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 way ...
is an annual
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detective fiction
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as spec ...
. 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 d ...
; 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. Among the ...
, which have been issued at the convention since 1986. This page details Bouchercon XXXIX and the 23rd Anthony Awards ceremony.
Bouchercon
The convention was held in
Baltimore, Maryland
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on October 9, 2008; running until the 12th. The event was chaired by Ruth Jordan, publisher and editor of ''Crimespree'' magazine, and Judy Bobalik, editor of the ''Reflections in a Private Eye'' magazine.
Special Guests
*Lifetime Achievement awards —
Robert Rosenwald
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&
Barbara Peters
Barbara G. Peters (December 22, 1940) is a publisher and bookshop owner.
Life and career
Peters was born in Winnetka, Illinois.
She holds a BA from Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior Universit ...
*Distinguished Contribution to the Genre award —
Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Mas ...
*International Guest of Honor —
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*American Guest of Honor —
Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman (born January 31, 1959) is an American journalist and author of over 20 detective fiction novels.
Life and career
Lippman was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Columbia, Maryland. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman, Jr., a w ...
*Toastmaster —
Mark Billingham
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*Fan Guest of Honor —
Thalia Proctor
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Anthony Awards
The following list details the awards distributed at the twenty-third annual Anthony Awards ceremony.
Novel award
Winner:
*
Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman (born January 31, 1959) is an American journalist and author of over 20 detective fiction novels.
Life and career
Lippman was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Columbia, Maryland. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman, Jr., a w ...
, ''
What the Dead Know
''What the Dead Know'' is a crime thriller by the American writer Laura Lippman, published in 2007. The story, set in Baltimore in 2005, is about an investigation into a woman who claims to be Heather Bethany, a girl who had gone missing thirty ...
''
Shortlist:
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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 ''Black Cherry Blues'' (1990) and ''Cimarron Rose'' (1998), and has also been presented with the Grand Maste ...
, ''
The Tin Roof Blowdown
''The Tin Roof Blowdown'' (2007) is a crime novel by American author James Lee Burke.
Synopsis
Dave Robicheaux, once an officer for the New Orleans Police Department and before that a U.S. Army infantry lieutenant who fought in the Vietnam War, ...
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*
Lee Child
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Robert Crais
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William Kent Krueger
William Kent Krueger is an American novelist and crime writer, best known for his series of novels featuring Cork O'Connor, which are set mainly in Minnesota. In 2005 and 2006, he won back-to-back Anthony Awards for best novel. In 2014, his sta ...
, ''Thunder Bay''
First novel award
Winner:
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Tana French
Tana French (born 10 May 1973) is an American-Irish writer and theatrical actress. She is a longtime resident of Dublin, Ireland. Her debut novel ''In the Woods'' (2007), a psychological mystery, won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry a ...
, ''
In the Woods
''In the Woods'' is a 2007 mystery novel by Tana French about a pair of Irish detectives and their investigation of the murder of a twelve-year-old girl. It is the first book in French's Dublin Murder Squad series. The novel won several awar ...
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Shortlist:
*Sean Chercover, ''Big City, Bad Blood''
* Lisa Lutz, ''The Spellman Files''
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Craig McDonald
Craig McDonald is a novelist, journalist, communications specialist, and the author of the Hector Lassiter series, the Zana O'Savin Series, the novel ''El Gavilan'', and two collections of interviews with fiction writers, ''Art in the Blood'' ...
, ''Head Games''
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Marcus Sakey
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Personal life
Sakey was born in Flint, Michigan, and after marriage he settled in Chicago. Before becoming a writer, Sakey used to run a graphic design comp ...
P. J. Parrish
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, ''
A Thousand Bones
A Thousand Bones is a book written by P. J. Parrish and published by Pocket Books (owned by Simon & Schuster) on 1 January 2007, which later went on to win the Anthony Award
The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented ...
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Shortlist:
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Megan Abbott
Megan Abbott (born August 21, 1971) is an American author of crime fiction and of non-fiction analyses of hardboiled crime fiction. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing from a female perspec ...
, ''Queenpin''
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Ken Bruen
Ken Bruen (born 1951) is an Irish writer of hard-boiled and noir crime fiction.
Biography Education and teaching career
Born in Galway, he was educated at Gormanston College, County Meath and later at Trinity College Dublin, where he earned a ...
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Jason Starr
Jason Starr (born 1966) is an American author, comic book writer, and screenwriter from New York City. Starr has written numerous crime fiction novels and thrillers.
Starr's ''Tough Luck'', a novel published in 2003, was a Barry Award Win ...
, ''Slide''
*David Corbett, ''Blood of Paradise''
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Robert Fate
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Born in 1935 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Fate joined the US Marine Corps after High School. He used his GI Bill to ...
, ''Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues''
Short story award
Winner:
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Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman (born January 31, 1959) is an American journalist and author of over 20 detective fiction novels.
Life and career
Lippman was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Columbia, Maryland. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman, Jr., a w ...
, "Hardly knew Her", from ''Dead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table''
Shortlist:
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Rhys Bowen
Janet Quin-Harkin (born 24 September 1941, Bath, Somerset) is an author best known for her mystery novels for adults written under the name Rhys Bowen.
Career
Before she began writing novels, Quin-Harkin worked in the drama department of the ...
, "Please Watch Your Step", from ''
The Strand Magazine
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'' February/May 2007
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Steve Hockensmith
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Biography
Hockensmith is the author of the ''Holmes on th ...
, "Dear Dr. Watson", 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 fict ...
'' February 2007
* Toni L. P. Kelner, "How Stella Got Her Grave Back", from ''Many Bloody Returns: Tales of Birthdays with Bite''
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Daniel Woodrell
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, "Uncle", from ''A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir''
Critical / Non-fiction award
Winner:
* Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley, '' Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters''
Shortlist:
*Roger Sobin, ''The Essential Mystery Lists''
*Patrick Anderson, ''The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction''
*Christiana Gregoriou, ''Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction''
January Magazine
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'' (and ''The Rap Sheet'')
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Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen (born Terry Tom; June 12, 1953) is the pseudonym of Terry Gerritsen, an American novelist and retired general physician.
Early life
Tess Gerritsen is the child of a Chinese immigrant and a Chinese-American seafood chef. While grow ...
& J. T. Ellison et al., ''Murderati''
*David Montgomery, ''Crime Fiction Dossier''
Special service award
Winner:
*
Jon Jordan
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Shortlist:
*Ali Karim, ''Shots'' magazine
*Maddy Van Hertbruggen, ''4 Mystery Addicts''
*Sarah Weinman, ''Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind''
*Judy Bobalik, for being one of the best friends and supporters of mystery writers