Fresh from the Awards Banquet this morning at Left Coast Crime in gorgeous Hawaii!
THE BRUCE ALEXANDER MEMORIAL HISTORICAL MYSTERY
A historical mystery, covering events before 1950
**Kelli Stanley: Nox Dormienda, A Long Night For Sleeping (Five Star)
Nominees:
Tasha Alexander: A Fatal Waltz (HarperCollins)
Rhys Bowen: A Royal Pain (Berkley Prime Crime)
Rhys Bowen: Tell Me Pretty Maiden (St. Martin’s)
Laurie R. King: Touchstone (Bantam)
HAWAII FIVE-O
Beset law enforcement, police procedural
**Neil S. Plakcy: Mahu Fire (Alyson Books)
Nominees:
Baron Birtcher: Angels Fall (Iota)
Kate Flora: The Angel of Knowlton Park (Five Star)
Asa Larsson: The Black Path (Delta)
G.M. Malliet: Death of a Cozy Writer (Midnight Ink)
Karin Slaughter: Fractured (Delacorte)
THE LEFTY
Best humorous mystery
**Tim Maleeny: Greasing the Pinata (Poisoned Pen Press)
Nominees:
Donna Andrews: Six Geese a-Slaying (St. Martin’s)
Jeffrey Cohen: It Happened One Knife (Berkley Prime Crime)
Sue Ann Jaffarian: Thugs and Kisses (Midnight Ink)
N.M. Kelby: Murder at the Bad Girl’s Bar and Grill (Shaye Areheart Books/Random House Group)
Rita Lakin: Getting Old is To Die For (Dell/Bantam)