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--Award to be Presented at Edgar® Awards Banquet in New York City--
NEW YORK, NY 4/29/08 – St. Martin’s Minotaur and the Mystery Writers of America will introduce the winner of their First Crime Novel Competition at the 62nd annual Edgar® Awards Banquet on May 1st in New York City. The announcement was made this week by Andrew Martin, St. Martin’s Minotaur Publisher, and Harry Hunsicker, MWA Executive Vice President.
The competition winner is Stefanie Pintoff, an attorney who has completed extensive academic research in detective fiction and the history of criminology. Her winning novel, tentatively titled In the Shadow of Gotham, is set in turn-of-the-century New York City and will be published in 2009. The novel tells the story of a detective who teams up with one of the criminal profiler of the time; it makes full use of Pintoff’s knowledge of theories of crime over one hundred years ago.
Mr. Martin officially announced the start of the competition at the Edgar® Awards Banquet last year. The contest provides a previously unpublished writer an opportunity to launch his or her career with the St. Martin’s Minotaur imprint. The winner will receive a one-book, $10,000 contract.
St. Martin’s Minotaur and the Mystery Writers of America selected Pintoff’s manuscript after reviewing over 700 entries. Minotaur is currently accepting submissions for next year’s award. For more information, visit www.minotaurbooks.com/competitions.html.
The Edgar® Awards, or "Edgars," as they are commonly known, are named after Edgar Allan Poe and are awarded to authors of distinguished work in more than a dozen categories. The Edgar® Awards Banquet will be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, with Today show host Al Roker as the Master of Ceremonies.
About Mystery Writers of America: Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is the premier organization for mystery writers, professionals allied to the crime writing field, aspiring crime writers, and those who are devoted to the genre. MWA is dedicated to promoting higher regard for crime writing and recognition and respect for those who write within the genre. MWA is a nonprofit organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. www.mysterywriters.org.
About St. Martin’s Minotaur: St. Martin’s Minotaur is an imprint of St. Martin’s Press that launched in 1999, publishing 130 hardcover crime fiction titles annually. St. Martin’s Minotaur grew out of a fifty-year tradition of publishing quality crime fiction at St. Martin’s Press, and has published several award-winning and best-selling titles. http://us.macmillan.com/Minotaur.aspx
St. Martin’s Press is part of Macmillan, the U. S. publishing group owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GMBH of Stuttgart, Germany |
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Gumshoe Awards 2008 |
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The 7th Annual Gumshoe Awards are given by Mystery Ink
to recognize the best
achievements in crime fiction. This year's nominees were chosen from
books
first published in the Winner
Best Mystery - James Lee Burke - (Simon
& Schuster) The Tin Roof Blowdown Other
nominees:- John
Connolly - The Unquiet
(Atria) Winner Best Thriller - Robert
Crais - The Watchman (Simon
&
Schuster) Other nominees:- Joseph
Finder - Power
Play (St. Martin's Press) Best First Novel - Sean Chercover - Big City, Bad Blood (William Morrow) Other nominees:- Philip
Hawley, Jr.
- Stigma (Harper) Lifetime Achievement – Donald Westlake Donald E. Westlake Donald
E. Westlake is one of the
most prolific authors in the crime genre, having written books of
nearly every
conceivable type, ranging from comic capers to thrillers to noir. He's
written
private eye novels, cop novels, historical novels, even erotic novels.
More
impressively, most of them are pretty damn good, and some of them are
great.
