pamela Patrick [Walker] The Bookman's Wake (John Dunning) - Fred George, photo; Corsillo/Manzone, design [Scribner] Death Of A Tenor Man (Bill Moody) - John Howard, illustration; Krystyna Skalski, design [Walker] Flashpoint (Lynn Hightower) - FCL Colorspace, illustration; Richard Hasselberger, design [HarperCollins] The Vanishing Smile (Earl Emerson) - [Ballantine] · 1995 · The Concrete Blonde - Michael Connelly [Little, Brown] Kolymsky Heights - Lionel Davidson [St.Martin's] One for the Money - Janet Evanovich [Scribner] "K" Is For Killer - Sue Grafton [Henry Holt] Murder On A Kibbutz - Batya Gur [HarperCollins] Pictures of Perfection - Reginald Hill [HarperCollins] Cold Shoulder - Lynda La Plante [Macmillan] The 13th Juror - John Lescroart [Fine/Headline] >She Walks These Hills - Sharyn McCrumb [Scribner] Crack Down - Val McDermid [Scribner] Black Betty - Walter Mosley [Serpent's Tail/Norton] Not Till the Red Fog Rises - Derek Raymond [Little, Brown] Just a Corpse at Twilight - Janwillem van de Wetering [Soho] BEST FIRST NOVEL >The Alienist - Caleb Carr [Little, Brown/Random House] Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson [Bloomsbury] Cuckoo - Alex Keegan [Headline] A Drink Before the War - Dennis Lehane [HBJ] Mallory's Oracle - Carol O'Connell [Hutchinson/Putnam] Shinju - Laura Joh Rowland [Random House] Every Breath You Take - Michelle Spring [Orion/Pocket] Big Town - Doug J. Swanson [HarperCollins] Death of a Blue Lantern - Christopher West [Collins] BEST SHORT STORY "The Gentleman in the Lake" - Robert Barnard, EQMM Jun'94, pp.46-61 "One of Those Days, One of Those Nights" - Ed Gorman, Crime Yellow, pp.13-38 [Gollancz] >"The Monster of Glamis" - Sharyn McCrumb, Royal Crimes, pp.15-31 [Signet] "A Deep Hole" - Ian Rankin, London Noir, pp.137-155 [Serpent’s Tail] BEST CRITICAL WORK >Detective Fiction: The Collector's Guide, 2nd Ed - John Cooper, B.A. Pike, eds. [Scolar] Encyclopedia Mysteriosa - William DeAndrea [Prentice-Hall] The Tony Hillerman Companion - Martin H. Greenberg [Harper Collins] The Fatal Art of Entertainment - Rosemary Herbert [G.K.Hall] BEST ANTHOLOGY / SHORT STORY COLLECTION Hollywood Nocturnes - James Ellroy [Otto Penzier] A Modern Treasury of Great Detective Stories - Ed Gorman, ed. [Carroll & Graf] >The Mysterious West - Tony Hillerman, ed. [Harper Collins] London Noir - Maxim Jakubowski, ed. [Serpent's Tail] Murder for Halloween: Tales of Suspense - Michele Slung, Roland Hartman, eds. [Mysterious Press] BEST TRUE CRIME >Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer - David Canter [HarperCollins] Shot in the Heart - Mikal Gilmore [Doubleday] Dillinger, The Untold Story - G. Russell Girardin, w/William J. Helmer [Indiana Univ] The Faber Book of Murder - Simon Rae [Faber & Faber] The Complete History of Jack the Ripper - Philip Sugden [Carroll & Graf] BEST FILM The Client Disclosure The Last Seduction >Pulp Fiction Shallow Grave BEST TV SERIES Between the Lines Cracker Homicide: Life on the Streets N.Y.P.D. Blue >Prime Suspect · 1994 · The Black Ice - Michael Connelly [Little, Brown] Morons and Madmen - Earl Emerson [William Morrow] O Little Town Of Maggody - Joan Hess [E.P. Dutton] Sacred Clowns - Tony Hillerman [HarperCollins] Old Enemies - Janet LaPierre [Scribner] Southern Discomfort - Margaret Maron [Mysterious] >Wolf In The Shadows - Marcia Muller [Mysterious] To Live And Die In Dixie - Kathy Hogan Trocheck [HarperCollins] The Sculptress - Minette Walters [St. Martin's] Consider The Crows - Charlene Weir [St. Martin's] BEST FIRST NOVEL >Track Of The Cat - Nevada Barr [G.P. Putnam] Goodnight, Irene - Jan Burke [Simon & Schuster] A Grave Talent - Laurie R. King [St. Martin's] Death Comes As Epiphany - Sharan Newman [Tor] Child