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2009 Anthony Awards Given at Bouchercon 2009…

Sorry about posting this so “after the fact”… I kept thinking that I wanted to post the 2009 Anthony Award nominees and winners, who were announced at Bouchercon 2009 last month. Another case of better late than never…

Congratulations to all of the authors nominated for these great awards, and to all of those authors who won:

2009 Anthony Award Best Novel:
 The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (Winner)
Trigger City by Sean Chercover
Red Knife by William Kent Krueger
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

2009 Anthony Award Best First Novel: 
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Winner)
Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris
Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer
Death of a Cozy Writer by G. M. Malliet
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

2009 Anthony Award Best Paperback Original: 
State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy (Winner)
 The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins 
Money Shot by Christa Faust
In a Dark Season by Vicki Lane 
South of Hell by P. J. Parrish 

2009 Anthony Award Best Short Story: 
A Sleep Not Unlike Death by Sean Chercover (Winner)
The Night Things Changed by Dana Cameron
Killing Time by Jane K. Cleland
Skull and Cross Examination by Toni L. P. Kelner
Scratch a Woman by Laura Lippman
The Secret Lives of Cats by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

2009 Anthony Award Best Critical Nonfiction Work:
Anthony Boucher: A Bibliography by Jeffrey Marks (Winner)
African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey
How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries by Kathy Lynn Emerson
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale

2009 Anthony Award Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel: 
The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein (Winner)
Paper Towns by John Green
Kiss Me, Kill Me by Lauren Henderson
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash by Wendelin Van Draanen

2009 Anthony Award Best Cover Art: 
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Peter Mendelsund (Winner)
Death Was the Other Woman by David Rotstein
Death Will Get You Sober by David Rotstein
The Fault Tree by David Rotstein
Money Shot by Steve Cooley

2009 Anthony Award Special Service Award: 
Jon and Ruth Jordan (Winner)
Ali Karim
David Montgomery
Gary Warren Niebuhr
Sarah Weinman

2009 Bouchercon Guest of Honor:
Michael Connelly

2009 Bouchercon Toastmaster:
S.J. Rozan

2009 Bouchercon Honored Youth Author:
Wendelin Van Draanen

Bouchercon 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient:
Allen J. Hubin

♦Back to the Mystery Book Awards page♦

British Mystery Mini-Series is a Mystery to Me!

Su just wrote in a comment the other day which I have decided to post as an entry. She has a question about a British mystery show that aired about ten years ago, and wondered if any of us know the name of the series.

“This is really a long shot, but maybe you mystery fans could help me remember the name of a British Television mini-series (or multi-part movie) that I completely loved and want to see in it’s entirety. It was maybe 10 years ago give or take a decade 😉
I can’t remember anything but snippets and bits of memories. So I thought I’d throw out those bits and pieces and see if anyone can put the clues together and figure out what show it is. A mystery challenge for you!

OK so here it is – these are all the things I can remember about the show.

The title of the show was a play on words.
The main character was a woman maybe in her 30s.
She ended up driving through Scotland searching for something – i think it had to do with her father.
There was a man she met who joined in the quest. The letter K suggests itself here.
The banter between them was such clever repartee that it reminded me of Robert Heinlein’s dialogue writing.

Now is where I get really confused. I remember a young side-kick who either was the same actor as the young Scot who played Merry in Lord of the Rings or looked a lot like him. But this may be from another show altogether. Double score if you can name both shows.”

If any of you think that you might know the name of the show, please feel free to send us a comment!

PS… Dominic Monaghan is the actor who played Merry in Lord of the Rings. The first time I saw him was when he played Hetty Wainthropp’s very young, detective side-kick on the Hetty Wainthropp Investigates series, which if you haven’t seen, you should definitely check out.

My Current Mystery Book…

I know that I have been remiss in writing an entry… I usually don’t take this long a break from writing, but I have been trying to get some things accomplished before my daughter comes home for her Thanksgiving break. She’ll be home for only two full days, and then will be going back to Cambridge for the remainder of the semester. I have a lot to get done before she arrives.

I thought that I would quickly “check in” and mention that I am continuing to make my way through my holiday themed mystery books. I enjoyed the first of the Special Pennyfoot Country Club mysteries (by Kate Kingsbury) and am reading a “Jessica Fletcher” (Donald Bain) holiday mystery right now. As I have mentioned before, I am becoming a rather slow reader, so I am hoping that I will be able to make it through a couple other holiday mysteries before our calendars change to 2010. (Can you believe it’s been ten years since all of that hub-bub about our computers not being able to change from the 1900s to the 2000s?!?)

How about you all? What are you reading? Drop us a line if you wouldn’t mind telling us about your current book… even if you’re not reading a mystery!

December 2009 Mystery Book New Releases

The following mystery books will be released in December 2009:

Maureen Ash: Murder for Christ’s Mass (This will be the 4th in the Templar Knight Mystery Series…)

Maggie Barbieri: Final Exam (This will be the 4th in the Murder 101 Mystery Series…)

Miranda Bliss: Murder Has a Sweet Tooth (This will be the 5th in the Cooking Class Mystery Series…)

Anne Canadeo: Knit, Purl, Die (This will be the 2nd in the Black Sheep Knitting Mystery Series…)

Laura Childs: Eggs Benedict Arnold (This will be the 2nd in the Cackleberry Club Mystery Series…)

Barbara Colley (aka Anne Logan): Dusted to Death (This will be the 8th in the Charlotte LaRue Mystery Series…)

Isis Crawford (aka Barbara Block): A Catered Birthday Party (This will be the 6th in the Mystery with Recipes Mystery Series…)

Hannah Dennison: Exposé! (This will be the 3rd in the Vicki Hill Mystery Series…)

Joanne Dobson: Death without Tenure (This will be the 6th in the Karen Pelletier Mystery Series…)

Monica Ferris: Sew Far, So Good (This will include the following Needlecraft Mysteries: Unraveled Sleeve, A Murderous Yarn, & Hanging by a Thread…)

Jonathan Gash: Faces in the Pool (This will be the 24th in the Lovejoy Mystery Series…)

Lee Goldberg: Mr. Monk in Trouble (This will be the 9th in the Mr. Monk Mystery Series…)

Sue Grafton: U Is for Undertow (This will be the 21st in the Kinsey Millhone Mystery Series…)

Sarah Graves: Crawlspace (This will be the 13th in the Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery Series…)

Gabriella Herkert: Horsewhipped (This will be the 3rd in the Animal Instinct Mystery Series…)

Tami Hoag: Deeper than the Dead (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Hazel Holt: Mrs. Malory and Any Man’s Death (This will be the 19th in the Mrs. Malory Mystery Series…)

Charlotte Hughes: High Anxiety (This will be the 3rd in the Kate Holly Mystery Series…)

J. A. Jance: Trial by Fire (This will be the 5th in the Alison Reynolds Mystery Series…)

Linda O. Johnston: Howl Deadly (This will be the 8th in the Kendra Ballantine, Pet-Sitter Mystery Series…)

James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet: Witch & Wizard (This will be a Teen Science-Fiction Stand Alone…)

Ann Purser: Tragedy at Two (This will be the 2nd in the Lois Meade Mystery Series…)

Wendy Roberts: Dead and Kicking (This will be the 3rd in the Ghost Dusters Mystery Series…)

Alexander McCall Smith: La’s Orchestra Saves the World (This will be a Stand Alone Non-Mystery...)

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