The votes of 2007 and 2008 Bouchercon participants have been tabulated by the Anthony Award Committee (led by John Purcell), and there are many ITW members on the finalist list.
Congratulations to all!
The awards will be voted on and presented at Bouchercon 2008 (Charmed to Death) in Baltimore, October 9-12.
The 2008 Anthony Award Nominees
Best Novel:
James Lee Burke - Tin Roof Blowdown Simon and Schuster
Lee Child - Bad Luck and Trouble Delacorte Press
Robert Crais - The Watchman Simon and Schuster
William Kent Krueger - Thunder Bay Atria
Laura Lippman - What the Dead Know William Morrow
Best First Novel:
Sean Chercover - Big City, Bad Blood William Morrow
Tana French - In the Woods Viking Adult
Lisa Lutz - The Spellman Files Simon and Schuster
Craig MacDonald - Head Games Bleak House Books
Marcus Sakey - The Blade Itself St. Martin Minotaur
Best Paperback Original
Megan Abbot - Queenpin Simon and Schuster
Ken Bruen and Jason Starr - Slide Hard Case Crime
David Corbett - Blood of Paradise Ballantine Books
Robert Fate - Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues Capital Crime Press
P.J. Parrish - A Thousand Bones Pocket
Short Story
Rhys Bowen - "Please Watch Your Step" (The Strand Magazine, Spring 07)
Steve Hockensmith - "Dear Dr. Watson" (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
Toni L. P. Kelner - "How Stella Got her Grave Back" (Many Bloody Returns edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner) for Ace Hardcover
Laura Lippman - "Hardly Knew Her" (Dead Man's Hand edited by Otto Penzler) for Harcourt
Daniel Woodrell - "Uncle" (A Hell of A Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir edited by Megan Abbott) for Busted Flush Press
Critical Work
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley - Penguin
The Essential Mystery Lists Compiled by Roger Sobin - Poisoned Pen Press
The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction by Patrick Anderson - Random House
Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction by Christiana Gregoriou Palgrave - MacMillan
Special Services
Jon and Ruth Jordan - Crime Spree Magazine
Ali Karim - Shotz Magazine
Maddy Van Hertbruggen - 4MA
Sarah Weinman - Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
Judy Bobalik - for being one of the best friends and supporters of mystery writers anywhere
Web Site
Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind - Sarah Weinman
Rap sheet/January Magazine - J Kingston Pierce
Murderati - A Writer's Blog
Stop, You're Killing Me - Stan Ulrich and Lucinda Surber
Crime Fiction Dossier - David Montgomery
Congratulations to all!
The awards will be voted on and presented at Bouchercon 2008 (Charmed to Death) in Baltimore, October 9-12.
The 2008 Anthony Award Nominees
Best Novel:
James Lee Burke - Tin Roof Blowdown Simon and Schuster
Lee Child - Bad Luck and Trouble Delacorte Press
Robert Crais - The Watchman Simon and Schuster
William Kent Krueger - Thunder Bay Atria
Laura Lippman - What the Dead Know William Morrow
Best First Novel:
Sean Chercover - Big City, Bad Blood William Morrow
Tana French - In the Woods Viking Adult
Lisa Lutz - The Spellman Files Simon and Schuster
Craig MacDonald - Head Games Bleak House Books
Marcus Sakey - The Blade Itself St. Martin Minotaur
Best Paperback Original
Megan Abbot - Queenpin Simon and Schuster
Ken Bruen and Jason Starr - Slide Hard Case Crime
David Corbett - Blood of Paradise Ballantine Books
Robert Fate - Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues Capital Crime Press
P.J. Parrish - A Thousand Bones Pocket
Short Story
Rhys Bowen - "Please Watch Your Step" (The Strand Magazine, Spring 07)
Steve Hockensmith - "Dear Dr. Watson" (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
Toni L. P. Kelner - "How Stella Got her Grave Back" (Many Bloody Returns edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner) for Ace Hardcover
Laura Lippman - "Hardly Knew Her" (Dead Man's Hand edited by Otto Penzler) for Harcourt
Daniel Woodrell - "Uncle" (A Hell of A Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir edited by Megan Abbott) for Busted Flush Press
Critical Work
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley - Penguin
The Essential Mystery Lists Compiled by Roger Sobin - Poisoned Pen Press
The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction by Patrick Anderson - Random House
Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction by Christiana Gregoriou Palgrave - MacMillan
Special Services
Jon and Ruth Jordan - Crime Spree Magazine
Ali Karim - Shotz Magazine
Maddy Van Hertbruggen - 4MA
Sarah Weinman - Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
Judy Bobalik - for being one of the best friends and supporters of mystery writers anywhere
Web Site
Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind - Sarah Weinman
Rap sheet/January Magazine - J Kingston Pierce
Murderati - A Writer's Blog
Stop, You're Killing Me - Stan Ulrich and Lucinda Surber
Crime Fiction Dossier - David Montgomery
