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A selection of the winners in fiction categories from the past ten years. For more information, go to Minnesota Book Awards.
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2009 Kramer, Julie Stalking Susan Award for Genre Fiction Investigative journalist Riley Spartz discovers that a serial killer may be targeting women named Susan and killing one on the same day of each year, and takes on an obstinate news director and a politician in fear of negative publicity for the city of Minneapolis as she launches a bold campaign to find the murderer. 2008 Appears on the following book lists:
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2009 Erdrich, Louise The Plague of Doves Award for Novel & Short Story Unaware of a violent event that marked the beginning of her mixed ancestry, ambitious young Evelina Harp, a part-Ojibwe, part-white girl prone to falling hopelessly in love, learns disturbing truths from her gifted storyteller grandfather, while a sentimental judge weighs the legacy of a century-old crime as reflected by his own love life. 2008 Appears on the following book lists:
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2008 Ping, Wang The Last Communist Virgin: Stories Award for Novel & Short Story "From the restaurants of New York's Chinatown to the retail emporium of Bergdorf Goodman, and from remote Chinese military outposts to the streets of Beijing, these stories open a window into the rapid transformations of an ancient culture. As the characters struggle to find their way, a young girl discovers love amidst a sea of angry Red Guards, emigres navigate New York's relentless rat race, and an old man returns to a Beijing he doesn't recognize on a mission to restore his son-in-law's flagging honor. In the finale, the origins of humanity and its reckless dash toward an apocalyptic future are distilled into a love story with far-reaching implications." [Book Jacket] 2007 Appears on the following book lists:
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2008 Krueger, William Kent Thunder Bay: A Cork O'Connor Mystery Award for Genre Fiction Leaving behind a stressful law enforcement career in the hopes of becoming a private investigator in his small Minnesota hometown, Cork O'Connor is asked by an Ojibwe healer to help him find the son the man fathered years earlier, a case that culminates in an attempt on the Ojibwe's life. 2007 Appears on the following book lists:  At Home Reader March 2008 Minnesota Authors | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2007 Smith, Maureen Millea When Charlotte Comes Home Award for Novel & Short Story Fred is a sensitive young man growing up in a Catholic family in Omaha when the death of his spunky younger sister causes a deep and far-reaching affect on his entire family and broader community. With the bleak backdrop of the 60s and 70s, Fred looks back on his early, formative years and his own sexual awakening and coming of age as a young gay man. 2006 Appears on the following book lists: At Home Reader September 2006
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2007 Krueger, William Kent Copper River: A Cork O'Connor Mystery Award for Genre Fiction On the run from hitmen, sheriff Cork O'Connor hides out at an old resort, owned by his cousin Jewell DuBois, on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. 2006 Appears on the following book lists:
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2006 Erdrich, Louise The Painted Drum Award for Novel and Short Story Discovering a cache of valuable Native American artifacts while appraising a family estate in New Hampshire, Faye Travers investigates the history of a ceremonial drum, which possesses spiritual powers and changes the lives of people who encounter it. 2005 Appears on the following book lists: Family Relationships | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2006 Hart, Ellen The Iron Girl Award for Popular Fiction While sorting through the belongings of her late lover, Christine Kane, Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless discovers a gun that could hold the clue to Christine's death as well as the murders of three members of the Simoneau family. 2005 Appears on the following book lists: Amateur Sleuths | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2005 Meyers, Kent The Work of Wolves Award for Novel and Short Story Carson Fielding is well respected for his ability to train horses, but after reluctantly agreeing to work for a wealthy rancher he despises, he finds his loathing supplanted by his growing desire for his employer's wife. 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2005 Erickson, K. J. Alone at Night Award for Popular Fiction Exhausted and burnt-out after dealing with a series of major homicides, Mars Bahr and his partner are assigned to investigate the unsolved, sixteen-year-old case of a missing girl, but their search for answers uncovers the subsequent death of the girl's best friend, the disappearance of the case's two primary witnesses, and unexpected danger threatening those closest to them. 2004 Appears on the following book lists: Minnesota Authors
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2004 O'Connor, Sheila Where No Gods Came Award for Novel and Short Story In a compelling novel about the difficulties of assimilation, the author of "Tokens of Grace" traces the life of a young girl caught in a web of lies designed to protect her. 2003 Appears on the following book lists: Minnesota Authors
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2004 Tracy, P. J. Monkeewrench Award for Popular Fiction Grace McBride and the team at her software company are horrified when events in their murder mystery computer game are replicated in the real world by a ruthless killer, a situation that prompts them to analyze the game in order to anticipate his next move. 2003 Appears on the following book lists:
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2003 Labiner, Norah Miniatures Award for Fiction - Novel or Collection of Short Stories by a Single Author Young, impetuous, and possessing a passionate, vulnerable intellect, American Fern Jacobi is traveling in Ireland when she finds work as a live-in housekeeper to famous and reclusive writers Owen and Brigid Lieb....Amidst the Liebs’s riddled and deceitful world, Fern forges an alliance with Brigid, Owen’s young and beautiful second wife. When the two share the discovery of a controversial bundle of hidden letters, Fern not only unearths answers to the first wife’s suicide, but also to her own past. 2002 Appears on the following book lists:
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2003 Sandford, John Mortal Prey Award for Genre Nearly killed in a hit attempt, retired top hitwoman Clara Rinker goes into hiding, prompting Lucas Davenport, a one-time target of Clara's, to assist the FBI and DEA in tracking her down before her old bosses in the St. Louis mob and a Mexican drug lord get to her first. 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2003 Ursu, Anne Spilling Clarence Award for New Voice (First-time author) In Clarence, Minnesota, a smoky fire at the local pharmaceutical factory triggers a chemical spill and unleashes a bizarre and powerful drug that unlocks all the memories--both good and bad--of the citizens of Clarence. 2002 Appears on the following book lists: If you liked . . . The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Minnesota Authors
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2002 Erdrich, Louise The Last Report On the Miracles at Little No Horse Award for Novel & Short Story As a priest nears the end of his life, he is asked to prove or disprove the sainthood of a woman he knows well and struggles to guard his own secret identity in the process. 2001 Appears on the following book lists:
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2002 Krueger, William Kent Purgatory Ridge: A Cork O'Connor Mystery Award for Popular Fiction Cork O'Connor is called in to investigate when a deadly explosion rocks the lumber mill of Karl Lindstrom, a wealthy, anti-environmentalist industrialist, whose mill is near an ancient tract of pine forest, sacred to the Anishinaabe tribe, when members of the tribe become the prime suspects in the crime. 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2001 McGhee, Alison Shadow Baby Award for Novel & Short Storybr> An eleven-year-old girl being raised by a single mother in the Adirondack region of New York begins asking questions about her biological father and her maternal grandmother. 2000 Appears on the following book lists: If you liked . . . The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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2001 Logue, Mary Dark Coulee: A Claire Watkins Mystery Award for Popular Fiction Moving to a small town from the Twin Cities, Claire Watkins exchanges the problems of a big-city cop for a job on the local police force, but when Jed Spitzler is murdered, she must use her urban sleuthing skills to solve the case. 2000 Appears on the following book lists: Police Officers | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2000 Pate, Alexs D. The Multicultiboho Sideshow Award for Novel In this bitterly satirical novel of racial politics, unpublished African-American writer Ichabod "Icky" Word kidnaps a white policeman, hoping to explain the dead body in his living room to the sad, lazy cop, while the Minneapolis SWAT team maneuvers for position outside his apartment. 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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