Theakstons prize (2010)

From Theakstons 2013 and wikipedia accessed 7/6/13

Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year

2013 Shortlist
Rush of Blood- Mark Billingham
Safe House- Chris Ewan
The Lewis Man- Peter May
Gods and Beasts- Denise Mina
Stolen Souls- Stuart Neville
A Dark Redemption- Stav Sherez

The 2010 longlist:
* In the Dark by Mark Billingham
* If It Bleeds by Duncan Campbell
* The Surrogate by Tania Carver
* The Business by Martina Cole
* A Simple Act of Violence by R.J. Ellory --Winner!
* Until It's Over by Nicci French
* The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
* Cold in Hand by John Harvey
* Skin by Mo Hayder
* Vows of Silence by Susan Hill
* The Dying Breed by Declan Hughes
* Dead Tomorrow by Peter James
* Target by Simon Kernick
* A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
* Gallows Lane by Brian McGilloway
* Geezer Girls by Dreda Say Mitchell
* Singing to the Dead by Caro Ramsay
* Doors Open by Ian Rankin
* All The Colours of Darkness by Peter Robinson

* Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

Other years:
2005
Mark Billingham – Lazybones
Simon Kernick – The Murder Exchange
Val McDermid – The Distant Echo
Ian Rankin – A Question of Blood
Andrew Taylor – The American Boy
Minette Walters – Disordered Minds

2006
Val McDermid – The Torment of Others
Lindsay Ashford – Strange Blood
Stephn Booth – One Last Breath
Martin Edwards – The Coffin Trail
Susan Hill – The Various Haunts of Men
Ian Rankin – Fleshmarket Close

2007
Allan Guthrie – Two-Way Split
Stephen Booth – The Dead Place
Christopher Brookmyre – All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye
Michael Jecks – The Deathship of Dartmouth
Stuart MacBride – Cold Granite
Graham Hurley – Blood and Honey

2008
Stef Penney – The Tenderness of Wolves

2009
Mark Billingham – Death Message
A Cure For All Diseases Reginald Hill
Bad Luck And Trouble - Lee Child
Beneath The Bleeding - Val McDermid
Broken Skin Stuart MacBride
Dead Man’s Footsteps - Peter James
Exit Music - Ian Rankin
Friend Of The Devil Peter Robinson
Garden Of Evil - David Hewson
Gone To Ground - John Harvey
Ritual - Mo Hayder
Savage Moon - Chris Simms
The Accident Man - Tom Cain
The Colour Of Blood - Declan Hughes

2010
R J Ellory – A Simple Act of Violence

2011
Lee Child – 61 Hours

2012
Denise Mina - The End of the Wasp Season

Dilys Award (1992-2013)

from: Independent Mystery Booksellers Association accessed 6/21/13
The Dilys Award have been presented every year since 1992 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. It is given to the mystery title of the year which the member booksellers have most enjoyed selling. The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association is an association of retail businesses that are either wholly or substantially devoted to the sale of mystery books. The Dilys award is named after Dilys Winn who founded the first specialty bookseller of mystery books in the United States.

2013 Nominees
Before the Poison by Peter Robinson (Morrow) -- Winner!
Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach by Colin Cotterill (Minotaur)
Broken Harbor by Tana French (Viking)
Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal (Bantam)
The Expats by Chris Pavone (Crown)

2012 Nominees
Ghost Hero by S. J. Rozan* (Minotaur - e-book available).
When Elves Attack by Tim Dorsey - Morrow
Wicked Autumn by G. M. Malliet - Minotaur (e-book available)
Tag Man by Archer Mayor - Minotaur (e-book available)
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny - Minotaur (e-book available)

2011 Nominees
Love Songs from a Shallow Grave by Colin Cotterill
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny -- Winner!
Once a Spy by Keith Thomson
Savages by Don Winslow

Awards

Winners and nominated titles for each year:
Year Winner followed by Other nominees

2010

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley -- Winner!

A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellroy

The Dark Horse by Craig Johnson (Walt Longmire #5) #1 Cold Dish
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson(Millenium#2) #1 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville

The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Armand Gamache, #5) #1 Still Life

The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan

2009 Trigger City by Sean Chercover
* The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler
* Silent in the Sanctuary by Deanna Raybourn

* Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

* Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow

2008 Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger
* Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen
* The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
* Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
* The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey

2007 Still Life by Louise Penny

* Billy Boyle by James R. Benn
* Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
* Mournful Teddy by John J. Lamb
* The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
* The Virgin of the Small Plains by Nancy Pickard

2006 Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill
* In a Teapot by Terence Faherty
* The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
* Half Broken Things by Morag Joss
* The Tenor Wore Tap Shoes by Mark Schweitzer
* The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow

2005 Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay by
* The Enemy by Lee Child
* Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
* The Intelligencer by Leslie Silbert
* Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
* The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

2004 Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
* Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon by Donna Andrews
* The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick
* Monkeewrench by P. J. Tracy
* Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

2003 In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
* You've Got Murder by Donna Andrews
* Without Fail by Lee Child
* The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
* Hell to Pay by George Pelecanos

2002 Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
* The Cold Blue Blood by David Handler
* Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
* Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger
* The Reaper by Peter Lovesey

2001 A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
* The Sibyl in Her Grave by Sarah Caudwell
* The Hearse You Came in On by Tim Cockey
* Demolition Angel by Robert Crais
* Hot Six by Janet Evanovich

2000 L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais
* River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
* Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews
* Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger
* California Fire and Life by Don Winslow

1999 Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
* Blind Descent by Nevada Barr
* The Ghosts of Morning by Richard Barre
* Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke
* Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
* Wings of Fire by Charles Todd

1998 Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
* Killing Floor by Lee Child
* Back Spin by Harlan Coben
* Sacred by Dennis Lehane
* Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs
* The Devil in Music by Kate Ross

1997 The Poet by Michael Connelly
* Fade Away by Harlan Coben
* Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence
* Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane [#1 A Drink Before the War]
* Tularosa by Michael McGarrity
* Moody Gets the Blues by Steve Oliver
* Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry
* A Test of Wills by Charles Todd

1996 The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
* Voodoo River by Robert Crais
* Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca? by G. M. Ford
* If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him by Sharyn McCrumb
* The Codicil by Tom Topor

1995 One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
* Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott
* Aunt Dimity and the Duke by Nancy Atherton
* A Superior Death by Nevada Barr
* The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
* Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connell
* Walking Rain by Susan Wade

1994 Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
* Death Comes As Epiphany by Sharan Newman
* Wolf in the Shadows by Marcia Muller
* By Evil Means by Sandra West Prowell
* Catilina's Riddle by Stephen Saylor
* The Sculptress by Minette Walters
* Way Down On The High Lonely by Don Winslow

1993 Booked to Die by John Dunning
* The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
* Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
* The Ice House by Minette Walters

1992 Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen
* A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George
* Book Case by Stephen Greenleaf
* Hour of the Hunter by J.A. Jance
* We Wish You A Merry Murder by Valerie Wolzien

Edgar Awards (2009-2011)

2011 Nominees from Mystery Writers of America accessed 1/20/11

Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce on the 202nd anniversary of the birth of Edgar
Allan Poe, its Nominees for the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction,
non-fiction and television published or produced in 2010. The Edgar® Awards will be presented to the
winners at our 65th Gala Banquet, April 28, 2011 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

BEST NOVEL
Caught by Harlan Coben (Penguin Group USA - Dutton)
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
Faithful Place by Tana French (Penguin Group USA - Viking)
The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books)
I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins – William Morrow)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva (Tom Doherty Associates – Forge Books)
The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron (Minotaur Books)
The Serialist: A Novel by David Gordon (Simon & Schuster)
Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
Snow Angels by James Thompson (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard (Random House - Bantam)
The News Where You Are by Catherine O’Flynn (Henry Holt)
Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski (Minotaur Books)
Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Ten Little Herrings by L.C. Tyler (Felony & Mayhem Press) 2

BEST FACT CRIME
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity
by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry (University of Nebraska Press – Bison Original)
The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South
by Alex Heard (HarperCollins)
Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery
by Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr and the International Hunt for his
Assassin by Hampton Sides (Random House - Doubleday)
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
by Douglas Starr

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
The Wire: Truth Be Told by Rafael Alvarez (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
by John Curran (HarperCollins)
Sherlock Holmes for Dummies by Steven Doyle and David A. Crowder (Wiley)
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendevouz with American
History by Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton)
Thrillers: 100 Must Reads edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner (Oceanview Publishing)

BEST SHORT STORY
"The Scent of Lilacs" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Doug Allyn (Dell Magazines)
"The Plot" – First Thrills by Jeffery Deaver (Tom Doherty – Forge Books)
"A Good Safe Place” – Thin Ice by Judith Green (Level Best Books)
"Monsieur Alice is Absent" – Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
by Stephen Ross (Dell Magazines)
"The Creative Writing Murders" – Dark End of the Street by Edmund White (Bloomsbury)

BEST JUVENILE
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon (Candlewick Press)
The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy by Dori Hillestad Butler (Albert Whitman & Co.)
The Haunting of Charles Dickens by Lewis Buzbee (Feiwel & Friends)
Griff Carver: Hallway Patrol by Jiim Krieg (Penguin Young Readers Group - Razorbill)
The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman by Ben H. Winters (HarperCollins Children’s Books)

BEST YOUNG ADULT
The River by Mary Jane Beaufrand (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King (Random House Children’s Books – Alfred A. Knopf)
7 Souls by Barnabas Miller and Jordan Orlando (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Press)
The Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price
(Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers)
Dust City by Robert Paul Weston (Penguin Young Readers Group - Razorbill) 3

BEST PLAY
The Psychic by Sam Bobrick (Falcon Theatre – Burbank, CA)
The Tangled Skirt by Steve Braunstein (New Jersey Repertory Company)
The Fall of the House by Robert Ford (Alabama Shakespeare Festival)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
“Episode 1” - Luther, Teleplay by Neil Cross (BBC America)
“Episode 4” – Luther, Teleplay by Neil Cross (BBC America)
“Full Measure” – Breaking Bad, Teleplay by Vince Gilligan (AMC/Sony)
“No Mas” – Breaking Bad, Teleplay by Vince Gilligan (AMC/Sony)
“The Next One’s Gonna Go In Your Throat” – Damages, Teleplay by Todd A. Kessler,
Glenn Kessler & Daniel Zelman (FX Networks)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
"Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

GRAND MASTER
Sara Paretsky

RAVEN AWARDS
Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, Forest Park, Illinois
Once Upon A Crime Bookstore, Minneapolis, Minnesota

