Nominees for the 2015 Anthony Award Announced

The nominees for the 2015 Anthony Awards were announced yesterday honoring mystery fiction and non-fiction in six categories. Named after the late Anthony Boucher, who helped found the Mystery Writers of America, the winners will be announced at Bouchercon 2015 — Murder Under the Oaks — and will be chosen by the attendees.

And the nominees are …

Best Novel:

• Lamentation by Joe Clifford (Oceanview Publishing)
• The Secret Place by Tana French (Viking)
• After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman (William Morrow)
• The Long Way Home by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
• Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge Books)

Best First Novel:

• Blessed Are the Dead by Kristi Belcamino (Witness Impulse)
• Ice Shear by M.P. Cooley (William Morrow)
• Invisible City by Julia Dahl (Minotaur Books)
• The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens (Seventh Street Books)
• The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street Books)

Best Paperback Original:

• Stay With Me by Alison Gaylin (Harper)
• The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood (Penguin Books)
• The Day She Died by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
• World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books)
• No Stone Unturned by James W. Ziskin (Seventh Street Books)

Best Critical or Non-Fiction Work:

• The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis by Charles Brownson (McFarland)
• Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey by Hank Phillippi Ryan, ed. (Henery Press)
• Death Dealer: How Cops and Cadaver Dogs Brought a Killer to Justice by Kate Clark Flora (New Horizon)
• Dru's Book Musings by Dru Ann Love (Dru Ann Love)
• Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J.W. Ocker (Countryman)

Best Short Story

• "Honeymoon Sweet" by Craig Faustus Buck (Murder at the Beach: The Bouchercon Anthology 2014, Down & Out Books)
• "The Shadow Knows" by Barb Goffman (Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays, Wildside)
• "Howling at the Moon" by Paul D. Marks (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Nov 2014, Dell)
• "Of Dogs & Deceit" by John Shepphird (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Nov 2014, Dell)
• "The Odds Are Against Us" by Art Taylor (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Nov 2014, Dell)

Best Anthology or Collection

• Murder at the Beach: The Bouchercon Anthology 2014 by Dana Cameron, ed. (Down & Out Books)
• FaceOff by David Baldacci, ed. (Simon & Schuster)
• Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen by Joe Clifford, ed. (Gutter)
• Carolina Crimes: 19 Tales of Love, Lust, and Longing by Karen Pullen, ed. (Wildside)
• In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, eds. (Pegasus Crime)