Bouchercon 2021

Anthony Award Nominations

 Lisle Library has copies of many of these books. You can access them directly from here,by clicking on the book's title. If the library doesn't have alisted book it will  iindicate that you need to request an ILL (InterLibrary Loan) to get it. Each of these will have a link to more information on doing an iLL.

Best Hardcover Novel

• What You Don't See - Tracy Clark - Kensington

• Blacktop Wasteland - S.A. Cosby - Flatiron Books Request ILL

• 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

• Derailed - Keliikoa, Mary - Camel Press Request ILL 

• 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

• Winter Counts - David Heska Wanbli Weiden - Ecco Press

Best Paperback Original/E-Book/Audiobook Original Novel

• The Fate of a Flapper - Susanna Calkins - Griffin

• When No One is Watching - Alyssa Cole - William Morrow

• Unspeakable Things - Jess Lourey - Thomas & Mercer

• The Lucky One - Lori Rader-Day - William Morrow

• Dirty Old Town - Gabriel Valjan - Level Best Books 

Best Critical or Nonfiction Work

• Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy - Leslie Brody - Seal Press​ Request ILL

• 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 Request ILL

• 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

• Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession - Sarah Weinman, ed. - Ecco Press