Of Silence - Abigail Padgett [Mysterious] BEST TRUE CRIME Driven To Kill: Westley Allan Dodd - Gary C. King [Pinnacle] The Misbegotten Son: A Serial Killer and His Victims: The True Story of Arthur J. Shawcross - Jack Olsen [Delacorte] >A Rose For Her Grave: and Other True Cases - Ann Rule [Pocket] Until The Twelfth Of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan & Betty Broderick - Bella Stumbo [Pocket] BEST INDIVIDUAL SHORT STORY "A Romance in the Rockies" - K.K. Beck, Malice Domestic 2 (Mary Higgins Clark presents), pp.93-113 [Pocket] >"Checkout" - Susan Dunlap, Malice Domestic 2 (Mary Higgins Clark presents), pp.114-142 [Pocket] "Kim's Game" - M.D. Lake, Malice Domestic 2 (Mary Higgins Clark presents), pp.203-214 [Pocket] "Crow's Feat" - Robert Lopresti, Constable New Crimes 2, pp.206-216 [Constable] BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION / ANTHOLOGY Some Days You Get The Bear - Lawrence Block [William Morrow] >Mary Higgins Clark Presents Malice Domestic 2 - Martin H. Greenberg, ed. [Pocket] Bohannon's Country - Joseph Hansen [Viking] The Year's Best Mystery And Suspense Stories-1993 - Ed Hoch, ed. [Walker] Criminal Intent 1 - Marcia Muller, Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini [Dark Harvest] BEST CRITICAL WORK The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Film And Television - Burl Barer [McFarland] >The Fine Art Of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion - Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg, Larry Segriff, eds., w/Jon L. Breen [Carroll & Graf] A Reader's Guide To The American Novel Of Detection - Marvin Lachman [G.K. Hall] A Reader's Guide To The Private Eye Novel - Gary Warren Niebuhr [G.K. Hall] Dorothy L Sayers; Her Life and Soul - Barbara Reynolds [St. Martin's] · 1993 · Lullaby Town - Robert Crais [Bantam] Booked To Die - John Dunning [Scribner] Southern Ghost - Carolyn Hart [Bantam] >Bootlegger's Daughter - Margaret Maron [Mysterious] The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter - Sharon McCrumb [Macmillan/Scribner] BEST FIRST NOVEL Thyme Of Death - Susan Wittig Albert [Macmillan/Scribner] Decked - Carol Higgins Clark [Grand Central]Warner The Black Echo - Michael Connelly [Little, Brown] >Blanche On The Lam - Barbara Neely [St. Martins] The Winter Widow - Charlene Weir [St. Martins] BEST TRUE CRIME The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd - Jana Bommersbach [Simon & Schuster] Blood Echoes: The True Story of an Infamous Mass Murder and Its Aftermath - Thomas H. Cook [NAL/Dutton] >The Doctor, The Murder, The Mystery: The True Story of the Dr. John Branion Murder Case - Barbara D'Amato [Noble] The Shadow Of Death : The Hunt for a Serial Killer - Philip E. Ginsburg [Macmillan/Scribner] (copyright 1993) Everything She Ever Wanted: A True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder, and Betrayal - Ann Rule [Simon & Schuster] BEST CRITICAL WORK Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life - David Coomes [Lion USA] Alias S.S. Van Dine - John Loughery [Scribner] >Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-1991 - Ellen Nehr [Offspring] BEST INDIVIDUAL SHORT STORY "Candles in the Rain" - Doug Allyn, EQMM Nov'92, pp.4-33 >"Cold Turkey" - Diane Mott Davidson, Sisters in Crime 5, pp.171-188 [Berkley] "The Summer of Our Discontent" - Edward D. Hoch, EQMM Nov'92, pp.51-71 "One Hit Wonder"- Gabrielle Kraft, Sisters In Crime 5, pp.102-120 [Berkley] "A Golden Opportunity" - Rochelle Krich, Sisters In Crime 5, pp.89-101 [Berkley] BEST MOTION PICTURE The Bodyguard >The Crying Game A Few Good Men The Player Single White Female · 1992 · Rogue Wave - Susan Dunlap [Villard] Love Nor Money - Linda Grant [Scribner] Hour Of