Saturday 6 October 2012

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.

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