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Bouchercon XXXVI
Bouchercon 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; also the inspiration for the Anthony Awards, which have been issued at the convention since 1986. This page details Bouchercon XXXVI and the 20th Anthony Awards ceremony. Bouchercon The convention was held in Chicago, Illinois on September 1, 2005; running until the 4th. The event was chaired by "mystery fans extraordinaire" Sonya Rice, and founder of the Society Hill playhouse, Deen Kogan. Special Guests *Lifetime Achievement awards — Bill Pronzini & Marcia Muller *International Guest of Honor — Jonathan Gash *American Guest of Honor — Dennis Lehane *Fan Guest of Honor — Beth Fedyn *Toastmaster — Harlan Coben Anthony Awards The following list details the awards distributed at the twentieth annual Anthony Awards ceremony. Novel award Winner: *William Kent Krueger, '' Blood Hollow'' Shortlist: *Ken Bru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago, Illinois
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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 stand-alone book '' Ordinary Grace'' won the Edgar Award for Best Novel of 2013. In 2019, '' This Tender Land'' was a on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list for nearly six months. Biographical details Krueger has said that he wanted to be a writer from the third grade when his story "The Walking Dictionary" was praised by his teacher and parents. He attended Stanford University, but his academic path was cut short when he came into conflict with the university's administration during student protests of spring 1970. Throughout his early life, he supported himself by logging timber, digging ditches, working in construction, and being published as a freelance journalist; he never stopped writing. He wrote short stories and sketches for ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twisted City (book)
Twisted City is a novel written by Jason Starr and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard in July 2004, which later went on to win the Anthony Award 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 m ... for Best Paperback Original in 2005. References Anthony Award-winning works American mystery novels 2004 novels {{2000s-mystery-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Winner for Best Paperback Original and was a nominee at the 2004 Anthony Awards for Best Paperback Original. '' Twisted City'' won the award for Best Paperback Original at the 2005 Anthony Awards. Furthermore, in 2011, ''The Chill'' won the first ever Anthony Award for Best Graphic Novel. Starr is part of a literary circle that includes Ken Bruen, Daniel Woodrell, Wallace Stroby, Alan Glynn, Ed Brubaker, Lee Child, Bret Easton Ellis, Megan Abbott, Brian Azzarello, and Alison Gaylin. Biography Jason Starr was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, he enjoyed sports such as baseball, tennis, and horse racing, but didn't have much interest in literature. He attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn.https://midwoodargus.org/2016/11/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retribution (Hoffman Novel)
''Retribution'', a 2003 legal thriller, is the first novel by Jilliane Hoffman Jilliane Hoffman is an American writer of legal thrillers. She was born on Long Island and attended both undergraduate and law school at St. John's University in Queens, New York. Career Before starting to write, Hoffman experienced the true l .... After being published in 2003 it became a top-three bestseller in the USA and top 10 in Europe. This graphic serial killer/courtroom thriller puts its readers in a situation of choice between justice and retribution in its hardest form. 2003 novels Legal thriller novels Novels set in New York City Novels set in Miami 2003 debut novels {{2000s-thriller-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jilliane Hoffman
Jilliane Hoffman is an American writer of legal thrillers. She was born on Long Island and attended both undergraduate and law school at St. John's University in Queens, New York. Career Before starting to write, Hoffman experienced the true life of a lawyer while working as an assistant state's attorney prosecuting felonies in Miami, Florida''MIAMI LEGAL EAGLE WHO SWOOPED ON FAME AND FORTUNE.'' The Sunday Independent (Ireland). October 28, 2007. from 1992 to 1996. From 1996 to 2001, she was a regional advisor for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) is a state-wide investigative law enforcement agency within the state of Florida. The department formally coordinates eight boards, councils, and commissions. FDLE's duties, responsibilities and ... consulting with special agents in complicated investigations including homicide, narcotics and organized crime. With the knowledge obtained through years of work as a lawyer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Clemens
