The Awards will be presented at the Anthony Awards banquet in Toronto, Canada during the 2017 Bouchercon convention running from Oct. 12 - Oct. 15. There are now links from the book titles to our library catalog, and from the authors' names to their web sites!

ANTHONY AWARD NOMINATIONS for 2017

Best Novel

• You Will Know Me – Megan Abbott [Little, Brown]
• Where It Hurts – Reed Farrel Coleman [G.P. Putnam’s Sons]
• Red Right Hand – Chris Holm [Mulholland]
• Wilde Lake – Laura Lippman [William Morrow]
• A Great Reckoning – Louise Penny [Minotaur]

Best First Novel

• Dodgers – Bill Beverly [Crown]
• IQ – Joe Ide [Mulholland]
• Decanting a Murder – Nadine Nettmann [Midnight Ink]
• Design for Dying – Renee Patrick [Forge]
• The Drifter – Nicholas Petrie [G.P. Putnam’s Sons]

Best Paperback Original

• Shot in Detroit – Patricia Abbott [Polis] - available through ILL
• Leadfoot – Eric Beetner [280 Steps] - available through ILL
• Salem’s Cipher – Jess Lourey [Midnight Ink]
• Rain Dogs – Adrian McKinty [Seventh Street]
• How to Kill Friends and Implicate People – Jay Stringer [Thomas & Mercer] -- On Order
• Heart of Stone – James W. Ziskin [Seventh Street] 

Best Short Story

• “Oxford Girl” – Megan Abbott, Mississippi Noir [Akashic]
• “Autumn at the Automat” – Lawrence Block, In Sunlight or in Shadow [Pegasus]
• “Gary’s Got A Boner” – Johnny Shaw, Waiting to Be Forgotten [Gutter]
• “Parallel Play” – Art Taylor, Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning [Wildside]
• “Queen of the Dogs” – Holly West, 44 Caliber Funk: Tales of Crime, Soul and Payback [Moonstone] 

Best Critical Nonfiction Work

• Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life – Peter Ackroyd [Nan A. Talese]
• Letters from a Serial Killer – Kristi Belcamino & Stephanie Kahalekulu [CreateSpace] -- available through ILL
• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin [Liveright]
• Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker – David J. Skal [Liveright]
• The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer – Kate Summerscale [Bloomsbury/Penguin] 

Best Children’s/YA Novel

• Snowed – Maria Alexander [Raw Dog Screaming]
• The Girl I Used to Be – April Henry [Henry Holt]
• Tag, You’re Dead – J.C. Lane [Poisoned Pen]
• My Sister Rosa – Justine Larbalestier [Soho Teen]
• The Fixes – Owen Matthews [HarperTeen] 

Best Anthology

• Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns – Eric Beetner, ed. [Down & Out]
• In Sunlight or in Shadow – Lawrence Block, ed. [Pegasus]
• Cannibals: Stories from the Edge of the Pine Barrens – Jen Conley [Down & Out]
• Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016 – Greg Herren, ed. [Down & Out]
• Waiting To Be Forgotten: Stories of Crime and Heartbreak, Inspired by the Replacements – Jay Stringer, ed. [Gutter] 

Best Novella (8,000-40,000 words)

• Cleaning Up Finn – Sarah M. Chen [All Due Respect Books]
• No Happy Endings – Angel Luis Colón [Down & Out]
• Crosswise – S.W. Lauden [Down & Out]
• Beware the Shill – John Shepphird [Down & Out]
• The Last Blue Glass – B.K. Stevens, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, April 2016 [Dell]