The Anthony Award nominees

The nominees for the annual awards given by the membership of Bouchercon have been announced:

Best Novel

Bruen, Ken — The Killing of the Tinkers (St. Martins/Minotaur)
Katzenbach, John — The Madman’s Tale (Random House/Ballantine)
Krueger, William Kent — Blood Hollow (Simon & Schuster/Atria)
Lippman, Laura — By a Spider’s Thread (HarperCollins)
Parker, T. Jefferson — California Girl (HarperCollins)
Spencer-Fleming, Julia — Out of the Deep I Cry (St. Martins/Minotaur)

Best First Novel

Balzo, Sandra — Uncommon Grounds (Five Star)
Clemens, Judy — Until the Cows Come Home (Poisoned Pen Press)
Hoffman, Jilliane P — Retribution (Putnam)
Konrath, JA (Joe) — Whiskey Sour (Hyperion)
Kozak, Harley Jane — Dating Dead Men (Random House/Doubleday)

Best Non Fiction

Frankie Bailey & Steven Chermak — Famous American Crimes & Trials (Greenwood Publishing)
Collins, Max Allan (et al) — Men’s Adventure Magazines (Taschen)
Conlon, Edward — Blue Blood (Penguin Putnam/Riverhead)
Klinger, Leslie S (ed) — The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes (Norton)
Rubinstein, Julian — The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber (TimeWarner/Little, Brown)

Best Paperback Original

Burcell, Robin — Cold Case (HarperCollins/Avon)
Isleib, Roberta — Putt to Death (Penguin/Berkley Prime Crime)
McBride, Susan — Blue Blood (HarperCollins/Avon)
Rose, M.J. — The Halo Effect (Harlequin/Mira)
Starr, Jason — Twisted City (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Best Short Story

Bowen, Rhys — “Voodoo,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2004
Faherty, Terence — “The Widow of Slane,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2004
Hertel, Ted Jr — “It’s Crackers to Slip a Rozzer the Dropsey in Snide,” Small Crimes; Bracken, ed (Betancourt/Wildside)   
Nersesian, Arthur — “Hunter Trapper,” Brooklyn Noir (Akashic Books)
Viets, Elaine — “Wedding Knife,” Chesapeake Crimes (Quiet Storm)

Best Cover Art

Brooklyn Noir — Sohrab Habibion; Tim McLoughlin (Akashic)
Fade to Blonde — cover by Gregory Manchess; Max Phillips (Hard Case Crime)
Whiskey Sour — Sal Barracca/Bradford Foltz Design; JA Konrath (Hyperion)
Good Morning Darkness — Robert Santora; Ruth Francisco (TimeWarner/Mysterious)
Monkology — Michael Kellner; Gary Phillips (Dennis McMillan)

Congrats to all the nominees. Comments from the peanut gallery to follow in the next post, and the rest of the day’s posts will appear below as well.

(hat tip: DJM)