Best Novel:
BLACK CHERRY BLUES, by James Lee Burke
Nominated:
A QUESTION OF
GUILT, by Frances Fyfield (Pocket Books)
DEATH OF A JOYCE
SCHOLAR, by Batholomew Gill (Wm. Morrow)
GOLDILOCKS,
by Andrew Coburn (Scribner's)
THE BOOSTER,
by Eugene Izzi (St. Martin's)
Best First Novel:
THE LAST BILLABLE HOUR, by Susan Wolfe (St.
Martin's)
Nominated:
BLOOD UNDER THE BRIDGE, by Bruce Zimmerman (Harper
& Row)
HIDE AND SEEK, by Barry Berg (St. Martin's)
THE MOTHER SHADOW, by Melodie Johnson Howe
(Viking)
THE STORY OF ANNIE D., by Susan Taylor Chehak
(Houghton
Mifflin)
Best Paperback Original:
THE RAIN by Keith Peterson (Bantam)
Nominated:
A COLLECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHS by Deborah Valentine
(Bantam)
HOT WIRE by Randy Russell (Bantam)
KING OF THE HUSTLERS by Eugene Izzi (Bantam)
MANHATTAN IS MY BEAT by Jeffery Wilds Deaver
(Bantam)
Best Fact Crime:
DOC: THE RAPE OF THE TOWN OF LOVELL, by Jack Olsen
(Atheneum)
Nominated:
THE BLOODING: THE TRUE STORY OF THE NARBOROUGH
VILLAGE MURDERS, by Joseph Wambaugh (Perigord/Morrow)
WASTED: THE PREPPIE MURDER, by Linda Wolfe
(Simon & Schuster)
THE DEATH SHIFT: THE TRUE STORY OF NURSE GENENE
JONES AND THE TEXAS BABY MURDERS, by Peter Elkind (Viking)
MURDER IN LITTLE EGYPT, by Darcy O'Brien
(Wm. Morrow)
Best Critical or Biographical Work:
THE LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE, VOLUME I: 1904-1939, by
Norman Sherry
(Viking)
Nominated:
FILM NOIR: REFLECTIONS IN A DARK MIRROR,
by Bruce Crowther (Continuum)
MYSTERIUM AND MYSTERY: THE CLERICAL CRIME NOVEL,
by William David Spencer (UMI Research Press)
THE PERFECT MURDER: A STUDY IN DETECTION,
by David Lehman (Free Press/Macmillan)
MURDER ON THE AIR, by Ric Meyers (Mysterious
Press)
Best Short Story: "Too Many Crooks", by Donald E.
Westlake (in Playboy, August,
1989).
Nominated:
"The Girl and the Gator" by Robert Halsted (in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine,
December 1989)
"For Loyal Service" by Stephen Wasylyk (in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine,
August, 1989)
"Afraid All the Time" by Nancy Pickard (SISTERS IN CRIME, Berkley)
"Ted Bundy's Father" by Ruth Graviros (Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine, 11/89)
Best Young Adult: SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE
by Alane
Ferguson (Bradbury Press)
Nominated:
FELL BACK by M. E. Kerr (Harper & Row)
REMEMBER ME by Christopher Pike (Archway
Paperback)
SNIPER by Theodore Taylor (Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich)
THE MAN WHO WAS POE by Avi (Orchard Books)
Best Juvenile: No award given
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