It’s the Anthonys, Not the Tonys

Bouchercon organizers today announced the finalists for their 2024 Anthony Awards, in seven categories. Winners will be announced during a special event at the convention, with is to be held in Nashville, Tennessee, from August 28 through September 1.

Best Hardcover Novel:
• All the Sinners Bleed, by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)
• Everybody Knows, by Jordan Harper (Mulholland)
• Time’s Undoing, by Cheryl A. Head (Dutton)
• Face of Greed, by James L'Etoile (Oceanview)
• The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman)

Best Paperback Novel:
• No Home for Killers, by E.A. Aymar (Thomas & Mercer)
• Hide, by Tracy Clark (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)
• Lowdown Road, by Scott Von Doviak (Hard Case Crime)

Best First Novel:
• 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)
• Mother-Daughter Murder Night, by Nina Simon (Morrow)
• City Under One Roof, by Iris Yamashita (Berkley)

Best Children’s/YA:
• 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)
• The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle, by Taryn Sounders
(Sourcebooks Young Readers)
• Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose, by Nancy Springer (Wednesday)

Best Critical/Non-fiction:
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy, by Steven Powell (Bloomsbury)

Best Anthology/Collection:
• 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)
• The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions, by Art Taylor (Crippen & Landru)
• Killin’ Time in San Diego: Bouchercon Anthology 2023, edited by Holly West (Down & Out)

Best Short Story:
• “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)
• “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)
• “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.

READ MORE: Click here for links to all five of this year’s Anthony-nominated short stories online.