*Denotes winner
AGATHA AWARDS 2023
Best Contemporary Novel
Bayou Book Thief, by Ellen Byron (Berkley Prime Crime)
Death By Bubble Tea, by Jennifer J. Chow (Berkley)
Fatal Reunion, by Annette Dashofy (Level Best Books)
Dead Man's Leap, by Tina de Bellegarde (Level Best Books)
* A World of Curiosities, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
Best Historical Novel
The Counterfeit Wife, by Mally Becker (Level Best Books)
* Because I Could Not Stop for Death, by Amanda Flower (Berkley)
The Lindbergh Nanny, by Mariah Fredericks (Minotaur)
In Place of Fear, by Catriona McPherson (Mobius)
Under a Veiled Moon, by Karen Odden (Crooked Lane Books)
Best First Novel
* Cheddar Off Dead, by Korina Moss (St. Martin’s)
Death in the Aegean, by M. A. Monnin (Level Best Books)
The Bangalore Detectives Club, by Harini Nagendra (Constable)
Devil’s Chew Toy, by Rob Osler (Crooked Lane Books)
The Finalist, by Joan Long (Level Best Books)
The Gallery of Beauties, by Nina Wachsman (Level Best Books)
Best Short Story
* "Beauty and the Beyotch," by Barb Goffman (Sherlock Holmes Magazine, February 2022)
"There Comes a Time," by Cynthia Kuhn, Malice Domestic Murder Most Diabolical (Wildside Press)
"Fly Me to the Morgue," by Lisa Q Mathews, Malice Domestic Mystery Most Diabolical (Wildside Press)
"The Minnesota Twins Meet Bigfoot," by Richie Narvaez, Land of 10,000 Thrills, Bouchercon Anthology (Down & Out Books)
"The Invisible Band," by Art Taylor, Edgar & Shamus Go Golden (Down & Out Books)
Best Nonfiction
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators, by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)
The Handbook to Agatha Christie: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie, by Mary Anna Evans and J. C. Bernthal (Bloomsbury Academic)
The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie, by Carla Valentine (Sourcebooks)
* Promophobia: Taking the Mystery Out of Promoting Crime Fiction, by Diane Vallere Ed. (Sisters in Crime)
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, by Lucy Worsley (Pegasus Crime)
Best Children's/YA Mystery
Daybreak on Raven Island, by Fleur Bradley (Viking Books for Young People)
In Myrtle Peril, by Elizabeth C. Bunce (Algonquin Young Readers)
#shedeservedit, by Greg Herren (Bold Strokes Books)
Sid Johnson and the Phantom Slave Stealer, by Frances Schoonmaker (Auctus Publishers)
* Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade, by Nancy Springer (Wednesday Books)
ANTHONY AWARDS Finalists 2023
Best Hardcover Novel
Like a Sister, by Kellye Garrett (Mulholland)
The Devil Takes You Home, by Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)
The Bullet That Missed, by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman)
A World of Curiosities, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
The Maid, by Nita Prose (Ballantine)
Secret Identity, by Alex Segura (Flatiron)Best First Novel
Best First Novel
Don’t Know Tough, by Eli Cranor (Soho Crime)
Shutter, by Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime)
The Bangalore Detectives Club, by Harini Nagendra (Pegasus)
Devil’s Chew Toy, by Rob Osler (Crooked Lane)
The Maid, by Nita Prose (Ballantine)
Best Historical Novel
The Lindbergh Nanny, by Mariah Fredericks (Minotaur)
In Place of Fear, by Catriona McPherson (Mobius)
Anywhere You Run, by Wanda M. Morris (Morrow)
Danger on the Atlantic, by Erica Ruth Neubauer (Kensington)
Under a Veiled Moon, by Karen Odden (Crooked Lane)
Lavender House, by Lev A.C. Rosen (Forge)
Best Humorous Novel
Bayou Book Thief, by Ellen Byron (Berkley)
Death by Bubble Tea, by Jennifer J. Chow (Berkley)
A Streetcar Named Murder, by T.G. Herren (Crooked Lane)
Scot in a Trap, by Catriona McPherson (Severn House)
Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking, by Raquel V. Reyes (Crooked Lane)
Best Short Story
“Still Crazy After All These Years,” by E.A Aymar (from Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon, edited by Josh Pachter; Down & Out)
“The Impediment,” by Bruce Robert Coffin (from Deadly Nightshade: Best New England Crime Stories 2022, edited by Christine Bagley, Susan Oleksiw, and Leslie Wheeler; Crime Spell)
“Beauty and the Beyotch,” by Barb Goffman (Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, February 2022)
“The Estate Sale,” by Curtis Ippolito (Vautrin Magazine, Summer 2022)
“C.O.D.,” by Gabriel Valjan (from Low Down Dirty Vote, Volume 3: The Color of My Vote, edited by Mysti Berry; Berry Contest)
Best Juvenile/Young Adult
In Myrtle Peril, by Elizabeth C. Bunce (Algonquin Young Readers)
Daybreak on Raven Island, by Fleur Bradley (Viking Books for Young Readers)
#Shedeservedit, by Greg Herren (Bold Strokes Press)
The New Girl, by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Sourcebooks Fire)
Vanish Me, by Lee Matthew Goldberg (Wise Wolf)
Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade, by Nancy Springer (Wednesday)
Best Critical or Nonfiction Work
The Alaska Blonde: Sex, Secrets, and the Hollywood Story That Shocked America, by James T. Bartlett (Terrirory)
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators, by Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club)
American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper, by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur)
Promophobia: Taking the Mystery Out of Promoting Crime Fiction, edited by Diane Vallere (Sisters in Crime)
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free, by Sarah Weinman (Ecco)
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, by Lucy Worsley (Pegasus Crime)
Best Anthology or Collection
Low Down Dirty Vote, Volume 3: The Color of My Vote, edited by Mysti Berry (Berry Contest)
Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Warren Zevon, edited by Libby Cudmore and Art Taylor (Down & Out)
Land of 1,000 Thrills: Bouchercon Anthology 2022, edited by Greg Herren (Down & Out)
Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon, edited by Josh Pachter (Down & Out)
Crime Hits Home: A Collection of Short Stories from Crime Fiction’s Top Authors, edited by S.J. Rozan (Hanover Square Press)
CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA AWARDS (f/k/a ARTHUR ELLIS AWARDS) 2023
Best Crime Novel
Linwood Barclay, Take Your Breath Away, William Morrow
*Anthony Bidulka, Going to Beautiful, Stonehouse Publishing
Nicole Lundrigan, An Unthinkable Thing, Viking Canada
Catherine McKenzie, Please Join Us, Simon & Schuster Canada
Shelly Sanders, Daughters of the Occupation, HarperCollins Canada
Best Crime First Novel
Lawrence Davis, The Pale Horse, Friesen Press
Bill Edwards, Killer Time, Friesen Press
Adam Frost, The Damned Lovely, Down and Out Books
*Sam Shelstad, Citizens of Light, TouchWood Editions
M.Z. Urlocker, The Man from Mittelwerk, Inkshares, Inc.
The Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada
J. Devlin, Five Moves of Doom, NeWest Press
M. Freedman, Blood Atonement, Dundurn Press
* Joanne Jackson, A Snake in the Raspberry Patch, Stonehouse Publishing
Maureen Jennings, Cold Snap, Cormorant Books
Amy Tector, The Foulest Things, Keylight Books
The Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery
Alice Bienia, Knight in the Museum, Cairn Press
Anne Emery, Fenian Street, ECW Press
* Thomas King, Deep House, HarperCollins Canada
Mary Jane Maffini, Death Plans a Perfect Trip, Beyond the Page
Iona Whishaw, Framed in Fire, Touchwood Editions
Best Crime Novella
M.H. Callway, Amdur's Ghost, In the Spirit of 13,Carrick Publishing
Hilary Davidson, Dangerous to Know, A Grifter's Song Vol. 8, Down & Out Books
Julie Hiner, Dead End Track, Julie Hiner
Matt Hughes, The Emir's Falcon, Shadowpaw Press Premiere
* Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson, The Man Who Went Down Under, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazines
Best Crime Short Story
* Craig H. Bowlsby, The Girl Who Was Only Three Quarters Dead, Mystery Magazine
M.H. Callway, Must Love Dogs - or You're Gone, Red Dog Press
Blair Keetch, To Catch a Kumiho, In the Spirit of 13, Carrick Publishing
Sylvia Maultash Warsh, The Natural Order of Things, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Donalee Moulton, Swan Song, Cold Canadian Crime, Crime Writers of Canada
Best French Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction)
Geneviève Blouin, Le Mouroir des anges, Éditions Alire
Isabelle Lafortune, Chaîne de glace, Éditions XYZ
Guillaume Morrissette, Le dernier manège, Saint-Jean éditeur
Suzan Payne, Modus operandi, Éditions Perce-Neige
* Richard Ste-Marie, Monsieur Hämmerli, Éditions Alire
Best Juvenile or YA Crime Book (Fiction and Nonfiction)
Natasha Deen, Lark Steals the Show, Orca Book Publisher
Marthe Jocelyn, Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse, Tundra Books
H.N. Khan, Wrong Side of the Court, Penguin Teen
Wesley King, Butt Sandwich & Tree, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
* Jo Treggiari, Heartbreak Homes, Nimbus Publishing Limited
The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book
Michael Arntfield, How to Solve a Cold Case: And Everything Else You Wanted to Know About Catching Killers, HarperCollins Canada
Sharon Anne Cook and Margaret Carson, The Castleton Massacre, Dundurn Press Ltd.
Harley Rustad, Lost in the Valley of Death, Knopf Canada - Penguin Random House Canada
*Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, HarperCollins Canada
Sarah Weinman, Scoundrel, Knopf Canada - Penguin Random House Canada
The Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript
Jan Garnett, No Safe House
*Mary Keenan, Snowed
Joanne Kormylo, Two Knots
Joel Nedecky, The Broken Detective
Michael Pennock, The Peaks
AUDIE AWARDS (for Best Audio Books) 2023
Mystery
The Bangalore Detectives Club, by Harini Nagendra, narrated by Soneela Nankani (Blackstone)
* The Heron, by Don Winslow, narrated by Ed Harris (Audible Originals)
The Maid, by Nita Prose, narrated by Lauren Ambrose (Penguin Random House Audio)
The Murder of Mr. Wickham, by Claudia Gray, narrated by Billie Fulford-Brown (Penguin Random House Audio)
Suspect, by Scott Turow, narrated by Helen Laser (Hachette Audio)
Thriller/Suspense
The Boys from Biloxi, by John Grisham, narrated by Michael Beck (Penguin Random House Audio)
* Greenwich Park, by Katherine Faulkner, narrated by Laura Kirman (Simon & Schuster Audio)
The Island, by Adrian McKinty, narrated by Mela Lee (Hachette Audio)
The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley, narrated by Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood, Sope Dirisu, Sofia Zervudachi, and Charlie Anson (HarperAudio)
Snowstorm in August, by Marshall Karp, narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla and Michael Manuel (Blackstone)
Where Secrets Live, by S.C. Richards, narrated by Jennifer Jill Araya (Dreamscape Media)
BARRY AWARDS Finalists 2023
Best Mystery or Crime Novel
The Accomplice, by Steve Cavanagh (Orion)
Desert Star, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
The Dark Flood, by Deon Meyer (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Shifty’s Boys, by Chris Offutt (Grove Press)
Secret Identity, by Alex Segura (Flatiron)
City on Fire, by Don Winslow (Morrow)
Best Debut Mystery or Crime Novel
Before You Knew My Name, by Jacqueline Bublitz (Atria/EmilyBestler)
Don’t Know Tough, by Eli Cranor (Soho Crime)
Shutter, by Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime)
The Maid, by Nita Prose (Ballantine)
Blood Sugar, by Sascha Rothchild (Putnam)
Dirt Creek, by Hayley Scrivenor (Flatiron)
Best Thriller
In the Blood, by Jack Carr (Atria/Emily Bester)
Winter Work, by Dan Fesperman (Knopf)
Sierra Six, by Mark Greaney (Berkley)
Bad Actors, by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
Killers of a Certain Age, by Deanna Raybourn (Berkley)
Goering’s Gold, by Richard O’Rawe (Melville House)
BEN FRANKLIN AWARDS, MYSTERY/THRILLER Finalists 2023
* Heroes Ever Die by J.A. Crawford (CamCat Books)
The Registration: A Novel by Madison Lawson (CamCat Books)
Running to Fall: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon (AALBC Aspire)
BLOODY SCOTLAND/MCILVANNEY CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022
Liam McIlvanney – The Heretic (HarperCollins)
*Alan Parks – May God Forgive (Canongate)
Ambrose Parry – A Corruption of Blood (Canongate)
Louise Welsh – The Second Cut (Canongate)
BLOODY SCOTLAND CRIME DEBUT OF THE YEAR 2022
*Tariq Ashkanani, Welcome to Cooper (Thomas & Mercer, Amazon)
Frankie Boyle, Meantime (John Murray)
Amanda Mitchison, The Wolf Hunters (Fledgling Press)
George Paterson, The Girl, The Crow, The Writer and The Fighter (Into Books)
Sarah Smith, Hear No Evil (Two Roads)
BRITISH BOOK AWARDS Best Crime and Thriller 2023
Bamburg by L.J. Ross (Dark Skies)
Murder Before Evensong by Reverend Richard Coles (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman (Viking)
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley (HarperCollins)
* The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett (Viper)
Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister (Penguin Michael Joseph)
COLORADO BOOK AWARDS 2023
Best Mystery
* Aunt Dimity & the Enchanted Cottage by Nancy Atherton (Viking Books)
The Chimera Club by Chuck Greaves (Tallow Lane Books)
Where Is Mary Bergen?by Craig Marshall Smith
Best Thriller
Dark of Night by Barbara Nickless (Thomas & Mercer)
Deep Waters of Destiny by Peter Carlson (Calumet Editions)
* The Wrong Woman by Leanne Kale Sparks (Crooked Lane Books)
CRIMEFEST AWARDS 2023
Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award
A Good Day to Die, by Amen Alonge (Quercus)
Bad for Good, by Graham Bartlett (Allison & Busby)
