Anthony Awards

Nominees for Best Novel at this year’s World Mystery Convention.

Wow! What a terrific lineup of nominees for this year’s Anthony Awards for Best Novel.

 Every year, the World Mystery Convention, or Bouchercon, honors the best of the best in mysteries and thrillers. This year’s convention will be in Houston. (I’ll be there, y’all!)

Congratulations to this year’s stellar list of nominees!

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)

Also nominated this year:

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

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)