Touted in Tennessee

Last evening, during Bouchercon in Nashville, the winners of this year’s Anthony Awards were announced.

Best Hardcover Novel:
All the Sinners Bleed, by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)

Also nominated: Everybody Knows, by Jordan Harper (Mulholland); Time’s Undoing, by Cheryl A. Head (Dutton); Face of Greed, by James L'Etoile (Oceanview); and The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman)

Best Paperback:
Hide, by Tracy Clark (Thomas & Mercer)

Also nominated: No Home for Killers, by E.A. Aymar (Thomas & Mercer); Because the Night, by James D.F. Hannah (Down & Out); The Taken Ones, by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer); Magic City Blues, by Bobby Matthews (Shotgun Honey); and Lowdown Road, by Scott Von Doviak (Hard Case Crime)

Best First Novel:
Mother-Daughter Murder Night, by Nina Simon (Morrow)

Also nominated: The Peacock and the Sparrow, by I.S. Berry (Atria); Play the Fool, by Lina Chern (Bantam); Scorched Grace, by Margot Douaihy (Zando/Gillian Flynn); and City Under One Roof, by Iris Yamashita (Berkley)

Best Children’s/Young Adult: Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose, by Nancy Springer (Wednesday)

Also nominated: Finney and the Secret Tunnel, by Jamie Lane Barber (Level Elevate); Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity, by Elizabeth C. Bunce (Algonquin Young Readers); The Sasquatch of Hawthorne Elementary, by K.B. Jackson (Reycraft); and The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle, by Taryn Sounders (Sourcebooks Young Readers)

Best Critical/Non-fiction: A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan (Viking)

Also nominated: Finders: Justice, Faith and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction, by Anjili Babbar (Syracuse University Press); Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction, by Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor (Mysterious Press); A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe, by Mark Dawidziak (St. Martin’s Press); Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, by Robert Morgan (LSU Press); Agatha Christie, She Watched: One Woman's Plot to Watch 201 Christie Adaptations Without Murdering the Director, Screenwriter, Cast, or Her Husband, by Teresa Peschel (Peschel Press); and Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy, by Steven Powell (Bloomsbury)

Best Anthology/Collection: Killin’ Time in San Diego: Bouchercon Anthology 2023, edited by Holly West (Down & Out)

Also nominated: School of Hard Knox, edited by Donna Andrews, Greg Herren, and Art Taylor (Crippen & Landru); Here in the Dark, by Meagan Lucas (Shotgun Honey); Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles, edited by Josh Pachter (Down & Out); and The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions, by Art Taylor (Crippen & Landru)

Best Short Story: “Ticket to Ride,” by Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski (from Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles, edited by Josh Pachter; Down & Out)

Also nominated: “Real Courage,” by Barb Goffman (Black Cat Mystery Magazine, October 2023); “Knock,” by James D.F. Hannah (from Playing Games, edited by Lawrence Block; Subterranean Press); “Green and California Bound,” by Curtis Ippolito (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 2023); and “Tell Me No Lies,” by Holly West (from Shotgun Honey Presents: Thicker Than Water, edited by Ron Earl Phillips; Shotgun Honey)

Bouchercon and the Anthony Awards are named in honor of Anthony Boucher (aka William Anthony Parker White), a critic, novelist, and one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America.

Congratulations to all of the 2024 Anthony nominees!