For maintaining a tradition of writing excellence for nearly 50 years, Best Crime Fiction Website: The
Thrilling
Detective Web Site Edited by Kevin Burton Smith, The Thrilling Detective Web Site has been a comprehensive resource on private eye fiction, and the crime genre more generally, for over a decade. A one-stop destination with a wealth of information, The Thrilling Detective includes author and book guides, reviews, news, information on film and TV, original fiction and more. It is an essential guide for fans of PI novels or anyone looking to learn more about detective fiction. Agatha Awards 2008 The traditional
mysteries fan organization Malice
Domestic has announced the
winners of its 2008 Agatha Awards as follows: Winners were announced on
Saturday 26 April 2008 during an awards banquet at the Malice Domestic
XX
convention in Best
Novel: A
Fatal Grace, by Louise Penny ( Other nominees:- The
Penguin Who Knew Too Much, by Donna Andrews ( Her
Royal Spyness, by Rhys Bowen (Penguin); Hard
Row, by
Margaret Maron (Grand Central Publishing); Murder
With Reservations, by Elaine Viets (NAL) Best
First Novel: Prime
Time, by Hank Phillipi Ryan (Harlequin) A
Beautiful Blue Death, by Charles Finch ( A
Real Basket Case, by Beth Groundwater (Five Star); Silent
in the Grave,
by Deanna Raybourn (Mira) Best
Non-fiction: Arthur
Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, by Charles Foley, Jon
Lellenberg, and
Daniel Stashower (Penguin) The
Official Nancy Drew Handbook, by
Penny Warner (Quirck Productions) Best
Short Story:
“A Rat’s Tale,” by Donna Andrews (Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM],
September/October 2007) “Please
Watch Your Step,” by Rhys Bowen (The “Casino
Gamble,” by Nan Higginson (Murder New York Style,
edited by Randy
Kendel; L&L Dreamspell); “Popping
Round to the Post,” by Peter Lovesey (EQMM,
November 2007); “Death Will
Clean Your Closet,” by Elizabeth Zelvin (Murder New
York Style) Bravo
Zulu, Samantha!, by Kathleen
Benner Duble (Peachtree Publishers); Cover-Up:
Mystery at the Super Bowl, by John Feinstein
(Knopf); The Falconer’s
Knot, by Mary
Hoffman (Bloomsbury Theodosia
and the Serpents of Chaos, by R.L. LaFevers
(Houghton Mifflin) Lifetime
Achievement Award British novelist
Peter Lovesey The
Poirot
Awards
(honoring “individuals other than writers who have made
outstanding
contributions to the Malice Domestic genre”) |
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Edgar Awards 2008 (Nominees) |
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Best Novel
Nominees Christine
Falls by Benjamin Black (Henry Holt and Company) Priest by Ken Bruen
(
The Yiddish
Policemen's
Soul Patch by Reed
Farrel Coleman (Bleak House Books)
Down River by John
Hart ( Best First
Novel by an American Author Missing
Witness by Gordon Campbell (HarperCollins - William Morrow) In the Woods by Tana
French (Penguin Group - Viking)
Snitch Jacket by
Christopher Goffard (The Rookery Press)
Head Games by Craig
McDonald (Bleak House Books)
Pyres by Derek
Nikitas ( Best
Paperback Original Queenpin
by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster) Blood of
Cruel Poetry by
Vicki Hendricks (Serpent's Tail)
Robbie's Wife by
Russell Hill (Hard Case Crime)
Who is Conrad Hirst?
