Crimespree Magazine Award

Trigger City by Sean Chercover won the 2009 Crimespree magazine award for favorite book of 2008. Other winners were Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais (best in ongoing series), Brian Azzarello (favorite comics writer), Money Shot by Christa Faust (favorite original paperback, mass market or trade) and Once Upon a Crime, Minneapolis, Minn. (favorite mystery bookstore). You can see the runners-up in all categories at Crimespree's blog, Central Crime Zone.

Aug 3, 2009

The 2009 Crimespree Awards and..

The votes are in the winners have been determined.
Each Category will also have the four runners up, the winners in bold with an asterisk.

Favorite book of 2008
*Trigger City – Sean Chercover*
Yellow Medicine - Anthony Neil Smith
Envy The Night - Michael Koryta
Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais
Toros & Torsos by Craig McDonald


Best in an ongoing series
*Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais
Trigger City – Sean Chercover
Toros & Torsos - Craig McDonald
The Duffy Dombrowski Mystery Series by Tom Schreck
Another Thing to Fall – Laura Lippman

Favorite comics writer
*Brian Azzarello*
Tim Broderick
B. Clay Moore
Ed Brubaker
Jason Aaron

Favorite original Paperback (mass market or trade)
*Money Shot – Christa Faust*
Severance Package - Duane Swierczynski
Go Go Girls – Victor Gischler
The Stolen – Jason Pinter
The Evil That Men Do – Dave White


Favorite Mystery Bookstore
*ONCE UPON A CRIME, Minneapolis *
The Mystery Bookstore – (Los Angeles)
Murder by the book – Houston
Centuries & Sleuths, Forest Park, IL
M IS FOR MYSTERY, San Mateo, California