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2001 Crime Fiction Award Nominees & Winners (Fiction)

 

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Agatha, Anthony, Barry, Mary Higgins Clark, Dilys, Edgars, Arthur Ellis Awards, Hammett, Lambda, Macavity Awards, Nero Wolfe & Shamus Nominees - and assorted others when possible

The Anthony Awards are determined at Bouchercon each year. Malice Domestic Agatha Awards are for the best cozy books per category. The Barry Awards are nominated by the staff of Deadly Pleasuremystery magazine. The Mary Higgins Clark Award is given for the book written most closely in the Mary Higgins Clark tradition. The Chester Himes Award is given to a black mystery writer for a bodyof work. The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association presents the Dilys Winn Awards for the books most fun to sell. The Mystery Writers of America presents the Edgar Awards for achievement for the best work in the mystery field. The Arthur Ellis Awards are presented at the Canadian Crime Writers meeting. The International Association of Crime Writers' presents the Hammett Award to works of excellence by and American or Canadian writer. The Lamda Mystery awards are part of literary awards given in a a variety of areas to recognize gay/lesbian writers. The Mystery Readers International Award for Excellence is the Macavity, named in honor of T.S. Eliot's "Curious Cat". The Shamus Awards are presented by the Private Eye Writers of America to honor writers of P.I. novels.

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• A Kiss Gone Bad
  Author: Abbott, Jeff
  Publisher: Onyx PubDate: 2001-10 $ 6.99ISBN: 0451410106
  Anthony Best Paperback Original Nominee
  In a Gulf Coast Texas town, beach-bum-turned-judge Whit Mosley is called to a yacht where the son of a senator lies dead. Was it suicide? Or did an obsessed killer use the dead man as a pawn in a twisted game? Whit and Detective Claudia Salazar expose a nest of drug lords and power-hungry sharks, unearthing a lethal trail of deceit that lies buried in the icy recesses of the human heart.
• Murphy's Law
  Author: Bowen, Rhys
  Publisher: Minotaur PubDate: 2001-10 $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312282060
  Mary Higgins Clark Nominee
  Agatha Winner Best Novel
  From the creator of Constable Evan Evans comes the first novel in a delightful series set in 19th century New York, and featuring Irish sleuth Molly Murphy.
  
• Open Season
  Author: Box, C. J.
  Publisher: Putnam PubDate: 2001-07 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0399147489
  Booklist Kirkus PW
  Edgar Best First Novel Nominee
  Macavity Best First Novel Winner
  Anthony Best First Novel Winner
  Barry Award Best First Novel Winner
  
  
• The Judgement
  Author: Buffa, D.W.
  Publisher: Warner PubDate: 2001-05 $ ISBN: 0446527378
  Edgar Best Novel Nominee
  From the acclaimed author of The Defense and The Prosecution comes a powerful legal thriller. When a judge is murdered while serving in office, charismatic criminal defense attorney Joseph Antonelli finds himself following a trail of evil, shattered lives, and revenge.
  
  
• Flight
  Author: Burke, Jan
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster PubDate: 2001-03 $24.95 ISBN: 0684855526
  Anthony Best Novel Nominee
  Nero Wolfe Award Nominee
  A seat-of-the-pants thriller starring Detective Frank Harriman as he investigates three murders and the sabotage of a former detective's Cessna. As Harriman forges on, he finds that justice has been obstructed--and the perpetrators will stop him from revealing the truth by any means necessary.
• Adios Muchachos
  Author: Chavarria, Daniel
  Publisher: Akashic PubDate: 2001-05 $13.95 ISBN: 1888451165
  Edgar Best Paperback Original Winner
  
  
• Tell No One
  Author: Coben, Harlan
  Publisher: Delacorte PubDate: 2001-06 $ 22.95 ISBN: 0385335555
  LJ
  Edgar Best Novel Nominee
  Macavity Best Novel Nominee
  Anthony Best Novel Nominee
  Nero Wolfe Award Nominee
  She was his great love, the woman he'd adored since they were children. But a few months into their marriage, Elizabeth Beck was abducted, then found dead, the brutalized victim of a serial killer. Now, eight years later, Beck receives a mysterious e-mail suggesting that Elizabeth may still be alive.
  
