Congratulations to all of this year’s Bouchercon mystery author nominees!<\/p>\n
Most of you already know that Bouchercon is a huge convention that celebrates mystery authors and their books. This year, Bouchercon XLIV will be held in Albany, New York (at the Empire State Plaza) during the September 19 – 22 weekend.<\/p>\n
The awards they present at the Bouchercon conventions are the Anthony Awards<\/a>, which are named after Anthony Boucher, one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America organization.<\/sup><\/p>\n Lifetime Achievement: \u00a0Sue Grafton<\/a><\/p>\n International Guest of Honor: \u00a0Anne Perry<\/a><\/p>\n American Guest of Honor: \u00a0Tess Gerritsen<\/p>\n Toastmaster: \u00a0Steve Hamilton<\/p>\n Fan Guests of Honor: \u00a0Chris Aldrich & Lynn Kaczmarek<\/p>\n Dare Me by Megan Abbott Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman Whiplash River by Lou Berney Mischief in Mesopotamia by Dana Cameron<\/a> Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels by John\u00a0Connolly and Declan Burke, eds. Congratulations to all of this year’s Bouchercon mystery author nominees! Most of you already know that Bouchercon is a huge convention that celebrates mystery authors and their books. This year, Bouchercon XLIV will be held in Albany, New York (at the Empire State Plaza) during the September 19 – 22 weekend. The awards they present […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-awards","8":"category-books","9":"entry","10":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-3m2","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12898"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12924,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898\/revisions\/12924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Here is the list of the Bouchercon XLIV authors and their works:<\/h3>\n
Best Novel:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nThe Trinity Game by Sean Chercover
\nGone Girl by Gillian Flynn
\nThe Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny<\/a>
\nThe Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan<\/a><\/p>\nBest First Novel:<\/h3>\n
\nThe Professionals by Owen Laukkanen
\nThe Expats by Chris Pavone
\nThe 500 by Matthew Quirk
\nBlack Fridays by Michael Sears<\/p>\nBest Paperback Original:<\/h3>\n
\nMurder for Choir by Joelle Charbonneau<\/a>
\nAnd She Was by Alison Gaylin
\nBlessed are the Dead by Malla Nunn
\nBig Maria by Johnny Shaw<\/p>\nBest Short Story:<\/h3>\n
\nKept in the Dark by Shelia Connolly<\/a>
\nThe Lord is My Shamus by Barb Goffman
\nPeaches by Todd Robinson, Grift
\nThe Unremarkable Heart by Karin Slaughter<\/p>\nBest Critical Nonfiction Work:<\/h3>\n
\nBlood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947-1950 by Joseph Goodrich, ed.
\nMore Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered by D.P. Lyle, M.D.
\nThe Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie by Mathew Prichard, ed.
\nIn Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero by Otto Penzler, ed.<\/p>\nCongratulations to ALL!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"