2010 Anthony Award Winners and Nominees

Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, has announced the winners for the 2010 Anthony Awards, honoring the best first mystery novel, best novel and best paperback original mystery published in 2009.

The Anthony Awards, named for long-time mystery critic for NY Times Anthony Boucher, were presented during Bouchercon at the Anthony Awards Brunch, October 17, 2010. Bouchercon attendees  made the nominations; the Anthonys were selected at the convention by all convention attendees.

Best Novel

Winner

The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny

Inspector Gamache of the Surete du Quebec

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Other nominees

The Last Child by John Hart

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The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston

Man takes job as a crime scene cleaner, becomes involved in investigating murder

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The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

Second volume of the Millenium Trilogy, sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

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The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan

PI's Lydia Chin and Bill Smith

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Best First Novel

Winner

A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield

Woman runs sewing shop with sideline in saving battered woman

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Other nominees

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

Precocious teen sleuth Flavia de Luce

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Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley

Disgraced Detroit reporter returns to his Michigan hometown, investigates death of well-liked hockey coach

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The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville

IRA gunman seeks redemption by killing those who gave him orders

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In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff

Turn of the century NY cop Simon Ziele teams up with Columbia criminologist

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Best Paperback Original

Winner

Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley

Disgraced Detroit reporter returns to his Michigan hometown, investigates death of well-liked hockey coach

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Other nominees

Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott

Novel based on the Brighton Trunk murders of 1934

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Tower by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman

Noir novel of childhood friends and their career in crime

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Quarry in the Middle by Max Allan Collins

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Death and the Lit Chick by G.M. Malliet

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Air Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Boston reporter Charlotte McNally

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Best Critical or Nonfiction Work

Winner

Talking About Detective Fiction by P.D. James

A master of the genre looks at the genre from earliest beginnings to the modern

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Other nominees

The Lineup by edited by Otto Penzler

The world's greatest crime writers tell the inside story of their greatest detectives

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Haunted Heart by Lisa Rogak

The life and times of Stephen King

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Dame Agatha's Shorts by Elena Santangelo

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The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar

The secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith

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