The Maid, by Nita Prose (HarperCollins)
Ashes in the Snow, by Oriana Rammuno, translated by Katherine Gregor (HarperCollins)
Kalmann, by Joachim B. Schmidt, translated by Jamie Lee Searle (Bitter Lemon)
Dirt Town, by Hayley Scrivenor (Macmillan)
The Siege, by John Sutherland (Orion)
* A Flicker in the Dark, by Stacy Willingham (HarperCollins)
eDunnit Award
The Cliff House, by Chris Brookmyre (Abacus)
Desert Star, by Michael Connelly (Orion)
The Botanist, by M.W. Craven (Constable)
* The Book of the Most Precious Substance, by Sara Gran (Faber and Faber)
A Heart Full of Headstones, by Ian Rankin (Orion)
Nine Lives, by Peter Swanson (Faber and Faber)
H.R.F. Keating Award (for the best biographical or critical book related to crime fiction)
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie, by J.C. Bernthal and Mary Anna Evans (Bloomsbury Academic)
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré, 1945-2020, by John le Carré, edited by Tim Cornwell (Viking)
* The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators, by Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club)
Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films, by Barry Forshaw (Oldcastle)
Gender Roles and Political Contexts in Cold War Spy Fiction, by Sian MacArthur (Palgrave Macmillan)
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman, by Lucy Worsley (Hodder & Stoughton)
Last Laugh Award (for the best humorous crime novel)
* Bryant & May’s Peculiar London, by Christopher Fowler (Doubleday)
The Locked Room, by Elly Griffiths (Quercus)
Bad Actors, by Mick Herron (Baskerville)
Hope to Die, by Cara Hunter (Viking)
Mr. Campion’s Mosaic, by Mike Ripley (Severn House)
The Moose Paradox, by Antti Tuomainen (Orenda)
Best Crime Fiction Novel for Children (aged 8-12)
A Girl Called Justice: The Spy at the Window, by Elly Griffiths (Quercus Children’s Books)
Where Seagulls Dare: A Diamond Brothers Case, by Anthony Horowitz (Walker)
* The Good Turn, by Sharna Jackson (Puffin)
Spark, by M.G. Leonard (Walker)
The Ministry of Unladylike Activity, by Robin Stevens (Puffin)
Alice Éclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble, by Sarah Todd Taylor (Nosy Crow)
Best Crime Fiction Novel for Young Adults (aged 12-16)
* Five Survive, by Holly Jackson (Electric Monkey)
Needle, by Patrice Lawrence (Barrington Stoke)
The Butterfly Assassin, by Finn Longman (Simon & Schuster Children’s)
Truth or Dare, by Sophie McKenzie (Simon & Schuster Children’s)
I Must Betray You, by Ruta Sepetys (Hodder Children’s Books)
The Notorious Scarlett and Browne, by Jonathan Stroud (Walker)
CWA DAGGER AWARDS Finalists 2023
Diamond Dagger
* Walter Mosley
Gold Dagger
The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green (Headline Publishing Group)
The Lost Man of Bombay by Vaseem Khan (Hodder & Stoughton)
A Killing in November by Simon Mason (Quercus)
The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
The Winter Guest by W C Ryan (Bonnier Books UK)
The Silent Brother by Simon Van der Velde (Northodox Press)
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay (HQ)
Seventeen by John Brownlow (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Botanist by M W Craven (Constable)
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Sphere)
Alias Emma by Ava Glass (Century)
May God Forgive by Alan Parks (Canongate)
ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger
Breaking by Amanda Cassidy (Canelo)
The Local by Joey Hartstone (Pushkin Vertigo)
London in Black by Jack Lutz (Pushkin Vertigo)
Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor (Macmillan)
No Country for Girls by Emma Styles (Sphere)
Outback by Patricia Wolf (Embla)
Historical Dagger
The Darkest Sin by D V Bishop (Macmillan)
The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola (Orion)
The Homes by J B Mylet (Viper)
The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra (Constable)
Blue Water by Leonora Nattrass (Viper)
Hear No Evil by Sarah Smith (Two Roads)
Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger
Good Reasons to Die by Morgan Audic, translated by Sam Taylor (Mountain Leopard Press)
The Red Notebook by Michel Bussi, translated by Vineet Lal (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Even the Darkest Night by Javier Cercas, translated by Anne McLean (MacLehose Press)
Bad Kids by Zijin Chen, translated by Michelle Deeter (Pushkin Vertigo)
The Bleeding by Johana Gustawsson, translated by David Warriner (Orenda Books)
The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter (Penguin Michael Joseph)
Short Story Dagger
‘The Disappearance’ by Leigh Bardugo, in Marple (HarperCollins)
‘The Tears of Venus’ by Victoria Dowd & Delilah Dowd, in Unlocked (The D20 Authors)
‘The Beautiful Game’ by Sanjida Kay in The Perfect Crime, edited by Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski (HarperCollins)
‘Paradise Lost’ by Abir Mukherjee in The Perfect Crime, edited by Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski (HarperCollins)
‘Runaway Blues’ by C J Tudor, in A Sliver of Darkness (Penguin Random House)
‘Cast A Long Shadow’ by Hazell Ward, in Cast a Long Shadow, edited by Katherine Stansfield and Caroline Oakley (Honno Press)
ALCS Gold Dagger for non-fiction
The Poisonous Solicitor by Stephen Bates (Icon Books)
The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)
Unlawful Killings: Life by Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey by Wendy Joseph (Transworld)
Tremors in the Blood: Murder by Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector by Amit Katwala (HarperCollins)
To Hunt a Killer by Julie Mackay and Robert Murphy (HarperCollins)
About a Son by David Whitehouse (Orion Publishing Group)
Dagger in the Library
Ben Aaronovitch
Sophie Hannah
Mick Herron
Publishers’ Dagger
Harper Fiction (HarperCollins)
Mantle (PanMacmillan)
Michael Joseph (Penguin Random House)
Pushkin Vertigo (Pushkin Press)
Quercus (Hachette)
Viper (Profile Books)
Début Dagger
Bulldog Murphy by Chris Corbett
Male, Unknown by Chris Griffiths
Sideways by Jeff Marsick
Heist by James Pierson
The Line of Least Resistance by Jeff Richards
Cradle of Storms by Margaret Winslow
DANISH CRIMINAL ACADEMY AWARDS Harald Mogensen Prize 2022
*Mørket under isen by Morten Hesseldahl
DAPHNE AWARDS 2021
Long Romantic Mystery/Suspense
*Winner: Cold & Deadly by Toni Anderson
2nd place: Jagger (Steele Shadow Investigations) by Amanda McKinney
3rd place: Bishop’s Endgame by Katie Reus
Honorable Mention: Beautiful Vengeance by Kaylea Cross
Honorable Mention: The Paris Model by Alexandra Joel
Historical Romantic Mystery/Suspense
*Winner: The Cartographer’s Secret by Tea Cooper
2nd place: A Dangerous Observer by Amanda DeWees
3rd place: Princes of the Lower East Side by Meredith Allison
Honorable Mention: Lovely Digits by Jeanine Englert
Honorable Mention: The Work of Art by Mimi Matthews
