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1999 · Milwaukee, WI
BEST NOVEL
Winner:
Nominees:
Blind Descent – Nevada Barr - Putnam
On Beulah Height – Reginald Hill - Delacorte
Gone, Baby, Gone – Dennis Lehane - William Morrow
Framework For Death – Aileen Schumacher - Writeway
Blood Work – Michael Connelly - Little, Brown
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Winner:
Iron Lake – William Kent Krueger -Pocket
Nominees:
Sympathy For The Devil – Jerrilyn Farmer - Avon
Tiger’s Palette – Jacqueline Fiedler - Pocket
A Cold Day In Paradise – Steve Hamilton - Dunne
Eleven Days – Donald Harstad - Doubleday
Iron Lake – William Kent Krueger -Pocket
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Winner:
Butcher’s Hill – Laura Lippman - Avon
Nominees:
Zen Attitude – Sujata Massey - Harper
The Widower’s Two-Step – Rick Riordan - Bantam
Remedy For Treason – Caroline Roe - Berkley
Murder Manual – Steven Womack -Ballantine
Butcher’s Hill – Laura Lippman - Avon
BEST SHORT STORY
Winner:
“Of Course You Know that Chocolate is a Vegetable” – Barbara D’Amato, EQMM Nov’98, pp.39-47
Nominees:
“Two Bits” – Jan Burke, EQMM May’98, pp.92-102
“A Simple Philosophy” – Harlan Coben, Malice Domestic 7 (Sharyn McCrumb presents), pp.66-76 [Avon]; “A Small Silver Gun” – Rick Riordan, MHCMM Sum’98, pp.58-6
“The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage” – Peter Robinson, Not Safe After Dark, pp.180-194 [Crippen & Landru] (1st pub 1997, Malice Domestic 6, pp.238-255)
“Of Course You Know that Chocolate is a Vegetable” – Barbara D’Amato, EQMM Nov’98, pp.39-47
BEST CRITICAL NON-FICTION WORK
Winner:
Deadly Pleasures Magazine – George Easter, ed.
Nominees:
Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide: Washington, D.C. – Alzina Stone Dale - Passport
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir – Eddie Muller - St. Martin’s
Silk Stalkings: More Women Write of Murder – Victoria Nichols, Susan Thompson - Scarecrow
Mystery And Suspense writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage – Robin Winks, Maureen Corrigan, eds. - Scribner
Deadly Pleasures Magazine – George Easter, ed.
1998 · Philadelphia, PA
BEST NOVEL
Winner: No Colder Place – S.J. Rozan - St. Martin’s
Nominees:
Devil’s Food – Anthony Bruno - Forge
Deception Pass – Earl Emerson - Ballantine
The Club Dumas – Arturo Pérez-Reverte - HMH
Eye of the Cricket – James Sallis - Walker
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Winner:
Killing Floor – Lee Child - Putnam
Nominees:
If I Should Die – Grace Edwards - Doubleday
Except the Dying – Maureen Jennings - St. Martin’s
Bird Dog – Philip Reed - PocketS
kin Deep, Blood Red – Robert Skinner - Kensington
Killing Floor – Lee Child - Putnam
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Winner:
Big Red Tequila – Rick Riordan - Bantam
Nominees:
Charm City – Laura Lippman - Avon
The Salaryman’s Wife – Sujata Massey - Harper
Time Release – Martin J. Smith - Jove
23 Shades of Black – K.J.A. Wishnia - Imaginary
Big Red Tequila – Rick Riordan - Bantam
BEST SHORT STORY (tie)
Winners:
“A Front Row Seat” – Jan Grape, Vengeance Is Hers, pp.187-210 - Signet
“One Bag Of Coconuts” – Edward D. Hoch, EQMM Nov’97, pp.85-98
Nominees:
“Ways to Kill a Cat” – Simon Brett, Malice Domestic 6 (Anne Perry presents), pp.48-74 [Pocket]
“A Fog of Many Colors” – James DeFilippi, New Mystery Sum’97 (v.5 no.1), pp.13-16
“Paper Boxes” – James S. Dorr, New Mystery Sum’97 (v.5 no.1), pp.35-38
“A Front Row Seat” – Jan Grape, Vengeance Is Hers, pp.187-210 - Signet