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
(Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, April 27, 2010)
Wild Penance by Sandi Ault (Penguin Group – Berkley Prime Crime)
Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
Down River by Karen Harper (MIRA Books)
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Live to Tell by Wendy Corsi Staub

Here are the winners of the 2010 Edgar Awards, who were honored at the Mystery Writers of America banquet in New York City:

2010:
Best novel: The Last Child by John Hart
Best Novel Shortlist:
# The Missing by Tim Gautreaux
# The Odds by Kathleen George
# Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
# Nemesis by Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett
# A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

Best first novel: In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff (Minotaur)
Best first novel by an American Author Shortlist:
# The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano

# Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley

# The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
# A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield
# Black Water Rising by Attica Locke

Best paperback original: Body Blows by Marc Strange (Dundurn Press/Castle Street Mysteries)
Best Paperback Original Shortlist:
# Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
# Havana Lunar by Robert Arellano
# The Lord God Bird by Russell Hill
# Body Blows by Marc Strange
# The Herring-Seller's Apprentice by L.C. Tyler

Best critical/biographical: The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler (Little, Brown)
Best fact crime: Columbine by Dave Cullen (Twelve)
Best short story: "Amapola" by Luis Alberto Urrea in Phoenix Noir (Akashic)

Best young adult: Reality Check by Peter Abrahams (HarperTeen)
Young Adult Shortlist:
# If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney
# The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford
# Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone by Dene Low
# Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell

Best juvenile: Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn
Juvenile Shortlist:
# The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity by Mac Barnett

# The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour by Michael D. Beil

# Creepy Crawly Crime by Aaron Reynolds
# The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer

Best TV episode teleplay: "Place of Execution" by Patrick Harbinson (PBS/WGBH Boston)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "A Dreadful Day" by Dan Warthman in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

S&S/Mary Higgins Clark Award: Awakening by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur)
S&S/Mary Higgins Clark Shortlist:
# Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof by Blaize Clement
# Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron
# Lethal Vintage by Nadia Gordon
# Dial H for Hitchcock

Grand Master: Dorothy Gilman
Raven Award: Mystery Writers' Festival
Ellery Queen Award: Poisoned Pen Press (Barbara Peters & Robert Rosenwald)


C.J. Box's Blue Heaven was named best novel at the 63rd (2009) Annual Edgar Awards Banquet, presented by the Mystery Writers of America in New York City and featuring Grand Masters James Lee Burke and Sue Grafton.

2009 Edgar winners
Best Novel: Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
Best Novel Shortlist:

# Missing by Karin Alvtegen

# Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno
# The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes
# The Night Following by Morag Joss
# Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz

Best First Novel: The Foreigner by Francie Lin

Best First Novel Shortlist
# The Kind One by Tom Epperson
# Sweetsmoke by David Fuller
# Calumet City by Charlie Newton
# A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock

Best Paperback Original: China Lake by Meg Gardiner
Best Paperback Original Shortlist:
# The Prince of Bagram Prison by Alex Carr

# Money Shot by Christa Faust

# Enemy Combatant by Ed Gaffney
# The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli

Best Fact Crime: American Lightning: Terror, Mystery and the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum
Best Critical/Biographical: Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to his Tell-Tale Stories by Dr. Harry Lee Poe
Best Short Story: "Skinhead Central," Mystery Writers of America Presents: The Blue Religion by T. Jefferson Parker

Best Juvenile: The Postcard by Tony Abbott

Best Young Adult: Paper Towns by John Green

Best Play: The Ballad of Emmett Till by Ifa Bayeza
Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Prayer of the Bone," Wire in the Blood, Teleplay by Patrick Harbinson
Best Motion Picture Screen Play: In Bruges, Screenplay by Martin McDonagh
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "Buckner's Error," Queens Noir by Joseph Guglielmelli
Raven Awards: Edgar Allan Poe Society, Baltimore, Md., and Poe House, Baltimore, Md.
S&S/Mary Higgins Clark Award: The Killer's Wife by Bill Floyd

2008 Edgar Nominees and Winners:
Best Novel Nominees
* Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
* Priest by Ken Bruen
* The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
* Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman
* Down River by John Hart – Winner!

Best First Novel By An American Author
* Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell
* In the Woods by Tana French – Winner!
* Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard
* Head Games by Craig McDonald
* Pyres by Derek Nikitas

Best Paperback Original
* Queenpin by Megan Abbott – Winner!
* Blood of Paradise by David Corbett
* Cruel Poetry by Vicki Hendricks
* Robbie's Wife by Russell Hill
* Who is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall

Best Fact Crime
* The Birthday Party by Stanley Alpert
* Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi – Winner!
* Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit by Kerry Max Cook
* Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit by Kevin Flynn
* Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind by Bruce Watson

Best Short Story
* "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons
* "Blue Note" - Chicago Blues by Stuart M. Kaminsky
* "Hardly Knew Her" - Dead Man's Hand by Laura Lippman
* "The Golden Gopher" - Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight – Winner!
* "Uncle" - A Hell of a Woman by Daniel Woodrell

Best Young Adult
* Rat Life by Tedd Arnold – Winner!
* Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney
* Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin
* Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin
* Fragments by Jeffry W. Johnston

Best Juvenile
* The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
* Shadows on Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman
* Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn
* The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh – Winner!
* Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen

Best Play
* If/Then by David Foley
* Panic by Joseph Goodrich – Winner!
* Books by Stuart M. Kaminsky

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
* "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)

The Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award
* In Cold Pursuit by Sarah Andrews
* Wild Indigo by Sandi Ault – Winner!
* Inferno by Karen Harper
* The First Stone by Judith Kelman
* Deadman's Switch by Barbara Seranella

2007 Edgar Nominees and Winners:
Best Novel Nominees
* The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
* The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin – Winner!
* Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris
* The Dead Hour by Denise Mina
* The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
* Liberation Movements by Olen Steinhauer

Best First Novel By An American Author
* The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson – Winner!
* Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
* King of Lies by John Hart
* Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
* A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read

Best Paperback Original
* The Goodbye Kiss by Massimo Carlotto, translated by Lawrence Venuti
* The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson
* Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara – Winner!
* The Deep Blue Alibi by Paul Levine
* City of Tiny Lights by Patrick Neate

Best Critical/Biographical
* Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir by John T. Irwin
* The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear by E.J. Wagner – Winner!

Best Fact Crime
* Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz
* A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
* Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine by Capt. Joseph K. Loughlin & Kate Clark Flora
* Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer by Robin Odell
* The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder by Daniel Stashower
* Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson – Winner!

Best Short Story
* "The Home Front" - Death Do Us Part by Charles Ardai – Winner!
* "Rain" - Manhattan Noir by Thomas H. Cook
* "Cranked" - Damn Near Dead by Bill Crider
* "Building" - Manhattan Noir by S.J. Rozan

Best Young Adult
* The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks
* The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson
* Crunch Time by Mariah Fredericks
* Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready – Winner!
* The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum-Ucci

Best Juvenile

* Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake by Jennifer Allison

* The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery by Sarah Masters Buckey

* Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements – Winner!

* The Bloodwater Mysteries: Snatched by Pete Hautman & Mary Logue
* The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer

Best Play
* Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure by Steven Dietz – Winner!
* Curtains by Rupert Holmes
* Ghosts of Ocean House by Michael Kimball

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
* William Dylan Powell "Evening Gold" - EQMM November 2006 (Dell Magazines)

The Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award
* Bloodline by Fiona Mountain (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Nero Award (1979-2010)

From Wikipedia accessed 09/04/09

The Nero Award is a literary award for excellence in the mystery genre presented by The Wolfe Pack, a society founded in 1978 to explore and celebrate the Nero Wolfe stories of Rex Stout. The Nero Award is presented annually at the Black Orchid Banquet, traditionally held on the first Saturday in December in New York City.

* 1979 - The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling by Lawrence Block
* 1980 - Burn This by Helen McCloy
* 1981 - Death in a Tenured Position by Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (writing as Amanda Cross)
* 1982 - Past, Present and Murder by Hugh Pentecost
* 1983 - The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes
* 1984 - Emily Dickinson is Dead by Jane Langton
* 1985 - Sleeping Dog by Dick Lochte
* 1986 - Murder in E Minor by Robert Goldsborough
* 1987 - The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond by Charlotte MacLeod
* 1988 no award presented
* 1989 no award presented
* 1990 no award presented
* 1991 - Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman
* 1992 - A Scandal in Belgravia by Robert Barnard
* 1993 - Booked To Die by John Dunning
* 1994 - Old Scores by Aaron Elkins
* 1995 - She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
* 1996 - A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King
* 1997 - The Poet by Michael Connelly
* 1998 - Sacred by Dennis Lehane
* 1999 - The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver
* 2000 - Coyote Revenge by Fred Harris
* 2001 - Sugar House by Laura Lippman
* 2002 - The Deadhouse by Linda Fairstein
* 2003 - Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan
* 2004 - Fear Itself by Walter Mosley
* 2005 - The Enemy by Lee Child
* 2006 - Vanish by Tess Gerritsen
* 2007 - All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming
* 2008 - Anatomy of Fear by Jonathan Santlofer
2009 - The Tenth Case by Joseph Teller
2010 - Faces of the Gone by Brad Parks

Agatha Award (1988-2009)

2008 and prior info from Wikipedia accessed 9/14/10

The Agatha Awards are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write via the same method as Agatha Christie (i.e. closed setting, no sex or violence, amateur detective). At an annual convention in Washington, D.C., the Agatha Awards are handed out by Malice Domestic Ltd, in five categories: Best Novel; Best First Mystery; Best Short Story; Best Non-Fiction; Best Children's/Young Adult Mystery. Additionally, in some years the Poirot Award is presented to honor individuals other than writers who have made outstanding contributions to the mystery genre, but it is not an annual award.