Inspirational Romantic Mystery/Suspense
*Winner: Dead End by Nancy Mehl
2nd place: Danger on the Ranch by Dana Mentink
3rd place: The Haunting at Bonaventure Circus by Jaime Wright
Honorable Mention: Dangerous Deception by Evelyn M. Hill
Honorable Mention: Lost Down Deep by Sara Davison
Honorable Mention: Standoff (Natchez Trace Park Rangers) by Patricia Bradley
Paranormal (Paranormal/Time Travel/Futuristic) Romantic Mystery/Suspense
*Winner: A Killing Moon by Alexis D. Craig
2nd place: Bishop’s Gambit by McKenna Dean
3rd place: Just in Time by NJ Litz
Honorable Mention: Foolish Beliefs by M. Scott Swanson
Honorable Mention: Loving Modigliani The Afterlife of Jeanne Hébuterne by Linda Lappin
Short Romantic Mystery/Suspense
*Winner: In His Protection by P.L. Harris
2nd place: Conflicting Evidence by Lena Diaz
3rd place: Steal My Heart by Aimee O’Brian
Honorable Mention: Dirty Daisy by Jordyn Kross
Honorable Mention: Texas Holiday Hideout by Virginia Vaughan
Mainstream Mystery/Suspense
*Winner: In Her Shadow by Kristin Miller
2nd place: Flight Risk by Cara Putman
3rd place: Ten Days Gone by Beverly Long
Honorable Mention: No One Saw by Beverly Long
Honorable Mention: The Study of Secrets (Lila Maclean Academic Mysteries #5) by Cynthia Kuhn
The overall daphne winner for the2021 published division
*Tea Cooper, for The Cartographer’s Secret
DAVID L. GOODIS AWARD NOIRCON (Biannual) 2022
The David L. Goodis Award: Megan Abbott
The Jay and Deen Kogan Award for Excellence: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
The Anne Friedberg Award for Contributions to Noir and Its Preservation: Sarah Weinman
DAVITT AWARDS (Australia) 2021
Adult crime novel
Death Beyond the Limit (Fiji Islands Mysteries #3) (B M Allsopp, Coconut Press)
Deadman’s Track (Calico Mountain #3) (Sarah Barrie, HQ Fiction)
Gathering Dark (Candice Fox, Penguin)
A Testament of Character (Rowland Sinclair #10) (Sulari Gentill, Pantera)
*The Good Sister (Sally Hepworth, Macmillan)
Where the Truth Lies (Karina Kilmore, S&S)
The Deceptions (Suzanne Leal, A&U)
Stone Sky Gold Mountain (Mirandi Riwoe, UQP)
Torched (Kimberley Starr, Pantera)
Young adult crime novel
The End of the World Is Bigger than Love (Davina Bell, Text)
Deep Water (Sarah Epstein, A&U)
None Shall Sleep (Ellie Marney, A&U)
*Where We Begin (Christie Nieman, Pan)
The Girl with the Gold Bikini (Lisa Walker, Wakefield)
Children’s crime novel
The Ghost of Howlers Beach (Butter O’Bryan Mysteries #1) (Jackie French, HarperCollins)
The Grandest Bookshop in the World (Amelia Mellor, Affirm)
The Secret Library of Hummingbird House (Julianne Negri, Affirm)
The Mummy Smugglers of Crumblin Castle (Pamela Rushby, Walker Books)
*A Clue for Clara (Lian Tanner, A&U)
The Book of Chance (Sue Whiting, Walker Books)
Nonfiction crime book
After the Count: The death of Davey Browne (Stephanie Convery, Viking)
The Case of George Pell: Reckoning with child sexual abuse (Melissa Davey, Scribe)
*Witness: An investigation into the brutal cost of seeking justice (Louise Milligan, Hachette)
Missing William Tyrrell (Caroline Overington, HarperCollins)
Snakes and Ladders: A memoir (Angela Williams, Affirm)
Debut crime books
Inheritance of Secrets (Sonya Bates, HarperCollins)
The End of the World Is Bigger than Love (Davina Bell, Text)
The Case of George Pell: Reckoning with child sexual abuse (Melissa Davey, Scribe)
The Safe Place (Anna Downes, Affirm)
Troubled Waters (Mary Jones, Green Olive Press)
Where the Truth Lies (Karina Kilmore, S&S)
The Grandest Bookshop in the World (Amelia Mellor, Affirm)
The Mother Fault (Kate Mildenhall, S&S)
The Secret Library of Hummingbird House (Julianne Negri, Affirm)
*Sheerwater (Leah Swann, Fourth Estate)
A Clue for Clara (Lian Tanner, A&U)
The Girl with the Gold Bikini (Lisa Walker, Wakefield)
DERRINGER AWARDS 2023
Best Flash (Up to 1,000 words)
Catch and Release, by April Kelly
* Acknowledgments, by Karen Harrington
Easter Spam, by John Weagly
The Final Chapter, by James Blakey
Where Palms Sway and the Surf Pounds, by Curtis Ippolito
Best Short (1,001 to 4,000)
Double Trouble, by John Bowie
Hiding Out in Cedar Key, by Sharon Marchisello
The Shape of Australia, by Christine Poulson
* My Two-Legs, by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Digging In, by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Best Long (4,001 to 8,000)
The Vigil, by Toni Goodyear
Tethered, by Marcelle Dubé
The White Calf and the Wind, by Mike Adamson
The Donovan Gang, by John M. Floyd
* Negative Tilt, by Bobby Mathews
Something Blue, by G.M. Malliet
Best Novelette (8,001 to 20,000)
The Wraith of Bunker Hill, by Paul D. Marks
* Two Shrimp Tacos and a .22 Ruger, by Adam Meyer
Dead Men Tell No Tales, by Liz Filleul
The Refusal Camp, by James Benn
Ripen, by Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier
For Best Flash (Up to 1,000 words)
"Cold Turkey" by Patricia Dusenbury, Flash Bang Mysteries ed. Brandon Bourg (Summer 2017)
"Happy Birthday" by Alan Orloff, Shotgun Honey ed. Jen Conley, Angel Luis Colón, and Nick Kolakowski (June 15, 2017)
"Final Testimony" by Travis Richardson, Flash Fiction Offensive ed, Hector Duarte Jr. and Rob Pierce (July 10, 2017)
"Fishing for an Alibi" by Earl Staggs, Flash Bang Mysteries ed. Brandon Bourg (Fall 2017)
"Flash Point" by Elizabeth Zelvin, A Twist of Noir ed. Christopher Grant (March 20, 2017)
For Best Short Story (1,001-4,000 words)
"The Kids Keep Coming" by David H. Hendrickson, Fiction River: Tavern Tales ed. Kerrie L. Hughes, WMG Publishing Inc. (January 2017)
"The Cop Who Liked Gilbert and Sullivan" by Robert Lopresti, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #23, ed. Marvin Kaye, Wildside Press (October 2017)
"The New Score" by Alison McMahan, Fish Out of Water: A Guppy Anthology ed. Ramona DeFelice Long, Wildside Press (March 2017)
"The Bank Job" by Stephen D. Rogers, Trigger Warning Short Fiction with Pictures ed. Eric Lindbom and John Skewes (March 16, 2017)
"Every Picture Tells a Story" by Cathi Stoler, Where Crime Never Sleeps: Murder New York Style 4 ed. Elizabeth Zelvin, Level Best Books (September 2017)
For Best Long Story (4,001-8,000 words)
"El Asesino" by Rusty Barnes, BULL ed. Ben Drevlow (May 22, 2017)
"The #2 Pencil" by Matt Coyle, Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea ed. Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks, Down & Out Books (January 2017)
"Death in the Serengeti" by David H. Hendrickson, Fiction River: Pulse Pounders: Andrenaline ed. Kevin J. Anderson, WMG Publishing, Inc. (July 2017)
"Matricide and Ice Cream" by William Burton McCormick, The CWA Anthology of Short Stories: Mystery Tour ed. Martin Edwards, Orenda Books (November 2017)
"The Drive-by" by Alison McMahan, Busted: Arresting Stories from the Beat ed. Verena Rose, Harriette Sackler, and Shawn Reilly Simmons, Level Best Books (April 2017)
