Best Mystery Novel:
The Missing Place
by Sophie Littlefield (Gallery)
The Killer Next
Door by Alex Marwood (Penguin)
The Lewis Man by
Peter May (Quercus)
The Day She Died by
Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
The Long Way
Home by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
The Last Death of Jack
Harbin by Terry Shames (Seventh Street)
Best First Mystery
Novel:
Blessed Are the
Dead by Kristi Belcamino (Witness Impulse)
Dry Bones in the
Valley by Tom Bouman (W. W. Norton)
Invisible City by
Julia Dahl (Minotaur)
Someone Else's Skin
by Sarah Hilary (Penguin)
Dear Daughter by
Elizabeth Little (Viking)
The Black Hour by
Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street)
Best Mystery-Related
Nonfiction:
The Figure of the
Detective: A Literary History and Analysis by Charles Brownson (McFarland)
Poe-Land: The Hallowed
Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J.W. Ocker (Countryman)
400 Things Cops Know:
Street Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman by Adam Plantinga (Quill
Driver)
Writes of Passage:
Adventures on the Writer's Journey edited by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Henery Press)
Best Mystery Short
Story:
"Honeymoon Sweet"
by Craig Faustus Buck: (Murder at
the Beach: The Bouchercon Anthology 2014), edited by Dana Cameron; (Down
& Out)
"The Shadow Knows"
by Barb Goffman (Chesapeake Crimes:
Homicidal Holidays), edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman, and Marcia
Talley; Wildside Press)
"Howling at the
Moon" by Paul D. Marks (Ellery
Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014)
"The Proxy"
by Travis Richardson (Thuglit #13,
Sept./Oct. 2014)
"The Odds Are
Against Us" by Art Taylor (Ellery
Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014)
Sue Feder Historical
Mystery Award:
Queen of Hearts by
Rhys Bowen (Berkley Prime Crime)
Things Half in Shadow
by Alan Finn (Gallery)
An Officer and a
Spy by Robert Harris (Knopf)
A Deadly Measure of Brimstone by
Catriona McPherson (Minotaur)
Present Darkness by
Malla Nunn (Atria)
Hunting Shadows by
Charles Todd (Wm. Morrow)
Hat-tip to Janet Rudolph and Mystery Fanfare.
