The nominees for the Anthony Award were announced today on the Bouchercon2010 blog. Named for the late Anthony Boucher, the award winners, chosen by the attendees of the convention, will be announced this October during Bouchercon in San Francisco.
The nominees are:
Best Novel:
◊ The Last Child by John Hart (Minotaur Books)
◊ The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston (Ballantine Books)
◊ The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
◊ The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
◊ The Shanghai Moon by S. J. Rozan (Minotaur Books)
Best First Novel:
◊ The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley 
◊ Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
◊ A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield
◊ The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
◊ In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff
Best Paperback Original:
◊ Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
◊ Tower by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman (Busted Flush Press)
◊ Quarry in the Middle by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
◊ Death and the Lit Chick by G. M. Malliet (Midnight Ink)
◊ Air Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Best Short Story:
◊ "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" (Crossroad Blues) by Ace Atkins (Busted Flush Press)
◊ "Femme Sole" (Boston Noir) by Dana Cameron (Akashic Books)
◊ "Animal Rescue" (Boston Noir) by Dennis Lehane (Akashic Books)
◊ "On the House" (Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers) by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Level Best Books)
◊ "Amapola" (Phoenix Noir) by Luis Alberto Urrea (Akashic Books)
Best Critical Non-Fiction:
◊ Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. James (Knopf)
◊ The Line Up by Otto Penzler, ed. (Little, Brown and Company)
◊ Haunted Heart by Lisa Rogak (St. Martin's Press)
◊ Dame Agatha's Shorts by Elena Santangelo (Bella Rosa Books)
◊ The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar (St. Martin's Press)
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