The Strand Magazine Critics Awards presentation took place on July 9.
On Wednesday, July 8, at an invitation-only cocktail party in Manhattan, Megan Abbott and Laura Lippman shared the Strand Critics Award for Best Novel for The Fever (Little, Brown and Company) and After I’m Gone (William Morrow), respectively. Elizabeth Little won the prize for Best Debut Novel Dear Daughter and Otto Penzler won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Alan Jacobson, Nelson DeMille, Joseph Finder and R.L. Stine
Elizabeth Little
Dan Conoway
Megan Abbott and Laura Lippman
Nelson DeMille and David Morrell
Larry Light, Andrew Gulli, Joseph Finder and Alan Jacobson
Group Photo of the winners and nominees.
Laura Lippman
Elyse Gregov and Nathaniel Marunas