2009 Agatha Winners - (awarded in 2010 -May 2)
BEST NOVEL
Winner - The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Swan for the Money by Donna Andrews (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
Bookplate Special by Lorna Barrett (Berkley Prime Crime)
Royal Flush by Rhys Bowen (Berkley Prime Crime)
Air Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan (MIRA)

BEST FIRST NOVEL
Winner -The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (Delacorte Press)
For Better For Murder by Lisa Bork (Midnight Ink)
Posed for Murder by Meredith Cole (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
The Cold Light of Mourning by Elizabeth Duncan (St. Martin’s Press)
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff (Minotaur Books)

BEST NON-FICTION
Winner - Dame Agatha’s Shorts by Elena Santangelo (Bella Rosa Books)
Duchess of Death by Richard Hack (Phoenix Books)
Talking About Detective Fiction by P.D. James (Knopf)
Blood on the Stage 1925-1950 by Amnon Kabatchnik (Scarecrow Press)
The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar (St. Martin’s Press)

BEST CHILDREN'S / YOUNG ADULT:
Winner - The Hanging Hill by Chris Grabenstein (Random House)
The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford (Viking Juvenile)
The Case of the Poisoned Pig by Lewis B. Montgomery (Kane Press)
The Other Side of Blue by Valerie O. Patterson (Clarion Books)
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer (Philomel)

Best First Novel
2008 - G.M. Malliet, Death of a Cozy Writer (Midnight Ink)
Sarah Atwell, Through a Glass, Deadly (Berkley Trade)
Krista Davis, The Diva Runs Out of Thyme (Penguin Group)
Rosemary Harris, Pushing Up Daisies (Minotaur Books)
Joanna Campbell Slan, Paper, Scissors, Death (Midnight Ink)
2007 - Hank Phillippi Ryan, Prime Time (Harlequin)
Charles Finch, A Beautiful Blue Death (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Beth Groundwater, A Real Basket Case (Five Star Mystery)
Deanna Raybourn, Silent in the Grave (Mira)
2006 - Sandra Parshall, The Heat of the Moon (Poisoned Pen Press)
Jane Cleland, Consigned to Death (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily, The Chef Who Died Sauteing (Hilliard & Harris)
Hailey Lind, Feint of Art (Signet)
Karen MacInerney, Murder on the Rocks (Midnight Ink)
2005 - Laura Durham, Better Off Wed (HarperCollins Publishers)
Laura Bradford, Jury of One (Hilliard & Harris)
Shirley Damsgaard, Witch Way to Murder (Avon Books)
Maggie Sefton, Knit One, Kill Two (Berkley Publishing Group)
Lisa Tillman, Blood Relations (Hilliard & Harris)
2004 - Harley Jane Kozak, Dating Dead Men (Doubleday)
Judy Clemens, Till the Cows Come Home (Poisoned Pen Press)
Patricia Harwin, Arson and Old Lace (Pocket Books)
Dorothy Salisbury Davis and Jerome Ross, God Speed the Night
Susan Kandel, I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason (HarperCollins)
Pari Noskin Taichert, The Clovis Incident: A Mystery (University of New Mexico Press)
2003 - Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs (Soho Press Inc.)
Elaine Flinn, Dealing in Murder (Avon)
Erin Hart, The Haunted Ground (Scribner)
S.W. Hubbard, Take the Bait (Pocket)
Maddy Hunter, Alpine for You (Pocket)
Joyce Kreig, Murder off Mike (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Sarah Stewart Taylor, O’ Artful Death (St. Martin's Press)
2002 - Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Pip Granger, Not All Tarts Are Apple (Poisoned Pen Press)
Roberta Isleib, Six Strokes Under (Berkley)
Claire M. Johnson, Beat Until Stiff (Poisoned Pen Press)
Nancy Martin, How to Murder a Millionaire (Signet)
Lea Wait, Shadows at the Fair (Scribner)
2001 - Sarah Strohmeyer, Bubbles Unbound (Dutton)
Tim Myer, Innkeeping with Murder (Berkley)
Charles O'Brien, Mute Witness (Poisoned Pen Press)
Andy Straka, A Witness Above (Signet)
2000 - Rosemary Stevens, Death on a Silver Tray (Berkley Prime Crime)
Julie W. Herman, Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death (Overmountain Press)
Irene Marcuse, Death of an Amiable Child (Walker & Company)
Denise Swanson, Murder of a Small Town Honey (Signet)
1999 - Donna Andrews, Murder with Peacocks (Thomas Dunne Books)
April Henry, Circles of Confusion (HarperTorch)
Kris Neri, Revenge of the Gypsy Queen (Rainbow Books)
Elena Santangelo, By Blood Possessed (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Marcia Talley, Sing It to Her Bones (Dell)
1998 - Robin Hathaway, The Doctor Digs a Grave (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Jerrilyn Farmer, Sympathy for the Devil (Avon)
Jacqueline Fiedler, Tiger's Palette (Pocket)
Judy Fitzwater, Dying to Get Published (Fawcett)
Sharon Kahn, Fax Me a Bagel (Scribner)
1997 - Sujata Massey, The Salaryman's Wife (HarperCollins)
Joanne Dobson, Quieter Than Sleep (Doubleday)
Phyllis Richman, The Butter Did It (HarperCollins)
Penny Warner, Dead Body Language (Bantam)
Barbara Jaye Wilson, Death Brims Over (Avon)
1996 - Anne George, Murder on a Girl's Night Out (Avon Books)
Dale Furutani, Death in Little Tokyo : A Ken Tanaka Mystery (St. Martin’s)
Terris Grimes, Somebody Else's Child (Onyx Books)
Teri Holbrook, The Grass Widow (Bantam Books)
Margaret K. Lawrence, Hearts and Bone: A Novel of Historical Suspense (Avon Books)
Lillian M. Roberts, Riding for a Fall (Gold Medal)
1995 - Jeanne M. Dams, The Body in the Transept (Walker)
Teri Holbrook, A Far and Deadly Cry
Jody Jaffe, Horse of a Different Killer
Virginia Lanier, Death in Bloodhound Red
Martha C. Lawrence, Murder in Scorpio
1994 - Jeff Abbott, Do Unto Others (Ballantine)
Janet Evanovich, One for the Money (Scribner)
Earlene Fowler, Fool's Puzzle
Barbara Burnett Smith, Writers of the Purple Sage
Polly Whitney, Until Death
1993 - Nevada Barr, Track of the Cat (Putnam)
Jan Burke, Goodnight, Irene
Deborah Crombie, A Share in Death
Sharan Newman, Death Comes as Ephiphany
Abigail Padgett, Child of Silence
1992 - Barbara Neely, Blanche on the Lam (St. Martin's Press)
Deborah Adams, All the Great Pretenders
Susan Wittig Albert, Thyme of Death
Carol Higgins Clark, Decked
Miriam Grace Monfredo, Seneca Falls Inheritance
1991 - Mary Willis Walker, Zero at the Bone (St. Martin's Press)
Mary Cahill, Carpool
Mary Daheim, Just Desserts
Rebecca Rothenberg, The Bulrush Murders
Ann Williams, Flowers for the Dead
1990 - Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Belfry (St. Martin's Press)
Pat Burden, Screaming Bones
Diane Mott Davidson, Catering to Nobody
William F. Love, The Chartreuse Clue
Janet L. Smith, Sea of Troubles
1989 - Jill Churchill, Grime and Punishment (Avon Books)
Eleanor Boylan, Working Murder
Frances Fyfield, A Question of Guilt
Melanie Johnson Howe, The Mother Shadow
Edith Skom, The Mark Twain Murders
1988 - Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance (Bantam)
Caroline Graham, The Killings at Badger's Drift
Corinne Sawyer, The J. Alfred Prufrock Murders
Susannah Stacey, Goodbye Nanny Grey
Dorothy Sucher, Dead Men Don't Give Seminars

Best Novel
2008 - Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month (Minotaur Books)
Donna Andrews, Six Geese A-Slaying (Minotaur Books)
Rhys Bowen, A Royal Pain (Penguin Group)
Anne Perry, Buckingham Palace Gardens (Random)
Julia Spencer-Fleming, I Shall Not Want (Minotaur Books)
2007 - Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Donna Andrews, The Penguin Who Knew Too Much (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Rhys Bowen, Her Royal Spyness (Penguin Group)
Margaret Maron, Hard Row (Grand Central Publishing)
Elaine Viets, Murder with Reservations (NAL)
2006 - Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains (Random House)
Earlene Fowler, The Saddlemaker's Wife
L. C. Hayden, Why Casey Had to Die
Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains
Julia Spencer-Fleming, All Mortal Flesh
Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth
2005 - Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Snowdrift (William Morrow)
Donna Andrews, Owls Well That Ends Well (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Margaret Maron, Rituals of the Season(Mysterious Press & Warner Books)
Pari Noskin Taichert, The Belen Hitch (University of NM Press)
Heather Webber, Trouble in Spades (Avon/HarperCollins Publishers)
Jacqueline Winspear, Pardonable Lies (Henry Holt Books)
2004 - Jacqueline Winspear, Birds of a Feather (Soho Press)
Donna Andrews, We'll Always Have Parrots (Thomas Dunne Books)
Laura Lippman, By a Spider's Thread (HarperCollins)
Margaret Maron, High Country Fall (Mysterious Press)
Sujata Massey, The Pearl Diver (HarperCollins)
2003 - Carolyn Hart, Letter From Home (Berkley Prime Crime)
Donna Andrews, Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
Jerrilyn Farmer, Mumbo Gumbo (William Morrow & Company)
Rochelle Krich, Dream House (Ballantine Books)
Margaret Maron, Last Lessons of Summer (Mysterious Press)
Elaine Viets, Shop till You Drop (Signet)
2002 - Donna Andrews, You've Got Murder (Berkley Prime Crime)
Rhys Bowen, Death of Riley (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Rochelle Krich, Blues in the Night (Ballantine)
Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Bonfire (Morrow)
Elizabeth Peters, The Golden One (Morrow)
2001 - Rhys Bowen, Murphy's Law (St Martin's Minotaur)
Earlene Fowler, Arkansas Traveler (Berkley)
Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark (Ace)
Rochelle Krich, Shadows of Sin (Avon)
Sujata Massey, The Bride's Kimono (HarperCollins);
2000 - Margaret Maron, Storm Track (Mysterious Press)
Taffy Cannon, Guns and Roses
Jerrilyn Farmer, Killer Wedding
Sujata Massey, The Floating Girl
Elizabeth Peters, He Shall Thunder in the Sky
1999 - Earlene Fowler, Mariner's Compass (Berkley Publishing Group)
Jerrilyn Farmer, Immaculate Reception (Avon)
Carolyn Hart, Death on the River Walk (Avon)
Laura LippmanIn Big Trouble (Avon)
Sujata Massey The Flower Master (HarperCollins)
1998 - Laura Lippman, Butchers Hill (Avon Books)
Jan Burke, Liar (Simon & Schuster)
Earlene Fowler, Dove in the Window (Berkley)
Virginia Lanier, Blind Bloodhound Justice (Harper Collins)
Margaret Maron, Home Fires (Mysterious Press)
Elizabeth Peters, The Ape Who Guards the Balance (Avon)
1997 - Kate Ross, The Devil In Music (Viking)
Jan Burke, Hocus (Simon & Schuster)
Deborah Crombie, Dreaming of the Bones (Scribner)
Earlene Fowler, Goose in a Pond (Berkley)
Elizabeth Peters, Seeing a Large Cat (Warner)
1996 - Margaret Maron, Up Jumps The Devil (Mysterious Press)
Earlene Fowler, Kansas Troubles (a Benni Harper Mystery) (Berkley)
Sharan Newman, Strong as Death (Forge)
1995 - Sharyn McCrumb, If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him (Ballantine)
Joan Hess, Miracles in Maggody
Sharan Newman, The Wandering Arm
Nancy Pickard, Twilight
Walter Satterthwait, Escapade
1994 - Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills (Scribner)
Carolyn G. Hart, Scandal in Fair Haven
Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Rochelle Majer Krich, Angel of Death
Elizabeth Peters, Night Train to Memphis
1993 - Carolyn Hart, Dead Man's Island (Bantam)
Aaron Elkins, Old Scores
Joan Hess, O Little Town of Maggody
Rochele Majer Krich, Fair Game
Margaret Maron, Southern Discomfort
Kathy Hogan Trocheck, To Live and Die in Dixie
1992 - Margaret Maron, Bootlegger's Daughter (Mysterious Press)
Carolyn G. Hart, Southern Ghost
Sharyn McCrumb, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Anne Perry, Defend and Betray
Elizabeth Peters, The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog
1991 - Nancy Pickard, I.O.U. (Pocket)
Aaron Elkins, Make No Bones (Mysterious Press)
Carolyn G. Hart, The Christie Caper (Bantam)
Charlotte MacLeod, An Owl Too Many (Mysterious Press)
Elizabeth Peters, The Last Camel Died at Noon (Warner)
1990 - Nancy Pickard, Bum Steer (Pocket)
Charlaine Harris, Real Murders
Carolyn G. Hart, Deadly Valentine
Anne Perry, The Face of a Stranger
Ellis Peters, The Potter's Field
1989 - Elizabeth Peters, Naked Once More (Warner)
Sarah Caudwell, The Siren Sang of Murder
Carolyn G. Hart, A Little Class on Murder
Margaret Maron, Corpus Christmas
Gillian Roberts, Philly Stakes
1988 - Carolyn G. Hart, Something Wicked (Bantam)
Dorothy Cannell, The Widow's Club
Joan Hess, Mischief in Maggody
Sharyn McCrumb, Paying the Piper
Nancy Pickard, Dead Crazy

