Left Coast Crime Announces 2013’s Award Nominees

Cruising in your Eighties Is Murder by Mike Befeler
Swift Run by Laura DiSilverio
December Dread by Jess Lourey
Trail of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
The Girl Next Door by Brad Parks
Fit To Be Dead by Nancy Glass West

 

The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award (Best Mystery Covering Events Before 1960):

The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen
A City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder by Catriona McPherson
Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear

 

The Rocky (Best Mystery Set in the LCC Geographical Region)

Buffalo Bill’s Dead Now by Margaret Coel
Hush Money by Chuck Greaves
Wicked Eddies by Beth Groundwater
Sonora Crossing by Darrell James
As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson

 

The Watson (Mystery with the Best Sidekick) LCC’s newest award:

In a Witch’s Wardrobe by Juliet Blackwell
Taken by Robert Crais
Fun House by Chris Grabenstein
When the Past Haunts You by L.C. Hayden
Brouja Brouhaha by Rochelle Staab

 

Congratulations and Yeehaw to all the nominees!