2017 Anthony and Macavity Awards

ANTHONY AWARD NOMINATIONS for 2017  (Winners get an asterisk*)

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Best Novel : Meet the Nominees Saturday 10:00AM

You Will Know Me – Megan Abbott [Little, Brown]

Where It Hurts – Reed Farrel Coleman [G.P. Putnam’s Sons]

Red Right Hand – Chris Holm [Mulholland]

Wilde Lake – Laura Lippman [William Morrow]

*A Great Reckoning – Louise Penny [Minotaur]

Best Paperback Original : Meet the Nominees Thursday 1:00PM

Shot in Detroit – Patricia Abbott [Polis]

Leadfoot – Eric Beetner [280 Steps]

Salem’s Cipher – Jess Lourey [Midnight Ink]

Rain Dogs – Adrian McKinty [Seventh Street]

How to Kill Friends and Implicate People – Jay Stringer [Thomas & Mercer]

*Heart of Stone – James W. Ziskin [Seventh Street] 

Best First Novel : Meet the Nominees Thursday 2:30PM

Dodgers – Bill Beverly [Crown]

*IQ – Joe Ide [Mulholland]

Decanting a Murder – Nadine Nettmann [Midnight Ink]

Design for Dying – Renee Patrick [Forge]

The Drifter – Nicholas Petrie [G.P. Putnam’s Sons]

Best Anthology : Meet the Nominees Friday 10:00AM

Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns – Eric Beetner, ed. [Down & Out]

In Sunlight or in Shadow – Lawrence Block, ed. [Pegasus]

Cannibals: Stories from the Edge of the Pine Barrens – Jen Conley [Down & Out]

*Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016 – Greg Herren, ed. [Down & Out]

Waiting To Be Forgotten: Stories of Crime and Heartbreak, Inspired by the Replacements – Jay Stringer, ed. [Gutter] 

Best Short Story : Meet the Nominees Friday 2:00PM
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*“Oxford Girl” – Megan Abbott [PDF], Mississippi Noir [Akashic]

“Autumn at the Automat” – Lawrence Block [PDF], In Sunlight or in Shadow [Pegasus]

“Gary’s Got A Boner” – Johnny Shaw [PDF], Waiting to Be Forgotten [Gutter]

“Parallel Play” – Art Taylor, Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning [Wildside]

“Queen of the Dogs” – Holly West [PDF], 44 Caliber Funk: Tales of Crime, Soul and Payback [Moonstone] 

Best Children’s/YA Novel : Meet the Nominees Friday 3:30PM

Snowed – Maria Alexander [Raw Dog Screaming]

*The Girl I Used to Be – April Henry [Henry Holt]

Tag, You’re Dead – J.C. Lane [Poisoned Pen]

My Sister Rosa – Justine Larbalestier [Soho Teen]

The Fixes – Owen Matthews [HarperTeen] 

Best Novella (8,000-40,000 words) : Meet the Nominees Saturday 8:30AM

Cleaning Up Finn – Sarah M. Chen [All Due Respect Books]

No Happy Endings – Angel Luis Colón [Down & Out]

Crosswise – S.W. Lauden [Down & Out]

Beware the Shill – John Shepphird [Down & Out]

*The Last Blue Glass – B.K. Stevens, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, April 2016 [Dell]

Best Critical Nonfiction Work

Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life – Peter Ackroyd [Nan A. Talese]

Letters from a Serial Killer – Kristi Belcamino & Stephanie Kahalekulu [CreateSpace]

*Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin [Liveright]

Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker – David J. Skal [Liveright]

The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer – Kate Summerscale [Bloomsbury/Penguin] 

The Macavity Award is named for the “mystery cat” of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats). Each year the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries in four categories. (Winners listed first.)
http://mysteryreaders.org/macavity-awards/

Best Novel:
Louise Penny: A Great Reckoning (Minotaur)

Megan Abbott: You Will Know Me (Little, Brown)
Matt Coyle: Dark Fissures (Oceanview)
Noah Hawley: Before the Fall (UK, Hodder & Stoughton; US, Grand Central Publishing)
Mick Herron: Real Tigers (UK, John Murray; US, Soho)
Laura Lippman: Wilde Lake (Wm. Morrow)

Best First Novel:
Joe Ide: IQ (Mulholland Books)

Fiona Barton: The Widow (UK, Bantam; US, NAL)
Flynn Berry: Under the Harrow (Penguin)
Bill Beverly: Dodgers (No Exit Press)
Renee Patrick: Design for Dying (Forge)

Best Short Story:
Art Taylor: “Parallel Play” (Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning, Wildside Press)

Lawrence Block: “Autumn at the Automat” (In Sunlight or in Shadow, Pegasus Books)
Craig Faustus Buck: “Blank Shot” (Black Coffee, Darkhouse Books)
Greg Herren: “Survivor’s Guilt” (Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016, Down & Out Books)
Paul D. Marks: “Ghosts of Bunker Hill” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Dec. 2016)
Joyce Carol Oates: “The Crawl Space” (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2016)

Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Novel:
James W. Ziskin: Heart of Stone (Seventh Street Books)

Susanna Calkins: A Death Along the River Fleet (Minotaur)
Lyndsay Faye: Jane Steele (UK: Headline Review; US, G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Edith Maxwell: Delivering The Truth (Midnight Ink)
Catriona McPherson: The Reek of Red Herrings (US: Minotaur; UK: Houghton Stodder)
Ann Parker: What Gold Buys (Poisoned Pen Press)

Best Nonfiction:
Margaret Kinsman: Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (McFarland)

Jane K. Cleland: Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot: How to Write Gripping Stories that Keep Readers on the Edge of Their Seats (Writer’s Digest Books)
Ruth Franklin: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright Publishing)
David J. Skal: Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula (Liveright Publishing)
Kate Summerscale: The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer (Penguin)