LEFTY AWARD NOMINEES: Left Coast Crime: Trouble in Tucson!

 

Lefty Award Nominees

The Lefty Awards will be voted on at the Left Coast Crime Convention and presented at a banquet on Saturday, March 18, at the El Conquistador Resort in the Oro Valley of Tucson, Arizona. Congratulations to all!

Lefty Nominees for Best Humorous Mystery Novel

• Ellen Byron, Bayou Book Thief (Berkley Prime Crime)
• Jennifer J. Chow, Death by Bubble Tea (Berkley Prime Crime)
• A.J. Devlin, Five Moves of Doom (NeWest Press)
• T.G. Herren, A Streetcar Named Murder (Crooked Lane Books)
• Catriona McPherson, Scot in a Trap (Severn House)

Lefty Nominees for Best Historical Mystery Novel
(The Bill Gottfried Memorial) for books set before 1970

• Dianne Freeman, A Bride’s Guide to Marriage and Murder (Kensington Books)
• Catriona McPherson, In Place of Fear (Severn House)
• Wanda M. Morris, Anywhere You Run (William Morrow)
• Karen Odden, Under a Veiled Moon (Crooked Lane Books)
• Ann Parker, The Secret in the Wall (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Iona Whishaw, Framed in Fire (Touchwood)

Lefty Nominees for Best Debut Mystery Novel

• Erin E. Adams, Jackal (Bantam Books)
• Eli Cranor, Don’t Know Tough (Soho Crime)
• Ramona Emerson, Shutter (Soho Crime)
• Meredith Hambrock, Other People’s Secrets (Crooked Lane Books)
• Harini Nagendra, The Bangalore Detectives Club (Pegasus Crime)
• Rob Osler, Devil’s Chew Toy (Crooked Lane Books)
• Jane Pek, The Verifiers (Vintage Books)

Lefty Nominees for Best Mystery Novel
(not in other categories)

• Kellye Garrett, Like a Sister (Mulholland Books)
• Laurie R. King, Back to the Garden (Bantam Books)
• James L’Etoile, Dead Drop (Level Best Books)
• Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key (Minotaur Books)
• Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Minotaur Books)
• Alex Segura, Secret Identity (Flatiron Books)

To register for Left Coast Crime:

https://leftcoastcrime.org/2023/Registration.html