Two Macavity Award nominations!

This feels like a dream... We've just learned that BFP has earned two Macavity Award nominations!

Tower (by Ken Bruen & Reed Farrel Coleman) -- Best Mystery Novel!
Tower has also been nominated for the Anthony & Spinetingler Awards and the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award (Mystery).

"Last Fair Deal Gone Down" (by Ace Atkins, in Crossroad Blues) -- Best Short Story!
"Last Fair Deal..." has also been nominated for the Anthony & Edgar Awards.

The Macavity Awards are nominated and voted on by the members of Mystery Readers International. The winners will be announced at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, in San Francisco this October. This award is named for the "mystery cat" of T. S. Eliot (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats).

Other nominees include Megan Abbott, Louise Penny, Stuart Neville, S. J. Rozan, Deborah Crombie, and more. Go here for a complete list of nominees. Thank you so much, Mystery Readers International!!!