Awards
The Edgar® Awards 
Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honouring the best in mystery fiction,
non-fiction and television published or produced in 2010. The Edgar® Awards were presented to the winners at our 65th
Gala Banquet, April 28, 2011 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City. Best Novel: The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur Books) Best First Novel By An American Author: Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva (Tom Doherty Associates - Forge Books) Best Paperback Original: Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard (Random House - Bantam)
Best Fact Crime: Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity by Ken Armstrong
and Nick Perry (University of Nebraska Press - Bison Original) Best Critical/Biographical: Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective
and his Rendezvouz with American History by Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton) Best Short Story: "The Scent of Lilacs" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Doug Allyn (Dell Magazines)
Best Juvenile: The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy by Dori Hillestad Butler (Albert Whitman & Co.) Best Young Adult: Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price (Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers)
Best Play - The Psychic by Sam Bobrick (Falcon Theatre - Burbank, CA)
Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Episode 1" - Luther, Teleplay by Neil Cross (BBC America) Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
by Evan Lewis (Dell Magazines) Grand Master: Sara Paretsky Poirot Award: Janet Rudolph.Raven Awards: Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, Forest Park, Illinois Once Upon A Crime Bookstore, Minneapolis, Minnesota The Simon & Schuster- Mary Higgins Clark Award: (Presented at MWA's Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, April 27, 2011)
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Agatha Awards
Agatha Awards The Agatha Awards are given for materials first published in the United States by a living author during the calendar year 2010 (1st January – 31st December), either in hardcover, as a paperback original, or e-published by an e-publishing firm. They were presented at Malice Domestic that took place on 30th April 2011.
Bes
t Novel: Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
Best First Novel: The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames
Best Non-fiction: Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: 50 Years of Mysteries in the Making by John Curran
Best Short Story: "So Much in Common" by Mary Jane Maffini, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - Sept./Oct. 2010
Best Children's/Young Adult: The Other Side of Dark by Sarah Smith
Congratulations to all the winners and the nominees and especially to Louise Penny who has won her fourth Agatha Award in row.
Congratulations go to Tom Franklin who was awarded the Los Angeles Times Mystery/ Thriller Award 2010 for his novel Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (William Morrow). It was presented by Attica Locke on Friday April 29, 2011, in a ceremony at the Los Angeles Times building.
The 2011 Spinetingler Awards have also been awarded –
Best Novel: New Voice (1-3 Novels) Pike by Benjamin Whitmer
Best Novel: Rising Star (4-8 Novels) Do They Know I'm Running by David Corbett
Best Novel: Legend (9+ Novels) I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
Best Anthology: Requiems for the Departed edited by Gerard Brennan and Mike Stone
Best Short Story Collection: Bad Juju by Jonathan Woods
Best Mystery/Crime Comic or Graphic Novel: Sweets by Kody Chamberlain (Image Comics)
Best Short Story on the Web nominees: Times Past by Matthew C. Funk from All Due Respect
Best Mystery/Crime Fiction Press, Publisher or Imprint: Tyrus Books
David Thompson Community Leader Award: Mulholland Books website
Best Cover: Bad Juju
A full list of the nominees and the winners can be found here.
Nominations
The nominees for the 2011 Arthur Ellis Awards have been announced by the Crime Writers of Canada, recognizing excellence in Canadian crime writing. The winners will be announced at an award banquet on June 2nd, 2011 at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Victoria, BC.
