Congratulations to the Finalists for the 2009 Nero Wolfe  Awards. The (yearly) Black Orchid Banquet will be taking place in early December, so we will have to wait until then to find out which of the three finalists is chosen as the Winner… Let’s face it, though, all three of them are winners for being finalists!

2009 Nero Wolfe Award Finalists:

The Dark Tide by Andrew Gross

The Tenth Case by Joseph Teller

The Fault Tree by Louise Ure

I’ll try to be a little more timely when it comes to posting the winner!

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Sorry about posting this so “after the fact”… I kept thinking that I wanted to post the 2009 Anthony Award nominees and winners, who were announced at Bouchercon 2009 last month. Another case of better late than never…

Congratulations to all of the authors nominated for these great awards, and to all of those authors who won:

2009 Anthony Award Best Novel:
 The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (Winner)
Trigger City by Sean Chercover
Red Knife by William Kent Krueger
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

2009 Anthony Award Best First Novel: 
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Winner)
Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris
Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer
Death of a Cozy Writer by G. M. Malliet
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

2009 Anthony Award Best Paperback Original: 
State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy (Winner)
 The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins 
Money Shot by Christa Faust
In a Dark Season by Vicki Lane 
South of Hell by P. J. Parrish 

2009 Anthony Award Best Short Story: 
A Sleep Not Unlike Death by Sean Chercover (Winner)
The Night Things Changed by Dana Cameron
Killing Time by Jane K. Cleland
Skull and Cross Examination by Toni L. P. Kelner
Scratch a Woman by Laura Lippman
The Secret Lives of Cats by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

2009 Anthony Award Best Critical Nonfiction Work:
Anthony Boucher: A Bibliography by Jeffrey Marks (Winner)
African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey
How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries by Kathy Lynn Emerson
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale

2009 Anthony Award Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel: 
The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein (Winner)
Paper Towns by John Green
Kiss Me, Kill Me by Lauren Henderson
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash by Wendelin Van Draanen

2009 Anthony Award Best Cover Art: 
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Peter Mendelsund (Winner)
Death Was the Other Woman by David Rotstein
Death Will Get You Sober by David Rotstein
The Fault Tree by David Rotstein
Money Shot by Steve Cooley

2009 Anthony Award Special Service Award: 
Jon and Ruth Jordan (Winner)
Ali Karim
David Montgomery
Gary Warren Niebuhr
Sarah Weinman

2009 Bouchercon Guest of Honor:
Michael Connelly

2009 Bouchercon Toastmaster:
S.J. Rozan

2009 Bouchercon Honored Youth Author:
Wendelin Van Draanen

Bouchercon 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient:
Allen J. Hubin

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There is no excuse for being so late in adding the 2009 Edgars (Edgar Allan Poe Awards) >>> I’m sorry it has taken me so long. But, better today than not at all!

 2009 Edgar Nominees:

Best Novel: 

Blue Heaven by C.J. Box (Winner)

Missing by Karin Alvtegen

Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno

The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes

The Night Following by Morag Joss

Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz

 Best First Novel:

The Foreigner by Francie Lin (Winner)

The Kind One by Tom Epperson

Sweetsmoke by David Fuller

Calumet City by Charlie Newton

A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock

Best Paperback Original:

China Lake by Meg Gardiner (Winner)

The Prince of Bagram Prison by Alex Carr

Money Shot by Christa Faust

Enemy Combatant by Ed Gaffney

The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli

Best Short Story:

Skinhead Central by T. Jefferson Parker  (Winner)

A Sleep Not Unlike Death by Sean Chercover

Skin and Bones by David Edgerley Gates

Scratch a Woman by Laura Lippman

La Vie en Rose by Dominique Mainard

Best Fact Crime:

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery and the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum  (Winner)

For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder That Shocked Chicago by Simon Baatz

Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T.J. English

The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Hans van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

Best Critical/Biographical:

Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to his Tell-Tale Stories by Dr. Harry Lee Poe (Winner)

African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Leonard Cassuto

Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction by David Geherin

The Rise of True Crime by Jean Murley

Best Juvenile:

The Postcard by Tony Abbott (Winner)

Enigma: A Magical Mystery by Graeme Base 

Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff

The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow by Riford McKenzie

Cemetery Street by Brenda Seabrooke

Best Young Adult:

Paper Towns by John Green  (Winner)

Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd

The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo

Getting the Girl by Susan Juby

Torn to Pieces by Margot McDonnell

Best Play:

The Ballad of Emmett Till by Ifa Bayeza, Goodman Theatre, Chicago (Winner)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Arizona Theatre Company

Cell by Judy Klass, International Mystery Writers’ Festival

Best Television Episode Teleplay:

Prayer of the Bone… Patrick Harbinson, Wire in the Blood  (Winner)

Streetwise… Paul Grellong, Law & Order: SVU

Signature… Judith McCreary, Law & Order: SVU

You May Now Kill the Bride… Barry O’Brien, CSI: Miami

Burn Card… Ed Zuckerman & David Wilcox, Law & Order

Best Motion Picture Screen Play:

In Bruges… Martin McDonagh, Focus Features (Winner)

The Bank Job… Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais, Lionsgate

Burn After Reading… Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Focus Features

Tell No One… Guillaume Canet & Phillipe Lefebvre, based on the book by Harlan Coben, Music Box Films

Transsiberian… Brad Anderson & Will Conroy, First Look International

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award:

Buckner’s Error by Joseph Guglielmelli, Queen’s Noir, Akashic Books

Raven Awards:

Edgar Allan Poe Society, Baltimore, Maryland

Poe House, Baltimore, Maryland

The Simon & Schuster – Mary Higgins Clark Award:

The Killer’s Wife by Bill Floyd (Winner)

Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton

Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer

A Song for You by Betsy Thornton

The Fault Tree by Louise Ure

Grand Masters:

James Lee Burke

Sue Grafton

♦For more Mystery Book Awards, see main page.♦

Here are the 2008 Agatha Awards that were given out at the Malice Domestic convention this past weekend. I have gone ahead and included the list from 2007 also… ss a sort of reminder of all of the great Cozy Mystery authors who have recently been nominated. (Not to worry, though… I have the list of all of the winners and nominees from many years on the site!) All of the nominated authors are winners in my book!

BEST NOVEL

 2008: The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny (Winner)

Six Geese A-Slaying by Donna Andrews

A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen

Buckingham Palace Gardens by Anne Perry

I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming

2007: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny  (Winner)

The Penguin Who Knew Too Much by Donna Andrews

Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen

Hard Row by Margaret Maron

Murder with Reservations by Elaine Viets

BEST FIRST NOVEL

2008: Death of a Cozy Writer by G.M. Malliet (Winner)

Through a Glass, Deadly by Sarah Atwell 

The Diva Runs Out of Thyme by Krista Davis

Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris

Paper, Scissors, Death by Joanna Campbell Slan

2007: Prime Time by Hank Phillipi Ryan (Winner)

A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch

A Real Basket Case by Beth Groundwater

Silent In The Grave by Deanna Raybourn

BEST SHORT STORY

2008: The Night Things Changed by Dana Cameron (Winner) (from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe)

Killing Time by Jane Cleland

Dangerous Crossing by Carla Coupe

Skull & Cross-Examinations by Toni L.P. Kelner

A Nice Old Guy by Nancy Pickard

2007: A Rat’s Tale by Donna Andrews (Winner)

Please Watch Your Step by Rhys Bowen

Casino Gamble by Nan Higginson

Popping Round To The Post by Peter Lovesey

Death Will Clean Your Closet by Elizabeth Zelvin

BEST NON-FICTION

2008: How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries by Kathy Lynn Emerson  (Winner)

African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey

Anthony Boucher, A Bibliography by Jeff Marks

Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories by Dr. Harry Lee Poe

The Suspicions of Mr. Whitcher, or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale

2007: Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life In Letters by Charles Foley, Jon Lellenberg, & Daniel Stashower  (Winner)

The Official Nancy Drew Handbook by Penny Warner

BEST CHILDREN/YOUNG ADULT

2008:  The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein (Winner)

Into the Dark by Peter Abrahams

A Thief in the Theater (A Kit Mystery) by Sarah Masters Buckey

The Great Circus Train Robbery by Nancy Means Wright

2007: A Light in the Cellar by Sarah Masters Buckey (Winner)

Bravo Zulu, Samantha! by Kathleen Benner Duble

Cover-Up: Mystery at The Super Bowl by John Feinstein

The Falconer’s Knot by Mary Hoffman Bloomsbury

Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R. L. LaFevers

MALICE DOMESTIC AWARDS

2008: Lifetime Achievement: Anne Perry

♦For more Mystery Book Awards, see main page.♦