![]() ![]() We'll Always Have Parrots by Donna Andrews.Lefty: Go to Helena Handbasket by Donna Moore.Lefty: Murder with Reservations by Elaine Viets.Lefty: Greasing the Pinata by Tim Maleeny.Lefty: Getting Old Is a Disaster by Rita Lakin.Watson: Junkyard Dogs by Craig Johnson (Viking).Hillerman Sky Award: The Spider's Web by Margaret Coel (Berkley).Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award: The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear (HarperCollins).Lefty: The Pot Thief Who Studied Einstein by J.Eureka!: Nazareth Child by Darrell James (Midnight Ink).Golden Nugget: City of Secrets by Kelli Stanley (Minotaur Books).Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award: Mercury's Rise by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen Press).Lefty: The Real Macaw by Donna Andrews (Minotaur Books).The Watson: Brouja Brouhaha by Rochelle Staab (Berkley Prime Crime).The Rocky: As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson (Viking).Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award: Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder by Catrona McPherson (Minotaur Books).Lefty: The Girl Next Door by Brad Parks (Minotaur Books).The Calamari: How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books).The Squid: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Atria Books).Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award: Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses by Catriona McPherson (Minotaur Books).Lefty: The Good Cop by Brad Parks (Minotaur Books).The Rosebud: The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens (Seventh Street Books).The Rose: Pirate Vishnu by Gigi Pandian (Henery Press).Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award: A Deadly Measure of Brimstone by Catriona McPherson (Minotaur Books).Lefty: Herbie's Game by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime).The award honors the best humorous mystery published during the previous year. ![]() The winner of the Lefty Award is announced at Left Coast Crime, an annual event sponsored by fans of mystery literature for fans of mystery literature. Each author's view of Los Angeles can overlap, of course, but each also brings a unique perspective to their area.Īnd that is one of the things I love about mysteries.Home - ♦ - About - ♦ - Search - ♦ - Omnimystery Home The Lefty Awards Michael Connelly's Los Angeles is different from Robert Crais' Los Angeles, which is different from Denise Hamilton's Los Angeles, which is different from Robert Ellis' Los Angeles. And each region, each city, even those individual neighborhoods have distinct personalities. It's one of the things that mystery writers do best. Rozan and Henry Chang, or a Virginia winery as do those novels by Ellen Crosby, or a small Illinois town as do those novels by Denise Swanson. Regardless of whether a novel takes place in San Francisco's Chinatown or New York's Chinatown, as do those novels by S.J. Kelli gave me a view of Chinatown that I have never seen and may not have seen on my own.Īnd that is what often happens with mystery authors-they show us a part of their world we may never have seen without them. The cooking smells that come from bakeries, restaurants and apartments. The laundry that hangs from some of the balconies. The click of mah jong tiles from behind the screen doors in the basements. And Chinatown is a must-stop on each of those trips.īut this was the first time I glimpsed some of the side streets with all its colorful aspects. I've been to San Francisco several times-it is one of my favorite American cities. (Stanely's next San Francisco-based novel is City of Secrets, which comes out in September.) Kelli gave me an upclose and personal view of the Chinatown setting for her Miranda Corbie novel City of Dragons. And while I had a wonderful time talking with Kelli-and enjoying the wonderful dim sum-the walking tour was just as valuable. My interview with Kelli, left, starts with a walking tour of Chinatown in San Francisco, continues during a two-hour lunch of dim sum and continues with another trip through Chinatown. If you have the newest issue of Mystery Scene-and I hope you have-perhaps you've read my interview with Kelli Stanley, which I hope you have.
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