The Anthony Award nominations for 2018 have been announced on the St. Petesburg Bouchercon website and I’m so excited as you will see why when you scroll down the list of nominees. Winners will be announced at the Anthony Awards ceremony on Saturday, September 8, 2018.  Congratulations to one and all!

Best Novel
– The Late Show by Michael Connelly
– Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
– Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
– Glass Houses by Louise Penny
– The Force by Don Winslow

Best First Novel
– Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
– She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper
– The Dry by Jane Harper
– Ragged; or, The Loveliest Lies of All by Christopher Irvin
– The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka

Best Paperback Original
– Uncorking a Lie by Nadine Nettmann
– Bad Boy Boogie by Thomas Pluck
– What We Reckon by Eryk Pruitt
– The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day
– Cast the First Stone by James W. Ziskin

Bill Crider Award for Best Novel in a (Continuing) Series
– Give Up the Dead (Jay Porter #3) by Joe Clifford
– Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch #20) by Michael Connelly
– Y is for Yesterday (Kinsey Millhone #25) by Sue Grafton
– Glass Houses (Armand Gamache #13) by Louise Penny
– Dangerous Ends (Pete Fernandez #3) by Alex Segura

Best Short Story
– The Trial of Madame Pelletier by Susanna Calkins from Malice Domestic 12: Mystery Most Historical
– God’s Gonna Cut You Down by Jen Conley from Just to Watch Them Die: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Johnny Cash
– My Side of the Matter by Hilary Davidson from Killing Malmon
– Whose Wine Is It Anyway by Barb Goffman from 50 Shades of Cabernet
– The Night They Burned Miss Dixie’s Place by Debra Goldstein from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, May/June 2017
– A Necessary Ingredient by Art Taylor from Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea

Best Anthology
– Just to Watch Them Die: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Johnny Cash, Joe Clifford, editor
– Killing Malmon, Dan & Kate Malmon, editors
– Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Andrew McAleer & Paul D. Marks, editors
– Passport to Murder, Bouchercon Anthology 2017, John McFetridge, editor
– The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir, Gary Phillips, editor

Best Critical/Non-fiction Book
– From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon by Mattias Boström
– The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards
– Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
– Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson
– Rewrite Your Life: Discover Your Truth Through the Healing Power of Fiction by Jessica Lourey

Best Online Content
Dru’s Book Musings
BOLO Books
Do Some Damage: An Inside Look at Crime Fiction
Jungle Red Writers
Writer Types Podcast


Nominees were selected by attendees of 2017 Bouchercon in Toronto and registrants of 2018 Bouchercon in St. Petersburg, Florida.