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
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 XXXV and the 19th Anthony Awards ceremony.
Bouchercon
The convention was held in
Toronto, Ontario
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
, Canada on October 7, 2004; running until the 10th. The event was chaired by Al Navis, owner of the Toronto-based mystery book-store, ''Handy Book Exchange''.
Special Guests
*Lifetime Achievement award —
Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell (born 23 February 1944) is an English-American author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has also written ''The Saxon ...
*Canadian Guest of Honor —
Peter Robinson
*British Guest of Honor —
Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis (born 1949) is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of historical crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire. She is a recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger award.
Life and career ...
*American Guest of Honor —
Jeremiah Healy
*Fan Guest of Honor —
Gary Warren Niebuhr
*Toast mistress —
Natasha Cooper
Anthony Awards
The following list details the awards distributed at the nineteenth 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 ...
, ''
Every Secret Thing''
Shortlist:
*
Giles Blunt
Giles Blunt (born 1952) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and screenwriter. His first novel, ''Cold Eye'', was a psychological thriller set in the New York art world, which was made into the French movie ''Les Couleurs du diable'' (Allain Jessua, 199 ...
, ''The Delicate Storm''
*
Steve Hamilton, ''Blood is the Sky''
*
Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965) is an American author. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including ''A Drink Before the War''. Of these, four were adapted a ...
, ''
Shutter Island
''Shutter Island'' is a novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, published by HarperCollins in April 2003. It is about a U.S. Marshal who goes to an isolated hospital for the criminally insane to investigate the disappearance of a patient who is ...
''
*
Peter Robinson, ''
The Summer that Never Was
The ''Inspector Banks'' series is a collection of mystery novels by Peter Robinson about Detective Superintendent Alan Banks.
The series is set in the fictional English town of Eastvale in the Yorkshire Dales. Robinson has stated that Eastvale ...
''
First novel award
Winner:
*
P. J. Tracy
P. J. Tracy is a pseudonym for American mother-daughter writing team Patricia (P. J.) (b. 1946 d. Stillwater December 21, 2016) and Traci Lambrecht, winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book Awards. Their ten mystery thrillers i ...
, ''
Monkeewrench
''Monkeewrench'' (released later in the United Kingdom as ''Want to Play?''), is the first novel by author team P. J. Tracy. It revolves around the search for a copycat killer, who is recreating murders found in a new computer game. It also seems ...
''
Shortlist:
*Erin Hart, ''Haunted Ground''
*
Rebecca Pawel, ''Death of a Nationalist''
*Lono Waiwaiole, ''Wiley's Lament''
*
Jacqueline Winspear
Jacqueline Winspear (born 30 April 1955) is a mystery writer, author of the ''Maisie Dobbs'' series of books exploring the aftermath of World War I. She has won several mystery writing awards for books in this popular series.
Personal life and ...
, ''
Maisie Dobbs
''Maisie Dobbs'' is a 2003 mystery novel by Jacqueline Winspear. Set in England between 1910 and 1929, it features the title character Maisie Dobbs, a private investigator building her business in the aftermath of the First World War. Generally ...
''
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
...
, ''
Deadly Legacy''
Shortlist:
*Elaine Flinn, ''Dealing in Murder''
*P. J. Parrish, ''Thicker than Water''
*
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 Winne ...
, ''Tough Luck''
*Sylvia Maultash Warsh, ''Find Me Again''
Short story award
Winner:
*
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 B ...
, "Doppelganger", from ''
Blood on their Hands''
Shortlist:
*Sandy Balzo, "The Grass is Always Greener", 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 ...
'' March 2003
*Jack Bludis, "Munchies", from ''Hardbroiled''
*
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 ...
, "Wanda Wilcox is "Trapped!"", from ''Plots With Guns'' September / October 2003
*
Elaine Viets
Elaine Viets is a Midwestern American newspaperwoman and mystery writer.
