The Lefty (for the
best humorous mystery novel):
• Cruising in Your Eighties Is Murder, by Mike Befeler (Five Star)
• Cruising in Your Eighties Is Murder, by Mike Befeler (Five Star)
• Swift Run, by Laura
DiSilverio (Minotaur)
• December Dread,
by Jess Lourey (Midnight Ink)
• Trail of the
Spellmans, by Lisa Lutz (Simon & Schuster)
• The Girl Next
Door, by Brad Parks (Minotaur)
• Fit to Be Dead,
by Nancy Glass West (Southwest Publications)
The Bruce Alexander
Memorial Historical Mystery Award:
• The Twelve
Clues of Christmas, by Rhys Bowen (Berkley Prime Crime)
• A City of Broken Glass, by Rebecca Cantrell (Forge)
• Live by Night,
by Dennis Lehane (Morrow)
• Dandy Gilver
and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder, by Catronia McPherson (Minotaur)
• Elegy for
Eddie, by Jacqueline Winspear (HarperCollins)
The Rocky (for the
best regional mystery novel):
• Buffalo Bill’s
Dead Now, by Margaret Coel (Berkley Prime Crime)
• Hush Money, by
Chuck Greaves (Minotaur)
• Wicked Eddies,
by Beth Groundwater (Midnight Ink)
• Sonora
Crossing, by Darrell James (Midnight Ink)
• As the Crow
Flies, by Craig Johnson (Viking)
The Watson (for the
mystery novel with the best sidekick):
• In a Witch’s
Wardrobe, by Juliet Blackwell (Obsidian)
• Taken, by
Robert Crais (Putnam)
• Fun House, by
Chris Grabenstein (Pegasus)
• When the Past
Haunts You, by L.C. Hayden (CreateSpace)
• Bruja Brouhaha, by Rochelle Staab (Berkley Prime Crime)
These commendations will be voted on during the convention and presented at a banquet on Saturday, March 23, at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort.
This year’s LCC Guests of Honor will be authors Craig Johnson and Laura Lippman. Actor Lou Diamond Phillips (Longmire) will appear as a Special Guest. Tom and Enid Schantz have been tapped as the Fan Guests of Honor. Stephen J. Cannell is the Ghost of Honor. Author David Corbett will serve as Toastmaster, and Parnell Hall will entertain as the “Last Resort” Troubadour.
For more information on Left Coast Crime 2013, click here.
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