by Kevin Wignall (Simon & Schuster) Best
Critical/Biographical The
Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured
Popular
Fiction by Patrick Anderson (Random House) A Counter-History of
Crime Fiction: Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational by Maurizio Ascari
(Palgrave
Macmillan)
Deviance in Contemporary
Crime Fiction by Christiana Gregoriou (Palgrave Macmillan)
Arthur Conan Doyle:
A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley
(The
Penguin Press)
Best Fact
Fiction The
Birthday Party by Reclaiming History:
The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi
(W.W. Norton
and Company
Chasing Justice: My
Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I
Didn't
Commit by Kerry Max Cook (HarperCollins - William Morrow)
Relentless Pursuit:
A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit by
Kevin
Flynn (Penguin Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Sacco &
Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind by Bruce
Watson
(Penguin Group – Viking) Best Short
Story "The Catch" - Still Waters
by Mark
Ammons (Level Best Books) "Blue Note"
-
"Hardly Knew
Her" - Dead Man's Hand by Laura Lippman (Harcourt Trade Publishers)
"The Golden
Gopher" -
"Uncle" - A
Hell of a Woman
by Daniel Woodrell (Busted Flush Press) Best Young
Adult Rat Life
by Tedd Arnold (Penguin - Dial Books for Young Readers) Diamonds in the
Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney (Random House Children's Books - Delacorte
Press)
Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin (Simon
& Schuster Children's Publishing - Atheneum Books for Young
Readers)
Blood Brothers by
Fragments by Jeffry
W. Johnston (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Simon
Pulse) Best
Juvenile The Name
of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch (Little, Brown Books for
Young
Readers) Shadows on
Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman (American Girl Publications) Deep and Dark and
Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion Books)
The Night Tourist by
Katherine Marsh (Hyperion Books for Young Readers)
Sammy Keyes and the
Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen (Random House Children's Books -
Alfred A.
Knopf) Best Play If/Then by
David Foley (International Mystery Writers' Festival) Panic by Joseph
Goodrich (International Mystery Writers' Festival)
Books by Stuart M.
Kaminsky (International Mystery Writers' Festival) Best
Episode "It's
Alive" - Dexter, Teleplay by Daniel Cerone (Showtime) "Yahrzeit"
- Waking the Dead, Teleplay by Declan Croghan & Barbara Machin
(BBC
America) "Pie-Lette"
- Pushing Daisies, Teleplay by Bryan Fuller (ABC/Warner Bros Television
"Senseless"
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Teleplay by Julie Martin
& Siobhan
Byrne O'Connor (Wolf Films/NBC Universal)
"Pilot" -
Burn Notice,
Teleplay by Matt Nix ( Best
Motion Picture Screen Play Eastern
Promises, Screenplay by Steven Knight (Focus Features) The Lookout,
Screenplay by Scott Frank (Miramax)
Michael Clayton, Screenplay
by Tony Gilroy (Warner Bros. Pictures)
No Country for Old
Men, Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, based on the book by
Cormac
McCarthy (Miramax)
Zodiac, Screenplay
by James Vanderbilt, based on the book by Robert Graysmith (Warner
Bros.
Pictures) Robert L.
Fish Memorial Award "The
Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books) The Simon
& Schuster - Mary
Higgins Clark Award In Cold Pursuit by
Sarah Andrews (
Wild Indigo by Sandi
Ault (Penguin Group -
Inferno by Karen
Harper (Harlequin - MIRA Books)
The First Stone by
Judith Kelman (Penguin Group -
Deadman's Switch by
Barbara Seranella ( Grand
Master - Bill Pronzini Raven
Awards Center for
the Book in the Library of Congress Kate's Mystery Books
(Kate Mattes, owner) The 62nd
Annual Edgar® Awards banquet will be held on Thursday May 1,
2008 at the Grand
Hyatt Hotel in New York City where the winners will be announced. |
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Left Coast Crime – Denver 2008 (Nominees) |
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Dilys Awards The award
for the mystery independent booksellers
most enjoyed selling has announced its nominees: Her Royal
Spyness by Rhys Bowen (
The Spellman
Files by Lisa Lutz (S&S)
Silent in the
Grave by Deanna Raybourn (Mira)
The Blade Itself
by Marcus Sakey ( The Lefty
(for the most humorous mystery published in
2007) The Penguin Who
Knew Too Much, by Donna Andrews (
Stuff to Die For,
by Don Bruns (Oceanview Publishing)
