Annal:2003 Barry Award for Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel
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Results of the Barry Award in the year 2003. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2003 Barry-Paperback winner
- Score: 10.53
When computer programmer Cody O’Brien’s son is kidnapped in broad daylight, Cody’s greatest fear is knowing the true motive behind it…
A former FBI agent with a new identity, Cody knows that old secrets-and vendettas-die hard. Now she’s on the run again to save her son from the one woman who wants only one thing: cold-blooded revenge.
- 2003 Anthony-Paperback nominee
- 2003 Barry-Paperback nominee
- 2003 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 18.53
The “master of white-knuckled suspense” (Harlan Coben) is back…and so is Texas judge Whit Mosely-in an all-new, all-exciting tale of a legendary treasure, modern-day piracy, and a life-or-death game that turns Whit’s friend, Port Leo police detective Claudia Salazar, into a high-seas hostage.
- 2003 Anthony-Paperback winner
- 2003 Barry-Paperback nominee
- Score: 16.53
A homicide inspector with the San Francisco Police Department, Kate Gillespie worked hard to get where she is. But a frantic phone call from a snitch threatens to destroy everything she is and everything she’s earned. Pulled from the bright lights of the Homicide office onto the shadowy night streets, she arrives at a clandestine meet just in time to see the frightened informer shot dead…by another cop. Now Kate is a target, on a trail of dirty deals, corruption, and escalating violence that reaches back into her own troubled family history and deep into a…
- 2003 Barry-Paperback nominee
- 2003 Shamus-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 12.53
A Town Getting Away With Murder
Beneath the glamour of a trendy Hamptons summer town lies another world–one of dark lives and desperate secrets. And when Labor Day arrives and the beautiful people depart, locals like Declan MacManus are left behind to make a living out of just surviving. A sometime P.I., MacManus is an expert at self-defense and a master of self-destruction, but nothing he’s seen of the dark side of fortune can prepare him for what he is about to discover.
On a dark, deserted road Mac witnesses a bizarre, single-car wreck, but he…
- 2003 Barry-Paperback nominee
- 2003 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 12.53
Eight months pregnant: a time when most women would want to stay off their feet. But forensic psychologist Michael Stone is no ordinary woman. When her old friend, the warden at Nelson’s Point Correctional Facility, asks her to replace a psychologist who was leading the sex offender therapy group, Michael can’t say no. As she soon discovers, her predecessor was dismissed for having sexual relations with an inmate—and had befriended a smooth-talking prisoner in her group…a prisoner who now has his eyes on Michael. When violence erupts, leaving one inmate dead and…
- 2003 Barry-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.53
New York City taxidermy collector Garth Carson was seconds away from snagging the greatest find of his career—the original Pipsqueak the Nutty Nut, stuffed-squirrel puppet star of his favorite 1950s kiddie TV show—until a biker, a brawny redhead, and a murder derailed his dreams and stole his squirrel. Now Garth would do anything to get Pipsqueak back. Unfortunately, so would someone else.
When Garth and his gal, Angie, two of New York’s most unlikely sleuths, enter a wacky, rollicking underworld of club-goers, jive cult members, and at least one very violent…
