More award news! Left Coast Crime will be oceanside in Monterey, California this year (thus the monikker Calamari Crime), and here is its recently announced list of nominated honorees!
The Lefty: Best humorous mystery novel
The Hen of the Baskervilles by Donna Andrews
The Fame Thief by Timothy Hallinan
The Last Word by Lisa Lutz
The Good Cop by Brad Parks
Dying for a Daquiri by Cindy Sample
The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award: Best historical mystery novel covering events before 1960
Heirs and Graces by Rhys Bowen
His Majesty's Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal
Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses by Catriona McPherson
Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell
Covenant with Hell by Priscilla Royal
Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear
The Squid: Best mystery set within the United States
W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton
Purgatory Key by Darrell James
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
The Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan
A Killing at Cotton Hill by Terry Shames
The Calamari: Best mystery set anywhere else in the world
Murder Below Montparnasse by Cara Black
Hour of the Rat by Lisa Brackmann
As She Left It by Catriona McPherson
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
Mykonos After Midnight by Jeffrey Siger
Winners will be voted upon by conference attendees, and the awards will be given during the conference banquet on March 22nd, 2014. Congratulations to all!
These are a lot of the fun cozy type mysteries I so enjoy!! Sometimes I like to escape to an average person solving the crime 🙂