Some Like It
Hot-Buttered, by Jeff Cohen (
Knee High by the
Fourth of July, by Jess Lourey (
Murder with
Reservations, by Elaine Viets (NAL)
The Rocky
(for best mystery set in the
Free Fire, by
C.J. Box (Putnam)
Lost Dog, by Bill
Cameron (
The Girl with
Braided Hair, by Margaret Coel (
Stealing the
Dragon, by Tim Maleeny (
False Fortune, by
Twist Phelan (Poisoned Pen Press)
The Arty
(For Best Cover Art On A Mystery Novel
Published In 2007) Queenpin, By
Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
Isabella Moon, by
Laura Benedict (Ballantine)
Her Royal
Spyness, by Rhys Bowen (
Silent Counsel,
by Ken Issacson (Windermere Press)
Stealing the
Dragon, by Tim Maleeny ( |
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2007 Quill Awards |
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This year’s picks were published between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007, with the winners in 19 categories to be selected by a popular votes of a voting board comprised of over 6,000 invited booksellers and librarians. The awards will be presented on Oct. 22 during a gala ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. Nominations for the Mystery/Suspense/Thriller award
The Collaborator of
Bethlehem
by Matt Beynon Rees
What the Dead Know
by Laura Lippman
Body of Lies
by David Ignatius
The Overlook
by Michael Connelly
A Welcome Grave
by Michael Koryta |
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Ned Kelly Awards 2007 |
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The Crime Writers' Association of Australia (CWAA) in conjunction with The Age and The Age Melbourne Writers Festival will announce the winners of the 2007 Ned Kelly Awards during the upcoming Melbourne Writers Festival. Best Crime Fiction
The Undertow – Corris, Peter Spider Trap – Maitland, Barry Without Consent – Fox, Kathryn Undertow – Bauer, Sydney A Knife Edge – Rollins, David A The Murderer's Club – Martin, P D The Unknown Terrorist Flanagan, Richard The Tesla Legacy – Barrett, Robert G. Hit - Moss, Tara Chain of Evidence – Disher, Garry And Hope to Die – Calder, J M Inspector Anders and the Blood Vendetta – Browne, Marshall The Mother – McBain, Brett The Lady Splash – Brooks, Kirsty The Night Ferry – Robotham, Michael Vale Byron Bay – Grogan, Wayne The Cleaner – Cleave, Paul
Best First Crime Novel
The Betrayal of Bindi Mackenzie – Moriaty, Jaclyn Behind The Night Bazaar – Savage, Angela Diamond Dove – Hyland, Adrian Equinox – White, Michael Upshot – Trigger, John Blood on a Blue Line – Caple, Steve The Cleaner – Cleave, Paul Prismatic – Grey, Edwina Carnies – Livings, Martin Better Dead than Never – Boulanger, Laurent The Curer of Souls – Simpson, Lindsay
Best True Crime
After Port Arthur – Altman, Carol Sick to Death – Thomas, Hedley Things a Killer Would Know – Doneman, Paula My Brother's Keeper – Miranda, Charles & Kamper, Angela Australian Outlaw – Pedley, Derek Girls Like You – Sheehan, Paul The Dodger – McNab, Duncan Intractable – Matthews, Bernie Inside Madness – Sweet, Melissa Written On The Skin – Porter, Liz The Maria Corp Case – Crawford, Carly Done Like A Dinner – Harvey, Sandra & Cooke, Jennifer Overboard The Stories Cruise Ships Don’t Want Told Topham, Gwyn Killing for Pleasure The Definitive Story of the Snowtown Murders
- Marshall, Debi
Silent Death – Kissane, Karen Cold Blooded Murder – Brown, Malcolm Justice For The Dead – Dodd, Malcolm & Knight, Beverly The Australian Crime File 2 - Kidd, Paul B The Beat - Fenn, I J |
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MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA EDGAR AWARDS 2007 |
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BEST NOVEL The Wire, Season 4, Teleplays by Ed
Burns, Kia Corthron, Dennis Lehane, David Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos,
Richard Price, David Simon & William F. Zorzi (Home Box Office) |
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GUMSHOE AWARDS 2007 |
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Mystery Ink announces its Gumshoe Award winners for 2007: Best Mystery: Julia Spencer-Fleming - All Mortal Flesh Congratulations to all the winners. |
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ARTHUR ELLIS SHORTLIST 2007 |
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The Crime Writers of Canada has selected its shortlists of nominees for the 2007 Arthur Ellis Awards: Best Novel Best First Novel Best Non-fiction Best Juvenile Best Short Story Best Unpublished First Crime Novel (the Unhanged Arthur) Winner will be announced on June 7, 2007, at Mysteriously Yours ... Dinner Theatre in Toronto during the 24th annual Arthur Ellis Awards dinner. Congratulations to all the nominees. |
