Saturday, 28 April 2012
Agatha Award Winners

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The winners of the 2011 Agatha Awards were announced during the banquet at the Malice Domestic conference on April 28, 2012.

Here are all the nominees with the winners in red. Mystery Scene congratulates everyone who took home an Agatha and all the nominees.

 

 

2011 Agatha Awards

Best Novel:
The Real Macaw by Donna Andrews (Minotaur)
The Diva Haunts the House by Krista Davis (Berkley)
Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet (Minotaur)
Three-Day Town by Margaret Maron (Grand Central Publishing)
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (Minotaur)

Best First Novel:
Dire Threads by Janet Bolin (Berkley)
Choke by Kaye George (Mainly Murder Press)
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown)
Who Do, Voodoo? by Rochelle Staab (Berkley)
Tempest in the Tea Leaves by Kari Lee Townsend (Berkley)

Best Non-fiction:
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 (Harper)
On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel by A. B. Emrys (McFarland)
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

Best Short Story:
"Disarming" (PDF) by Dana Cameron, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - June 2011
"Dead Eye Gravy" by Krista Davis, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology (Wildside Press)
"Palace by the Lake" by Daryl Wood Gerber, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology (Wildside Press)
"Truth and Consequences" by Barb Goffman, Mystery Times Ten (Buddhapuss Ink)
"The Itinerary" by Roberta Isleib, MWA Presents the Rich and the Dead (Grand Central Publishing)

Best Children's/Young Adult:
Shelter by Harlan Coben (Putnam)
The Black Heart Crypt by Chris Grabenstein (Random House)
Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (EgmontUSA)
The Code Busters Club, Case #1: The Secret of the Skeleton Key by Penny Warner (EgmontUSA)

Best Historical Novel:
Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)
Murder Your Darlings by J.J. Murphy (Signet)
Mercury's Rise by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen Press)
Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson (Minotaur)
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear (Harper)


Agatha Award Winners
Oline Cogdill
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malice_domestic

The winners of the 2011 Agatha Awards were announced during the banquet at the Malice Domestic conference on April 28, 2012.

Here are all the nominees with the winners in red. Mystery Scene congratulates everyone who took home an Agatha and all the nominees.

 

 

2011 Agatha Awards

Best Novel:
The Real Macaw by Donna Andrews (Minotaur)
The Diva Haunts the House by Krista Davis (Berkley)
Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet (Minotaur)
Three-Day Town by Margaret Maron (Grand Central Publishing)
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (Minotaur)

Best First Novel:
Dire Threads by Janet Bolin (Berkley)
Choke by Kaye George (Mainly Murder Press)
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown)
Who Do, Voodoo? by Rochelle Staab (Berkley)
Tempest in the Tea Leaves by Kari Lee Townsend (Berkley)

Best Non-fiction:
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 (Harper)
On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel by A. B. Emrys (McFarland)
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion by Charlaine Harris (Ace)

Best Short Story:
"Disarming" (PDF) by Dana Cameron, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - June 2011
"Dead Eye Gravy" by Krista Davis, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology (Wildside Press)
"Palace by the Lake" by Daryl Wood Gerber, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology (Wildside Press)
"Truth and Consequences" by Barb Goffman, Mystery Times Ten (Buddhapuss Ink)
"The Itinerary" by Roberta Isleib, MWA Presents the Rich and the Dead (Grand Central Publishing)

Best Children's/Young Adult:
Shelter by Harlan Coben (Putnam)
The Black Heart Crypt by Chris Grabenstein (Random House)
Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (EgmontUSA)
The Code Busters Club, Case #1: The Secret of the Skeleton Key by Penny Warner (EgmontUSA)

Best Historical Novel:
Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)
Murder Your Darlings by J.J. Murphy (Signet)
Mercury's Rise by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen Press)
Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson (Minotaur)
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear (Harper)


Thursday, 26 April 2012
2012 Edgar Award Winners

mwa_logoThe Mystery Writers of America announced its 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards on April 26, 2012, during its 66th gala banquet at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City. The awards were announced on the 203rd anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe.

Mystery Scene congratulates everyone who took home an Edgar Award and each of the nominees.

Here are the winners, marked in bold, and all the nominees.



