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Bouchercon Awards: 2010 Anthony Awards Lists… Nominees & Winners

The Bouchercon Convention was held in San Francisco from the 14th to the 17th of October  – 2010. What a great honor to receive a nomination for Bouchercon’s Anthony Awards. Here are both the nominees and winners for bouchercon’s 2010 Anthony Awards:

Best Novel: The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Winner)
The Last Child by John Hart
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (translated by Reg Keeland)
The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan

Best First Novel: A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield (Winner)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
The Twelve/The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff

Best Paperback Original: Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley (Winner)
Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
Tower by Ken Bruen & Reed Farrel Coleman
Quarry in the Middle by Max Allan Collins
Death and the Lit Chick by G.M. Malliet
Air Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Best Short Story: On the House by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers) (Winner)
Last Fair Deal Gone Down by Ace Atkins (Crossroad Blues)
Femme Sole by Dana Cameron (Boston Noir)
Animal Rescue by Dennis Lehane (Boston Noir)
Amapola by Luis Alberto Urrea (Phoenix Noir)

Best Critical Non-Fiction Work: Talking about Detective Fiction by P.D. James (Winner)
The Line Up: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives by Otto Penzler, ed.
Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King by Lisa Rogak
Dame Agatha’s Shorts: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion by Elena Santangelo
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar

And, here are some of the Guests of Honor who attended Bouchercon 2010 with Eddie Muller as the Toastmaster:

Distinguished Contribution to the Genre: Lee Child
International Guest of Honor: Denise Mina
American Guest of Honor: Laurie R. King

♦For more Mystery Book Awards, click here.♦

Hannah Alexander, Kate Jacobs, Delia Rosen, & Ann Summerville… the Four Newest Additions to the Cozy Mystery Site…

Thank you for your recommendations of authors who you feel belong on the Cozy Mystery site! Here are the four latest additions to the site:

Hannah Alexander: Hideaway Mystery Series… Alexander is a pseudonym for a husband and wife writing team (Mel & Cheryl Hodde) who specialize in Christian mysteries that blend a little medical suspense (Mel Hodde is a physician) with romance. They are Christy award-winning authors.

Kate Jacobs: Friday Night Knitting Club Series… Although Jacobs is not a mystery writer, she is a New York Times bestselling author. I know that this is a mystery site, but she comes highly recommended as belonging on the site. Her series features a woman who owns a yarn shop in Manhattan, which has a knitting circle.

Delia Rosen: Deadly Deli Mystery Series… Gwen Silver (aka Nashville Katz) is the sleuth in this new mystery series. She has just inherited her uncle’s Jewish Deli in Nashville, and has some sleuthing on the menu.

Ann Summerville: Summerville was born in England, but currently lives in Texas. Her stand-alone Cozy Mystery books feature British sleuths… one in a Cornish village and another in Texas.

Authors Similar to Nancy Atherton

I just received a comment from Princezzz:

“Help!! I really enjoy Nancy Atherton’s “Aunt Dimity”. I am looking for other authors who write the same type of stories. She sets Aunt Dimity in the U.K. and that’s what I am looking for. I can’t afford to jump on a plane and go to England every year, so reading those kinds of stories are like a “mini vacation”. Any help would be appreciated!”

Authors Who Are Similar to Nancy Atherton:

Susan Wittig Albert: Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mystery Series

M. C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin Mystery Series AND Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series

Carrie Bebris: Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery Series

Rhys Bowen: Constable Evan Evans Mystery Series

Simon Brett: Fethering Mystery Series AND Melita Pargeter Mystery Series

Emily Brightwell: Mrs. Jeffries Mystery Series

Dorothy Cannell: Ellie Haskell Mystery Series

Carola Dunn: Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series

Hazel Holt: Mrs. Malory Mystery Series

Charlotte MacLeod (aka Alisa Craig): Peter Shandy Mystery Series

Robin Paige (aka Susan Wittig Albert & Bill Albert): Sir Charles and Kate Ardleigh Sheridan Victorian Mystery Series

Please post your recommendations of authors who are similar to Nancy Atherton, and I will add them to the list.

♦To access more Cozy Mysteries by theme click on this link.♦

Lazy Days, Reading…

Man Alive! I have been dragging… I just haven’t been able to gear myself up to spend time at my computer for the last few days. I simply missed reading!

I had been spending more and more time at the computer recently, and am trying to get back into my Cozy Mystery reading. I used to be able to make my way through mystery series on a regular basis. But it seems like lately I have been only “meaning” to catch up with my favorite authors.

Sometimes I spend an allotted amount of time trying new (to me!) authors. I try about six new authors (making sure to read the first mystery book in their series) to find out if I like them. When I like the authors, I then want to read every single book by them, which means that I add more books to my TBR (to be read) bookshelf. This of course means that I don’t catch up with the authors who are already in my TBR bookshelf, instead, I add more authors to it.

So, for the last few days I have simply been reading… and I have been really enjoying it. My husband came home yesterday and asked me if there was something he had to fix on my computer… since I am usually at my desk typing, with a snoozing/snoring Sprite on the adjacent bed. (He was quite relieved to find out that he wouldn’t have to spend time trying to fix something I had messed up on my computer.)

As for Sprite, being a creature of habit, she has been a bit annoyed that “we” now are spending time in the living room reading instead of the guest bedroom, where she enjoys spending time catching up on her napping, which recently has become a major part of her day…

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