• Red Hook
  Author: Cohen, Gabriel
  Publisher: Minotaur PubDate: 2001-10 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312274580
  Edgar Best First Novel Nominee
  A stunning debut that combines the mystery and action of a first-rate police thriller with a deep and sympathetic picture of one man's futile effort to escape his past.
  
• Rat City
  Author: Colbert, Curt
  Publisher: Uglytown PubDate: 2001-10 $ 15 ISBN: 0966347358
  Shamus Nominee Best First Novel
  A gritty return to the mean streets of 1940s-era Seattle. - Publisher Marketing.
  
• Angel in Black
  Author: Collins, Max Allen
  Publisher: New American PubDate: 2001-03 $ 21.95 ISBN: 0451202635
  Booklist
  Shamus Nominee Best Novel
  The newspaper dubbed her The Black Dahlia. Nathan Heller knew her--intimately--as Elizabeth Short. To discover the identity of the fiend who destroyed her, Heller must lay bare the terrifying truth behind Hollywood's make-believe facade.
  
• Boy Toy
  Author: Craft, Michael
  Publisher: Minotaur PubDate: 2001-06 $ 23.95 ISBN: 031226917x
  Lambda Finalist Best Gay Mystery
  When one of the teens in a play dies suddenly and suspiciously shortly after an altercation with Thad Quatrain, Thad turns to his uncle and guardian, Mark Manning, to clear his name.
  
  
• Hell's Kitchen
  Author: Deaver, Jeffrey/William Jeffries
  Publisher: Pocket PubDate: 2001-02 $ 6.99ISBN: 0671047515
  Edgar Best Paperback Original Nominee
  The third and never-before-published book of the long out-of-print Location Mystery series, written by Deaver at the beginning of his career, is now available. Hollywood location scout and stuntman John Pellam is working on a documentary about New York's Hell's Kitchen. But when suspicious fires ravage tenement buildings claiming lives, Pellam realizes he's trapped in the deadly schemes of a twisted pyromaniac.
  
• Making a Killing
  Author: Dunford, Warren
  Publisher: Alyson PubDate: 2001-10 $ 13.95 (trade paper) ISBN: 1555836577
  Lambda Finalist Best Gay Mystery
  
  
• Line of Vision
  Author: Ellis, David
  Publisher: Putnam PubDate: 2001-02 $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312274580
  Edgar Best First Novel Winner
  In this first-person account, Marty Kalish tells readers he's suffocating in his affair with the married Rachel. When Rachel's husband disappears, the police arrest Marty for murder. Readers know Marty's actions on the night of the disappearance, and know he has a motive. But the more Marty tells the reader, the more the reader will fear Marty is guilty.
  
  
• Third Person Singular
  Author: Erickson, K.J.
  Publisher: Minotaur PubDate: 2001-01 $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312266669
  PW
  Anthony Best First Novel Nominee
  
• Deadhouse
  Author: Fairstein, Linda
  Publisher: Scribner PubDate: 2001-09 $ 25 ISBN: 0684849046
  Macavity Best Novel Nominee
  Nero Wolfe Award Winner
  After the bestselling success of Cold Hit, Fairstein delivers a chilling new Alex Cooper thriller in which the grisly murder of a Manhattan college professor casts a pall over the city's glittering holiday season.
  
• Arkansas Traveler
  Author: Fowler, Earlene
  Publisher: Berkely Prime Crime PubDate: 2001-04 $ 21.95ISBN: 0425178080
  Agatha Nominee Best Novel
  Folk-art expert Benni Harper returns to the small Arkansas town where she spent her childhood summer hoping to reconnect with her friends and family. But Sugartree isn't the peaceful place she remembers. It's torn apart by racial tensions--and murder.
  
