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Summer Issue
* Fiction by
Earl Hamner, Christopher Fowler, Rhys Bown, John
Floyd & Michael Kurland
* Interviews
Jeffery Deaver
R.L. Stine |
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Critics Award News |
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And the Winners Are...
Laura Lippman and Marcus Sakey holding The Strand's
Critics Award (Photo: Alan Jacobson)
The winners of the 2007 Strand Magazine Critics Award are Laura Lippman for best
novel (What the Dead Know) and Marcus Sakey for best first mystery novel (The
Blade Itself). The winners were announced at an invitation only cocktail party
in Manhattan, by bestselling author Jonathan Santlofer.
The party on July 9 was attended by most of the nominees, executives from the
major publishers, writers, journalists, reporters, editors and publicists. The
evening started with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, then Jonathan Santlofer (The
Murder Notebook) stepped up to the podium and announced the winners.
Laura Lippman and Marcus Sakey were gracious winners, thanking the critics and
public for their support and paying tribute to their fellow nominees.
The other nominees were:
Best Novel
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Down River by John Hart (Thomas Dunne Books/Minotaur)
- The Shotgun Rule by Charlie Huston (Ballantine Books)
- The Strangler by William Landay (Delacorte Press)
- The Watchman by Robert Crais (Simon and Schuster)
Best First Novel
- In the Woods by Tana French (Viking)
- The Mark by Jason Pinter (Mira Books)
- Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell (William Morrow)
- When One Man Dies by Dave White (Crown Publishing)
Lippman a former journalist for The Baltimore Sun, is no stranger to winning
many of the top crime fiction prizes, she has won the Edgar, The Anthony, The
Shamus, and The Barry Awards. Her latest novel Another Thing to Fall was
released this March by William Morrow.
In just two years, Marcus Sakey has blazed a trail as a new and talented mystery
author with his two well written crime novels The Blade Itself and At The City’s
Edge. A former St. Martin’s author, he has recently signed a deal with Dutton
who will publish his next book Good People in August.
Photos from the awards
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