Anthony Awards Nominations

Bouchercon 2009 World Mystery Convention, ANTHONY AWARDS: "2009 Anthony Award Nominations"

2009 Anthony Award Nominations Best Novel Trigger City by Sean Chercover [William Morrow] The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly [Little, Brown and Company] Red Knife by William Kent Krueger [Atria] The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [Knopf] The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny [Minotaur] Best First Novel Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris [Minotaur] Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer [Doubleday] The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [Knopf] Death of a Cozy Writer by G. M. Malliet [Midnight Ink] Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith [Grand Central] Best Paperback Original The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins [Hard Case Crime] Money Shot by Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime] State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy [Berkley] In a Dark Season by Vicki Lane [Dell] South of Hell by P. J. Parrish [Pocket Star] Best Short Story “The Night Things Changed” by Dana Cameron from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe [Ace] “A Sleep Not Unlike Death” by Sean Chercover from Hardcore Hardboiled [Kensington] “Killing Time” by Jane K. Cleland from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (November) “Skull and Cross Examination” by Toni L. P. Kelner from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (February) “Scratch a Woman” by Laura Lippman from Hardly Knew Her [William Morrow] “The Secret Lives of Cats” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (July) Best Critical Nonfiction Work African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey [McFarland] How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries by Kathy Lynn Emerson[Perseverance Press] Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography by Jeffrey Marks [McFarland] The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale [Walker & Company] Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein [Random House] Paper Towns by John Green [Dutton Juvenile] Kiss Me, Kill Me by Lauren Henderson [Delacorte] The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey byTrenton Lee Stewart [Little, Brown] Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash by Wendelin Van Draanen[Knopf] Best Cover Art Death Was the Other Woman designed by David Rotstein and written by Linda L. Richards [Minotaur] Death Will Get You Sober designed by David Rotstein and written by Elizabeth Zelvin [Minotaur] The Fault Tree designed by David Rotstein and written by Louise Ure [Minotaur] The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo designed by Peter Mendelsund and written by Stieg Larsson [Knopf] Money Shot designed by Steve Cooley and written by Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime] Special Service Award Jon and Ruth Jordan Ali Karim David Montgomery Gary Warren Niebuhr Sarah Weinman