Anthony Award nominees: Bouchercon 2004 has announced the Anthony Award nominations. The awards will be presented at a banquet at Bouchercon in Toronto on October 9.

Best Novel:

Blood is the Sky by Steve Hamilton (St. Martin's Minotaur)
The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt (Random House)
Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman (Harper Collins)
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (William Morrow )
The Summer That Never Was by Peter Robinson (McClelland & Stewart) (US title: Close to Home; Morrow)

Best First Novel:

Death Of A Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel (Soho Press)
Haunted Ground by Erin Hart (Simon &Schuster)
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press)
Monkeewrench by P. J. Tracy (Putnam) (UK title: Want to Play?; Michael Joseph)
Wiley's Lament by Lono Waiwaiole (St. Martin's Press)

Best Paperback Original:

Deadly Legacy by Robin Burcell (Avon)
Dealing In Murder by Elaine Flinn (Avon)
Find Me Again by Sylvia Maultash Warsh (Dundurn Press)
Thicker Than Water by P. J. Parrish (Pinnacle Press)
Tough Luck by Jason Starr (Vintage/Black Lizard)

Best Short Story:

"Doppelganger" by Rhys Bowen (in Blood On Their Hands; edited by Lawrence Block, Berkley Prime Crime)
"The Grass is Always Greener" by Sandy Balzo (in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 2003)
"Munchies" by Jack Bludis (in Hardbroiled; edited by Michael Bracken, Wild Side Press)
"Red Meat" by Elaine Viets (in Blood On Their Hands; edited by Lawrence Block, Berkley Prime Crime)
"Wanda Wilcox Is Trapped" by Eddie Muller (in Plots With Guns, Sept/Oct 2003)

Best Young Adult Mystery:

Artemis Fowl -The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer (Viking Children's Books)
Feast Of Fools by Bridget Crowley (Hodder Children's Books)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (Bloomsbury)
No Escape by Norah McClintock (Scolastic)
Seventh Knot by Kathleen Karr (Marshall Cavendish)

Best Historical Mystery:

Find Me Again by Sylvia Maultash Warsh (Dundurn Press)
For the Love of Mike by Rhys Bowen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Let Loose the Dogs by Maureen Jennings (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press)
The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Best Critical/Non-Fiction Work:

Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson (Bloomsbury)
Interrogations by Jon Jordan (Mystery One Books)
Make Mine a Mystery by Gary Warren Niebuhr (Libraries Unlimited)
Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters In Mystery Fiction, Vol III by Colleen Barnett (Poisoned Pen Press)
The Story of Jane Doe: A Book About Rape by Jane Doe (Random House)

Best Fan Publication:

Deadly Pleasures, editor: George Easter
The Drood Review, editor: Jim Huang
Mystery News, editors: Lynn Kaczmarek & Chris Aldrich
Mystery Readers Journal, editor: Janet A. Rudolph
Mystery Scene Magazine, editor: Kate Stine

Barry Award nominees: Deadly Pleasures magazine has announced the nominees for the Barry Awards, which will be presented at a reception at Bouchercon in October. George Easter, editor of DP, advised that the rules for the nominations were changed this year so that some of the same names wouldn't appear year after year. If an author was nominated for Best Mystery Novel last year, that author is ineligible for this year. The nominees are:

The Guards by Ken Bruen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
The Small Boat of Great Sorrows by Dan Fesperman (Knopf)
Keeping Watch by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (Morrow)
Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman (Morrow)
A Fountain Filled With Blood by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Best First Mystery Novel:

Mission Flats by Bill Landay (Bantam Press/Delacorte)
The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer (St. Martin's Minotaur)
The Barbed-Wire Kiss by Wallace Stroby (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Monkeewrench by P. J. Tracy (Putnam)
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho)
Clea's Moon by Edward Wright (Putnam)

Best British Mystery Novel:

Lazybones by Mark Billingham (Little, Brown)
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler (Doubleday)
The Murder Exchange by Simon Kernick (Bantam Press)
The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey (Little, Brown)
The Distant Echo by Val McDermid (Harpercollins)
The American Boy (U.S. title: An Unpardonable Crime) by Andrew Taylor (Flamingo)

Best Paperback Original Mystery:

Dealing in Murder by Elaine Flinn (Avon)
Wisdom of The Bones by Christopher Hyde (Onyx)
The Courier by Jay Maclarty (Pocket Star)
Tough Luck by Jason Starr (Vintage Crime)
The Shadow of Venus by Judith Van Gieson (Signet)
Murder Between the Covers by Elaine Viets (Signet)

Best Mystery Short Story:

"The Blind Pig" by Doug Allyn (EQMM May 2003)
"Rogues' Gallery" by Robert Barnard (EQMM March 2003)
"Always Another War" by Brendan Dubois (AHMM July-August 2003)
"The Mask Of Peter" by Clark Howard (EQMM April 2003)
"Rogue's Run" by Donald Olson (EQMM April 2003)

Shamus Award nominees: The Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) has announced the following nominees for the Shamus Awards, which will be given during Bouchercon in Toronto on October 8th:

