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2002 Anthony Award Winners and Nominees

Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, has announced its nominees & winners for the 2002 Anthony Awards, honoring the best first mystery novel, best novel, best non-fiction, best short story, and best juvenile/young adult mystery published in 2001.

The Anthony Awards, named for long-time mystery critic for NY Times Anthony Boucher, were presented during Bouchercon at the Anthony Awards Banquet, October 2002. Bouchercon attendees  made the nominations; the Anthonys were selected at the convention by all convention attendees.

Best Novel

Winner

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

excellent non-series novel is story of three boyhood friends and the divergence of their adult lives

paperback, $7.99

Other Nominees

Devil Went Down to Austin by Rick Riordan

Excellent chapter in the Tres Navarre series as the PI fights to clear his brother from a murder charge

paperback, $6.99

Flight by Jan Burke

Wreckage of a plane belonging to a cop who disappeared years earlier, sets off a dangerous game for Frank Harriman

paperback, $6.99

Reflecting the Sky by S.J. Rozan

An exciting Lydia Chin mystery with a Hong Kong travelogue thrown in for free

paperback, $6.99

Tell No One by Harlan Coben

Mysterious email leads man to think his wife, abducted years ago, may still be alive

paperback, $7.99

Best First Novel

Winner

Open Season by C.J. Box

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett

paperback, $6.99

Austin City Blue by Jan Grape

Austin police officer Zoe Barrow

Out of Print

The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamiton

LA Times reporter Eve Diamond

trade paperback, $12.95

Third Person Singular by K.C. Erickson

Minneapolis cop Marshall Baer investigates the death of a former homecoming queen

trade paperback, $12.95

A Witness Above by Andy Straka

debut for Charlottesville PI and falconer Frank Pavlicek

Out of Print

Best Paperback Original

Winner

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Pyschic cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse

paperback, $7.99

Other Nominees

Dead of Winter by P.J. Parrish

Louis Kincaid travels to Michigan in search of a ruthless killer

paperback, $6.99

Dim Sum Dead by Jerrilyn Farmer

Caterer Madelyn Bean

Out of Print

The Houdini Specter by Daniel Stashower

Harry Houdini as sleuth

Out of Print

A Kiss Gone Bad by Jeff Abbott

beach-bum-turned-judge Whit Mosley

paperback, $6.99

 


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