Best Novel:
A DANCE AT THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE, by Lawrence Block.
Nominated:
DON'T SAY A WORD,
by Andrew Klavan (Pocket Books)
PRIOR CONVICTIONS,
by Lia Matera (Simon & Schuster)
I.O.U., by
Nancy Pickard (Pocket Books)
PALINDROME,
by Stuart Woods (HarperCollins)
Best First Novel:
SLOW MOTION RIOT, by Peter Blauner (Wm. Morrow)
Nominated:
DEADSTICK, by Terence Faherty (St. Martin's)
DEADLINE, by Marcy Heidish (St. Martin's)
ZERO AT THE BONE, by Mary Willis Walker (St.
Martin's)
A COOL BREEZE IN THE UNDERGROUND, by Don Winslow
(St. Martin's)
Best Paperback Original:
DARK MAZE by Thomas Adcock (Pocket Books)
Nominated:
MURDER IN THE DOG DAYS by P. M. Carlson
(Bantam)
CRACKING UP by Ed Naha (Pocket Books)
MIDTOWN NORTH by Christopher Newman
(Fawcett)
FINE DISTINCTIONS by Deborah Valentine
(Avon)
Best Fact Crime:
HOMICIDE: A YEAR ON THE KILLING STREETS, by David
Simon (Houghton
Mifflin)
Nominated:
WITNESSES FROM THE GRAVE: THE STORIES BONES TELL,
by Christopher Joyce and Eric Stover (Little, Brown)
BOSS OF BOSSES: THE FALL OF THE GODFATHER: THE
FBI AND PAUL CASTELLANO, by Joseph F. O'Brien and Andris Kurins
(Simon
& Schuster)
DEN OF THIEVES, by James B. Stewart (Simon
& Schuster)
DEATH OF ELVIS: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED, by
Charles C. Thompson II and James P. Cole (Delacorte)
Best Critical or Biographical Work:
EDGAR A. POE: MOURNFUL AND NEVER-ENDING REMEMBRANCE,
by Kenneth
Silverman (HarperCollins)
Nominated:
OUT OF THE WOODPILE: BLACK CHARACTERS IN CRIME
AND DETECTIVE FICTION, by Frankie E. Bailey (Greenwood Press)
AGATHA CHRISTIE: MURDER IN FOUR ACTS, by
Peter Haining (Virgin Books)
TALKING MYSTERIES: A CONVERSATION WITH TONY
HILLERMAN,
by Tony Hillerman and Ernie Bulow (Univ. of New Mexico Press)
JIM THOMPSON: SLEEP WITH THE DEVIL, by
Michael
J. McCauley (Mysterious Press)
Best Short Story: "Nine Sons", by Wendy Hornsby
(in Sisters in
Crime 4, 1991)
Nominated:
"Sleeper" by Doug Allyn (Ellery Queen
Mystery Magazine 5/91)
"A Blow For Freedom" by Lawrence Block (Playboy 10/91)
"Spasmo" by Liza Cody (A
CLASSIC ENGLISH CRIME, Mysterious Press)
"Dreaming in Black and White" by Susan Schwartz (PSYCHO-PATHS, Tor)
Best Young Adult:
THE WEIRDO by Theodore Taylor (Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich)
Nominated:
CALLING HOME by Michael Cadnum (Viking)
WE ALL FALL DOWN by Robert Cormier
(Delacorte)
SCARFACE by Peter Nelson (Archway)
THE CHRISTMAS KILLER by Patricia Windsor
(Scholastic)
Best Juvenile:
WANTED...MUD BLOSSOM by Betsy Byars (Delacorte)
Nominated:
MYSTERY ON OCTOBER ROAD by Alison Cragin
Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mali (Viking)
DOUBLE TROUBLE SQUARED by Kathryn Lasky
(Harcourt,
Brace, Jovanovich)
WITCH WEED by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
(Delacorte)
FINDING BUCK McHENRY by Alfred Slote
(HarperCollins)
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