• Dim Sum Dead
  Author: Farmer, Jerrilyn
  Publisher: Avon PubDate: 2001-05 $ 5.99 ISBN: 0380817187
  Anthony Best Paperback Original Nominee
  In Hollywood, an old Chinese game, mah-jongg, is an obsession, and caterer Madeline Bean and her partner Wesley Wescott plan a gonzo Chinese New Year banquet. But no one expects to find one of the players dead. Meanwhile, precious objects, including an antique mah-jongg set, are discovered in the historic mansion Wesley is restoring.
• Chasing the Devil's Tale
  Author: Fulmer, David
  Publisher: Poisoned Pen PubDate: 2001-11 $ 24.95 ISBN: 1890208841
  Shamus Nominee Best First Novel
  1907 Storyville. Cultures, races, and religions more often blend than clash in a rich gumbo only New Orleans could serve up. But trouble brews. In this red light district, prostitutes ply their trade whether in cramped cribs or elegant houses of French ancestry, while music surges through its streets and helps harmonize the light and dark elements.
  
• Kingdom of Shadows
  Author: Furst, Alan
  Publisher: Random PubDate: 2001-01 $24.95 ISBN: 0375503374
  Booklist PW
  Hammett Nominee
  In spymaster Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath--a hugely charismatic hero--becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in Eastern Europe.
  
  
• Gun Monkeys
  Author: Gischler, Victor
  Publisher: Uglytown PubDate: 2001-12 $ 15 (trade paper) ISBN: 0966347366
  Edgar Best First Novel Nominee
  Charlie Swift is an old school kind of guy. Runs a tight ship. Respects his boss. Takes care of his mom and kid brother. And he's a stone cold killer, because in Charlie's world, problems are solved with bullets, blades, and brass knuckles. - from Uglytown web site.
  
• Austin City Blue
  Author: Grape, Jan
  Publisher: Five Star PubDate: 2001-10 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0786230142
  Anthony Best First Novel Nominee
  
• The Butcher's Son
  Author: Grey, Dorien
  Publisher: GLB PubDate: 2001-? $? ISBN: ?
  Lambda Finalist Best Gay Mystery
  
  
• Jasmine Trade
  Author: Hamilton, Denise
  Publisher: Scribner PubDate: 2001-07 $ 24 ISBN: 074321269X
  Edgar Best First Novel Nominee
  Macavity Best First Novel Nominee
  Anthony Best First Novel Nominee
  A former Los Angeles Times reporter brings to life the city's vast Asian community in a hard-edged thriller teeming with murderous intentions, emotional dislocation and sexual exploitation.
  
• Cold Blue Blood
  Author: Handler, David
  Publisher: Minotaur PubDate: 2001-10 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312280033
  Kirkus
  Dilys Nominee
  From Edgar Award-winning author Handler comes a fresh new mystery series starring a highly mismatched romantic duo who team up to solve the mystery of the dead man in the vegetable garden.
  
• Dead Until Dark
  Author: Harris, Charlaine
  Publisher: Ace PubDate: 2001-05 $ 5.99 ISBN: 0441008534
  Dilys Nominee
  Agatha Nominee Best Novel
  Anthony Best Paperback Original Winner
  Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn't date much because of her "disability" to read minds. When she meets Bill, Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's the type of guy she's waited for all of her life, but he has a disability, too--he's a vampire with a bad reputation. When one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's next.
  
• The Merchant of Venus
  Author: Hart, Ellen
  Publisher: Minotaur PubDate: 2001-02 $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312266189
  Lambda Winner Best Lesbian Mystery
  Following up the Lambda award winner, Hunting the Witch, Jane and Cordelia tackle the long-held secrets of old Hollywood when their friend Octavia is blamed for the disappearance of her rich, 80-year-old fiance.
  
• Beulah Hill
  Author: Heffernan, William
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster PubDate: 2001-01 $ 24 ISBN: 0684862263
  Nero Wolfe Award Nominee
  Set in the 1930s, from the bestselling author of Ritual and The Dinosaur Club, comes a deeply erotic thriller about a racially motivated murder in a Vermont town and the shocking ramifications it has for the backwoods community.
• The Mother Tongue
  Author: Holbrook, Teri
  Publisher: Spectra PubDate: 2001-01 $5.99 ISBN: 0553577190
  Edgar Best Paperback Original Nominee
  Returning to her Georgia hometown, Gale Grayson sees the community altered by outsiders studying the area's most isolated residents who have their own dialect. When three men are murdered, shocking truths about people whose roots go back for generations are revealed. Gale must find out the secret before someone tries to silence her for good.
  