For Best Novelette (8,001-20,000 words)
"Flowing Waters" by Brendan DuBois, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine ed. Janet Hutchings, January/February 2017
"Windward" by Paul D. Marks, Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea ed. Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks, Down & Out Books (January 2017)
"King's Quarter" by Andrew McAleer, Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea ed. Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks, Down & Out Books (January 2017)
"Kill My Wife, Please" by Robert J. Randisi, Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea ed. Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks, Down & Out Books (January 2017)
"Trouble Like a Freight Train Coming" by Tina Whittle, Lowcountry Crime: Four Novellas ed. James M. Jackson and Jan Rubens, Wolf's Echo Press (February 2017)
EDGAR AWARDS 2023
Best Novel
Devil House by John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux – MCD)
Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books)
Gangland by Chuck Hogan (Hachette Book Group – Grand Central Publishing)
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books)
* Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
The Maid by Nita Prose (Penguin Random House – Ballantine Books)
Best First Novel
Jackal by Erin E. Adams (Penguin Random House – Bantam)
* Don’t Know Tough by Eli Cranor (Soho Press – Soho Crime)
Shutter by Ramona Emerson (Soho Press – Soho Crime)
More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li (Penguin Random House – Tiny Reparations Books)
Best Paperback Original
Quarry’s Blood by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
On a Quiet Street by Seraphina Nova Glass (Harlequin Trade Publishing – Graydon House
* Or Else by Joe Hart (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
Cleopatra’s Dagger by Carole Lawrence (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
A Familiar Stranger by A.R. Torre (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
Best Fact Crime
Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen Hale (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)
* Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse (Flatiron Books)
Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles (Hachette Book Group – Workman Publishing – Algonquin Books)
American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C. by Shahan Mufti (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur Books)
Best Critical/Biographical
* The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins – Collins Crime Club)
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie by Mary Anna Evans & J.C. Bernthal (Bloomsbury – Bloomsbury Academic)
The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Study of His Works and Their Adaptations by David Geherin (McFarland)
The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman (Simon & Schuster – Gallery Books)
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley (Pegasus Books – Pegasus Crime)
Best Short Story
* “Red Flag,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by Gregory Fallis (Dell Magazines)
“Backstory,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by Charles John Harper (Dell Magazines)
“Locked-In,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by William Burton McCormick (Dell Magazines)
“The Amnesty Box,” Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms by Tim McLoughlin (Akashic Books)
“First You Dream, Then You Die,” Black is the Night by Donna Moore (Titan Books)
Best Juvenile
The Swallowtail Legacy: Wreck at Ada’s Reef by Michael D. Beil (Pixel+Ink)
The Area 51 Files by Julie Buxbaum (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Press)
* Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse by Marthe Jocelyn (Penguin Random House Canada – Tundra Books)
Adventures on Trains: Murder on the Safari Star by M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman (Macmillan Children’s Publishing – Feiwel & Friends)
Chester Keene Cracks the Code by Kekla Magoon (Random House Children’s Books – Wendy Lamb Books)
Best Young Adult
Pretty Dead Queens by Alexa Donne (Random House Children’s Books – Crown BFYR)
Frightmares by Eva V. Gibson (Random House Children’s Books – Underlined)
The Black Girls Left Standing by Juliana Goodman (Macmillan Children’s Books – Feiwel & Friends)
* The Red Palace by June Hur (Macmillan Children’s Books – Feiwel & Friends)
Lock the Doors by Vincent Ralph (Sourcebooks – Fire)
Best TV Episode Teleplay
“One Mighty and Strong” – Under the Banner of Heaven, Written by Brandon Boyce (Hulu/FX)
* “Episode 1” – Magpie Murders, Written by Anthony Horowitz (Masterpiece/PBS)
“Episode 1″ – Karen Pirie, Written by Emer Kenny (BritBox)
“When Harry Met Fergus” – Harry Wild, Written by David Logan (Acorn TV)
“The Reagan Way” – Blue Bloods, Written by Siobhan Byrne O’Connor (CBS)
“Eighteen Wheels A Predator” – Law & Order: SVU, Written by Brianna Yellen, Kathy Dobie & Monet Hurst-Mendoza (NBC Universal)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
* “Dogs in the Canyon” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Mark Harrison (Dell Magazines)
The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award
* Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Amanda Flower (Penguin Random House – Berkley)
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press)
The Disinvited Guest by Carol Goodman (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
A Dreadful Splendor by B.R. Myers (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
Never Name the Dead by D.M. Rowell (Crooked Lane Books)
The G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award
Secret Lives by Mark de Castrique (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press)
An Unforgiving Place by Claire Kells (Crooked Lane Books)
* Hideout by Louisa Luna (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group – Doubleday)
Behind the Lie by Emilya Naymark (Crooked Lane Books)
Secrets Typed in Blood by Stephen Spotswood (Knopf Doubleday Publishing – Doubleday)
The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award
The Shadow of Memory by Connie Berry (Crooked Lane Books)
* Buried in a Good Book by Tamara Berry (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press)
Smile Beach Murder by Alicia Bessette (Penguin Random House – Berkley)
Desert Getaway by Michael Craft (Brash Books)
The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press)
Grand Master
Michael Connelly
Joanne Fluke
Raven Award
Crime Writers of Color
Eddie Muller for Noir Alley and The Film Noir Foundation
Ellery Queen Award
The Strand Magazine
FALCOLN AWARD (Japan) 2022
* Private Eyes by Chi Wei-jan
GERMAN MYSTERY PRIZE (Deutscher Krimi Preis) 2023
German Language
