Anthony Accolades

The annual Anthony Awards are usually anounced in-person at the Bouchercon crime fiction conference, but due to this year's event in New Orleans being cancelled, the award ceremony was held virtually online tonight. Congratulations to all this year's winners!

 

Best Hardcover Novel:  Blacktop Wasteland - S.A. Cosby - Flatiron Books

Also nominated:

• What You Don’t See– Tracy Clark – Kensington
• Little Secrets – Jennifer Hillier – Minotaur Books
• And Now She’s Gone – Rachel Howzell Hall -Forge Books
• The First to Lie – Hank Phillippi Ryan – Forge Books
  

Best First Novel:  Winter Counts - David Heska Wanbli Weiden - Ecco Press

Also nominated:

• Derailed – Mary Keliikoa – Camel Press
• Murder in Old Bombay – Nev March – Minotaur Books
• Murder at the Mena House – Erica Ruth Neubauer – Kensington
• The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman – Pamela Dorman Books
  

Best Paperback Original Novel: Unspeakable Things - Jess Lourey - Thomas & Mercer

Also nominated:

• The Fate of a Flapper – Susanna Calkins – Griffin
• When No One is Watching – Alyssa Cole – William Morrow
• The Lucky One – Lori Rader-Day – William Morrow
• Dirty Old Town – Gabriel Valjan – Level Best Books
  

Best Short Story:  "90 Miles" - Alex Segura - Both Sides: Stories From the Border - Agora Books

Also nominated:

• “Dear Emily Etiquette” – Barb Goffman – EQMM – Dell Magazines
• “The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74” – Art Taylor – AHMM (Jan-Feb) – Dell Magazines
• “Elysian Fields” – Gabriel Valjan – California Schemin’ – Wildside Press
• “The Twenty-Five Year Engagement” – James W. Ziskin – In League with Sherlock Holmes – Pegasus Crime
  

Best Juvenile/Young Adult:  Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco - Richie Narvaez - Piñata Books

Also nominated:

• Midnight at the Barclay Hotel – Fleur Bradley – Viking Books for Young Readers
• Premeditated Myrtle – Elizabeth C. Bunce – Algonquin Young Readers
• From the Desk of Zoe Washington – Janae Marks – Katherine Tegen Books
• Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall – Alex Segura – Disney Lucasfilm Press
  

Best Critical or Nonfiction Work: Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession - Sarah Weinman, ed. - Ecco Press

Also nominated:

• Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy – Leslie Brody – Seal Press
• American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics and the Birth of American CSI – Kate Winkler Dawson – G.P. Putnam’s Sons
• Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club – Martin Edwards, ed. – Collins Crime Club
• The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia – Emma Copley Eisenberg – Hachette Books
• Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock – Christina Lane – Chicago Review Press
  

Best Anthology or Collection: Shattering Glass: A Nasty Woman Press Anthology - Heather Graham, ed. - Nasty Woman Press

Also nominated:

• Both Sides: Stories from the Border – Gabino Iglesias, ed. – Agora Books
  Noiryorican – Richie Narvaez – Down & Out Books
• The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell – Josh Pachter, ed. – Untreed Reads Publishing
• California Schemin‘ – Art Taylor, ed. – Wildside Press
• Lockdown: Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic – Nick Kolakowski and Steve Weddle, eds. – Polis Books
  

David Thompson Award Special Service Award:  Janet Rudolph