The Lefty (best humorous mystery novel):
Mike Befeler, Cruising in Your Eighties Is Murder (Five Star)
Laura DiSilverio, Swift Run (Minotaur)
Jess Lourey, December Dread (Midnight Ink)
Lisa Lutz, Trail of the Spellmans (Simon & Schuster)
Brad Parks, The Girl Next Door (Minotaur)
Nancy Glass West, Fit To Be Dead (Southwest Publications)
The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award (mystery novels covering events before 1960):
Rhys Bowen, The Twelve Clues of Christmas (Berkley Prime Crime)
Rebecca Cantrell, A City of Broken Glass (Forge)
Dennis Lehane, Live by Night (William Morrow)
Catronia McPherson, Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder (Minotaur)
Jacqueline Winspear, Elegy for Eddie (HarperCollins)
The Rocky (best mystery novel set in the Left Coast Crime Geographical Region):
Margaret Coel, Buffalo Bill’s Dead Now (Berkley Prime Crime)
Chuck Greaves, Hush Money (Minotaur)
Beth Groundwater, Wicked Eddies (Midnight Ink)
Darrell James, Sonora Crossing (Midnight Ink)
Craig Johnson, As the Crow Flies (Viking)
The Watson (mystery novel with the best sidekick):
Juliet Blackwell, In a Witch’s Wardrobe (Obsidian)
Robert Crais, Taken (Putnam)
Chris Grabenstein, Fun House (Pegasus)
L.C. Hayden, When the Past Haunts You (CreateSpace)
Rochelle Staab, Brouja Brouhaha (Berkley Prime Crime)