• Summer of Storms
  Author: Kelman, Judith
  Publisher: Putnam PubDate: 2001-03 $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399146741
  Mary Higgins Clark Winner
  
  
• Folly
  Author: King, Laurie R.
  Publisher: Bantam PubDate: 2001-02 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0553111035
  Macavity Best Novel Winner
  Rae Newborn is a woman on the edge: on the edge of sanity, on the edge of tragedy, and now on the edge of the world. She has moved to an island at the far reaches of the continent to restore the house of an equally haunted figure, her mysterious great-uncle--an ambitious undertaking which may transform her life, or end it.
  
• Shadows of Sin
  Author: Krich, Rochelle
  Publisher: Morrow PubDate: 2001-10 $ 25ISBN: 0380977702
  Agatha Nominee Best Novel
  When a plastic surgeon and two of his staff are murdered, LAPD Detective Jessie Drake must dig deep into the past to discover why.
  
• Purgatory Ridge
  Author: Krueger, William Kent
  Publisher: Pocket PubDate: 2001-03 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0671047531
  Dilys Nominee
  When an explosion at a lumber mill results in the death of a night watchman, it's obvious that suspicions will fall upon members of the Anishinaabe tribe. Fresh from his escapades in the popular Boundary Waters, Cork O'Connor finds himself mired once again in the mysteries of small-town Minnesota in this shocking new thriller from the author of Iron Lake.
  
• Keepers
  Author: LaPierre, Janet
  Publisher: Perseverance PubDate: 2001- $ ISBN:
  Shamus Nominee Best Paperback Original Novel
  
  
• Ashes of Aries
  Author: Lawrence, Martha
  Publisher: Minotaur PubDate: 2001-09 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312202997
  Shamus Nominee Best Novel
  Psychic P.I. Elizabeth Chase is called in on the case of a San Diego telecommunications mogul's missing four-year-old son. When a wildfire breaks out in the secluded community where the boy's family lives, Elizabeth finds that man, not nature, is responsible and tries to determine if the kidnapper and arsonist are the same person.
  
• Mystic River
  Author: Lehane, Dennis
  Publisher: Morrow PubDate: 2001-02 $ 25 ISBN: 0688163165
  Booklist LJ PW
  Dilys Winner
  Hammett Nominee
  Macavity Best Novel Nominee
  Anthony Best Novel Winner
  Barry Award Winner
  When Jimmy Marcus's daughter is found dead, his childhood friend Sean Devine is assigned the case. Sean's personal life begins to unravel as his investigation takes him back into a world of violence and pain he thought he'd left behind. His quest also leads him on a collision course with Marcus--a man with his own dark past--and David Boyle, a man who hides monstrous secrets beneath a bland facade.
  
• Reaper
  Author: Lovesey, Peter
  Publisher: Soho PubDate: 2001-04 $ 23 ISBN: 1569472270
  PW
  Dilys Nominee
  Otis Joy is the handsome young rector of St. Bartholomew's Church in Foxford, England. His bishop has just accused him of embezzling church funds and ordered him to resign. But before that can happen, the bishop commits suicide. How opportune. One sudden death seems to lead to another. But then Otis Joy finds his soul mate.
  
• Witchfire: A Connor Hawthorne Mystery
  Author: Maddison, Lauren
  Publisher: Alyson PubDate: 2001-06 $ 13.95 (trade paper) ISBN: 1555835953
  Lambda Finalist Best Lesbian Mystery
  
  
• Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy: An Original Jane Bond Mystery
  Author: Maney, Mabel
  Publisher: Harper PubDate: 2001-07 $ 14 (trade paper) ISBN: 0380803100
  Lambda Finalist Best Lesbian Mystery
  The name's Bond, "Jane" Bond. In a hilarious spoof of Ian Fleming's master spy, James's twin sister must double for her brother on the urban battlefield and in the bedroom.
  