Best Non-Fiction
2008 - Kathy Lynn Emerson, How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries (Perseverance Press)
Frankie Y. Bailey, African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study (McFarland & Co.)
Jeff Marks, Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography (McFarland & Co.)
Dr. Harry Lee Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories (Metro Books)
Kate Summerscale, The Suspicions of Mr. Whitcher, or The Murder at Road Hill House (Walker & Co.)
2007 - Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters (Penguin Press)
Penny Warner, The Official Nancy Drew Handbook (Quirck Productions)
2006 - Chris Roerden, Don't Murder Your Mystery (Bella Rosa Books)
Jim Huang and Austin Lugar, Mystery Muses (The Crum Creek Press)
Daniel Stashower, The Beautiful Cigar Girl (Dutton)
2005 - Melanie Rehak, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her (Harcourt)
Stuart Kaminsky, Behind the Mystery—Top Mystery Writers (Hothouse Press)
Marvin Lachman, The Heirs of Anthony Boucher (Poisoned Pen Press)
Leslie S. Klinger, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes (W.W. Norton)
2004 - Jack French, Private Eye-Lashes: Radio’s Lady Detectives (Bear Manor Media)
Leslie Klinger (editor), The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (W.W. Norton & Company)
2003 - Elizabeth Peters and Kristen Whitbread (editors) and Dennis Forbes (design), Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium (William Morrow & Company)
Colleen A. Barnett, Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Volume 3 (Parts 1 & 2) (Poisoned Pen Press)
Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezahl (editors), A Second Helping of Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers (Poisoned Pen Press)
Jeffrey Marks, Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s and 1950s (Delphi Books)
2002 - Jim Huang (editor), They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels (Crum Creek Press)
Mike Ashley (editor), The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction (Avalon Publishing Group)
Colleen Barnett, Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction (Poisoned Pen Press)
Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir (Simon and Schuster)
Sue Grafton (editor) with Jan Burke and Barry Zeman, Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America (Writer's Digest Press)
2001 - Tony Hillerman, Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir (HarperCollins)
Max Allan Collins, The History of the Mystery (Collector's Press)
G. Miki Hayden, Writing the Mystery: A Start-To-Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional (Intrigue Press)
Jeffrey Marks, Who Was That Lady? (Delphi Books)
The Sisters Wells, Food, Drink, and the Female Sleuth (Authors Choice Press/iUniverse.com)
2000 - Jim Huang (editor), 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century (Crum Creek Press)
Marvin Lachman (editor), The American Regional Mystery
Matthew Bunson, The Complete Christie (Pocket)
Helen Windrath (editor), They Wrote the Book
Martha Dubose (editor), Women of Mystery
1999 - Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (Henry Holt & Company)
Kate Derie, The Deadly Directory (Deadly Serious Press)
Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezahl, A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers (Poisoned Pen Press)
Willetta L. Heising, Detecting Women III (Purple Moon Press)
Rosemary Herbert, The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing (Oxford University Press)
1998 - Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Reader's Walking Guide to Washington D.C. (Passport Books)
Edward Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, Speaking of Murder (Berkley)
Jan Grape, Dean James and Ellen Nehr, Deadly Women (Carroll & Graf)
Victoria Nichols and Susan Thompson, Silk Stalkings II (Scarecrow)
Jean Swanson and Dean James, Killer Books (Berkley)
1997 - Willeta L. Heising, Detecting Men (Pocket Guide) (Purple Moon Press)
Nina King and Robin Winks, Crimes of the Scene (St. Martin's)
Ian Ousby, Guilty Parties (Thames & Hudson)
1996 - Willetta L. Heising, Detecting Women 2 (Purple Moon Press)
Elaine Raco Chase and Anne Wingate, Amateur Detectives: A Writer's Guide to How Private Citizens Solve Criminal Cases (Writer's Digest)
Ron Miller, Mystery: A Celebration (KQED Books)
Barbara Reynolds (editor), The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: The Making of a Detective Novelist (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Jean Swanson and Dean James, By a Woman's Hand, Second Edition (Berkley Publishing Group)
1995 - Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Readers Walking Guide-Chicago (Passport Books, NTC Publishing Group)
Douglas Greene Ngaio, John Dickson Carr: the Man Who Explained Miracles
B.J. Rahn, Marsh: the Woman and Her Work
Kate Stine, The Armchair Detective Book of Lists, 2nd edition
Robin Whiteman, The Cadfael Companion', 2nd edition
1994 -
Jean Swanson and Dean James, By a Woman's Hand (Berkley Publishing Group)
William L. DeAndrea, Encyclopedia Mysteriosa
Allen J. Hubin, Crime Fiction II
Kathleen Gregory Klein, Great Women Mystery Writers
Charlotte MacLeod, Had She But Known: Mary Roberts Rinehart
1993 - Barbara D'Amato, The Doctor, the Murder, the Mystery (Noble Press)
Alzina Stone Dale, Dorothy L. Sayers
Michael C. Gerald, The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie
Edward Gorman, The Fine Art of Murder
Marvin Lachman, A Reader's Guide to the American Novel of Detection
Ellen A. Nehr, The Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-91

Best Children/Young Adult Fiction
2006 - Pea Soup Poisonings by Nancy Means Wright (Hilliard & Harris)
2005 - Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams, and Flush by Carl Hiaasen 
2004 - Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (Scholastic Press)
2003 - The 7th Knot by Kathleen Karr (Marshall Cavendish)
2002 - Red Card: A Zeke Armstrong Mystery by Daniel J. Hale
2001 - ''Mystery Of The Haunted Caves: A Troop 13 Mystery by Penny Warner

Anthony Awards (1986-20010)

2009 info from Bouchercon 2009 accessed 10/22/09

The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher (1911-1968), one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America.

The Anthony Awards are among the most prestigious awards in the world of mystery writers and have helped boost the careers of numerous recipients.

According to Bouchercon rules, the awards are given in the following categories:

* Best Novel
* Best First Novel
* Best Paperback Original
* Best Short Story
* Best Critical Nonfiction Work
* Special Service Award
* Up to three wild card awards

2010 Nominees:
Best Novel
THE LAST CHILD by John Hart (Minotaur Books)
THE MYSTIC ARTS OF ERASING ALL SIGNS OF DEATH by Charlie Huston (Ballantine Books)
THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland 
THE BRUTAL TELLING by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
THE SHANGHAI MOON by S.J. Rozan (Minotaur Books)

Best First Novel
THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE by Alan Bradley
STARVATION LAKE by Bryan Gruley 
A BAD DAY FOR SORRY by Sophie Littlefield (Minotaur Books)
THE TWELVE/THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST by Stuart Neville (Harvill Secker/Soho Press)
IN THE SHADOW OF GOTHAM by Stefanie Pintoff (Minotaur Books)

Best Paperback Novel
BURY ME DEEP by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
TOWER by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman (Busted Flush Press)
QUARRY IN THE MIDDLE by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
STARVATION LAKE by Bryan Gruley 
DEATH AND THE LIT CHICK by G.M. Malliet (Midnight Ink)
AIR TIME by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Mira)

Best Short Story
“Last Fair Deal Gone Down” by Ace Atkins, from CROSSROAD BLUES (Busted Flush Press)
“Femme Sole” by Dana Cameron, from BOSTON NOIR (Akashic Books)
“Animal Rescue” by Dennis Lehane, from BOSTON NOIR (Akashic Books)
“On the House” by Hank Phillippi Ryan, from QUARRY: Crime Stories by New England Writers (Level Best Books)
“Amapola” by Luis Alberto Urrea, from PHOENIX NOIR (Akashic Books)

Best Critical Nonfiction Work
TALKING ABOUT DETECTIVE FICTION by P.D. James (Bodleian Library/Knopf)
THE LINE UP: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives by Otto Penzler, ed. (Little, Brown and Co)
HAUNTED HEART: The Life and Times of Stephen King by Lisa Rogak (Thomas Dunne Books)
DAME AGATHA’S SHORTS: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion by Elena Santangelo (Bella Rosa Books)
THE TALENTED MISS HIGHSMITH: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar

2009 Anthony Awards
Best Novel: The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
Best first novel: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
Best paperback original: State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy (Berkley)
Best short story: "A Sleep Not Unlike Death" by Sean Chercover, from Hardcore Hardboiled (Kensington)
Best critical nonfiction work: Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography by Jeffrey Marks (McFarland)
Best children's/young adult novel: The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein (Random House)
Best cover art: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, designed by Peter Mendelsund (Knopf)
Special Service Award: Jon and Ruth Jordan

2009 Anthony Award Nominees
(see above for winners)
Best Novel
Trigger City by Sean Chercover [William Morrow]
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly [Little, Brown and Company]
Red Knife by William Kent Krueger [Atria]

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [Knopf]

The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny [Minotaur]

Best First Novel
Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris [Minotaur]
Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer [Doubleday]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [Knopf]
Death of a Cozy Writer by G. M. Malliet [Midnight Ink]
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith [Grand Central]

Best Paperback Original
The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins [Hard Case Crime]
Money Shot by Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime]
State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy [Berkley]
In a Dark Season by Vicki Lane [Dell]
South of Hell by P. J. Parrish [Pocket Star]

Best Short Story
“The Night Things Changed” by Dana Cameron from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe [Ace]
“A Sleep Not Unlike Death” by Sean Chercover from Hardcore Hardboiled [Kensington]
“Killing Time” by Jane K. Cleland from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (November)
“Skull and Cross Examination” by Toni L. P. Kelner from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (February)
“Scratch a Woman” by Laura Lippman from Hardly Knew Her [William Morrow]
“The Secret Lives of Cats” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (July)

Best Critical Nonfiction Work
African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey [McFarland]
How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries by Kathy Lynn Emerson [Perseverance Press]
Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography by Jeffrey Marks [McFarland]
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale [Walker & Company]

Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel
The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein [Random House]

Paper Towns by John Green [Dutton Juvenile]

Kiss Me, Kill Me by Lauren Henderson [Delacorte]
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart [Little, Brown]
Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash by Wendelin Van Draanen [Knopf]

Best Cover Art
Death Was the Other Woman designed by David Rotstein and written by Linda L. Richards [Minotaur]
Death Will Get You Sober designed by David Rotstein and written by Elizabeth Zelvin [Minotaur]
The Fault Tree designed by David Rotstein and written by Louise Ure [Minotaur]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo designed by Peter Mendelsund and written by Stieg Larsson [Knopf]
Money Shot designed by Steve Cooley and written by Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime]

Previous Winners:
Best Novel
2000s
* 2008 Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know
* 2007 Laura Lippman, No Good Deeds
* 2006 William Kent Krueger, Mercy Falls
* 2005 William Kent Krueger, Blood Hollow
* 2004 Laura Lippman, Every Secret Thing
* 2003 Michael Connelly, City of Bones
* 2002 Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
* 2001 Val McDermid, A Place of Execution
* 2000 Peter Robinson, In a Dry Season
1990s
* 1999 Michael Connelly, Blood Work
* 1998 S. J. Rozan, No Colder Place
* 1997 Michael Connelly, The Poet
* 1996 Mary Willis Walker, Under the Beetle's Cellar
* 1995 Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills
* 1994 Marcia Muller, Wolf in the Shadows
* 1993 Margaret Maron, Bootlegger's Daughter
* 1992 Peter Lovesey, The Last Detective
* 1991 Sue Grafton, "G" Is for Gumshoe
* 1990 Sarah Caudwell, The Sirens Song of Murder
1980s
* 1989 Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
* 1988 Tony Hillerman, Skinwalkers
* 1987 Sue Grafton, "C" Is for Corpse
* 1986 Sue Grafton, "B" Is for Burglar

Best First Novel
2000s
* 2008 Tana French, In The Woods
* 2007 Louise Penny, Still Life
* 2006 Chris Grabenstein, Tilt-a-Whirl
* 2005 Harley Jane Kozak, Dating Dead Man
* 2004 P. J. Tracy, Monkeewrench
* 2003 Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter
* 2002 C. J. Box, Open Season
* 2001 Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine
* 2000 Donna Andrews, Murder with Peacocks
1990s
* 1999 William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake
* 1998 Lee Child, Killing Floor
* 1997 Dale Furutani, Death in Little Tokyo
and Terris McMahan Grimes, Somebody Else's Child
* 1996 Virginia Lanier, Death in Bloodhound Red
* 1995 Caleb Carr, The Alienist
* 1994 Nevada Barr, Track of the Cat
* 1993 Barbara Neely, Blanche on the Lam

* 1992 Sue Henry, Murder on the Iditarod Trail

* 1991 Patricia Cornwell, Postmortem

* 1990 Karen Kijewski, Katwalk
1980s
* 1989 Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance
* 1988 Gillian Roberts, Caught Dead in Philadelphia
* 1987 Bill Crider, Too Late to Die
* 1986 Jonathan Kellerman, When the Bough Breaks

Best Paperback Original
2000s
* 2007 Dana Cameron, Ashes and Bones
* 2006 Reed Farrel Coleman, The James Deans
* 2005 Jason Starr, Twisted City
* 2004 Robin Burcell, Deadly Legacy
* 2003 Robin Burcell, Fatal Truth
* 2002 Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark
* 2001 Kate Grilley, Death Dances to a Reggae Beat
* 2000 Laura Lippman, In Big Trouble
1990s
* 1999 Laura Lippman, Butcher's Hill
* 1998 Rick Riordan, Big Red Tequila
* 1997 Terris McMahan Grimes, Somebody Else's Child
* 1996 Harlan Coben, Deal Breaker
* 1995 no award given
* 1994 no award given
* 1993 no award given
* 1992 no award given
* 1991 James McCahery, Grave Undertaking and Rochelle Krich, Where's Mommy Now?
* 1990 Carolyn Hart, Honeymoon with Murder
1980s
* 1989 Carolyn Hart, Something Wicked
* 1988 Robert Crais, The Monkey's Raincoat
* 1987 Robert Campbell, The Junkyard Dog
* 1986 Nancy Pickard, Say No To Murder

Ned Kelly Award (1996-2010)

From Ned Kelly Awards accessed 9/8/10

The Ned Kelly Award winners for 2010 were announced on Friday, September 3 at the Melbourne Writers Festival Club, ACMI.

The 2010 winners are:
Best First Fiction: Mark Dapin, King of the Cross, Macmillan
Best True Crime: Kathy Marks, Pitcairn: Paradise Lost, Harper Collins
Best Fiction: Garry Disher, Wyatt Text
SD Harvey Short Story: Zane Lovitt, Leaving the Fountainhead
Lifetime Achievement: Peter Doyle

2009:
Best First Fiction: Nick Gadd, Ghostlines
Best True Crime: Chloe Hooper, The Tall Man
Best Fiction (Tie): Peter Corris, Deep Water Kel Robertson, Smoke & Mirrors
Lifetime Achievement Awards: Shane Maloney

2008:
Best First Fiction: Chris Womersley, The Low Road, (Scribe)
Best True Crime: Evan McHugh, Red Centre, Dead Heart
Best Fiction: Michael Robotham, Shatter (Hachette Livre)
Lifetime Achievement Awards: Marele Day

2007:
Best First Fiction: Adrian Hyland, Diamond Dove (Text)
Best True Crime (Tie): Liz Porter, Written On The Skin (Macmillan) and
Debi Marshall, Killing For Pleasure: The Definitive Story of the Snowtown Murders (Random House)
Best Fiction: Gary Disher, Chain of Evidence (Text)
Lifetime Achievement Awards: Sandra Harvey and Lindsay Simpson

2006:
Best First Novel: Wendy James, Out of the Silence Random House
Best True Crime: Lachlan McCulloch, Packing Death Sly Ink
Best Fiction (Tie): Chris Nyst, Crook as Rookwood Harper Collins and Peter Temple, The Broken Shore Text
Lifetime Achievement Awards: Andrew Rule and John Silvester

2005
Best First Fiction: Malcolm Knox, A Private Man
Best Novel Michael Rowbotham, Lost
Best True Crime (Tie): Helen Garner, Jo Cinque’s Consolation and Tony Reeves, Mr Big
Lifetime Achievement Award: Stuart Coupe

2004
Best First Fiction (Tie): Jane R Goodall, The Walker and Wayne Grogan, Junkie Pilgrim
Best Fiction: Jon Cleary, Degrees of Connection
Best True Crime: Peter Rees, Killing Juanita
Lifetime Achievement Award: Investigative journalist, Bob Bottom

2003
Best First Fiction: Alex Palmer, Blood Redemption
Best Fiction: Peter Temple, White Dog
Best True Crime Peter Lalor, Blood Stain
Lifetime Achievement Award: Kerry Greenwood

2002
Best First Fiction (Tie): Bunty Avieson, Apartment 255 and Emma Darcy, Who Killed Angelique?
Best Fiction: Gabrielle Lord, Death Delights
Best True Crime (Tie): Larry Writer, Razor and Mike Richards, The Hanged Man
Best Teenage/Young Adult: Ken Catran, Blue Murder
Readers Vote: Bunty Avieson, Apartment 255
Lifetime Achievement Award: Patrick Gallagher, Managing Director, Allan & Unwin

2001
Best First Fiction: Andrew McGahan, Last Drinks
Best Fiction (Tie): Peter Temple, Dead Point and Andrew Masterson, The Second Coming
Best True Crime: Estelle Blackburn, Broken Lives
Readers Vote: Lindy Cameron, Bleeding Hearts
Lifetime Achievement Award: Stephen Knight

2000
Best First Fiction: Marshall Browne, The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders
Best Fiction: Peter Temple, Shooting Star
Best True Crime (Tie): John Dale, Huckstepp: A Dangerous Life and Andrew Rule and John Silvester, Underbelly 3

1999
Best First Fiction: Andrew Masterson, The Last Days
Best Fiction: Peter Doyle, Amaze Your Friends
Lifetime Achievement Award: Peter Corris

1997
Best First Fiction (Tie): Peter Temple, Bad Debts and Peter Doyle, Get Rich Quick
Best Fiction: Shane Maloney, Brush Off
Best Non-Fiction How to write crime edited by Marele Day Lifetime Contribution Awarded to Alan Yates (aka Carter Brown)

1996
Best First Fiction: John Dale, Dark Angel
Best Novel (Tie): Barry Maitland, The Malcontenta and Paul Thomas, Inside Dope
Lifetime Achievement Award: Jon Cleary

Sisters in Crime Davitt Award (2001-2010)

2010 info from Sister in Crime accessed 9/6/10
2001-09 info from Wikipedia accessed 9/6/10
The Davitt Awards (named in honour of Ellen Davitt (1812-1879) who wrote Australia's first mystery novel, Force and Fraud in 1865) are presented by the Sisters in Crime Australia association. The awards are presented for Australian crime fiction, by women, for both adults and young adults. They were established in 2001.

