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Bouchercon XLI
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 XLI and the 25th Anthony Awards ceremony. Bouchercon The convention was held in the Hyatt Regency San Francisco of San Francisco, California, on October 14, 2010; running until the 17th. The event was chaired by crime fiction reviewer Rae Helmsworth. Special Guests *Distinguished Contribution to the Genre — Lee Child *International Guest of Honor — Denise Mina *American Guest of Honor — Laurie R. King *Toastmaster — Eddie Muller *Fan Guest of Honor — Maddy Van Hertbruggen Anthony Awards The following list details the awards distributed at the twenty-fifth annual Anthony Awards ceremony. Novel award Winner: *Louise Penny, ''The Brutal Telling'' Shortlist: * John Hart, ''The Last ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of California cities by population, fourth most populous in California and List of United States cities by population, 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the County statistics of the United States, fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Penny
Louise Penny is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of francophone Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Penny's first career was as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). After she turned to writing, she won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha Award for best mystery novel of the year five times, including four consecutive years (2007–2010), and the Anthony Award for best novel of the year five times, including four consecutive years (2010–2013). Her novels have been published in 23 languages. Early life and career with CBC Penny was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1958. Her mother was an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction, with a particular liking for crime fiction, and Louise grew up reading mystery writers such as Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Michael Innes. Penny earned a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Radio and Televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Neville
Stuart Neville (born 1972) is a Northern Irish author best known for his novel ''The Twelve'' or, as it is known in the United States, ''The Ghosts of Belfast''. He was born and grew up in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Works ''The Twelve'' was placed on the ''Best of 2009'' lists by both ''The New York Times'' and ''Los Angeles Times''. The book has been given full reviews in a number of publications in the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom, appearing in ''The New York Times'', ''The Irish Times'', ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Publishers Weekly'' and ''The Guardian'', among others. ''Collusion'', the sequel to ''The Twelve'', was published in the United Kingdom by Harvill Secker in August 2010, and in the US by Soho Press in October 2010. The book was reviewed in ''New York Journal of Books''. ''Ratlines'' was published in January 2013 in the US by Soho Crime. It was reviewed in ''New York Journal of Books''. Critic Stuart Neville has written review essays and book revie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Gruley
Bryan Gruley (born November 1957) is an American writer. He has shared a Pulitzer Prize for journalism and been nominated for the "first novel" Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Career Gruley studied at the University of Notre Dame where he majored in American Studies and graduated in 1979. Gruley is currently a reporter for Bloomberg News, writing long form features for '' Bloomberg Businessweek'' magazine. He worked more than 15 years for '' The Wall Street Journal'' including seven years as Chicago bureau chief. With the ''Journal'', he also helped cover breaking news including the September 11 World Trade Center attack, and shared in the staff's Pulitzer Prize for that work, which cited "its comprehensive and insightful coverage, executed under the most difficult circumstances, of the terrorist attack on New York City, which recounted the day's events and their implications for the future." Gruley's first novel, ''Starvation Lake: a mystery'', was publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie
''The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie '' is a 2009 mystery by Alan Bradley. Set in the English countryside in 1950, it features Flavia de Luce, an 11-year-old amateur sleuth who pulls herself away from her beloved chemistry lab in order to clear her father in a murder investigation. Bradley, a first-time novelist, wrote the book after winning the 2007 Debut Dagger Award and selling the publishing rights in three countries, based on the first chapter and a synopsis. Well received by critics as an old-fashioned mystery featuring an unforgettable protagonist, the novel has won multiple awards and is the first in a 10-book series. Plot As the novel opens, Flavia Sabina de Luce schemes revenge against her two older sisters, Ophelia (17) and Daphne (13), who have locked her inside a closet in Buckshaw, the family's country manor home located in the English village of Bishop's Lacey. Flavia has braces and pigtails like a typical 11-year-old girl, but she is also a brilliant amateur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Bradley (writer)
Alan Bradley (born 1938) is a Canadian mystery writer known for his ''Flavia de Luce'' series, which began with the acclaimed ''The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie''. Early life and engineering career Bradley was born in 1938 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was brought up with two older sisters in the small town of Cobourg, Ontario. His mother raised the children alone after Bradley's father left the family when he was a toddler.Morrow, Fiona, "At 70, a novelist is born", ''The Globe and Mail'', February 14, 2009, pg. R1. Factiva (subscription required). Retrieved 24 July 2012. Bradley learned to read at an early age, partly because he was a sickly child who spent a lot of time in bed. However, Bradley confesses to having been a "very bad student", particularly in high school, spending his free time reading in the local cemetery because he felt he didn't fit in. After completing his education, Bradley worked in Cobourg as a radio and television engineer, designing and buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Bad Day For Sorry
