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MRI ANNOUNCES NEW MACAVITY AWARD

Mystery Readers International has announced a new Macavity Award--the Sue Feder Macavity Award for Historical Fiction. The award honors the memory and work of Sue Feder, reviewer, scholar and dedicated mystery fan. This annual award will be nominated and voted on by members of MMRI and presented at Bouchercon each year.

Sue founded the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society with its quarterly journal, Murder Past Tense, dedicated to Ellis Peters. Sue wrote reviews for Deadly Pleasures and Mystery Readers Journal and was a member of DapaEm for many years. HMAS bestowed the Herodotus Award, and the Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award continues this tradition in her memory.

Sue Feder died on September 9, 2005 after a long battle with leukemia. Cluelass applauds this decision by MRI to honor Sue Feder by continuing this award.

For more information on Mystery REaders International go to their website at http://www.mysteryreaders.org

[5/31/2006]

CWA AWARD LISTS ANNOUNCED

Britain's Crime Writers Association has announced nominees for most of their annual awards. some changes to announce: the Ellis Peters Dagger is now called simply the Ellis Peters Award and the Short Story Dagger is likewise now the CWA Short Story Award. These two honors will be announced and presented later this year.

DUNCAN LAWRIE INTERNATIONAL DAGGER
For crime, thriller, suspense novel or spy fiction which have been translated into English from its original language, for UK publication. £5000 prize money for the author and £1000 for the translator.

EXCURSION TO TINDARI, Andrea Camilleri (Picador) translated by Stephen Sartarelli
AUTUMN OF THE PHANTOMS Yasmina Khadra (Toby Crime) translated by Aubrey Botsford
DEAD HORSEMEAT, Dominique Manotti (Eurocrime) translated by Amanda Hopkinson & Ros Schwartz
BORKMANN'S POINT, Hakan Nesser (Macmillan) translated by Laurie Thompson
BLOOD ON THE SADDLE, Rafael Reig for (Serpent's Tail) translated by Paul Hammond
THE THREE EVANGELISTS, Fred Vargas (Harvill) translated by SÓan Reynolds

THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER
For Best Thriller. £2000 prize money

THE LINCOLN LAWYER, Michael Connelly (Orion)
SWEET GUM, Jo-Ann Goodwin (Bantam Press - Transworld)
PIG ISLAND, Mo Hayder Bantam Press - Transworld)
THE ENGLISH ASSASSIN, Daniel Silva (Penguin)
MR CLARINET, Nick Stone (Penguin)
THE MERCY SEAT, Martyn Waites (Pocket Books - Simon & Schuster)
CONTACT ZERO, David Wolstencroft (Hodder & Stoughton)

THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
£2000 prize money

A DEATH IN BELMONT, Sebastian Junger (Fourth Estate)
THE STORY OF CHICAGO MAY, Nuala O'Faolain (Michael Joseph)
THE DEATH OF INNOCENTS, Sister Helen Prejean (Canterbury Press)
UNDER AND ALONE, William Queen (Mainstream)
THE DAGENHAM MURDER Linda Rhodes, Lee Sheldon and Kathryn Abnett (the Borough of Barking and Dagenham)
AND THEN THE DARKNESS, Sue Williams (John Blake)

THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER (Formerly the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger)
For first books by previously unpublished writers. £1000 prize money

IMMORAL, Brian Freeman (Headline)
STILL LIFE, Louise Penny (Headline)
ICE TRAP Kitty Sewell (Honno Welsh Women's Press)

CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY
Nominated and judged by librarians and awarded to an author for a body of work, not one single title. £1500 prize money

Anthony Horowitz
Lesley Horton
Jim Kelly
Margaret Murphy
Danuta Reah (Carla Banks)
C.J. Sansom
Cath Staincliffe

CWA DEBUT DAGGER
For unpublished novels by unpublished authors. £500 prize money

Celina Alcock for 'The House On Fever Street' (UK)
Paul Curd for 'The Belfast Boy' (UK)
Diane Janes for 'Moonshadow' (UK)
Sarah Kotler for 'Special Delivery' (USA)
Iain Rowan for 'One Of Us' (UK)
Elizabeth Saccente for 'Ikumo) (UK)
Michael Sears (South Africa) and Stanley Trollip (USA) for 'A Carrion Death'
Richard A. Thompson for 'Fiddle Game'(USA)
Megan Toogood for 'A Random Act Of Generosity' (UK)
D V Wesselmann (aka Otis Twelve) for 'Imp' (USA)

For more details, including synopses of the nominated works with judges' comments, see http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/2006/index.html

[5/30/2006]

BARRY AWARD NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

Deadly Pleasures has announced the nominees for the 2006 Barry Awards. The awards, named for the late Barry Gardner, notable fan reviewer, will be given at Bouchercon, this year, to be held in Madison in late September.

