2019 BARRY AWARDS

The 2019 Barry Awards were presented October 31 at Bouchercon by Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine. 

Best Novel

• November Road by Lou Berney (Morrow) 

Best First Novel

• The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor (Crown)

Best Paperback Original 

• The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan (Penguin)

Best Thriller

• Safe Houses by Dan Fesperman (Knopf)

Dan Sandstrom Award for Lifetime Achievement in Mystery
Fandom

• Jeff Popple

Delighted, delighted with this gorgeous award! Thank you so much to George Easter, Jeff Popple, and all at Deadly Pleasures and #bouchercon2019 for this utterly fantastic evening : ) pic.twitter.com/kcTZqCQn0B

— Dervla McTiernan (@DervlaMcTiernan) November 1, 2019

2019 SHAMUS AWARDS

The Private Eye Writers of America announced the 2019 Shamus Awards winners at Bouchercon in Dallas on November 1.

BEST PI HARDCOVER

• What You Want to Seeby Kristen Lepionka (Minotaur Books)

BEST FIRST PI NOVEL

• The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco (MCD Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

BEST PI PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

• The Questionable Behavior of Dahlia Moss by Max Wirestone (Redhook Books)

BEST PI SHORT STORY

• “Chin Yong-Yun Helps a Fool” by S.J. Rozan (EQMM)

I WON I WON I FLEEPIN WON! Short story Shamus, she is mine! pic.twitter.com/A38acsPTMD

— SJ Rozan (@SJRozan) November 2, 2019