Anthony Award results

© Ali Karim 2012

The Anthony Awards were given out on Saturday evening and the results are as follows -

BEST NOVEL
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny [Minotaur]

The other nominees were -

The End of Everything by Megan Abbott [Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown]

Hurt Machine by Reed Farrel Coleman [Tyrus]

The Drop by Michael Connelly [Little, Brown]

One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming [Thomas Dunne/Minotaur]

BEST FIRST NOVEL

Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry [Crown]

The other nominees were -

Nazareth Child by Darrell James [Midnight Ink]

All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen [The Permanent Press]

Who Do, Voodoo? By Rochelle Staab [Berkley Prime Crime]

The Informationist by Taylor Stevens [Crown]

Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder [Thomas Dunne/Minotaur]

Before I Go to Sleep—S.J. Watson [HarperCollins]

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Buffalo West Wing by Julie Hyzy [Berkley Prime Crime/Tekno]

The other nominees were -

The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett [Orbit/Hachette]

Choke Hold by Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime/Titan]

Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley [HarperCollins]

Fun & Games by Duane Swierczynski [Mulholland]

Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis [Random House]

BEST SHORT STORY

"Disarming" by Dana Cameron, EQMM June'11, p.24

The other nominees were -

"The Case of Death and Honey" by Neil Gaiman, A Study In Sherlock, p.167 [Bantam]

"Palace on the Lake" by Daryl Wood Gerber, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology, p.184 [Wildside]

"Truth and Consequences" by Barb Goffman, Mystery Times Ten, p.121 [Buddhapuss Ink]

"The Itinerary" by Roberta Isleib, MWA Presents The Rich and The Dead, p.189 [Grand Central]

"Happine$$"—Twist Phelan, MWA Presents The Rich and The Dead, p.276 [Grand Central]

BEST CRITICAL NONFICTION WORK

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion by Charlaine Harris, ed. [Ace]

The other nominees were -

Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure by Leslie Budewitz [Quill Driver/Linden]

Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks by John Curran [HarperCollins]

On Conan Doyle: or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda [Princeton University Press]

Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates [SUNY Press]

Congratulations go to all the winners but especially to Charlaine Harris and Dana Cameron who both won Macavity Awards on Thursday evening for their books.