Sunday, May 8, 2016

Anthony Award Nominations!

by Kristi Belcamino

On Friday, they announced the finalists for the Anthony Awards.

This crime fiction award is special to my heart. Last year, my first novel, Blessed are the Dead, was a finalist for best first mystery, and I'm still incredibly honored by that.

People who attend Bouchercon in September will vote to choose the winners.

When they announced this years's finalists, my first thought was good grief, how am I going to pick who to vote for since so many of my friends are nominated?

It's a stellar list. If you haven't read these books, I highly recommend you do so.

I'm especially thrilled that our own Holly West is one of the finalists!

Here is the list.

2016 Anthony Award Nominees

Congratulations!!

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 [Blackstone Audio]
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]

2 comments:

seana graham said...

Thanks for posting this. I filled out the ballot this year and I'm happy to see that several though not all of my choices made the list

Holly West said...

Thanks for the shout out, Kristi!