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Crime Fiction Award Nominees & Winners Novels published in 1999

 

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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 Chester Himes Award is given to a black mystery writer for a body of 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.

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine unless otherwise noted. Listings are arranged alphabetically by author.

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• River of Darkness
  Author: Airth, Rennie
  Publisher: Viking PubDate: 1999-06 $ 24.95 ISBN: 0670885959
  PW Kirkus
  Edgar Nominee Best Novel
  Dilys Award Nominee
  Anthony Best Novel Nominee
  Macavity Best Novel Nominee
  A powerful debut novel set in rural England just after World War I. Sent by Scotland Yard to investigate a murderous attack in a small Surrey village, Inspector John Madden sets out to identify and capture the killer - a demented former soldier with a bloody past.
• Murder with Peacocks
  Author: Andrews, Donna
  Publisher: St. Martins PubDate: 1999-01 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312199295
  Kirkus
  Dilys Award Nominee
  Agatha Best First Novel Winner
  Anthony Best First Novel Winner
  Macavity Best First Novel Nominee
  Hectic plans for three family weddings in one summer are made even more hectic by murder. New author Donna Andrews combines murder and madcap hilarity with a cast of eccentric oddballs in a small southern town.
• Deadbeat
  Author: Atkins, Leo
  Publisher: Berkley PubDate: 1999-03 $ 5.99 ISBN: 042516781x
  Shamus Nominee Best Paperback Original Novel
  His name is Connor Gibbs. His past is shady, but his present is rosy. He enjoys the simple pleasures of a well-turned phrase and finding lost souls. He's a gentle giant--until he's crossed. Then he becomes a six-foot-seven human hammer. Gibbs isn't sure that the kid who just walked in can read the sign on his door. Yet there he is, nine years old and ready to plunk down his life savings--all $67 worth--if Gibbs can find his long-lost father. But this is one father who'll go a long way to stay lost.
• East of A
  Author: Atwood, Russell
  Publisher: Ballantine PubDate: 1999-02 $ 22 ISBN: 0345427769
  Kirkus
  Shamus Nominee Best First Novel
  This neo-noir urban thriller takes a walk on the wild side of New York's East Village--and introduces Payton Sherwood, a novice private detective who stumbles onto murder.
• Certifiably Insane
  Author: Bahr, Arthur W.
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster PubDate: 1999-03 $ 23 ISBN: 0684802325
  Edgar Nominee Best First Novel
  In the riveting tradition of Jonathan Kellerman comes a thriller about a forensic psychiatrist who must determine whether a woman who savagely slays her husband and baby is sane, insane - or just plain evil.
• Big Trouble
  Author: Barry, Dave
  Publisher: Putnam PubDate: 1999-09 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0399145672
  PW Kirkus Library Journal
  Edgar Nominee Best First Novel
  The humorous Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist makes his fiction debut with a ferociously funny novel about love and mayhem in south Florida, and the the life-changing events that rumble through a odd-ball family after two hit men pull up to their door.
• Fulton County Blues
  Author: Birmingham, Ruth
  Publisher: Prime Crime PubDate: 1999-01 $ 5.99 ISBN: 042516697x
  Edgar Winner Best Paperback Original
  Shamus Nominee Best Paperback Original Novel
  Sunny investigates the death of her late father's friend, another Vietnam vet - and finds clues suggesting her dad isn't the war hero she grew up believing in. And when survivors slam doors in her face, Sunny is determined to find the answers. But those answers may be more painful than Sunny ever dreamed.
• Murder in the Marais
  Author: Black, Cara
  Publisher: Soho PubDate: 1999-07 $ 22 ISBN: 1569471592
  Library Journal PW
  Anthony Best First Novel Nominee
  Macavity Best First Novel Nominee
  
• The Last Song Dogs
  Author: Browning, Sinclair
  Publisher: Bantam PubDate: 1999-05 $ 5.50 ISBN: 0553579401
  Shamus Nominee Best Paperback Original Novel
  Trade Ellis is a dirty-shirt cowgirl--part Apache, part rancher, and all private eye. Unfortunately, there's not much call for investigators on horseback. But as her 25th high school reunion approaches, someone starts thinning the ranks of the old cheerleading squad. Trade has enough suspects to fill a yearbook: the fading beauty, the rich girl, the loser, the nerd. Because someone wants her to join the cheerleading squad--in the morgue.
• Every Move She Makes
  Author: Burcell, Robin
  Publisher: HarperCollins PubDate: 1999-12 $ 6.50 ISBN: 006101432x
  Anthony Best Paperback Original Novel Nominee
  The pressure is on inspector Kate Gillespie and her partner, Sam Scolari, to find a killer who is terrorizing San Francisco. But when the evidence points to Sam, he goes underground, leaving Kate alone to pursue the case--under the watchful eye of a sexy Internal Affairs officer. "This smart and sexy thriller kept me up all night."--Janet Evanovich
• Heartwood
  Author: Burke, James Lee
  Publisher: Doubleday PubDate: 1999-08 $ 24.95 ISBN: 0385488432
  PW
  Hammett Prize Nominee
  Billy Bob Holland, defense attorney and former Texas Ranger, defends an utterly hapless man, who is accused, by the most influential character in town, of taking a historically significant watch and $300,000 in bearer's bonds.
• Bones: Irene Kelly
  Author: Burke, Jan
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster PubDate: 1999-09 $ 23 ISBN: 0684855518
  Booklist
  Edgar Winner Best Novel
  Anthony Best Novel Nominee
  Killer Nick Parrish says he'll lead authorities to the body of Judith Sayre - if they will not demand the death sentence for his heinous crimes. But the criminal has no intention of spending his life behind bars - and he plans some deadly surprises.
• The Immortal Game
  Author: Coggins, Mark
  Publisher: Poltroon PubDate: 1999-12 $ 25 ISBN: 0918395178
  Shamus Nominee Best First Novel
  Full of well-drawn, idiosyncratic characters, fast dialogue and compelling and realistic portrayals of many San Francisco Bay Area locales, The Immortal Game is a very fresh and entertaining mystery in the tradition of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. - from the web site.
• Every Dead Thing
  Author: Connolly, John
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster PubDate: 1999-05 $ 25 ISBN: 0684857146
  PW
  Shamus Winner Best First Novel
  Haunted by the unsolved slayings of his wife and daughter, former New York City Detective Charlie Parker is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his search for a missing woman leads him to the man who destroyed his family, Parker knows payback time has come at last.
• L. A. Requiem
  Author: Crais, Robert
  Publisher: Doubleday PubDate: 1999-06 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385495838
  Booklist PW Kirkus
  Edgar Nominee Best Novel
  Dilys Award Winner
  Hammett Prize Nominee
  Shamus Nominee Best Novel
  Anthony Best Novel Nominee
  Macavity Best Novel Nominee
  A past vendetta strains the partnership of investigators Joe Pike and Elvis Cole when Pike becomes a suspect in the death of his former lover.
• Lucky Man
  Author: Dunbar, Tony
  Publisher: Dell PubDate:1999-12 $ 5.99 ISBN: 0440226627
  Edgar Nominee Best Paperback Original
  Anthony Nominee Best Paperback Original
  Just when he thinks things have settled down in New Orleans, attorney Tubby Dubonnet finds himself negotiating for the political survival of "his" judge, Al Hughes, who's being framed by a vicious prosecutor for sex crimes. Meanwhile, Tubby's best friend is having an affair with an exotic dancer that may be connected to the case against the judge. His personal and professional lives are on a collision course.
