Recent Mystery Awards

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AGATHA AWARDS Nominations 2012

Best Novel

• The Real Macaw by Donna Andrews (Minotaur)
• The Diva Haunts the House by Krista Davis (Berkley)
• Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet (Minotaur)
• *Three-Day Town by Margaret Maron (Grand Central Publishing)
• A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (Minotaur)

Best First Novel

• Dire Threads by Janet Bolin (Berkley)
• Choke by Kaye George (Mainly Murder Press)
• *Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown)
• Who Do, Voodoo? by Rochelle Staab (Berkley)
• Tempest in the Tea Leaves by Kari Lee Townsend (Berkley)

Best Nonfiction

• *Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure by Leslie Budewitz (Linden)
• Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks by John Curran (Harper)
• On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
• Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel by A. B. Emrys (McFarland)
• The Sookie Stackhouse Companion by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

Best Short Story

• *"Disarming" by Dana Cameron, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - June 2011
• "Dead Eye Gravy" by Krista Davis, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology (Wildside Press)
• "Palace by the Lake" by Daryl Wood Gerber, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology (Wildside Press)
• "Truth and Consequences" by Barb Goffman, Mystery Times Ten (Buddhapuss Ink)
• "The Itinerary" by Roberta Isleib, MWA Presents the Rich and the Dead (Grand Central Publishing)

Best Children's/Young Adult

• Shelter by Harlan Coben (Putnam)
• *The Black Heart Crypt by Chris Grabenstein (Random House)
• Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
• The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (EgmontUSA)
• The Code Busters Club, Case #1: The Secret of the Skeleton Key by Penny Warner (EgmontUSA)

Best Historical Novel:

• *Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)
• Murder Your Darlings by J.J. Murphy (Signet)
• Mercury's Rise by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson (Minotaur)
• A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear (Harper)

ANTHONY AWARDS 2011

Best Novel

• *Bury Your Dead, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
• I’d Know You Anywhere, by Laura Lippman (Morrow)
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, by Tom Franklin (Morrow)
• The Lock Artist, by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur)
• Faithful Place, by Tana French (Viking)

Best First Novel

• Rogue Island, by Bruce DeSilva (Forge)
• The Poacher’s Son, by Paul Doiron (Minotaur)
• Snow Angels, by James Thompson (Putnam)
• *Damage Done, by Hilary Davidson (Forge)
• The Sherlockian, by Graham Moore (Twelve)

Best Paperback Original

• The Hanging Tree, by Brian Gruley (Touchstone)
• *Expiration Date, by Duane Swierczynski (Minotaur)
• Drive Time, by Hank Phillipi Ryan (Mira)
• Long Time Coming, by Robert Goddard (Bantam)
• Vienna Secrets, by Frank Tallis (Random House)

Best Short Story

• “The Frame Maker,” by Simon Wood (The Back Alley)
• “Homeless,” by Pat L. Morin (from Mystery Montage)
• “Scent of Lilacs,” by Doug Allyn (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 2010
• *“Swing Shift,” by Dana Cameron (from Crimes by Moonlight, edited by Charlaine Harris; Berkley)
• “The Hitter,” by Chris Holm (Needle Magazine)
• “So Much in Common,” by Mary Jane Maffini (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 2010

Best Critical Nonfiction Work

• *Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: 50 Years of Mysteries in the Making, by John Curran (Harper)
• Thrillers: 100 Must Reads, edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner (Oceanview Publishing)
• Sherlock Holmes for Dummies, by Steven Doyle and David A. Crowder (Wiley/For Dummies)
• The Wire: Truth Be Told, by Rafael Alvarez (Grove Press)
• Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History, by Yunte Huang (Norton)

Best Graphic Novel

• A Sickness in the Family, by Denise Mina (Vertigo Crime)
• Beasts of Burden, by Jill Thompson and Evan Dorkin (Dark Horse)
• Richard Stark’s Parker, Vol. 2: The Outfit, by Darwyn Cooke (IDW)
• *The Chill, by Jason Starr (Vertigo Crime)
• Scalped Vol. 6: The Gnawing, by Jason Aaron (Vertigo)
• Tumor, by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Noel Tuazon (Archaia Studios Press)

ARTHUR ELLIS AWARDS (Canada) Nominations 2012

Best Novel

•  A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny, St. Martin's Press
• Before the Poison by Peter Robinson, McClelland and Stewart
• I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley, Doubleday Canada
• I'll See you in My Dreams by William Deverell, McClelland and Stewart
• The Guilty Plea by Robert Rotenberg, Simon&Schuster

