最新海外ミステリーニュース20110501（執筆者・木村二郎）

アーサー・エリス賞最終候補作発表
Crime Writers of Canada has announced the nominees for its 2011 Arthur Ellis Awards as follows:

Best Crime Novel:
Slow Recoil, by C.B. Forrest (RendezVous Crime)
In Plain Sight, by Mike Knowles (ECW Press)
The Extinction Club, by Jeffrey Moore (Penguin Group)
Bury Your Dead, by Louise Penny (Little, Brown UK)
A Criminal to Remember, by Michael Van Rooy (Turnstone Press)

Best First Crime Novel:
The Damage Done, by Hilary Davidson (Tom Doherty Associates)
The Debba, by Avner Mandleman (Other Press)
The Penalty Killing, by Michael McKinley (McClelland & Stewart)
The Parabolist, by Nicholas Ruddock (Doubleday)
Still Missing, by Chevy Stevens (St. Martin's Press)

Best Frenc Crime Novel:
Cinq secondes, by Jacques Savoie (Libre Expression)
Dans le quartier des agités, by Jacques Côtés, (Alire)
Vanités, by Johanne Seymour (Libre Expression)
La Société des péres meurtriers, by Michel Châteauneuf (Vents d’Ouest)
Quand la mort s’invite à la première, by Bernard Gilbert (Québec Amerique)

Best Crime Non-Fiction:
On the Farm, by Stevie Cameron (Knopf Canada)
Our Man in Tehran, by Robert Wright (HarperCollins)
Northern Light: The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson and the Woman Who Loved Him, by Roy MacGregor (Random House)

Best Juvenile/Young Adult Crime Novel:
Borderline, by Allan Stratton (HarperCollins)
The Worst Thing She Ever Did, by Alice Kuipers (HarperCollins)
Pluto's Ghost, by Sharee Fitch (Doubleday Canada)
Victim Rights, by Norah McClintock (Red Deer Press)
The Vinyl Princess, by Yvonne Prinz (HarperCollins)

Best Crime Short Story:
"So Much in Common," by Mary Jane Maffini (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September/October 2010)
"In It Up to My Neck," by Jas R. Petrin (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 2010)
"The Big Touch," by Jordan McPeek (ThugLit)
"The Piper's Door," by James Powell (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2010)
"The Bust," by William Deverall (Whodunnit: Sun Media's Canadian Crime Fiction Showcase)

Best Unpublished First Crime Novel (Unhanged Arthur):
Better Off Dead, by John Jeneroux
Uncoiled, by Kevin Thornton
When the Bow Breaks, by Jayne Barnard

The winners will be announced on June 2 in Victoria, British Columbia.

ＬＡタイムズ出版賞発表
The Los Angeles Times announced the 2011 LA Times Book Prize Winners on April 29. Tom Franklin won the Book Prize for CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER (William Morrow) in the mystery/thriller category .

アガサ賞発表
Louise Penny Wins Agatha Again

Malice Domestic announced the winner for the 2011 Agatha Awards on April 30 as follows:

Best Novel: BURY YOUR DEAD, by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Best First Novel: THE LONG QUICHE GOODBYE, by Avery Aames (Berkley)
Best Non-Fiction: AGATHA CHRISTIE'S SECRET NOTEBOOKS, by John Curran (Harper)
Best Short Story: "So Much in Common," by Mary Jane Maffini (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September/October 2010)
Best Children/Young Adult: THE OTHER SIDE OF DARK, by Sarah Smith (Atheneum)
Lifetime Achivement Award: Sue Grafton
Poirot Award: Janet Rudolph