• High Five
  Author: Evanovich, Janet
  Publisher: St. Martins PubDate: 1999-06 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312203039
  Booklist Kirkus PW
  Anthony Best Novel Nominee
  The bestselling author of Four to Score brings back bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, in her fifth hilarious, high-octane thriller. Out of bail skippers and rent money, Stephanie throws caution to the wind and engages in some morally correct yet marginally legal enterprises, including tracking down her Uncle Fred, who's missing after arguing with his garbage company.
• Immaculate Reception
  Author: Farmer, Jerrilyn
  Publisher: Avon PubDate: 1999-04 $ 5.99 ISBN: 0380795973
  Agatha Best Novel Nominee
  The Pope is coming to L.A., and Madeline Bean has been chosen to plan the welcoming extravaganza. But menu plans never included a young priest found dead in the bed of an uninhibited Hollywood star, or a yellowed page of Latin scrawl revealing a Jesuit brother's shocking past. And with the Pope on his way and chaos boiling over, it's up to Madeline to sort out this unholy mess.
• Sleeping Bones: Kate Delafield
  Author: Forrest, Katherine
  Publisher: Prime Crime PubDate: 1999-09 $ 21.95 ISBN: 0425170292
  Lambda Finalist Lesbian Mystery
  
• Mariner's Compass
  Author: Fowler, Earlene
  Publisher: Berkeley PubDate: 1999-05 $ 21.95 ISBN: 0425168913
  PW
  Agatha Best Novel Winner
  When Jacob Chandler dies, he leaves his home in Morro Bay to Benni Harper - the only stipulation being that she must stay in the house for two weeks alone before the inheritance becomes hers. To discover whether he is her guardian angel or personal demon, she must follow the scavenger hunt clues he has set up for her throughout his home.
• Maximum Insecurity
  Author: Grady, P. J.
  Publisher: Momento Mori PubDate: 1999-04 $ 12.95 ISBN: 0966107241
  Shamus Nominee Best First Novel
  It's maximum insecurity for Matty Madrid when the Santa Fe PI uncovers multiple murders and singular corruption at the state pen. - Publisher marketing.
• Resurrectionist: A Mystery of Old Philadelphia
  Author: Graham, Mark
  Publisher: Twilight PubDate: 1999-08 $ 5.99 ISBN: 0380800675
  Edgar Nominee Best Paperback Original
  With a crucial election approaching, nine women of color have disappeared and some suspect voter intimidation. As Wilton McCleary investigates, he discovers both the living and the dead have been vanishing. Now, with streets exploding in race riots, McCleary faces a case that will force him to deal with the ultimate human darkness, where victims suffer a fate worse than death.
• Strawberry Sunday
  Author: Greenleaf, Stephen
  Publisher: Scribner PubDate: 1999-02 $ 23 ISBN: 0684849542
  Booklist
  Edgar Nominee Best Novel
  San Francisco P.I. John Marshall Tanner is back and heading for serious trouble as a young woman's murder pulls him into the dangerous and devious world of migrant farm labor.
• Death on the River Walk
  Author: Hart, Carolyn
  Publisher: Avon PubDate: 1999-04 $ 22 ISBN: 0380974150
  Agatha Best Novel Nominee
  A woman needs all the smarts she's earned in her half-century as a newspaperwoman when she arrives in San Antonio and becomes enmeshed in a simple disappearance that turns deadly.
• Hunting the Witch
  Author: Hart, Ellen
  Publisher: Minotaur PubDate: 1999-09 $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312203861
  Lambda Winner Lesbian Mystery
  Restaurateur Jane Lawless is slowly recovering from the accident that ended Wicked Games, only to be drawn into another murder mystery which puts her in more danger than ever before.
• The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse
  Author: Hartman, Keith
  Publisher: Meisha Merlin PubDate: 1999-04 $ 16 (trade paper) ISBN: 1892065053
  Lambda Finalist Gay Men's Mystery
  
• Circles of Confusion
  Author: Henry, April
  Publisher: HarperCollins PubDate: 1999-02 $23 ISBN: 0060192046
  Agatha Best First Novel Nominee
  Anthony Best First Novel Nominee
  When DMV employee/sleuth Claire Montrose inherits a painting that looks as if it might be valuable, she encounters two men who are a little too eager to assist her in its appraisal.
