Winners of the 2011 ForeWord Awards

The winners of the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards have been announced by ForeWord Reviews, recognizing the best in independent publishing.

In addition to the winners of the Mystery and Thriller & Suspense categories (listed below), the top prize for fiction went to All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen, which was one of our top picks as the best mystery of 2011. (You can read our review on Mysterious Reviews.)

• Mystery: Gold: Trick of the Dark by Val McDermid (Bywater Books)
• Mystery: Silver: Poison Makers by Jimmy Olsen (Hoffman House Press)
• Mystery: Bronze: Medieval Murders by Aaron Stander (Writers and Editors)

• Thriller/Suspense: Gold: Fly by Night by Ward Larsen (Oceanview Publishing)
• Thriller/Suspense: Silver: The Parsifal Pursuit by Michael McMenamin and Patrick McMenamin (Enigma Books)
• Thriller/Suspense: Bronze: Waiting for the Bones by Donna Cousins (iUniverse)

indicates a review by Mysterious Reviews.

(Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare for alerting us that the winners had been announced.)