Winners of the 2016 Anthony Awards Announced

The winners of the 2016 Anthony Awards were announced Friday night by during Bourchercon in New Orleans with the winners determined by the convention attendees. 

And congratulations go to …

• Best Novel: The Killing Kind by Chris Holm (Mulholland Books)

• Best First Novel: Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton (William Morrow)

• Best Paperback Original: The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (William Morrow)

• Best Critical/Non-Fiction Work: Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid (Grove Press)

• Best Short Story: "The Little Men" by Megan Abbott (Open Road)

• Best Anthology or Collection: Murder Under the Oaks by Art Taylor, editor (Down & Out Books)

• Best Young Adult Novel: Need by Joelle Charbonneau (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)