Bouchercon Bounty

The annual Boucheron conference held this past weekend included the usual slate of award presentations, with the announcement of the Anthony, Shamus, Barry, and Macavity honors.

The Anthony Awards, voted on by attendees at the convention, were handed out to:

• Best Novel: The Killing Kind, Chris Holm
• Best First Novel: Past Crimes, Glen Erik Hamilton
• Best Paperback Original: The Long and Faraway Gone, Lou Berney
• Best Critical or Nonfiction Book: Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime, Val McDermid
• Best Young Adult Novel: Need, Joelle Charbonneau
• Best Anthology or Collection: Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015 - Art Taylor, Editor
• Best Short Story: "The Little Men: A Bibliomystery," Megan Abbott
• Best Crime Fiction Audiobook: The Nature of the Beast, Louise Penny - Robert Bathurst, narrator

The winners of the Shamus Awards were announced at the PWA Banquet at Bouchercon and include:

• Best Hardcover Private Eye Novel: Brutality by Ingrid Thoft
• Best Original Private Eye Paperback: Circling the Runway by  J.L. Abramo
• Best First Private Eye Novel: The Do-Right by Lisa Sandlin
• Best Private Eye Short Story, “The Dead Client” by Parnell Hall in Dark City Lights: New York Stories (edited by Lawrence Block)
• The Eye Lifetime Achievement Award: S.J. Rozan.

The Macavity Awards are nominated by members of Mystery Readers International, subscribers to Mystery Readers Journal and friends of MRI:

• Best Mystery: The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney
• Best First Mystery: Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton   
• Best Critical/Biographical: The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story by Martin Edwards  
• Best Short Story" "The Little Men" by Megan Abbott   
• Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award: The Masque of a Murder by Susanna Calkins

Finally, we have the Barry Awards from Deadly Pleasures Magazine:

• Best Novel: C. J. Box, Badlands
• Best First Novel: Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Unquiet Dead
• Best Paperback Original: Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone
• Best Thriller: Taylor Stevens, The Mask