Bouchercon
Bouchercon, the Anthony Boucher Memorial World Mystery Convention, is an annual convention of creators and devotees of mystery and detective fiction. It is named in honour of writer, reviewer, and editor Anthony Boucher, and pronounced the w ...
is an annual
convention of creators and devotees of
mystery
Mystery, The Mystery, Mysteries or The Mysteries may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters
*Mystery, a cat character in ''Emily the Strange''
*Mystery, a seahorse that SpongeBob SquarePants adopts in the episode " My Pre ...
and
detective fiction
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an criminal investigation, investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around ...
. It is named in honour of writer, reviewer, and editor
Anthony Boucher
William Anthony Parker White (August 21, 1911 – April 29, 1968), better known by his pen name Anthony Boucher (), was an American author, critic, and editor who wrote several classic mystery novels, short stories, science fiction, and radio dr ...
; also the inspiration for the
Anthony Awards
The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America.
Categori ...
, which have been issued at the convention since 1986. This page details Bouchercon XXXIII and the 17th Anthony Awards ceremony.
Bouchercon
The convention was held in
Austin, Texas
Austin ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and W ...
on October 17, 2002; running until the 20th. The event was chaired by owner of the "Crime and Space" mystery bookstore, Willie Siros; and Karen Meschke, both co-founders of the ''Alamo Literary Arts Maintenance Organization''.
Special Guests
*Guests of Honor —
Mary Willis Walker,
George Pelecanos
George P. Pelecanos (born February 18, 1957) is an American author, producer and television writer. Many of his 20 books are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. On television, he frequently co ...
*Fan Guest of Honor —
Bill Crider
Bill Crider (July 28, 1941 – February 12, 2018) was an American author of crime fiction among other work.
Biography
Crider received a Master of Arts degree at the University of North Texas, in Denton. Later, he taught English at Howard Payne ...
*Fan Ghost of Honor —
Barry Gardner
*Toastmaster —
Sparkle Hayter
Anthony Awards
The following list details the awards distributed at the seventeenth annual Anthony Awards ceremony.
Novel award
Winner:
*
Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965) is an American author and screenwriter. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including '' A Drink Before the War''. Four of hi ...
, ''
Mystic River
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''
Shortlist:
*
Jan Burke
Jan Burke (born August 1, 1953) is an American author of novels and short stories. She is a winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, the Agatha Award for Best Short Story, the Macavity Award, and ''Ellery Queen'' Readers Choice Award.
Biography ...
, ''Flight''
*
Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben (born January 4, 1962) is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past, murders, or fatal accidents and have multiple ...
, ''
Tell No One''
*
Rick Riordan
Richard Russell Riordan Jr. ( ; born June 5, 1964) is an American author, best known for writing the ''Percy Jackson & the Olympians'' series. Riordan's books have been translated into forty-two languages and sold more than thirty million cop ...
, ''The Devil Went Down to Austin''
*
S. J. Rozan, ''Reflecting the Sky''
First novel award
Winner:
*
C. J. Box, ''
Open Season
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Film and television
* ''Open Season'' (1974 film ...
''
Shortlist:
*K. J. Erickson, ''Third Person Singular''
*Jan Grape, ''Austin City Blue''
*
Denise Hamilton, ''The Jasmine Trade''
*
Andy Straka, ''A Witness Above''
Paperback original award
Winner:
*
Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris Schulz (born November 25, 1951) is an American author who specializes in mysteries. She is best known for her book series '' The Southern Vampire Mysteries'', which was adapted as the TV series '' True Blood''. The television sh ...
, ''
Dead Until Dark''
Shortlist:
*
Jeff Abbott, ''A Kiss Gone Bad''
*
Jerrilyn Farmer, ''Dim Sum Dead''
*P. J. Parrish, ''Dead of Winter''
*Daniel Stashower, ''The Houdini Specter''
Short story award
Winner:
*
Bill and Judy Crider, "Chocolate Moose", from ''
Death Dines at 8:30''
Shortlist:
*Ted Hertel Jr., "My Bonnie Lies...", from ''The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers''
*Rochelle Krich, "Bitter Waters", from ''Criminal Kabbalah: An Intriguing Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction''
*
Margaret Maron
Margaret Maron (''née'' Brown; August 25, 1938 – February 23, 2021) was an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.
Biography
Maron was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and grew up in central Johnston County; she had a ...
, "Virgo in Sapphires", from ''
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fic ...
'' December 2001
*
S. J. Rozan, "Double-Crossing Delancy", from ''Mystery Street''
Critical / Non-fiction award
Winner:
*
Tony Hillerman
Anthony Grove Hillerman (May 27, 1925 – October 26, 2008) was an American author of detective novels and nonfiction works, best known for his mystery novels featuring Navajo Nation Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Several of his w ...
, ''
Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir''
Shortlist:
*
Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins (born March 3, 1948) is an American mystery writer, noted for his graphic literature. His work has been published in several formats, such as his '' Ms. Tree'' series and his '' Road to Perdition'' series was the basis for a fi ...
, ''The History of Mystery''
*Jo Hammett, ''Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers''
*G. Miki Hayden, ''Writing The Mystery: A Start to Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional''
*
Jeffrey Marks, ''Who Was That Lady? Craig Rice: The Queen of Screwball Mystery''
Young adult award
Winner:
*
Penny Warner
Penny Warner is an American Mystery fiction, mystery writer who has won multiple Agatha Awards. She has also written more than 50 books on subjects ranging from cooking to parenting guides to party and activity books.
Life
Warner earned a maste ...
, ''
The Mystery of the Haunted Caves''
Shortlist:
*Michael Dahl, ''The Viking Claw''
*Harriet R. Feder, ''Death on Sacred Ground''
*Peni Griffin, ''Ghost Sitter''
*Jeri Fink & Donna Paltrowitz, ''Matthew's Web''
Cover art award
Winner:
*
Josef Beck &
Michael Storrings; for
S. J. Rozan, ''
Reflecting the Sky''
Shortlist:
*Glenn Harrington; for
Carole Nelson Douglas, ''Chapel Noir''
*Annie Sperling; for Kit Sloane, ''Grape Noir''
*Teresa Fasolino; for Rosemary Stevens, ''The Tainted Snuff Box''
*John Warden & Anthony Ramondo; for
Michael McGarrity
Michael McGarrity (born 1940) is a New Mexican author and former law enforcement officer. He has written a dozen crime novels set in New Mexico and the American West trilogy, historical novels also set in New Mexico consisting of ''Hard Country ...
, ''Under the Color of Law''
Special service award
Winner:
*
Doris Ann Norris
Shortlist:
''No shortlist released''
References
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