The Left Coast Crime “Lefty” Awards are fan awards chosen by registered members of the Left Coast Crime convention. Nominations for awards to be presented at each annual convention are made by people registered for that convention and also the immediately prior convention. A ballot listing the official nominees is given to each registrant when they check in at the convention, and final voting takes place at the convention. The ballots are tabulated and that year’s Lefty Awards are presented at the Awards Celebration.
Left Coast Crime 2019 presented four Lefty Awards at the 29th annual LCC convention
in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the Awards Banquet
on Saturday, March 30, 2019, at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver. Award winners appear at the top of each category.
2019 Lefty Awards
Lefty for Best Humorous Mystery Novel
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✫ Catriona McPherson, Scot Free (Midnight Ink) |
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• Ellen Byron, Mardi Gras Murder (Crooked Lane Books) |
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• Kellye Garrett, Hollywood Ending (Midnight Ink) |
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• Timothy Hallinan, Nighttown (Soho Crime) |
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• Leslie Karst, Death al Fresco (Crooked Lane Books) |
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• Cynthia Kuhn, The Spirit in Question (Henery Press) |
Lefty for Best Historical Mystery Novel (Bruce Alexander Memorial)
for books covering events before 1960
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✫ Sujata Massey, The Widows of Malabar Hill (Soho Crime) |
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• Rhys Bowen, Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding (Berkeley Prime Crime) |
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• David Corbett, The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday (Black Opal Books) |
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• Laurie R. King, Island of the Mad (Bantam Books) |
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• Ann Parker, A Dying Note (Poisoned Pen Press) |
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• Iona Whishaw, It Begins in Betrayal (Touchwood Editions) |
Lefty for Best Debut Mystery Novel
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✫ Dianne Freeman, A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder(Kensington Books) |
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• Tracy Clark, Broken Places (Kensington Books) |
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• A.J. Devlin, Cobra Clutch (NeWest Press) |
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• A.J. Finn, The Woman
in the Window (William Morrow) |
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• Aimee Hix, What Doesn’t Kill You (Midnight Ink) |
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• Keenan Powell, Deadly Solution (Level Best Books) |
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• J.G. Toews, Give Out Creek (Mosaic Press) |
Lefty for Best Mystery Novel
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✫ Lou Berney, November Road (William Morrow) |
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• Matt Coyle, Wrong Light (Oceanview Publishing) |
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• Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Minotaur Books) |
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• Lori Rader-Day, Under a Dark Sky (William Morrow Paperbacks) |
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• Terry Shames, A Reckoning in the Back Country (Seventh Street Books)/td>
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• James W. Ziskin, A Stone’s Throw (Seventh Street Books) |
To be eligible, titles must have been published for the first time in the United States or Canada during 2018, in book or ebook format. (If published in other countries before 2018, a book is still eligible if it meets the US or Canadian publication requirement.)
Email Awards Co-Chairs Lucinda Surber & Stan Ulrich with questions about the Left Coast Crime Awards.
History of the Left Coast Crime Awards |
