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2010 Edgar Awards…

May 14, 2010

Congratulations to all of the Nominees and Winners!!!

The Mystery Writers of America held the 2010 Edgar Awards over April 28 & 29,  in New York City. As I mentioned before, Dorothy Gilman was the Grand Master.

The 2010 Edgar Awards are as follows:

Best Novel:
The Last Child by John Hart (Winner)
The Missing by Tim Gautreaux
The Odds by Kathleen George
Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
Nemesis by Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

Best First Novel:
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff (Winner)
The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano
Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke

Best Paperback Original:
Body Blows by Marc Strange (Winner)
Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
Havana Lunar by Robert Arellano
The Lord God Bird by Russell Hill
The Herring-Seller’s Apprentice by L.C. Tyler

Best Short Story:
Amapola by Luis Alberto Urrea
Last Fair Deal Gone Down by Ace Atkins
Femme Sole by Dana Cameron
Digby, Attorney at Law by Jim Fusilli
Animal Rescue by Dennis Lehane

Best Fact Crime:
Columbine by Dave Cullen (Winner)
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn
The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston’s Racial Divide by Dick Lehr
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti

Best Critical/Biographical:
The Lineup: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler (Winner)
Talking About Detective Fiction by P.D. James
Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King by Lisa Rogak
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
The Stephen King Illustrated Companion by Bev Vincent

Best Young Adult:
Reality Check by Peter Abrahams (Winner)
If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney
The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford
Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone by Dene Low
Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell

Best Juvenile:
Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn (Winner)
The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity by Mac Barnett
The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour by Michael D. Beil
Creepy Crawly Crime by Aaron Reynolds
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer

Best Television Episode Teleplay:
Place of Execution by Patrick Harbinson, PBS/WGBH Boston
Strike Three by Steven Kane, The Closer
Look What He Dug Up This Time by Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler & Daniel Zelman, Damages
Grilled by George Mastras, Breaking Bad
Living the Dream by Clyde Phillips, Dexter

Ellery Queen Award:
Poisoned Pen Press (Barbara Peters & Robert Rosenwald)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award:
A Dreadful Day by Dan Warthman, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (Dell Magazines)

Raven Awards:
Mystery Lovers Bookshop, Oakmont, Pennsylvania
Zev Buffman, International Mystery Writers Festival

The Simon & Schuster – Mary Higgins Clark Award:
Awakening by S.J. Bolton (Winner)
Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof by Blaize Clement
Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron
Lethal Vintage by Nadia Gordon
Dial H for Hitchcock by Susan Kandel

If you would like to take a look at other Mystery Book Awards, click here.

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2009 Malice Domestic Agatha Awards… Given Out in 2010

May 12, 2010

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE NOMINEES AND WINNERS!!!

The 2009 Agatha Awards were given out at this year’s Malice Domestic convention which took place in the Washington, D.C. area over April 29, 30, and May 1. Remember that although the awards were given in 2010, they are for the preceeding year’s books…

Best Novel:
A Brutal Telling by Louise Penny  (Winner)
Swan for the Money by Donna Andrews
Bookplate Special by Lorna Barrett
Royal Flush by Rhys Bowen
Air Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Best First Novel:
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (Winner)
For Better For Murder by Lisa Bork
Posed for Murder by Meredith Cole
The Cold Light of Mourning by Elizabeth Duncan
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff

Best Short Story:
On the House by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Winner)
Femme Sole by Dana Cameron
Handbaskets, Drawers and a Killer Cold by Kaye George
The Worst Noel by Barb Goffman
Death Will Trim Your Tree by Elizabeth Zelvin

Best Non-Fiction:
Dame Agatha’s Shorts by Elena Santangelo (Winner)
Duchess of Death by Richard Hack
Talking about Detective Fiction by P.D. James
Blood on the Stage by 1925-1950 by Amnon Kabatchnik
The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar

Best Children/Young Adult:
The Hanging Hill by Chris Grabenstein (Winner)
The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford
The Case of the Poisoned Pig by Lewis B. Montgomery
The Other Side of Blue by Valerie O. Patterson
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer

2010 Lifetime Achievement: Mary Higgins Clark 
2010 Poirot Award: William Link

♦If you’re interested in more Mystery Book Awards, click here♦

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Stanley Waters Mystery Series by Bill Crider and Willard Scott Brings Us Beautiful Weather for a Murder…

May 10, 2010

I just started a new mystery book series that I am really enjoying. It’s the Stanley Waters Mystery Series co-written by Bill Crider and Willard Scott. Yep! Willard Scott! Some of you may remember waking up with him every weekday morning, as he would tell us what type of weather we could expect AND bring us information about centenarians (sponsored by Smucker’s, of course!) all over the country >>> on the OLD Today Show… way back to the time when Jane Pauley, Tom Brokaw, and Bryant Gumbel held the helm.