2010
Best Adult Novel - Sharp Shooter by Marianne Delacourt
Best YA - Liar by Justine Larbalestier
True Crime - Lady Killer: How Conman Bruce Burrell kidnapped and killed rich women for their money by Candace Sutton and Ellen Eonnolly
Readers' Choice - Forbidden Fruit by Kerry Greenwood

2009
Best Adult Novel - A Beautiful Place To Die by Malla Nunn
Best YA Novel - Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks
True Crime - The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
Readers' Choice - The Darkest Hour by Katherine Howell

2008
Best Adult Novel - Frantic by Katherine Howell
Best YA Novel - The Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Mandy Sayer
True Crime - Killing Jodie by Janet Fife-Yeomans
Readers' Choice - Scarlet Stiletto - The First Cut by Lindy Cameron

2007
Best Adult Novel - Undertow by Sydney Bauer
Best YA Novel - The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty
True Crime - Silent Death: The Killing of Julie Ramage by Karen Kissane
Readers' Choice - (tie) Devil's Food by Kerry Greenwood
Silent Death: The Killing of Julie Ramage by Karen Kissane

2006
Best Adult Novel - The Butterfly Man by Heather Rose
Best YA Novel - Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks
Readers' Choice - (tie) Heavenly Pleasures by Kerry Greenwood
Rubdown by Leigh Redhead

2005
Best Adult Novel - Malicious Intent by Kathryn Fox
Best YA Novel - Devastation Road by Joanna Baker
Readers' Choice - Peepshow by Leigh Redhead

2004
Best Adult Novel - Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital
Best YA Novel - Muck-Up Day by Ruth Starke
Readers' Choice - Thicker Than Water by Lindy Cameron

2003
Best Adult Novel - (tie) Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing by Gabrielle Lord
Blood Redemption by Alex Palmer
Best YA Novel - Fireworks and Darkness by Natalie Jane Prior
Readers' Choice - Skin Deep by Cathy Cole

2002
Best Adult Novel - A Simple Death by Carolyn Morwood
Best YA Novel - Three-Pronged Dagger by Kerry Greenwood
Readers' Choice - Bleeding Hearts by Lindy Cameron

2001
Best YA Novel - Eye to Eye by Caroline Shaw

Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel (2010)

From Crime Watch accessed 8/17/10

Three authors have been named to the shortlist for the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, which honors the best crime, mystery or thriller novel written by a New Zealand citizen or resident and published in New Zealand during 2009. The winner will be honored at the Press Christchurch Writers' Festival in September.

2010 finalists
Cut & Run by Alix Bosco
Burial by Neil Cross
Containment by Vanda Symon

CWA: Crime Writers Awards (1955-2010)

Information from Crime Writers Association accessed 8/12/10

2010 Finalists
CWA Gold Dagger
Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton
Shadowplay by Karen Campbell
The Way Home by George Pelecanos

CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
A Loyal Spy by Simon Conway
Innocent by Scott Turow
The Dying Light by Henry Porter
The Gentlemen's Hour by Don Winslow

CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger
Acts of Violence by Ryan David Jahn
Rupture by Simon Lelic
The Holy Thief by William Ryan
The Pull of the Moon by Diane Janes

The Cartier Diamond Dagger is sponsored by Cartier, who have done so since its inception in 1986. The CWA committee selects writers nominated by the membership. Nominees have to meet two essential criteria: first, their careers must be marked by sustained excellence, and second, they must have made a significant contribution to crime fiction published in the English language, whether originally or in translation. The award is made purely on merit without reference to age, gender or nationality.

2010 Val McDermid
2009 Andrew Taylor
2008 Sue Grafton
2007 John Harvey
2006 Elmore Leonard
2005 Ian Rankin
2004 Lawrence Block
2003 Robert Barnard
2002 Sara Paretsky
2001: Lionel Davidson
2000: Peter Lovesey
1999: Margaret Yorke
1998: Ed McBain
1997: Colin Dexter
1996: H.R.F.Keating
1995: Reginald Hill
1994: Michael Gilbert
1993: Ellis Peters
1992: Leslie Charteris
1991: Ruth Rendell
1990: Julian Symons
1989: Dick Francis
1988: John le Carré
1987: P D James
1986: Eric Ambler

THE CWA GOLD DAGGER
The Crime Writers' Association first created its award for best crime novel of the year in 1955, under the name of the Crossed Red Herrings Award: the first winner was Winston Graham for The Little Walls. The award was renamed the Gold Dagger in 1960. From 1969 to 2005, a Silver Dagger was also awarded to the runner up.
Between 1995 and 2002, the awards were sponsored by The Macallan, distillers of the finest Single Highland Malt Whisky, and named The Macallan Gold and Silver Daggers.
For the three years 2006 to 2008 the Gold Dagger was renamed the Duncan Lawrie Dagger in honour of its sponsor, the Duncan Lawrie Private Bank.
Up to and including 2005, books in translation were eligible for this prize. In 2006 on, a separate Dagger, The CWA International Dagger was introduced for books in translation, recogniseing the work of the translator as well as that of the original author.
The CWA Gold Dagger
2009: A Whispered Name (Little, Brown) - William Brodrick
The CWA Duncan Lawrie Gold Dagger
2008: Blood From Stone (Sphere) - Frances Fyfield
2007: The Broken Shore (Quercus) - Peter Temple
2006: Raven Black (Pan Macmillan) - Ann Cleeves
The CWA Gold and Silver Daggers for Fiction
2005 Gold: Silence of the Grave (The Harvill Press) - Arnaldur Indridason (translator: Bernard Scudder)
Silver: Deadly Web (Headline) - Barbara Nadel
2004 Gold: Blacklist (Hamish Hamilton)- Sara Paretsky
Flesh and Blood (Heinemann)- John Harvey
2003 Gold: Fox Evil (Macmillan) - Minette Walters
Silver: Half-Broken Things (Hodder & Stoughton) - Morag Joss
The Macallan Gold and Silver Daggers for Fiction
2002 Gold: The Athenian Murders (Abacus) - Jose Carlos Samoza
Silver: The Final Country (HarperCollins) - James Crumley
2001 Gold: Sidetracked (The Harvill Press) - Henning Mankell
Silver: Forty Words for Sorrow (HarperCollins) - Giles Blunt
2000 Gold: Motherless Brooklyn (Faber & Faber) - Jonathan Lethem
Silver: Friends in High Places (Heinneman) - Donna Leon
1999 Gold: A Small Death in Lisbon (HarperCollins) - Robert Wilson
Silver: Vienna Blood (Cape) - Adrian Mathews
1998 Gold: Sunset Limited (Orion) - James Lee Burke
Silver: Manchester Slingback (Picador) - Nicholas Blincoe
1997 Gold: Black And Blue (Orion) - Ian Rankin
Silver: Three to get Deadly (Viking) - Janet Evanovich
1996 Gold: Popcorn - Ben Elton
Silver: Bloodhounds (LittleBrown) - Peter Lovesey
1995 Gold: The Mermaids Singing - Val McDermid
Silver: The Summons (LittleBrown) - Peter Lovesey
The CWA Gold and Silver Daggers for Fiction
1994 Gold: The Scold's Bridle - Minette Walters; Silver: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow Peter Hoeg
1993 Gold: Cruel and Unusual - Patricia Cornwell; Silver: Fatlands - Sarah Dunant
1992 Gold: The Way Through the Woods - Colin Dexter; Silver: Bucket Nut - Liza Cody
1991 Gold: King Solomon's Carpet - Barbara Vine; Silver: Deep Sleep - Frances Fyfield
1990 Gold: Bones and Silence - Reginald Hill; Silver: The Late Candidate Mike Phillips
1989 Gold: The Wench is Dead - Colin Dexter; Silver: The Shadow Run - Desmond Lowden
1988 Gold: Ratking - Michael Dibdin; Silver: Toxic Shock Sara Paretsky
1987 Gold: A Fatal Inversion - Barbara Vine; Silver: Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
1986 Gold: Live Flesh - Ruth Rendell; Silver: A Taste for DeathPD James
1985 Gold: Monkey Puzzle - Paula Gosling; Silver: Last Seen Alive - Dorothy Simpson
1984 Gold: The Twelfth Juror - B.M.Gill; Silver: The Tree of Hands Ruth Rendell
1983 Gold: Accidental Crimes - John Hutton; Silver: The Papers of Tony Veitch - William McIlvanney
1982 Gold: The False Inspector Dew - Peter Lovesey; Silver: Ritual Murder - ST Haymon
1981 Gold: Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith ; Silver: The Dead of Jericho - Colin Dexter
1980 Gold: The Murder of the Maharajah - H.R.F.Keating; Silver: Monk's Hood - Ellis Peters
1979 Gold: Whip Hand - Dick Francis; Silver: Service of all the Dead - Colin Dexter
1978 Gold: The Chelsea Murders - Lionel Davidson; Silver: Waxwork - Peter Lovesey
1977 Gold: The Honourable Schoolboy - John le Carre; Silver: Laidlaw - William McIlvanney
1976 Gold: A Demon in my View - Ruth Rendell; Silver: Rogue Eagle - James McClure
1975 Gold: The Seven per cent solution - Nicholas Meyer; Silver: The Black Tower - PD James
1974 Gold: Other Paths to Glory - Anthony Price; Silver: The Grosvenor Square Goodbye - Francis Clifford
1973 Gold: The Defection of A.J.Lewinter - Robert Littell; Silver: A Coffin for Pandora - Gwendoline Butler
1972 Gold: The Levanter - Eric Ambler; Silver: The Rainbird Pattern - Victor Canning
1971 Gold: The Steam Pig - James McClure; Silver: Shroud for a Nightingale - PD James
1970 Gold: Young Man I Think You're Dying - Joan Fleming; Silver: The Labyrinth Makers - Anthony Price
1969 Gold: A Pride of Heroes - Peter Dickinson; Silver: Another Way of Dying - Francis Clifford
The CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction
1968: Skin Deep (The Glass-sided Ants' Nest)
1967: Murder Against the Grain - Emma Lathen
1966: A Long Way to Shiloh - Lionel Davidson
1965: The Far Side of the Dollar - Ross Macdonald
1964: The Perfect Murder - H.R.F.Keating
1963: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - John le Carre
1962: When I Grow Rich - Joan Fleming
1961: The Spoilt Kill - Mary Kelly
1960: The Night of Wenceslas - Lionel Davidson
Crossed Red Herring Awards
1959: Passage of Arms - Eric Ambler
1958: Someone from the Past - Margot Bennett
1957: The Colour of Murder - Julian Symons
1956: The Second Man - Edward Grierson
1955: The Little Walls - Winston Graham