Best First Novel

• The Man Who Killed by Fraser Nixon, Douglas & McIntrye
• The Survivor by Sean Slater, Simon&Schuster
• The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian Hamilton, House of Anansi Press Inc.
• Tight Corner by Roger White, BPS Books
• Watching Jeopardy by Norm Foster, XLibris

Best Juvenile/YA

• Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones, Candlewick Press
• Charlie's Key by Rob Mills, Orca Book Publishers
• Empire of Ruins by Arthur Slade, HarperCollins Publishers
• Held by Edeet Ravel, Annick Press
• Missing by Becky Citra, Orca Book Publishers

Best Crime Writing in French

• La chorale du diable by Martin Michaud, Les Editions Guélette
• Pwazon by Diane Vincent, Editors Triptyque
• Pour Ne Pas Mourir ce soir by Guillaume Lapierre-Desnoyers, Lévesque Éditeur

Best Short Story

• A New Pair of Pants by Jas. R. Petrin, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
• Beer Money by Shane Nelson, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
• The Girl with the Golden Hair by Scott Mackay, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
• The Perfect Mark by Melodie Campbell, Flash Fiction Magazine
• What Kelly Did by Catherine Astolfo, North Word Magazine

Best Non-Fiction

• A Season in Hell by Robert Fowler, Harper Collins
• Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art by Joshua Knelman, Douglas& McIntyre
• The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Steven Laffoley, Pottersfield
• The Pirates of Somalia by Jay Bahader, Harper Collins
• The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mob by Adrian Humphreys, Wiley

Best Unpublished First Crime Novel

• Gunning for Bear by Madeleine Harris-Callway
• Last of the Independents by Sam Wiebe
• Snake in the Snow by William Bonnell
• The Rhymester by Valerie A. Drego
• Too Far to Fall by Shane Sawyer

BARRY AWARDS Nominations 2012

Best Novel 

•  The Keeper of Lost Causes (aka Mercy), by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Dutton) 
•  The Accident, by Linwood Barclay (Bantam)
•  The Hurt Machine, by Reed Farrel Coleman (Tyrus)
•  Iron House, by John Hart (Minotaur)
•  Hell Is Empty, by Craig Johnson (Viking)
•  The Troubled Man, by Henning Mankell (Knopf)

Best First Novel

• Learning to Swim, by Sara Henry (Crown)
•  The Devotion of Suspect X, by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur)
•  The Boy in the Suitcase, by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis (Soho Crime)
•  Turn of Mind, by Alice LaPlante (Atlantic Monthly)
•  The Informationist, by Taylor Stevens (Crown)
•  Before I Go to Sleep, by S.J. Watson (Harper)

Best British Crime Novel

• Now You See Me, by S.J. Bolton (Bantam Press)
•  Hell’s Bells, (aka The Infernals), by John Connolly ((Hodder & Stoughton)
•  Bad Signs, by R.J. Ellory (Orion)
•  The House at Sea’s End, by Elly Griffiths (Quercus)
•  Outrage, by Arnaldur Indriðason (Harvill Secker)
•  Dead Man’s Grip, by Peter James (Macmillan)

Best Paperback Original 

• The Silenced, by Brett Battles (Dell)
•  The Hangman’s Daughter, by Oliver Pötzsch (Mariner Books)
•  A Double Death on the Black Isle, by A.D. Scott (Atria)
•  Death of the Mantis, by Michael Stanley (Harper Perennial)
•  Fun and Games, by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland)
•  Two for Sorrow, by Nicola Upson (Harper Perennial)

Best Thriller

• Carver, by Tom Cain (Bantam Press)
•  Coup D’Etat, by Ben Coes (St. Martin’s)
•   Spycatcher (aka Spartan), by Matthew Dunn (Morrow)
•  Ballistic, by Mark Greaney (Berkley)
•  House Divided, by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly)
•  The Informant, by Thomas Perry (Houghton Mifflin)

Best Short Story

• “Thicker Than Blood,” by Doug Allyn (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine [AHMM], September 2011)
•  “The Gun Also Rises, by Jeffrey Cohen (AHMM, January-February 2011)
•  “Whiz Bang,” by Mike Cooper (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], September-October 2011)
• “Facts Exhibiting Wantonness,” by Trina Corey (EQMM, November 2011)
• “Last Laugh in Floogle Park,” by James Powell (EQMM, July 2011)
• “Purge,” by Eric Rutter (AHMM, December 2011)

BEN FRANKLIN AWARDS, MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Nominations 2012

• The Opium Equation, by Lisa Wysocky, Cool Titles, LLC
• Public Anatomy, by A. Scott Pearson, Oceanview Publishing 
• The Rock Hole, by Reavis Z. Wortham, Poisoned Pen Press