The Hunter - J.A. Jance [Morrow] >The Last Detective - Peter Lovesey [Doubleday] I.O.U. - Nancy Pickard [Pocket] A Single Stone - Marilyn Wallace [Doubleday] BEST FIRST NOVEL (hardcover or paperback) >Murder On The Iditarod Trail - Sue Henry [Atlantic] Carpool - Mary Cahill [Random House] A Relative Stranger - Margaret Lucke [St. Martin's] The Bulrush Murders - Rebecca Rothenberg [Carroll & Graf] The Chocolate Box - Leslie Watts [General] Murder On The Run - Gloria White [Dell] BEST TRUE CRIME And The Sea Will Tell - Vincent Bugliosi, w/Bruce B. Henderson [Norton] Sins Of The father: The Landmark Franklin Case: a daughter, a memory, and a murder - Eileen Franklin, William Wright [Crown] Witnesses From The Grave: The Stories Bones Tell - Christopher Joyce, Eric Stover [Little, Brown] Plausible Denial - Mark Lane [Thunders Mouth] Cruel Doubt - Joe McGinniss [Simon & Schuster] >Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - David Simon [Houghton Mifflin] BEST INDIVIDUAL SHORT STORY >"Lucky Dip" - Liza Cody, A Woman's Eye, pp.1-27 [Delacorte] "Last Rites" - Linda Grant, Sisters in Crime 4, pp.282-305 [Berkley] "Nine Sons" - Wendy Hornsby, Sisters in Crime 4, pp.214-226 [Berkley] "Deborah's Judgment" - Margaret Maron, A Woman's Eye, pp.299-322 [Delacorte] "The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown" - Peter Lovesey, EQMM May'91, pp.5-19 "Wolf Winter" - Maxine O'Callaghan, Sisters in Crime 4, pp.80-90 [Berkley] BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION / ANTHOLOGY Cat Crimes - Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman, eds. [Donald I. Fine] Alfred Hitchcock's Home Sweet Homicide - Cathleen Jordan, ed. [Walker & Co] Christmas Stalkings: Tales of Yuletide Murder - Charlotte MacLeod, ed. [Mysterious] >A Woman's Eye - Sara Paretsky, ed. [Delacorte] Fifty Years Of The Best From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - Eleanor Sullivan, ed. [Carroll & Graf] Sisters in Crime 4 - Marilyn Wallace, ed. [Berkley] BEST CRITICAL WORK Locked Room Murders - Robert Adey [Crossover] Out Of The Woodpile - Frankie Y. Bailey [Greenwood] Twentieth Century Crime And Mystery Writers, 3rd ed - Lesley Henderson [St. James] Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman - Tony Hillerman [Univ of New Mexico] >100 Great Detectives - Maxim Jakubowski, ed. [Carroll & Graf] Jim Thompson: Sleep with the Devil - M.J. McCauley [Mysterious] · 1991 · A Ticket To The Boneyard - Lawrence Block [William Morrow] >"G" Is For Gumshoe - Sue Grafton [Henry Holt] The Good Fight - Lia Matera [Simon & Schuster] If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O - Sharyn McCrumb [Scribner] New Orleans Mourning - Julie Smith [St. Martin's] BEST FIRST NOVEL >Postmortem - Patricia Daniels Cornwell [scribner] Catering to Nobody - Diane Mott Davidson [St. Martin's] Kindred Crimes - Janet Dawson Where's Mommy Now? - Rochelle Krich [Pinnacle] Grave Undertaking - James McCahery [Knightsbridge] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL (tie) Not A Creature Was Stirring - Jane Haddam [Bantam] >Where's Mommy Now? - Rochelle Krich [Pinnacle] >Grave Undertaking - James McCahery [Knightsbridge] Dead In The Scrub - G.J. Oliphant [Fawcett] Sisters In Crime 2 - Marilyn Wallace, ed. [Berkley] BEST SHORT STORY >"The Celestial Buffet" - Susan Dunlap, Sisters In Crime 2, pp.28-35 [Berkley] "The Luncheon" - Sharyn McCrumb, Sisters In Crime 2, pp.212-220 [Berkley] "Remains to be Seen" - Sharyn McCrumb, Mummy Stories, pp.73-79 [Ballantine] "Say You're Sorry" - Sarah Shankman, Sisters In Crime 3, pp.227-242 [Berkley] "A Tale of Two Pretties" - Marilyn Wallace, Sisters In Crime 3, pp.259-275 [Berkley] BEST CRITICAL WORK Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons - Serita Deborah Stevens, w/Anne Klarner [Writer's Digest] Eric Ambler - Peter Lewis [Continuum] John Dickson Carr: a Critical Study - S.T. Joshi [Bowling Green St Univ Popular] >Synod Of sSleuths: Essays on Judeo-Christian Detective Fiction - Jon L. Breen, Martin H. Greenberg, eds. [Scarecrow] Trouble Is Their Business: Private Eyes in Fiction, Film & Television, 1927-1988 - John Conquest [Garland] BEST MOTION PICTURE Good Fellas The Grifters >Presumed Innocent BEST TELEVISION SERIES Gabriel's Fire - ABC Law & Order - NBC Matlock - NBC Murder, She Wrote - CBS >Mystery! - PBS · 1990 · >The Sirens Sang Of Murder - Sarah Caudwell [Delacorte] Pious Deception - Susan Dunlap [Villard] A Little Class On Murder - Carolyn G. Hart [Doubleday] Corpus Christmas - Margaret Maron [Doubleday] BEST FIRST NOVEL Grime And Punishment - Jill Churchill [Bantam] The Mother Shadow - Melodie Johnson Howe [Viking] >Katwalk - Karen Kijewski [St. Martin's] The Mark Twain Murders - Edith Skom [Council Oak] The Last Billable Hour - Susan Wolfe [St. Martin's] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL On My Honor - Malacai Black (Barbara D'Amato) [Pinnacle] >Honeymoon With Murder - Carolyn G. Hart [Bantam] Murder By Deception - D.R. Meredith [Ballantine] Rough Justice - Keith Peterson (Andrew Klavan) [Crimeline] A Collector Of Photographs - Deborah Valentine [Bantam] BEST SHORT STORY "No Safety" - Susan Dunlap, Sisters in Crime, pp.241-249 [Berkley] "A Wee Doch and Doris" - Sharyn McCrumb, Mistletoe Mysteries, pp.134-148 [Mysterious] >"Afraid All The Time" - Nancy Pickard, Sisters in Crime, pp.86-98 [Berkley] "A Terrible Thing" - Shelly Singer, Sisters in Crime, pp.51-65 [Berkley] BEST TV SERIES >Inspector Morse others BEST MOVIE >Crimes And Misdemeanors others · 1989 · The Widows Club - Dorothy Cannell [Bantam] "E" Is For Evidence - Sue Grafton [Henry Holt] >The Silence Of The Lambs - Thomas Harris [St. Martin's] A Thief of Time - Tony Hillerman [Harper & Row] Blood Shot - Sara Paretsky [Delacorte] Dead Crazy - Nancy Picard [Scribner] Shackles - Bill Pronzini [St. Martin's] Pepper Pike - Les Roberts [St. Martin's] BEST FIRST NOVEL Murder Once Done - Mary Lou Bennett [Perseverance] >A Great Deliverance - Elizabeth George [Bantam] The Killings at Badger's Drift - Caroline Graham [Adler and Adler] Random Access Murder - Linda Grant [Avon] Fear of the Dark - Gar Anthony Haywood [St. Martin's] Carolina Skeletons - David Stout [Mysterious] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL High Noon at Midnight - Michael Avallone [PaperJacks] Murder Unrenovated - P.M. Carlson [Bantam] The Man Who Died Laughing - David Handler [Bantam] >Something Wicked - Carolyn G. Hart [Bantam] A Radical Departure - Lia Matera [Bantam] Paying the Piper - Sharyn McCrumb [Ballantine] Murder By Impulse - D.R. Meredith [Ballantine] Primary Target - Marilyn Wallace [Bantam] · 1988 · A Trouble Of Fools - Linda Barnes [St. Martin's] Old Bones - Aaron Elkins [Mysterious] >Skinwalkers - Tony Hillerman [Harper & Row] (1st pub Nov'86) Trojan Gold - Elizabeth Peters [Atheneum] Marriage Is Murder - Nancy Pickard [Scribner] BEST FIRST NOVEL Death on the Rocks - Michael Allegretto [Scribner] The House Of Blue Lights - Robert J. Bowman [St. Martin's] Murder at the War: A Modern-Day Mystery With a Medieval Setting - Mary Monica Pulver [St. Martin's] >Caught Dead In Philadelphia - Gillian Roberts [Scribner] An Infinite Number Of Monkeys - Les Roberts [St. Martin's] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL >The Monkey's Raincoat - Robert Crais [Bantam] The Cat Who Played Brahms - Lilian Jackson Braun [Jove] Death On Demand - Carolyn G. Hart [Crimeline] Bishop's Gambit, Declined - Conrad Haynes [Bantam] Where Lawyers Fear To Tread - Lia Matera [Bantam] Bimbos Of The Death Sun - Sharyn McCrumb [TSR] BEST SHORT STORY >"Breakfast Television" - Robert Barnard, EQMM Jan'87, pp.34-43 "Scrap" - Max Allan Collins, The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction, pp.161-173 [Black Lizard] "Soft Monkey" - Harlan Ellison, Mystery Scene Reader: A Special Tribute to John D. MacDonald, pp.56-69 [Fedora] "Turn Away" - Ed Gorman, The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction, pp.313-323 [Black Lizard] "The Au Pair Girl" - Joyce Harrington, A Matter Of Crime, Vol 1, pp.39-70 [HBJ] BEST MOVIE >The Big Easy - Jim McBride, dir; Daniel Petrie, Jr., writer Black Widow - Bob Rafelson, dir; Ronald Bass, writer Fatal Attraction - Adrien Lyne, dir; James Dearden, writer No Way Out - Roger Donaldson, dir; Robert Garland, writer Robocop - Paul Verhoeven, dir; Edward Neumeir, Michael Miner, writers Stakeout - John Badham, dir; Jim Kouf, writer BEST TELEVISION SERIES The Equalizer - CBS, James MacAdams, prod Murder She Wrote - CBS, Richard Levinson, William Link, Peter Fisher, prods >Mystery! - PBS, WGBH/Boston, prod Private Eye - NBC, Anthony Yerkovich, prod Wiseguy - CBS, Stephen J. Cannell, prod · 1987 · When The Sacred Ginmill Closes - Lawrence Block [Arbor House] >"C" Is For Corpse – Sue Grafton [Henry Holt] Tropical Heat - John Lutz [Henry Holt] No Body - Nancy Pickard [Scribner] Life's Work - Jonathan Valin [Delacorte] BEST FIRST NOVEL >Too Late To Die – Bill Crider [Walker] Strangled Prose - Joan Hess [St. Martin's] The Ritual Bath - Faye Kellerman [Arbor House] Floater - Joseph Koenig [Mysterious] Dead Air - Mike Lupica [Villard] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL The Cat Who Saw Red - Lilian Jackson Braun [Jove] >The Junkyard Dog – Robert Campbell [Signet] Trial By Fury - J.A. Jance [Avon] The Back-Door Man - Rob Kantner [Bantam] Trace: Too Old a Cat - Warren Murphy [Signet] BEST SHORT STORY "Body Count" - Wayne D. Dundee, Mean streets: The Second Private Eye Writers of America Anthology, pp.25-46 [Mysterious] >"The Parker Shotgun" – Sue Grafton, Mean streets: The Second Private Eye Writers of America Anthology pp.81-101 [Mysterious] "Scalplock" - Clark Howard, EQMM Jul'86, pp.134-153 · 1986 · The Shortest Way to Hades - Sarah Caudwell [Scribner] >"B" Is For Burglar - Sue Grafton [Henry Holt] The Lonely Silver Rain - John D. MacDonald [Knopf] The Plain Old Man - Charlotte MacLeod [Doubleday] Killing Orders - Sara Paretsky [Morrow] BEST FIRST NOVEL >When The Bough Breaks - Jonathan Kellerman [Atheneum] The Gemini Man - Susan Kelly [Walker] Sleeping Dog - Dick Lochte [Arbor House] Doubting Thomas - Robert Reeves [Crown] Flood - Andrew Vachss [Donald I. Fine] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Murder is Academic - P.M. Carlson [Avon] Poverty Bay - Earl Emerson [Avon] Shattered Moon - Kate Green [Dell] Sleightly Murder - Patrick A. Kelley [Avon] >Say No To Murder - Nancy Pickard [Avon] BEST SHORT STORY >"Lucky Penny" - Linda Barnes, New Black Mask Quarterly No. 3, pp.85-114 [HBJ] "Eight Mile and Dequindre" - Loren Estleman, AHMM May'85, pp.76-94 "Vandals" - Peter Lovesey, EQMM Dec'85, pp.99-107 (1st pub Woman's Own Dec 29,'84; pp.12,13(man's image w/title),14,55 "Ride the Lightening" - John Lutz, AHMM Jan'85, pp.88-107 "The Convolvulus Clock" - Ruth Rendell, EQMM Aug'85, pp.108-119 BEST TELEVISION SERIES Hill Street Blues Moonlighting >Murder, She Wrote Mystery Spenser For Hire BEST MOVIE Blood Simple Fletch Jagged Edge >Witness Young Sherlock Holmes GRAND MASTER Barbara Mertz (Barbara Michaels/Elizabeth Peters) · Notes · > – winner(s)Years in bold have complete listings |
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