• Back to Salem
  Author: Marcoux, Alex
  Publisher: Harrington Park PubDate: 2001-12 $ 27.95/17.95 ISBN: 1560232242/1560232250
  Lambda Finalist Best Lesbian Mystery
  
  
• Uncommon Clay
  Author: Maron, Margaret
  Publisher: Mysterious PubDate: 2001-05 $ ISBN: 089296720x
  Booklist PW
  Nero Wolfe Award Nominee
  
  
• The Bride's Kimono
  Author: Massey, Sujata
  Publisher: HarperCollins PubDate: 2001-09 $ 25 ISBN: 0060199334
  Agatha Nominee Best Novel
  An antiques business owner finds herself involved with stolen artifacts, a wacky group of Japanese tourists and one very dead body when she transports a set of priceless kimonos.
  
• Money, Money, Money
  Author: McBain, Ed
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster PubDate: 2001-09 $ ISBN: 0743202694
  Edgar Best Novel Nominee
  In the 51st novel of this series, a mauled body leads the detectives of the 87th Precinct to a massive counterfeiting conspiracy. Forced to work under intense media scrutiny, officers Steve Carella, Arthur Brown, Meyer Meyer, and Fat Ollie Weeks navigate the investigation's twists and turns with their inimitable combination of humor and grit.
  
• Archangel Protocol
  Author: Morehouse, Lyda
  Publisher: Roc PubDate: 2001-05 $ 6.99 ISBN: 0451458273
  Shamus Nominee Best Paperback Original Novel
  First the LINK--an interactive, implanted computer--transformed society. Then came the angels--cybernetic manifestations that claimed to be working God's will. But former cop Deidre McMannus has had her LINK implant removed--for a crime she didn't commit. And she's never believed in the angels. But all that will change when a man named Michael appears at her door.
  
• Innkeeping with Murder
  Author: Myers, Tim
  Publisher: Berkely Prime Crime PubDate: 2001-06 $ 5.99 ISBN: 0425180026
  Agatha Nominee Best First Novel
  A new mystery series kicks off with this introduction to sleuth Alex Winston, Hatteras West Inn and Lighthouse Innkeeper in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. One of Alex's guests is found dead at the top of the lighthouse. Apparently the climb killed him--or was it something else? Alex must act fast to solve the mystery and capture the culprit before his next guest checks out.
  
• Rag and Bone
  Author: Nava, Michael
  Publisher: Putnam PubDate: 2001-03 $ 24.95 ISBN: 039914708x
  Library Journal
  Lambda Winner Best Gay Mystery
  The conclusion to the series featuring gay Mexican-American lawyer Henry Rios. Rios learns that his niece has an abusive husband. When the man is shot dead, and the bruised wife confesses, Rios assumes it to be self-defense, but finds himself on the path to a darker, more complex truth.
  
• Mute Witness
  Author: O'Brien, Charles
  Publisher: Poisoned Pen PubDate: 2001-05 $23.95 ISBN: 1890208620
  Agatha Nominee Best First Novel
  
  
• Silent Joe
  Author: Parker, T. Jefferson
  Publisher: Hyperion PubDate: 2001-04 $23.95 ISBN: 0786867280
  Hammett Nominee
  Edgar Best Novel Winner
  Macavity Best Novel Nominee
  In an intelligent mystery that will satisfy the mind as well as the heart, the bestselling author of Red Lightand The Blue Hourreturns with a moody, sexy, suspenseful novel about a scarred man, the father he idolized, and the secret he uncovered.
  
• Dead of Winter
  Author: Parrish, P. J.
  Publisher: Pinnacle PubDate: 2001-01 $ 6.99 ISBN: 0786011890
  Edgar Best Paperback Original Nominee
  Anthony Best Paperback Original Nominee
  In the quaint town of Loon Lake, Michigan, a killer is taking his vengeance. One by one, the bodies are found, brutally executed with coded death cards beside each corpse -- the signature of a psychopath. Detective Louis Kincaid had come north looking for refuge to forget the horrors of his past. But now he's landed in the middle of an investigation that's more than a mystery.
  