Best PI Short Story:

"Munchies" by Jack Bludis (Hardboiled)
"The Rock in the Orange Grove" by Mitch Alderman (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
"Slayer Statute" by Janet Dawson (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
"Valhalla" by Doug Allyn (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
"Lady on Ice" by Loren D. Estleman (A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime)

 

Best PI Novel:

Scavenger Hunt by Robert Ferrigno (Pantheon)
The Guards by Ken Bruen (St. Martins Minotaur)
Blood is the Sky by Steve Hamilton (Thomas Dunne Books)
Fatal Flaw by William Lashner (William Morrow/Harper Collins)
A Visible Darkness by Jonathon King (Dutton)

 

Best First PI Novel:

Spiked by Mark Arsenault (Poisoned Pen Press)
Black Maps by Peter Spiegelman (Knopf)
Lovers Crossing by James C. Mitchell (St. Martin's Press)

 

Best PI Paperback Original:

Cold Quarry by Andy Straka (Signet)
Thicker Than Water by PJ Parrish (Pinnacle)
Wet Debt by Richard Helms (Back Ally Books)
Dragonfly Bones by David Cole (Avon)

Best Novel:

The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt (Random House Canada)

Lament for a Lounge Lizard by Mary Jane Maffini (RendezVous Press)
The Glenwood Treasure by Kim Moritsugu (Simon & Pierre, Dundurn)
The Hua Shan Hospital Murders by David Rotenberg (McArthur & Company)
The Summer that Never Was by Peter Robinson (McClelland & Stewart) (US title: Close to Home)

Best First Novel:

Just Murder by Jan Rehner (Sumach)

Amuse Bouche by Anthony Bidulka (Insomniac)
Confession in Moscow by Michael Johansen (Breakwater)
Mazovia Legacy by Michael E. Rose (McArthur & Company)
The Sleeping Boy by Barbara J. Stewart (Anchor Canada, RHC)

Best Crime Writing in French:

On finit toujours par payer by Jean Lemieux(La Courte Echelle)

Indesirables by Chrystine Brouillet (La Courte Echelle)
La Salaire de la honte by Maxime Houde (Alire)
Les effets sont secondaires by Andre Marois (La Courte Echelle)
Au nom de Compostelle by Maryse Rouy (Quebec Amerique)

Best Short Story:

"Dead Wood" by Gregory Ward in Hard Boiled Love (Insomniac)

"A Christmas Bauble" by Therese Greenwood in The Kingston Whig-Standard (December 24, 2003)
"Dead in the Water" by Dennis Murphy in Storyteller (Summer 2003)
"When Laura Smiles" by Liz Palmer in Bone Dance (RendezVouz Press)
"The Gimmick" by Vern Smith in Hard Boiled Love (Insomniac)

Best Non-Fiction:

The Road to Hell by Julian Sher & William Marsden (Knopf Canada)

The Story of Jane Doe by "Jane Doe" (Random House Canada)
Nowhere to Run: The Killing of Constable Dennis Strongquill by Mike McIntyre (Great Plains Publications)
Where There's Life, There's Lawsuits by Jeffrey Miller (ECW)

Best Juvenile:

Acceleration by Graham McNamee (Wendy Lamb Books, RHC)

Theories of Relativity by Barbara Haworth-Attard (Harper Trophy Canada)
Truth by Tanya Lloyd Kyi (Orca Book Publishers)
The Deep End Gang by Peggy Dymond Leavey (Napoleon)
No Escape by Norah McClintock (Scholastic Canada)

Derrick Murdock Award: Cheryl Freedman, secretary-treasurer

Best Mystery Novel:
The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt (Putnam)
For the Love of Mike by Rhys Bowen (St. Martin's)
The Guards by Ken Bruen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Done for a Dime by David Corbett (Ballantine)
The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey (Soho Press)

Best First Mystery Novel:
Night of the Dance by James Hime (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca C. Pawel (Soho Press)
The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press)

Best Non-Fiction:
Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Vol. 3 by Colleen A Barnett (Poisoned Pen Press)
A Second Helping of Murder by Jo Grossman & Robert Weibezahl (Poisoned Pen Press)
Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction by Gary Warren Niebuhr (Libraries Unlimited)
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson (Bloomsbury)

Best Short Story:
"The Grass Is Always Greener" by Sandy Balzo (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 2003)
"Rogues Gallery" by Robert Barnard (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 2003)
"Texas Two-Step" by Diana Deverell (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, February 2003)
"No Man's Land" by Beth Foxwell (Blood On Their Hands, Berkley Prime Crime)
"War Crimes" by G. Miki Hayden (A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, Berkley Prime Crime)
"Child Support" by Ronnie Klaskin (A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, Berkley Prime Crime)
"Red Meat" by Elaine Viets (Blood On Their Hands, Berkley Prime Crime)

2003 LA Times Book Prize nomineesThe Los Angeles Times awarded the 2003 Book Prizes on April 24 in conjunction with the 2004 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

The winner in the Mystery/Suspense category is: Soul Circus: A Novel by George P. Pelecanos (Little, Brown)