''A Bad Day for Sorry'' is a novel written by Sophie Littlefield and published by Minotaur Books (an imprint on St. Martin's Press owned by Macmillan Publishers) on 4 August 2009, 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 First Novel in 2010. References 2009 American novels Anthony Award-winning works American mystery novels American thriller novels Minotaur Books books {{2000s-mystery-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Littlefield
Sophie Littlefield is an author of women's fiction, crime fiction, and young adult novels. In 2010, she was nominated for the Edgar and won an Anthony Award for Best First Novel: ''A Bad Day for Sorry''. Littlefield was born in Missouri and resides in San Francisco, California. She has a B.S. in computer science from Indiana University. She has served as president for the San Francisco chapter of Romance Writers of America. Books ;Standalone novels *''The Guilty One'' (2015) Gallery Books *''The Missing Place'' (2014) Gallery Books *''Garden of Stones'' (2013) Harlequin MIRA *''House of Glass'' (2014) Harlequin MIRA *''Hanging by a Thread'' (2012) Delacorte Books for Young Readers ;Stella Hardesty Crime Series *''A Bad Day for Sorry ''A Bad Day for Sorry'' is a novel written by Sophie Littlefield and published by Minotaur Books (an imprint on St. Martin's Press owned by Macmillan Publishers) on 4 August 2009, which later went on to win the Anthony Award The Anthony A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shanghai Moon
''The Shanghai Moon'' is a Lydia Chin/Bill Smith mystery novel by S. J. Rozan. It was published in 2009 by Minotaur Books. In 2010 it was published by Ebury Press in the UK as ''Trail of Blood''. Set partially in New York City and partially in the Shanghai Ghetto, the book follows Lydia Chin as she tries to recover a fictional stolen jewel also called ''The Shanghai Moon''. Background The book follows eight others in a series of eleven novels and six novellas by Rozan. The main characters, PIs Pis ( oc, Pis) is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France. Geography Localisation Hydrography The river Auroue forms most of the commune's eastern border. Population See also *Communes of the Gers department The fol ... Lydia Chin and her "sometimes-partner-in-crime-fighting" Bill Smith had been estranged since the previous novel, and Lydia had just returned from a trip to California. Plot Another PI friend of Lydia's, Joel Pillarsky, hired her to help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl Who Played With Fire
''The Girl Who Played with Fire'' ( sv, Flickan som lekte med elden) is the second novel in the best-selling ''Millennium'' series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published posthumously in Swedish in 2006 and in English in January 2009. The book features many of the characters who appeared in ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' (2005), among them the title character, Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant computer hacker and social misfit, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of ''Millennium '' magazine. Widely seen as a critical success, ''The Girl Who Played with Fire'' was also (according to ''The Bookseller'' magazine) the first and only translated novel to be number one in the UK hardback chart. Synopsis After a yearlong sojourn to Grenada, Lisbeth Salander uses three million laundered kronor to purchase a new apartment in Stockholm. She re-establishes contact with Dragan Armansky, her former boss at Milton Securities, and her former legal guard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stieg Larsson
Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson (, ; 15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish writer, journalist, and activist. He is best known for writing the ''Millennium'' trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously, starting in 2005, after he died of a sudden heart attack. The trilogy was adapted as three motion pictures in Sweden, and one in the U.S. (for the first book only). The publisher commissioned David Lagercrantz to expand the trilogy into a longer series, which has six novels . For much of his life, Larsson lived and worked in Stockholm. His journalistic work covered socialist politics and he acted as an independent researcher of right-wing extremism. He was the second-best-selling fiction author in the world for 2008, owing to the success of the English translation of ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'', behind the Afghan-American Khaled Hosseini. The third and final novel in the ''Millennium'' trilogy, '' The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest'', became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Huston
Charlie Huston is a novelist and TV writer. His twelve novels span several genres from crime to horror to science fiction. His books have been published in English by Ballentine, Del Rey, Mulholland and Orion, and translated into nine other languages. He adapted his novel The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death for HBO, and his novel Already Dead for HBO Max. He has also written pilots for FX, FOX, Sony and Tomorrow Studios, served as a consulting producer for FOX's ''Gotham'', and worked in several development rooms. He is known for storytelling that focuses on character and relationships in richly detailed worlds that blend genres. Career ''Caught Stealing'', along with ''Six Bad Things'' and Huston's fourth novel, '' A Dangerous Man'', follow the lovable anti-hero, baseball-mad Henry Thompson, as he works his way through mistaken identity, his past, and a new life for himself. He wrote the five volume contemporary vampire noir Joe Pitt Casebooks primarily while livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