CRIMESPREE AWARDS 2011

Favorite Book

• Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski  (Minotaur) 

Favorite First Book

• The Damage Done by Hilary Davidson (Forge)

CWA Dagger Awards, 2011

Diamond Dagger

•  *Frederick Forsyth (for 2012)

Gold Dagger

• *Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
• The Villa Triste by Lucretia Grindle
• The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
• Hanging Hill by Mo Hayder
• The Cypress House by Michael Koryta
• White Heat by M.J McGrath
• Snowdrops by A.D Miller
• The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

• The Trinity Six by Charles Cumming
• The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth
• The Good Son by Michael Gruber
• *The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
• An Agent of Deceit by Chris Morgan Jones
• Cold Rain by Craig Smith
• Before I Go To Sleep by S.J Watson
• Savages by Don Winslow

John Creasey New Blood Dagger

• The Dogs of Rome by Conor Fitzgerald 
• The Dead Woman of Juárez by Sam Hawken
• Into The Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
• The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
• Sister by Rosamund Lupton
• Kiss Me Quick by Danny Miller
• *Before I Go To Sleep by S.J Watson
• Or The Bull Kills You by Jason Webster

Short Story Dagger

• *"Homework" by Phil Lovesey (The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime Vol 8)
• "East Of Suez, West Of Charing Cross Road" by John Lawton (Agents Of Treachery)
• "The Dead Club" by Michael Palmer and Daniel Palmer (First Thrills)
• "Wednesday’s Child" by Ken Bruen (First Thrills)
• "The Princess of Felony Flats" by Bill Cameron (First Thrills)

Ellis Peters Historical Dagger

• *Rory Clements, Revenger (John Murray)
• Aly Monroe, Washington Shadow (John Murray)
• S J Parris, Heresy (HarperCollins )
• Andrew Taylor, Anatomy of Ghosts (Michael Joseph)
• Andrew Williams, To Kill A Tsar (John Murray)

International Dagger

• *Three Seconds by Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström
• The Wings of the Sphinx by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli (Mantle)
• Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo, translated by Jethro Soutar (Bitter Lemon Press)
• The Saint-Florentin Murders by Jean-François Parot, translated by Howard Curtis (Gallic)
• River of Shadows by Valerio Varesi, translated by Joseph Farrell (Maclehose)
• An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds (Harvill Secker)
• Death on a Galician Shore by Domingo Villar, translated by Sonia Soto (Abacus)

Nonfiction

• *Douglas Starr for The Killer of Little Shepherds (Simon & Schuster)
• The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders (HarperCollins)
• Slaughter on a Snowy Morn by Colin Evans (Icon Books)
• The Murder Room by Michael Capuzzo (Michael Joseph)
• Mr Briggs’ Hat by Kate Colquhoun (Little, Brown)

People’s Bestseller Dagger 2011

• *Peter James for Dead Man's Grip

DAVITT AWARDS (Australia) 2011

Best Adult Crime Novel

• *Katherine Howell for Cold Justice (PanMacmillan) 

Best Young Adult Crime Novel

• *Penny Matthews for A Girl Like Me (Penguin Books Australia) 

Best True Crime

• *Colleen Egan for Murderer No More (Allen & Unwin) 

Reader's Choice

• *PM Newton for The Old School

 DEADLY INK AWARDS 2011

Best Mystery Novel (David G. Sasher Award)

• Silent Auction by Jane K. Cleland
• The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron
• The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
• Dead Head by Rosemary Harris
• I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
• Bury Your Dead by Louise Penney

DERRINGER AWARDS 2012

Best Flash Story (Up to 1,000 Words)

• Warren Bull, "Company Policy," Yellow Mama, August 2011
• John Kenyon, "Countdown," Thrillers, Killers, and Chillers, April 2011
• *Al Leverone, "Lessons Learned," Shotgun Honey, July 2011
• Melodie Campbell, "The Perfect Mark," Flash Fiction Online Magazine, July 2011
• Kathleen Ryan, "Heat of Passion," A Twist of Noir, February 2011

Best Short Story (1,001-4,000 Words)

• Elizabeth Zelvin, "Death will Tank Your Fish," Murder New York Style: Fresh Slices, 2011
• *B.V. Lawson, "Touch of Death," Absent Willow Review, April 2011
• Mary E. Stibal, "Sisters in Black," Best New England Crime Stories 2012: Dead Calm, November 2011
• Cathi Stoler, "Fatal Flaw." Beat to a Pulp Online, April 2011
• Adam Renn Olenn, "Coronation," Best New England Crime Stories 2012: Dead Calm, November 2011.

