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Guidelines - This section is reserved for books reviewed that have been nominated for an award. See also our Award Winners section, books reviewed that have won an award.
And Then She Was Gone by Susan McBride - Reviewed by John A. Broussard, PhD
Nominated for a Romantic Times Award for Best First Mystery. Chosen as a selection for the Oprah Reading Cafe online, Summer 2000.

Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden - Reviewed by Morgan Ann Adams - National Book Award finalist.

De
ad Low Tide by Jamie Katz - Reviewed by Maria Y. Lima - Nominated for a 1999 Shamus Award for Best First Mystery.

Disgrace by South African author J.M. Coetzee - Reviewed by Merilyn Tomkins -Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize - Nominated for the prestigious 2000 Book Data Award.

Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai - Reviewed by Morgan Ann Adams - Short listed for the 2000 Booker Prize.

Girl in Hyacinth Blue
by Susan Vreeland - Reviewed by Nancy Mehl - Nominated in the Fiction Category for the ABA's BookSense Award. Also nominated for the Western States Art Federation's Book of the Year Award.

High Five by Janet Evanovich - Reviewed by PJ Nunn -
Nominated for a 2000 Anthony Award for Best Novel.

L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais - Reviewed by John A. Broussard, PhD - Winner of a 2000 Dilys Award [Independent Mystery Bookstores] - Nominated for a 2000 Anthony Award for Best Novel.

Maximum Insecurity by P.J. Grady - Reviewed by Diane Gotfryd. - Nominated for a Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel.

Missing Marlene by Evan Marshall - Reviewed by PJ Nunn and Susan McBride - Nominated for a 2000 Romantic Times Award for Best First Mystery.

Pluto Rising by Karen Irving - Nominated for a 2000 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.

Revenge of the Gypsy Queen by Kris Neri - Reviewed by PJ Nunn - Nominated for the 2000 Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel.

Speak Ill of the Dead by Mary Jane Maffini - Reviewed by Devorah Stone - Nominated for a 2000 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.

Stones Throw by Linda Opdyke - Reviewed by PJ Nunn - Nominated for the 2000 Eppie Award, thriller category - Also nominated for the 2000 Frankfurt E-book Award.

The Immortal Game by Mark Coggins
- Reviewed by Maria Y. Lima - Nominated for the 2000 Shamus and Barry Awards.

Them Bones by Carolyn Haines - Reviewed by Susan McBride - Nominated for a Romantic Times Award for Best First Mystery.

Then Again by Elyse Friedman - Reviewed by Zaheera Jiwaji - Nominated for the 1999 Trillium Book Award.


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