Best Novel:
THE CHATHAM SCHOOL AFFAIR, by Thomas H. Cook
Nominated:
HEARTS AND BONES,
by Margaret Lawrence
MEAN STREAK,
by Carolyn Wheat
PENTECOST ALLEY,
by Anne Perry
WITH CHILD,
by Laurie King
Best First Novel:
SIMPLE JUSTICE, by John Morgan Wilson (Bantam)
Nominated:
BONITA FAYE, by Margaret Mosely
A BROTHER'S BLOOD, by Michael White
THE QUEEN'S MAN, by Sharon Kay Penman
A TEST OF WILLS, by Charles Todd
Best Paperback Original:
FADE AWAY by Harlan Coben (Dell)
Nominated:
THE GRASS WIDOW, by Teri Holbrook
STOLEN WORDS, by Sharon Drury
TRIBE, by R. D. Zimmerman
WALKING RAIN, by Susan Wade
Best Fact Crime:
POWER TO HURT: INSIDE A JUDGE'S CHAMBERS, by Darcy
O'Brien (Harper
Mass Market Paperbacks)
Best Critical or Biographical Work:
THE SECRET MARRIAGE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND OTHER
ECCENTRIC READINGS,
by Michael Atkinson (Univ of Michigan Press)
Best Short Story: "Red Clay", by Michael Malone
(in Murder
for Love, 1996.)
Best Young Adult:
TWISTED SUMMER by Willo Davis Roberts
Best Juvenile:
THE CLEARING by Dorothy Reynolds Miller
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