The Barry Best

George Easter, the editor of Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine, has announced the 2010 Barry Award nominations. They are:

Best Novel:

• Nowhere to Run, by C.J. Box (Putnam)

• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, by Tom Franklin (Morrow)
• The Lock Artist, by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur)
• Moonlight Mile, by Dennis Lehane (Morrow)
• Bury Your Dead, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
• Savages, Don Winslow (Simon & Schuster)

Best First Novel:

• Gutshot Straight, by Lou Berney (Morrow)
• Rogue Island, by Bruce DeSilva (Forge)
• The Poacher’s Son, by Paul Doiron (Minotaur)
• The Sherlockian, by Graham Moore (Twelve)
• The Holy Thief, by William Ryan (Minotaur)
• Once a Spy, by Keith Thomson (Doubleday)

Best British Novel:

• Started Early, Took My Dog, by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday)
• Blood Harvest, by S.J. Bolton (Bantam Press)
• The Whisperers, by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Woodcutter, by Reginald Hill (HarperCollins)
• Three Seconds, by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström (Quercus)
• Fourth Day, by Zoë Sharp (Allison & Busby)

Best Paperback Original:

• The Hanging Tree, by Bryan Gruley (Touchstone)
• The Dead Lie Down, by Sophie Hannah (Penguin)
• Eggsecutive Orders, by Julie Hyzy (Berkley)
• Fever at the Bone, by Val McDermid (Harper)
• The Rhetoric of Death, by Judith Rock (Berkley)
• A Small Death in the Great Glen, by A.D. Scott (Atria)

Best Thriller:

• 13 Hours, by Deon Meyer (Grove Atlantic)
• American Assassin, by (Atria)
• The Bricklayer, by Noah Boyd (Harper)
• Bolt Action, by Charles Charters (Hodder UK)
• On Target, by Mark Greaney (Jove)
• The Rembrandt Affair, by Daniel Silva (Putnam)

Best Short Story:

• “Requiem for Antlers,” by Mitch Alderman (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine [AHMM], January-February 2010)

• “Family Values,” by Robert Barnard (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], February 2010)
• “The Body in the Dunes,” by Caroline Benton (EQMM, January 2010)
• “The List,” by Loren D. Estleman (EQMM, May 2010)
• “The Seven Sorrows,” by Terence Faherty (EQMM, March-April 2010)
• “When the Apricots Bloom,” by Ellen Larson (AHMM, July-August 2010)

Voting will be done by Deadly Pleasures readers, with news of the Barry Award winners to come during this fall’s Bouchercon in St. Louis.