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AGATHA AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
At tonight's awards banquet at Malice Domestic, the Agatha Awards were given. They were as follows:
Best Novel:
BIRDS OF A FEATHER, Jacqueline Winspear
Best First Novel:
DATING DEAD MEN, Harley Jane Kozak
Best Nonfiction:
PRIVATE EYE-LASHES: Radio's Lady Detectives, Jack French
Best Short Story:
"Wedding Knife" from CHESAPEAKE CRIMES, Elaine Viets
Best Children's/Young Adult Novel:
CHASING VERMEER, Blue Balliet
The Golden Hatpin Award for humor (given in the name of Charlotte MacLeod) was awarded to Joan Hess
Special Guests for next year's Malice Domestic were also announced: They are
Guest of Honor: Katherine Hall Page
Toastmaster: Kate Grilley
Lifetime Achievement Recipient: Robert Barnard
Ghost of Honor: Craig Rice
[4/30/2005]
EDGAR AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
At the MWA's awards banquet tonight, the Edgars were announced. The winners are:
Best Novel:
CALIFORNIA GIRL by T. Jefferson Parker (William Morrow)
Best First Novel:
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN by Don Lee (W.W. Norton & Co)
Best Paperback Original:
THE CONFESSION by Domenic Stansberry (Hard Case Crime)
Best Short Story: "Something About a Scar" - Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You by Laurie Lynn Drummond (HarperCollins)
Best Fact Crime: Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice by Leonard Levitt (Regan Books)
Best Critical/Biographical: THE NEW ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Complete Short Stories edited by Leslie S. Klinger (W.W. Norton)
Best Young Adult: IN DARKNESS, DEATH by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler (Philomel Books)
Best Juvenile: CHASING VERMEER by Blue Balliett (Scholastic Press)
Best Play: Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It) by Neal Bell (Playwrights Horizons)
Best TV Episode Teleplay: Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "Want", Teleplay by Elizabeth Benjamin. Story by René Balcer & Elizabeth Benjamin
Best TV Feature or Miniseries Teleplay: State of Play by Paul Abbott (BBC America)
Best Motion Picture Screenplay: A Very Long Engagement - Screenplay by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, based on the Novel by Sébastien Japrisot (2003 Productions)
And earlier, the announcement was made that the Mary Higgins Clark Award went to GRAVE ENDINGS by Rochelle Krich.
[4/28/2005]
ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD NOMINEES ANNOUNED
Crime Writers of Canada just announced the shortlists for their annual awards. Winners will be announced at a ceremony held at Toronto's Mysteriously Yours...Dinner Theatre on June 9.
Best Novel:
Gail Bowen, THE LAST GOOD DAY (McClelland & Stewart)
Barbara Fradkin, FIFTH SON (RendezVous Press)
Lyn Hamilton, THE MAGYAR VENUS (Berkley Prime Crime)
Peter Robinson, PLAYING WITH FIRE (McClelland & Stewart)
Mark Zuehlke, SWEEP LOTUS(Dundurn)
Best First Novel:
Mel Bradshaw, DEATH IN THE AGE OF STEAM (RendezVous Press)
Jon Evans, DARK PLACES (HarperCollins Canada)
Rick Gadziola, RAW DEAL (ECW Press)
Linda L. Richards, MAD MONEY (MIRA Books)
Mark Sinnett, THE BORDER GUARDS (HarperCollins Canada)
Best Short Story:
Cecilia Kennedy, “The Robbie Burns Revival” in THE ROBBIE BURNS REVIVAL (Broken Jaw Press) Dennis Murphy, “Sound of Silence” in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (December 2004)
Dennis Murphy, “Death of a Dry-Stone Wall” in Storyteller (Summer 2004)
Coleen Steele, “Sunnyside” in Storyteller (Summer 2004)
Leslie Watts, “Crocodile Tears” in REVENGE: A NOIR ANTHOLOGY (Insomniac Press)
Best Non-Fiction:
Pierre de Champlain, MOBSTERS, GANGSTERS AND MEN OF HONOUR (HarperCollins Canada)
Peter Edwards, NIGHT JUSTICE: The True Story of the Black Donnellys (Key Porter Books)
Max Haines, INSTRUMENTS OF MURDER (Viking Canada)
Matthew Hart, THE IRISH GAME: A True Story of Crime and Art (Viking Canada)
Chris Mathers, CRIME SCHOOL: Money Laundering (Key Porter Books)
Best Juvenile:
Susan Cliffe, THREAD OF DECEIT (Sumach Press)
Katherine Holubitsky, THE HIPPIE HOUSE (Orca Book Publishers)
Shelley Hrdlitschka, KAT'S FALL (Orca Book Publishers)
Carrie Mac, THE BECKONERS (Orca Book Publishers)
Curtis Parkinson, SEA CHASE (Tundra Books)
Best Crime Writing in French:
Jean-Pierre Charland, LA SOURIS ET LE RAT (Vents d’Ouest)
Jacques Diamant, LE TRANSMETTEUR (Stanké)
Ann Lamontagne, LES DOUZE PIERRES (Vents d’Ouest)
Louise Lévesque, VIRGO INTACTA (La Veuve noire)
Pauline Vincent, LA FEMME DE BERLIN (Libre Expression)
[4/21/2005]
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