The Anthony Award Nominations for 2018

I am so excited to share the nominations for the 2018 Anthony Awards.  It's gratifying to see some of my choices making the list.  There are so many deserving authors and mystery/crime community members for these awards, and I wish they all could be nominated and win.  It's going to be a special night in September when I am sitting at the awards ceremony at Bouchercon to hear the single name called who has been selected from so many.  Here are the nominees and the work for which they are nominated.



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/Nonfiction 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