• The Answer Man
  Author: Johansen, Roy
  Publisher: Bantam PubDate: 1999-04 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0553106074
  Shamus Nominee Best First Novel
  Desperate for money, a lie detector operator is drawn deeper into an explosive game of greed, corruption, and murder. A gripping debut thriller by an award-winning screenwriter.
• Monster
  Author: Kellerman, Jonathan
  Publisher: Random PubDate: 1999-12 $ 25.95 ISBN: 067945960x
  Booklist PW
  Shamus Nominee Best Novel
  Alex Delaware is back in a riveting and devilishly ingenious story about an asylum inmate who seems able to foresee grisly slayings. How can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up in a supposedly secure institution for homicidal madmen predict brutal murders in the outside world? This is the enigma that Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis must penetrate in order to put a stop to a series of horrific killings.
• Boundary Waters
  Author: Krueger, William Kent
  Publisher: Pocket PubDate: 1999-05 $ 23 ISBN: 0671016989
  Dilys Award Nominee
  A country-western singer disappears in a northern wilderness at the height of her fame - in a masterpiece of murder and survival of the fittest from the author of the critically acclaimed Iron Lake.
• Outcast
  Author: Latour, Jose
  Publisher: Akashic PubDate: 1999-10 $ 13.95 ISBN: 1888451076
  Edgar Nominee Best Paperback Original
  Anthony Nominee Best Paperback Original
  
• Prayers for Rain
  Author: Lehane, Dennis
  Publisher: Morrow PubDate: 1999-06 $ 25 ISBN: 068815333x
  Kirkus
  Shamus Nominee Best Novel
  Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's relationship has hit the skids. Despite their problems, however, the pair is reunited to close down a predator whose method of killing seems to put him beyond the law: he drives his victims to commit suicide.
• Steel City Confesstions
  Author: Lipinksi, Thomas
  Publisher: Avon PubDate: 1999-03 $ 5.99 ISBN: 0380794314
  Shamus Nominee Best Paperback Original Novel
  Anthony Nominee Best Paperback Original
  Carroll Dorsey's client is parish priest Tom Crimmins, who denies gunning down the husband of the lovely, lascivious lady with whom he'd been having a decidedly non-celibate affair. But his motives are powerful, his alibi's puny, and a vindictive ex-nun insists she can prove he was the murderer. What's more, Dorsey himself has become the target of a virulent vendetta that might even cost him his life.
• In Big Trouble: Tess Monaghan
  Author: Lippman, Laura
  Publisher: Twilight PubDate: 1999-09 $6.50 ISBN: 0380798476
  Edgar Nominee Best Paperback Original
  Agatha Best Novel Nominee
  Anthony Winner Best Paperback Original
  Shamus Winner Best Paperback Original Novel
  Tess Monaghan gets a newspaper photograph of her old boyfriend, accompanied by the headline. The answers lie far from Baltimore, deep in a world of good-time music, ambition, and rich people's games. Tess must find out what happened to a man she thought she knew, to a woman who may have changed him forever, and to the victims of a killer.
• The Flower Master
  Author: Massey, Sujata
  Publisher: HarperCollins PubDate: 1999-05 $ 24 ISBN: 0060192283
  Kirkus
  Agatha Best Novel Nominee
  Macavity Best Novel Winner
  Rei Shimura is a half-American, half-Japanese antiques dealer who's all sleuth when it comes to crime. At her aunt's bidding, Rei signs up for a course in Japanese flower arranging, but before she's even finished her first lesson, one of her teachers is brutally murdered.
