Nominations for 2010 Barry Awards Announced

Lesa Holstine has posted the nominees for the Barry Awards on her blog Lesa's Book Critiques. These annual awards are presented by the editorial staff of Deadly Pleasures for the best works published in the field of crime fiction, with the winners announced this October during Bouchercon in San Francisco.

The nominees are:

Best Novel:
◊ The Gates by John Connolly (Atria)
◊ The Hidden Man by David Ellis  (Putnam)
◊ Spade & Archer by Joe Gores  (Knopf)
◊ The Last Child by John Hart (St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ Locked In by Marcia Muller (Grand Central)
◊ Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Best First Novel:
◊ Beat The Reaper by Josh Bazell (Little, Brown)
◊ The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley  (Delacorte)
◊ A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell (Forge)
◊ A Bad Day For Sorry by Sophie Littlefield  (St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ Black Water Rising by Attica Locke  (Harper)
◊ The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville  (Soho Crime)

Best British Novel:
◊ Awakening by S. J. Bolton  (Bantam Press)
◊ The Lovers by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)
◊ Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill (HarperCollins)
◊ If The Dead Not Rise by Philip Kerr (Quercus)
◊ Still Midnight by Denise Mina (Orion)
◊ Ignorance of Blood by Robert Wilson (HarperCollins)

Best Paperback Original:
◊ Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
◊ Quarry in the Middle by Max Allan Collins (HardCase Crime)
◊ Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley  (Touchstone)
◊ The Weight of Silence by Heather Gutenkauf (Mira)
◊ Fatal Lies by Frank Tallis (Random House Mortalis)
◊ The Herring-Seller'S Apprentice by L. C. Tyler (Felony & Mayhem)

Best Thriller:
◊ No Survivors by Tom Cain (Viking)
◊ Running from the Devil by Jamie Freveletti (Wm. Morrow)
◊ The Gray Man by Mark Greaney (Jove)
◊ Columbus by Derek Haas (Pegasus)
◊ House Secrets by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly)
◊ Walking Dead by Greg Rucka (Bantam)

Best Mystery/Crime Novel of the Decade:
◊  The Guards by Ken Bruen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊  The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
◊  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson  (Knopf)
◊  Mystic River by Dennis Lehane (Wm. Morrow)
◊  Still Life by Louise Penny (St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊  The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin)

Best Short Story:
◊ "My Mother's Keeper" by Barbara Callahan (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine)
◊ "Erin's Journal" by David Dean (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine)
◊ "Real Men Die" by John H. Dirckx (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
◊ "The High House Writer" by Brendan DuBois (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
◊ "A Hollywood Ending" by Melodie Johnson Howe (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine)
◊ "Hard Blows" (The Prosecution Rests) by Morley Swingle (Back Bay Books)

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