LEFTY AWARD WINNERS: Left Coast Crime 2025

The Lefty Awards were presented at Left Coast Crime 2025 tonight, Saturday, March 15, at the Westin Denver Downtown. Congratulations to all! 

Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery Novel

• Rob Osler, Cirque du Slay (Crooked Lane Books)

Lefty Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel
(Bill Gottfried Memorial) for books covering events before 1970

• John Copenhaver, Hall of Mirrors (Pegasus Crime)

Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel

• Jennifer K. Morita, Ghosts of Waikiki (Crooked Lane Books)

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

• James L’Etoile, Served Cold (Level Best Books)

THE LEFTY AWARD NOMINEES: 2025 Left Coast Crime

The Lefty Awards will be voted on at Left Coast Crime 2025 and presented at a banquet on Saturday, March 15, at the Westin Denver Downtown. Congratulations to all! 

Lefty Nominees for Best Humorous Mystery Novel

• Ellen Byron, A Very Woodsy Murder (Kensington Books)

• Jennifer J. Chow, Ill-Fated Fortune (St. Martin’s Paperbacks)

• A.J. Devlin, Bronco Buster (NeWest Press)

• Catriona McPherson, Scotzilla (Severn House)

• Rob Osler, Cirque du Slay (Crooked Lane Books)

• Richard Osman, We Solve Murders (Pamela Dorman Books / Viking)

Lefty Nominees for Best Historical Mystery Novel
(Bill Gottfried Memorial) for books covering events before 1970

• John Copenhaver, Hall of Mirrors (Pegasus Crime)

• Robert Dugoni, A Killing on the Hill (Thomas & Mercer)

• Dianne Freeman, An Art Lover’s Guide to Paris and Murder (Kensington Books)

• Laurie R. King, The Lantern’s Dance (Bantam Books)

• Laura Jensen Walker, Death of a Flying Nightingale (Level Best Books / Historia)

Lefty Nominees for Best Debut Mystery Novel

• Peter Malone Elliott, Blue Ridge (Level Best Books)

• Cindy Goyette, Obey All Laws (Level Best Books)

• Audrey Lee, The Mechanics of Memory (CamCat Books)

• Jennifer K. Morita, Ghosts of Waikiki (Crooked Lane Books)

• K.T. Nguyen, You Know What You Did (Dutton)

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

• Claire Booth, Home Fires (Severn House)

• Margot Douaihy, Blessed Water (Zando, Gillian Flynn Books)

• Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

• Leslie Karst, Molten Death (Severn House)

• James L’Etoile, Served Cold (Level Best Books)

• Duane Swierczynski, California Bear (Mulholland Books)

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH JINKS: Left Coast Crime 2025

LEFT COAST CRIME 2025: DENVER, COLORADO

Rocky Mountain High Jinks

Registration is now open for LCC 2025 in Denver, Colorado, March 13-16, 2025. Registration includes a Welcome Reception, two special Breakfasts, the Awards Banquet, and admission to all panels and interviews. The early registration fee of $299 extends through April 15, 2024, the close of LCC 2024: Seattle Shakedown.

More Information and Online Registration

LCC 2025 Special Guests

We are thrilled to announce our Special Guests: Guests of Honor Manuel Ramos and Sara Paretsky, Fan Guest of Honor Grace Koshida, and Toastmaster John Copenhaver.

NOIR CITY: DENVER

The Film Noir Foundation will be partnering with the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Littleton, Colorado, to present the first NOIR CITY: Denver, March 23 - 25, 2018, a three-day festival featuring ten films.

FNF founder and president Eddie Muller will have a special co-host at this festival—legendary crime fiction author (and FNF Advisory Council member) James Ellroy, who will co-program the festival with the Czar of Noir.

The schedule for NOIR CITY: Denver is being finalized now, and will be announced on the Alamo's website soon.

Upcoming Noir City Dates:

NOIR CITY Seattle: February 16-22, 2018
NOIR CITY Denver: March 23-25, 2018
NOIR CITY Hollywood: April 13-22, 2018
NOIR CITY Austin: May 18-20, 2018 
NOIR CITY Boston: June 8-10, 2018 
NOIR CITY Chicago: August 17-23, 2018
NOIR CITY Detroit: September 2018 dates TBD
NOIR CITY D.C: October 2018 dates TBD