2019 Anthony Award Winners

The Anthony Award Winners were announced on Saturday night at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention. 

Best Novel 

November Road by Lou Berney (William Morrow)

Best First Novel

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Doubleday)

Best Paperback Original Novel 

Under a Dark Sky by Lori Rader-Day (William Morrow Paperbacks)

Best Short Story 

“The Grass Beneath My Feet” by S.A. Cosby, in Tough (blogazine, August 20, 2018)

Best Critical or Non-Fiction Work 

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara (HarperCollins)

Congratulations to all!

The Anthony® Award is named for the late Anthony Boucher (rhymes with “voucher”), a well-known California writer and critic who wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times Book Review, and also helped found Mystery Writers of America. First presented in 1986, the Anthony Awards are among the most prestigious and coveted literary awards. Bouchercon®, the World Mystery Convention founded in 1970, is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization celebrating the mystery genre. It is the largest annual meeting in the world for readers, writers, fans, publishers, editors, agents, booksellers, and other lovers of crime fiction.

50th Year in Crime Writing - Peter Lovesey Update

As far back as 1969 I was announced as the winner of a first crime novel prize and I’m pleased to let you know that my fiftieth year of crime writing is marked with three new books.

The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown, from Crippen & Landru, is the first US publication of my 1994 short story collection, with a new introduction. Published February 28. See www.crippenlandru.com for details.

Bertie: The Complete Prince of Wales Mysteries is an omnibus edition from Soho Press of the three novels Bertie and the Tinman, Bertie and the Seven Bodies and Bertie and the Crime of Passion, published March 10, also with a new introduction from me. See https://sohopress for details.

The third book is the new novel in the Peter Diamond series.  Killing with Confetti will be published in July this year by my usual publishers, Sphere, in the UK and Soho Press, in the US. More information will follow at my website www.peterlovesey.com 

And finally, I’m to be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the world mystery convention, Bouchercon, in Dallas, Texas, in October/November, which also reaches its 50th year in the crime field.