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
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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; also the inspiration for the
Anthony Awards, which have been issued at the convention since 1986. This page details Bouchercon XXXVIII and the 22nd Anthony Awards ceremony.
Bouchercon
The convention was held in
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the county seat of Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th-lar ...
on September 27, 2007; running until the 30th. The event was chaired by authors and members of ''Alaska Sisters in Crime'',
Dana Stabenow
Dana Stabenow (born March 27, 1952 in Anchorage, Alaska) is an American author of science fiction, mystery/crime fiction, suspense/thriller, and historical adventure novels.
Biography
Many of Stabenow's books are set in her home state of Alaska ...
, Dee Ford and Kimberley Gray.
Special Guests
*Lifetime Achievement award —
James Sallis
James Sallis (born December 21, 1944) is an American crime writer who wrote a series of novels featuring the detective character Lew Griffin set in New Orleans, and the 2005 novel '' Drive'', which was adapted into a 2011 film of the same nam ...
*Special Guest of Honor —
Diana Gabaldon
*American Guest of Honor —
Thomas Perry
*Fan Guest of Honor —
Barbara Peters
Anthony Awards
The following list details the awards distributed at the twenty-second annual Anthony Awards ceremony.
Novel award
Winner:
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Laura Lippman, ''
No Good Deeds''
Shortlist:
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Jan Burke, ''Kidnapped''
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Denise Mina, ''The Dead Hour''
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Nancy Pickard, ''The Virgin of Small Plains''
*
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 ...
, ''All Mortal Flesh''
First novel award
Winner:
*
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 Can ...
, ''
Still Life
A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...
''
Shortlist:
*John Hart, ''The King of Lies''
*
Steve Hockensmith
Steve Hockensmith (born August 17, 1968) is an American author. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He currently lives in California's bay area with his wife, two children, and pet dog.
Biography
Hockensmith is the author of the ''Holmes on th ...
, ''
Holmes on the Range''
*Cornelia Read, ''A Field of Darkness''
*
Alexandra Sokoloff
Alexandra Sokoloff is an American novelist and screenwriter, and the author of the Thriller award-nominated Huntress/FBI series, following a haunted FBI agent on the hunt for a female serial killer (''Huntress Moon'', ''Blood Moon'', ''Cold Moon' ...
, ''
The Harrowing''
Paperback original award
Winner:
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Dana Cameron, ''
Ashes And Bones''
Shortlist:
*Troy Cook, ''47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers''
*
Sean Doolittle
Sean Robert Doolittle (born September 26, 1986) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Washington Nationals organization. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners a ...
, ''The Cleanup''
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Robert Fate, ''Baby Shark''
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Victor Gischler
Victor Gischler is an American author of humorous crime fiction.
Career
Gischler's debut novel ''Gun Monkeys'' was nominated for the Edgar Award, and his novel ''Shotgun Opera'' was an Anthony Award finalist. His work has been translated into It ...
, ''Shotgun Opera''
*Naomi Hirahara, ''Snakeskin Shamisen''
*
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 lang ...
, ''A Dangerous Man''
Short story award
Winner:
*Simon Wood, "My Father's Secret", from ''
Working Stiffs''
Shortlist:
*
Megan Abbott
Megan Abbott (born August 21, 1971) is an American author of crime fiction and of non-fiction analyses of hardboiled crime fiction. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing from a female perspec ...
, "Policy", from ''Damn Near Dead: Old, Bold, Uncontrolled''
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Dana Cameron, "The Lords of Misrule", from ''Sugarplums And Scandal: A feast of passion and suspense for the holidays!''
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Bill Crider, "Cranked", from ''Damn Near Dead: Old, Bold, Uncontrolled''
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Toni L. P. Kelner, "Sleeping with the Plush", 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'' ...
'' May 2006
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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 ...
, "After the Fall", from ''Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine'' January / February 2006
Critical / Non-fiction award
Winner:
*
Jim Huang &
Austin Lugar, ''
Mystery Muses
''Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers'' is a book co-authored and edited by Jim Huang & Austin Lugar, published by Crum Creek Press on 1 August 2006.
The book won the Anthony Awards, Anthony Award for Best Critical N ...
''
Shortlist:
*Gary Warren Niebuhr, ''Read 'Em Their Writes''
*Chris Roerden, ''Don't Murder your Mystery''
*
Daniel Stashower
Daniel Stashower is an American author and editor of mystery fiction and historical nonfiction. He lives in Maryland.
Awards and honors
Stashower has received awards and recognition for several of his works.
Fiction
The mystery novel ''The Adven ...
, ''The Beautiful Cigar Girl''
*E. J. Wagner, ''The Science of Sherlock Holmes''
Special service award
Winner:
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Jim Huang,
Crum Creek Press and
The Mystery Company
Shortlist:
*
Charles Ardai
Charles Ardai (born 1969) is an American entrepreneur, businessperson, and writer of award winning crime fiction and mysteries. He is founder and editor of Hard Case Crime, a line of pulp-style paperback crime novels. He is also an early employe ...
, ''
Hard Case Crime
Hard Case Crime is an American imprint of hardboiled crime novels founded in 2004 by Charles Ardai (also the founder of the Internet service Juno Online Services) and Max Phillips. The series recreates, in editorial form and content, the flavor o ...
''
*George Easter, ''Deadly Pleasures''
*Jon Jordan & Ruth Jordan, ''Crimespree Magazine''
*Lynn Kaczmarek & Chris Aldrich, ''Mystery News''
*Ali Karim, ''Shots Magazine''
*Barbara Franchi & Sharon Wheeler, ''ReviewingTheEvidence.com''
*Maddy Van Hertbruggen, ''4 Mystery Addicts''
References
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