Best Long Story (4,001-8,000 Words)

• *Art Taylor, "A Drowning at Snow’s Cut," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 2011
• Trina Corey, "Facts Exhibiting Wantonness," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 2011
• Trey Dowell, "Ballistic," Untreed Reads, July 2011
• *Karen Pullen, "Brea’s Tale," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 2011
• William Burton McCormick, "Blue Amber," Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, June 2011

Best Novelette (8,001-17,500 Words)

• Jeffrey Cohen, "The Gun Also Rises: an Aaron Tucker Mystery," Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January/February 2011
• Toni L. P. Kelner, "In Brightest Day," Home Improvement: Undead Edition, August 2011
• Doug Allyn, "A Penny for the Boatman," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2011
• David Dean, "Tomorrow’s Dead," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 2011
• *Earl Staggs, "Where Billy Died," Untreed Reads, August 2011

Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement:

• Lawrence Block

 DILYS AWARD 2012

• When Elves Attack by Tim Dorsey - Morrow 
• Wicked Autumn by G M Malliet (Minotaur)
• Tag Man by Archer Mayor (Minotaur)
• A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
• *Ghost Hero by S J Rozan (Minotaur)

EDGAR AWARDS Nominations 2012

Best Novel

• The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 
• *Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press) 
• The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books) 
• 1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster - Scribner) 
• Field Gray by Philip Kerr (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam’s Sons – Marion Wood Books)

Best First Novel

• Red on Red by Edward Conlon (Random House Publishing Group – Spiegel & Grau) 
• Last to Fold by David Duffy (Thomas Dunne Books) 
• All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (The Permanent Press) 
• *Bent Road by Lori Roy (Penguin Group USA - Dutton) 
• Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder (Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books)

Best Paperback Original

• *The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (Hachette Book Group – Orbit Books) 
• The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle (Felony & Mayhem Press) 
• The Dog Sox by Russell Hill (Pleasure Boat Studio – Caravel Mystery Books) 
• Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper Paperbacks) 
• Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

Best Fact Crime

• The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (Crown Publishing) 
• The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English
  (HarperCollins – William Morrow) 
• *Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (Random House - Doubleday) 
• Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller (Penguin Group USA - Berkley)
• The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal (Penguin Group USA - Viking)

Best Critical/Biographical

• The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer & John-Henri Holmberg (St. Martin’s Griffin) 
• Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran (HarperCollins)
• *On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
• Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates (SUNY Press)
• Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick (University of Illinois Press)

Best Short Story

• "Marley's Revolution" – Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by John C. Boland (Dell Magazines)
• "Tomorrow’s Dead" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Dean (Dell Magazines) 
• "The Adakian Eagle" – Down These Strange Streets by Bradley Denton
  (Penguin Group USA – Ace Books) 
• "Lord John and the Plague of Zombies" – Down These Strange Streets by Diana Gabaldon (Penguin Group USA – Ace Books) 
• "The Case of Death and Honey" – A Study in Sherlock by Neil Gaiman (Random House Publishing Group – Bantam Books) 
• *"The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Peter Turnbull (Dell Magazines)

Best Juvenile

• Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger (Abrams – Amulet Books) 
• It Happened on a Train by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) 
• Vanished by Sheela Chari (Disney Book Group – Disney Hyperion) 
• *Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press) 
• The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (Egmont USA)

Best Young Adult

• Shelter by Harlan Coben (Penguin Young Readers Group – G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 
• The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (Penguin Young Readers Group – G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 
• *The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (Random House Children’s Books – Knopf BFYR)
• The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group – Roaring Creek Press)
• Kill You Last by Todd Strasser (Egmont USA)

Best Play

• Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club by Jeffrey Hatcher
  (Arizona Theatre Company, Phoenix, AZ) 
• *The Game’s Afoot by Ken Ludwig (Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland, OH)

Best Television Episode Teleplay

• "Innocence" – Blue Bloods, Teleplay by Siobhan Byrne O’Connor (CBS Productions)
• "The Life Inside" – Justified, Teleplay by Benjamin Cavell (FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television) 
• "Part 1" – Whitechapel, Teleplay by Ben Court & Caroline Ip (BBC America)
• *"Pilot" – Homeland, Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff (Showtime)
• "Mask" – Law & Order: SVU, Teleplay by Speed Weed (Wolf Films/Universal Media Studios)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

• "A Good Man of Business" by David Ingram – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 

The Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award   

• Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books) 
• Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow) 
• Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick (Minotaur Books) 
• *Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown Publishing Group) 
• Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely (Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books)

