The Gumshoe Awards

Lord, it seems to be Awards week, but here comes Mystery Ink with their nominees for the 4th annual Gumshoe Awards:

Best Mystery:
Laura Lippman: By a Spider’s Thread (William Morrow)
T. Jefferson Parker: California Girl (William Morrow)
Jim Fusilli: Hard, Hard City (Putnam)
Denise Hamilton: Last Lullaby (Scribner)
S.J. Rozan: Absent Friends (Delacorte)

Best Thriller:
Barry Eisler: Rain Storm (Putnam)
Dean Koontz: Life Expectancy (Bantam)
Alan Furst: Dark Voyage (Random House)
Daniel Silva: A Death in Vienna (Putnam)
Robert Ferrigno: The Wake-Up (Pantheon)

Best European Crime Novel:
Henning Mankell: The Return of the Dancing Master (New Press)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind (Penguin)
Donna Leon: Doctored Evidence (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Boris Akunin: Murder on the Leviathan (Random House)
Ian Rankin: A Question of Blood (Little Brown)

Best Debut:
J.A. Konrath: Whiskey Sour (Hyperion)
Raelynn Hillhouse: Rift Zone (Forge)
Dylan Schaffer: Misdemeanor Man (Bloomsbury)
Harley Jane Kozak: Dating Dead Men (Doubleday)
Charles Huston: Caught Stealing (Ballantine)

The winners of these categories, as well as the Lifetime Achievement and Crime Fiction Website awards, will be announced on March 9, 2005. Congratulations to all the nominees in each category.