1993:
Best Hardcover Novel: Marcia Muller WOLF IN THE SHADOWS
Best First Novel: Nevada Barr TRACK OF THE CAT
Best Short Story: Susan Dunlap CHECK OUT
Best Critical Work: Mystery Scene Magazine (eds) THE FINE ART OF MURDER
Best True Crime: Ann Rule A ROSE FOR HER GRAVE
Best Anthology/Collection: Mary Higgins Clark (ed) MALICE DOMESTIC 2

1992:
Best Novel: Margaret Maron BOOTLEGGER'S DAUGHTER
Best First Novel: Barbara Neely BLANCHE ON THE LAM
Best Short Story: Diane Mott Davidson COLD TURKEY
Best Critical Work: Ellen Nehr DOUBLEDAY CRIME CLUB COMPENDIUM 1928 - 1991
Best True Crime: Barbara D'Amato THE DOCTOR, THE MURDER, THE MYSTERY
Best Film: THE CRYING GAME

1991:
Best Novel: Peter Lovsey THE LAST DETECTIVE
Best First Novel: Sue Henry MURDER ON THE IDITAROD TRAIL
Best True Crime: David Simon HOMICIDE
Best Short Story: Liza Cody LUCKY DIP
Best Critical Work: Maxim Jakubowski 100 GREAT DETECTIVES
Best Anthology/Collection: Sara Paretsky A WOMAN'S EYE

1990:
Best Novel: Sue Grafton G IS FOR GUMSHOE
Best First Novel: Patricia D.Cornwell POSTMORTEM
Best Paperback Original: Rochell Krich WHERE'S MOMMY NOW? / James McChery GRAVE UNDERTAKING
Best Short Story: Susan Dunlap THE CELESTIAL BUFFET
Best Critical Work: Jon L. Breen & Martin H Greenberg SYNOD OF SLEUTHS
Best TV Series: MYSTERY!
Best Film: PRESUMED INNOCENT

1989:
Best Novel: Sarah Caudwell THE SIRENS SING OF MURDER
Best First Novel: Karen Kijewski KATWALK
Best Paperback Original: Carolyn Hart HONEYMOON WITH MURDER
Best Short Story: Nancy Pickard AFRAID ALL THE TIME
Best TV Series: INSPECTOR MORSE
Best Film: CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS

1988:
Best Novel: Thomas Harris THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Best First Novel: Elizabeth George A GREAT DELIVERANCE
Best Paperback Original: Carolyn Hart SOMETHING WICKED

1987:
Best Novel: Tony Hillerman SKINWALKERS
Best First Novel: Gillian Roberts CAUGHT DEAD IN PHILADELPHIA
Best Paperback Original: Robert Crais THE MONKEY'S RAINCOAT
Best Short Story: Robert Barnard TELEVISION BREAKFAST
Best TV Series: MYSTERY!
Best Film: THE BIG EASY

1986:
Best Novel: Sue Grafton C IS FOR CORPSE
Best First Novel: Bill Crider TOO LATE TO DIE
Best Paperback Original: Robert Campbell THE JUNKYARD DOG
Best Short Story: Sue Grafton THE PARKER SHOTGUN

1985:
Best Novel: Sue Grafton B IS FOR BURGLAR
Best First Novel: Jonathan Kellerman WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS
Best Paperback Original: Nancy Pickard SAY NO TO MURDER
Best Short Story: Linda Barnes LUCKY PENNY
Best TV Series: MURDER SHE WROTE
Best Film: WITNESS
Grandmaster: Barbara Mertz (Barbara Michaels/Elizabeth Peters)

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NOMINATIONS
for the Best Crime & Mystery Books of 1995
The winners will be selected by attendees of the 27th annual Bouchercon to be held in St. Paul, Minnesota, October 10-13. The following nominees were compiled from votes by mystery fans worldwide:

Best Novel
MICHAEL CONNELLY - The Last Coyote (Little Brown & Co.)
BARBARA D'AMATO - Hard Christmas (Scribner)
ANDREW KLAVAN - True Crime (Crown)
BILL PRONZINI - Blue Lonesome (Walker & Co.)
MARY WILLIS WALKER - Under The Beetle's Cellar (Doubleday)

Best First Novel
RICHARD BARRE - The Innocents (Walker & Co.)
G.M. FORD - Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca? (Walker & Co.)
CHARLES KENNEY - Hammurabi's Code (Scribner)
VIRGINIA LANIER - Death in Bloodhound Red (Pineapple Press)
MARTHA LAWRENCE - Murder in Scorpio (St. Martin's Press)

Best Paperback Original
HARLAN COBEN - Deal Breaker (Dell)
EILEEN DREYER - Bad Medicine (HarperPaperbacks)
TERI HOLBROOK - A Far and Deadly Cry (Bantam)
GLORIA WHITE - Charged with Guilt (Dell)
R.D. ZIMMERMAN - Closet (Dell)

Best Short Story
K.K. BECK - "Rule of Law," Malice Domestic 4 (Pocket Books)
JEAN B. COOPER - "The Judge's Boy" (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, August)
BILL CRIDER - "How I Found A Cat, Lost True Love, and Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo," Cat Crimes Takes A Vacation (Donald I. Fine)
GAR ANTHONY HAYWOOD - "And Pray Nobody Sees You," Spooks, Spies & Private Eyes (Doubleday)
ELIZABETH DANIELS SQUIRE - "The Dog Who Remembered Too Much," Malice Domestic 4 (Pocket Books)

