Anthony Award Nominations

BEST NOVEL
 Night Tremors by Matt Coyle [Oceanview]
 The Killing Kind by Chris Holm [Mulholland]
 The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson [Midnight Ink]
 The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny [Minotaur/Sphere]
 What You See by Hank Phillippi Ryan [Forge]

BEST FIRST NOVEL
 Concrete Angel by Patricia Abbott [Polis]
 Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton [William Morrow]
 New Yorked by Rob Hart [Polis]
 Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich [G.P. Putnam's Sons/Head of Zeus]
 On the Road with Del & Louise by Art Taylor [Henery]

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
 The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney [William Morrow]
 Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty [Seventh Street/Serpent's Tail]
 Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day [Seventh Street]
 Young Americans by Josh Stallings [Heist]
 Stone Cold Dead by 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 by Martin Edwards [HarperCollins]
Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald by Suzanne Marrs & Tom Nolan, editors [Arcade]
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid [Grove]
The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Nathan Ward [Bloomsbury USA]
The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For by Kate White, editor [Quirk]

BEST SHORT STORY
"The Little Men: A Bibliomystery" by Megan Abbott [MysteriousPress.com/Open Road]
"The Siege" in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Dec 2015 by Hilary Davidson [Dell]
"Feliz Navidead" in Thuglit Presents: Cruel Yule by Brace Godfrey/Johnny Shaw [CreateSpace]
"Old Hands" in Dark City Lights by Erin Mitchell [Three Rooms]
 "Quack and Dwight" in Jewish Noir by Travis Richardson [PM]
 "Don’t Fear the Ripper" in Protectors 2: Heroes by Holly West [Goombah Gumbo]

BEST ANTHOLOGY OR COLLECTION
 Safe Inside the Violence by Christopher Irvin [280 Steps]
 Protectors 2: Heroes-Stories to Benefit PROTECT by Thomas Pluck, editor [Goombah

Gumbo]
 Thuglit Presents: Cruel Yule: Holiday Tales of Crime for People on the Naughty List by Todd Robinson, editor [CreateSpace]
 Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015 by Art Taylor, editor [Down & Out]
 Jewish Noir: Contemporary Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds by Kenneth Wishnia, editor [PM]

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
 Need by Joelle Charbonneau [HMH Books for Young Readers]
 How to Win at High School by Owen Matthews [HarperTeen]
 A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis [Katherine Tegen]
 The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury [Scholastic]
 Fighting Chance by B.K. Stevens [The Poisoned Pencil]
 Ask the Dark by Henry Turner [Clarion]

BEST CRIME FICTION AUDIOBOOK
 Dark Waters by Chris Goff - Assaf Cohen, narrator [Blackstone Audio]
 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins - Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey & India Fisher, narrators [Penguin Audio/Random House Audiobooks]
Causing Chaos by Deborah J. Ledford - Christina Cox, narrator [IOF Productions]
The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny - Robert Bathurst, narrator [Macmillan Audio]
Young Americans by Josh Stallings - Em Eldridge, narrator [Josh Stallings]