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CWA ELLIS PETERS HISTORICAL CRIME AWARD 2006 |
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THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION ELLIS PETERS
HISTORICAL CRIME AWARD 2006
John Ray Horn has little use for politics, but as a former B-movie cowboy star who fell into prison and disgrace, he knows a few things about outsiders. He agrees to help Owen Bruder, a brilliantly talented but notoriously difficult screenwriter accused of having belonged to the Communist Party. If Horn can discover Bruder's secret accuser, they might have a chance to clear his name. But no one is willing to talk. People are scared, in a Hollywood run by fear and suspicion, where a whisper is all it takes to smear an innocent man. As Horn's search leads him to powerful figures in Hollywood, his investigation takes a sudden and deadly turn. And he finds that more people will die before all the secrets are laid bare. The CWA Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award judging panel consisted of: Janet Laurence (Chair): Author of two crime series, one set in the eighteenth century featuring the Italian painter, Canaletto; honours degree in history. Sir Bernard Ingham: former Chief Press Secretary to Margaret Thatcher, and author of numerous books covering both his time in politics and his beloved Yorkshire. Maureen Lyle: Journalist and regular reviewer of crime fiction, also playwright on literary, historical and musical subjects. Jessica Mann: Author of twenty crime novels, journalist and reviewer, whose latest book was a non-fiction account of the overseas evacuation of children during the Second World War. Colin Murray: Long career in publishing, now works as a freelance editor, specialising in crime, science fiction and fantasy. |
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The 2006 Macavity Award Winners |
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The 2006 Macavity Award
Winners (Mystery Readers International) presented by Janet Rudolph on
September 28th, 2006 at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention.
BEST NOVEL THE LINCOLN LAWYER by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) BEST FIRST NOVEL IMMORAL by Brian Freeman (St. Martin's Minotaur) BEST NONFICTION GIRL SLEUTH: NANCY DREW AND THE WOMEN WHO CREATED HER by Melanie Rehak (Harcourt) BEST SHORT STORY "There Is No Crime on Easter Island" by Nancy Pickard (EQMM, Sept-Oct 2005) SUE FEDER HISTORICAL MYSTERY AWARD PARDONABLE LIES by Jacqueline Winspear (Henry Holt)
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Bouchercon Awards 2006 |
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The Shamus Award winners presented by the Private Eye Writers Association:
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THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DUNCAN LAWRIE DAGGER AWARDS 2006 |
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The Crime Writers’ Association are delighted to announced the winners of this year’s Daggers - the prestigious awards that celebrate the very best in crime and thriller writing in 2006.
This year is particularly exciting with the birth of the Duncan Lawrie Dagger - formerly the CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction - with a prize of £20,000. This is now the largest award for crime fiction in the world. Duncan Lawrie Private Bank are also sponsoring the newly-formed Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for the best crime novel translated into English, with £5000 going to the author and £1000, sponsored by the CWA, to the translator.
The CWA and Duncan Lawrie Dagger awards were presented at a black tie dinner at the Waldorf Hilton, Aldwych, London on Thursday, June 29 2006. Guest of honour was James Naughtie.
For the third year, the CWA has continued its partnership with the National Library for the Blind to promote their activities and help to raise funds. Once again, the Foyle Foundation has provided finance which will enable all the winning books in the Dagger Awards to be converted into Braille. As was proved by this year’s Public Lending Right figures, crime writing is now the most popular fiction genre in the UK, and the CWA is particularly pleased to be a part of bringing it to a wider audience in this manner.
