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Anthony Awards for Mystery
The Anthony Awards are given out each year at the BoucherCon convention. It takes place in late September or October.
The Anthony Awards and the convention are both named for Anthony Boucher.
Mr. Boucher, born in 1911, was not only a writer of mystery and science ... but also was a major reviewer and critic and even had a radio career in the 1940s. He died in 1968.
The first convention was held in 1970. The mystery awards in his name first began in 1986.
The Anthony Awards will be presented in San Francisco at the 2010 BoucherCon which is from October 14-17.
The shortlists for 2010 have been announced:
Here are the 2010 Nominees for Best Novel:
John Hart
The Last Child
Minotaur Books
Charlie Huston
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
Ballantine
Louis Penny
A Brutal Telling
Minotaur Books
S. J. Rozan
The Shanghai Moon
Minotaur Books
Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire
Knopf
Here are the 2010 Nominees for Best First Novel:
Alan Bradley
The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie
Delacorte
Bryan Gruley
Starvation Lake
Touchstone (PBO)
Sophie Littlefield
A Bad Day For Sorry
Minotaur Books
Stuart Neville
The Ghosts of Belfast
Soho Press
Stephanie Pintoff
In The Shadow Of Gotham
Minotaur Books
Here are the awards given for Best Novel since 1975:
Year
Author
Book
2009
Michael Connelly
The Brass Verdict
2008
Laura Lippman
What The Dead Know
2007
Laura Lippman
No Good Deeds
2006
William Kent Krueger
Mercy Falls
2005
William Kent Krueger
Blood Hollow
2004
Laura Lippman
Every Secret Thing
2003
Michael Connelly
City of Bones
2002
Dennis Lehane
Mystic River
2001
Val McDermid
A Place of Execution
2000
Peter Robinson
In a Dry Season
1999
Michael Connelly
Bloodwork
1998
S.J. Rozan
No Colder Place
1997
Michael Connelly
The Poet
1996
Mary Willis Walker
Under the Beetle's Cellar
1995
Sharyn McCrumb
She Walks These Hills
1994
Marcia Muller
Wolf In the Shadows
1993
Margaret Maron
Bootlegger's Daughter
1992
Peter Lovesey
The Last Detective
1991
Sue Grafton
G is for Gumshoe
1990
Sarah Caudwell
The Sirens Sang of Murder
1989
Thomas Harris
The Silence of the Lambs
1988
Tony Hillerman
Skinwalkers
1987
Sue Grafton
C is for Corpse
1986
Sue Grafton
B is for Burglars
Here are the awards given for Best First Novel since 1986:
