STRAND MAGAZINE CRITICS AWARDS NOMINEES

The Strand Magazine announced the 2019 Strand Critics Awards. Winners will be announced this summer at a cocktail party in New York City.

Best Mystery Novel:
• Lullaby Road, by James Anderson (Crown)
• Transcription, by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown)
• November Road, by Lou Berney (Morrow)
• Dark Sacred Night, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
• The Witch Elm, by Tana French (Viking)
• Sunburn, by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins)

Best Debut Mystery Novel:
• Dodging and Burning, by John Copenhaver (Pegasus)
• Star of the North, by D.B. John (Crown)
• The Other Side of Everything, by Lauren Doyle Owens (Touchstone)
• The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton 
(Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Beautiful Bad, by Annie Ward (Park Row)

The Strand also announced the recipients of its latest Lifetime Achievement Awards: Heather Graham and Donna Leon. Also named was Dominique Raccah, the publisher/CEO of Sourcebooks, as its Publisher of the Year Award.

HT: The Rap Sheet