2010 Hammett Prize Nominations

The International Association of Crime Writers (IACW)

 has announced the 2010 Hammett Prize Nominations:

Congratulations to all these fine writers.  Also thank you to all the many other wonderful writers that submitted their work for consideration.

Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott(Simon & Schuster)

Devil's Garden by Ace Atkins (Putnam)

The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry (Penguin)

The Long Fall by Walter Mosley (Riverhead)

The Way Home by George Pelecanos (Little, Brown)

IACW/NA awards The Hammett Prize annually for literary excellence in the field of crime-writing, as reflected in a book published in the English language in the U.S. and/or Canada. The winner receives a "Thin Man" trophy, designed by sculptor Peter Boiger.


Peter Boiger is a sculptor who resides in Northern California. Born in Altotting, Germany, Boiger apprenticed with Hans Frank in Burghausen, Germany and came to the USA in 1964. His major accomplishment in the area of Holocaust Monuments is the Valley of the Destroyed Communities, at Yad VaShem in Jerusalem, Israel. It is a maze environment of stone, commemorating the Jewish communities of Europe destroyed by Nazi Germany during the Shoah, the Holocaust. It is a major part of the Yad VaShem complex.