Left Coast Crime "Lefty" Finalists 2025

 

The Left Coast Crime "Lefty" Awards are fan awards chosen by registered members of the Left Coast Crime conventions since 1996. A ballot listing the official nominees is given to each registrant when they check in at the convention, and final voting takes place during the event, which this year takes place in Denver Colorado from March 13-16. 2025. The winners will be revealed at the Lefty Awards Banquet on Saturday, March 15th.

Congratulations to this year's finalists:

Lefty Nominees for Best Humorous Mystery Novel

• Ellen Byron, A Very Woodsy Murder (Kensington Books) 
• Jennifer J. Chow, Ill-Fated Fortune (St. Martin’s Paperbacks)
• A.J. Devlin, Bronco Buster (NeWest Press)
• Catriona McPherson, Scotzilla (Severn House)
• Rob Osler, Cirque du Slay (Crooked Lane Books)
• Richard Osman, We Solve Murders (Pamela Dorman Books / Viking)

 

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

 

• John Copenhaver, Hall of Mirrors (Pegasus Crime)
• Robert Dugoni, A Killing on the Hill (Thomas & Mercer)
• Dianne Freeman, An Art Lover’s Guide to Paris and Murder (Kensington Books)
• Laurie R. King, The Lantern’s Dance (Bantam Books)
• Laura Jensen Walker, Death of a Flying Nightingale (Level Best Books / Historia)

 

Lefty Nominees for Best Debut Mystery Novel

• Peter Malone Elliott, Blue Ridge (Level Best Books)
• Cindy Goyette, Obey All Laws (Level Best Books)
• Audrey Lee, The Mechanics of Memory (CamCat Books) 
• Jennifer K. Morita, Ghosts of Waikiki (Crooked Lane Books)
• K.T. Nguyen, You Know What You Did (Dutton)

 

Lefty Nominees for Best Mystery Novel

• Claire Booth, Home Fires (Severn House)
• Margot Douaihy, Blessed Water (Zando, Gillian Flynn Books)
• Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Leslie Karst, Molten Death (Severn House)
• James L’Etoile, Served Cold (Level Best Books)
• Duane Swierczynski, California Bear (Mulholland Books)