2024 ANTHONY AWARD WINNERS
Bouchercon 2024 has announced the winners for the 2024 Anthony awards as follows:

Best Hardcover Novel : (5)
*WINNER All the Sinners Bleed, by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)
*Everybody Knows, by Jordan Harper (Mulholland)
*Time's Undoing, by Cheryl A. Head (Dutton)
*Face of Greed, by James L'Etoile (Oceanview)
*The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman)

Best First Novel: (5)
*The Peacock and the Sparrow, by I.S. Berry (Atria)
*Play the Fool, by Lina Chern (Bantam)
*Scorched Grace, by Margot Douaihy (Zando/Gillian Flynn)
*WINNER Mother-Daughter Murder Night, by Nina Simon (Morrow)
*City Under One Roof, by Iris Yamashita (Berkley)

Best Paperback Original Novel: (6)
*No Home for Killers, by E.A. Aymar (Thomas & Mercer)
*WINNER Hide, by Tracy Clark (Thomas & Mercer)
*Because the Night, by James D.F. Hannah (Down & Out)
*The Taken Ones, by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer)
*Magic City Blues, by Bobby Matthews (Shotgun Honey)
*Lowdown Road, by Scott Von Doviak (Hard Case Crime)

Best Children's/Young Adult: (5)
*Finney and the Secret Tunnel, by Jamie Lane Barber (Level Elevate)
*Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity, by Elizabeth C. Bunce (Algonquin)
*The Sasquatch of Hawthorne Elementary, by K.B. Jackson (Reycraft)
*The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle, by Taryn Sounders (Sourcebooks)
*WINNER Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose, by Nancy Springer (Wednesday)

Best Critical/Non-fiction: (7)
*Finders: Justice, Faith and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction, by Anjili Babbar (Syracuse University Press)
*Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction, by Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor (Mysterious Press)
*A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe, by Mark Dawidziak (St. Martin's Press)
*WINNER A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan (Viking)
*Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, by Robert Morgan (LSU Press)
*Agatha Christie, She Watched: One Woman's Plot to Watch 201 Christie Adaptations Without Murdering the Director, Screenwriter, Cast, or Her Husband, by Teresa Peschel (Peschel Press)
*Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy, by Steven Powell (Bloomsbury)

Best Anthology/Collection: (5)
*School of Hard Knox, edited by Donna Andrews, Greg Herren, and Art Taylor (Crippen & Landru)
*Here in the Dark, by Meagan Lucas (Shotgun Honey)
*Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles, edited by Josh Pachter (Down & Out)
*The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions, by Art Taylor (Crippen & Landru)
*WINNER Killin' Time in San Diego: Bouchercon Anthology 2023, edited by Holly West (Down & Out)

Best Short Story: (5)
*"Real Courage," by Barb Goffman (Black Cat Mystery Magazine, October 2023)
*"Knock," by James D.F. Hannah (from Playing Games, edited by Lawrence Block; Subterranean Press)
*"Green and California Bound," by Curtis Ippolito (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September/October 2023)
*WINNER "Ticket to Ride," by Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski (from Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles, edited by Josh Pachter; Down & Out)
*"Tell Me No Lies," by Holly West (from Shotgun Honey Presents: Thicker Than Water, edited by Ron Earl Phillips; Shotgun Honey)

Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient:
Anthony Horowitz
David Thompson special Service Award Recipient:
(for "extraordinary efforts to evelop and promote the crime fiction field")
The Crime Writers of Color, founded in 2018 by Walter Mosley, Gigi Pandian and Kellye Garrett

The winners were announced on Saturday, August 31, during Bouchercon 2024 to be held in Nashville, Tennessee from August 28 through September 01.

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