This page lists the most current award lists for major mystery awards. Links have been added to help MAF followers get to the Lisle Library copies/ILLs, and links to go to the author’s site or blog when available. These lists can be a great way to brainstorm selections for the group to discuss — or to help topple your To Be Read (TBR) piles!
Click on the book cover to go to the book in Lisle Library’s catalog and request it. If the library does not own the book the link will bring up email to request an InterLibrary Loan (ILL). These have our Murder Among Friends envelope link to email a request for an ILL on them.
Click on the author name to go to the author’s web site, blog, etc. If there is no known author site, there will be no link.
BEST NOVEL
Dare Me – Megan Abbott
The Trinity Game – Sean Chercover
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
The Beautiful Mystery – Louise Penny
The Other Woman – Hank Phillippi Ryan
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Don’t Ever Get Old – Daniel Friedman
The Professionals – Owen Laukkanen
The Expats – Chris Pavone
The 500 – Matthew Quirk
Black Fridays – Michael Sears
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Whiplash River – Lou Berney
Murder for Choir – Joelle Charbonneau
And She Was – Alison Gaylin
Blessed are the Dead – Malla Nunn
Big Maria – Johnny Shaw
BEST SHORT STORY
“Mischief in Mesopotamia” – Dana Cameron, EQMM, Nov 2012
“Kept in the Dark” – Shelia Connolly, Best New England Crime Stories: Blood Moon
“The Lord is My Shamus” – Barb Goffman, Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder
“Peaches” – Todd Robinson, Grift, Spring 2012
“The Unremarkable Heart” – Karin Slaughter, MWA Presents: Vengeance
BEST CRITICAL NONFICTION WORK
Books to Die For – John Connolly and Declan Burke, eds.
Blood Relations – Joseph Goodrich, ed. Big Maria – Johnny Shaw
More Forensics and Fiction – D.P. Lyle, M.D.
The Grand Tour – Mathew Prichard, ed.
In Pursuit of Spenser – Otto Penzler, ed.
Click on the Book Covers for the 2013 Nominees to go to the Lisle Library catalog and request a hold on a title. (If we do not own a title, the link will take you to email to request an InterLibrary Loan for it.) Click on the Author’s Name, to go to their website (or site that features them, if available).
Best Novel
Best First Novel
Best Historical Novel
Best Short Story
This year all the stories have links to the actual stories, instead of the magazine or anthology they were published in originally. So do take advantage of this chance to easily access and read all the stories before voting!
“Mischief in Mesopotamia” (PDF) by Dana Cameron (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2012) Winner! |
“Kept in the Dark” by Sheila Connolly (Best New England Crime Stories 2013: Blood Moon Anthology) |
“The Lord is My Shamus” by Barb Goffman (Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder) |
“Thea’s First Husband” by B.K. Stevens (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, June 2012) |
“When Duty Calls” by Art Taylor (Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder) |
For the Best Non-Fiction, & Best Child’s/Young Adult Novel Nominees, click on the Malice Teacup logo below.
Presented by the author members of Mystery Writers of America
Click on the Book Covers for the 2013 Nominees to go to the Lisle Library catalog and request a hold on a title. (If we do not own a title, the link will take you to email to request an InterLibrary Loan for it.) Click on the Author’s Name, to go to their website (or site that features them, if available).
Best Novel
Best First Novel
Best Paperback Original
Mary Higgins Clark Award
Winner! |
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