Every year, the Anthony Awards are given out at the world's largest mystery convention, Bouchercon. This year the conference is being held in Long Beach, CA, November 13-16 and the nominees were just announced. Check and see if your favorites made the short list.
| Best Mystery Novel |
| ° | Suspect by Robert Crais |
| ° | A Cold and Lonely Place by Sara J. Henry |
| ° | Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger |
| ° | The Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan |
| ° | Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming |
| Best First Mystery |
| ° | Yesterday’s Echo by Matt Coyle |
| ° | Ghostman by Roger Hobbs |
| ° | Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman |
| ° | Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight |
| ° | The Hard Bounce by Todd Robinson |
| Best Paperback Original |
| ° | The Big Reap by Chris F. Holm |
| ° | Purgatory Key by Darrell James |
| ° | Joyland by Stephen King |
| ° | The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood |
| ° | As She Left It by Catriona McPherson |
| Best Short Story |
| ° | “Dead Ends” by Craig Faustus Buck Untreed Reads |
| ° | “The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository” by John Connolly Bibliomysteries, The Mysterious Bookshop |
| ° | “Annie and the Grateful Dead” by Denise Dietz The Sound and the Furry |
| ° | “Incident on the 405” by Travis Richardson Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble |
| ° | “The Care and Feeding of Houseplants” by Art Taylor Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March-April 2013 |
| Best Critical or Non-Fiction Work |
| ° | Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova |
| ° | The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines by Cate Lineberry |
| ° | All the Wild Children by Josh Stallings |
| ° | The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot To Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower |
| ° | Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives edited by Sarah Weinman |
| Best Children’s or Young Adult Novel |
| ° | The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau |
| ° | Escape Theory by Margaux Froley |
| ° | Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein |
| ° | Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy by Elizabeth Kiem |
| ° | The Code Busters Club: The Mystery of the Pirate’s Treasure by Penny Warner |
| Best Television Episode Teleplay First Aired in 2013 |
| ° | The Blacklist, Pilot, by Jon Bokenkamp |
| ° | Breaking Bad, “Felina,” by Vince Gilligan |
| ° | The Fall, “Dark Descent,” by Allan Cubitt |
| ° | The Following, Pilot, by Kevin Williamson |
| ° | Justified, “Hole in the Wall,” by Graham Yost |
| Best Audio Book |
| ° | Crescendo by Deborah J Ledford, read by Christina Cox |
| ° | The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith, read by Robert Glenister |
| ° | Death and the Lit Chick by G.M. Malliet, read by Davina Porte |
| ° | Hour of the Rat by Lisa Brackmann, read by Tracy Sallows |
| ° | Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell, read by Mauro Hantman |
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