Raven Award

• M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, CA 
• Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries

Ellery Queen Award

• Joe Meyers of the Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group

Grand Master

• Martha Grimes

GALAXY AWARDS (UK) 2011

Mystery/Thriller

•  *Before I Go To Sleep S.J. Watson (Doubleday)
• The Fear Index  Robert Harris (Hutchinson)
• Heartstone C J Sansom  (Pan)
• The Family Martina Cole (Headline)
• The Impossible Dead Ian Rankin (Orion)
• Trick Of The Dark Val McDermid (Sphere)

HAMMETT PRIZE Nominees 2012

• James Lee Burke, Feast Day of Fools: A Novel  (Simon & Schuster)
• Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table (McClelland & Stewart/Canada; Knopf/US)
• Thomas Perry, The Informant (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/An Otto Penzler Book)
• James Sallis, The Killer is Dying: A Novel (Walker & Company)

IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards) 2012

• Mystery/Cozy/Noir Gold: Murder on Music Row by Stuart Dill (John F. Blair)
• Mystery/Cozy/Noir Silver: Safely Buried by John Pesta (CreateSpace)
• Mystery/Cozy/Noir Bronze: Wicked Wind by Helen Cothran (CreateSpace)

• Suspense Thriller Gold (tie): If Thy Right Hand by Robin Lamont (Dog Ear Publishing) and Department Thirteen by James Houston Turner (Comfort Publishing)
• Suspense/Thriller Silver: Secret Combinations by Gordon Cope (TouchWood Editions)
• Suspense/Thriller Bronze: Murder Under the Microscope by Jane Bennett Munro (iUniverse)

ITW THRILLER AWARDS Nominations 2012

• ThrillerMaster:  Jack Higgins
• True Thriller Award:  Ann Rule
• Silver Bullet Award:  Richard North Patterson

Best Hardcover Novel

• Joseph Finder - Buried Secrets (St. Martin’s Press)
• Jonathan Hayes - A Hard Death (Harper)
• Stephen King - 11/22/63 (Scribner)
• Michael Koryta - The Ridge (Little, Brown and Co.)
• Marcus Sakey - The Two Deaths Of Daniel Hayes (Dutton Adult)

Best Paperback Original

• Jeff Abbott - The Last Minute (Sphere/LittleBrown UK)
• John Gilstrap - Threat Warning (Pinnacle)
• Helen Grant - The Glass Demon (Delacorte Press)
• Steven James - The Queen (Revell)
• John Rector - Already Gone (Thomas & Mercer)

Best First Novel

• James Barney - The Genesis Key (Harper)
• Melinda Leigh - She Can Run (Montlake Romance)
• Paul McEuen - Spiral (The Dial Press)
• H.T. Narea - The Fund (Forge Books)
• Leslie Tentler - Midnight Caller (Mira)

Best Short Story

• James Scott Bell - “One More Lie” (Compendium Press)
• Michael Lewin - “Anything to Win” (Strand Magazine)
• Twist Phelan - “Happine$$” (Mystery Writers Of America Presents The Rich And The Dead, Grand Central Publishing)
• Tim L. Williams - “Half-Lives” (Dell Magazine)
• Dave Zeltserman - “A Hostage Situation” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD Nominees, Mysteries by LGBT Authors/Themes 2012

Lesbian Mystery

• Dying to Live, by Kim Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou, Bold Strokes Books
• Hostage Moon, by AJ Quinn, Bold Strokes Books
• Rainey Nights: A Rainey Bell Thriller, by R.E. Bradshaw, R.E. Bradshaw Books
• Retirement Plan, by Martha Miller, Bold Strokes Books
• Trick of the Dark, by Val McDermid, Bywater Books

Gay Mystery

• The Affair of the Porcelain Dog, by Jess Faraday, Bold Strokes Books
• Blue’s Bayou, by David Lennon, Blue Spike Publishing
• Boystown: Three Nick Nowak Mysteries, by Marshall Thornton, Torquere Press
• Malabarista, by Garry Ryan, NeWest Press
• Red White Black and Blue, by Richard Stevenson, MLR Press

LEFT COAST CRIME AWARDS 2012

The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery

• Rhys Bowen, Naughty in Nice (Berkley Prime Crime)
• Rebecca Cantrell, A Game of Lies (Forge)
• *Ann Parker, Mercury's Rise (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Priscilla Royal, A Killing Season (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Jeri Westerson, Troubled Bones (Minotaur)
• Jacqueline Winspear, A Lesson in Secrets (Harper)

The Golden Nugget: (best mystery set in California)