The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller was introduced in 2002 and is sponsored by Ian Fleming (Glidrose) Publications Ltd to celebrate the best of contemporary thriller writing. The winning author is awarded £2000 and also receives a unique 'steel dagger', which is handcrafted and inspired by the weapon used by Special Forces during World War II. The judges are agents, authors, booksellers and reviewers.
2009: The Last Child (John Murray) - John Hart
2008: Child 44  - Tom Rob Smith
2007: Sharp Objects (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) - Gillian Flynn
2006: Mr Clarinet (Michael Joseph) - Nick Stone
2005: Brandenburg (Orion) - Henry Porter
2004: Garden of Beasts (Hodder & Stoughton) - Jeffery Deaver
2003: The Small Boat of Great Sorrows (Transworld Bantam) - Dan Fesperman
2002: The Sirius Crossing (Faber and Faber) - John Creed

THE JOHN CREASEY DAGGER

The 'New Blood' Dagger for the best first book by a previously unpublished writers is awarded in memory of crime writer John Creasey (1908-1973), crime writer, creator of The Toff and CWA founder.
The current sponsors are 2006 winner Louise Penny, and Michael Whitehead.
The award, previously The John Creasey Memorial Award, was sponsored from its introduction in 1973 till 2002 by publisher Chivers Press; from 2003 it was sponsored by BBC Audiobooks.
The John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger is voted on by past winners.
2009: Echoes From The Dead (Doubleday) - Johan Theorin, translated by Marlaine Delargy
2008: The Bethlehem Murders (Atlantic Books) - Matt Rees
2007: Sharp Objects (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) - Gillian Flynn
2006: Still Life (Hodder Headline) - Louise Penny
2005: Running Hot (Maia Press) - Dreda Say Mitchell
2004: Amagansett (Fourth Estate) - Mark Mills
2003: Mission Flats (Bantam) - William Landay
2002: The Cutting Room (Canongate) - Louise Welsh
2001: The Earthquake Bird (Picador) - Susanna Jones
2000: God is a Bullet - Boston Teran
1999: Lie in the Dark - Dan Fesperman
1998: Garnet Hill - Denise Mina
1997: Body Politic - Paul Johnston
1996: no award
1995: One for the Money - Janet Evanovich
1995: A Grave Talent - Laurie R King
1994: Big Town - Doug J Swanson
1993: no award
1992: The Ice House - Minette Walters
1991: Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley
1990: Postmortem - Patricia Cornwell
1989: A Real Shot in the Arm - Annette Roome
1988: Death's Bright Angel - Janet Neel
1987: Dark Apostle - Denis Kilcommons
1986: Tinplate - Neville Steed
1985: The Latimer Mercy - Robert Richardson
1984: A Very Private Enterprise - Elizabeth Ironside
1983: The Night the Gods Smiled - Eric Wright
1983: The Ariadne Clue - Carol Clemeau
1982: Caroline Miniscule - Andrew Taylor
1981: The Ludi Victor - James Leigh
1980: Dupe - Liza Cody
1979: A Running Duck (US: Fair Game) - Paula Gosling
1978: Saturday of Glory - David Serafin
1977: The Judas Pair - Jonathan Gash
1976: Death of a Thin Skinned Animal - Patrick Alexander
1975: Acid Drop - Sara George
1974: The Big Fix - Roger L Simon
1973: Don't Point That Thing at Me - Kyril Bonfiglioli

The CWA International Dagger
Before 2006, novels in translation were eligible for the CWA Gold Dagger on the same footing as any other works published in English in the qualifying period. With the growing popularity (and therefore publication) of crime fiction in translation, the judges became uneasily aware that they could be awarding prizes to authors of whose writing they had read literally not a single word, while overlooking the contribution of the translator to the book on whose merits they were pronouncing.
In 2006, therefore, a new Dagger award was introduced for the year’s best crime novel translated into English from another language, and translated works became ineligible for the Gold Dagger. From 2006 to 2008 the International Dagger was named for its sponsor, the Duncan Lawrie Private Bank. The Dagger rewards both the original author and the translator, since the book for which it is given is the work of both parties.
Remarkably, in the first four years of the International Dagger, it was won by the same team, French writer Fred Vargas and translator Siân Reynolds. The full list of winners so far (click the date for more information) is:
2009: The Chalk Circle Man (Harvill Secker) - Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds
2008: Lorraine Connection (EuroCrime imprint of Arcadia Books) - Dominique Manotti, translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz
2007: Wash this Blood Clean from my Hand (Harvill Secker) - Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds
2006: The Three Evangelists (The Harvill Press) - Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds

THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
The CWA is the professional body of all crime writers, and this includes not only novelists but also those who write about true crime, from investigative journalism to historical research. In 1978, the CWA instituted the Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction award, and for the two years 1978 and 1979 also awarded the CWA Silver Dagger for Non-Fiction to the runner-up.
Between 1995 and 2002, this award has also been sponsored by The Macallan and renamed The MACALLAN Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. In 2008, the award was sponsored by Owatonna Media. Since 2006 it has been awarded evey other year, in even-numbered years. It is chosen by a panel of judges with a publishing and / or legal background.

The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
2008: Nationality: Wog - The Hounding of David Oluwale (Jonathan Cape) - Kester Aspden
2006: The Dagenham Murder (The Borough of Barking and Dagenham) - Linda Rhodes, Lee Shelden and Kathryn Abnett
2005: On the Run (Hutchinson) - Gregg and Gina Hill
2004 Jointly: Cosa Nostra (Hodder & Stoughton) - John Dickie
The Italian Boy (Jonathan Cape) - Sarah Wise
2003: Pointing from the Grave (Hamish Hamilton) - Samantha Weinberg
The Macallan Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
2002: Dead Man's Wages (Picador) - Lillian Pizzichini
2001: The Infiltrators (Michael Joseph) - Philip Etienne and Martin Maynard with Tony Thompson
2000: Mr Blue - Edward Bunker
1999: The Case of Stephen Lawrence - Brian Cathcart
1998: Cries Unheard - Gitta Sereny
1997: The Jigsaw Man - Paul Britton
1996: The Gunpowder Plot - Antonia Fraser
1995: Dead Not Buried - Martin Beales
The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
1994: Criminal Shadows - David Canter
1993: Murder in the Heart - Alexandra Artley
1992: The Reckoning - Charles Nicholl
1991: Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair - John Bossy
1990: The Passing of Starr Faithfull - Jonathan Goodman
1989: A Gathering of Saints - Robert Lindsay
1988: The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln - Bernard Wasserstein
1987: Perfect Murder - Bernard Taylor / Stephen Knight
1986: Evil Angels - John Bryson
1985: Killing for Company - Brian Masters
1984: In God's Name - David Yallop
1983: Double Dealer - Peter Watson
1982: Earth to Earth - John Cornwell
1981: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number - Jacobo Timerman
1980: Conspiracy - Anthony Summers
1979: Rachman - Shirley Green
1978: The Mystery of the Princes -Audrey Williamson
The CWA Silver Dagger for Non-Fiction
1979: Fraud - Jon Connell / Douglas Sutherland
1978: The Capture of the Black Panther - Harry Hawkes

THE DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY
The Dagger in the Library (formerly the Golden Handcuffs) is awarded to the (living) author who has given most pleasure to readers; it recognises a body of work, not one single title. The award is nominated by UK libraries and readers' groups, and is judged by a panel of librarians who work with the public.
New sponsorship from the Random House Group has enabled this award to be reinstated after a break of some years.
Previous Winners
2009: Colin Cotterill
2008: Craig Russell
2007: Stuart MacBride
2006: Jim Kelly
2005: Jake Arnott
2004: Alexander McCall Smith
2003: Stephen Booth
2002: Peter Robinson
The Award was in abeyance between 1997 and 2001.
1996: Marian Babson
1995: Lindsey Davis
1994: Robert Barnard

THE CWA SHORT STORY AWARD
The CWA Short Story Award was introduced in 1995 as the Short Story Dagger and was sponsored by The MACALLAN between 1995 and 2002.
It is now sponsored by the membership of the CWA. In 2006 it was renamed the Short Story Award. The winning story is selected by judges who are agents, authors and editors.
Previous Winners
2009: One Serving of Bad Luck by Sean Chercover,
in Killer Year (Mira)
2008: The Bookbinder's Apprentice by Martin Edwards,
in The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries (Constable Robinson<)
2007: Needle Match by Peter Lovesey,
in The Best British Mysteries (Allison & Busby)
2006: Sins of Scarlet by Robert Barnard,
in ID: Crimes of Identity (Comma Press)
2005: No Flies on Frank by Danuta Reah,
in Sherlock Magazine (Atlas Publishing)
2004: The Weekender by Jeffery Deaver,
in Twisted (Hodder & Stoughton)
2003: Closer to the Flame by Jerry Sykes,
in Crime in the City (Do-Not Press)
2002: Martha Grace by Stella Duffy,
in Tart Noir: An Anthology (Pan Macmillan)
2001: Prussian Snowdrops by Marion Arnott,
in Crimewave 4 (TTA Press)
2000: Helena and the Babies, by Denise Mina
in Fresh Blood 3 (The Do-Not Press)
1999: Taking Care of Frank, by Antony Mann
in Crimewave 2 (TTA Press)
1998: Roots, by Jerry Sykes
in Mean Time (The Do Not Press)
1997: On the Psychiatrist's Couch, by Reginald Hill
in WHYDUNNIT, The 1997 CWA Anthology (Severn House)
1996: Herbert in Motion, by Ian Rankin
in Perfectly Criminal (Severn House)
1995: Funny Story, by Larry Beinhart
in No Alibi (Ringpull)