The Stanley Waters Mystery Series features a retired, nationally-recognized weatherman who, after becoming a widower, opens a Bed & Breakfast in the Virginia town he grew up in. I am truly enjoying the first book in the series.

As I sit here typing this entry, I am mentally going through some of the characteristics of a Cozy Mystery, and this book has several: It has characters who I really enjoy “spending time with” and takes place in a town where everybody seems to know each other. Some of the characters are a little odd, some of the characters gossip, there are three cats thrown into the mix, and the authors (I know I have said this very same thing before… while describing other authors!) have a great command of the English language, thus not necessitating swearing all the way through the book.

So far, I have only come up with one bad thing about the Stanley Waters Mystery Series… there are only TWO books in the series, and since the last one was written in 1999, I doubt there will be any more in the future. But, there is a bright side to this particular problem… Bill Crider has written several other mystery series from which to choose!

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June 2010 Mystery Book New Releases

May 6, 2010

The following mystery books will be released in June 2010

Robert Barnard: A Stranger in the Family (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Claudia Bishop (aka Mary Stanton): Toast Mortem (This will be the 16th in the Hemlock Falls Mystery Series…)

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): A Cast-Off Coven (This will be the 2nd in the Witchcraft Mystery Series…)

Emily Brighwell: Mrs. Jeffries Speaks Her Mind (This will be the 27th in the Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series…)

Dixie Cash: Our Red Hot Romance Is Leaving Me Blue (This will be the 6th in the Debbie Sue Overstreet Domestic Equalizers Mystery Series…)

P. F. Chisolm: A Murder of Crows (This will be the 5th in the Sir Robert Carey Mystery Series…)

Clive Cussler & Justin Scott: The Spy (This will be the 3rd in the Isaac Bell Mystery Series…)

Jeffery Deaver: The Burning Wire (This will be the 9th in the Lincoln Rhyme Mystery Series…)

Carol Dunn: A Colourful Death (This will be the 2nd in the Cornish Mystery Series…)

Janet Evanovich: Sizzling Sixteen (This will be the 16th in the Stephanie Plum Mystery Series…)

Amanda Flower: Maid of Murder (This will be the 1st in the NEW India Hayes Mystery Series…)

Kerry Greenwood: Forbidden Fruit (This will be the 5th in the Corinna Chapman Mystery Series…) (This will be a Christmas theme mystery…) (Although this mystery was actually published in 2009, this is its first USA edition…)

Carolyn Haines: Bone Appetit (This will be the 10th in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series…)

Dorothy Howell: Shoulder Bags and Shootings (This will be the 3rd in the Haley Randolph Mystery Series…)

Julie Hyzy: Grace Under Pressure (This will be the 1st in the NEW Manor of Murder Mystery Series…)

Mary Kennedy: Reel Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Talk Radio Mystery Series…)

Rita Lakin: Getting Old is Très Dangereux (This will be the 6th in the Gladdy Gold Mystery Series…)

Judi McCoy: Death in Show (This will be the 3rd in the Dog Walker Mystery Series…)

Sharyn McCrumb: The Devil Amongst the Lawyers (This will be the 8th in the Ballad Mystery Series…)

Amy Patricia Meade: Black Moonlight (This will be the 4th in the Marjorie McClelland Mystery Series…)

James Patterson & Maxine Paetro: Private (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Richard North Patterson: In the Name of Honor (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Maggie Sefton: Skein of the Crime (This will be the 8th in the Knitting Mystery Series…)

Victoria Thompson: Murder on Lexington Avenue (This will be the 12th in the Gaslight Mystery Series…)

Aimée & David Thurlo: Bad Samaritan (This will be the 6th in the Sister Agatha Mystery Series…)

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