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South Carolina Book Festival
The South Carolina Book Festival will be held Feb 22-23) at the SC State Fairgrounds in Columbia. Mystery writers appearing include headliner Jeffery Deaver as well as Tamar Myers, Les Standiford and Hallie Ephron. Admission is free. For more info and a schedule go to http://www.schumanities.org/bookfestival.htm
[2/19/2003]
Agatha Award nominees Announced
The Agatha Awards will be presented at the 15th Malice Domestic mystery convention to be held May 2-4, 2003. The Agatha Awards honor traditional mysteries - books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie.
Best Novel
You've Got Murder by Donna Andrews, Berkley Prime Crime
Death of Riley by Rhys Bowen, St. Martin's Minotaur
Blues in the Night by Rochelle Krich, Ballantine Books
The Body in the Bonfire by Katherine Hall Page, William Morrow & Company
The Golden One by Elizabeth Peters, William Morrow & Company
Best First Novel
Not All Tarts Are Apple by Pip Granger, Poisoned Pen Press
Six Strokes Under by Roberta Isleib, Berkley Prime Crime
Beat Until Stiff by Claire M. Johnson, Poisoned Pen Press
How to Murder a Millionaire by Nancy Martin, Signet
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming, St, Martin's Minotaur
Shadows at the Fair by Lea Wait, Scribner
Best Non-Fiction
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction, edited by Mike Ashley, Avalon Publishing Group
Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, edited by Colleen Barnett, Poisoned Pen Press
Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir by Mary Higgins Clark, Simon and Schuster
Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America, edited by Sue Grafton with Jan Burke and Barry Zeman, Writer's Digest Press
They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels, edited by Jim Huang, Crum Creek Press
Best Short Story
Dognapped by Robert Barnard, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (June 2002)
Devotion by Jan Burke, 18, A.S.A.P. Publishing
What He Needed by Laura Lippman, Tart Noir, edited by Stella Duffy & Lauren Henderson, Berkley Prime Crime
The Dog That Didn't Bark by Margaret Maron, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (December 2002)
Too Many Cooks by Marcia Talley, Much Ado About Murder, edited by Anne Perry, Berkley Prime Crime
Best Children's/Young Adult
Whistler in the Dark (American Girl History Mysteries, 16) by Kathleen Ernst, Pleasant Company Publications
Red Card: A Zeke Armstrong Mystery (The Zeke Armstrong Mysteries, 1) by Daniel J. Hale & Matthew LaBrot, Top Publications
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, Knopf
The Secret of the Red Flame by K. M. Kimball, Aladdin Library
The Maltese Kitten: A Sam The Cat Mystery by Linda Stewart, Cheshire House Books
Elizabeth Peters will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award
For more information, email maliceregistrar@aol.com or go to www.malicedomestic.org
[2/19/2003]
Edgar Nominees Announced by Mystery Writers of America
BEST NOVEL
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews (HarperCollins)
Jolie Blon's Bounce by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster)
City of Bones by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan (St. Martin's Minotaur)
No Good Deed by Manda Scott (Bantam)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Southern Latitudes by Stephen J. Clark (Penguin Putnam)
The Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathon King (Penguin Putnam)
High Wire by Kam Majd (Random House)
Buck Fever by Ben Rehder (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt (Mysterious Press)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Black Jack Point by Jeff Abbott (NAL-Onyx)
The Night Watcher by John Lutz (Pinnacle)
Out of Sight by T.J. MacGregor (Pinnacle)
Trauma by Graham Masterton (NAL-Signet)
Prison Blues by Anna Salter (Pocket Books)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction by Mike Ashley (Carroll & Graf)
The Classic Era of Crime Fiction by Peter Haining (Chicago Review Press)
Crime Films by Thomas Leitch (Cambridge University Press)
The Art of Noir by Eddie Muller (Overlook Press)
BEST FACT CRIME
Blood & Ink: An International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature by Albert Borowitz (Kent State University Press)
Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire by Rick Cowan and Douglas Century (Putnam)
Death at the Priory: Sex, Love and Murder in Victorian England by James Ruddick (Grove/Atlantic)
The Count and the Confession by John Taylor (Random House)
Fire Lover by Joseph Wambaugh (Morrow)
BEST SHORT STORY
"The Murder Ballads" by Doug Allyn (EQMM/March)
"To Live and Die in Midland, Texas" by Clark Howard (EQMM/Sept-October)
"Rumpole and the Primrose Path" by John Mortimer (The Strand)
"Angel of Wrath" by Joyce Carol Oates (EQMM/June)
"Mexican Gatsby" by Raymond Steiber (EQMM/March)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
Cheating Lessons by Nan Willard Cappo (Atheneum)
Safe House by Jenny Carroll (Simon & Schuster)
Hit and Run by Mark Delaney (Peachtree)
The Night the Penningtons Vanished by Marianna Heusler (Larcom Press)
The Wessex Papers, Vols. 1-3 by Daniel Parker (Avon)
BEST JUVENILE
Harriet Spies Again by Helen Ericson (Random House/Delacorte Press)
O'Dwyer & Grady: Starring in Acting Innocent by Eileen Heyes (Simon & Schuster/Alladin Paperbacks)
The Case of the Greedy Granny: Jake Gander, Storyville Detective by George McClements (Hyperion)
Riding the Flume by Patricia Curtis Pfitsch (Simon & Schuster BFYR)
Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eye by Wendelin Van Draanen (Random House/Knopf Books for Young Readers)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
Monk: "Mr. Monk Takes A Vacation", Teleplay by Hy Conrad
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: "Waste", Teleplay by Dawn DeNoon and Lisa Marie Petersen
Law & Order: Criminal Intent: "Tuxedo Hill", Teleplay by Theresa Rebeck
The Wire: "The Target", Teleplay by David Simon. Story by David Simon and Ed Burns
NYPD Blue: "Ho Down", Teleplay by Nicholas Wootton and Bill Clark
BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY
Gangs of New York by Jay Cocks (Miramax Films)
Chicago by Bill Condon (Miramax Films)
Catch Me If You Can by Jeff Nathanson (Dreamworks Pictures)
Insomnia by Hilary Seitz (Warner Bros.)
Road to Perdition by David Self (Dreamworks Pictures)
BEST PLAY
Easy by Philip DePoy (Horizon Theatre)
West End Horror by Anthony Dodge & Marcia Milgrim Dodge (Bay Street Theatre)
The Chronology Protection Case by Paul Levinson (Mark Goodson Theatre)
Monster by Derek Nguyen (East-West Players)
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER-MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
Absolute Certainty by Rose Connors (Scribner)
The Stone Forest by Karen Harper (MIRA Books)
The Truth Hurts by Nancy Pickard (Simon & Schuster/Atria Books)
The Bad Witness by Laura Van Wormer (MIRA Books)
ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
Mike Doogan, "War Can Be Murder" (Mysterious North Anthology)
GRAND MASTER
Ira Levin
RAVEN
Otto Penzler, owner of Mysterious Bookshop, New York
Poe Museum, Richmond, Virginia
Ed & Pat Thomas, owners of Book Carnival Bookstore
ELLERY QUEEN AWARD
Ed Gorman
SPECIAL EDGAR AWARD
Dick Wolf, creator of Law & Order
[2/07/2003]
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