Best Mystery Novel: The Virgin of Small Plains, by Nancy Pickard (Ballantine)Also nominated: Christine Falls, by Benjamin Black (Picador); The Janissary Tree, by Jason Goodwin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); The Dead Hour, by Denise Mina (Bantam); Piece of My Heart, by Peter Robinson (McClelland & Stewart); and All Mortal Flesh, by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
Best First Novel: Mr. Clarinet, by Nick Stone (Michael Joseph Ltd./Penguin)
Also nominated: Consigned to Death, by Jane K. Cleland (St. Martin’s Minotaur); 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers, by Troy Cook (Capital Crime Press); The King of Lies, by John Hart (St. Martin’s Minotaur); and A Field of Darkness, by Cornelia Read (Mysterious Press)
Best Non-fiction: Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today’s Mystery Writers, edited by Jim Huang and Austin Lugar (Crum Creek)
Also nominated: The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder, by Daniel Stashower (Dutton); and Don’t Murder Your Mystery: 24 Fiction Writing Techniques to Save Your Manuscript from Ending Up D.O.A., by Chris Roerden (Bella Rosa Books)Best Short Story: “Till Death Do Us Part,” by Tim Maleeny (from Death Do Us Part: New Stories about Love, Lust, and Murder, edited by Harlan Coben; Little, Brown)
Also nominated: “Provenance,” by Robert Barnard (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 2006); “Disturbance in the Field,” by Roberta Isleib (from Seasmoke: Crime Stories by New England Writers, edited by Kate Flora, Ruth McCarty, and Susan Oleksiw; Level Best Books)
Sue Feder Historical Mystery: Oh Danny Boy, by Rhys Bowen (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
Also nominated: The Lightning Rule, by Brett Ellen Block (Morrow); The Bee’s Kiss, by Barbara Cleverly (Constable & Robinson); Dark Assassin, by Anne Perry (Ballantine); and Messenger of Truth, by Jacqueline Winspear (Holt)
Still to come from the busy halls of Bouchercon: the recipients of this year’s Anthony and Shamus awards.
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