• Jan Burke, Disturbance (Simon & Schuster)
• Michael Connelly, The Drop (Little, Brown)
• Janet Dawson, Bit Player (Perseverance Press)
• Sue Grafton, V is for Vengeance (Putnam)
• *Kelli Stanley, City of Secrets (Minotaur)

The Eureka! (Best first mystery novel)

• Sally Carpenter, The Baffled Beatlemaniac Caper (Oak Tree Press)
• *Darrell James, Nazareth Child (Midnight Ink)
• Tammy Kaehler, Dead Man's Switch (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Rochelle Staab, Who Do, Voodoo? (Berkley Prime Crime)

The Lefty (Best humorous mystery)

• *Donna Andrews, The Real Macaw (Minotaur)
• Rita Lakin, Getting Old Can Kill You (Dell)
• Jess Lourey, October Fest (Midnight Ink)
• Kris Neri, Magical Alienation (Red Coyote Press)
• Cindy Sample, Dying for a Dance (L & L Dreamspell)
• John Vorhaus, The Albuquerque Turkey (Crown)

LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE Nomiantions 2012

Mystery/Thriller

• Started Early, Took My Dog, Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books/Hachette Book Group)
• Plugged, Eoin Colfer (The Overlook Press)
• *11/22/1963, Stephen King (Scribner)
• Snowdrops: A Novel, A.D. Miller (Doubleday)
• The End of Wasp Season, Denise Mina (Reagan Arthur Books/Hachette Book Group)

LOVE IS MURDER LOVEY AWARDS 2012

• Best First Novel: Basic Black by Scott Doornbosch (CreateSpace)
• Best Traditional / Amateur Sleuth: Murder, She Wrote: The Fine Art of Murder by Donald Bain (NAL)
• Best PI / Police Procedural: The Towman's Daughters by David J. Walker (Severn House)
• Best Thriller: Northwest Angle by William Kent Krueger (Atria Books)
• Best Historical: Terror at the Fair by Robert Goldsborough (Echelon Press)
• Best Romantic Suspense: A Lot Like Love by Julie James (Berkley)
• Best Suspense: ToxiCity by Libby Fischer Hellman (Red Herrings)
• Best Paranormal / Sci-Fi / Horror: Homefront: The Voice of Freedom by John Milius and Raymond Benson (Del Rey)
• Best Series: "The White House Chef" by Julie Hyzy
• Best Short Story: "Diamonds Aren't Forever" (Dark Things II: Cat Crimes) by Mary Welk (CreateSpace)

MACAVITY AWARDS 2011

Best Mystery Novel

• The Glass Rainbow by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster)
• Faithful Place by Tana French (Viking)
• The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan (HarperCollins-William Morrow)
• Thirteen Hours by Deon Meyer (Grove Atlantic)
• *Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
• The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard (Ballantine)

Best First Mystery Novel

• The Damage Done by Hilary Davidson (Forge)
• *Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva (Forge-Tom Doherty Associates)
• The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron (Minotaur)
• Full Mortality by Sasscer Hill (Wildside)
• A Thousand Cuts by Simon Lelic (Viking)

Best Nonfiction/Critical

• The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum (Penguin)
• *Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making by John Curran (HarperCollins)
• Following the Detectives: Real Locations in Crime Fiction edited by Maxim Jakubowski (New Holland)
• Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton)
• Thrillers: 100 Must Reads, edited by David Morrell and Hank W Wagner (Oceanview Publishing)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award

• A Marked Man by Barbara Hamilton (Berkley)
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (Random House)
• *City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley (Minotaur)
• The Red Door by Charles Todd (HarperCollins- William Morrow)
• The Fifth Servant by Kenneth Wishnia (HarperCollins-William Morrow)

Best Short Story

• “The Scent of Lilacs” by Doug Allyn (EQMM)
• *“Swing Shift” by Dana Cameron in Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side (Berkley)
• “Devil’s Pocket” by Keith Gilman in Philadelphia Noir (Akashic)
• “The Gods for Vengeance Cry” by Richard Helms (EQMM)
• “Bookworm” by G.M. Malliet in Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin’ (Wildside)

NED KELLY AWARDS (Australia) 2011

True Crime

• *Geesche Jacobsen Abandoned- The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble Allen & Unwin
• Ross Honeywill Wasted Penguin
• Lindsay Simpson & Jennifer Cooke Honeymoon Dive Macmillan 

Best First Fiction

• *Alan Carter Prime Cut Fremantle Press
• David Whish-Wilson Line of Sight Penguin Books
• P.M. Newton The Old School Penguin Books

