Annal:2001 Barry Award for Best Novel
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Results of the Barry Award in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Deep South: An Anna Pigeon Novel
- 2001 Barry-Novel winner
- 2001 Anthony-Novel nominee
- Score: 16.51
The handwritten sign on the tree said it all: REPENT. For Anna Pigeon, this should have been reason enough to turn back for her beloved Mesa Verde. Instead she heads for the Natchez Trace Parkway and the promotion that awaits her. Almost immediately, she finds herself in the midst of controversy: as the new district ranger, she faces resentment so extreme her ability to do her job may be compromised, and her life may very well be in danger. But all thoughts of personal safety are set aside with the discovery of a young girl’s body in a country cemetery, a sheet…
Running Blind: A Jack Reacher Novel
- 2001 Barry-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Suppose you knew the winning numbers for the lottery. What would you do? You would run to the store. You would mark the numbers on the play card. And you would win. Same for the stock market. Same for basketball or the horses or anything. Same for killing people…
So begins Running Blind, the electrifying new novel in the acclaimed series featuring ex-military policeman Jack Reacher.
Women are dying. Women who have nothing in common except the fact they once worked for the…
Cross Dressing: A Novel
- 2001 Barry-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
Dan Steele Has It Made.
He’s on top of his game as creative director of the The Prescott Agency in L.A., a jaundiced adman who looks at you and sees a narrow demographic-and a very fat paycheck. His identical twin, Michael, a do-gooder Catholic priest, can traipse around the Third World doing all the emergency relief work he wants. For Dan, doing good means having the biggest home entertainment center money can buy. But his life of conspicuous consumption is about to come to a horrible screeching whoa.Cross Dressing
Just returned from Rwanda, Father…
Places in the Dark: A Novel
- 2001 Barry-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
It is autumn 1935 when a mystery woman appears in Port Alma, a small sea village nestled on the chilly coast of Maine. A fragile, green-eyed beauty, the woman arrives with little more than the clothes on her back and a wealth of unspoken secrets. Before a year goes by, she will flee Port Alma on the same bus that brought her there. But before she goes, she will irrevocably alter the lives of two brothers—leaving one dead, and the other perched on the edge of madness….
In lyrical and sumptuous prose, Edgar Award-winning writer Thomas Cook has penned a…
Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery
- 2001 Barry-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
Ex-cop and sometime-P.I. Alex McKnight endures the bitter winter of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in his log cabin with warm fires and cold Molsons. When Dorothy Parrish, a young Ojibwa woman asks him for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after secreting her in one of his cabins, he finds her gone the next morning. McKnight suspects vicious, hockey-playing Lonnie Bruckman of abducting the woman, but his search for her brings on more suspects, bruising encounters, and a thinkening web of crime, all obscured by the relentless whiplash of brutal…
Unwanted Company: A Munch Mancini Novel
- 2001 Barry-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
Miranda “Munch” Mancini has seen the worst of times, but she’s still looking for the best. A recovering addict and auto mechanic, she’s now a single mother and a fledgling businesswoman trying to run a limousine service. But being her own boss means she can’t afford to turn down a client, even when a seedy government type offers her big money to drive around a foreign businessman…
The problems start when Munch promises to hire Ellen, an old friend fresh out of prison, as a driver. Next thing Munch knows, though, her friend, her client, and her Cadillac are…
