George Easter, the editor of Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine, has just announced the 2010 Barry Award nominations. As he notes, “This year we include a new category--Crime Novel of the Decade (2000-2009).” Here’s the full list of contenders.
Best Novel:
• The Gates, by John Connolly (Atria)
• The Hidden Man, by David Ellis (Putnam)
• Spade & Archer, by Joe Gores (Knopf)
• The Last Child, by John Hart (Minotaur)
• Locked In, by Marcia Muller (Grand Central)
• Shanghai Moon, by S.J. Rozan (Minotaur)
Best First Novel:
• Beat the Reaper, by Josh Bazell (Little, Brown)
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley (Delacorte)
• A Trace of Smoke, by Rebecca Cantrell (Forge)
• A Bad Day for Sorry, by Sophie Littlefield (Minotaur)
• Black Water Rising, by Attica Locke (Harper)
• The Ghosts of Belfast, by Stuart Neville (Soho Crime)
Best British Novel:
• Awakening, by S. J. Bolton (Bantam Press)
• The Lovers, by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Midnight Fugue, by Reginald Hill (HarperCollins)
• If the Dead Rise Not, by Philip Kerr (Quercus)
• Still Midnight, by Denise Mina (Orion)
• The Ignorance of Blood, by Robert Wilson (HarperCollins)
Best Paperback Original:
• Bury Me Deep, by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
• Quarry in the Middle, by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
• Starvation Lake, by Bryan Gruley (Touchstone)
• The Weight of Silence, by Heather Gutenkauf (Mira)
• Fatal Lies, by Frank Tallis (Mortalis)
• The Herring-Seller’s Apprentice, by L.C. Tyler (Felony & Mayhem)
Best Thriller:
• No Survivors, by Tom Cain (Viking)
• Running from the Devil, by Jamie Freveletti (Morrow)
• The Gray Man, by Mark Greaney (Jove)
• Columbus, by Derek Haas (Pegasus)
• House Secrets, by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly)
• Walking Dead, by Greg Rucka (Bantam)
Mystery/Crime Novel of the Decade:
• The Guards, by Ken Bruen (Minotaur)
• The Lincoln Lawyer, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
• Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane (Morrow)
• Still Life, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
• The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Penguin Press)
Best Short Story:
• “My Mother’s Keeper,” by Barbara Callahan (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], June 2009)
• “Erin’s Journal,” by David Dean (EQMM, December 2009)
• “Real Men Die,” by John H. Dirckx (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine [AHMM], September 2009)
• “The High House Writer,” by Brendan DuBois (AHMM, July-August 2009)
• “A Hollywood Ending,” by Melodie Johnson Howe (EQMM, July 2009)
• “Hard Blows,” by Morley Swingle (from The Prosecution Rests: New Stories About Courtrooms, Criminals, and the Law, edited by Linda Fairstein; Little, Brown)
The winners will be announced during a special awards brunch to be held on Sunday, October 17, as part of Bouchercon in San Francisco.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
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4 comments:
Just curious: why is The Shadow of the Wind in bold type? Is this the winner and we just don't know it yet? :-) BTW, absolutely loved the book.
No, Scott, it was just a typographical error on my part. It's fixed now.
Cheers,
Jeff
I certainly would have thought Easter would pick a book by William Kent Krueger for his best of decade list, as I recalled he was a pretty big Krueger fan, whose first novel Iron Lake won a Barry Award. But then, you can't pick 'em all, as he says on the website.
Too bad it's such a short list :) Those listed are all excellent books, but I' disappointed not to see my faves of the decade: Val McDermid's "A Darker Domain", Tom Rob Smith's "Child 44", and Laura Lippman's stunning "Every Secret Thing."
Annie Chernow
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