A rather belated round up of recent awards and
nominations!
Awards –
The winners of the Left Coast Crime Awards
were given out on Saturday 23 March 2013. Winning
title in bold.
The Lefty for best humorous
mystery novel since 1996:
Cruising
in Your Eighties Is Murder by Mike
Befeler (Five Star)
Swift Run by Laura DiSilverio(Minotaur)
December
Dread by Jess Lourey (Midnight Ink)
Trail of
the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz (Simon
& Schuster)
The
Girl Next Door by Brad Parks (Minotaur)
Fit To Be Dead by Nancy Glass West (Southwest Publications)
The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical
Mystery Award for mystery novels covering events before
1960.
The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen (Berkley Prime
Crime)
A
City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell (Forge)
Live by
Night by Dennis Lehane (William
Morrow)
Dandy Gilver and an
Unsuitable Day for a Murder by Catriona McPherson
(Minotaur)
Elegy for
Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear (HarperCollins)
The Rocky for best mystery novel set in the
Left Coast Crime Geographical Region:
Buffalo
Bill’s Dead Now by Margaret Coel (Berkley
Prime Crime)
Hush Money by Chuck Greaves (Minotaur)
Wicked
Eddies by Beth Groundwater (Midnight
Ink)
Sonora
Crossing by Darrell James Midnight
Ink)
As the
Crow Flies by Craig Johnson (Viking)
The Watson for mystery novel with best
sidekick:
In a Witch’s Wardrobe by Juliet Blackwell (Obsidian)
Taken by Robert Crais (Putnam)
Fun House by Chris Grabenstein, (Pegasus)
When the Past Haunts You by L.C. Hayden, (CreateSpace)
Brouja Brouhaha by
Rochelle Staab (Berkley Prime Crime)
The 2013 Dilys Award was won by Peter
Robinson for his novel Before
the Poison. The
Dilys Award has been given annually since 1993 by the IMBA (Independent Mystery
Booksellers Association) to the mystery title of the year which the member
booksellers have most enjoyed selling. The Dilys Award is named in honour of
Dilys Winn, the founder of the first specialty bookseller of mystery books in
the United States
Detective fiction writer
Petros Markaris was honoured with the Quais du Polar Festival 2013 Award.
It was announced on March 29 by the President of the Jury for the Crime
Novel (European Crime Fiction Jury), Jean-Louis Debre during a formal ceremony
held in the city of Lyon. Also honoured was P D James who was give the Medal of
Honour of the city by the Mayor of Lyon. The ceremony was also attended
by Henning Mankell, Harlan Coben, Qiu Xialong and a number of other famous
crime writers.
Nominations
The nominees for 2013 ITW (International
Thriller Writers) Awards have been announced.
BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL
The
Trinity Game by Sean Chercover
(Thomas & Mercer)
Spilled
Blood by Brian Freeman (SilverOak)
Catch Me by Lisa Gardner (Dutton Books)
The
Survivor by Gregg Hurwitz (St.
Martin’s Press)
Defending
Jacob by William Landay (Delacorte
Press)
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Don’t Ever
Get Old by Daniel Friedman (Minotaur
Books)
The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen (Putnam Adult)
The Expats by Chris Pavone (Crown)
The 500 by Matthew Quirk (Reagan Arthur Books)
Black
Fridays by Michael Sears (Putnam
Adult)
BEST SHORT STORY
“The Devil
to Pay” by David Edgerley Gates – (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine)
“The
Street Ends at the Cemetery” by Clark Howard – (Ellery Queen’s Mystery
Magazine)
“The
Consumers” by Dennis Lehane – (Mulholland Books)
“The
History Lesson” by Gordon McEachern – (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
“Lost
Things” by John Rector – (Thomas & Mercer)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL NOVEL
Pines by Blake Crouch (Thomas & Mercer)
Lake Country by Sean Doolittle (Bantam)
And She Was by Alison Gaylin (Harper)
The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood (Penguin Books)
Night Blind by Michael W. Sherer (Thomas & Mercer)
BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Don’t Turn
Around by Michelle Gagnon
(HarperCollins)
If We
Survive by Andrew Klavan (Thomas
Nelson)
False
Memory by Dan Krokos (Hyperion Books
CH)
Crusher by Niall Leonard (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
Dark Eyes by William Richter (Razorbill)
BEST E-BOOK ORIGINAL NOVEL
Pandora’s
Temple by Jon Land (Open Road
E-riginal)
Blind
Faith by CJ Lyons (CJ Lyons)
Huntress
Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff (Alexandra
Sokoloff)
Dead End
Deal by Allen Wyler (Astor + Blue
Editions)
Dead Wrong by Allen Wyler (Astor + Blue Editions)
The 2013 Thriller Award Winners will
be announced at ThrillerFest VIII, July 13, 2013, at the Grand Hyatt (New York
City). Congrats to all.