BEST NOVEL
The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press)
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books)
1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
Field Gray by Philip Kerr (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam’s Sons – Marion Wood Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Red on Red by Edward Conlon (Random House Publishing Group – Spiegel & Grau)
Last to Fold by David Duffy (Thomas Dunne Books)
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (The Permanent Press)
Bent Road by Lori Roy (Penguin Group USA - Dutton)
Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder (Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (Hachette Book Group – Orbit Books)
The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle (Felony & Mayhem Press)
The Dog Sox by Russell Hill (Pleasure Boat Studio – Caravel Mystery Books)
Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper Paperbacks)
Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

BEST FACT CRIME
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (Crown Publishing)
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English (HarperCollins)
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (Random House)
Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller (Penguin Group)
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal (Penguin Group)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer & John-Henri Holmberg (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran (HarperCollins)
On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates (SUNY Press)
Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick (University of Illinois Press)

BEST SHORT STORY
"Marley’s Revolution" by John C. Boland: Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (Dell Magazines)
"Tomorrow’s Dead" by David Dean: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (Dell Magazines)
"The Adakian Eagle” by Bradley Denton: Down These Strange Streets (Penguin Group USA–Ace Books)
"Lord John and the Plague of Zombies" by Diana Gabaldon – Down These Strange Streets (Penguin Group USA-Ace Books)
"The Case of Death and Honey" by Neil Gaiman: A Study in Sherlock (Random House Publishing Group-Bantam Books)
“The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train” by Peter Turnbull: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (Dell Magazines)

BEST JUVENILE
Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger (Abrams – Amulet Books)
It Happened on a Train by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Vanished by Sheela Chari (Disney Book Group – Disney Hyperion)
Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (Egmont USA)

BEST YOUNG ADULT
Shelter by Harlan Coben (Penguin Young Readers Group – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (Penguin Young Readers Group – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (Random House Children’s Books – Knopf BFYR)
The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group – Roaring Creek Press)
Kill You Last by Todd Strasser (Egmont USA)

BEST PLAY
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club by Jeffrey Hatcher (Arizona Theatre Company, Phoenix, Arizona)
The Game’s Afoot by Ken Ludwig (Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland, Ohio)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
“Innocence” – Blue Bloods, Teleplay by Siobhan Byrne O’Connor (CBS Productions)
“The Life Inside” – Justified, Teleplay by Benjamin Cavell (FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television)
“Part 1” – Whitechapel, Teleplay by Ben Court & Caroline Ip (BBC America)
“Pilot” – Homeland, Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff (Showtime)
“Mask” – Law & Order: SVU, Teleplay by Speed Weed (Wolf Films/Universal Media Studios)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
"A Good Man of Business" by David Ingram: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (Dell Magazines)

GRAND MASTER
Martha Grimes

RAVEN AWARDS
M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, CA
Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD
Joe Meyers of the Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
(Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, April 25, 2012)
Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick (Minotaur Books)
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown Publishing Group)
Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely (Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books)

2012 Edgar Award Winners
Oline Cogdill
2012-edgar-award-winners

mwa_logoThe Mystery Writers of America announced its 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards on April 26, 2012, during its 66th gala banquet at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City. The awards were announced on the 203rd anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe.

Mystery Scene congratulates everyone who took home an Edgar Award and each of the nominees.

Here are the winners, marked in bold, and all the nominees.



BEST NOVEL
The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press)
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books)
1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
Field Gray by Philip Kerr (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam’s Sons – Marion Wood Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Red on Red by Edward Conlon (Random House Publishing Group – Spiegel & Grau)
Last to Fold by David Duffy (Thomas Dunne Books)
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (The Permanent Press)
Bent Road by Lori Roy (Penguin Group USA - Dutton)
Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder (Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (Hachette Book Group – Orbit Books)
The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle (Felony & Mayhem Press)
The Dog Sox by Russell Hill (Pleasure Boat Studio – Caravel Mystery Books)
Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper Paperbacks)
Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

BEST FACT CRIME
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (Crown Publishing)
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English (HarperCollins)
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (Random House)
Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller (Penguin Group)
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal (Penguin Group)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer & John-Henri Holmberg (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran (HarperCollins)
On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates (SUNY Press)
Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick (University of Illinois Press)