“One Bag Of Coconuts” – Edward D. Hoch, EQMM Nov’97, pp.85-98
BEST COVER ART
Winner:
Night Dogs (Kent Anderson) – Michael Kellner - Dennis McMillan
Nominees:
The Bum’s Rush (G.M. Ford) – Krystyna Skalski [Walker
Family Values (K.C. Constantine) – Doug Fraser - Mysterious
Fruitcake (Jane Rubino) – Gail Cross - Write Way
Virgin Heat (Laurence Shames) – Victor Weaver - Hyperion
Night Dogs (Kent Anderson) – Michael Kellner - Dennis McMillan
1997 · Monterey, CA
BEST NOVEL
Winner:
The Poet – Michael Connelly - Little, Brown
Nominees:
Firestorm – Nevada Barr - Putnam
Lethal Genes – Linda Grant - Scribner
Hearts and Bones – Margaret Lawrence - William Morrow
Multiple Wounds – Alan Russell - Simon & Schuster
The Poet – Michael Connelly - Little, Brown
BEST FIRST NOVEL (tie)
Winners:
Death in Little Tokyo – Dale Furutani - St Martins
Somebody Else’s Child – Terris McMahan Grimes - Onyx
Nominees:
Tularosa – Michael McGarrity - W W Norton
A Test of Wills – Charles Todd - St Martin’s
A Brother’s Blood – Michael C. White - HarperCollins
Death in Little Tokyo – Dale Furutani - St Martins
Somebody Else’s Child – Terris McMahan Grimes - Onyx
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Winner:
Somebody Else’s Child – Terris McMahan Grimes - Onyx
Nominees:
Fade Away – Harlan Coben - Bantam
The Grass Widow – Teri Holbrook - Bantam
Walking Rain – Susan Wade - Fanfare
Chain of Fools – Steven Womack - Ballantine
Somebody Else’s Child – Terris McMahan Grimes - Onyx
BEST SHORT STORY
Winner:
“Accidents Will Happen” – Carolyn Wheat, Malice Domestic 5 (Phyllis A. Whitney presents), pp.228-239 - Pocket
Nominees:
“The Dark Snow” – Brendan DuBois, Playboy Nov’96, pp.74-75,80,82,158
“Luminarias Make It Christmas-y” – Janet LaPierre, EQMM Feb’96, pp.87-96
“Bugged” – Eve K. Sandstrom, Malice Domestic 5 (Phyllis A. Whitney presents), pp.209-227 - Pocket
“Accidents Will Happen” – Carolyn Wheat, Malice Domestic 5 (Phyllis A. Whitney presents), pp.228-239 - Pocket
BEST CRITICAL / BIOGRAPHICAL
Winner:
Detecting Women 2: Reader’s Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Women – Willetta L. Heising - Purple Moon
Nominees:
Mystery!: A Celebration: Stalking Public Television’s Greatest Sleuths – Ron Miller, Karen Sharpe, eds. - KQED Books
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist – Barbara Reynolds, ed. - St. Martin’s
By A Woman’s Hand: A Guide to Mystery Fiction by Women, 2nd Ed. – Jean Swanson, Dean James, eds. - Berkley
Detecting Women 2: Reader’s Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Women – Willetta L. Heising - Purple Moon
BEST FANZINE
Winner:
The Armchair Detective
Nominees:
Deadly Pleasures; Mystery & Detective Monthly
Mystery Readers Journal
Mystery Scene
The Armchair Detective
1996 · Saint Paul, MN
BEST NOVEL
Winner:
Under The Beetle’s Cellar – Mary Willis Walker - Doubleday
Nominees:
The Last Coyote – Michael Connelly - Little, Brown
Hard Christmas – Barbara D’Amato - Scribner
True Crime – Andrew Klavan - Crown
Blue Lonesome – Bill Pronzini - Walker
Under The Beetle’s Cellar – Mary Willis Walker - Doubleday
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Winner:
Death In Bloodhound Red – Virginia Lanier - Pineapple
Nominees:
The Innocents – Richard Barre - Walker
Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? – G.M. Ford - Walker
Hammurabi’s Code – Charles Kenney - Scribner
Murder In Scorpio – Martha C. Lawrence - St. Martin’s
Death In Bloodhound Red – Virginia Lanier - Pineapple
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Winner:
Deal Breaker – Harlan Coben - Dell
Nominees:
Bad Medicine – Eileen Dreyer - HarperPaperbacks
A Far and Deadly Cry – Teri Holbrook - Bantam
Charged with Guilt – Gloria White - Dell
Closet – R.D. Zimmerman - Dell
Deal Breaker – Harlan Coben - Dell
BEST SHORT STORY
Winner:
“And Pray Nobody Sees You” – Gar Anthony Haywood; Spooks, Spies, And Private Eyes, pp.158-171 - Doubleday
Nominees:
“Rule of Law” – K.K. Beck, Malice Domestic 4 (Carolyn G Hart presents), pp.69-88 - Pocket
The Judge’s Boy” – Jean B. Cooper, EQMM Aug’95, pp.44-58
“How I Found a Cat, Lost True Love, and Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” – Bill Crider, Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation, pp.44-88 - Fine
“The Dog Who Remembered Too Much” – Elizabeth Daniels Squire, Malice Domestic 4 (Carolyn G Hart presents), pp.192-206 - Pocket
“And Pray Nobody Sees You” – Gar Anthony Haywood; Spooks, Spies, And Private Eyes, pp.158-171 - Doubleday
BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION
Winner:
“And Pray Nobody Sees You” – Gar Anthony Haywood; Spooks, Spies, And Private Eyes, pp.158-171 - Doubleday
Nominees:
Cat Crimes Takes A Vacation – Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman, eds. - Donald I. Fine
Crimes Of The Heart – Carolyn G. Hart, ed. - Berkley
Malice Domestic 4 – Carolyn G. Hart, ed. - Pocket
Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes – Paula L. Woods, ed. - Doubleday
“And Pray Nobody Sees You” – Gar Anthony Haywood; Spooks, Spies, And Private Eyes, pp.158-171 - Doubleday
BEST TRUE CRIME
Winner:
Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? – Ann Rule - Simon & Schuster
Nominees:
Man Overboard: The Counterfeit Resurrection of Phil Champagne – Burl Barer - Northwest
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit – John Douglas, Mark Olshaker - Scribner
Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town – Pete Earley - Bantam
Born to Kill: America’s Most Notorious Vietnamese Gang, and the Changing Face of Organized Crime – T.J. English - William Morrow
Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? – Ann Rule - Simon & Schuster
BEST CRITICAL WORK
Winner:
The Armchair Detective Book of Lists, 2nd Ed – Kate Stine, ed. - Simon and Schuster
Nominees:
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books – Nicholas A. Basbanes - Henry Holt
John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles – Douglas G. Greene - Otto Penzler
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson – Robert Polito - Knopf
Ngaio Marsh: The Woman and Her Work – B.J. Rahn, ed. - Scarecrow
The Armchair Detective Book of Lists, 2nd Ed – Kate Stine, ed. - Simon and Schuster
BEST MOVIE
Winner:
The Usual Suspects
Nominees:
Copy Cat; Devil With A Blue Dress
Get Shorty
Seven
The Usual Suspects
BEST TV SHOW
Winner:
The X-Files
Nominees:
The X-Files
Homicide
Law & Order
Murder One
NYPD Blue
BEST MAGAZINE / DIGEST / REVIEW PUBLICATION
Winner:
The Armchair Detective
Nominees:
Deadly Pleasures
Drood Review
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
Mystery Scene
The Armchair Detective
BEST PUBLISHER
Winner:
St. Martin’s Press
Nominees:
Avon
Mysterious Press
Scribner
Walker
St. Martin’s Press
BEST EDITOR
Winner:
Sara Ann Freed - Mysterious
Nominees:
Marjorie Braman - Delacorte/Dell
Carolyn Marino - HarperCollins
Kate Miciak - Bantam
Michael Seidman - Walker
Sara Ann Freed - Mysterious
BEST COVER ART
Winner:
The Body In The Transept (Jeanne Dams) – Pamela Patrick - Walker
Nominees:
The Bookman’s Wake (John Dunning) – Fred George, photo; Corsillo/Manzone, design - Scribner
Death Of A Tenor Man (Bill Moody) – John Howard, illustration
Krystyna Skalski, design - Walker
The Body In The Transept (Jeanne Dams) – Pamela Patrick - Walker
1995 · Nottingham, UK
BEST NOVEL
Winner:
She Walks These Hills – Sharyn McCrumb - Scribner
Nominees:
The Concrete Blonde – Michael Connelly - Little, Brown
Kolymsky Heights – Lionel Davidson - St.Martin’s
One for the Money – Janet Evanovich - Scribner
“K” Is For Killer – Sue Grafton - Henry Holt
Murder On A Kibbutz – Batya Gur - HarperCollins
Pictures of Perfection – Reginald Hill - HarperCollins
Cold Shoulder – Lynda La Plante [Macmillan]; The 13th Juror – John Lescroart - Fine/Headline
Crack Down – Val McDermid - Scribner
Black Betty – Walter Mosley [Serpent’s Tail/Norton
Not Till the Red Fog Rises – Derek Raymond - Little, Brown
Just a Corpse at Twilight – Janwillem van de Wetering - Soho
She Walks These Hills – Sharyn McCrumb - Scribner
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Winner:
The Alienist – Caleb Carr - Little, Brown/Random House
Nominees:
Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson - Bloomsbury
Cuckoo – Alex Keegan - Headline
A Drink Before the War – Dennis Lehane - HBJ
Mallory’s Oracle – Carol O’Connell - Hutchinson/Putnam
Shinju – Laura Joh Rowland - Random House
Every Breath You Take – Michelle Spring - Orion/Pocket
Big Town – Doug J. Swanson - HarperCollins
Death of a Blue Lantern – Christopher West - Collins
The Alienist – Caleb Carr - Little, Brown/Random House
BEST SHORT STORY
Winner:
“The Monster of Glamis” – Sharyn McCrumb, Royal Crimes, pp.15-31 - Signet
Nominees:
“The Gentleman in the Lake” – Robert Barnard, EQMM Jun’94, pp.46-61
“One of Those Days, One of Those Nights” – Ed Gorman, Crime Yellow, pp.13-38 - Gollancz
A Deep Hole” – Ian Rankin, London Noir, pp.137-155 - Serpent’s Tail
“The Monster of Glamis” – Sharyn McCrumb, Royal Crimes, pp.15-31 - Signet
BEST CRITICAL WORK
Winner:
Detective Fiction: The Collector’s Guide, 2nd Ed – John Cooper, B.A. Pike, eds. - Scolar
Nominees:
Encyclopedia Mysteriosa – William DeAndrea - Prentice-Hall
The Tony Hillerman Companion – Martin H. Greenberg - Harper Collins
The Fatal Art of Entertainment – Rosemary Herbert - G.K.Hall
Detective Fiction: The Collector’s Guide, 2nd Ed – John Cooper, B.A. Pike, eds. - Scolar
BEST ANTHOLOGY / SHORT STORY COLLECTION
Winner:
The Mysterious West – Tony Hillerman, ed. - Harper Collins
Nominees:
Hollywood Nocturnes – James Ellroy - Otto Penzier
A Modern Treasury of Great Detective Stories – Ed Gorman, ed. - Carroll & Graf
London Noir – Maxim Jakubowski, ed. - Serpent’s Tail
Murder for Halloween: Tales of Suspense – Michele Slung, Roland Hartman, eds. - Mysterious Press
The Mysterious West – Tony Hillerman, ed. - Harper Collins
BEST TRUE CRIME
Winner:
Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer – David Canter - HarperCollins
Nominees:
Shot in the Heart – Mikal Gilmore - Doubleday
Dillinger, The Untold Story – G. Russell Girardin, w/William J. Helmer - Indiana Univ
The Faber Book of Murder – Simon Rae - Faber & Faber
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper – Philip Sugden - Carroll & Graf
Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer – David Canter - HarperCollins
BEST FILM
Winner:
Pulp Fiction
Nominees:
The Client; Disclosure
The Last Seduction
Shallow Grave
Pulp Fiction
BEST TV SERIES
Winner:
Prime Suspect
Nominees:
Between the Lines
Cracker
Homicide: Life on the Streets
N.Y.P.D. Blue
Prime Suspect