Bouchercon 2019 will present the Anthony® Awards in Dallas November 2, 2019

The Anthony® Award is named for the late Anthony Boucher (rhymes with “voucher”), a well-known California writer and critic who wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times Book Review, and also helped found Mystery Writers of America.

 

Bouchercon 2019 — “Denim, Diamonds, and Death” — will present this year’s Anthony® Awards in five categories at the 50th annual Bouchercon® World Mystery Convention to be held in Dallas, October 31 to November 3, 2019. The Anthony Awards will be voted on by attendees at the convention and presented on Saturday, November 2.

 

The Anthony Award nominees, for works published in 2018, have just been selected by vote of the Bouchercon membership. The nominees are:

 

Best Novel

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott (Little, Brown and Company)

November Road by Lou Berney (William Morrow)

Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier (Minotaur Books)

Sunburn by Laura Lippman (William Morrow)

Blackout by Alex Segura (Polis Books)

 

Best First Novel

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Doubleday)

Broken Places by Tracy Clark (Kensington)

Dodging and Burning by John Copenhaver (Pegasus Books)

What Doesn’t Kill You by Aimee Hix (Midnight Ink)

Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin (Ecco)

 

Best Paperback Original Novel

Hollywood Ending by Kellye Garrett (Midnight Ink)

If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin (William Morrow Paperbacks)

Hiroshima Boy by Naomi Hirahara (Prospect Park Books)

Under a Dark Sky by Lori Rader-Day (William Morrow Paperbacks)

A Stone’s Throw by James W. Ziskin (Seventh Street Books)

 

Best Short Story

“The Grass Beneath My Feet” by S.A. Cosby, in Tough (blogazine, August 20, 2018)

“Bug Appétit” by Barb Goffman, in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (November/December 2018)

“Cold Beer No Flies” by Greg Herren, in Florida Happens (Three Rooms Press)

“English 398: Fiction Workshop” by Art Taylor, in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (July/August 2018)

“The Best Laid Plans” by Holly West, in Florida Happens (Three Rooms Press)

 

Best Critical or Non-Fiction Work

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin (William Morrow Paperbacks)

Mastering Plot Twists: How To Use Suspense, Targeted Storytelling Strategies, and Structure To Captivate Your Readers by Jane K. Cleland (Writer’s Digest Books)

Pulp According to David Goodis by Jay A. Gertzman (Down & Out Books)

Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s by Leslie S. Klinger (Pegasus Books)

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
by Michelle McNamara (HarperCollins)

The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman (Ecco)

 

The honored guests this year at Bouchercon in Dallas are Peter Lovesey (Lifetime Achievement), Hank Phillippi Ryan (American Guest of Honor), Felix Francis (International Guest of Honor), James Patterson (Distinguished Contribution to the Genre), Deborah Crombie (Local Guest of Honor), Harry Hunsicker (Toastmaster), McKenna Jordan (Fan Guest of Honor), and Charlaine Harris and Sandra Brown (Special Guests).

 

For more information about the Anthony® Awards, please visit the website at https://www.bouchercon2019.com/anthony-awards, Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/bouchercon, Twitter at https://twitter.com/bouchercon, and Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/boucherconworldmystery/.

 

The Anthony® Award is named for the late Anthony Boucher (rhymes with “voucher”), a well-known California writer and critic who wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times Book Review, and also helped found Mystery Writers of America. First presented in 1986, the Anthony Awards are among the most prestigious and coveted literary awards.

 

Bouchercon®, the World Mystery Convention founded in 1970, is a nonprofit, all-volunteer  organization celebrating the mystery genre. It is the largest annual meeting in the world for readers, writers, fans, publishers, editors, agents, booksellers, and other lovers of crime fiction. For more information about Bouchercon 2019, please visit www.bouchercon2019.com.

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