Best First Novel by an American Author
Nominees

Reckless Homicide	Ira Genberg (St. Martin's Press)
Cold Day In Paradise	Steve Hamilton (St. Martin's Press)
Numbered Account	Christopher Reich (Delacorte)
Nice	Jen Sacks (St. Martin's Press)
A Criminal Appeal	D.R. Schanker (St. Martin's Press)

Best Paperback Original
Nominees

Atlanta Graves	Ruth Birmingham (Berkley Prime Crime)
Butcher's Hill	Laura Lippman (Avon Books)
Zen Attitude	Sujata Massey (HarperPaperbacks)
The Widower's Two-Step	Rick Riordan (Bantam Books)
Murder Manual	Steven Womack (Ballantine Books)

Best Fact Crime
Nominees

Death Sentence	Jerry Bledsoe (Dutton)
Tough Jews	Rich Cohen (Simon & Schuster)
Greentown	Timothy Dumas (Arcade)
One Of Ours	Richard A. Serrano (W. W. Norton)
To The Last Breath	Carlton Stowers (St. Martin's Press)

Best Critical/Biographical Work
Nominees

The Seven Deadly Sins In The Work Of Dorothy Sayers	Janice Brown (Kent State University Press)
Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael	Anne Kaler (Bowling Green University Press)
Dark City: The Lost World Of Film Noir	Eddie Muller (St. Martin's Press)
Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death Of Edgar Allan Poe	John Walsh (Rutgers University Press)
Mystery And Suspense Writers	Edited by Robin Winks and Associate Editor Maureen Corrigan (Scribners)

Best Short Story
Nominees

"Looking for David"	Lawrence Block (EQMM, Feb 98)
"Poachers"	Tom Franklin (The Texas Review, Fall/Winter 98)
"The Halfway Woman"	Clark Howard (EQMM, Feb 98)
"For Jeff"	Perry Michael Smith (EQMM, Feb 98)
"Sacrifice"	L. L. Thrasher (Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, Summer/Fall 98)

Best Young Adult
Nominees

Finn	Katharine Jay Bacon (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster)
The Maze	Will Hobbs (Morrow Junior Books)
Paperquake	Kathryn Reiss (Harcourt Brace & Company)
For Mike	Shelley Sykes (Delacorte Press)
The Killer's Cousin	Nancy Werlin (Delacorte Press)

Best Children's
Nominees

The Kidnappers	Willo Davis Roberts (Atheneum)
Alice Rose & Sam	Kathryn Lasky (Hyperion)
The Wreckers	Iain Lawrence (Delacorte Press)
Holes	Louis Sacher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Sammy Keyes And The Hotel Thief	Wendelin Van Draanen (Knopf)

Best Television Episode
Nominees

Law & Order: "Bad Girl"	Rene Balcer & Richard Sweren (NBC)
Law & Order: "Carrier"	David Black (NBC)
Silent Witness: "Fallen Idol"	Gwyneth Hughes (BBC/A&E co-production)
Brooklyn South: "Skel in a Cell"	Doug Palau & Nicholas Wooten, story by Steven Bochco, David Milch, William M. Finkelstein and Bill Clark
Brooklyn South: "Fools Russian"	Scott A. Williams, Allen Edwards and Matt Olmstead Story by Steven Bochco, David Milch, William M. Finkelstein and Bill Clark

Best Television Feature / Mini-series
Nominees

The Cater Street Hangman	T. R. Bowen (from a novel Anne Perry) (A&E)
Dalziel & Pascoe: Child's Play	Michael Chaplin (based on the novel Reginald Hill) (A&E)
Midsomer Murders: Death of a Hollow Man	Caroline Graham (A&E)
Rear Window	Eric Overmyer & Larry Gross (based on a story Cornell Woolrich) (ABC)
Law & Order: Exiled	Charles Kipps (NBC)

Best Movie
Nominees

The Spanish Prisoner	David Mamet (Sony Pictures Classics)
Out Of Sight	Scott Frank (Universal)
A Simple Plan	Scott B. Smith (Paramount)

Best Play

Voices In The Dark

John Pielmeier (Produced in New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1998)

Grand Master
P.D. James

Ellery Queen Award
to honor writing teams and outstanding people in the mystery publishing industry
Sara Ann Freed

Robert L Fish Award
for the best first short story by an American author
"Clarity" by Bryn Bonner (EQMM, May 98)

Raven
for outstanding achievement in the mystery field outside the realm of creative writing
Steven Bochco