First place: Die Stunde der Hyänen (The Hour of the Hyaenas) by Johannes Groschupf
Second Place: Einmal noch sterben (Die once more) by Oliver Bottini
Third place: Davenport 160×90 by Sybille Ruge
Crime Fiction in Translation
First place: Die Aosawa Morde (The Aosawa Murders) by Riku Onda, translated by Nora Bartels
Second place: Die Knochenleser (The Bone Readers) by Jacob Ross, translated by Karin Diemerling
Third place: Wie die einarmige Schwester das Haus fegt (How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House) by Cherie Jones, translated by Karen Gerwig
GLASS KEY AWARD (Scandinavia) 2022
*Mørket under isen (Darkness Under the Ice) by Morten Hesseldahl
GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS, MYSTERY & THRILLER 2022
*The Maid by Nita Prose
HAMMETT PRIZE 2023
Copperhead Road, by Brad Smith
Gangland, by Chuck Hogan
Don’t Know Tough by Eli Cranor
* Pay Dirt Road, by Samantha Jayne Allen
What Happened to the Bennetts, by Lisa Scottoline
AN POST IRISH INDEPENDENT CRIME FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022
Remember My Name, by Sam Blake (Corvus)
Run Time, by Catherine Ryan Howard (Corvus)
* Breaking Point, by Edel Coffey (Sphere)
The Accomplice, by Steve Cavanagh (Orion)
The Interview, by Gill Perdue (Sandycove)
Hide and Seek, by Andrea Mara (Transworld)
ITW THRILLER AWARDS 2023
Best Hardcover Novel
The Violence, by Delilah S. Dawson (Del Rey)
Things We Do in the Dark, by Jennifer Hillier (Minotaur)
The Fervor, by Alma Katsu (Penguin/Putnam)
The Children on the Hill, by Jennifer McMahon (Simon & Schuster)
Two Nights in Lisbon, by Chris Pavone (MCD)
* Sundial, by Catriona Ward (Macmillan)
Best Audiobook
Young Rich Widows, by Kimberly Belle, Fargo Layne, Cate Holahan, Vanessa Lillie (Audible)
The Lies I Tell, by Julie Clark (Audible)
The Photo Thief, by J. L. Delozier (CamCat Publishing)
* Things We Do in the Dark, by Jennifer Hillier (Macmillan Audio)
The Silent Woman, by Minka Kent (Blackstone Publishing)
Best First Novel
* The Resemblance, by Lauren Nossett (Flatiron Books)
Blood Sugar, by Sascha Rothchild (Penguin/Putnam)
Dirt Town, by Hayley Scrivenor (Pan Macmillan)
A Flicker in the Dark, by Stacy Willingham (Minotaur)
The Fields, by Erin Young (Flatiron Books)
Best Paperback Original Novel
The Lies I Told, by Mary Burton (Montlake Romance)
No Place to Run, by Mark Edwards (Thomas & Mercer)
Unmissing, by Minka Kent (Thomas & Mercer)
* The Housemaid, by Freida McFadden (Grand Central Publishing)
Anywhere You Run, by Wanda Morris (William Morrow)
The Couple Upstairs, by Holly Wainwright (Pan Macmillan)
The Patient's Secret, by Loreth Anne White (Montlake Romance)
Best Short Story
"Russian for Beginners," by Dominique Bibeau (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
"The Gift," by Barb Goffman (Down & Out Books)
"Publish or Perish," by Smita Harish Jain (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
"33 Clues to the Disappearance of My Sister," by Joyce Carol Oates (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
"Schrödinger, Cat," by Anna Scotti (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
* "Stockholm," by Catherine Steadman (Amazon Original Stories)
Best Young Adult Novel
Our Crooked Hearts, by Melissa Albert (Flatiron Books)
Sugaring Off, by Gillian French (Algonquin Young Readers)
* Daughter, by Kate McLaughlin (Wednesday Books)
What's Coming to Me, by Francesca Padilla (Soho Teen)
I'm the Girl, by Courtney Summers (Wednesday Books)
Best E-Book Original Novel
Evasive Species, by Bill Byrnes (self-published)
* The Couple at Causeway Cottage, by Diane Jeffrey (HarperCollins)
The Seven Truths of Hannah Baxter, by Grant McKenzie (self-published)
The Hollow, by Rick Mofina (self-published)
Fatal Rounds, by Carrie Rubin (self-published)
KILLER NASHVILLE SILVER FALCHION AWARDS 2021
Best Action Adventure
The Medina Device / T. J. Champitto
Hot Flash Decisions / Shirley B. Garrett
Dead Men’s Silence / James Lindholm
Trojan Horse / S. Lee Manning
*The Crow’s Nest / Richard Meredith
Best Comedy
*Con Me Once / J. L. Delozier
Risky Whiskey / Lucy Lakestone
Once is Never Enough / Haris Orkin
Slightly Murderous Intent / Lida Sideris
Murder by Milk Bottle / Lynne Truss
Best Cozy
Winter Witness / Tina deBellegarde
Dead Man’s Watch / Kay DiBianca
Three Treats Too Many / Debra H. Goldstein
Family Twist / Bonita Y. McCoy
Murder in First Position / Lori Robbins
Larceny at the Library / Colleen J. Shogan
Seas the Day / Maggie Toussaint
Dr. Shine Cracks the Case / Cathy Tully
*Rose by Any Other Name / Becki Willis
A Sew Deadly Cruise / Lois Winston
Best Historical
Copy Boy / Shelley Blanton-Stroud
Dark Secrets of the Bayou / Kim Carter
A Child Lost / Michelle Cox
*The Lost Wisdom of the Magi / Susie Helme
Death on the Homefront / Frances McNamara
Best Investigator
Narco Noir / Carmen Amato
The Last Scoop / R. G. Belsky
*Within Plain Sight / Bruce Robert Coffin
The Vultures / Mark Hannon
The Garbage Man / Candace Irving
A Palette for Love and Murder / Saralyn Richard
Stardust Trail / J. R. Sanders
Facets of Death / Michael Stanley
In Twilight’s Hush / Laurie Stevens
All We Buried / Elena Taylor
Dirty Old Town / Gabriel Valjan
Best Juvenile / Y.A
The Crossingway / Lynn H. Elliott
*Irish Town / Matthew John Meagher
Kassy O’Roarke Treasure Hunter / Kelly Oliver
Astrobia / James C. Paavola
Someone is Burning My Lord, Kumbaaya / Fiza Pathan and Michaelangelo Zane
Best Mystery
Every Kind of Wicked / Lisa Black
Dark Secrets of the Bayou / Kim Carter
Travels of Quinn / Sasscer Hill
Three Houses on a Hill / Nicholas Holloway
Relative Silence / Carrie Stuart Parks
Calling for the Money / Cathy Perkins
Love Power / Martha Reed
Murder, Forgotten / Deb Richardson-Moore
*Code Gray / Benny Sims
Murder at Lolly Beach / Jane Suen
Best Nonfiction
The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America’s Wildlands / Jon Billman
The Five Core Conversations for Couples / David and Julie Bulitt
*Words Whispered in Water / Sandy Rosenthal
Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Jeremy and the Witches Medallion / Randy Gauthier
Servant of the Crown / Duncan M. Hamilton
In the Shadow of a Valiant Moon / Stu Jones & Gareth Worthington
Otaku / Chris Kluwe
*Odyssey Tale / Cody Schlegel
Best Short Story Collection / Anthology
Crossing Borders / Lisa Brackmann & Matt Coyle
Judge Lu’s Case Files, Stories of Crime & Mystery in Imperial China / P.A. De Voe
Minnesota Not So Nice: Eighteen Tales of Bad Behavior / Barbara Merritt Deese, Pat Dennis, Michael Allan Mallory, and Timya Owen
*Couch Detective Book 2 / James Glass
Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies / John Langan
Best Supernatural
Slipping into Darkness / D. M. Bourgeois
Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht / Catherine Moore
Wonderland / Zoje Stage
Sisters of the Moon / Alexandrea Weis
*Borrowed Memories / Christine Mager Wevik
