Gumshoe Award Nominees
As announced today by Mystery Ink:
BEST MYSTERY
James Lee Burke – Tin Roof Blowdown (Simon & Schuster)
John Connolly – The Unquiet (Atria)
Ariana Franklin – Mistress of the Art of Death (Putnam)
Charlie Huston – The Shotgun Rule (Ballantine)
Laura Lippman – What the Dead Know (William Morrow)
BEST THRILLER
Lee Child – Bad Luck and Trouble (Delacorte)
Robert Crais – The Watchman (Simon & Schuster)
Joseph Finder – Power Play (St. Martin’s Press)
Michael Gruber – The Book of Air and Shadows (William Morrow)
Richard K. Morgan – Thirteen (Del Rey)
**BEST FIRST NOVEL**
Sean Chercover – Big City, Bad Blood (William Morrow)
Philip Hawley, Jr. – Stigma (Harper)
Lisa Lutz – The Spellman Files (Simon & Schuster)
Craig McDonald – Head Games (Bleak House Books)
Nick Stone – Mr. Clarinet (HarperCollins)
The winners, as well as the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, will be announced on April
- Congratulations to all the nominees.