• Right as Rain
  Author: Pelecanos, George P.
  Publisher: Little Brown PubDate: 2001-02 $ 24.95 ISBN: 0316695262
  Kirkus PW
  Hammett Nominee
  Derek Strange, a private detective, is hired to clear the lingering doubts about a young black police officer killed in the line of duty. After Strange interviews Terry Quinn, the officer who pulled the trigger, Quinn joins the investigation and helps seek answers in the darkest sectors of Washington, D.C., where racism and ruthless capitalism create a lawless world.
  
• Perhaps She'll Die
  Author: Preston, Marcia
  Publisher: Intrigue PubDate: 2001-07 $ 23.95 ISBN: 1890768332
  Mary Higgins Clark Nominee
  Macavity Best First Novel Nominee
  When Chantalene returns to her hometown to solve the mystery of her father's lynching, she must also unravel the mystery of her Mother's disappearance over fifteen years ago. Shrouded in shame and secrecy, the townspeople resent Chantalene's meddling and history threatens to repeat itself if she doesn't leave town immediately. But then her prime suspect is slaughtered, and Chantalene must reevaluate who is friend and foe in a once familiar small town, where no one is who they appear to be. - from the Intrigue web site.
  
• Hollowpoint
  Author: Reuland, Bob
  Publisher: Random PubDate: 2001-03 $ 24.95 ISBN: 0375505016
  PW
  Hammett Nominee
  It's been a year since his daughter died, but the loss carves away at him still. Then, a case much like others crosses the desk of Assistant District Attorney Andrew Giobberti: young girl, dead from a gunshot wound, crackhead mother, very guilty looking boyfriend. Something in this ordinary if tawdry case uncovers a vast well of grief and rage in him, and it's unclear who will be the target of his urge to avenge a pointless death.
  
• Devil Went Down to Austin
  Author: Riordan, Rick
  Publisher: Bantam PubDate: 2001-05 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0553110977
  Booklist PW
  Shamus Nominee Best Novel
  Anthony Best Novel Nominee
  Garrett is a computer genius and a fool, a long-haired, wheelchair-bound Jimmy Buffet fan who's accused of killing his oldest friend. Garrett doesn't want to ask his private eye brother for help, but Navarre has never been one to take no for an answer. All too soon, he's about to ride the high tech wave in a one-way dive to betrayal and death.
  
• Reflecting the Sky
  Author: Rozan, S. J.
  Publisher: Minotaur PubDate: 2001-02 $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312244274
  Booklist Kirkus PW
  Edgar Best Novel Nominee
  Shamus Best Novel Winner
  Anthony Best Novel Nominee
• Epitaph
  Author: Siegel, James
  Publisher: Mysterious PubDate: 2001-06 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0892967129
  Shamus Nominee Best First Novel
  A retired investigator discovers an unrepentant SS doctor still practicing his trade in New York in this evocative crime novel by a talented new writer.
  
• Blindsighted
  Author: Slaughter, Karin
  Publisher: Morrow PubDate: 2001-09 $ 25 ISBN: 0688174574
  Macavity Best First Novel Nominee
  Weaving knife-edge tension with complex characters and a dark atmosphere, this thriller finds a rapist terrorizing the city where coroner Sara Linton may be holding the key to his identity.
• Straw Men
  Author: Smith, Martin J.
  Publisher: Jove PubDate: 2001-01 $ 6.99 ISBN: 051512950X
  Edgar Best Paperback Original Nominee
  Convicted of a vicious attack that left a rookie policewoman near death and unable to remember her past, new DNA evidence frees the madman known as the Scarecrow from prison. Teresa Harnett must face the possibility that her flawed memory put the wrong man behind bars. But then the phone calls begin -- and the crackly voice of the Scarecrow reawakens her terror. Only psychologist Jim Christensen can pull the truth from her shattered mind.
  
