Named in honor of mystery fiction reviewer and Deadly Pleasures contributor Barry Gardner, the winners of the Barry Awards are selected each year by the magazine’s subscribers and online visitors.

For more information about Deadly Pleasures and the Barry Awards, please visit: http://www.deadlypleasures.com/barry.html

2010 Winners

Best Novel
THE LAST CHILD by John Hart (Minotaur Books)

Best First Novel
THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE by Alan Bradley (Delacorte)

Best British Novel
IF THE DEAD RISE NOT by Phillip Kerr (Quercus)

Best Paperback Original
STARVATION LAKE by Bryan Gruley (Touchstone)

Best Thriller
RUNNING FROM THE DEVIL by Jamie Freveletti (Morrow)

Best Mystery/Crime Novel of the Decade
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson (Alfred A. Knopf)

Best Short Story
"The High House Writer" by Brendan DuBois, in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (July-August 2009)

Don Sandstrom Award for Literary Achievement in Mystery Fandom
Len and June Moffatt; Captain Bob Napier