Another Envelope, Please

Mystery Ink has announced the nominees for the 2007 Gumshoe Awards. The Gumshoe Awards are presented each year to “recognize the best achievements in the world of crime fiction.” The 2007 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award as well as nominees for Best Crime Fiction Web site are still to be made public, though winners will be announced at the same time as those in other categories on May 1. Here are the nominees so far:

Best Mystery:
• White Shadow, by Ace Atkins (Berkley)
• City of Shadows, by Ariana Franklin (Morrow)
• The Night Gardener, by George Pelecanos (Little, Brown)
• All Mortal Flesh, by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Hollywood Station, by Joseph Wambaugh (Little, Brown)

Best Thriller:
• The Hard Way, by Lee Child (Delacorte)
• The Last Assassin, by Barry Eisler (Putnam)
• Prayers for the Assassin, by Robert Ferrigno (Scribner)
• Marked Man, by William Lashner (Morrow)
• The Venus Fix, by M.J. Rose (Mira)

Best European Crime Novel:
• The Dramatist, by Ken Bruen (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• A Walk in the Dark, by Gianrico Carofiglio (Bitter Lemon Press)
• By a Slow River, by Philippe Claudel (Knopf)
• When the Devil Holds the Candle, by Karin Fossum (Harcourt)
• The Minotaur, by Barbara Vine (Shaye Areheart Books )

Best First Novel:
• Out of Cabrini, by Dave Case (Five Star)
• A Corpse in the Koryo, by James Church (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• The King of Lies, by John Hart (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• The Shadow Catchers, by Thomas Lakeman (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• A Field of Darkness, by Cornelia Read (Mysterious Press)