2011 Anthony Award Nominees

Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, has announced the nominees for the 2011 Anthony Awards, honoring the best first mystery novel, best novel and best paperback original mystery published in 2010.

The Anthony Awards, named for long-time mystery critic for NY Times Anthony Boucher, will be presented during Bouchercon at the Anthony Awards Brunch, September 17, 2011. Bouchercon attendees made the nominations; the Anthonys will be selected at the convention by all convention attendees.

Best Novel

Winner

Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

trade paperback, $14.99

Also available as an eBook $9.99

Other Nominees

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

Murder drives two childhood friends apart in small Mississippi town

paperback, $14.99,

Also available as an eBook $9.99

Faithful Place by Tana French

Man returns to his Dublin neighborhood to solve disappearance of his childhood sweetheart

paperback, $16

Also available as an eBook $9.99

The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton

Young man with troubled past has unique skill with locks

trade paperback, $14.99

Also available as an eBook $9.99

I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman

A woman confronts her past when the man who kidnapped her years earlier faces execution

signed hardcover, $25.99

trade paperback, $14.99

Also available as an eBook $9.99

Best First Novel

Winner

The Damage Done by Hilary Davidson

signed hardcover, $24.99

Also available as an eBook $11.99

Other Nominees

Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva

Providence reporter seeks to solve multiple arsons

paperback, $14.99 available July

Also available as an eBook $9.99

The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron

Maine game warden finds himself forced into manhunt for his father who is wanted for murder

trade paperback, $14.99

Also available as an eBook $9.99

The Sherlockian by Graham Moore

Writer thrust into hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary

hardcover, $24.99

trade paperback, $14.99, available Jan. 2012

Also available as an eBook $11.99

Snow Angels by James Thompson

Finnish police officer Kari Vaara

trade paperback, $11.95

Also available as an eBook $9.99

Best Paperback Original

Winner

Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski

time-travelling sleuth tries to stop the murder of his father

trade paperback, $13.99

Also available as an eBook $9.99

Other Nominiees

Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard

Man finds that uncle he thought was dead was actually in prison

trade paperback, $15

Also available as an eBook $11.99

The Hanging Tree by Bryan Gruley

Starvation Lake reporter Gus Carpenter

trade paperback, $15

Also available as an eBook $11.99

Drive Time by Hank Phillipi Ryan

Boston TV reporter Charlotte McNally

paperback, $7.99

Also available as an eBook $5.40

Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis

Psychiatrist Max Liebermann takes on crime in turn-of-the-century Vienna

trade paperback, $15

Also available as an eBook $11.99

Best Critical or Nonfiction Work

Winner

Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran

Just what the title promises

trade paperback, $16.99

Also available as an eBook $9.99

Other Nominees

The Wire: Truth Be Told by Rafael Alvarez

Essays, interviews and more about one of the greatest TV shows of all time

trade paperback, $19.95

Also available as an eBook $11.99

Sherlock Holmes for Dummies by Steve Doyle

The title says it all

trade paperback, $19.99

Also available as an eBook $12.99

Charlie Chan: The Untold Story by Yunte Huang

trade paperback, $16.95

Also available as an eBook $20.21

Thrillers: 100 Must Reads by David Morrell

Essays by writers such as David Baldacci and Steve Berry on the seminal thrillers

hardcover, $27.95