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 XXXIV and the 18th Anthony Awards ceremony.
Bouchercon
The convention was held in
Las Vegas
Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-l ...
,
Nevada
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on October 16, 2003; running until the 19th. The event was chaired by Deen Kogan, founder of the
Society Hill
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playhouse
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Playhouse, The Playhouse, Playhouse Theatre, or Playhouse Theater may also refer to:
Venues and theatre companies Australia
* Dunstan Playhouse, at the Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, South Au ...
.
Special Guests
*American Guest of Honor —
James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won Edgar Awards for his novels ''Black Cherry Blues'' (1990), ''Cimarron Rose'' (1998), and ''Flags on the Bayou'' (2024). He has ...
*International Guest of Honor —
Ian Rankin
Sir Ian James Rankin (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer and philanthropist, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.
Early life
Rankin was born in Cardenden, Fife. His father, James, owned a grocery shop, and his mother, Isobel ...
*Fan Guests of Honor — Ann and Jeff Smith
*Toastmaster —
Lee Child
James Dover Grant (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes Thriller (genre), thriller novels, and is best known for his ''Jack Reacher (book series), Jack Reacher'' novel series. The boo ...
*Memorial Honoree — Hal Rice
*Contribution to the Field award — Janet Hutchings
*Exemplary Body of Work award —
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.
Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford.The Oxford Companion ...
Anthony Awards
The following list details the awards distributed at the eighteenth annual Anthony Awards ceremony.
Novel award
Winner:
*
Michael Connelly
Michael Joseph Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of Detective fiction, detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring Los Angeles Police Department, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and cr ...
, ''
City of Bones''
Shortlist:
*
Cara Black
Cara Cavell Black (born 17 February 1979) is a Zimbabwean former professional tennis player. Black was primarily a doubles specialist, winning 60 WTA Tour and 11 ITF Women's Circuit, ITF doubles titles. A former List of WTA number 1 ranked dou ...
, ''Murder in the Sentier''
*
Steve Hamilton, ''North of Nowhere''
*
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 ...
, ''
Hell to Pay''
*
S. J. Rozan
S. J. Rozan (born 1950) is an American architect and writer of detective fiction and thrillers, based in New York City. She also co-writes a paranormal thriller series under the pseudonym Sam Cabot with Carlos Dews.
Life
S.J. (Shira Judith) R ...
, ''Winter and Night''
First novel award
Winner:
*
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Julia Spencer-Fleming (born June 26, 1961)page 240, ''Great Women Mystery Writers'', 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, is an American novelist of mystery fiction. She has won the Agatha Award, Anthony Awards, An ...
, ''
In the Bleak Midwinter''
Shortlist:
*David Corbett, ''The Devil's Redhead''
*
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Libby Fischer Hellmann is an American crime fiction
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives or fiction that centre on criminal acts and especially on th ...
, ''An Eye for Murder''
*Jonathon King, ''The Blue Edge of Midnight''
*
Eddie Muller
Eddie Muller (born October 15, 1958) is an American author and the founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation. He is known for his books about the ''film noir'' genre, and is the host of ''Noir Alley'' on Turner Classic Movies. He is also ...
, ''The Distance''
Paperback original award
Winner:
*
Robin Burcell
Robin Burcell (born 1959) is an author and forensic artist. She trained with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and "worked in law enforcement for over two decades as a police officer, detective, and hostage negotiator".
Awards and honors
...
, ''
Fatal Truth''
Shortlist:
*
Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott (born 1963) is an American author of mysteries and thrillers. He has degrees in History and English from Rice University. He lives in Austin, Texas. Before writing full-time, he was a creative director at an advertising agency. His e ...
, ''Black Jack Point''
*Roberta Isleib, ''Six Strokes Under''
*P. J. Parrish, ''Paint it Black''
*
Andy Straka
Andy Straka (born September 29, 1958) is a Shamus Award-winning American crime novelist. Born and raised in upstate New York and a graduate of Williams College, he worked in publishing and medical sales for nearly fifteen years before turning to ...
, ''A Killing Sky''
Short story award
Winner:
*
Marcia Talley
Marcia Talley is an American Mystery fiction, mystery novelist, author of the Hannah Ives mystery series, two collaborative fiction, collaborative novels, and numerous short stories. A former librarian, she took early retirement in 2000 to write ...
, "Too Many Cooks", from ''
Much Ado About Murder''
Shortlist:
*
Lauren Haney, "Murder in the Land of Wawat", from ''The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits''
*Clark Howard, "To Live and Die in Midland, Texas", 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 ...
'' September / October 2002
*
Toni Kelner
Toni Leigh Perry Kelner, writing as Toni L.P. Kelner and Leigh Perry, is an author of three mystery series: the eight Laura Fleming novels and related short stories; the Where Are They Now? series, which includes three novels and a forthcoming s ...
, "Bible Belt", from ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' June 2002
*
Bob Truluck, "A Man Called Ready", from ''Measures of Poison''
Critical / Non-fiction award
Winner:
*
Jim Huang
Jim Huang is an American author and editor of crime fiction, as well as the owner and operator of Crum Creek Press and The Mystery Company imprint.
Personal life
Huang has a wife named Jennie. Together, they have lived in Boston, Massachusetts; ...
, ''They
Died in vain
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: Overlooked, Underappreciated and Forgotten Mystery Novels''
Shortlist:
*
Mike Ashley, ''The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction''
*
Jeffrey Marks, ''Intent To Sell: Marking the Genre Novel''
Cover art award
Winner:
*
Michael Kellner; for
Dennis McMillan, ''
Measures of Poison''
Shortlist:
*Jennifer Harris & Melissa Farris; for
Daniel Chavarria, ''The Eye of Cybele''
*Cheryl L. Cipriani; for
Cara Black
Cara Cavell Black (born 17 February 1979) is a Zimbabwean former professional tennis player. Black was primarily a doubles specialist, winning 60 WTA Tour and 11 ITF Women's Circuit, ITF doubles titles. A former List of WTA number 1 ranked dou ...
, ''Murder in the Sentier''
*Larry Rostant; for
John Fusco
John Fusco is an American screenwriter, producer, and television series creator born in Prospect, Connecticut. His screenplays include '' Crossroads'', '' Young Guns'', ''Young Guns II'', ''Thunderheart'', '' Hidalgo'', '' Spirit: Stallion of t ...
, ''Paradise Salvage''
*Paul Buckley; for
Andrea Camilleri
Andrea Calogero Camilleri (; 6 September 1925 – 17 July 2019) was an Italian writer best known for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels.
Biography
Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti, Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the ...
, ''
The Terracotta Dog
'' The Terracotta Dog '' (''Italian language, Italian: Il cane di terracotta'') is a 1996 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2002 by Stephen Sartarelli.
It is the second novel of the internationally popular Salvo Montalbano, ...
''
References
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