2005 Notable Books

AGATHA WINNERS

Best Novel
Jacqueline Winspear, Birds of a Feather ($25).

Best First Novel
Harley Jane Kozak, Dating Dead Men ($13).

Best Nonfiction
Jack French, Private Eye-Lashes: Radio's Lady Detectives ($19).

Best Short Story
Elaine Viets, "Wedding Knife" in Chesapeake Crimes.

Best Children's/Young Adult Novel
Blue Balliett, Chasing Vermeer ($17).

ARTHUR ELLIS AWARDS

Best Novel
Barbara Fradkin, Fifth Son.

Best First Novel
Jon Evans, Dark Places ($14).

BARRY AWARDS

Best Novel
Lee Child, The Enemy ($7.99).

Best First Novel
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind ($15).

Best British Novel
John Harvey, Flesh and Blood ($14).

Best Paperback Original
Elaine Flinn, Tagged for Murder ($6.99).

Best Thriller
Barry Eisler, Rain Storm ($7.99).

Best Story
Ed Hoch, "The War in Wonderland" in Green for Danger ($17).

BOOK SENSE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Adult Fiction:
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell ($16).

Finalists:
Sarah Dunant, The Birth of Venus ($14)
Philip Roth, The Plot Against American ($26)
Carlos Ruis Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind ($15).

Adult Nonfiction:
Robert Kurson, Shadow Divers ($15).

Children's:
Blue Balliett, Chasing Vermeer ($17).

Children's Illustrated:
Doreen Cronin, Duck for President.

BRUCE ALEXANDER AWARD

Sharan Newman, The Witch in the Well ($25 Signed).

CALAVERA AWARD

Rochelle Krich, Grave Endings ($6.99).

MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

Rochelle Krich, Grave Endings ($6.99).

CWA DIAMOND DAGGER

Ian Rankin

CWA DAGGERS NOMINATIONS

Creasey Dagger/Best First Novel
Clare Clark, The Great Stink ($25).
David McKeowen, Grip.
Richard Kunzmann, Bloody Harvest ($22 Signed 1sts).
Dreda Say Mitchell, Running Hot.

Gold Dagger/Best Novel
Karin Fossum, Calling Out For You ($22).
Friedrich Glauser, In Matto's Realm ($13).
Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip ($13).
Arnaldur Indridason, Silence of the Grave ($22).
Barbara Nadel, Deadly Web ($29 Signed 1sts).
Fred Vargas, Seeking Whom He May Desire ($34).

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
G. M. Ford, A Blind Eye ($6.99).
Simon Kernick, A Good Day To Die ($30).
Adrian Matthews, The Apothecary's House ($39 Signed 1sts).
Kate Mosse, Labyrinth ($26 March).
Henry Porter, Brandenburg ($22).
Joel Ross, Double Cross Blind ($33 Signed 1sts).
Daniel Silva, A Death in Vienna ($7.99)

Short Story Dagger
John Connolly, "Miss Froom, Vampire" in Nocturnes ($20 Signed 1sts with special Connolly booklet).
Martin Edwards, "Test Drive" in Crime on the Move ($18).
Kate Ellis, "Top Deck" in Crime on the Move.
Peter Robinson, "The Wrong Hands" in Not Safe After Dark and Other Work ($34 Lt. Ed.; $17 tpbk).

Ellis Peters Historical Dagger
CJ Sansom, Dark Fire ($39 Signed 1sts).

Runners Up
Tom Bradby, The God of Chaos ($28 Signed 1sts).
Barbara Cleverly, The Palace Tiger ($24).
Catriona McPherson, After the Armistice Ball ($25).
Iain Pears, The Portrait ($20 Signed 1sts).
Frank Tallis, Mortal Mischief ($26).

Dagger of Daggers
John Le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963 $14).
Anthony Price, Other Paths to Glory (1974 $14).
Martin Cruz-Smith, Gorky Park (1981 $7.99).
Peter Lovesey, The False Inspector Dew (1982 $12).
Barbara Vine, A Fatal Inversion (1987 $14).
Reginald Hill, Bones and Silence (1990 $6.99).
Val McDermid, The Mermaids Singing (1995 $6.99).

DILYS AWARD

Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter ($7.99).

EDGAR ALLAN POE WINNERS

Best Novel
T.J. Parker, California Girl ($25).

Best First Novel
Don Lee, Country of Origin ($25; $14).

Best Paperback Original
Domenic Stansberry, The Confession ($6.99).

Best Critical/Biographical
Leslie S. Klinger, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes ($75).

Best Fact Crime
Leonard Levitt, Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder.

Best Short Story
L.L. Drummond, "Something About a Scar" in Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You ($24).

SPECIAL EDGAR AWARDS

David Chase (writer/producer - The Sopranos, The Rockford Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker and many other breakthrough TV shows)
Tom Fontana (writer/producer - Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, and The Jury and many other breakthrough TV shows)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

Thomas Morrissey "Can't Catch Me" - Brooklyn Noir (Akashic Books)

BEN FRANKLIN AWARD

Mystery/Suspense
Charles Benoit, Relative Danger ($25).

HAMMETT PRIZE

Chuck Hogan, Prince of Thieves ($10; $26 Signed 1sts).

LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE

Mystery winner
Kem Nunn, Tijuana Straits ($15).

LEFTY AWARD

(Best Humorous Mystery)
Andrews, Donna. We'll Always Have Parrots ($6.99) tied with Susan McBride, Blue Blood ($6.50).

MACAVITY AWARDS

Best Novel
Ken Bruen, The Killing of the Tinkers ($13).

Best First Novel
H.J. Kozak, Dating Dead Men ($13).

Best NonFiction:
D. P. Lyle, Forensics for Dummies

Best Short Story:
Terrence Faherty, The Widow of Slane

MINNESOTA BOOK AWARDS

KJ Erickson, Alone At Night ($6.99).
Pete Hautman, Godless ($16).

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD

Carolyn Marino, Vice President/Executive Editor, HarperCollins

RAVEN AWARDS

Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theatre (founded by Steve Oney)
DorothyL listserv (founded by Diane Kovacs and Kara Robinson
Murder by the Book, Houston, TX (Martha Farrington, Owner)

SHAMUS AWARDS

Best PI Novel
Ed Wright, While I Disappear ($7.99).

Best First PI Novel
Ingrid Black, The Dead ($15 UK).

Best PI Paperback
Max Phillips, Fade to Blonde ($6.99).

Best Story
Pearl Abraham, "Hasidic Noir" in Brooklyn Noir ($16).

SPOTTED OWL AWARD

Kris Nelscott

NERO WOLFE AWARD

Lee Child, The Enemy ($7.99).