The annual Bouchercon conference was held this past weekend in Toronto, with winners of several awards handed out during the event, including the Macavity, Anthony, and Barry Awards.
The Anthony Award winners included:
Best Novel, Louise Penny for A Great Reckoning
Best Paperback Original, James W. Ziskin for Heart of Stone
Best First Novel, IQ by Joe Ide
Best Anthology, Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016 - Greg Herren (editor)
Best Short Story, “Oxford Girl” by Megan Abbott, Mississippi Noir
Best Children’s/YA Novel, April Henry for The Girl I Used to Be
Best Novella, B.K. Stevens for The Last Blue Glass
Best Critical Nonfiction Work, Ruth Franklin for Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
The Macavity nods went to
Best Novel, A Great Reckoning, by Louise Penny
Best First Novel, IQ, by Joe Ide
Best Short Story, “Parallel Play,” by Art Taylor (Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning)
Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Novel, Heart of Stone, by James W. Ziskin
Best Nonfiction, Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, Margaret Kinsman
The Barry Awards were handed out to:
Best Novel, A Great Reckoning, by Louise Penny
Best First Novel, The Drifter, by Nicholas Petrie
Best Paperback Original, Rain Dogs, by Adrian McKinty
Best Thriller, Guilty Minds, by Joseph Finder
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In the Q&A roundup, at the Guildford Book Festival, bestselling crime author Peter James talked about the school poetry prize that kick-started his career; the Mystery People Q&A with Joe Ide burst onto the mystery scene last year with his debut Isaiah Quintabe mystery, IQ, a Holmesian puzzler set in South Central LA; the MP's also sat down with Thomas Mullen, whose Darktown found critical acclaim when it came out last year, and Simon Maltman spoke with the Dorset Book Detective about crime writing and how it "gives you something dramatic to hang whatever else you want to write about on to."
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