I’ve been watching the Bouchercon 2013 Facebook page to find out which authors and books have won this year’s Anthony Awards. Here are the results reported there.
Best Novel: The Beautiful Mystery, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
Also nominated: Dare Me, by Megan Abbott (Reagan Arthur); Trinity Game, by Sean Chercover (Thomas & Mercer); Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn (Crown); and The Other Woman, by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge)
Best First Novel: The Expats, by Chris Pavone (Crown)
Also nominated: Don’t Ever Get Old, by Daniel Friedman (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne); The Professionals, by Owen Laukkanen (Putnam); The 500, by Matthew Quirk (Reagan Arthur); and Black Fridays, by Michael Sears (Putnam)
Best Paperback Original:
Big Maria, by Johnny Shaw (Thomas & Mercer)
Also nominated: Whiplash River, by Lou Berney (Morrow); Murder for Choir, by Joelle Charbonneau (Berkley Prime Crime); And She Was, by Alison Gaylin (Harper); and Blessed Are the Dead, by Malla Nunn (Emily Bestler)
Best Short Story: “Mischief in Mesopotamia,” by Dana Cameron (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 2012)
Also nominated: “Kept in the Dark,” by Shelia Connolly (in Best New England Crime Stories 2013: Blood Moon, edited by Mark Ammons, Katherine Fast, Barbara Ross, and Leslie Wheeler; Level Best);“The Lord Is My Shamus,” by Barb Goffman (in
Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder, edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman,
and Marcia Talley; Wildside Press); “Peaches,” by Todd Robinson (Grift, Spring 2012); and “The Unremarkable Heart,” by Karin Slaughter (in Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance, edited by Lee Child; Mulholland)
Best Critical Non-fiction Work: Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels, edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke (Atria/Emily Bestler)
Also nominated: Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947-1950, edited by Joseph Goodrich (Perfect Crime); More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered, by D.P. Lyle (Medallion Press); The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie, edited by Mathew Prichard (Harper); and In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero, edited by Otto Penzler (Smart Pop)
Lifetime Achievement Award: Sue Grafton
David Thompson Special Services Award: Marv Lachman
Congratulations to all of the winners and other nominees!
Saturday, September 21, 2013
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