Congratulations to all the winners of this year’s Anthony Awards. The awards were presented this past weekend at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention.
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ANTHONY AWARDS
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)
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 nonprofit, 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 ficti