World Literary Awards

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Edition 21 (2008)

Best Contemporary NovelBest Historical NovelBest First NovelBest Short StoryBest Non-FictionBest Children's/Young Adult Mystery

Winners

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Louise Penny Winner

Starred Review. Chief Insp. Armand Gamache and his team investigate another bizarre crime in the tiny Québec village of Three Pines in Penny's expertly plotted third cozy (after 2007's A Fatal Grace). As the townspeople gather in the abandoned and perhaps haunted Hadley house for a séance with a visiting psychic, Madeleine Favreau collapses, apparently dead of fright. No one has a harsh word to say about Madeleine, but Gamache knows there's more to the case than meets the eye. Complicating his inquiry are the re...

Starred Review.

320 pages
literary fictioncharacteratmosphere
G. M. Malliet Winner

A book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosphere.

book that follows its subject through conflict, memory, or discovery, with a strong emphasis on character and atmosph...

297 pages
mysterysuspense
Dana Cameron Winner

A short story that introduces Dana Cameron’s Fangborn universe, following the moment a hidden supernatural identity and a larger conflict begin to surface.

The first crack in a hidden world opens the story outward.

short storysupernatural fictionhidden identityseries originurban fantasy

A practical guide that focuses on craft, structure, and the habits that help a writer shape a stronger book.

practical guide that focuses on craft, structure, and the habits that help a writer shape a stronger book.

220 pages
writing craftreference

ZACK, HIS DAD, and new stepmother have just moved back to his father's hometown, not knowing that their new house has a dark history. Fifty years ago, a crazed killer caused an accident at the nearby crossroads that took 40 innocent lives. He died when his car hit a tree in a fiery crash, and his malevolent spirit has inhabited the tree ever since. During a huge storm, lightning hits the tree, releasing the spirit, who decides his evil spree isn't over . . . and Zack is directly in his sights.Award-winning thril...

ZACK, HIS DAD, and new stepmother have just moved back to his father's hometown, not knowing that their new house has...

336 pages
mysterysuspense