Anthony Award Winners 2018

The Anthony Awards are given at each annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention with the winners selected by attendees. Bouchercon is the World Mystery Convention. This year Bouchercon is taking place in St Petersburg, Florida, September 9-12, 2018. Winners were announced the evening of Saturday 8 September 2018. Congratulations to all the winners and the nominated authors.

Best Novel
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

Best First Novel
Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett

Best Paperback Original
The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day

Bill Crider Award For Best Novel in a Series
Y is for Yesterday (Kinsey Millhone #25) by Sue Grafton

Best Short Story
My Side of the Matter by Hilary Davidson from Killing Malmon

Best Anthology
The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir, Gary Phillips, editor

Best Critical/Non Fiction Book
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Best Online Content
Jungle Red Writers

The Anthony Award is named for the late Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White), well-known writer and critic from the New York Times, who helped found the Mystery Writers of America. Everyone who attends Bouchercon 2018 is eligible to vote on the Anthony Awards. Voting takes place at the convention.

Anthony Award nominations

The Anthony Awards are given at each annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention with the winners selected by attendees. Bouchercon is the World Mystery Convention. This year Bouchercon will take in St Petersburg, Florida, September 9-12, 2018. Winners will be announced at Bouchercon. Congratulations to all the nominees!

BEST NOVEL

The Late Show by Michael Connelly

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

Glass Houses by Louise Penny

The Force by Don Winslow

BEST FIRST NOVEL

Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett

She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper

The Dry by Jane Harper

Ragged; or, The Loveliest Lies of All by Christopher Irvin

The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

Uncorking a Lie by Nadine Nettmann

Bad Boy Boogie by Thomas Pluck

What We Reckon by Eryk Pruitt

The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day

Cast the First Stone by James W. Ziskin

BILL CRIDER AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL IN A SERIES  

Give Up the Dead (Jay Porter #3) by Joe Clifford

Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch #20) by Michael Connelly

Y is for Yesterday (Kinsey Millhone #25) by Sue Grafton

Glass Houses (Armand Gamache #13) by Louise Penny

Dangerous Ends (Pete Fernandez #3) by Alex Segura

BEST SHORT STORY

The Trial of Madame Pelletier by Susanna Calkins from Malice Domestic 12: Mystery Most Historical

God's Gonna Cut You Down by Jen Conley from Just to Watch Them Die: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Johnny Cash

My Side of the Matter by Hilary Davidson from Killing Malmon

Whose Wine Is It Anyway by Barb Goffman from 50 Shades of Cabernet

The Night They Burned Miss Dixie's Place by Debra Goldstein from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery

Magazine, May/June 2017

A Necessary Ingredient by Art Taylor from Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea

BEST ANTHOLOGY     

Just to Watch Them Die: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Johnny Cash, Joe Clifford, editor

Killing Malmon, Dan & Kate Malmon, editors

Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Andrew McAleer & Paul D. Marks, editors

Passport to Murder, Bouchercon Anthology 2017, John McFetridge, editor

The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir, Gary Phillips, editor

BEST CRITICAL/NON-FICTION BOOK 

From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon by Mattias Boström

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson

Rewrite Your Life: Discover Your Truth Through the Healing Power of Fiction by Jessica Lourey

BEST ONLINE CONTENT  

Writer Types Podcast 

Do Some Damage: An Inside Look at Crime Fiction

Jungle Red Writers

Dru’s Book Musings

BOLO Books