Critics Awards 2019

Best Mystery Novel: Tie
Transcription, by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown)
Sunburn, by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins)

Best Debut Mystery Novel:
The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor  (Crown)
The Strand also announced the recipients of its Lifetime Achievement Awards: Heather Graham and Donna Leon.

Also named was Dominique Raccah, the publisher/CEO of Sourcebooks, as its Publisher of the Year Award.

 

Dominique Raccah accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award

Heather Graham

Dominique Racca (far left), unidentified, and Michaela Hamilton

Carrie Feron, Andrew Gulli and Kaitlin Haari

George Gibson

Andrew Gulli and James Anderson