BEST SHORT STORY
"Marley’s Revolution" by John C. Boland: Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (Dell Magazines)
"Tomorrow’s Dead" by David Dean: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (Dell Magazines)
"The Adakian Eagle” by Bradley Denton: Down These Strange Streets (Penguin Group USA–Ace Books)
"Lord John and the Plague of Zombies" by Diana Gabaldon – Down These Strange Streets (Penguin Group USA-Ace Books)
"The Case of Death and Honey" by Neil Gaiman: A Study in Sherlock (Random House Publishing Group-Bantam Books)
“The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train” by Peter Turnbull: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (Dell Magazines)

BEST JUVENILE
Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger (Abrams – Amulet Books)
It Happened on a Train by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Vanished by Sheela Chari (Disney Book Group – Disney Hyperion)
Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (Egmont USA)

BEST YOUNG ADULT
Shelter by Harlan Coben (Penguin Young Readers Group – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (Penguin Young Readers Group – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (Random House Children’s Books – Knopf BFYR)
The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group – Roaring Creek Press)
Kill You Last by Todd Strasser (Egmont USA)

BEST PLAY
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club by Jeffrey Hatcher (Arizona Theatre Company, Phoenix, Arizona)
The Game’s Afoot by Ken Ludwig (Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland, Ohio)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
“Innocence” – Blue Bloods, Teleplay by Siobhan Byrne O’Connor (CBS Productions)
“The Life Inside” – Justified, Teleplay by Benjamin Cavell (FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television)
“Part 1” – Whitechapel, Teleplay by Ben Court & Caroline Ip (BBC America)
“Pilot” – Homeland, Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff (Showtime)
“Mask” – Law & Order: SVU, Teleplay by Speed Weed (Wolf Films/Universal Media Studios)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
"A Good Man of Business" by David Ingram: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (Dell Magazines)

GRAND MASTER
Martha Grimes

RAVEN AWARDS
M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, CA
Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD
Joe Meyers of the Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
(Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, April 25, 2012)
Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick (Minotaur Books)
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown Publishing Group)
Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely (Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books)

Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Breakfast With New Authors at Malice

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I have been reviewing mysteries since 1991 and I can't even imagine how many novels I have read during these past years. But mysteries never fail to interest me.

As much as I enjoy the work of established authors, there is nothing like reading a debut author. There is a certain freshness, an energy and an intrigue about reading an author's first work. That debut sets the tone for the author's entire series. Choices made there affect each novel.

And that leads us to the latest crop of new authors. Naturally the Edgar, Malice, and, later, Anthony awards will make readers more aware of new authors, many of whom they haven't yet discovered.

Each year Mystery Scene does its part for new authors at the Malice Domestic Conference, April 27-29 in Bethesda, MD.

The annual Mystery Scene's New Authors Breakfast combines two of our favorite things, breakfast and new authors.

The New Authors Breakfast is open to all registered attendees of Malice Domestic. It will run from 7 - 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 28th. Anyone who hasn't registered for Malice but wants to should visit the Malice website.

All of these authors are registered to attend Malice and have had (or will have) their first mystery novel or non-fiction book published between the last Malice Domestic convention and the one this weekend.

bolin_direthreadsDuring this breakfast, you will get a chance to meet and chat with these new authors, many of whom you may be reading for years.

Among the 20 authors attending the breakfast will be Malice Best First Novel nominees Janet Bolin (Dire Threads), Rochelle Staab (Who Do, Voodoo?), and Kari Lee Townsend (Tempest in the Tea Leaves). Also scheduled is Linda Rodriguez, whose Every Last Secret won Minotaur Books' Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition.

I highly recommend Malice, a great conference that specializes in the traditional mystery.

Due to personal reasons, I haven't been able to attend for about 5 years but plan to come next year for the conference's 25th year.

I also highly recommend Mystery Scene's New Authors Breakfast, which is a great way to see all the debuting writers in one place.

Like any conference, Malice can get hectic with the great panels and the socializing. So often authors you wanted to see or people you wanted to speak with. . . well, it just doesn't happen.

That's why I love Mystery Scene's New Authors Breakfast. When I have attended, I generally took notes about which authors I wanted to keep an eye on.

By the way, this year's batch is quite good. I have already read a couple of the authors for May reviews.