THE DEBUT DAGGER
The Debut Dagger is the CWA's annual new-writing competition, which is open to anyone in the world who writes in the English language, but whose work has not been published before. Most previous winners, as well as some of those who made the short list but did not win (such as Stephen Booth and Louise Penny) have subsequently had their books published.
The entrants submit an opening chapter and synopsis; the winning entry is selected by a panel of agents and publishers.
The Debut Dagger began life in 1998 as The CWA New Writers Competition. It is sponsored by leading publishers Orion.
Previous Winners
2009: The Pathologist - Catherine O’Keefe
2008: Western Fringes - Amer Anwar
2007: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
2006: Imp: Being the Lost Notebooks of Rufus Wilmot Griswold In the Matter of the Death of Edgar Allan Poe - Otis Twelve (D V Wesselmann)
2005: The Woman Before Me - Ruth Dugdall
2004: The Doll Makers - Ellen Grubb
2003: The Cuckoo - Kirsty Evans
2002: Sugarmilk Falls - Ilona van Mil
2001: Clea's Moon - Edward Wright
2000: A Flowery Death - Simon Levack
1999: Blood Junction - Caroline Carver (won as Caroline Seed)
1998: Stone Baby - Joolz Denby

THE ELLIS PETERS HISTORICAL AWARD
The Ellis Peters Historical Award was founded in 1999 as the Historical Dagger. In 2006 this was renamed the Ellis Peters Award, to commemorate the life and work of Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) 1913-1995, a prolific author perhaps best known as the creator of Brother Cadfael. It is sponsored by the Estate of Ellis Peters and her publishers - Headline and Little Brown.
The award is presented to a novel with a crime theme and a historical background of any period up to 35 years before the current year. The judging panel includes the most recent winner, as well as reviewers and historians. The award is made in the autumn.
Previous Winners
2009: If The Dead Rise Not (Quercus) - Philip Kerr
2008: Stratton’s War (Orion) - Laura Wilson
2007: Mistress of the Art of Death  - Ariana Franklin
2006: Red Sky Lament (Orion) - Edward Wright
2005: Dark Fire (Macmillan) - CJ Sansom
2004: The Damascened Blade (Constable & Robinson) - Barbara Cleverly
2003: The American Boy (Flamingo) - Andrew Taylor
2002: Fingersmith (Virago) - Sarah Waters
2001: The Office Of The Dead (HarperCollins) - Andrew Taylor
2000: Absent Friends (Virago) - Gillian Linscott
1999: Two for the Lions (Century) - Lindsey Davis

THE LAST LAUGH DAGGER
Between 1988 and 1996, the CWA presented an award for the year's best humorous crime novel; this was initially known as The Punch Award, but subsequently changed to the Last Laugh Dagger
Winners
1996: Two For The Dough - Janet Evanovich
1995: Sunburn - Laurence Shame
1994: The Villain of the Earth - Simon Shaw
1993: The Mamur Zapt and The Spoils of Egypt - Michael Pearce
1992: Native Tongue - Carl Hiaasen
1991: Angels in Arms - Mike Ripley
1990: Killer Cinderella - Simon Shaw
1989: Angel Touch - Mike Ripley
1988: Death in a Distant Land - Nancy Livingston

Dagger Award (2009)

2010:
The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin won the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger award for a crime novel that has been translated into English, the Guardian reported. Judges called the novel "impossible to reduce... to ghost story, a police procedural or a gothic tale." Theorin bested a shortlist that included Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, Tonino Benacquista's Badfellas, Andrea Camilleri's August Heat, Arnaldur Indridason's Hypothermia and Deon Meyer's Thirteen Hours.


2009:
Fred Vargas holds off Scandinavians at Dagger awards

French author bucks hegemony of northern European writers to win Crime Writers' Association prize with The Chalk Circle Man

• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 16 July 2009 15.52 BST

Scandinavian crime fiction might be all the rage in the book charts but French writer Fred Vargas has seen off competition from a cluster of Nordic authors to take the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger award.
Vargas, who has won the prize in three out of the last four years, took the £1,000 award for the first in her series of Adamsberg novels, The Chalk Circle Man. It took the prize ahead of three Swedish crime novels – including Steig Larsson's bestselling The Girl Who Played With Fire – one Norwegian, and one Icelandic novel. A bestselling author in France as well as a medieval archaeologist, Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau. Her translator, Sîan Reynolds, won £500.
Published in France as L'Homme aux cercles bleu, it follows the story of unorthodox policeman Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg as strange blue chalk circles start to appear on the pavements of Paris, containing increasingly strange objects, from a pigeon's foot to a doll's head. The news is covered with wry amusement by the press, but Adamsberg is uneasy, and soon the body of a woman who has been brutally murdered is found in one of the circles. Judges said the book was "a remarkable demonstration of Vargas's ability to open with an odd event and follow it into an unhappy past".
The CWA caused controversy in 2005 when it took the decision to bar foreign language authors from competing for its top award, after the £3,000 Golden Dagger was won by translated novels in three out of eight years. It restricted the prize to books originally written in English, establishing the International Dagger to reward foreign works.
Yesterday evening also saw the CWA announce the winner of the £1,500 Dagger in the Library prize, which goes to a body of work rather than a single title and was this year won by Colin Cotterill, putting him in the company of previous winners Stuart McBride, Craig Russell and Alexander McCall Smith. The £500 Debut Dagger for new writing went to Canadian writer Catherine O'Keefe for The Pathologist – "an uncomfortable, sophisticated read that also manages to be suspenseful", according to the judges – while Sean Chercover's One Serving of Bad Luck took the £1,500 short story prize with a tale judges said provided "a new take on the private eye".

International Thriller Writers (2006-2009)

From International Thriller Writers accessed 7/14/10

2010 Thriller Awards
(Winners announced July 10, 2010)  Winners are listed in bold with *
Ken Follett, ThrillerMaster in recognition of his legendary career and outstanding contributions to the thriller genre
Mark Bowden, True Thriller Award
Linda Fairstein, Silver Bullet Award
 
Best Hard Cover Novel:
VANISHED by Joseph Finder
LONG LOST by Harlan Coben
FEAR THE WORST by Linwood Barclay
THE NEIGHBOR by Lisa Gardner*
THE RENEGADES by T. Jefferson Parker

Best Paperback Original:
SHADOW SEASON by Tom Piccirilli
URGE TO KILL by John Lutz
VENGEANCE ROAD by Rick Mofina
THE COLDEST MILE by Tom Piccirilli*
NO MERCY by John Gilstrap

Best First Novel:
FRAGMENT by Warren Fahy
DEAD MEN'S DUST by Matt Hilton
COLLISION OF EVIL by John J. Le Beau
DRACULA: THE UN-DEAD by Dacre Stoker & Ian Holt
RUNNING FROM THE DEVIL by Jamie Freveletti*

Best Short Story:
THE DESERT HERE AND THE DESERT FAR AWAY by Marcus Sakey
A STAB IN THE HEART by Twist Phelan*
BACKUP by Rick Mofina
ICED by Harry Hunsicker
BOLDT'S BROKEN ANGEL by Ridley Pearson

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2009
ThrillerMaster: David Morrell
Silver Bullet Award: Brad Meltzer
Silver Bullet Corporate Award: Dollar General
(winners announced July 11, 2009)

Best Thriller Of The Year
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver*
The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver
The Dark Tide by Andrew Gross
The Last Patriot by Brad Thor

Best First Novel
Calumet City by Charlie Newton
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith*
Criminal Paradise by Steven Thomas
Sacrifice by S. J. Bolton
The Killer's Wife by Bill Floyd

Best Short Story
Between the Dark and the Daylight (Ellery Queen Magazine) by Tom Piccirilli
Last Island South (Ellery Queen Magazine) by John C. Boland
The Edge of Seventeen (The Darker Mask) by Alexandra Sokoloff*
The Point Guard (Killer Year Anthology) by Jason Pinter
Time of the Green (Killer Year Anthology) by Ken Bruen

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2008
ThrillerMaster: Sandra Brown
Silver Bullet Award: Macy's and David Baldacci
(winners announced July 12, 2008)

Best Novel
No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
The Watchman by Robert Crais
The Ghost by Robert Harris *
The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz
Trouble by Jesse Kellerman

Best First Novel
Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover
From the Depths by Gerry Doyle
Volk's Game by Brent Ghelfi
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill *

Best Paperback Original
The Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco
A Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish
The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli *
The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon
Shattered by Jay Bonansinga

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2007
ThrillerMaster: James Patterson
(winners announced July 14, 2007)

Best Novel
False Impression, Jeffrey Archer
Killer Instinct, Joseph Finder *
Cold Kill, Stephen Leather
The Messenger, Daniel Silva
Beautiful Lies, Lisa Unger

Best First Novel
Shadow of Death, Patricia Gussin
Switchback, Matthew Klein
A Thousand Suns, Alex Scarrow
18 Seconds, George D. Shuman
Mr. Clarinet, Nick Stone *

Best Paperback Original
Skeleton Coast, Clive Cussler with Jack DuBrul
The Deep Blue Alibi, Paul Levine
An Unquiet Grave, P.J. Parrish *
Headstone City, Tom Piccirilli
Mortal Faults, Michael Prescott

Best Screenplay
Inside Man: Russell Gewirtz
The Departed: William Monahan
The Good Shepherd: Eric Roth*
Children of Men: Alfonse Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby
Casino Royale: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis

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2006
ThrillerMaster: Clive Cussler
(winners announced July 1, 2006)

Best Novel
Panic, Jeff Abbott
Consent to Kill, Vince Vlynn
Velocity, Dean Koontz
The Patriots Club, Christopher Reich *
Citizen Vince, Jess Walter

Best First Novel

Improbable, Adam Fawer *

The Color of Law, Mark Gimenez
Cold Granite, Stuart MacBride
Pain Killer, Will Staeger
Beneath a Panamanian Moon, David Terrenoire

Best Paperback Original
Sleeper Cell, Jeffrey Anderson
Pride Runs Deep, R. Cameron Cooke *
Upside Down, John Ramsey Miller
The Dying Hour, Rick Mofina
Exit Strategy, Michael Wiecek

Best Screenplay
Match Point, screenplay by Woody Allen
Syriana, based on the book by Robert Baer, written by Stephen Gaghan
Cache (Hidden), screenplay by Michael Haneke*
Oldboy, screenplay by Jo-yun Hwang, Chun-hyeong Lim, Joon-hyung Lim, and Chan-wook Park; story by Garon Tsuchiva
Munich, screenplay by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth; based on the book by George Jonas