Nominees for the 2016 Anthony Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2016 Anthony Awards have been announced. The winners will be selected by attendees to Bouchercon 2016 in New Orleans and will be announced in September.

And they are …

Best Novel:
• Night Tremors by Matt Coyle (Oceanview Publishing)
• The Killing Kind by Chris Holm (Mulholland Books)
• The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
• The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
• What You See by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge Books)

Best First Novel:
• Concrete Angel by Patricia Abbott (Polis Books)
• Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton (William Morrow)
• New Yorked by Rob Hart (Polis Books)
• Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich (Putnam)
• On the Road with Del and Louise by Art Taylor (Henery Press)

Best Paperback Original:
• The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (William Morrow)
• Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty (Seventh Street Books)
• Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street Books)
• Young Americans by Josh Stallings (Heist)
• Stone Cold Dead by James W. Ziskin (Seventh Street Books)

Best Critical/Non-Fiction Work:
• The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For by Kate White, editor (Quirk Books)
• Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald by Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan, editors (Arcade)
• The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)
• Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid (Grove Press)
• The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Nathan Ward (Bloomsbury)

Best Short Story:
• "The Little Men" by Megan Abbott (Open Road)
• "The Siege" by Hilary Davidson (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine December 2015)
• "Old Hands" by Eric Mitchell (Dark City Lights)
• "Quack and Dwight" by Travis Richardson (Jewish Noir)
• "Feliz Navidead" by Brace Godfrey/Johnny Shaw (Thuglit Presents: Cruel Yule)
• "Don't Fear the Ripper" by Holly West (Protectors 2: Heroes)

Best Anthology or Collection:
• Murder Under the Oaks by Art Taylor, editor (Down & Out Books)
• Jewish Noir by Kenneth Wishnia, editor (PM)
• Protectors 2: Heroes by Thomas Pluck, editor (Goombah Gumbo)
• Thuglit Presents: Cruel Yule by Todd Robinson, editor (CreateSpace)
• Safe Inside the Violence by Christopher Irvin (280 Steps)

Best Young Adult:
• Need by Joelle Charbonneau (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• How to Win at High School by Owen Matthews (HarperTeen)
• A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis (HarperCollins)
• The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury (Scholastic)
• Fighting Chance by B. K. Stevens (The Poisoned Pencil)
• Ask the Dark by Henry Turner (Clarion)

Best Crime Fiction Audiobook:
• Dark Waters by Chris Goff; Read by Assaf Cohen (Crooked Lane)
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins; Read by Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey and India Fisher (Penguin Audio)
• Causing Chaos by Deborah J. Ledford; Read by Christina Cox (IOF Productions)
• The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny; Read by Robert Bathurst (Macmillan Audio)
• Young Americans by Josh Stallings; Read by Em Eldridge (Josh Stallings)