Direct from Bouchercon 2012: The Macavity and Barry Award Winners

Our faithful British correspondent, Ali Karim, just called Rap Sheet headquarters to report on two sets of award winners, announced this evening during Bouchercon in Cleveland. These commendations were presented during a gala affair at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

THE MACAVITY AWARDS

Best Mystery Novel: Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, by Sara Gran (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Also nominated: 1222, by Anne Holt, translated by Marlaine Delargy (Scribner); The House of Silk, by Anthony Horowitz (Mulholland); The Ridge, by Michael Koryta (Little, Brown); A Trick of the Light, by Louise Penny (Minotaur); The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes, by Marcus Sakey (Dutton); and Hell & Gone, by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland)

Best First Mystery Novel: All Cry Chaos, by Leonard Rosen
(Permanent Press)

Also nominated: Learning to Swim, by Sara J. Henry (Crown); Nazareth Child, by Darrell James (Midnight Ink); Turn of Mind, by Alice LaPlante (Atlantic Monthly); The Informationist, by Taylor Stevens (Crown); and Before I Go to Sleep, by S.J. Watson (Harper)

Best Mystery-Related Non-fiction: The Sookie Stackhouse Companion, edited by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

Also nominated: Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure, by Leslie Budewitz (Linden); Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks, by John Curran (HarperCollins); Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel, by A.B. Emrys (McFarland); and The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge, by T.J. English (Morrow)

Best Mystery Short Story: “Disarming,” by Dana Cameron (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, June 2011)

Also nominated: “Facts Exhibiting Wantonness,” by Trina Corey (EQMM, November 2011); “Palace by the Lake,” by Daryl Wood Gerber (from Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology, edited by Ramona DeFelice Long; Wildside); “Truth and Consequences,” by Barb Goffman (from Mystery Times Ten, edited by MaryChris Bradley; Buddhapuss Ink); “Heat of Passion,” by Kathleen Ryan (A Twist of Noir, February 2011); and “The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train,” by Peter Turnbull (EQMM, March/April 2011)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award: Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains, by Catriona McPherson (Thomas Dunne/Minotaur)

Also nominated: Naughty in Nice, by Rhys Bowen (Berkley); Narrows Gate, by Jim Fusilli (AmazonEncore); Mercury’s Rise, by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen Press); Troubled Bones, by Jeri Westerson (Minotaur); and A Lesson in Secrets, by Jacqueline Winspear (Harper)

THE BARRY AWARDS

Best Novel: The Keeper of Lost Causes (aka Mercy), by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Dutton)

Also nominated: The Accident, by Linwood Barclay (Bantam); The Hurt Machine, by Reed Farrel Coleman (Tyrus); Iron House, by John Hart (Minotaur); Hell Is Empty, by Craig Johnson (Viking); and The Troubled Man, by Henning Mankell (Knopf)

Best First Novel: The Informationist, by Taylor Stevens (Crown)

Also nominated: Learning to Swim, by Sara Henry (Crown); The Devotion of Suspect X, by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur); The Boy in the Suitcase, by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis (Soho Crime); Turn of Mind, by Alice LaPlante (Atlantic Monthly); and Before I Go to Sleep, by S.J. Watson (Harper)

Best British Novel: Dead Man’s Grip, by Peter James (Macmillan)

Also nominated: Now You See Me, by S.J. Bolton (Bantam Press); Hell’s Bells, (aka The Infernals), by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton); Bad Signs, by R.J. Ellory (Orion -- one of January Magazine’s favorite crime novels of 2011); The House at Sea’s End, by Elly Griffiths (Quercus); and Outrage, by Arnaldur Indriðason (Harvill Secker)

Best Paperback Original: Death of the Mantis, by Michael Stanley (Harper Perennial)

Also nominated: The Silenced, by Brett Battles (Dell); The Hangman’s Daughter, by Oliver Pötzsch (Mariner Books); A Double Death on the Black Isle, by A.D. Scott (Atria); Fun and Games, by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland); and Two for Sorrow, by Nicola Upson (Harper Perennial)

Best Thriller: The Informant, by Thomas Perry (Houghton Mifflin)

Also nominated: Carver, by Tom Cain (Bantam Press); Coup D’Etat, by Ben Coes (St. Martin’s); Spycatcher (aka Spartan), by Matthew Dunn (Morrow); Ballistic, by Mark Greaney (Berkley); and House Divided, by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly)

Best Short Story: “The Gun Also Rises, by Jeffrey Cohen (AHMM, January-February 2011)

Also nominated: “Thicker Than Blood,” by Doug Allyn (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine [AHMM], September 2011); “Whiz Bang,” by Mike Cooper (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], September-October 2011); “Facts Exhibiting Wantonness,” by Trina Corey (EQMM, November 2011); “Last Laugh in Floogle Park,” by James Powell (EQMM, July 2011); “Purge,” by Eric Rutter (AHMM, December 2011)

THE DILYS AWARD

Given out annually by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association to “the mystery title of the [previous] year which the member booksellers have most enjoyed selling.”

Winner: Ghost Hero, by S.J. Rozan (Minotaur)

Also nominated: Faithful Place, by Tana French (Penguin); Wicked Autumn, by G.M. Malliet (Minotaur); Tag Man, by Archer Mayor (Minotaur); and A Trick of the Light, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)

In addition, the Short Mystery Fiction Society re-announced the recipients of its 2012 Derringer Awards, and made official the fact that author Bill Pronzini has been given this year’s Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award.

Congratulations to all of the winners!