Top 3
1. Charles Williams, A Touch of Death (HCC #17)
2. Ken Bruen and Jason Starr, Bust (HCC #20)
3. Lawrence Block, Grifter’s Game (HCC #1)
48. Madison Smartt Bell, Straight Cut (HCC #21)
49. Max Allan Collins, Deadly Beloved (HCC #38)
50. Stephen King, The Colorado Kid (HCC #13)
The Best Cover Award
Gregory Manchess for John Lange’s Grave Descend (HCC #26)
The Worst Cover Award
Robert McGinnis for John Farris’ Baby Moll (HCC #46)
The It-May-Be-Terrible-or-It-May-Be-a-Masterpiece Award
Russell Hill, Robbie’s Wife (HCC #29)
The Once-Too-Often-to-the-Well Awards
Lawrence Block, A Diet of Treacle (HCC #39)
Donald E. Westlake, Somebody Owes Me Money (HCC #44)
David J. Schow, Gun Work (HCC #49)
Richard Aleas, Little Girl Lost (HCC #4)
The Charles Ardai Award for Noble Publishing Projects
Charles Ardai
If you weren't a fan of Little Girl Lost, did you like Songs of Innocence?
ReplyDeleteI read Deadly Beloved and Colorado Kid back to back. You're right...terrible.
It's not that I disliked the Aleas books; I just wasn't as big a fan as most folks seem to be. Maybe I should give them another try.
ReplyDeleteYou were right about "A Touch of Death!" Fantastic!
ReplyDeleteExcellent to hear! It's one of my all-time faves. If you haven't read Charles Williams' Hell Hath No Fury (a.k.a. The Hot Spot), you should love that one too.
ReplyDeleteTo dislike colorado kid makes me think you completely missed the point or had your expectations subverted. It's a clever risk to do something meta and experimental for an audience going to hard case crime for predictable experience of genre fiction. It's great. Here for the top books to get from their imprint
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