PRIZES IN INDY

The full list of yesterday's prize awards at the Indianapolis Boucheron can be seen at The Rap Sheet.

I was particularly interested in that the Macavity Award for the Best First Mystery went to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland. [click this link and scroll down for everything Stieg Larsson]

The Barry Award for the Best Novel went to another Nordic mystery the superb The Draining Lake by the Icelandic author Arnaldur Indridason.

The award for Best British Novel, obviously a product of the publisher, Quercus, rather than the Swedish author or the American translator, also went to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

The photograph is not the closest I have been to Indianapolis, but it was taken in Southern Indiana.