The Anthony Award Winners Announced

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The 2012 Bouchercon fan conference concluded its 4 day run and this year’s winners of the coveted award named after Anthony Boucher, critic and crime fiction author, were presented Saturday evening.

Here is the list of nominees. The winners are  highlighted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • BEST NOVEL

  • The End of Everything – Megan Abbott [Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown]

  • Hurt Machine – Reed Farrel Coleman [Tyrus]

  • The Drop – Michael Connelly [Little, Brown]

  • >A Trick of the Light – Louise Penny [Minotaur]

  • One Was a Soldier – Julia Spencer-Fleming [Thomas Dunne/Minotaur]



  • BEST FIRST NOVEL

  • >Learning to Swim – Sara J. Henry [Crown]

  • Nazareth Child – Darrell James [Midnight Ink]

  • All Cry Chaos – Leonard Rosen [The Permanent Press]

  • Who Do, Voodoo? – Rochelle Staab [Berkley Prime Crime]

  • The Informationist – Taylor Stevens [Crown]

  • Purgatory Chasm – Steve Ulfelder [Thomas Dunne/Minotaur]

  • Before I Go to Sleep – S.J. Watson [HarperCollins]


  • BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

  • The Company Man – Robert Jackson Bennett [Orbit/Hachette]

  • Choke Hold – Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime/Titan]

  • >Buffalo West Wing – Julie Hyzy [Berkley Prime Crime/Tekno]

  • Death of the Mantis – Michael Stanley [HarperCollins]

  • Fun & Games – Duane Swierczynski [Mulholland]

  • Vienna Twilight – Frank Tallis [Random House]


  • BEST SHORT STORY

  • >”Disarming” – Dana Cameron, EQMM June’11, p.24

  • “The Case of Death and Honey” – Neil Gaiman, A Study In Sherlock, p.167 [Bantam]

  • “Palace on the Lake” – Daryl Wood Gerber, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology, p.184 [Wildside]

  • “Truth and Consequences” – Barb Goffman, Mystery Times Ten, p.121 [Buddhapuss Ink]

  • “The Itinerary” – Roberta Isleib, MWA Presents The Rich and The Dead, p.189 [Grand Central]

  • “Happine$$” – Twist Phelan, MWA Presents The Rich and The Dead, p.276 [Grand Central]


  • BEST CRITICAL NONFICTION WORK

  • Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure – Leslie Budewitz [Quill Driver/Linden]

  • Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks – John Curran [HarperCollins]

  • On Conan Doyle: or, The Whole Art of Storytelling – Michael Dirda [Princeton University Press]

  • Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film – Philippa Gates [SUNY Press]

  • >The Sookie Stackhouse Companion – Charlaine Harris, ed. [Ace]

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