• Murder Undercover: Denise Cleaver
  Author: McNab, Claire
  Publisher: Naiad PubDate: 1999-12 $ 11.95 (trade paper) ISBN: 1562802593
  Lambda Finalist Lesbian Mystery
  Great White Sharks are the second most dangerous creatures lurking along Queensland's coast. Australian intelligence agent Denise Cleever is about to meet the first in this gripping new series from the creator of the bestselling Carol Ashton mysteries.
• Revenge of the Gypsy Queen
  Author: Neri, Kris
  Publisher: Rainbow PubDate: 1999-07 $ 20 ISBN: 1586250436
  Agatha Best First Novel Nominee
  Anthony Best First Novel Nominee
  Macavity Best First Novel Nominee
  
• The Skull Mantra
  Author: Pattison, Eliot
  Publisher: Minotaur PubDate: 1999-09 $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312204787
  Booklist PW Kirkus
  Edgar Winner Best First Novel
  When a headless corpse is found on a windy Tibetan mountainside, the astonishing early evidence shows that the killer is a mythical Buddhist demon.
• The Death of a Constant Lover: Nick Hoffman
  Author: Raphael, Lev
  Publisher: Walker PubDate: 1999-04 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0802733263
  Lambda Finalist Gay Men's Mystery
  Mayhem on the campus: Is it murder . . . or a faculty meeting? At the State University of Michigan you can't always tell them apart as Nick Hoffman investigates the death of a professor's son.
• Lost Daughters
  Author: Redmann, J.M.
  Publisher: W.W. Norton PubDate: 1999-07 $ 24.95 ISBN: 0393040283
  Lambda Finalist Lesbian Mystery
  When patients are murdered at a medical clinic, coincidences bring the killer ever close to P.I. Micky Knight and her clients.
• In A Dry Season
  Author: Robinson, Peter
  Publisher: Twilight PubDate: 1999-04 $ 24 ISBN: 0380975815
  Booklist PW Kirkus
  Edgar Nominee Best Novel
  Hammett Prize Nominee
  Anthony Best Novel Winner
  Macavity Best Novel Nominee
  A playful child wandering in remains unearths a human skeleton that forensics determine belonged to a woman who appears to have been murdered and hidden beneath the floor of an old building.
• An Antidote for Avarice
  Author: Roe, Caroline
  Publisher: Berkley PubDate: 1999-12 $ 6.50 ISBN: 0425172600
  Anthony Best Paperback Original Novel Nominee
  In medieval Spain, blind physician Isaac of Girona is summoned to accompany the Bishop Berenguer to Tarragona for a bishops' council. But messengers from the Pope keep turning up dead. Isaac soon finds himself embroiled in court intrigue and murder on the road to Tarragona.
• Stone Quarry
  Author: Rozan, S.J.
  Publisher: Minotaur PubDate: 1999-09 $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312209126
  Booklist PW
  Shamus Nominee Best Novel
  In the finest novel yet in an award-winning series, murder, corruption, and long-held secrets threaten to destroy a small town when P.I. Bill Smith is summoned to recover six stolen paintings.
• By Blood Possessed
  Author: Santangelo, Elena
  Publisher: Minotaur PubDate: 1999-10 $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312209606
  Agatha Best First Novel Nominee
  Pat Montella is summoned from her dreary office job by an unusual request from a 91-year-old stranger. Magnolia Shelby wants to bequeath to Pat her house and acreage in rural Virginia, and the only condition is that she visit during the first week of May.
• Havana Bay
  Author: Smith, Martin Cruz
  Publisher: Random PubDate: 1999-06 $ 24.95 ISBN: 0679426620
  PW Booklist Kirkus Library Journal
  Hammett Prize Winner
  Bestselling author Martin Cruz Smith has found a way to exploit the last cutting edge of the Cold War. When the body of a Russian embassy official is found floating in Havana Bay, Arkady Renko, the memorable detective from Gorky Park, is sent to identify it.
