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The Gumshoe Award The Gumshoe Award is given out each year by the editors of Mystery Ink to recognize the best achievements in crime fiction. Winners are selected from titles published in the previous year. 2007 Best Mystery: All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming Best Thriller: Prayers for the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno Best European Crime Novel: When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum Best First Novel: The King of LIes by John Hart 2006 Best Mystery: To the Power of Three by Laura Lippman Best Thriller: Company Man by Joseph Finder Best European Crime Novel: The Vanished Hands by Robert Wilson Best First Novel: The Baby Game by Randall Hicks 2005 Best Mystery: Hard, Hard City by Jim Fusilli Best Thriller: Rain Storm by Barry Eisler Best European Crime Novel: The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell Best First Novel: Misdemeanor Man by Dylan Schaffer 2004 Best Novel: Blood is the Sky by Steve Hamilton Best First Novel: Monkeewrench by P. J. Tracy 2003 Best Novel: Hell to Pay by George P. Pelecanos Best First Novel: The Distance by Eddie Muller 2002 Best Novel: Pursuit by Thomas Perry Best First Novel: Open Season by C. J. Box |
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