Best Fiction

• Angela Savage The Half-Child Text
• *Geoffrey McGeachin The Diggers Rest Hotel Penguin
• Chris Womersley Bereft Scribe Publishing

The SD Harvey Short Story

• Robert Goodman Southern Hemisphere Blues
• *A.S. Patric Hemisphere Travel Guides: Las Vegas For Vegans

NERO WOLF AWARDS 2011

Nero Award

• Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen
• The Book of Spies by Gayle Lynds
• The Midnight Show Murders by Al Roker
• Think of a Number by John Verdon
• *Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

Black Orchid Novella Award

• *James Lincoln Warren for "Inner Fire"

NGAIO MARSH AWARD (New Zealand) 2011 

• *Blood Men by Paul Cleave (Random House)
• Captured by Neil Cross (Simon & Schuster)
• Hunting Blind by Paddy Richardson (Penguin)
• Slaughter Falls by Alix Bosco (Penguin)

RWA's RITA Romantic Suspense Award Nominees 2011

• Hidden Away by Maya Banks
• Hot Zone by Catherine Mann
• Hush by Cherry Adair
• New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb
• Secrets of Bella Terra by Christina Dodd
• True Colors by Joyce Lamb
• Where All the Dead Lie by J.T. Ellison

RT Reviewers Choice Awards 2012

Contemporary Mystery

• *V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton, Putnam
• Stagestruck by Peter Lovesey, Soho
• Ringer by Brian M. Wiprud, Minotaur
• Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill, Minotaur
• The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill, Harper
• In Search of the Rose Notes by Emily Arsenault, Morrow

Historical Mystery

• *A Lonely Death by Charles Todd, Morrow
• The Beloved Dead by Tony Hays, Tor
• The Illusion of Murder by Carol McCleary, Forge
• Bye Bye, Baby by Max Allan Collins, Forge
• City of Secrets by Kelli Stanley, Minotaur
• Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson, Minotaur

First Mystery

• *Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder, Minotaur
• The Breath of God by Jeffrey Small, West Hills
• Cookie Dough or Die by Virginia Lowell, Prime Crime
• Thou Shalt Kill by Daniel Blake, Gallery
• Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick, Minotaur

Amateur Sleuth

• *The Busy Woman's Guide to Murder by Mary Jane Maffini, Prime Crime
• To Have and to Kill by Mary Jane Clark, Morrow
• Killing Kate by Julie Kramer, Atria
• Tempest in the Tea Leaves by Kari Lee Townsend, Prime Crime
• Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen, Prime Crime

Suspense/Thriller

• *Love You More by Lisa Gardner, Bantam
• In Desperation by Rick Mofina, Mira
• Among the Missing by Morag Joss, Delacorte
• The Girl Who Disappeared Twice by Andrea Kane, Mira
• Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton, Minotaur
• You're Next by Gregg Hurwitz, St. Martin’s
• Death in High Places by Jo Bannister, Minotaur
• New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb, Putnam
• Ghost Hero by S.J. Rozan, Minotaur

SCIBA's T. Jefferson Parker Award 2011

• The Sentry by Robert Crais (Putnam)
• San Diego Noir edited by Maryelizabeth Hart (Akashic Books)
• The Informant by Thomas Perry (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• *Savages by Don Winslow (Simon & Schuster)

SHAMUS AWARDS 2011

Best Novel

• *No Mercy, by Lori Armstrong (Touchstone)
• The First Rule, by Robert Crais (Putnam)
• Voyeur, by Daniel Judson (Minotaur)If the Dead Rise Not, by Philip Kerr (Putnam)
• Naked Moon, by Domenic Stansberry (Minotaur)

Best First Novel

• *In Search of Mercy, by Michael Ayoob (Minotaur)
• One Man’s Paradise, by Douglas Corleone (Minotaur)
• Rogue Island, by Bruce DeSilva (Forge)
• Random Violence, by Jassy MacKenzie (Soho)
• City of Dragons, by Kelli Stanley (Minotaur)

Best Paperback Original

• Hostage Zero, by John Gilstrap (Kensington)
• Nightshade, by Tom Henighan (Dundurn Press)
• Mister X, by John Lutz (Pinnacle)
• The Panic Zone, by Rick Mofina (Mira)
• *Asia Hand, by Christopher G. Moore (Grove/Atlantic)
• The Little Death, by P.J. Parrish (Pocket Star)

Best Short Story

• “The God of Right and Wrong,” by Steven Gore (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January/February 2010)
• *“The Lamb Was Sure to Go,” by Gar Anthony Haywood (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, November 2010)
• “The Girl in the Golden Gown,” by Robert S. Levinson (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2010)
• “Phelan’s First Case.” by Lisa Sandlin (Lone Star Noir, edited by Bobby Byrd and Johnny Byrd; Akashic Books)
• “A Long Time Dead,” by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins (The Strand Magazine, June-Sept. 2010)

