BONES by Jan Burke

   Nominated:
   RIVER OF DARKNESS by Rennie Airth (Viking Press)
   L. A. REQUIEM by Robert Crais (Doubleday)
   STRAWBERRY SUNDAY by Stephen Greenleaf (Scribner & Sons)
   IN A DRY SEASON by Peter Robinson (Avon)

Best First Novel:
THE SKULL MANTRA by Eliot Pattison

   Nominated:
    CERTIFIABLY INSANE by Arthur W. Bahr (Simon & Schuster)
    BIG TROUBLE by Dave Barry (Putnam)
    GOD IS A BULLET by Boston Teran (Knopf)
    INNER CITY BLUES by Paula L. Woods (W. W. Norton & Co.)

Best Paperback Original:
FULTON COUNTY BLUES by Ruth Birmingham

   Nominated:
    LUCKY MAN by Tony Dunbar (Dell)
    THE RESURRECTIONIST by Mark Graham (Avon Books)
    THE OUTCAST by Jose Latour (Akashic Books)
    IN BIG TROUBLE by Laura Lippman (Avon)

Best Fact Crime:
BLIND EYE:  HOW THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT LET A DOCTOR GET AWAY WITH MURDER by James B. Stewart

   Nominated:
    THE GHOSTS OF HOPEWELL by Jim Fisher (Southern Illinois University Press)
    MEAN JUSTICE by Edward Humes (Simon & Schuster)
    AND NEVER LET HER GO by Ann Rule (Simon & Schuster)
    DISCO BLOODBATH by James St. James (Simon & Schuster)

Best Critical or Biographical Work:
TELLER OF TALES: THE LIFE OF ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE by Daniel Stashower

   Nominated:
    OXFORD COMPANION TO CRIME & MYSTERY WRITING edited by Rosemary Herbert (Oxford University Press)
    A SUITABLE JOB FOR A WOMAN by Val McDermid (Poisoned Pen Press)
    THE WEB OF INIQUITY: EARLY DETECTIVE FICTION BY AMERICAN WOMEN by Catherine Ross Nickerson (Duke University Press)
    ROSS MACDONALD by Tom Nolan (Scribner)

Best Short Story:  "Heroes" by Anne Perry (Murder and Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler)

   Nominated:
    "Triangle" by Jeffery Deaver (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine March 1999)
    "Snow" by Stuart M. Kaminsky (First Cases,Vol. III, edited by Robert J. Randisi)
    "Paleta Man" by Laurie R. King (Irreconcilable Differences, edited by Lea Matera)
    "Crack" by James W. Hall (Murder and Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler)

Best Young Adult:
NEVER TRUST A DEAD MAN by Vivian Vande Velde

   Nominated:
    SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
    THAT KIND OF MONEY by Vicki Cameron (Indigo Books)
    THE GHOST IN THE TOKAIDO INN by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler (Delacorte Press)
    MONSTER by Walter Dean Myers (Harper Collins)

Best Juvenile:
THE NIGHT FLYERS by Elizabeth McDavid Jones

    Nominated:
    HOWIE BOWLES, SECRET AGENT by Kate Banks, illus. by Isaac Millman
    SHADOW HORSE by Alison Hart
    DOLPHIN LUCK by Hilary McKay
    GREEN THUMB by Rob Thomas