Authors scheduled to attend the breakfast are:

Sparkle Abbey: Desperate Housedogs
Esri Allbritten: Chihuahua of the Baskervilles
Lucy Arlington: Buried in a Book
Janet Bolin: Dire Threads
Mollie Cox Bryan: Scrapbook of Secrets
Leslie Ann Budewitz: Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure
Erika Chase: A Killer Read
Jacqueline Corcoran: A Month of Sundays
A. B. Emrys: Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel
Debra H. Goldstein: Maze in Blue
Darrell James: Nazareth Child
Michelle L. Johnson: The Footloose Killer
Alma Katsu: The Taker
Matthew J. Kirby: Icefall
Liz Lipperman: Liver Let Die
Jennifer McAndrews: Deadly Farce
Marie Moore: Shore Excursion
Cathy Perkins: The Professor
Linda Rodriguez: Every Last Secret
Rochelle Staab: Who Do, Voodoo?
Dorothy St. James: Flowerbed of State
Lane Stone: Current Affairs
Kari Lee Townsend: Tempest in the Tea Leaves
Lisa Wysocky: The Opium Equation

 

Breakfast With New Authors at Malice
Oline Cogdill
breakfast-with-new-authors-at-malice

malicedomestic_banner

I have been reviewing mysteries since 1991 and I can't even imagine how many novels I have read during these past years. But mysteries never fail to interest me.

As much as I enjoy the work of established authors, there is nothing like reading a debut author. There is a certain freshness, an energy and an intrigue about reading an author's first work. That debut sets the tone for the author's entire series. Choices made there affect each novel.

And that leads us to the latest crop of new authors. Naturally the Edgar, Malice, and, later, Anthony awards will make readers more aware of new authors, many of whom they haven't yet discovered.

Each year Mystery Scene does its part for new authors at the Malice Domestic Conference, April 27-29 in Bethesda, MD.

The annual Mystery Scene's New Authors Breakfast combines two of our favorite things, breakfast and new authors.

The New Authors Breakfast is open to all registered attendees of Malice Domestic. It will run from 7 - 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 28th. Anyone who hasn't registered for Malice but wants to should visit the Malice website.

All of these authors are registered to attend Malice and have had (or will have) their first mystery novel or non-fiction book published between the last Malice Domestic convention and the one this weekend.

bolin_direthreadsDuring this breakfast, you will get a chance to meet and chat with these new authors, many of whom you may be reading for years.

Among the 20 authors attending the breakfast will be Malice Best First Novel nominees Janet Bolin (Dire Threads), Rochelle Staab (Who Do, Voodoo?), and Kari Lee Townsend (Tempest in the Tea Leaves). Also scheduled is Linda Rodriguez, whose Every Last Secret won Minotaur Books' Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition.

I highly recommend Malice, a great conference that specializes in the traditional mystery.

Due to personal reasons, I haven't been able to attend for about 5 years but plan to come next year for the conference's 25th year.

I also highly recommend Mystery Scene's New Authors Breakfast, which is a great way to see all the debuting writers in one place.

Like any conference, Malice can get hectic with the great panels and the socializing. So often authors you wanted to see or people you wanted to speak with. . . well, it just doesn't happen.

That's why I love Mystery Scene's New Authors Breakfast. When I have attended, I generally took notes about which authors I wanted to keep an eye on.

By the way, this year's batch is quite good. I have already read a couple of the authors for May reviews.

Authors scheduled to attend the breakfast are:

Sparkle Abbey: Desperate Housedogs
Esri Allbritten: Chihuahua of the Baskervilles
Lucy Arlington: Buried in a Book
Janet Bolin: Dire Threads
Mollie Cox Bryan: Scrapbook of Secrets
Leslie Ann Budewitz: Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure
Erika Chase: A Killer Read
Jacqueline Corcoran: A Month of Sundays
A. B. Emrys: Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel
Debra H. Goldstein: Maze in Blue
Darrell James: Nazareth Child
Michelle L. Johnson: The Footloose Killer
Alma Katsu: The Taker
Matthew J. Kirby: Icefall
Liz Lipperman: Liver Let Die
Jennifer McAndrews: Deadly Farce
Marie Moore: Shore Excursion
Cathy Perkins: The Professor
Linda Rodriguez: Every Last Secret
Rochelle Staab: Who Do, Voodoo?
Dorothy St. James: Flowerbed of State
Lane Stone: Current Affairs
Kari Lee Townsend: Tempest in the Tea Leaves
Lisa Wysocky: The Opium Equation