Best Novel: Legend: What the Dead Know, by Laura Lippman
Also nominated: Cross, by Ken Bruen; Priest, by Ken Bruen; The Tin Roof Blowdown, by James Lee Burke; The Naming of the Dead, by Ian Rankin; and Dust Devils, by James Reasoner
Best Novel: Rising Star: The Cleanup, by Sean Doolittle
Also nominated: The Shotgun Rule, by Charlie Huston; The Ragtime Kid, by Larry Karp; A Perfect Grave, by Rick Mofina; A Thousand Bones, by P.J. Parrish; and Concrete Maze, by Steven Torres
Best Novel: New Voice: Hard Man, by Allan Guthrie
Also nominated: Queenpin, by Megan Abbott; The Big O, by Declan Burke; The 50/50 Killer, by Steve Mosby; Safe and Sound, by J.D. Rhoades; and The Blonde, by Duane Swierczynski
Best Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Also nominated: Europa Editions; Hard Case Crime; Poisoned Pen Press; and Text Publishing
Best Cover: Hard Man, by Allan Guthrie (design by Vaughn Andrews; photo from Corbis)
Also nominated: Kill Now, Pay Later, by Robert Terrall (cover painted by Robert McGinnis); The Vengeful Virgin, by Gil Brewer (cover painted by Greg Manchess); Blackmailer, by George Axelrod (cover painted by Glen Orbik); Mr. Clarinet, by Nick Stone (designed by Emily Cavett Taff)
Best Editor: Stacia Decker, Harcourt
Also nominated: Charles Ardai, Hard Case Crime; Alison Janssen, Bleak House; Barbara Peters, Poisoned Pen Press; and Dave Thompson, Busted Flush
Special Services to the Industry: Daniel Hatadi of Crimespace
Also nominated: Ali Karim of Shots and The Rap Sheet; Graham Powell of CrimeSpot; J. Kingston Pierce of The Rap Sheet; Maddy Van Hertburger of 4MA; and Sarah Weinman from Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
Best Short Story on the Web: “Seven Days of Rain,” by Chris F. Holm (Demolition)
Also nominated: “The Leap,” by Charles Ardai (Hardluck Stories); “Breaking in the New Guy,” by Stephen Blackmoore (Demolition); “Amphetamine Logic,” by Nathan Cain (ThugLit); “The Switch,” by Lyman Feero (ThugLit); “Shared Losses,” by Gerri Leen (Shred of Evidence); “The Living Dead,” by Amra Pajalic (Spinetingler); and “Convivum,” by Kelli Stanley (Hardluck Stories)
