Saturday, June 12, 2010

Nominees for Anthony Award Announced

The nominees for the Anthony Award were announced on the Bouchercon2010 blog. Named for the late Anthony Boucher, the award winners, chosen by the attendees of the convention, will be announced this October during Bouchercon in San Francisco.
The nominees are:
Best Novel:
The Last Child by John Hart
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
The Shanghai Moon by S. J. Rozan
Best First Novel:
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield
The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff
Best Paperback Original:
Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
Tower by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman
Quarry in the Middle by Max Allan Collins
Death and the Lit Chick by G. M. Malliet
Air Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Best Short Story:
"Last Fair Deal Gone Down" by Ace Atkins
"Femme Sole" by Dana Cameron
"Animal Rescue" by Dennis Lehane
"On the House" by Hank Phillippi Ryan
"Amapola" by Luis Alberto Urrea
Best Critical Non-Fiction:
Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. James
The Line Up by Otto Penzler, ed.
Haunted Heart by Lisa Rogak
Dame Agatha's Shorts by Elena Santangelo
The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar

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