Best Novel:
THE BOTTOMS by Joe R. Lansdale
Nominated:
- A PLACE OF EXECUTION by Val McDermid
- A DANGEROUS ROAD by Kris Nelscott
- RED LIGHT by T. Jefferson Parker
- THE WHOLE TRUTH by Nancy Pickard
Best First Novel:
A CONSPIRACY OF PAPER by David Liss
Nominated:
- THE ICE HARVEST by Scott Phillips
- RAVELING by Peter Moore Smith
- DEATH OF A RED HEROINE by Qiu Xiaolong
- CROW IN STOLEN COLORS by Marcia Simpson
Best Paperback Original:
THE BLACK MARIA by Mark Graham
Nominated:
- MURDER ON ST. MARK'S PLACE by Victoria
Thompson
- KILLING KIN by Chassie West
- THE KIDNAPPING OF ROSIE DAWN by Eric Wright
- PURSUIT AND PERSUASION by Sally S. Wright
Best Fact Crime:
BLACK MASS: THE IRISH MOB, THE FBI, AND A DEVIL’S DEAL
by Dick
Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
Nominated:
- THE SEEKERS: A BOUNTY HUNTER'S STORY by
Joshua
Armstrong & Anthony Bruno
- PORTRAITS OF GUILT: THE WOMAN WHO PROFILES THE
FACES OF AMERICA'S DEADLIEST CRIMINALS by Jeanne Boylan
- AUTHOR UNKNOWN: ON THE TRAIL OF THE ANONYMOUS
by Don Foster
- MOONLIGHT: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE ALMANAC TRIAL
by John Evangelist Walsh
Best Critical or Biographical Work:
CONUNDRUMS FOR THE LONG WEEK-END: ENGLAND, DOROTHY L.
SAYERS, AND
LORD PETER WIMSEY by Robert Kuhn McGregor and Ethan Lewis
Nominated:
- THE DOCTOR AND THE DETECTIVE: A BIOGRAPHY OF SIR
ARTHUR
CONAN DOYLE by Martin Booth
- WOMEN OF MYSTERY: THE LIVES AND WORKS OF NOTABLE
WOMEN
CRIME NOVELISTS by Martha Hailey Dubose with additional essays by
Margaret
Caldwell Thomas
- THE RED-HOT TYPEWRITER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN
D. MACDONALD by Hugh Merrill
Best Short Story:
"Missing in Action" by
Peter Robinson (in: The
World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: second annual collection,
edited by Ed Gorman)
Nominated:
- "Delta Double-Deal" by Noreen Ayres (The Night
Awakens,
MWA anthology edited by Mary Higgins Clark)
- "A Candle for Christmas" by Reginald Hill (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine,
January
2000)
- "Twelve of the Little Buggers" by Mat Coward (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine,
January
2000)
- "Spinning" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July
2000)
Best Young Adult:
COUNTERFEIT SON by Elaine Marie Alphin
Nominated:
- SILENT TO THE BONE by E.L. Konigsburg
- THE BODY OF CHRISTOPHER CREED by Carol
Plum-Ucci
- LOCKED INSIDE by Nancy Werlin
Best Juvenile:
DOVEY COE by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Nominated:
- TROUBLE AT FORT LA POINTE by Kathleen Ernst
- SAMMY KEYES AND THE CURSE OF MUSTACHE MARY by
Wendelin Van Draanen
- WALKING TO THE BUS RIDER BLUES by Harriette
Gillem
Robinet
- GHOSTS IN THE GALLERY by Barbara Brooks
Wallace
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