Annal:2001 Barry Award for Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Barry Award in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn: A Joe Barley Mystery
- 2001 Barry-Paperback winner
- 2001 Anthony-Paperback nominee
- 2001 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 22.51
Joe Barley, a part-time lecturer in English Literature and part-time security guard, is alerted by his maid to the disappearance of another of her employers, Rosie Dawn, a student of classics who is working her way through school by being an exotic dancer and the mistress of a fast-food entrepreneur. The novel also involves campus politics—a student tries to exploit the nervous administration over its minority policies.
- 2001 Anthony-Paperback winner
- 2001 Barry-Paperback nominee
- 2001 Macavity-1st Novel nominee
- 2000 Agatha–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 28.51
Kelly Ryan has just moved to the Caribbean island of St. Chris to run a top-rated radio station. She knew that her new life would be full of adventure—but she never expected murder…
Dive Deep and Deadly: A Luanne Fogarty Mystery
- 2001 Barry-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.51
Luanne Fogarty, adjunct scuba diver and reluctant linguistics professor, makes her debut in Glynn Marsh Alam’s first novel, Dive Deep and Deadly, set in the swamps outside Tallahassee.
Born in a swamp house, Luanne has returned to the dilapidated structure after her father’s death. She lives on the Palmetto River, between the glass bottomed boat park of Palmetto Spring and the tiny river town of Fogarty Spring. Her nearest neighbor and friend is the octogenarian Cajun, Dorian Pasquin.
Luanne’s struggle to repair the house comes to a halt when…
- 2001 Barry-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.51
It’s 1943 and Newport, Kentucky (aka Little Mexico) is the bawdiest spot in America. Dozens of illegal casinos and brothels line the major thoroughfares of this outlaw hideaway just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, providing entertainment for the thousands of otherwise honest, law-abiding citizens swarming in from hundreds of miles around. This is the gambling Mecca of America, years before Las Vegas is a twinkle in Bugsy Siegel’s eye.
The Cleveland Syndicate controls almost all the major sources of gambling in the area, as well as the mayor, city…
Distemper: An Alex Bernier Mystery
- 2001 Barry-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.51
Distemper, the sequel to Reliable Sources, picks up a year after the first mystery ends.
Twentysomething journalist Alex Bernier is still trying to get over the death of her cop-reporter lover when she gets caught up in an even more dangerous case in her eccentric Upstate New York college town. Someone is killing women in Gabriel. They’re found in the woods, naked and strangled but their dogs simply disappear. As Alex covers a series of stories ranging from serial murder to animal-rights zealotry, she’s in danger of becoming the killer’s next…