The nominees are as follows:

BEST NOVEL:

BLOODLINES, Jan Burke (Simon & Schuster)
RED LEAVES, Thomas H. Cook (Harcourt)
MERCY FALLS, William Kent Krueger (Atria)
SUDDEN DEATH, David Rosenfelt (Mysterious)
MR. LUCKY, James Swain (Ballantine)
THE POWER OF THE DOG, Don Winslow (Knopf)

BEST FIRST NOVEL PUBLISHED IN THE U.S. IN 2005:

DIE A LITTLE, Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
IMMORAL, Brian Freeman (St. Martin's)
BABY GAME, Randall Hicks (Wordslinger Press)
DARK HARBOR, David Hosp (Warner)
COLD GRANITE, Stuart MacBride (St. Martin's)
THE FIREMAKER, Peter May (St. Martin's)

BEST BRITISH NOVEL PUBLISHED IN THE U.K. IN 2005:

BLOOD-DIMMED TIDE, Rennie Airth (Macmillan)
LIFELESS, Mark Billingham (Little Brown UK)
SILENCE OF THE GRAVE, Arnaldur Indridason (Harvill)
A GOOD DAY TO DIE, Simon Kernick (Bantam Press)
THE FIELD OF BLOOD, Denise Mina (Bantam Press)
LOST, Michael Robotham (Time Warner)

BEST THRILLER:

COMPANY MAN, Joseph Finder (St. Martin's)
CONSENT TO KILL, Vince Flynn (Atria)
THE INSIDE RING, Michael Lawson (Doubleday)
SEVEN DEADLY WONDERS, Matthew Reilly (Simon & Schuster)
MAP OF BONES, James Rollins (Morrow)
PRIVATE WARS, Greg Rucka (Bantam)

BEST PAPERBACK NOVEL:

THE JAMES DEANS, Reed Farrell Coleman (Plume)
SIX BAD THINGS, Charlie Huston (Ballantine)
NIGHT'S CHILD, Maureen Jennings (McClelland & Stewart)
NOW YOU SEE ME, Rochelle Krich (Ballantine)
THE DEAD DON'T GET OUT MUCH, Mary Jane Maffini (Napoleon Publishing)
INSIDE OUT, John Ramsey Miller (Dell)

BEST SHORT STORY:

"The Big Road", Steve Hockensmith (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2005)
"Needle Match", Peter Lovesey (MURDER IS MY RACKET; Mysterious)
"There Is No Crime on Easter Island", Nancy Pickard (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2005)
"Love and Death in Africa", Joan Richter (EQMM, January 2005)
"The Method in Her Madness", Tom Savage (AHMM, June 2005)

[5/28/2006]

ELMORE LEONARD WINS DIAMOND DAGGER

The British Crime Writers’ Association recently awarded its Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2006 to American writer Elmore Leonard. The award is given for lifetime achievement. Leonard received the award at a reception in London at the Savoy Hotel.

For more information, see CWA's page at http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/2006/cartier.html

[5/26/2006]

DUNCAN LAWRIE DAGGER NOMINEES NAMED

Britain's Crime Writers Association recently announced the shortlist for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger. This award was formerly known as the Gold Dagger and takes the form of a
monetary award of £20,000.

The shortlist is as follows:

Simon Beckett, THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH (Bantam)
Ann Cleeves, RAVEN BLACK (Macmillan)
Thomas H. Cook, RED LEAVEDS (Quercus)
Frances Fyfield, SAFER THAN HOUSES(Little, Brown)
Bill JamesM WOLVES OF MEMORY (Constable)
Laura Wilson, A THOUSAND LIES(Orion)

The award ceremony will take place on June 29, at the Waldorf Hilton in London. For more information, see http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/2006/gold.html

[5/26/2006]

DERRINGER AWARDS ANNOUNCED

The Short Mystery Fiction Society recently presented its 2006 Derringer Awards for excellence in short mystery fiction. The awards were presented to stories first published in English in 2005.
The winners were as follows:

Best Flash Story: “Secondhand Shoe”, Patricia Harrington (A Flasher’s Dozen)

Best Short-Short Story: “Zipped”, Stephen D. Rogers (Windchill: Crime Stories by New England Writers, Level Best Books)

Best Mid-Length Short Story: "One Step Closer", Iain Rowan (Hardluck Stories)

Best Longer Short Story: “The Safest Place on Earth”, Mark Best (Thrilling Detective)

For more information, go to the SMFS website at http://www.shortmystery.net>http://www.shortmystery.net/.

[5/26/2006]

GUMSHOE AWARDS ANNOUNCED

Mystery Ink announced the winners of the 2006 Gumshoe Awards on May 9. The winners were as follows:

Best Mystery:
TO THE POWER OF THREE, Laura Lippman (William Morrow)

Best Thriller:
COMPANY MAN, Joseph Finder (St. Martin's Press)

Best European Crime Novel:
THE VANISHED HANDS, Robert Wilson (Harcourt)

Best First Novel:
THE BABY GAME, Randall Hicks (Wordslinger Press)

Best Crime Fiction Website:
www.crimespot.net

Lifetime Achievement:
Ed McBain

For details on the website and for a tribute to the late Ed McBain, http://www.mysteryinkonline.com/2006/05/gumshoe_awards_.html

[5/10/2006]

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