The Derringer Awards
Best Flash Story (up to 1,000 words): tie--“No Flowers for Stacey,” by Ruth McCarty (Deadfall: Crime Stories by New England Writers; Level Best Books); and “No Place Like Home,” by Dee Stuart (Mysterical-E)
Best Short Story (1,001 to 4,000 words):“The Cost of Doing Business,” by Michael Penncavage (published in ThugLit)
Best Long Story (4,001 to 8,000 words):“The Quick Brown Fox,” by Robert S. Levinson (published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
Best Novelette (8,001 to 17,500 words):“Too Wise,” by O’Neil De Noux (published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
2009 Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement: Clark Howard
Jon Jordan of Crimespree presented the CrimeSpree Awards:
CRIMESPREE AWARDS
Favorite Book of 2008: Trigger City, by Sean Chercover (Morrow)
Best Book in an Ongoing Series: Chasing Darkness , by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster)
Favorite Comics Writer: Brian Azzarello
Favorite Original Paperback: Money Shot , by Christa Faust (Hard Case Crime)
Favorite Mystery Bookstore: Once Upon a Crime, Minneapolis
And the Jack Reacher Award went to William Kent Krueger
George Easter then presented the
Barry Awards
Best Novel: The Draining Lake, by Arnaldur Indridason (Minotaur)
Best First Novel: Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central)
Best British Novel: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson (MacLehose/Quercus)
Best Paperback Original: State of the Onion, by Julie Hyzy (Berkley)
Best Thriller: The Deceived, by Brett Battles (Delacorte)
Best Short Story: “The Drought,” by James O. Born (from The Blue Religion, edited by Michael Connelly; Little, Brown)
Don Sandstrom Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement in Mystery Fandom: Art Scott
A fun night was had by all. Lots of celebrating later in the Bar.
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