Life and career
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Viets has a degree in journalism and became a longtime popular media figure in St. Louis. She was a regular columnist for ...
, "Red Meat", from ''Blood on their Hands''
Critical / Non-fiction award
Winner:
*
Gary Warren Niebuhr, ''
Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction''
Shortlist:
*Colleen Barnett, ''Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction'', Vol III
*
Jane Doe
John Doe (male) and Jane Doe (female) are multiple-use placeholder names that are used when the true name of a person is unknown or is being intentionally concealed. In the context of law enforcement in the United States, such names are often ...
, ''The Story of Jane Doe: A Book about Rape''
*Jon Jordan, ''Interrogations''
*Andrew Wilson, ''Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith''
Young adult award
Winner:
*
J. K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling ( "rolling"; born 31 July 1965), also known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and Philanthropy, philanthropist. She wrote ''Harry Potter'', a seven-volume children's fantasy series published from 1997 to ...
, ''
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fifth novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series. It follows Harry Potter's struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witc ...
''
Shortlist:
*
Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer (; born 14 May 1965) is an Irish author of children's books. He worked as a primary school teacher before he became a full-time writer. He is best known for being the author of the Artemis Fowl (series), ''Artemis Fowl'' series. I ...
, ''
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code''
*Bridget Crowley, ''Feast of Fools''
*
Kathleen Karr, ''Seventh Knot''
*
Norah McClintock
Norah McClintock (March 11, 1952 – February 6, 2017) was a Canadian writer of young adult fiction who published more than 60 books. She won five Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence.
Biography
McClintock was born March 11, 1952 in P ...
, ''No Escape''
Historical mystery award
Winner:
*
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 B ...
, ''
For the Love of Mike''
Shortlist:
*
Maureen Jennings
Maureen Jennings (born 1939) is a British Canadian writer, most well known for the ''Detective Murdoch Series'', the basis for the television series ''Murdoch Mysteries''. She is credited as a Creative Consultant and occasionally writer for the ...
, ''Let Loose the Dogs''
*
Olen Steinhauer
Olen Steinhauer (born June 21, 1970 in Baltimore) is an American writer of spy fiction novels, including ''The Tourist (novel), The Tourist'', part of the Milo Weaver series, and the Yalta Boulevard Sequence. Steinhauer also created the TV serie ...
, ''The Bridge of Sighs''
*Sylvia Maultash Warsh, ''Find Me Again''
*
Jacqueline Winspear
Jacqueline Winspear (born 30 April 1955) is a mystery writer, author of the ''Maisie Dobbs'' series of books exploring the aftermath of World War I. She has won several mystery writing awards for books in this popular series.
Personal life and ...
, ''
Maisie Dobbs
''Maisie Dobbs'' is a 2003 mystery novel by Jacqueline Winspear. Set in England between 1910 and 1929, it features the title character Maisie Dobbs, a private investigator building her business in the aftermath of the First World War. Generally ...
''
Fan publication award
Winner:
*
Kate Stine Kate name may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Kate (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname
* Gyula Káté (born 1982), Hungarian amateur boxer
* Lauren Kate (born 1981), American autho ...
, ''
Mystery Scene Magazine
''Mystery Scene'' is an American magazine, first published in 1985, that covers the crime and mystery genre with a mix of articles, profiles, criticism, and extensive reviews of books, films, TV, short stories, audiobooks, and reference works.
E ...
''
Shortlist:
*George Easter, ''Deadly Pleasures''
*Jim Huang, ''The Drood Review of Mystery''
*Lynn Kaczmarek & Chris Aldrich, ''Mystery News''
*Janet Rudolph, ''
Mystery Readers Journal Mystery Readers International is a fan/reader organization open to all readers, fans, critics, editors, publishers, and writers of Mystery fiction. It was founded by Janet A. Rudolph in Berkeley, California.
It publishes the ''Mystery Readers Jo ...
''
References
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