Best First Novel:
LOS ALAMOS, by Joseph Kanon (Broadway Books)

   Nominated:
   A CRIME IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, by Suzanne Berne (Algonquin Books)
   BIRD DOG, by Phillip Reed (Pocket Books)
   FLOWER NET, by Lisa See (HarperCollins)
   23 SHADES OF BLACK, by K.J.A. Wishnia (Imaginary Press)

Best Paperback Original:
CHARM CITY, by Laura Lippman (Avon)

    Nominated:
    HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN, by Susan Rogers Cooper (Avon)
    THE PRIORESS' TALE, by Margaret Frazer (Berkley Prime Crime)
    TARNISHED ICONS, by Stuart M Kaminsky (Ivy Books)
    SUNSET AND SANTIAGO, by Gloria White (Dell)

Best Fact Crime:
TO THE LAST BREATH: THREE WOMEN FIGHT FOR THE TRUTH BEHIND A CHILD'S TRAGIC MURDER, by Carlton Stowers (St. Martin's Press)

    Nominated:
    DEATH SENTENCE, by Jerry Bledsoe (Dutton)
    TOUGH JEWS, by Rich Cohen (Simon & Schuster)
    GREENTOWN, by Timothy Dumas (Arcade)
    ONE OF OURS, by Richard A. Serrano (W. W. Norton)

Best Critical or Biographical Work:
"G" IS FOR GRAFTON: THE WORLD OF KINSEY MILLHONE, by Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Carol McGinnis Kay (Henry Holt & Co.)

    Nominated:
    THE READER AND THE DETECTIVE STORY, by George M Dove (Popular Press)
    CRIME FICTION AND FILM IN THE SUNSHINE STATE: FLORIDA NOIR, edited by Steve Glassman and Maurice O'Sullivan (Popular Press)
    DEADLY WOMEN: THE WOMAN MYSTERY READER'S INDISPENSABLE COMPANION, edited by Jan Grape, Dean James, and Ellen Nehr (Carroll & Graf)
    AZ MURDER GOES CLASSIC, edited by Barbara Peters and Susan Malling (Poisoned Pen Press)

Best Short Story: "Keller on the Spot", by Lawrence Block (in Playboy, November, 1997.)

Best Young Adult:
GHOST CANOE, by Will Hobbs (Morrow Junior Books)

    Nominated:
    TANGERINE, by Edward Bloor (Harcourt, Brace & Co)
    YESTERDAY’S CHILD, by Sonja Levitin (Simon & Schuster)
    THIN ICE, by Marsha Qualey (Delacorte)
    DEAL WITH A GHOST, by Marilyn Singer (Henry Holt)

Best Juvenile:
SPARROWS IN THE SCULLERY, by Barbara Brooks Wallace (Atheneum)

    Nominated:
    TURN THE CUP AROUND, by Barbara Mariconda (Delacorte)
    CHRISTIE & COMPANY DOWN EAST, by Katharine Hall Page (Avon)
    SECRETS AT HIDDEN VALLEY, by Willo Davis Roberts (Atheneum)
    WOLF STALKER, by Gloria Skurzynski and Alane Ferguson (National Geographic Society)