Anthony Award Winners

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

Non-Fiction: 

The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards

Short Story: 

“Beauty and the Beyotch” by Barb Goffman

Best Short Story Anthology: 

Crime Hits Home, edited by SJ Rozan

Best YA/Childrens: 

Enola Holmes by Nancy Springer 

Best Debut: 

The Maid by Nita Prose

Best Historical: 

Anywhere You Run by Wanda Morris

Best Humorous: 

Scot in a Trap by Catriona McPherson

Best Paperback, E-book, Audiobook Origional: 

The Quarry Girls by Jess Lourey

Best Hardcover: 

Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett

Congratulations to all the winners and nominated authors.

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.

2019 Shamus Awards: Private Eye Writer of America

Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award winners for works published in 2018.

Best Private Eye Novel 

What You Want to See by Kristen Lepionka (Minotaur Books)

Best First Private Eye Novel 
The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco (MCD Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

Best Original Private Eye Paperback                                                  

The Questionable Behavior of Dahlia Moss by Max Wirestone (Redhook Books)

Best Private Eye Short Story 

"Chin Yong-Yun Helps a Fool," by S.J. Rozan, EQMM


The awards were handed out at the PWA Shamus banquet that took place on Saturday 2nd November during the 50th Anniversary Bouchercon Convention that was held in Dallas.

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees.

2012 Dilys Award nominations

The 2012 Dilys Award nominees have been announced by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. The Dilys Award has been given annually since 1992 by IMBA to the mystery titles of the year which the member booksellers have most enjoyed selling. The Dilys Award is named in honor of Dilys Winn, the founder of the first specialty bookseller of mystery books in the United States.

The nominees are:-

Faithful Place by Tana French (Penguin)

Wicked Autumn by G M Malliet (Minotaur)

Tag Man by Archer Mayor (Minotaur)

A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (Minotaur)

Ghost Hero by S J Rozan (Minotaur)

Louise Penny won the Dilys Award in 2011 with her novel Bury your Dead and again in 2007 for her novel Still Life. Both Louise Penny and S J Rozan were nominated in 2010 for their novels The Brutal Telling and Shanghai Moon respectively.

The winner will be announced March 31 at Mining for Murder, the 2012 Left Coast Crime Convention in Sacramento.

Congratulations to all the nominated authors!