• The Houdini Specter
  Author: Stashower, Daniel
  Publisher: Avon PubDate: 2001-11 $ 6.50 ISBN: 0380800586
  Anthony Best Paperback Original Nominee
  In 1898, the Great Houdini's confidence is matched only by the indifference of the paying public. Now the master escape artist has the chance to make a name for himself by exposing the tricks of medium Lucius Craig, darling of New York's gullible society. When a seance conducted by Craig turns deadly, it's up to Harry to expose a murderer's lethal tricks.
• Murder of a Sweet Old Lady
  Author: Swanson, Denise
  Publisher: Signet PubDate: 2001-04 $ 5.99 ISBN: 0451202724
  Mary Higgins Clark Nominee
  This second title in the Scumble River mystery series begins with the death of school psychologist Skye Denison's beloved grandmother, found dead in her bed. An autopsy proves she was murdered, and Skye is determined to find out who could have done the deadly deed.
  
  
• A Witness Above
  Author: Straka, Andy
  Publisher: Signet PubDate: 2001-05 $ 5.99 ISBN: 0451202945
  Agatha Nominee Best First Novel
  Shamus Best First Novel Nominee
  Anthony Best First Novel Nominee
  While hunting with his red-tailed hawk, Charlottesville P.I. Frank Pavlicek finds the body of a teenage boy in an area Frank and his teenage daughter, Nicole, recently visited. But what Frank finds in the boy's wallet disturbs him: Nicole's phone number, which links her to the crime. When Nicole lands in jail a few days later, Frank's past comes back to haunt him.
  
• Cold Water Burning
  Author: Straley, John
  Publisher: Bantam PubDate: 2001-01 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0553106430
  Shamus Nominee Best Novel
  Being a P.I. in Sitka, Alaska is one of the worst career decisions a person could make, and Cecil Younger cannot let go of a three-year-old case of unsolved murders aboard a boat, the "Mygirl". As a storm bears down on the Alaskan coast, two people die and Younger is certain someone is trying to finish the job begun on the "Mygirl".
  
  
• Bubbles Unbound
  Author: Strohmeyer, Sarah
  Publisher: Dutton PubDate: 2001-03 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0525945806
  Agatha Winner Best First Novel
  Bubbles Yablonsky knows there is more to life than doing hair in Lehigh, Pennsylvania. She goes back to school, enters journalism classes and gets a job at a local newspaper for on-the-job training. When Bubbles stumbles upon a crime scene on the way home from an assignment, she's suddenly up to her roots in a nasty murder investigation. This title is the debut novel in a new mystery series.
  
• Pilikia Is My Business
  Author: Troy, Mark
  Publisher: LTD PubDate: 2001- $ ISBN:
  Shamus Nominee Best First Novel
  
  
• Moving Targets
  Author: Welch, Pat
  Publisher: Bella PubDate: 2001-01 $ 11.95 (trade paper) ISBN: 0967775361
  Lambda Finalist Best Lesbian Mystery
  
  
• Ancient Enemy
  Author: Westbrook, Robert
  Publisher: Signet PubDate: 2001-12 $ 5.99 ISBN: 0451204816
  Shamus Nominee Best Paperback Original Novel
  The murder of an esteemed archaeologist in San Geronimo, New Mexico, unearths the ancient secrets of the Anasazi--including rumors of a flesh-eating spirit. Private eye Howard Moon Deer and blind former police chief Jack Wilder must search for clues when the coroner confirms the victim was cannibalized, leading to a struggle to fight tribal politics.
  
• An Affinity for Murder
  Author: White, Anne
  Publisher: Oake Tree PubDate: 2001-05 $ 8.50ISBN: 1892343169
  Agatha Nominee Best First Novel
  
  
• Sex and Murder.com
  Author: Zubro, Mark Richard
  Publisher: Minotaur PubDate: 2001-08 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312266839
  Lambda Finalist Best Gay Lesbian Mystery
  The murders have just begun with the death of Craig Lenzati, CEO of Chicago'sanswer to Microsoft. With a giant list of suspects, gay Detective Paul Turnerhas the powers-that-be breathing down his neck.
  

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