Mystery News and Deadly Pleasures are pleased to announce the 2008 Barry Award nominations. The Barry Awards are named for of one of the most ardent and beloved ambassadors of mystery fiction, Barry Gardner, and are voted on by the readers of Mystery News and Deadly Pleasures. The 12th Annual Barry Awards presentation will take place at Bouchercon in Baltimore, Maryland in early October.
Best Novel (Published in the U.S. in 2007)
Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman (Bleak House)
The Unquiet by John Connolly (Atria)
Down River by John Hart (St Martin's Minotaur)
Dirty Martini by J.A. Konrath (Hyperion)
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (Morrow)
Red Cat by Peter Spiegelman (Knopf)Best First Novel (Published in the U.S. in 2007)
Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell (Morrow)
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover (Morrow)
In the Woods by Tana French (Viking)
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz (Simon & Schuster)
The Collaborator of Bethlehem by Matt Beynon Rees (Soho Press)
The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey (St. Martin's Minotaur)Best British Crime Novel (Published in the U.K. in 2007, not necessarily written by a British writer nor set in the U.K.)
A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory (Orion)
Pig Island by Mo Hayder (Bantam Press)
One Under by Graham Hurley (Orion)
The Death List by Paul Johnston (Mira)
The 50/50 Killer bySteve Mosby (Orion)
Damnation Falls by Edward Wright (Orion)Best ThrillerNo Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay (Bantam)
The Cleaner by Brett Battles (Delacorte)
The Watchman by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster)
Volk's Game by Brent Ghelfi (Henry Holt)
Silence by Thomas Perry (Harcourt)
Midnight Rambler by Jim Swain (Ballantine)Best Paperback Original
Queenpin by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
Black Widow Agency by Felicia Donovan (Midnight Ink)
Choke Point by Jay MacLarty (Pocket)
The Mark by Jason Pinter (Mira)
Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand by Fred Vargas (Penguin)
Who Is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall (Simon & Schuster)Best Short Story
"Dead As a Dog" by Doug Allyn (EQMM July 2007)
"The Book Case" by Dale C. Andrews and Kurt Sercu (EQMM May 2007)
"The Missing Elevator Puzzle" by Jon L. Breen (EQMM February 2007)
"Bump" by Jeffery Deaver (Dead Man's Hand)
"The Problem of the Summer Snowman" by Edward D. Hoch (EQMM November 2007)
"The Old Wife's Tale" by Gillian Roberts (EQMM March-April 2007)
"Murder: A User's Guibe" by Neil Schofield (AHMM July-August 2007)
How to vote: A ballot will
be included in the June/July and August/September issues of Mystery News.
If you are a Mystery News reader and you need the ballot,
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be sent via snail mail or by email tolkaczmarek@blackravenpress.com. Votes
must be in our hands no later than midnight central time on September 12, 2008.
Readers
of Deadly Pleasures should check with George
Easter for ballot and voting details.