The Anthony Awards are given at each annual Bouchercon
World Mystery Convention with the winners selected by attendees. Bouchercon is
the World Mystery Convention. This year Bouchercon is taking place in St
Petersburg, Florida, September 9-12, 2018. Winners were announced
the evening of Saturday 8 September 2018. Congratulations to all the winners
and the nominated authors.
Best Novel
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
Best First Novel
Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
Best Paperback Original
The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day
Bill Crider Award For Best Novel in a Series
Y is for Yesterday (Kinsey Millhone #25) by Sue Grafton
Best Short Story
My Side of the Matter by Hilary Davidson from Killing Malmon
Best Anthology
The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir, Gary Phillips, editor
Best Critical/Non Fiction Book
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Best Online Content
Jungle Red Writers
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
Best First Novel
Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
Best Paperback Original
The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day
Bill Crider Award For Best Novel in a Series
Y is for Yesterday (Kinsey Millhone #25) by Sue Grafton
Best Short Story
My Side of the Matter by Hilary Davidson from Killing Malmon
Best Anthology
The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir, Gary Phillips, editor
Best Critical/Non Fiction Book
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Best Online Content
Jungle Red Writers
The Anthony Award is named for the late Anthony Boucher
(William Anthony Parker White), well-known writer and critic from the New York
Times, who helped found the Mystery Writers of America. Everyone who attends
Bouchercon 2018 is eligible to vote on the Anthony Awards. Voting takes place
at the convention.