Judy Clemens is a successful American novelist. She lives in rural Ohio and is married with two children. Clemens is best known for the Stella Crown and Grim Reaper mystery series. Her first novel was nominated for the Agatha and Anthony Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the '' Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, ... Awards for Best First Novel. In 2009-10 she served as president of the international literary organization Sisters in Crime. Clemens became a reviewer at New York Journal of Books in 2018. Works The Grim Reaper series: *''Embrace the Grim Reaper'' (2006) *''The Grim Reaper's Dance'' (2010) *''Flowers for Her Grave'' (2011) *''Dying Echo'' (2012) Stella Crown series: *''Till the Cows Come Home'' (2004) *''Three Can Keep A Secret'' (2005) *''To Thine Own Self Be True'' (2006) *''The Day Will Come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dating Dead Men
Dating Dead Men is a book written by Harley Jane Kozak and published by Doubleday (publisher), Doubleday (owned and operated by Penguin Random House) on 20 January 2004, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 2005. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harley Jane Kozak
Harley Jane Kozak (born January 28, 1957) is an American actress and author. She made her film debut in the slasher film ''The House on Sorority Row'' (1982), and had a recurring role as Mary Duvall on the soap opera '' Santa Barbara'' between 1985 and 1989. She later had supporting parts in ''Clean and Sober'' (1988) and '' When Harry Met Sally...'' (1989), before starring in the major studio films '' Parenthood'' (1989) and ''Arachnophobia'' (1990). Kozak continued to act in film throughout the remainder of the 1990s and into the 2000s, but turned her focus to writing. She has published five mystery novels since 2004. Her debut novel, ''Dating Dead Men'', earned her an Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award. Early life Kozak was born Susan Jane Kozak in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Dorothy (née Taraldsen), a university music teacher, and Joseph Aloysius Kozak, an attorney. She has seven older siblings; their father died when she was a year old. Kozak was raised i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Award, Macavity Awards, Dilys Award, Barry Award (for crime novels), the Nero Award, and Gumshoe Awards. She has also been a finalist for the Edgar Award. Her books feature Clare Fergusson, a retired helicopter pilot turned Episcopal priest and Russ Van Alstyne, a police chief. They are set in Millers Kill, a fictional town in upstate New York. Spencer-Fleming was born in Plattsburgh, New York and has degrees from Ithaca College, George Washington University and the University of Maine School of Law. Spencer-Fleming lives in Buxton, Maine Bibliography Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series #''In the Bleak Midwinter'' (2002, hardcover , paperback 978-0-312-98676-6) #''A Fountain Filled With Blood'' (2003, hardcover , paperback 978-0-31 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 writer at the ''Baltimore Sun'', and Madeline Mabry Lippman, a retired school librarian for the Baltimore City Public School System. Her paternal grandfather was Jewish, and the remainder of her ancestry is Scots-Irish. Lippman was raised Presbyterian. She attended high school in Columbia, Maryland, where she was the captain of the Wilde Lake High School ''It's Academic'' team. She also participated in several dramatic productions, including ''Finian's Rainbow'', '' The Lark'', and ''Barefoot in the Park''. She graduated from Wilde Lake High School in 1977. Lippman is a former reporter for the now defunct ''San Antonio Light'' and ''The Baltimore Sun''. She is best known for writing a series of novels set in Baltimore and featuring Tess Mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Madman's Tale
''The Madman's Tale'' is a novel written by John Katzenbach. It was published and released in 2004. Plot summary Francis Petrel, recently released from an asylum faces his own inner demons as he recounts his memories of a murderer in the asylum during his time there. The story tells itself in two parallel parts: one of the stories is during his time in the asylum, all a memory slowly bringing itself back to life; the other story takes place after he is released, and he feels compelled to author a book on the events surrounding that murder. He has no paper, so he writes his story on the wall and is constantly challenged with tedious interruptions. At the same time, he forgoes his medication, and the tension of continuing with his work becomes threatened by his struggle with his own madness. Reception Washington Post reviewer Patrick Anderson wrote that the novel could be "sometimes over the top" however was "a tour de force, superior storytelling designed to scare your pants off and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
