Crimespree Magazine asked readers to select the winners in five categories for this year’s Crimespree Awards, presented by Crimespree Magazine. Here are the winners.
Hat Tip to The Rap Sheet for Quick Reporting
Favorite Book of 2008: Trigger City, by Sean Chercover (Morrow)
Also nominated: Yellow Medicine, by Anthony Neil Smith (Bleak House); Envy the Night, by Michael Koryta (Minotaur); Chasing Darkness, by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster); and Toros & Torsos, by Craig McDonald (Bleak House)
Best Book in an Ongoing Series: Chasing Darkness, by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster)
Also nominated: Trigger City, by Sean Chercover (Morrow); Toros & Torsos, by Craig McDonald (Bleak House); Another Thing to Fall, by Laura Lippman (Morrow); and the Duffy Dombrowski Mystery Series, by Tom Schreck (Midnight Ink)
Favorite Comics Writer: Brian Azzarello
Also nominated: Tim Broderick; B. Clay Moore; Ed Brubaker;
and Jason Aaron
Favorite Original Paperback: Money Shot, by Christa Faust (Hard Case Crime)
Also nominated: Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse, by Victor Gischler (Touchstone); Severance Package, by Duane Swierczynski (St. Martin’s Minotaur); The Stolen, by Jason Pinter (Mira); and The Evil That Men Do, by Dave White (Three Rivers Press)
Favorite Mystery Bookstore: Once Upon a Crime, Minneapolis
Also nominated: The Mystery Bookstore, Los Angeles; Murder by the Book, Houston; Centuries & Sleuths, Forest Park, Illinois; and M Is for Mystery, San Mateo, California
One of those interesting quirks of awards voting - Chercover's book beats out Crais as Fave Book, whereas the reverse happens between the very same books in Fave Book in an Ongoing Series...
ReplyDeleteYes, that's quirky, indeed.
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