• Sing It to Her Bones
  Author: Talley, Marcia
  Publisher: Dell PubDate: 1999-09 $ 5.99 ISBN: 0440235170
  Agatha Best First Novel Nominee
  Launching a compelling new series, Talley introduces Hannah Ives, who is recovering from breast cancer at the home of her sister-in-law on Chesapeake Bay. She stumbles onto the decomposed body of a girl who disappeared from a high school dance almost ten years earlier. When Hannah starts asking questions, she discovers a town determined to make sure the past remains untouched.
• God is a Bullet
  Author: Teran, Boston
  Publisher: Knopf PubDate: 1999-04 $ 24 ISBN: 0375401881
  PW
  Edgar Nominee Best First Novel
  Revolving around a bloodthirsty devil-worshipping "tribe" called The Left-Handed Path, this thriller considers what it means to surrender oneself completely - to drugs, or power, or faith, or love.
• Personal Injuries
  Author: Turow, Scott
  Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux PubDate: 1999-09 $ 27 ISBN: 0374281947
  PW Kirkus
  Hammett Prize Nominee
  Turow reveals new sides of Kindle County, the world of greed and human failing he has made immortal in Presumed Innocent and other titles. Personal Injuries is his most reverberant, most moving novel--a powerful drama of individuals trying to escape their characters.
• Justice at Risk: Benjamin Justice
  Author: Wilson, John Morgan
  Publisher: Doubleday PubDate: 1999-08 $ 22.95 ISBN: 0385491166
  Lambda Winner Gay Men's Mystery
  The investigation of a 15-year-old crime puts Benjamin Justice at mortal risk, in the latest dark and dangerous episode in this award-winning series.
• She Came in Drag
  Author: Wings, Mary
  Publisher: Prime Crime PubDate: 1999-06 $ 6.50 (paper) ISBN: 0425169359
  Lambda Finalist Lesbian Mystery
  Halloween is creeping up on San Francisco's Castro neighborhood, setting the perfect stage for mischief, mayhem - and murder. Emma Victor is hired to protect a rock diva who's been outted in a parade of drag queen lookalikes.
• California Fire and Life
  Author: Winslow, Don
  Publisher: Knopf PubDate: 1999-07 $23 ISBN: 0679454314
  PW
  Dilys Award Nominee
  Shamus Winner Best Novel
  From the author of The Death and Life of Bobby Z comes an unstoppable new novel about a Southern California Gold Coast conflagration of greed, deceit, and murder, and the one man trying to fight it.
• Inner City Blues: Charlotte Justice
  Author: Woods, Paula L.
  Publisher: Norton PubDate: 1999-01 $ 23.95 ISBN: 039304680x
  Kirkus
  Edgar Nominee Best First Novel
  Anthony Best First Novel Nominee
  Macavity Best First Novel Winner
  This debut novel featuring black LAPD homicide detective Charlotte Justice is set during the epochal L.A. riots. Justice saves a curfew-breaking black doctor from a potentially lethal beating - only to discover nearby the body of a one-time radical.
• Innuendo
  Author: Zimmerman, R.D
  Publisher: Delacorte PubDate: 1999-12 $ 21.95 ISBN: 0385323778
  Lambda Finalist Gay Men's Mystery
  From an Anthony and Edgar Award nominee and a Lambda Literary Award winner comes a new novel that marries the best of mystery and gay fiction: a roller coaster of a mystery and a sharp assessment of gay life in America - and Hollywood - in and out of the closet.
• Drop Dead: Paul Turner
  Author: Zubro, Mark Richard
  Publisher: St Martins PubDate: 1999-06 $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312205325
  Lambda Finalist Gay Men's Mystery
  Gay Chicago police detective Paul Turner is called in to investigate the death of male super-model Cullom Furyk. Furyk, who plunged to his death from the roof of a major Chicago hotel, may well have been murdered - the only questions are how and by whom.

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