Bouchercon Bounty

The 50th annual Boucheron World Mystery Convention was this weekend, with a cornucopeia of awards handed out, including the Anthony, Barry, Macavity, and Shamus Awards. Congrats to all this year's winners:

ANTHONY AWARDS

Best Novel:  November Road by Lou Berney (William Morrow)

Best First Novel:  My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Doubleday)

Best Paperback Original:  Under a Dark Sky by Lori Rader-Day (William Morrow Paperbacks)

Best Short Story: "The Grass Beneath My Feet" by S.A. Cosby (Tough, August, 2018)

Best Critical/Non-Fiction Book:  I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara (HarperCollins)

BARRY AWARDS

Best Novel: November Road by Lou Berney (Morrow)  

Best First Novel: The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor (Crown)

Best Paperback Original: The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan (Penguin) 

Best Thriller: Safe Houses by Dan Fesperman, (Knopf)

MACAVITY AWARDS

Best Novel: November Road by Lou Berney (William Morrow)

Best First Novel: Dodging and Burning by John Copenhaver (Pegasus Books)

Best Nonfiction: The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman (HarperCollins)

Best Short Story: Art Taylor, "English 398: Fiction Workshop" (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Jul/Aug 2018)

Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Novel: The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)

SHAMUS AWARDS

Best Private Eye Novel: What You Want to See by Kristen Lepionka (Minotaur)

Best Original Private Eye Paperback: The Questionable Behavior of Dahlia Moss, by Max Wirestone (Redhook)

Best First Private Eye Novel: The Best Bad Things, by Katrina Carrasco (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Best Private Eye Short Story: "Chin Yong-Yun Helps a Fool," by S.J. Rozan (EQMM, September-October 2018)