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Left Coast Crime 2023 — Trouble in Tucson— will be presenting four Lefty Awards at the convention in Tucson, Arizona. Registrants of the Left Coast Crime Conventions in Tucson and Albuquerque were able to nominate three titles in each category. The 2023 Lefty awards will be voted on at the convention and presented at the Awards Banquet on Saturday, March 18, 2023, at the El Conquistador Tucson.

 

Lefty Nominees for Best Humorous Mystery Novel

• Ellen Byron, Bayou Book Thief (Berkley Prime Crime)
• Jennifer J. Chow, Death by Bubble Tea (Berkley Prime Crime)
• A.J. Devlin, Five Moves of Doom (NeWest Press)
• T.G. Herren, A Streetcar Named Murder (Crooked Lane Books)
• Catriona McPherson, Scot in a Trap (Severn House)

Lefty Nominees for Best Historical Mystery Novel
The Bill Gottfried Memorial for books covering events before 1970

• Dianne Freeman, A Bride’s Guide to Marriage and Murder (Kensington Books)
• Catriona McPherson, In Place of Fear (Mobius)
• Wanda M. Morris, Anywhere You Run (William Morrow)
• Karen Odden, Under a Veiled Moon (Crooked Lane Books)
• Ann Parker, The Secret in the Wall (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Iona Whishaw, Framed in Fire (Touchwood Editions)

Lefty Nominees for Best Debut Mystery Novel

• Erin E. Adams, Jackal (Bantam Books)
• Eli Cranor, Don’t Know Tough (Soho Crime)
• Ramona Emerson, Shutter (Soho Crme)
• Meredith Hambrock, Other People’s Secrets (Crooked Lane Books)
• Harini Nagendra, The Bangalore Detectives Club (Pegasus Crime)
• Rob Osler, Devil’s Chew Toy (Crooked Lane Books)
• Jane Pek, The Verifiers (Vintage Books)

Lefty Nominees for Best Mystery Novel

• Kellye Garrett, Like a Sister (Mulholland Books)
• Laurie R. King, Back to the Garden (Bantam Books)
• James L’Etoile, Dead Drop (Level Best Books)
• Gigi Pandian, Under Lock & Skeleton Key (Minotaur Books)
• Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Minotaur Books)
• Alex Segura, Secret Identity (Flatiron Books)

 

To be eligible for the 2023 Lefty Awards, titles must have been published for the first time in the United States or Canada during 2022, in book or ebook format. (If published in other countries before 2022, a book is still eligible if it meets the US or Canadian publication requirement.)