Inn the Spirit of Competition / Becki Willis
Best Suspense
Inherent Fate / Alicia Anthony
Purgatory, A Progeny’s Quest / T.M. Brown
The Stepdaughter / Georgina Cross
Athena’s Dilemma / Donna Del Oro
A Thousand Miles from Spokane / S. D. Goldman
*Ring of Conspiracy / J. Robert Kinney
Trojan Horse / S. Lee Manning
The Golden Girl / Dana Perry
Last Call / Cathi Stoler
Let the Guilty Pay / Rick Treon
Best Thriller
Collateral / Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson
Bakersfield Boys Club / Anne Da Vigo
Blind Edge / Candace Irving
The Venezuelan / Bill King
Fall / Leslie McCauley
Percentages of Guilt / Michael Niemann
Ripple in the Sea / Charley Pearson
Hot Ice, Cold Blood / Holly Spofford
*The Divine Devils / R. Weir
Scorpion Scheme / Melissa Yi
KILLER NASHVILLE CLAYMORE AWARDS 2021
Choosing Guilt by Frances Aylor
IoTa by Christopher Bates
*Crooked by Mary Bush
Spooked by Dara Carr
NISEI Rookie by Ray Collins
Blackwood by Claire Dowley
Murdered and Missing by Ardis Eckel
Androcide in Paradise by James Graham
Corniced to Death by Margaret S. Hamilton
Curse of Darkness by Nicholas Knight
Stolen Diary by Kathryn Lane
Cornerstone by Grace Lawler
The Forget-Me-Knot by Richard McGonegal
Dying to Live Here by Shelley Spence
A Bad Week in Wampo by Patricia Stoltey
Zebra by Jill Wallace
Infinity is Not Forever by Michael Wheeler
Unraveling by Judy White
A Star in Her Crown by Darryl Wimberley
Mr. Perfect? By Kelly Woll
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD LGBT Authors/Themes 2023
Best Mystery/Thriller
A Death in Berlin by David C Dawson
And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling
Dead Letters from Paradise by Ann McMan
* Dirt Creek: A Novel by Hayley Scrivenor
Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen
- Boystown 5: Murder Book, Marshall ThorntonFierce, David Lennon
- Foxed, Garry Ryan
- The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari, Sarah Black
- How to Greet Strangers: A Mystery, Joyce Thompson
- In Real Life, The 3rd Gemini & Flowers Mystery, Jonathan Gregory
- Pawn of Satan, Mark Zubro
- Pretty Boy Dead, Jon Michaelsen
- The Prisoner of the Riviera: A Francis Bacon Mystery, Janice Law
- Baton Rouge Bingo, Greg Herren, Bold Strokes Books
- Boystown 5: Murder Book, Marshall Thornton, MLR Press
- Fierce, David Lennon, Blue Spike Publishing
- Foxed, Garry Ryan, NeWest Press
- The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari, Sarah Black, Dreamspinner Press
- How to Greet Strangers: A Mystery, Joyce Thompson, Lethe Press
- In Real Life, The 3rd Gemini & Flowers Mystery, Jonathan Gregory, Amazon Digital Services Inc
- Pawn of Satan, Mark Zubro, MLR Press
- Pretty Boy Dead, Jon Michaelsen, Wilde City Press
- The Prisoner of the Riviera: A Francis Bacon Mystery, Janice Law, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Media
- Boystown 5: Murder Book, Marshall Thornton, MLR Press
- Fierce, David Lennon, Blue Spike Publishing
- Foxed, Garry Ryan, NeWest Press
- The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari, Sarah Black, Dreamspinner Press
- How to Greet Strangers: A Mystery, Joyce Thompson, Lethe Press
- In Real Life, The 3rd Gemini & Flowers Mystery, Jonathan Gregory, Amazon Digital Services Inc
- Pawn of Satan, Mark Zubro, MLR Press
- Pretty Boy Dead, Jon Michaelsen, Wilde City Press
- The Prisoner of the Riviera: A Francis Bacon Mystery, Janice Law, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Media
Lefty Nominees for Best Humorous Mystery Novel
* Ellen Byron, Bayou Book Thief (Berkley Prime Crime)
Jennifer J. Chow, Death by Bubble Tea (Berkley Prime Crime)
A.J. Devlin, Five Moves of Doom (NeWest Press)
T.G. Herren, A Streetcar Named Murder (Crooked Lane Books)
Catriona McPherson, Scot in a Trap (Severn House)
Lefty Nominees for Best Historical Mystery Novel
Dianne Freeman, A Bride’s Guide to Marriage and Murder (Kensington Books)
Catriona McPherson, In Place of Fear (Mobius)
* Wanda M. Morris, Anywhere You Run (William Morrow)
Karen Odden, Under a Veiled Moon (Crooked Lane Books)
Ann Parker, The Secret in the Wall (Poisoned Pen Press)
Iona Whishaw, Framed in Fire (Touchwood Editions)
Lefty Nominees for Best Debut Mystery Novel
Erin E. Adams, Jackal (Bantam Books)
Eli Cranor, Don’t Know Tough (Soho Crime)
* Ramona Emerson, Shutter (Soho Crme)
Meredith Hambrock, Other People’s Secrets (Crooked Lane Books)
Harini Nagendra, The Bangalore Detectives Club (Pegasus Crime)
Rob Osler, Devil’s Chew Toy (Crooked Lane Books)
Jane Pek, The Verifiers (Vintage Books)
Lefty Nominees for Best Mystery Novel
* Kellye Garrett, Like a Sister (Mulholland Books)
Laurie R. King, Back to the Garden (Bantam Books)
James L’Etoile, Dead Drop (Level Best Books)
Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key (Minotaur Books)
Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Minotaur Books)
Alex Segura, Secret Identity (Flatiron Books)
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE 2023
Mystery/Thriller
* Secret Identity by Alex Segura
We Lie Here: A Thriller by Rachel Howzell Hal
Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King
All That's Left Unsaid: A Novel by Tracey Lien
The Cartographers: A Novel by Peng Shepherd
MACAVITY AWARDS 2021
Best Mystery Novel
Before She Was Helen, by Caroline B. Cooney (Ecco Press)
*Blacktop Wasteland, by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron Books)
Blind Vigil, by Matt Coyle (Oceanview Publishing)
All the Devils Are Here, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
These Women, by Ivy Pochoda (Poisoned Pen Press)
When She Was Good, by Michael Robotham (Scribner)
Best First Mystery Novel
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, by Deepa Anappara (Random House)
Murder in Old Bombay, by Nev March (Minotaur)
The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books)
*Winter Counts, by David Heska Wanbli Weider (Ecco Press)
Darling Rose Gold, by Stephanie Wrobel (Berkley)
Best Critical-Biographical
Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy, by Leslie Brody (Seal Press)
Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club, edited by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)
Ian Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction by Erin E. MacDonald (McFarland)
*H R.F. Keating: A Life of Crime, by Sheila Mitchell (Level Best Books)
Southern Cross Crime: The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia and New Zealand by Craig Sisterson (Oldcastle Books)
Best Mystery Short Story
“Dear Emily Etiquette" by Barb Goffman (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept/Oct 2020)
“The Boy Detective & The Summer of ‘74” by Art Taylor (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2020)
*"Elysian Fields" by Gabriel Valjan (California Schemin’: The 2020 Bouchercon Anthology, edited by Art Taylor; Wildside Press)