Best Crime Novel:
Slow Recoil by C. B Forrest (RendezVous Crime )
I
n Plain Sight by Mike Knowles (ECW Press)
The Extinction Club by Jeffrey Moore (Penguin Group)
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny (Little, Brown)
A Criminal to Remember by Michael Van Rooy (Turnstone Press)
Best First Crime Novel:
The Damage Done by Hilary Davidson (St. Martin's Press)
The Debba by Avner Mandleman (Random House)
The Penalty Killing by Michael McKinley (McClelland & Stewart)
The Parabolist by Nicholas Ruddock (Doubleday)
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens (St. Martin's Press )
Best Crime Novel in French:
La société des pères meurtriers by Michel Châteauneuf (Vent d’Ouest)
Dans l
e quartier des agités by Jacques Côté (Éditions Alire)
Quand la mort s'invite à la première by Bernard Gilbert (Québec Amerique)
Cinq secondes by Jacques Savoie (Libre Expression)
Vanités by Johanne Seymour (Libre Expression)
Best Crime Non-Fiction:
On the Farm by Stevie Cameron (Alfred A. Knopf)
Northern Light by Roy MacGregor (Random House)
Our Man in Tehran by Robert Wright (HarperCollins)
Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Book:
Pluto's Ghost by Sharee Fitch (Doubleday)
Lost For Words (The Worst Thing She Ever Did) by Alice Kuipers (HarperCollins)
Victim Rights by Norah McClintock (Red Deer Press)
The Vinyl Princess by Yvonne Prinz (HarperCollins)
Borderline by Allan Stratton (HarperCollins)
Best Crime Short Story:
"So Much in Common" by Mary Jane Maffini (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
"The Big Touch" by Jordan McPeek (Thuglit.com)
"In it Up to My Neck" by Jas R. Petrin (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
"The Piper's Door" by James Powell (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
Best First Unpublished Crime Novel:
When the Bow Breaks by Jayne Barnard
Better Off Dead by John Jeneroux
Uncoiled by Kevin Thorton
The 2011 Ned Kelly Award Nominations (Australian Crime Writers): Long-list has been released.
Best First Fiction
Diamond Eyes by AA Bell
Undercover by Keith Bulfin
Prime Cut by Alan Carter
While
I Have Perdo by John ChestermanWho Killed Dave? By Linda Cockburn
The Pericles Commission by Gary Corby
Mosquito Creek by Robert Engwerds
Beyond Fear by Jaye Ford
Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James
The Old School by PM Newton
Five Parts Dead by Tim Pegler
Line of Sight by David Whish-Wilson
Best Fiction
The Ghost Of Waterloo by Robin Adair
Follow The Money by Peter Corris
Sharp Turn by Marianne Delacourt
Th
e Maya Codex by Adrian d'HageDeath Mask by Kathryn Fox
Watch The World Burn by Leah Giarrantano
Dead Man's Chest by Kerry Greenwood
Violent Exposure by Katherine Howell
Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland
Fall Girl by Toni Jordan
Silk Chaser by Peter Klein
The Genesis Flaw by L.A. Larkin
Naked Cruelty by Colleen McCullough
Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoff McGeachin
Let The Dead Lie by Malla Nunn
How The Dead See by David Owen
Red Ice by James Phelan
Thrill City by Leigh Redhead
Mice by Gordon Reece
Hot Rock Dreaming by Martin Roth
The Half-Child by Angela Savage
The Neon Lady of Towitta by Patricia Summerling
Bereft by Chris Womersley
Shattered Sky by Helene Young
Best True Crime
They Shot Phar Lap, Didn't They? by Geoff Armstrong & Peter Thompson
The Job by Charlie Bezzina with Ben Collins
E
nforcer by Caesar & Donna Campbell
Murder No More by Colleen Egan
Sin Bin by John Elias
City of Evil by Sean Fewster
Badlands by Liam Houlihan
Abandoned by Geesche Jacobsen
Inside Story by Peter Lloyd
McVillain The Man Who Got Away by David McMillan
Shot Gun and Standover by James Morton & Russell Robinson
Bank Robbery For Beginners by Anthony Prince
King of Thieves by Adam Shand
Mr Asia by Jim Sheperd
Honeymoon Dive by Lindsay Simpson & Jennifer Cooke
Snitch by Jimmy Thomson
Bumper by Larry Writer
The SD Harvey Short Story
TBA
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