2006 Notable Books

2006 AGATHA WINNERS

Best First Novel:
Laura Durham, Better Off Wed ($6.99).

Best Novel:
Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Snowdrift ($24 Signed 1sts).

Best Non-Fiction:
Melanie Rehak, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her ($25).

Best Short Story:
Marcia Talley, "Driven to Distraction" in Chesapeake Crimes II.

Best Juvenile Fiction
Peter Abraham, Down the Rabbit Hole ($17 Signed); Carl Hiaasen, Flush ($17).

Lifetime Achievement:
Robert Barnard

2006 ANTHONY AWARD WINNERS

Best Novel:
W.K. Krueger, Mercy Falls ($7.99).

Best First Novel:
Chris Grabenstein, Tilt-a-Whirl ($15).

Best Paperback Original:
R.F. Coleman, The James Deans ($13).

Best Nonfiction:
Marv Lachman, Heirs of Anthony Boucher ($17).

Best Short Story:
Barbara Seranella, "Misdirection" in Greatest Hits ($26).

Best Fanzine:
Crimespree Magazine

2006 ARTHUR ELLIS WINNERS

Best Novel
William Deverell, April Fool ($7.95).

Best First Novel
Louise Penny, Still Life ($45 Signed 1sts).

2006 BARRY AWARD WINNERS

A highly eclectic list
Best Novel:
Thomas Cook, Red Leaves ($14).

Best First Novel (published US):
Stuart MacBride, Cold Granite ($6.99).

Best Novel (published UK):
Denise Mina, The Field of Blood ($7.50 July).

Best Thriller:
Joe Finder, Company Man ($7.99).

Best Paperback Novel:
R.F. Coleman, The James Deans ($13).

Best Short Story
Nancy Pickard, "There Is No Crime on Easter Island."

2006 BRUCE ALEXANDER

Tony Broadbent, Spectres in the Smoke ($25 Signed 1sts).

2006 CALDECOTT MEDAL

Chris Rashchka, The Hello, Goodbye Window ($16).

2006 DIAMOND DAGGER

Elmore Leonard

2006 DAGGER AWARDS

Best Novel
Anne Cleeves, Raven Black ($24).

Best First Novel
Louise Penny, Still Life ($23; $100 Signed).

Best International Dagger
Fred Vargas, The Three Evangelists ($24).

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
Nick Stone, Mr. Clarinet ($30).

Dagger in the Library
Jim Kelly

2006 DENNIS LYNDS AWARD

(Social Consciousness in Crime)

Barbara Seranella

2006 DILYS AWARD

Colin Cotterill, Thirty-Three Teeth ($24).

2006 EDGAR WINNERS

Best Novel
Jess Walter, Citizen Vince ($25).

Best First Novel
Theresa Schwegel, Officer Down ($24).

Best Paperback Original
Jeffrey Ford, Girl in the Glass ($14).

Best Short Stories
James. W. Hall, "The Catch" in Greatest Hits ($26).

Best Critical/Biographical
Melanie Rehak, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her ($25).

Best Fact Crime
Edward Dolnick, The Rescue Artist ($26).

2006 ELLEN NEHR AWARD

The American Crime Writers League announced that Dick Adler, reviewer for the Chicago Tribune, is the recipient of the 2006 Ellen Nehr Award for mystery reviewing. Adler is the author of Poisoned Pen Press' stellar compilation of his review work in Dreams of Justice ($15).

2006 ELLIS PETERS AWARD NOMINEES

Edward Wright, Red Sky Lament ($42 Signed 1sts).
Shortlist:
Louis Bayard, The Pale Blue Eye ($25).
Nick Drake, Nefertiti ($31).
Jason Goodwin, The Janissary Tree ($26 Signed 1sts).
C.J. Sansom, Sovereign ($39 Signed 1sts).
Jenny White, The Sultan's Seal ($25 Signed 1sts).

2006 FALCON AWARD

(Best PI Novel published in Japan)
Mike Connelly, Lost Light ($7.99).

SUE FEDER HISTORICAL MYSTERY AWARD

Jackie Winspear, Pardonable Lies ($23 Signed).

2005 HAMMETT PRIZE

Joseph Kanon, Alibi ($26).

2006 INTERNATIONAL THRILLERS

Best Novel:
Christopher Reich, The Patriot's Club ($26).

Best First Novel:
Adam Fawer, Improbable ($7.99).

Best Paperback Original:
R.C. Cooke, Pride Runs Deep ($7.99).

2006 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE

Robert Littell, Legends ($27 Signed 1sts; $14).

2006 LEFTY AWARD

Peter Guttridge, Cast Adrift ($26).

2006 MACAVITY AWARD WINNERS

Best Novel
Mike Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer ($7.99).

Best First Novel
Brian Freeman, Immoral ($6.99 July).

Best Nonfiction
Melanie Rehak, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her ($25).

Best Short Story
"There Is No Crime on Easter Island" by Nancy Pickard (EQMM 9/05).

2006 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss ($14).

2006 MARLOWE AWARD

Joseph Wambaugh

2006 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

Jess Walter, The Zero ($27 Signed 1sts). Walter won the 2006 Edgar for Citizen Vince ($15).

2006 NERO WOLFE AWARD

Tess Gerritsen, Vanish ($7.99)

2006 NEWBERY MEDAL

Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross ($17).

2006 NOBEL PRIZE LITERATURE

Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk whose books I have steadily championed from the brilliant medieval Islamic bibliomystery My Name Is Red ($15) to the serial killer in the fundamentalist Turkish village thriller Snow ($15) to the wrenching memoir Istanbul ($15) which I read on the flight home from that very city. The White Castle ($13) is his first, a tale of a young Italian scholar captured by piratges between Venice and Naples and auctioned off at the Istanbul slave market to a Turkish savant eager for new knowledge….

2006 ORANGE PRIZE AWARD

Zadie Smith, On Beauty ($26).

2006 QUILL AWARDS

Mystery: Janet Evanovich, Twelve Sharp ($27).
Romance: Nora Roberts, Blue Smoke ($7.99).
Fantasy/SciFi: Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes ($15; $28 Signed 2nds).

2006 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE

James Shapiro, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 ($28).

2006 SPOTTED OWL

Kevin O'Brien, The Last Victim ($6.99).

2006 SHAMUS AWARD WINNERS

M. Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer ($7.99).

Best Paperback Original
R.F. Coleman, The James Deans ($13).

Best First Novel
Louise Ure, Forcing Amaryllis ($6.99).

First-Ever Thriller Winners

Best Novel
Christopher Reichs, The Patriot's Club ($7.99 Aug.).

Best First Novel
Adam Fawer, Improbable ($7.99).

ThrillerMaster
Clive Cussler

2006 THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER AWARD

Val McDermid, The Torment of Others ($6.99 Sept.).

2006 QUILL AWARDS

Harlan Coben, Promise Me ($27).
Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer ($7.99).
Janet Evanovich, Twelve Sharp ($27).
Leslie S. Klinger, ed. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels ($60 Signed).
Elizabeth Peters, Tomb of the Golden Bird ($27 Signed 1sts).