Book Selections 9/2009 - 6/2010

Here is the list we came up with for the books we'll be reading starting in September! Thanks to everyone who came and sent in suggestions I think we ended up with some great reads to look forward to this year!

September 17th - The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

October 22nd - Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye by Victoria Laurie

November 19th - The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

December 17th - Death of a Cozy Writer by G. M. Malliet

January 21st - Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley

February 18th - Exit Strategy by Kelley Armstrong

March 18th - Hot by Julia Harper

April 15th - The Dark Place by Aaron Elkins

May 20th - Edwin of the Iron Shoes by Marcia Muller

June 17th - In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff

We've been busy hunting down Large Print versions of our book selections and were able to come up with the following titles that we have (or are ordering) so that there's a large print version available. Please note: the links below for these books are included so you can check to see if the large print version is on the shelf or not. To specifically reserve the large print copy, you need to contact library staff (630-971-1675). September 17th - The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler November 19th - The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry December 17th - Death of a Cozy Writer by G. M. Malliet January 21st - Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley

This year's Bouchercon was held in Indianapolis at the Hyatt Regency from October 15th - October 18th. The Bouchercon, also known as the World Crime Convention, includes authors, editors, publishers and fans, of all forms of the mystery. Anthony Awards are voted on by all registered attendees. Winners were announced at the Hilbert Circle Theater. You can click on the award picture below to get a bigger -- and better! -- idea of how beautiful
this award is.

Now here's the list of nominees and winners (Winners are in Gold ):

Best Novel

Trigger City by Sean Chercover [William Morrow]
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly [Little, Brown and Company]
Red Knife by William Kent Krueger [Atria]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [Knopf]
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny [Minotaur]

Best First Novel

Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris [Minotaur]
Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer [Doubleday]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [Knopf]
Death of a Cozy Writer by G. M. Malliet [Midnight Ink]
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith [Grand Central]

Best Paperback Original

The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins [Hard Case Crime]
Money Shot by Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime]
State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy [Berkley]
In a Dark Season by Vicki Lane [Dell]
South of Hell by P. J. Parrish [Pocket Star]

Best Short Story

“The Night Things Changed” by Dana Cameron from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe [Ace]
“A Sleep Not Unlike Death” by Sean Chercover from Hardcore Hardboiled [Kensington]
“Killing Time” by Jane K. Cleland from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (November)
“Skull and Cross Examination” by Toni L. P. Kelner from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (February)
“Scratch a Woman” by Laura Lippman from Hardly Knew Her [William Morrow]
“The Secret Lives of Cats” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (July)

Best Critical NonFiction Work

African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey [McFarland]
How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries by Kathy Lynn Emerson [Perseverance Press]
Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography by Jeffrey Marks [McFarland]
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale [Walker & Company]

Best Children's/Young Adult Mystery

The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein [Random House]
Paper Towns by John Green [Dutton Juvenile]
Kiss Me, Kill Me by Lauren Henderson [Delacorte]
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart [Little, Brown]
Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash by Wendelin Van Draanen [Knopf]

Best Cover Art

Death Was the Other Woman designed by David Rotstein and written by Linda L. Richards [Minotaur]
Death Will Get You Sober designed by David Rotstein and written by Elizabeth Zelvin [Minotaur]
The Fault Tree designed by David Rotstein and written by Louise Ure [Minotaur]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo designed by Peter Mendelsund and written by Stieg Larsson [Knopf]
Money Shot designed by Steve Cooley and written by Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime]

Special Service Award

Jon and Ruth Jordan
Ali Karim
David Montgomery
Gary Warren Niebuhr
Sarah Weinman

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This is a new feature on our ning where I'll be posting the perpetrators of new crime fiction that we've just put on the New Fiction shelf at the Lisle Library. Click on the "Booking" mug shot to request it from the library. Click on the "Charges" to see what reviewers/publishers have to say about the book! (If the link goes to the book's Amazon listing, it is because this was the best link to see reviews from Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal, etc.) Hopefully, this will aid you in tracking down criminous authors you want to pursue...

The following are the files that Valaney and I prepared for this year's planning meeting. The one I did includes all the suggestions I got from the rest of you prior to the meeting. Thanks again for helping this to be one of our best planning sessions yet!
Valaney_Reading List for Murder Among Friends _20 August 2009.wpd

BooklistforAugust2009.xls