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 XXXVI and the 20th Anthony Awards ceremony.
Bouchercon
The convention was held in
Chicago, Illinois
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on September 1, 2005; running until the 4th. The event was chaired by "mystery fans extraordinaire" Sonya Rice, and 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, Deen Kogan.
Special Guests
*Lifetime Achievement awards —
Bill Pronzini
Bill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. Pronzini is ...
&
Marcia Muller
Marcia Muller (born September 28, 1944) is an American author of fictional Mystery (fiction), mystery and Thriller (genre), thriller novels.
Muller has written many novels featuring her ''Sharon McCone'' female private detective character. ''Va ...
*International Guest of Honor —
Jonathan Gash
*American Guest of Honor —
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 ...
*Fan Guest of Honor —
Beth Fedyn
*Toastmaster —
Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past, murders, or fatal accidents and have multiple twists. Among his novels a ...
Anthony Awards
The following list details the awards distributed at the twentieth annual Anthony Awards ceremony.
Novel award
Winner:
*
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 stan ...
, ''
Blood Hollow''
Shortlist:
*
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 ...
, ''The Killing of the Tinkers''
*
John Katzenbach
John Katzenbach (born June 23, 1950) is an American author of popular fiction. Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, Katzenbach worked as a criminal court reporter for the ''Miami Herald ''and ''Miami News'', and a ...
, ''
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 du ...
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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 ...
, ''By a Spider's Thread''
*
T. Jefferson Parker
T. Jefferson Parker
T. Jefferson Parker (born 1953) is an American novelist. Parker's books are police procedurals set in Southern California.
Early life and career
Parker was born in 1953 in Los Angeles, California, and he has lived his entire ...
, ''California Girl''
*
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 ...
, ''Out of the Deep I Cry''
First novel award
Winner:
*
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 1 ...
, ''
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.
...
''
Shortlist:
*Sandra Balzo, ''Uncommon Grounds''
*
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
Ant ...
, ''Until the Cows Come Home''
*
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 ...
, ''
Retribution''
*
J. A. Konrath
Joseph Andrew Konrath (born March 29, 1970 in Skokie, Illinois) is an American fiction writer working in the Mystery fiction, mystery, Thriller (genre), thriller, and Horror fiction, horror genres. He writes as J. A. Konrath and Jack Kilborn. In 2 ...
, ''Whiskey Sour''
Paperback original award
Winner:
*
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 ...
, ''
Twisted City''
Shortlist:
*Robin Burcell, ''Cold Case''
*Roberta Isleib, ''Putt to Death''
*Susan McBride, ''Blue Blood''
*
M. J. Rose, ''The Halo Effect''
Short story award
Winner:
*
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 ...
, "Wedding Knife", from ''
Chesapeake Crimes''
Shortlist:
*
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 ...
, "Voodoo", from ''
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
''Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine'' (AHMM) is a bi-monthly digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction. ''AHMM'' is named for Alfred Hitchcock, the famed director of suspense films and television.
History
''AHMM'' ...
'' November 2004
*
Terence Faherty, "The Widow of Slane", 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 / April 2004
*Ted Hertel Jr., "It's Crackers to Slip a Rozzer the Dropsy in Snide", from ''Small Crimes''
*
Arthur Nersesian
Arthur Nersesian is an American novelist, playwright, and poet.
Nersesian is of Armenian and Irish descent. He was born and raised in New York City, and graduated from Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York.
His novels include ''The Fuck-u ...
, "Hunter/Trapper", from ''Brooklyn Noir''
Critical / Non-fiction award
Winner:
*
Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins (born March 3, 1948) is an American mystery writer, noted for his graphic novels. His work has been published in several formats and his ''Road to Perdition'' series was the basis for a film of the same name. He wrote the '' Di ...
, ''
Men's Adventure Magazines''
Shortlist:
*Frankie Bailey & Steven Chermak, ''Famous American Crimes & Trials''
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Edward Conlon
Edward W. Conlon (born 1965) is an American author and former New York Police Department (NYPD) officer.
Biography
Born in the Bronx, Conlon spent most of his childhood in nearby Yonkers, and attended Regis High School. He graduated from Har ...
, ''
Blue Blood''
*
Leslie S. Klinger, ''The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes''
*
Julian Rubinstein
Julian Rubinstein is an American journalist, documentary filmmaker and educator. He is best known for his longform magazine journalism and his non-fiction books, ''Ballad of the Whiskey Robber,'' which chronicles the life of one of the world's mo ...
, ''The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber''
Cover art award
Winner:
*
Sohrab Habibion; for
Tim McLoughlin, ''
Brooklyn Noir''
Shortlist:
*
Gregory Manchess
Gregory Manchess is an American illustrator from Kentucky. His illustrations have appeared in magazines, digital murals, illustrated movie posters, advertising campaigns and book covers including sixty covers for Louis L’Amour. His work has ap ...
; for Max Phillips, ''Fade to Blonde''
*Sal Barracca; for
J. A. Konrath
Joseph Andrew Konrath (born March 29, 1970 in Skokie, Illinois) is an American fiction writer working in the Mystery fiction, mystery, Thriller (genre), thriller, and Horror fiction, horror genres. He writes as J. A. Konrath and Jack Kilborn. In 2 ...
, ''Whiskey Sour''
*Robert Santora; for Ruth Francisco, ''Good Morning, Darkness''
*Michael Kellner; for Gary Phillips, ''Monkology''
References
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