“Dog Eat Dog” by Elaine Viets (The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell, edited by Josh Pachter; Untreed Reads Publishing)
“The Twenty-Five Year Engagement,” by James W. Ziskin (In League with Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon, edited by Laurie R. King; Pegasus Crime)
Sue Feder Memorial Award: Best Historical Mystery
The Last Mrs. Summers by Rhys Bowen (Berkeley)
The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Elsa Hart (Minotaur)
The Turning Tide by Catriona McPherson (Quercus)
Mortal Music by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen Press)
The Mimosa Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu (Constable)
*Turn to Stone by James Ziskin (Seventh Street Books)
Crime Fiction
Richard Cass, The Last Altruist
Geoffrey M. Cooper, Perilous Obsession: A Medical Thriller
* Kathryn Lasky, Light on Bone
NED KELLY AWARDS (Australia) 2022
Best Crime Fiction
The Enemy Within (Tim Ayliffe, S&S)
The Others (Mark Brandi, Hachette)
You Had it Coming (B M Carroll, Profile Books)
* The Chase (Candice Fox, Bantam)
Kill Your Brother (Jack Heath, A&U)
The Family Doctor (Debra Oswald, A&U)
The Deep (Kyle Perry, Michael Joseph)
Best Debut Crime Fiction
Sweet Jimmy (Bryan Brown, A&U)
Shadow Over Edmund Street (Suzanne Frankham, Journey to Words Publishing)
Cutters End (Margaret Hickey, Penguin)
* Banjawarn (Josh Kemp, UWA Publishing)
Best True Crime
The Mother Wound (Amani Haydar, Macmillan)
Larrimah (Caroline Graham & Kylie Stevenson, A&U)
* Banquet: The untold story of Adelaide’s family murders (Debi Marshall, Vintage)
A Witness of Fact (Drew Rooke, Scribe)
Best International Crime Fiction
Case Study (Graeme Macrae Burnet, Text)
The Heron’s Cry (Ann Cleeves, Macmillan)
* The Maid (Nita Prose, HarperCollins)
Cry Wolf (Hans Rosenfeldt, HarperCollins)
NERO WOLF AWARDS 2020
The Nero for Best Mystery
* Tower of Babel by Micheal Sears
Black Orchid Novella Award
*Jacqueline Freimor, "The Case of the Bogus Cinderellas"
NGAIO MARSH AWARD 2022
Best Novel
The Devils You Know, by Ben Sanders (Allen & Unwin)
* Before You Knew My Name, by Jacqueline Bublitz (Allen & Unwin)
She’s a Killer, by Kirsten McDougall (Te Herenga Waka University Press)
Quiet in Her Bones, by Nalini Singh (Hachette)
The Quiet People, by Paul Cleave (Upstart Press)
Nancy Business, by R.W.R. McDonald (Allen & Unwin)
Best First Novel
Isobar Precinct, by Angelique Kasmara (Cuba Press)
* Before You Knew My Name, by Jacqueline Bublitz (Allen & Unwin)
Waking the Tiger, by Mark Wightman (Hobeck)
Small Mouth Demon, by Matt Zwartz (Poetry in Motion)
Shadow Over Edmund Street, by Suzanne Frankham (Journeys to Words)
PETRONA AWARD FOR BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION 2022
* Maria Adolfsson - FATAL ISLES tr. Agnes Broomé (Sweden, Zaffre)
Helene Flood - THE THERAPIST tr. Alison McCullough (Norway, MacLehose Press)
Ruth Lillegraven - EVERYTHING IS MINE tr. Diane Oatley (Norway, AmazonCrossing)
Anders Roslund - KNOCK KNOCK tr. Elizabeth Clark Wessel (Sweden, Harvill Secker)
Lilja Sigurðardóttir - COLD AS HELL tr. Quentin Bates (Iceland, Orenda Books)
Antti Tuomainen - THE RABBIT FACTOR tr. David Hackston (Finland, Orenda Books)
SARA PARETSKY AWARD (Best Midwest Crime Writer) 2020
*Scott Turow
SHAMUS AWARDS Finalists 2023
Best PI Hardcover
The Wheel of Doll by Jonathan Ames (Mulholland Books)
The Big Bundle by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide (Mulholland Books)
Holmes Coming by Kenneth Johnson (Blackstone Publishing)
The Blackmail by M. Ravenel (Chikara Press)
Best Original Private Eye Paperback
Quarry’s Blood by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
DoubleBlind by Libby Fischer Hellmann (The Red Herrings Press)
Canary in a Coal Mine by Charles Salzberg (Down & Out Books)
Dead-Bang Fall by J.R. Sanders (Level Best Books)
Hush Hush by Gabriel Valjan (Historia/Level Best Books)
Best Private Eye Short Story
“No Place for a Dame" by Lori Armstrong (Edgar & Shamus Go Golden/Down & Out Books)
“Charlie’s Medicine” by Libby Cudmore (Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Warren Zevon/Down & Out Books)
“A Jelly of Intrigue” by O’Neil De Noux (Edgar & Shamus Go Golden/Down & Out Books)
“The Pearl of Antilles” by Caroline Garcia-Aguilera (Edgar & Shamus Go Golden/Down & Out Books)
“Bad Actor” by Elliot Sweeney (Nov/Dec 2022, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
Best First Private Eye Novel
Big Fat F@!k-up by Lawrence Allan (M.S. Wooten Press)
Pay Dirt Road by Samantha Jayne Allen (Minotaur Books)
Foote by Tom Bredehoft (West Virginia University Press)
What Meets the Eye by Alex Kenna (Crooked Lane Books)
The Goldenacre by Philip Miller (Soho Crime)
SPOTTED OWL AWARD (Best Pacific NW Crime Novel) 2022
(1) Warren Easley for No Witness
(2) Robert Dugoni for In Her Tracks
(3) Martin Limon for War Women
(4) Dana Haynes for Sirocco
(5) John Straley for So Far and Good
(6) (tie) Valerie Geary for The Ophelia Killer
Michael Niemann for The Last Straw
(7)Marc Cameron for Bone Rattle
(8) (tie) Dana Stabenow for Spoils of the Dead
Amy Stewart for Miss Kopp Investigates
THE STRAND CRITICS AWARD Finalists 2023
Best Novel
Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris (William Morrow)
Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
Desert Star by Michael Connelly (Little Brown)
Her Last Affair by John Searles (Mariner Books)
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
Secret Identity Alex Segura (Flatiron Books)
Best First Novel
Jackal by Erin E. Adams (Bantam)
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham (Minotaur)
Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz (Atria/Emily Bestler)
Don’t Know Tough by Eli Cranor (Soho)
Shutter by Ramona Emerson (Soho)
*Lifetime Achievement Awards: James Lee Burke and Lee Child
The Expats, by Chris Pavone (Crown)
Disappeared, by Anthony Quinn (Mysterious Press/Open Road)
The 500, by Matthew Quirk (Hachette) - See more at: http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2013/03/strand-magazine-critics-awards-nominees.html#.dpuf
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) - See more at: http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2013/03/strand-magazine-critics-awards-nominees.html#.dpuf
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) - See more at: http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2013/03/strand-magazine-critics-awards-nominees.html#.dpuf
THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022
The Night Hawks, by Elly Griffiths (Quercus)
True Crime Story, by Joseph Knox (Penguin)
Daughters of Night, by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Pan)
* Slough House, by Mick Herron (John Murray)
Midnight at Malabar House, by Vaseem Khan (Hodder Paperbacks)
The Last Thing to Burn, by Will Dean (Hodder Paperbacks)