Best Short Story Collection
CAT CRIMES TAKES A VACATION (Donald I. Fine)
CRIMES OF THE HEART (Berkley)
MALICE DOMESTIC 4 (Pocket Books)
McCONE FILES (Crippen & Landau)
SPOOKS, SPIES & PRIVATE EYES (Doubleday)

Best True Crime
BURL BARER - Man Overboard (Northwest Publishing)
JOHN DOUGLAS/MARK OLSHAKER - Mindhunter (Scribner)
PETE EARLEY - Circumstantial Evidence (Bantam)
T.J. ENGLISH - Born to Kill (William Morrow)
ANN RULE - Dead by Sunset (Simon & Schuster)

Best Critical Work
NICHOLAS BASBANES - A Gentle Madness (Ballantine)
DOUGLAS GREENE - John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles (Otto Penzler Books)
ROBERT POLITO - Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson (Knopf)
B.J. RAHN, ED. - Ngaio Marsh: The Woman and Her Work (Scarecrow)
KATE STINE, ED. - The Armchair Detective Book of Lists, 2nd Edition. (Simon and Schuster)

Best Movie
COPY CAT
DEVIL WITH A BLUE DRESS
GET SHORTY
SEVEN
THE USUAL SUSPECTS

Best TV Show
HOMICIDE
LAW & ORDER
MURDER ONE
NYPD BLUE
THE X-FILES

Best Magazine/Digest/Review Publication
THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE
DEADLY PLEASURES
DROOD REVIEW
ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE
MYSTERY SCENE

Best Publisher
AVON
MYSTERIOUS PRESS
ST. MARTIN'S PRESS
SCRIBNER
WALKER

Best Editor
MARJORIE BRAMAN - Delacorte/Dell
SARA ANN FREED - Mysterious Press
CAROLYN MARINO - HarperCollins
KATE MICIAK - Bantam
MICHAEL SEIDMAN - Walker

Best Cover Art (title, author, publisher)
THE BODY IN THE TRANSEPT -Jeanne Dams (Walker & Co.)
BOOKMAN'S WAKE - John Dunning (Scribner)
DEATH OF A TENOR MAN - Bill Moody (Walker & Co.)
FLASHPOINT - Lynn Hightower (HarperCollins)
THE VANISHING SMILE - Earl Emerson (Ballantine)

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NOMINATIONS
for the Best Crime & Mystery Books of 1994
Best Novel
Michael Connelly - The Concrete Blonde - (Orion/Little Brown)
Lionel Davidson - Kolymsky Heights - (Heineman/St.Martin's Press)
Janet Evanovich - One for the Money - (Hamish Hamilton/Scribner)
Sue Grafton - K is For Killer - (Macmillan UK/Holt USA)
Bayta Gur - Murder on the Kibbutz - (Harper Collins USA)
Reginald Hill - Pictures of Perfection - (Harper Collins)
Lynda La Plante - Cold Shoulder - (Macmillan)
John Lescroart - The 13th Juror - (Fine/Headline)
Sharyn McCrumb - She Walks These Hills - (Scribner/Coronet)
Val McDermid - Crack Down - (Collins UK/Scribner USA)
Walter Mosley - Black Betty - (Serpent's Tail/Norton)
Derek Raymond - Not Till the Red Fog Rises - (Little Brown)
Janwillem van de Wetering - Just a Corpse at Twilight - (Soho)

Best First Novel
Caleb Carr - The Alienist - (Little Brown/Random House)
David Guterson - Snow Falling on Cedars - (Bloomsbury)
Alex Keegan - Cuckoo - (Headline)
Dennis Lehane - A Drink Before the War - (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)
Carol O'Connell - Mallory's Oracle - (Hutchinson/Putnam)
Laura Joh Rowland - Shinju - (Random House USA)
Michelle Spring - Every Breath You Take - (Orion/Pocket Books)
Doug S. Swanson - Big Town - (Little Brown/Harper Collins)
Christopher West - Death of a Blue Lantern - (Collins)

Best Short Story
Robert Barnard - The Gentleman in the Lake - (Ellery Queen's, July 1994)
Ed Gorman - One of Those Days, One of Those Nights - (Crime Yellow)
Sharyn McCrumb - The Monster of Glarnis - (Royal Crimes)
Ian Rankin - A Deep Hole - (London Noir)

Best Critical Work
John Cooper & B.A. Pike - Detective Fiction: The Collector's Guide (2nd Ed.) (Scolar)
William DeAndrea - Encyclopedia Mysteriosa - (Prentice-Hall)
Martin H. Greenberg - The Tony Hillerman Companion - (Harper Collins)
Rosemary Herbert - The Fatal Art of Entertainment - (G.K.Hall)

Best Anthology/Short Story Collection
James Ellroy - Hollywood Nocturnes/Dick Contino's Blues - (Arrow/Otto Penzier Books)
Ed Gorman - A Modern Treasury of Great Detective Stories - (Carroll & Graf)
Tony Hillerman - The Mysterious West - (Harper Collins)
Maxim Jakubowski - London Noir - (Serpent's Tail)
Michelle Slung & Roland Hartman - Murder for Halloween - (Mysterious Press)

Best True Crime
David Canter - Criminal Shadows - (Harper Collins)
Mikal Gilmore - A Shot in the Heart - (Doubleday/Viking)
Girardin & Helman - Dillinger, The Untold Story - (Univ.Louisiana Press)
Simon Rae - The Faber Book of Murder - (Faber & Faber)
Philip Sugden - The Complete History of Jack the Ripper - (Robinson/Carroll & Graf)

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