The winners of the 2024 Anthony Awards were revealed at the annual Bouchercon Conference held this year in Nashville. Anthony nominations are submitted online by people who registered for the previous year’s Bouchercon and/or are registered for the current year’s Bouchercon. Books are then voted on by the membership. Congrats to all this year's winners and finalists!
Best Hardcover Novel: All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
Also nominated:
- Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
- Time's Undoing by Cheryl A. Head
- Face of Greed by James L'Etoile
- The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
Best Paperback Novel: Hide by Tracy Clark
Also nominated:
- No Home for Killers by E.A. Aymar
- Because the Night by James D.F. Hannah
- The Taken Ones by Jess Lourey
- Magic City Blues by Bobby Matthews
- Lowdown Road by Scott Von Doviak
Best First Novel: Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
Also nominated:
- The Peacock and the Sparrow by I.S. Berry
- Play the Fool by Lina Chern
- Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy
- City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita
Best Children's/YA: Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose by Nancy Springer
Also nominated:
- Finney and the Secret Tunnel by Jamie Lane Barber
- Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity by Elizabeth C. Bunch
- The Sasquatch of Hawthorne Elementary by K.B. Jackson
- The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle by Taryn Souders
Best Critical/Nonfiction: A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
Also nominated:
- Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction by Anjili Babbar
- Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor
- A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak
- Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Robert Morgan
- Agatha Christie, She Watched: One Woman's Plot to Watch 201 Christie Adaptations Without Murdering the Director, Screenwriter, Cast, or Her Husband by Teresa Peschel
- Love Me Fierce In Danger - The Life of James Ellroy by Steven Powell
Best Anthology/Collection: Killin’ Time in San Diego: Bouchercon Anthology 2023, edited by Holly West
Also nominated:
- School of Hard Knox, edited by Donna Andrews, Greg Herren, and Art Taylor
- Here in the Dark: Stories by Meagan Luca
- Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles, edited by Josh Pachter
- The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions by Art Taylor
Best Short Story: "Ticket to Ride" by Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski
Also nominated:
- "Real Courage" by Barb Goffman
- "Knock" by James D.F. Hannah
- "Green and California Bound" by Curtis Ippolito
- "Tell Me No Lies" by Holly West
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