The
Bloody Words Bony Blithe Award nominations have been announced and the winner
will be announced on Wednesday 29 May 2013 in Toronto.
Threaded for Trouble by Janet Bolin (Berkley
Prime Crime)
Food for
the Gods by Karen Dudley(Ravenstone)
A Small
Hill to Die On by Elizabeth J. Duncan
(Minotaur)
A Private
Man by Chris Laing (Seraphim)
Blood Bath
& Beyond by Michelle Rowen (NAL
Obsidian)
The
Mastersinger from Minsk by Morley
Torgov (Dundurn)
The 2013 Barry Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced September 19,
2013 at the Opening Ceremonies of Bouchercon 2013 in Albany, New York -
Best Novel
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Crown)
The Black House by Peter May (Silver Oak)
Trust Your
Eyes by Linwood Barclay (NAL)
Defending
Jacob by William Landay (Delacorte)
Live by
Night, Dennis Lehane (Morrow)
Dead
Scared by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur)
Best First Novel
The Yard by Alex Grecian (Putnam)
A Killing
in the Hills by Julia Keller
(Minotaur)
Sacrifice
Fly by Tim O’Mara (Minotaur)
The Dark
Winter by David Mark (Blue Ridge
Press)
Black
Fridays by Michael Sears (Putnam)
The
Professionals by Owen Laukkanen
(Putnam)
Best Paperback Original
Pago Pago
Tango by John Enright (Thomas &
Mercer)
Mr.
Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia
McNeal (Bantam)
Blessed
are the Dead by Malla Nunn
(Washington Square)
The Other
Woman’s House by Sophie Hannah
(Penguin)
Bloodland by Alan Glynn (Picador)
Beneath
the Abbey Wall by A.D. Scott (Atria)
Best Thriller
The Last
Refuge by Ben Coes (St. Martin’s)
The Right
Hand by Derek Haas (Mulholland)
The Fallen
Angel by Daniel Silva (Harper)
A Foreign
Country by Charles Cumming (St.
Martin’s)
House
Blood by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly)
Red Star
Burning by Brian Freemantle
(Minotaur)
The Strand Magazine Critics Awards nominations have been
announced. The winners will be announced
on 9 July 2013.
Best Novel:
The Gods
of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye (Putnam)
Broken
Harbour by Tana French (Viking)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Crown)
Defending
Jacob by William Landay (Delacorte)
Live by
Night by Dennis Lehane (Morrow)
Best
Debut Novel:
A Land
More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
(Morrow)
The Yard by Alex Grecian (Putnam)
The Expats by Chris Pavone (Crown)
Disappeared by Anthony Quinn (Mysterious Press/Open Road)
The 500 by Matthew Quirk (Hachette)
Faye
Kellerman will be presented with The Strand’s Lifetime Achievement award “for
excellence in crime writing.”
The 2013 Spinetingler Awards
have been announced.
The nominations are as
follows:-
Best Novel: New Voices
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
Cold Quiet Ground by Clayton Lindemuth
The Devoted by Eric Shapiro
Flashover by Gordon Highland
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Ghosting by Kirby Gann
Last Call for the
Living
by Peter Farris
The Ninth Step by Grant Jerkins
Nearly Nowhere by Summer Brenner
The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen
Best Novel: Rising Star/Legend
Capture by Roger Smith
The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
Edge of Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale
Kings of Cool by Don Winslow
Lake Country by Sean Doolittle
The Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirilli
Live By Night by Dennis Lehane
Tumblin’ Dice by John McFetridge
What it Was by George Pelecanos
Best Novella/Short Novel
A Woman and a Knife by Matthew C. Funk
Bang Bang You’re Dead by Nick Quantrill
Driven by James Sallis
Driving Through the
Desert
by Donna Lynch
Driving Alone by Kevin Lynn Helmick
Die, You Bastard Die! by Jan Kozlowski
Lost Things by John Rector
Best Anthology/Short Story Collection
Beat to a Pulp 2: Round 2
Crime Factory: Hard Labour
Lonely No More by Seymour Shubin
Red Heads Die Quickly by Gil Brewer
Roachkiller by Ritchie Navaez
Short Stack
Sleepwalking by Ray Nayler
Shotgun Honey Presents: Both Barrels (vol 1)
Shoebox Train Wreck by John Mantooth
Ugly Behavior by Steve Rasnic Tem
Best Short Story on the Web
To vote in each category
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