Bouchercon 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''
Films
* ''Mystery'' (2012 film), a 2012 Chinese drama film
* ''Mystery'' ( ...
and
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 s ...
. 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 m ...
, 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 (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas ...
,
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
Society Hill is a historic neighborhood in Center City Philadelphia, with a population of 6,215 . Settled in the early 1680s, Society Hill is one of the oldest residential neighborhoods in Philadelphia.The Center City District dates the Free Soc ...
playhouse.
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 ''Black Cherry Blues'' (1990) and ''Cimarron Rose'' (1998), and has also been presented with the Grand Master ...
*International Guest of Honor —
Ian Rankin
Sir Ian James Rankin (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer, 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, worked in a schoo ...
*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 novels, and is best known for his ''Jack Reacher'' novel series. The books follow the adventures of a former American ...
*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 novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller.
Connelly is the bes ...
, ''
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 doubles titles. A former doubles world No. 1, she won ten major titles. By ...
, ''Murder in the Sentier''
*
Steve Hamilton, ''North of Nowhere''
*
George Pelecanos
George P. Pelecanos (born February 18, 1957) is an American author. Many of his 20 books are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. He is also a film and television producer and a television writ ...
, ''
Hell to Pay''
*
S. J. Rozan
S. J. Rozan 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 and career
S.J. (Shira Judith) Roz ...
, ''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 Award, Mac ...
, ''
In the Bleak Midwinter
"In the Bleak Midwinter" is a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti, commonly performed as a Christmas carol. The poem was published, under the title "A Christmas Carol", in the January 1872 issue of ''Scribner's Monthly,'' and was first c ...
''
Shortlist:
*David Corbett, ''The Devil's Redhead''
*
Libby Fischer Hellmann, ''An Eye for Murder''
*Jonathon King, ''The Blue Edge of Midnight''
*
Eddie Muller
Eddie Muller (born October 15, 1958) is an American writer based in San Francisco. He is known for writing books about movies, particularly film noir, and is the host of Noir Alley on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
Early life and education
Muller ...
, ''The Distance''
Paperback original award
Winner:
*
Robin Burcell, ''
Fatal Truth''
Shortlist:
*
Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott (born 1963) is a U.S. suspense novelist. 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 early novels were trad ...
, ''Black Jack Point''
*Roberta Isleib, ''Six Strokes Under''
*P. J. Parrish, ''Paint it Black''
*
Andy Straka, ''A Killing Sky''
Short story award
Winner:
*
Marcia Talley
Marcia Talley is an American mystery novelist, author of the Hannah Ives mystery series, two collaborative novels, and numerous short stories. A former librarian, she took early retirement in 2000 to write full-time.
Early life, education and ...
, "Too Many Cooks", from ''
Much Ado About Murder''
Shortlist:
*
Lauren Haney
Betty Winkelman (born 1936), better known by the pen name Lauren Haney, is an American mystery novelist.
Biography
Starting as a government typist at the age of 18, Haney worked her way up to, ultimately, senior technical writer/editor in the aer ...
, "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 fict ...
'' September / October 2002
*
Toni Kelner, "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, ''They
Died in vain: 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
Michael Kellner (born 8 May 1977) is a German politician (Alliance 90/The Greens) who has been serving as a Member of the Bundestag representing electoral constituency Uckermark – Barnim I since 2021.
In addition to his parliamentary work, ...
; for
Dennis McMillan, ''
Measures of Poison''
Shortlist:
*Jennifer Harris & Melissa Farris; for
Daniel Chavarria
Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength" ...
, ''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 doubles titles. A former doubles world No. 1, she won ten major titles. By ...
, ''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.
Biography
Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti, Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the Faculty of Literature at the University of Palermo, b ...
, ''
The Terracotta Dog
'' The Terracotta Dog '' (''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 Inspector Montalbano series. While c ...
''
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