Friday, May 6, 2016

ANTHONY NOMINEES


Anthony Nominees were just announced. Awards will be presented at Bouchercon in New Orleans in September.

BEST NOVEL
Night Tremors - Matt Coyle  [Oceanview]
The Killing Kind - Chris Holm  [Mulholland]
The Child Garden - Catriona McPherson  [Midnight Ink]
The Nature of the Beast - Louise Penny  [Minotaur/Sphere]
What You See - Hank Phillippi Ryan  [Forge]

BEST FIRST NOVEL
Concrete Angel - Patricia Abbott  [Polis]
Past Crimes - Glen Erik Hamilton  [William Morrow]
New Yorked - Rob Hart  [Polis]
Bull Mountain - Brian Panowich  [G.P. Putnam's Sons/Head of Zeus]
On the Road with Del & Louise - Art Taylor  [Henery]

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Long and Faraway Gone - Lou Berney  [William Morrow]
Gun Street Girl - Adrian McKinty  [Seventh Street/Serpent's Tail]
Little Pretty Things - Lori Rader-Day  [Seventh Street]
Young Americans - Josh Stallings  [Heist]
Stone Cold Dead - James W. Ziskin  [Seventh Street]

BEST CRITICAL OR NONFICTION BOOK
The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story - Martin Edwards  [HarperCollins]
Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald - Suzanne Marrs & Tom Nolan, editors  [Arcade]
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime - Val McDermid  [Grove]
The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett - Nathan Ward  [Bloomsbury USA]
The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For - Kate White, editor  [Quirk]

BEST SHORT STORY
"The Little Men: A Bibliomystery" - Megan Abbott  [MysteriousPress.com/Open Road]
"The Siege" Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Dec 2015 - Hilary Davidson  [Dell]
"Feliz Navidead" Thuglit Presents: Cruel Yule - Brace Godfrey/Johnny Shaw  [CreateSpace]
"Old Hands" Dark City Lights - Erin Mitchell  [Three Rooms]
"Quack and Dwight" Jewish Noir - Travis Richardson  [PM]
"Don’t Fear the Ripper" Protectors 2: Heroes - Holly West  [Goombah Gumbo]

BEST ANTHOLOGY OR COLLECTION
Safe Inside the Violence - Christopher Irvin  [280 Steps]
Protectors 2: Heroes-Stories to Benefit PROTECT - Thomas Pluck, editor  [Goombah Gumbo]
Thuglit Presents: Cruel Yule: Holiday Tales of Crime for People on the Naughty List - Todd Robinson, editor  [CreateSpace]
Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015 - Art Taylor, editor  [Down & Out]
Jewish Noir: Contemporary Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds - Kenneth Wishnia, editor  [PM]

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Need - Joelle Charbonneau  [HMH Books for Young Readers]
How to Win at High School - Owen Matthews  [HarperTeen]
A Madness So Discreet - Mindy McGinnis  [Katherine Tegen]
The Sin Eater’s Daughter - Melinda Salisbury  [Scholastic]
Fighting Chance - B.K. Stevens  [The Poisoned Pencil]
Ask the Dark - Henry Turner  [Clarion]

BEST CRIME FICTION AUDIOBOOK
Dark Waters - Chris Goff - Assaf Cohen, narrator  [Crooked Lane]
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins - Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey & India Fisher, narrators  [Penguin Audio/Random House Audiobooks]
Causing Chaos - Deborah J. Ledford - Christina Cox, narrator  [IOF Productions]
The Nature of the Beast - Louise Penny - Robert Bathurst, narrator  [Macmillan Audio]
Young Americans - Josh Stallings - Em Eldridge, narrator  [Josh Stallings]

Congratulations to all the nominees!

1 comment:

Priscilla said...

Thrilled to see B K Stevens, an author with the Poison Pencil, up there! Lots of excellent writers here overall.