The Hammer Award: (Best P.I. Series Character): Sara Paretsky for V.I. Warshawski

The EYE (Lifetime Achievement Award): Ed Gorman

SPINETINGLER AWARDS Nominations 2012

Best Novel: New Voice

• Beautiful, Naked and Dead by Josh Stallings
• The Dead Women of Juarez by Sam Hawken
• The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
• Dove Season by Johnny Shaw
• The Drop by Howard Linskey
• Dust Devils by Roger Smith
• Good Neighbors by Ryan David Jahn
• Mule by Tony D’Souza
• Raise a Holler by Jason Stuart
• Wire to Wire by Scott Sparling

Best Novel: Rising Star

• All the Young Warriors by Anthony Neil Smith
• Already Gone by John Rector
• Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran
• Cold Shot to the Heart by Wallace Stroby
• El Gavilan by Craig McDonald
• The End of Everything by Megan Abbott

Best Novel: Legend

• A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block
• The Bitch by Les Edgerton
• Falling Glass by Adrian McKinty
• Hard Cold Whisper by Michael Hemmingson
• Seven Spanish Angels by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Wrong Thing by Barry Graham

Best Short Story Collection

• Crime by Ferdinand von Schirach
• Crimes in Southern Indiana by Frank Bill
• From the Darkness Right Under Our Feet by Patrick Michael Finn
• Gone Bad by Julie Morrigan
• Nowhere to Go by Iain Rowan
• The Outlaw Album by Daniel Woodrell
• Volt by Alan Heathcock

Best Anthology

• Beat to a Pulp: Hardboiled edited by David Cranmer & Scott D. Parker
• L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories
• Off the Record edited by Luca Veste
• Pulp Ink edited by Chris Rhatigan & Nigel Bird
• Warmed & Bound edited by Pela Via
• West Coast Crime Wave edited by Brian Thornton

Best Short Story on the Web

• “Abriani’s Six” by Atul Sabharwal from Tehelka
• “The Cloud Factory” by Court Merrigan from PANK Magazine
• “Disney Noir” by Peter Farris from Shotgun Honey
• “Either Way it Ends with a Shovel” by David James Keaton from Crimefactory 
• “Hoodwinked” by Nigel Bird from All Due Respect
• “The Other Man” by Hilary Davidson from Beat to a Pulp
• “Road Kill” by William Dylan Powell from Flash Fiction Offensive
• “Silas’ Good Run” by Matthew C Funk from Beat to a Pulp
• “Silent Game” by Stephen Graham Jones from Plots with Guns
• “Vorovsky Mir” by M James Blood from Plots With Guns

Best Crime Comic/Graphic Novel

• 99 Days by Matteo Casali & Kristian Donaldson
• Blue Estate by Viktor Kalvachev, Andrew Osborne and Various
• Cowboys by Gary Phillips and Brian Hurt
• Liar’s Kiss by Eric Skillman and Jhomar Soriano
• Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Jacques Tardi
• Loose Ends by Jason Latour, Rico Renzi and Chris Brunner
• Noche Roja by Simon Oliver
• Rat Catcher by Andy Diggle
• Criminal: Last of the Innocent by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
• Scalped by Jason Aaron

Best Mystery/Crime Fiction Press, Publisher or Imprint

• Blasted Heath
• Mulholland Books
• New Pulp Press
• Serpent’s Tail

Dave Thompson Community Leader Award

• My Friends Call Me Kate (Sabrina Ogden)
• My Little Corner (Sandra Seamans)
• Musings of an All Purpose Monkey (Elizabeth White)
• pattinase (Patti Abbott)
• Psycho-Noir (Heath Lowrance)
• The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Adrian McKinty)
• Dead End Follies (Benoit Lelievre)

SPOTTED OWL AWARD

Dana Haynes - Crashers

THE STRAND CRITICS AWARD Nominations 2012

Best Novel

• The Affair by Lee Child (Delacorte Press)
• The Drop by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
• Buried Secrets by Joseph Finder (St Martin’s Press)
• Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James (Knopf)
• The Cut by George Pelecanos (Reagan Arthur Books)

Best First Novel

• The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 
• Sister by Rosamund Lupton (Crown) 
• Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson (Harper) 
• The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis (Soho) 
• The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly (Pamela Dorman Books)

Lifetime Achievement Award: Joseph Wambaugh and John Sandford