Nominees and Winners of the 2007 Spinetinglers

Best Novel - Legend

Ken Bruen, Cross
Ken Bruen, Priest
James Lee Burke, Tin Roof Blowdown
Laura Lippman, What The Dead Know - Winner
Ian Rankin, The Naming of the Dead
James Reasoner, Dust Devils

Best Novel - Rising Star

Sean Doolittle, The Cleanup - Winner
Charlie Huston, The Shotgun Rule
Larry Karp, The Ragtime Kid
Rick Mofina, A Perfect Grave
PJ Parrish, A Thousand Bones
Steven Torres, Concrete Maze

Best Novel - New Voice

Megan Abbott, Queenpin
Declan Burke, The Big O
Allan Guthrie, Hard Man - Winner
Steve Mosby, The 50/50 Killer
JD Rhoades, Safe and Sound
Duane Swierczynski, The Blonde

Best Publisher

Bitter Lemon Press - Winner
Europa Editions
Hard Case Crime
Poisoned Pen Press
Text Publishing

Best Cover

Robert Terrall - Kill Now, Pay Later
Cover painted by Robert McGinnis
Gil Brewer - The Vengeful Virgin
Cover painted by Greg Manchess
George Axelrod - Blackmailer
Cover painted by Glen Orbik
Allan Guthrie - Hard Man
Design: Vaughn Andrews. Photo: (c) Corbis. - WINNER
Nick Stone - Mr. Clarinet
Designed by Emily Cavett Taff

Best Editor

Charles Ardai, Hard Case Crime
Stacia Decker, Harcourt - Winner
Alison Janssen, Bleak House
Barbara Peters, Poisoned Pen Press
Dave Thompson, Busted Flush

Special Services to the Industry

Daniel Hatadi, Crimespace - WINNER
Ali Karim - Shots, The Rap Sheet
Graham Powell, Crimespot
J. Kingston Pierce, The Rap Sheet
Maddy Van Hertburger, 4MA
Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind

Best Short Story On The Web

The Leap by Charles Ardai - Hardluck Stories
Breaking in the New Guy by Stephen Blackmoore - Demolition
Amphetamine Logic by Nathan Cain - Thuglit
The Switch by Lyman Feero -Thuglit
Seven Days of Rain by Chris F. Holm - Demolition - Winner
Shared Losses by Gerri Leen - Shred of Evidence
The Living Dead by Amra Pajalic - Spinetingler
Convivum by Kelli Stanley - Hardluck Stories