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)
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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

1. Congratulations to all the nominees.