Last Friday, the Strand Magazine announced the nominees for the 2009 Strand Critics Awards recognizing excellence in the field of mystery fiction. The winners will be announced at a cocktail party hosted by The Strand on July 7th, 2010, in New York City.
The Strand is also bestowing its Life Achievement Award to Elmore Leonard for his huge body of mystery and crime novels.
The nominees are ...
For Best Novel:
◊ Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
◊ The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston (Ballantine)
◊ Life Sentences by Laura Lippman (William Morrow)
◊ The Renegades by T. Jefferson Parker 
◊ The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Riverhead)
For Best First Novel:
◊ Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell (Little, Brown)
◊ The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry (Penguin)
◊ A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick (Algonquin)
◊ Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
◊ Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
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