Mercury's Rise Nominated... Twice!

Mercury's Rise has been nominated for two prestigious historical mystery awards:

• The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award (winner to be announced at the Left Coast Crime convention, Sacramento, California)
• The Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel (winner to be announced at the Malice Domestic convention, Bethesda, Maryland)

The complete lists of nominees for each of these awards are...

The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award (for best historical mystery novel covering events before 1960):

• Rhys Bowen, Naughty in Nice (Berkley Prime Crime)
• Rebecca Cantrell, A Game of Lies (Forge)
• Ann Parker, Mercury's Rise (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Priscilla Royal, A Killing Season (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Jeri Westerson, Troubled Bones (Minotaur)
• Jacqueline Winspear, A Lesson in Secrets (Harper) 

All award categories and nominees for Left Coast Crime can be found here.


Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel:

• Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)
• Murder Your Darlings by J.J. Murphy (Signet)
• Mercury's Rise by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson (Minotaur)
• A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear (Harper)

All Agatha award categories and nominees can be found here.

There's some mighty good reading in these lists. Hope you seek out the nominees and read them all!