It is award season again so here are the latest award winners.
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Shamus Award Winners -
Best Hardcover P.I. Novel: *Locked In*, by Marcia Muller
Grand Central)
Best First P.I. Novel: *Faces of the Gone*, by Brad Parks
Minotaur)
Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel: *Sinner’s Ball*, by Ira Berkowitz
Three Rivers Press)
Best P.I. Short Story: “Julius Katz,” by Dave Zeltserman
*Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine,* September/October 2009)
Lifetime Achievement Award: Robert Crais.
Personal note---read “Locked In” and was not impressed though from a writer
standpoint it is an interesting technique. I very much liked “Faces of the Gone”
and would highly recommend it along with the short story “Julius Katz”by Dave
Zelsterman.)
Macavity Award Winners -
Best Mystery Novel: Ken Bruen & Reed Farrel Coleman: *Tower*
(Busted Flush Press)
Best First Mystery Novel: Alan Bradley: *The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie*
(Delacorte)
Best Mystery Nonfiction: P.D. James: *Talking about Detective Fiction*
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Best Mystery Short Story: Hank Phillippi Ryan: "On the House"
(*Quarry: Crime Stories* by New England Writers, Level Best Books)
Sue Feder Historical Mystery: Rebecca Cantrell: *A Trace of Smoke*
(Forge)
(Personal note----I have to confess I have not read any of these so I have no
advice on these books.)
Barry Award Winners-
Best Novel: John Hart: *The Last Child* (Minotaur)
Best First Novel: Alan Bradley: *The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie*
(Delacorte)
Best British Novel: Philip Kerr: *If the Dead Not Rise*
(Quercus)
Best Paperback Original: Bryan Gruley: *Starvation Lake*
(Touchstone)
Best Thriller: Jamie Freveletti: *Running From the Devil*
(Morrow)
Best Mystery/Crime Novel of the Decade: Stieg Larsson: *The Girl with the Dragon
Tattoo* (Knopf)
Best Short Story: Brendan DuBois, "The High House Writer" (*AHMM*July-August 2009)
(Personal Note---of these I have read “Starvation Lake” and highly recommend
it along with the sequel “The Hanging Tree”.)
So there you have it. Looks like lots of good reading from a lot of talented folks.
Kevin
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Award Winners
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