Word from Bouchercon 2010: The Macavity and Barry Award Winners

Direct from Bouchercon 2010 in San Francisco, we bring you the results of the 2010 Barry and Macavity award competitions.

THE BARRY AWARDS

Best Novel: The Last Child, by John Hart (Minotaur)

Also nominated: The Gates, by John Connolly (Atria); The Hidden Man, by David Ellis (Putnam); Spade & Archer, by Joe Gores (Knopf); Locked In, by Marcia Muller (Grand Central); Shanghai Moon, by S.J. Rozan (Minotaur)

Best First Novel: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley (Delacorte)

Also nominated: Beat the Reaper, by Josh Bazell (Little, Brown); 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: If the Dead Rise Not, by Philip Kerr (Quercus)

Also nominated: Awakening, by S. J. Bolton (Bantam Press); The Lovers, by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton); Midnight Fugue, by Reginald Hill (HarperCollins); Still Midnight, by Denise Mina (Orion); The Ignorance of Blood, by Robert Wilson (HarperCollins)

Best Paperback Original: Starvation Lake, by Bryan Gruley (Touchstone)

Also nominated: Bury Me Deep, by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster); Quarry in the Middle, by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime); 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: Running from the Devil, by Jamie Freveletti (Morrow)

Also nominated: No Survivors, by Tom Cain (Viking); 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 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)

Also nominated: The Guards, by Ken Bruen (Minotaur): The Lincoln Lawyer, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown); 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: “The High House Writer,” by Brendan DuBois (AHMM, July-August 2009)

Also nominated: “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); “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)

Don Sandstrom Award for Literary Achievement in Mystery Fandom: Len and June Moffatt; Captain Bob Napier

THE MACAVITY AWARDS

Best Mystery Novel: Tower, by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman (Busted Flush Press)

Also nominated: Bury Me Deep, by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster); Necessary as Blood, by Deborah Crombie (William Morrow); Nemesis, by Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett (HarperCollins); The Brutal Telling, by Louise Penny (Minotaur); The Shanghai Moon, by S.J. Rozan (Minotaur)

Best First Mystery Novel: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley (Delacorte)

Also nominated: Running from the Devil, by Jamie Freveletti (William Morrow); A Bad Day for Sorry, by Sophie Littlefield (Minotaur); The Ghosts of Belfast, by Stuart Neville (Soho Crime); A Beautiful Place to Die, by Malla Nunn (Picador)

Best Mystery Non-Fiction: Talking About Detective Fiction, by P.D. James (Alfred A. Knopf)

Also Nominated: L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America’s Most Seductive City, by John Buntin (Random House: Harmony Books); Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, by Craig McDonald (Bleak House Books); The Line Up: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives, edited by Otto Penzler (Little, Brown & Company); Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art, by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo (Penguin Press); Dame Agatha’s Shorts: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion, by Elena Santangelo (Bella Rosa Books)

Best Mystery Short Story: “On the House” by Hank Phillippi Ryan in Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers (Level Best Books)

Also nominated: “Last Fair Deal Gone Down” by Ace Atkins in Crossroad Blues (Busted Flush Press); “Femme Sole” by Dana Cameron in Boston Noir (Akashic Books); “Digby, Attorney at Law” by Jim Fusilli, (AHMM, May 2009); “Your Turn” by Carolyn Hart in Two of the Deadliest (Harper); “The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away” by Marcus Sakey in Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can’t Put Down (Mira); “Amapola” by Luis Alberto Urrea in Phoenix Noir (Akashic Books)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery: A Trace of Smoke, by Rebecca Cantrell (Forge)

Also Nominated: In the Shadow of Gotham, by Stefanie Pintoff (Minotaur); A Duty to the Dead, by Charles Todd (William Morrow); Serpent in the Thorns, by Jeri Westerson (Minotaur); Among the Mad, by Jacqueline Winspear (Henry Holt)