DERRINGER AWARDS
BEST LONGER SHORT STORY 

2007:  Strictly Business by Julie Hyzy (Winner)

Signature in Blood by Annette Dashofy 
Daphne MacAndrews and the Smack-Head Junkies by Stuart MacBride
See Also Murder by Larry Sweazy
The Valley of Angustias by Steven Torres 

2006: The Safest Place on Earth by Mark (Winner) 

Monday, Sweet Monday by John F. Dobbyn
Good Shepherd by Frank Zafiro
Fish by Stephen Johnston
The Cherries of Lucullus by Steven Saylor  

2005: Secondhand Heart by Doug Allyn   

God's Dice by David White 
A Sunday in Ordinary Time by Terence Faherty 
The Franklin Fiasco by Beverle Graves Myers 
The Girl in Apartment 2A by G. Miki Hayden  

2004: The Mask of Peter by Clark Howard (Winner)  

Bombshell by Loren D. Estleman 
The Windsor Ballet by Deborah Morgan
Henry and the Idiots by Robert J. Randisi 
Amazing Grace by Harriet Rzetelny  

2003: The Murder Ballads by Doug Allyn (Winner)

Medicine Water by David Edgerly Gates
To Live and Die in Midland, Texas by Clark Howard
Painter of the Seven-Eyed Beast by Catherine Mambretti
Henry's Power by Bob Stevens   

2002: Early Morning Rain by Jean McCord (Winner)  

Lesser-Included Offense by Jeffery Deaver 
The Mondo Whammy by David Handler 
Avenging Miriam by Peter Sellers 
Harry's Lament by Bentley Dadmun 

2001: Lilacs and Lace by Lynda Douglas (Winner)

The Death Row Pet Show by Doug Allyn
Attitude Thing by William J. Carroll, Jr.
Blood Paths by Clark Howard 
The Sedgemoor Strangler by Peter Lovesey  

2000: Saint Bobby by Doug Allyn   

Annie’s Dream by Bentley Dadmun
Death in the Dales by C. M. Chan 

1998: Image of Conspiracy by Margo Power