THE AWARDS
CWA DEBUT DAGGER For unpublished novels by unpublished authors. Dagger and cheque for £500 prize money, sponsored by Orion, presented by Lisa Milton, Managing Director of Orion, to D V Wesselmann (aka Otis Twelve) (USA) for ‘Imp’.
NOTE: This is the fourth consecutive year that DV Wesselmann (aka Otis Twelve) has been shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger award.
D V Wesselmann (aka Otis Twelve) (USA) - IMP Judges’ comments: ‘A very distinctive and ambitious entry. There’s a lot to like here - an excellent gothic setting and atmosphere - and an interesting balance between whimsy and horror.’
Synopsis: The secrets of the last, missing week of Edgar Allan Poe are revealed by the lost journals of his rival, his friend, his literary executor, his failed assassin, Rufus Wilmot Griswold. ‘Imp’ is a Gothic-Noir laudanum and absinthe-soaked quest through the perversions, violence, and horror of pre-Civil War Baltimore that inverts a literary legend and celebrates the human compulsion to do wrong.
Author biog: 2006 and the nomination of ‘Imp’ marks the fourth consecutive year that Otis Twelve has been shortlisted for the CWA’s Debut Dagger Award. The first three books in his “Tools” series ‘On the Albino Farm’, ‘Sometimes a Prozac Notion’, and ‘Dead Man Dancing’ were finalists in 2003, 2004, and 2005. His short fiction has appeared in The North American Review, Crimespree Magazine, Flashing in the Gutters, The Templeton Prize Anthology (Cosimo 2005), Best New Noir of 2006 (Point Blank 2006), and F**k Noir (Forthcoming). Otis Twelve lives unobtrusively in a tiny hamlet called Walnut, Iowa.
Also shortlisted: Celina Alcock (UK) - THE HOUSE ON FEVER STREET Paul Curd (UK) - THE BELFAST BOY Diane Janes (UK) - MOONSHADOW Sarah Kotler (USA) - SPECIAL DELIVERY Iain Rowan (UK) - ONE OF US Elizabeth Saccente (UK) - IKUMO Michael Sears (South Africa) and Stanley Trollip (USA) - A CARRION DEATH Richard A. Thompson (USA) - FIDDLE GAME Megan Toogood (UK) - A RANDOM ACT OF GENEROSITY
CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY
Nominated and judged by librarians and awarded to an author for a body of work, rather than a single title. Dagger and cheque for £1500 prize money, sponsored by the Random House Group, presented by Ben Wright, UK Sales Director for Random House, to Jim Kelly. Highly Commended in this category was Lesley Horton.
NOTE: Jim Kelly was also shortlisted for the Dagger in the Library award in 2004.
Jim Kelly
Author biog: Jim Kelly is a journalist. He lives in Ely with the biographer Midge Gilles and their young daughter. ‘The Water Clock’, his first novel, was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Award for best first crime novel of 2002. And his second, ‘The Fire Baby’, was chosen by Booklist magazine as one of the top ten crime novels of 2004. Summer 2006 sees the paperback publication of his third novel, ‘The Moon Tunnel’, and the hardback publication of his latest book ‘The Coldest Blood’. All feature the journalist Philip Dryden.
Highly Commended:
Lesley Horton
Author biog: After a career in teaching Lesley Horton began writing her first crime novel in 1996. The break came at the Winchester Conference when an agent read the first page of the manuscript, took the rest home and by the following Wednesday had agreed to represent her. That novel, ‘Snares of Guilt’, was published by Orion in 2002. It was followed in 2003 by ‘On Dangerous Ground’. The third, ‘Devils in the Mirror’, came out in 2005 and her fourth, ‘The Hollow Core’, is due out in December this year.
Also shortlisted: Anthony Horowitz Margaret Murphy Danuta Reah (Carla Banks) C.J. Sansom |