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Macavity Award Nominations Announced

Mystery Readers International has announced the nominees for the Macavity Awards. Awards are for works published in the US in 2003. Members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote; the awards will be given at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention in Toronto this October.

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BEST MYSTERY NOVEL

THE DELICATE STORM, Giles Blunt (Putnam)
FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE, Rhys Bowen (St. Martin's)
THE GUARDS, Ken Bruen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
DONE FOR A DIME, David Corbett (Ballantine)
THE HOUSE SITTER, Peter Lovesey (Soho)

BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL

NIGHT OF THE DANCE, James Hime, St. Martin's Minotaur
DEATH OF A NATIONALIST, Rebecca C. Pawel (Soho)
THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS, Olen Steinhauer (St. Martin's Minotaur)
MAISIE DOBBS, Jacqueline Winspear (Soho press)

BEST NON-FICTION
MYSTERY WOMEN: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Vol. 3, Colleen A Barnett (Poisoned Pen Press)
A SECOND HELPING OF MURDER: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers, Jo Grossman & Robert Weibezahl (Poisoned Pen Press)
MAKE MINE A MYSTERY: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, Gary Warren Niebuhr (Libraries Unlimited)
BEAUTIFUL SHADOW: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson (Bloomsbury)

BEST SHORT STORY
"The Grass Is Always Greener" , Sandy Balzo (EQMM, March 2003)
"Rogues Gallery", Robert Barnard (EQMM, March 2003)
"Texas Two-Step", Diana Deverell (AHMM, February 2003)
"No Man's Land", Beth Foxwell (BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS, ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley Prime Crime)
"War Crimes", G. Miki Hayden (A HOT AND SULTRY NIGHT FOR CRIME, ed. Jeffery Deaver, Berkley Prime Crime)
"Child Support", Ronnie Klaskin (A HOT AND SULTRY NIGHT FOR CRIME)
"Red Meat", Elaine Viets (BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS )

[6/21/2004]

Shamus Award nominations announced

Private Eye Writers of America gives the annual Shamus Awards (usually at Bouchercon) annually. This year's nominees were just announced

BEST NOVEL:

SCAVENGER HUNT, Robert Ferrigno (Pantheon)
THE GUARDS, Ken Bruen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
BLOOD IS THE SKY, Steve Hamilton (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's)
FATAL FLAW, William Lashner (William Morrow & Co.)
A VISIBLE DARKNESS, Jonathon King (Dutton)

BEST FIRST NOVEL:

SPIKED, Mark Arsenault (Poisoned Pen Press)
BLACK MAPS, Peter Speigelman (Knopf)
LOVER'S CROSSING, James C. Mitchell (St. Martin's Press)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL:

COLD QUARRY, Andy Straka (Signet)
THICKER THAN WATER, P.J. Parrish (Pinnacle)
WET DEBT, Richard Helms (Back Alley)
DRAGONFLY BONES, David Cole (Avon/HarperCollins)

BEST SHORT STORY

"Munchies," Jack Bludis, HARDBROILED
"The Rock in the Orange Grove," Mitch Alderman, ALFRED HITCHCOCK MYSTERY MAGAZINE
"Slayer Statute," Janet Dawson, ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE
"Valhalla," Doug Allyn, ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE
"Lady on Ice," Loren D. Estleman, A HOT AND SULTRY NIGHT FOR CRIME

[6/18/2004]

ARTHUR ELLIS AWARDS ANNOUNCED

On June 9, Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) announced the winners of the 2004 Arthur Ellis Awards. They were

Best Novel:
Giles Blunt, THE DELICATE STORM (Random House Canada)

Best First Novel:
Jan Rehner, JUST MURDER (Sumach)

Best Crime Writing in French:
Jean Lemieux, ON FINIT TOUJOUR PAR PAYER (La Courte Echelle)

Best Short Story:
Gregory Ward, "Dead Wood" in HARD BOILED LOVE (Insomniac)

Best Non-Fiction:
Julian Sher & William Marsden, THE ROAD TO HELL (Knopf Canada)

Best Juvenile:
Graham McNamee, ACCELERATION (Wendy Lamb Books, RHC)

[6/10/2004]

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